Inner Strength: Movement & Writing Sessions
🞗 Inner Strength 🞗 Clarity 🞗 Self-Discovery
Our inner strength sessions are a pathway to self-discovery. Take time away from your everyday life and reconnect with yourself, your potential and purpose in a safe, supportive environment.
These sessions bring together two independent practices that explore inner strength through different, complementary routes: movement and writing.
Each practice stands alone, with its own methodology and integrity. They are not blended into a single discipline. Instead, they convene around a central shared theme of self-discovery, particularly during periods of change, uncertainty, or quiet restlessness.
People often arrive without a clear problem to solve. What they share is a sense that something needs attention, space, or movement, physically, mentally, or creatively.
These sessions are designed to offer experience before explanation, allowing insight to emerge naturally rather than being imposed.
What we offer
team away days and enrichment
private group bookings
workshops and retreats
Shared Theme
Inner Strength Through Self-Discovery
Inner strength is not defined here as constant resilience or pushing beyond limits.
In this work, inner strength includes:
the ability to stay present during challenge
the confidence to explore unfamiliar territory
the capacity to recognise when effort is useful and when rest is needed
curiosity about who you are now, rather than who you were expected to be
This framing allows you to meet the work in your own way, without being told what strength should look like.
What Each Brings
Keeley Jean-Baptiste
Strength-Based Movement for Capacity, Clarity, and Confidence-
Keeley’s work uses yoga-informed movement as a training tool, not an end goal.
The focus is not on achieving poses, but on how people respond to challenge, instability, and effort. Movement becomes a way to explore inner strength physically, before trying to understand it intellectually.
Teaching Approach
Keeley teaches using strength-based, intelligent movement that prioritises:
control over shape
organisation over flexibility
experience over performance
Sessions deliberately include:
balance and instability
slow, controlled strength work
situations that require focus and calm under effort
intentional rest and recovery
You are guided to notice how you respond when things feel difficult, unfamiliar, or demanding, and how breath, attention, and pacing change that experience.
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focus
shared experience
physical confidence
openness and readiness for reflection
Faye Knowles
Writing for Wellbeing and Personal Growth-
Faye’s writing for wellbeing sessions combine therapeutic and creative approaches to facilitate self-reflection, self-expression and personal growth.
The focus is on the writing process not the resulting product, though you may choose to produce poetry, short stories and other creative pieces.
Faye’s work offers a structured space to:
reflect on your inner strengths and virtues
explore your thoughts, feelings and experiences in written words
reconnect with yourself through curiosity and creativity
make personal meaning without pressure to share or perform.
You can expect to:
respond to a series of engaging exercises and prompts
write without judgement in a supportive space
disregard grammar and spelling rules and concerns your writing isn’t good enough
fall in love with writing
With a background in creative writing and psychology, Faye’s sessions are informed by therapeutic writing research, positive psychology theory and her own writing practice.
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self-exploration and expression
meaning-making and creativity
conversation and connection with others
gentle self-care and discovery
Frequently Asked Questions
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No. Both practices are suitable for absolute beginners. Keeley offers movement variations so you can respond at your own level and pace.
Faye’s writing sessions focus on the writing process and not the resulting product. You can respond to the prompts in whatever way you wish. Please don’t worry that your writing won’t be good enough. Everything you produce in the sessions is valuable.
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Movement is used early in the session because:
shared physical experience builds connection without forced conversation
physical challenge reduces mental noise and overthinking
the body provides immediate, honest feedback
people experience capability directly, rather than being told about it
Participants often leave the movement session with:
a clearer, quieter mind
increased confidence grounded in experience
a sense of calm after effort
renewed trust in their body
The movement practice also introduces an important reframe:
Stress is not inherently bad. It is information. When approached with curiosity rather than avoidance, it can build capacity rather than depletion.
This embodied learning carries into other areas of life, including work, relationships, and creative thinking.
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These sessions can be:
commissioned by organisations
delivered as private group experiences
offered as public retreats
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While the sessions are suitable for anyone wanting to enhance their inner strength, including beginners, they may be especially beneficial for:
burnout teams in need of clarity and inspiration, or support during organisational change
private groups and parties wanting to try something positive and different
those experiencing major life transitions and change, from new parents to retirees
those who need some time for themselves away from their everyday life
those looking for a new challenge
The core approach remains the same, while content, pacing, and emphasis are adapted to context.
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Get in touch with either Keeley at yogawithkeeleyjb@gmail.com or Faye at fayeknowleswrites@gmail.com and we can either follow up with details, or arrange a phone call to discuss further.
We will announce standalone workshops separately, advertised here, and on social media - find Keeley, here: @yogawithkeeley and Faye, here: @fayeknowleswrites.
If you're interested in arranging a team away day, private session or attending a retreat, you can get in touch with either Keeley or Faye [ad] with specific questions or to arrange a meeting or informal chat.
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We care about connection. We both love to bring people together and create safe, welcoming and supportive spaces where you can express yourself without judgement. Both yoga and writing can be intimidating and we are keen to remove all expectations and discomfort, so you can participate in a way that’s right for you. Although you'll be invited to share your work in the writing portion of our sessions, there is no pressure to do so.
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You can contact either one of us via email, and we’ll endeavour to get back to you as soon as possible.
Keeley - yogawithkeeleyjb@gmail.com
Faye - fayeknowleswrites@gmail.com
Upcoming Retreat
Upcoming Retreat
04 July - Ilkley Playhouse
09:30-12:30 | A Morning of Yoga & Writing