A studio was born

I suppose it's It all began when I was 40, or when I turned 40. I'm a mom of four children, and my youngest, my baby, was turning five and going into school. So, I asked myself “what was going to happen to me now? What did I want, career wise?”

Loving the baby massage training.

Later in motherhood

As most mums when the youngest start school, I wasn't needed as much at home anymore, so I looked at my life and how things were at the time. I also looked at, how I could go out to work but need still be able to be at home with my children for their needs, for the house’ needs, for our home and farm needs.

I imagined my life as being like a jigsaw. What were the things that I really liked doing? What were the things that gave me joy? And at 40, I felt I had grown up and that rather than go into a job as a necessity and a need, that I wanted to go into a job, have a career, get qualified, get educated and go into something that I loved.

The things I truly loved 

So looked at my life as being a jigsaw, and I loved yoga. I'd been practicing yoga for over 20 years, and I had loved being pregnant, and I loved being a mother. All of those then combined into a career, and that's where my yoga journey was born and invented or rather was created is the right way of putting it.

I went and trained as a children's yoga teacher to start with. It was amazing and a huge eye opener for me. It lit a spark within me that I was always hiding, I suppose, or that I hadn’t allowed in myself to consider or show, limited by social expectations and society. For my classes with kids, I loved to tell adventure stories and painting my face, becoming a character for the class. We used to be singing songs, which, again, I always felt that I couldn’t sing, or that I wasn't good enough to sing. We went on adventures through stories, and I remember looking at the kids’ faces, so filled with joy and adventure. It was just phenomenal!

It was this is what I loved doing. This is what I wanted to do. So, I created classes in a room at the side of our house, and from there, classes got busier and busier.

Out of my comfort zone

I then wanted to add more strings to my bow and decided to get trained in pregnancy yoga, in Dublin. That took a long time, and I absolutely loved it. I was completely out of my comfort zone, having to study again and having to observe classes. And yeah, it was really, really amazing.

With that training, I had to get 18 hours of observation of classes. I travelled all over the country. asking yoga teachers if they would mind me shadowing their pregnancy classes.  I was absolutely loving it. and feeling that I'd love to create a space where pregnant mums could feel comfortable and feel that they were cared for, nurtured in a warm space. And that's where Limestone Yoga Studio was born.

Colette