Hello and welcome,

It’s lovely having you here. I’m Jo, a mother to three, embodied yoga teacher, life coach, and space holder.

I help women turn the big transitions in their lives into powerful experiences.

I empower individuals via a range of multi-faceted tools including ancient wisdom, somatic bodywork, breathwork, life planning frameworks, and the power of community.

Whether navigating early motherhood or midlife change, I’m here to help you reclaim your power.

Create meaningful rituals, use science-backed strategies and mindset techniques, and join a sisterhood - all while honoring your current life stage.

My Personal Story

I'm a Mum to three children, Ruby, Jake, and Alfie. Being a mother to them is the thing that brings me the most joy. They’ve also been the greatest gift in awakening me to the life I want to create and the legacy I want to leave for and through them.

Although based in Spain now, I’m originally from the UK. For many years I worked there as a producer in TV and digital marketing for companies like Channel 4 and the BBC. My yoga practice helped me during this time as a contrast to the fast-paced, head-led work I did. In 2008, I trained to be a yoga teacher.

When I had my first child, I knew I wanted a different way of life from London and corporate hustle. In 2010, my husband and I and our, at the time, 2-year-old daughter, packed up our little car and drove to Barcelona to start a new chapter. We had no fixed work. My husband commuted to London for work for the first 5 years. I was in Barcelona, by this time with two small children, trying to navigate a new culture, language, and motherhood (and lack of sleep!) It wasn’t easy for either of us, and our relationship was tested to a whole new level.

It’s taken us a lot of work and resilience and there’s been many challenges, but we now live with our three children, in a home with views of the sea. My husband works from home now running his business and we’re a very close-knit family. We’re living close to nature in a beautiful small town on the Maresme Coast just outside the city.

I’m perimenopausal, a very interesting time of life to say the least! It’s my belief this cyclical chapter gives us the chance to look at everything in our lives that isn't working and if we want to change it. That’s not always easy, but it can be a powerful portal for change. It can involve facing shadows and stepping into the unknown, but has the potential to alchemise your life. My eldest daughter is now a teenager, and the hormonal collision of adolescence and perimenopause is potent! I support mothers and daughters in navigating their connection at these rite of passages too. Once again it’s tested my relationship and we’ve had huge life-changing shifts in our relationship dynamic. I’m currently still navigating new career options as I focus on being a mother but also re-igniting my career.

I truly know a thing or two about transitions— moving country, changing careers, navigating motherhood, childbirth, parenthood, adolescence, perimenopause. All alongside maintaining relationships and thriving in life, finances and health. Life changes can be very hard and wonderful at the same time. With the right support, they can be incredibly powerful experiences that shape how you live your life.

My Mission

I help women turn the big transitions in their lives into powerful experiences. This includes the rite of passage of motherhood— pregnancy, birth, postnatally— during the huge transition of matrescence. More recently, it has also meant offering support for women in midlife who are navigating perimenopause. This includes making shifts in our lives, connection to tween and teen children, navigating career change, reigniting connection to ourselves and our feminine fire, and support with our relationships and partners.

Embodied Movement and Breathwork

One of the pillars to wellness throughout life transitions is daily movement and breathwork. It’s been a lifeline for me, and I teach it within everything I do.

I guide a gentle style of yoga or embodied movement that’s fluid, grounded, feminine, and intuitive. I believe in the wisdom of the body. It gives us so much vital information, and yet too often we aren’t able to listen.

My intention in my teaching is always to bring us back to that place of deep awareness and give us access to ‘feeling’ within our body and ourselves. It’s my joy and my pleasure to slow us down and to truly tune in. To release somatically, to dance a merry dance with the nervous system through breath and movement, and to have some fun along the way.

Inspired by

I’ve been inspired by my teacher, the wonderful Uma Dinsmore Tuli. Uma is the author of Yoni Shakti, a yoga therapist, and founder of the Yoga Nidra Network. Much of my teaching for women reflects her ‘Womb Yoga’ method, which places women’s individual experience at the heart of the sessions. I offer empowering, revitalizing, and nourishing practices for all life stages in a therapeutic manner.

