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Nadi James | BHSci Naturopath ♡ Breathwork ♡ Yoga ♡ Animist

@nadi.james

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1:1 🖤 Naturopathy | Kinesiology | Breathwork
✨️ Events & Retreats ✨️
Weekly Breathwork Classes: @saintprivateclub @blackmat____

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Where to find me this year; it’s a busy one, and I hope we can cross paths somewhere along the way!✨️

All booking links are in my bio. If you have any questions about whether any of these spaces or offerings could support you, please reach out.

With love,
Nadi 🖤 by @nadi.james

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4 months ago

If you’re not down with the mystery, you’re not open to learning from anything greater than yourself 🌀 by @nadi.james

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We're just a month out from Sri Lanka and this is what I'm working on BTS.

This is the first time I'm bringing these series of workshops and represents the creative layering and distillation from so many wonderful teachings 🧡

Excited to do this with you @heather_may_leighton ✨️

Thank you to my teachers The Light Collective and Sharon Bolt Magic for being major contributors to this work xx by @nadi.james

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This is for anyone who’s been told their hormones are “normal”, but something still doesn’t quite feel right.

Women’s bodies are mysterious only to those who don’t know how to dance with the mystery xx by @nadi.james

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One of my core beliefs is that no matter what happens, I will be okay.

This isn’t something I was born with. It’s something I’ve cultivated through learning how to have my own back and trust myself, even when it made no logical sense to.

I know what it’s like to witness feminine disempowerment to a degree that can become life-threatening. Because of this, the relationship women have with power has become central to my work. But in many ways, this extends beyond gender. It speaks to something fundamentally human.

Working with power doesn’t mean asserting power over another. It means holding your own power so firmly that you never have to.

I’d genuinely love to hear about your own relationship with power. I don’t think we speak enough about what it actually means to embody this palpable, heart-centred life force and actively translate it into everyday life. by @nadi.james

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3 months ago

After getting to spend an entire long weekend with a special sis, I was reminded that women need deep time together.

In a world where connection is built on the exchange of life updates but lacks the witnessing of one another in our humanity, shaped through the ordinary, we've forgotten that it takes time to unfold into relationship.

To unmask from the persona and let someone in when the topical conversation runs out, or you've just gotten out of bed, is vulnerable. It needs time to breathe.

There is something that only happens after enough shared hours. You stop relating through identity, stories and updates, and begin relating through presence. I think we've forgotten how essential that is.

That's what immersions are. They're so much more than the sum of the workshops. Much of the magic happens in the spaces between the curated sessions. It's in those moments that community and connection do so much of the healing, touching and holding us in places we didn't even know needed to be seen. by @nadi.james

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Intuitive movement is welcome here taken in BLACK MAT by @nadi.james

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4 months ago

This is normally around the time when I start receiving feedback from the women about how these retreats have shifted the relationship they have with themselves.

After the first retreat, I was genuinely surprised by this timeframe. When you create something from the depths of your being and then offer it to others, there is also a process of allowing it to live beyond you. To watch it move through the bodies, experiences and lives of the women who enter the space.

Often, you don’t hear much once the initial afterglow wears off, as women meet their old selves and lives again when they return home.

But that’s when it becomes the “medicine”.

It’s after the bubble has burst that the experience starts meeting their old world and old wounds. The shifts in consciousness, perceptions, tools and relationship to self begin to meet the mundanity of everyday life, weaving together what was and what is becoming.

Over time, what was once something they understood becomes something that is simply part of their being.

Embodied.

It’s the moment where you catch yourself in the same old loop, the same familiar pattern, but now you have the awareness to step out and choose something different.

What always surprises the women is that they often arrive thinking it will be a beautiful time away. A nourishing experience. A few deep and meaningful moments.

And it is.

Because women innately know how to be together when the space is created in favour of it. As the wise grandmother Cyndy once said, “Girls just wanna have fun.”

What they don’t always realise is that the retreat doesn’t end when they leave.

It continues to live through them.

And one of my favourite parts of each of these voyages we go on together is the excited, and sometimes bewildered, conversations I have months down the line, where women share the shifts that have taken them by surprise.

We are now 3.5 months out from our next voyage, and I am so delighted to see the spaces beginning to fill so easefully.

If you feel a curiosity stirring, I would love to hear from you.

With love,
Nadi by @nadi.james

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4 months ago

As we roll into the beginning of a fresh week, it’s also a fresh opportunity to ask ourselves…

What nourishment does my soul call for?

Rest and long held Yin shapes..

Something a little more flowy and dynamic..

Maybe a juicy combination of both

Whatever your nervous system is calling for, honour it.

Monday nights 6pm Yin and Breath with @nadi.james ticks the box every time taken in BLACK MAT by @nadi.james

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Sri Lanka is the place where I can genuinely exhale and feel really held within her slow rythmn.

The coast, the mountains, the culture, and most of all, the people; so heart-centred, warm, spirited and real. It’s a place that still feels connected to itself, not lost beneath the weight of tourism.

I’m so excited to return this October and to bring some very special people with me 🧡

There'll be space to drink in the beauty and culture of the land, as well as experience some thoughtful and unique workshops that @heather_may_leighton & I are tenderly curating.

There's more info in my bio or reach out directly 🌴✨️ by @nadi.james

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The truth is, I haven’t always done all of these things perfectly.

The way I hold space, facilitate, and create these retreats has been a continual practice of listening, learning, refining, and deepening.

Every woman who has stepped into one of these spaces has taught me something. Every gathering has shown me somewhere I can become more intentional, more present, and more in service to the women who trust me to hold these spaces.

Creating these retreats is something I continue to learn through.

The practices deepen. The understanding expands. The ways I listen and tend to the spaces evolve.

I hope that in a decade from now I can look back at the offerings I am creating today and see how much I have grown, how much my understanding has expanded, and how much deeper I have been able to serve.

For me, creating these spaces is not about perfection, because the perfect space doesn’t exist.

It is about devotion.

Devotion to the practice.
Devotion to the women who enter these spaces.
Devotion to continuing to show up with more awareness, integrity, and care.

Would love to hear what's important to you when attending held spaces?

🖤🖤🖤 by @nadi.james

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4 months ago

I love this photo.

Perhaps it's the rivers of life that curve from my eyes after so many years of squinty-eyed, deep-bellied laughter.

Or perhaps it's because, on the other end of my smile, is another human soul rather than the void-gazing expression captured when I look down the barrel of my own front-facing camera hehe.

What I do know for sure is that this is how I feel when I'm at @blackmat____

I love that the people who come to my classes and the epic fellow teachers now feel like community, where the consistency of weekly practice turns into a familiarity born from witnessing each other on the mat through all the colours of our human landscape and life's fluctuations.

There's a sense of being held when you know that, just like every other time before, you can show up exactly as you are and be received, not fixed, not saved, but met with a deep reverence for the simple truth that this is just how humans be humaning.

Thank you for sharing your evenings with me over the last couple of years, Black Mat community.

For those of you interested in coming along, my classes are:

Monday ✨️🖤

4:30 pm Flow
6:00 pm Yin & Breath

Thursday ✨️🖤

6:00 pm Breathwork

With love,
Nadi x by @nadi.james

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