• puzzling, I know

    if you’ve been lurking here you’ll know that I am not a “grind girlie”.

    In my 20s I still just about had the drive to push and push and push and had I the skills and knowledge I do now, my marketing and work ethic would be very different.

    I would go to events, network and trade shows and yoga shows and I would be all about connecting.

    if you are looking for a teacher who lives a fast paced life I am not that girl. I am slow girlie, I have been chronically ill and though I have a deep desire to help everyone my body and mind won’t permit me to do the leg work. So it’s about working smarter, not harder.

    over the next week you’ll see a few books by moi crop up on Amazon. They are self-published books perfect if you love a quiet moment with a coffee or matcha, if you’re always off on a trip or catch yourself with some small free time and wish you could spend it in an intentional and healthy way.

    these puzzle books, which have been sort of floating and published and unpublished are now finalised and I’m really happy with them. One of them is designed for chronic or acute insomniacs, to help self soothe in anxiety spirals in the darkest nights. The other is specifically for people with an intermediate to advanced knowledge in yoga, movement therapy or somatic therapy.

    these are the lowest cost options to work with me, and come to I think £12 each in the UK. If they do well, I will continue to write endlessly.

    what are they?

    these have brain teasers and puzzles with micro-meditation practices and mindfulness prompts. They also have some beautiful illustrations to colour in (not mine unfortunately but in the future I will definitely work on that!)

  • love ur body

    When they say:

    “Love your body”

    At any size

    You don’t have to like what you see

    You don’t have to force preference

    Into necessity

    And squeeze delight 

    Like forcing a jeans sized too small 

    You don’t need to love me superficially

    A body is a body

    I don’t care what I look like at all

    But love me

    When I don’t meet your standards

    Feed me

    When I am lumpy and pale

    Soothe me

    When I grow lines, and greys

    Cherish me

    Let me sleep, let me drink deep

    Show me sunsets and serene seas

    Sweeping willows and petalled bowers

    Drench me out in summer showers

    Move me

    Move me

    Let me dream without sleeping

    Plan my days without scheming

    Don’t use me

    Don’t abuse me

    Love me


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