The energy of the womb is the source of feminine creativity and power. It contains the ability to create life, and so stirring the cauldron of the sacral chakra (womb and pelvic region) can give us a huge amount of vitality. To contrast this, I also adore sharing the practices of restorative yoga. I lead nature-related, cyclical meditation, visualization, and Yoga Nidra, the yoga of sleep, as an essential element of my classes.

My offerings

I offer Pregnancy, Post-Natal Yoga and Mama and Baby Yoga classes and circles and trained with the Yoga Alliance UK accredited organization Birthlight. I currently teach Pregnancy and Mum and Baby Classes at Shanti Vida in Barcelona.

I am also privileged to host and hold space for Women’s Circles, Rites of Passage Ceremonies, and Soulful Events. I believe in the importance of finding meaning, depth, and celebration in moments, big and small, throughout life. I also value honouring transitions consciously rather than letting them happen to us. The events I offer include:

• Mother Blessings to honour the transition into becoming a Mother

• Closing of the Bones Postnatal Cermeonies

• Bloom Menarche Ceremonies (for Mother and Daughters at the time of the daughters first bleed)

• Conscious Date NIght’s for couples

• Ceremonies that bring meaning to events such as hen parties/ birthdays

• Creative Women's Circles and workshops on a wide range of themes

Practical details

All sessions are in English and I currently offer circles and classes at Shanti Vida in the Gotico in Barcelona and Es Calma in Cabrils on the Maresme.

I am available for workshops, retreats, and private events, and one-and-one classes in and around Barcelona

People often ask why Grace and Blaze Yoga?

I chose the name Grace and Blaze Yoga for my business because these are the middle names of my two eldest children. Also because these words represent how I want to show up in life, in balance.

Grace signifies to me fluidity, calm, peace, and empathy; water qualities of Ying. Blaze represents the vitality of the aliveness and yang that we all have within us. The get-up and go and fire to enjoy and experience life in its fullest dimension.

My intention is always there to honor and embody these qualities in my teaching and also in how I live my life.

Get in touch! I’d love to hear from you

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Much love, until next time in Circle,

Jo x

Qualifications and Experiences

2024: Reiki Level 1 and Level 2 Attunement and knowledge of the Usui method of natural healing with Reiki Master Alice Jackson.

2022: Essence, a group journey that reconnects you back to your authentic, sexual essence. Temple of the Feminine.

2021: YONI SHAKTI WELL WOMAN YOGA THERAPY TEACHER TRAINING 9-month training with writer, visionary, radical yogini, Total Yoga Nidra advocate and eco-feminist activist Uma Dinsmore Tulli from Yoga Nidra Network and author of Yoni Shakti.

2022: Ignite Couples Course with Kat and Tully O’Connor, a grounded, practical approach to Conscious Relationship.

2022: Sensual Yoga for Women with writer, psychotherapist and women’s initiatory guide Carly Mountain.

2021: Initiation, Self Cervix, a guided individual journey into the path of the awakened cervix by Olivia Bryant.

2020: Living Lotus, a 7-month Sadhana Group Container delving deep into the way of the Feminine with Beth Win.

2019: Became a Mother for the third time to my son Alfie Edward in an exquisite HomeBirth.

2017: Birthlight Motherhood Yoga Training Qualification; Pregnancy, Birth, Postnatal and Baby Yoga. 30 hrs: Yoga Alliance UK Accredited. Course Tutor: Birthlight Director of Training Sally Lomas.  At Omshanti Studio

2014: Became a Mother for the second time to my incredible son Jake Blaze, a birth that taught me so much.

2012 - 2014: Yoga Sadhana Course: Over 1000 hours yoga self-practice and 80 hours course contact time spread over 10 weekends a year.

2010: Teaching Vinyasa 2-day CPD Certificate Course - 6 REPs

2011: Became a Mother for the first time to my beautiful Ruby Grace.

2011: Hypnobirthing Parents Course with Katherine Graves. KG Hypnobirthing at TriYoga London.

2010: 200hr Level 3 Diploma in Teaching Yoga from YogaProfessionals. Awarded by YMCA Awards and the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs)