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I had the opportunity to sit down with Сергей Ревтов someone I deeply admire and trust, to talk about a practice that has completely changed the way I understand myself and my body.

We spoke about Bali Pravilo Center | Community Transformation Space but more importantly, we spoke about what sits beneath the practice.

The body’s capacity to adapt. Why we hold tension. The relationship between fascia, the joints and the nervous system. What happens when we stop trying to force the body into release and instead give it the space to rest and find its own way there.

Sergei has an incredible understanding of the body, but what I admire most is the calm and instinct he brings to this work. When you’re being suspended by your hands, feet, jaw and spine, trust isn’t optional. It becomes part of the practice itself.

Pravilo has taught me that sometimes the muscle you keep stretching isn’t the whole story.

Sometimes what we need isn’t more force, more effort or another attempt to “fix” ourselves.

Sometimes we need a completely different conversation with the body.

This conversation meant a lot to me, particularly as I return to a practice that has genuinely changed my life.

I hope you take as much from Sergei’s wisdom as I have.

The Light Years. ✨

I’ve thought a lot about what I wanted to call this chapter of my life.
The last couple of weeks have held almost every possible version of me. Excited, overwhelmed, completely exhausted, deeply grateful, wildly optimistic and, at times, very firmly outside my own window of regulation.

There’s something quite humbling about being a nervous system practitioner while watching your own nervous system respond to an enormous amount of change.
Knowing what’s happening doesn’t make you immune to dysregulation. Knowing the tools doesn’t mean you’ll always have the capacity to use them. And being regulated certainly doesn’t mean remaining calm, composed and within your window at all times.
Sometimes you cope.
Sometimes you push.
Sometimes you recognise you’ve pushed too far, and sometimes your body makes that decision for you.
I experienced a little bit of all of the above.
But amongst the boxes, the goodbyes, the overwhelm and the exhaustion, there has been so much light.
A new home for Ash and me.
A new home for I Am Beauty.
New neighbours.
New routines.
New beginnings.
And this overwhelming feeling that somehow, at 43, I’ve been given the opportunity to start again, not from scratch, but with everything I know now.
And I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.
So, for all the new faces here and those of you who have been here through all the versions before this one welcome to The Light Years.

We have some catching up to do.

July. A turning point ✨
It’s not lost on me that I’m asking a lot of myself right now. I’m moving house. I’m moving I Am Beauty and I’ve just returned from Bali for the 2nd time in 3 months to complete what feels like, the final shed!
I’m still very much recovering from burnout but pushing from joy - over survival is the only pallet cleanser I’ll ever need.
1. Lights out BB. What a privilege it was been to hold & heals in this room ♥️
2. Flowers, grosgrain ribbon, crystals and gifting - 4 of my greatest loves.
3. No words. Just vibes. On a school night Club Rose Bay RSL i’m more fun in July 🦁
4. was so anxious about this and instead I fell into the deepest four-hour nap while Astise - UV lashes / brow PMU & tint / lash lifts gave me the most perfect brow lift & lip blush. TY 🤍
5. My OG Monica Johansson said to me “Ohhh… you’re noticing things again” as I complimented the puddle for shining in the sky. She’s not wrong ✨
6. Packing takes longer when you keep finding past versions of yourself who you want to invite to a long lunch 🥂
7. Running - in hope I’ll slow down soon.
8. I always thought I was an extrovert… then I met my nervous system & realising that this is how we actually prefer to hang!
9. Hi 👋 I’m just going to chill with you for a moment
10. My emotional support spray REAYA and if you don’t know 🔮Then you must. Trust me.
11. If this were scratch-and-sniff, it would smell like cloves, tuberose and martinis 🍸
12. This was wild. Truly. Someone said to me the other day “you look stretched or taller somehow - is that even possible ?” Capacity baby!
13. Some people just get you - even from afar. Hand delivered. Bow & blessings by I.AM COLLECTIONS 🤍
14. Dear Universe, thank you for already showing me how good it gets.
15. This woman in my corner - I never take you for granted.
16. Me, in my natural habitat. 🤍
17. When angels sing, I imagine the lighting looks s something like this.
18. A handwritten letter will always- always- always feel like one of the greatest forms of love to me. Thank you for touching my soul with your words Laura | slow living & letter club 💌.
19. The tallest & definitely wisest 🍃
20. The beginning of something really special

Another thing this trip reminded me of...
I massively underestimated how much my environment influences my nervous system!
When I first arrived, I wasn’t staying somewhere that felt like me.
The room was dark. No natural light.
It felt uninspiring and disconnected from nature and it just wasn’t a vibe.

Without even realising it, I started withdrawing.
I lost my appetite.
I wanted to isolate.
To be honest, it took me a couple of days to instigate the change of environment.. but as soon as I changed my where I was choosing to rest my energy, my output and capacity changed.
Falling asleep to the sound of waves, watching the sunset every evening and having access to fresh and nourishing food… and natural light ✨

And almost without noticing...
Something inside me softened.
My appetite returned and I started spending more time outside and enjoyed connecting not only with myself but I found myself actively seeking out conversations with other guest too.
I started to feel like myself again.

It was such a powerful reminder that we spend so much time trying to change what’s happening within us, while often underestimating how profoundly what’s happening around us shapes our nervous system.

Sometimes regulation isn’t another tool.
Another book.
Or another breakthrough.

Sometimes it’s simply asking yourself...
Does my environment make me feel safe enough to exhale?

Someone (Universe ... I’m looking at you 👀) literally put a big weighted blanket on me the moment I arrived in Bali.

Turns out expectations are cute... and, at times, wildly unrealistic.

This trip has consisted of Surrender. Practice. Safety. Sleep. Repeat.

Surrender will forever be my biggest teacher.

And just like most of my teachers...

Sometimes it’s a love-hate relationship.

Someone recently said to me that “both… love and hate.. can exist at the same time” and as much as I wanted to embrace it.. I’ll be honest, it really annoyed me and I just wanted it to be simple.
After so many chapters recently, I think I was searching for certainty. A neat ending. A finite answer.
But as it turns out… both can exist at the same time.
I have learnt to love Bali again with every fibre of my being… and hate the lessons it asks of me.

I crave growth and resist it in the very same breath.
Maybe that’s what being a student of life really looks like ?!

It’s good to be home 🤍