Take Care of You: Autumn is
a self-paced online programme to support you with real-life tools and resources to take care of you and your creativity this transitional season and beyond!
What’s included?
📖 Multimedia online zine divided into 4 weekly themes with digestible interactive chapters
🎧 Audiobook (2 hours) to accompany your journey
📹 9 x exclusive yoga + movement video classes
✨ 3 x exclusive meditations to stream / download
🌈 Access to the Practice with Dionne community
💽 Exclusive offer to join my new member platform
🎨 Creative activities
🕯 Embodiment rituals
💡 Prompts + explorations to encourage your journey
🗓 Accountability tools
🌺 Inspiration station + library of resources that support you beyond the duration of the programme
🍵 Recipes
🎵 Playlists
✅ Gentle check-ins and space for reflection
🦋 Choose your own adventure roadmap to guide you through the content (more below)
Videos 📹
9 exclusive yoga + movement video
classes to stream wherever you are
1. Show up for yourself
Sometimes we can feel swept up in stuff. The pressure or energies pulling us in all kinds of directions. Or perhaps we just feel a little disconnected and unsure of finding our way. The nature of things is that we will experiences shifts. Luls. Lows. Highs. Changes. But we get to choose to show up anyway. And even on the days we don’t show up, to remember we can always try again the next day. Do you feel me?
So i made you a practice to celebrate your presence here. Hope you dig.
25 minute practice
4. Soothing mindful flow
Reducing stress and overactivity is perhaps the most important thing we can do for ourselves, especially during this season. This is one of my favourite types of practices to do at home, and I find it really useful to reconnect to myself and finding balance.
Hope it serves you!
24 minute practice
7. Pizza hands!
The hands and feet are gateways to access different parts of the body, and working with these areas in the beginning of your practice can really help to initiate a sense of flow and connectedness with the rest of your body. So let’s put that into action with this little movement studies moment! 🍕
10 minute practice
2. Grounding and balancing your energy
Got a lot going on right now? Feeling pulled in all kinds of directions? Want to come back down to earth?
Here’s a practice to support you to ground and balance your energy! ✨
25 minute practice
5. Humming bee breath
In this video I would like to share one of my favourite techniques for when things are super hectic and you’re all up in your head. Regain focus, calm things down and come back to yourself.
7 minute practice
8. Come back to your centre
An energy practice inspired by the three-dimensional self practice. An offering to come back home to yourself.
9 minute practice
3. Boost your immunity
When it comes to immunity, it’s nice to remind ourselves of balance and flow and how these things are always shifting and moving. So we will focus on circulation and ways to boost our immunity.
Hope this helps!
38 minute practice
6. Ear and neck massage
Here’s a little tip especially useful for those transitional times of the year, or for when I’m feeling like my immunity is a bit low.
Hope this helps you feel better and give some love and attention to your neck and ears.
3 minute practice
9. Stay connected to yourself
Give yourself what you need today! (and every day!)
This practice is an offering to explore a sense of connection to all parts of ourselves so we might remember our wholeness.
A playful, explorative and feel good flow, where you use your inner guidance to trust, adapt and explore moving in ways that feel good for you.
15 min practice
Curriculum 📂
✨Week 1: Ayurveda, Vata and the winds of change✨
Welcome and get acquainted. Learn about the mind-body connection with the new season. Notice our inner and outer environments.
Establish stability and consistency. Create space to get clear, grounded and centred. Explore foundations to find flow in transitions. Set your intention releasing unnecessary pressure + expectations.
✨Week 2: Immunity + self care✨
Build on your foundation and explore more tools. Learn techniques to explore balance and support your immune and nervous systems.
Entertain “slowing down”, supporting yourself and letting yourself be supported. Balance, nurture and protect your energy. Rest and manage stress. Deeply nourish yourself exploring tools to rebalance and restore.
✨Week 3: Ritual✨
Hold space for yourself to remember who you are.
Cultivate constancy and create pleasure practices to reconnect, honour and centre yourself during transitional times.
Expect deeper exploration and space to absorb!
✨Week 4: Harvest - bring it in!✨
Celebration! Amalgamate your journey.
Connect to energies of abundance, gratitude and mindfulness.
Take stock and explore how will you will integrate your self care and creativity practices and take your journey forward sustainably.
A preview from week 1 👀
…here’s a preview of week 1 of the multimedia online zine!
…and here’s a preview of the first audiobook chapter from week 1:
Share + connect with others on the journey 📡
✨ A private community space to share + connect with others, which includes:
Deeper dive into weekly prompts
Space to ask questions + share your journey
Practical tips, resources, recipes + inspiration
A brilliant and down to earth community of accountability buddies + support: good people to grow, bounce ideas around and connect with.
Exclusive access to my new platform 🌈
✨ Be the first to try out the new hub for all my
on demand yoga + movement videos
and livestream classes with an exclusive offer!
Choose your own adventure 🍁
In line with my usual approach to all things, i’m offering a formula or recipe or roadmap that breaks down specific self care and creativity options for you to explore each week depending on what you might need. "choose your own adventure" if you will.
I’m speaking directly
to those of you who know you need REST this season (and might struggle with that)
to those of you who are feeling you need motivation and are ready to create some structure to ACTIVATE your days this season.
and to those of you a bit in-between, a bit start-and-stop in your PROCESS due to a lack of clarity (which usually comes down to lacking confidence).
I've got you. Know why?
Because i'm all three of these people too!
So every week, expect an additional prompt directly speaking to your needs, meeting you wherever you’re at. If you’re looking for a prompt, i’ll recommend where to put your attention with lots of encouragement and clarity for those “if i could just do one thing this week, what would you recommend?” moments.
This framework offers you the chance to participate with minimum commitment for the busy days (you'll need a minimum of 1 minute to engage!) but with offerings for you to expand into deeper explorations should time and vibe allow.
I’m in! 🎟
About your host! 🌈
Hi! I’m Dionne, a human being, spacemaker and creative explorer.
My work centres on creativity, being well and doing you. I’ve been creating and holding space sharing holistic, interactive and immersive experiences in real life and online for decades in my life as a yoga, somatic movement and meditation teacher, installation artist, creative coach, writer, dj and curator.
I believe in the freedom we experience from being wholeheartedly ourselves. I believe in possibility. I believe in new ways of being and equally honouring our connection to what has come before. I believe in non-linear paths. I believe in healing. Learning and unlearning. The power of the process. Pleasure activism. Embodiment. Animals and plants. Accessible self care as community care. More on my ‘why’ here.
You can get to know me through my podcast perhaps?
Or my blog.
Or my radio show, FEELINGS.
What they say 💿
“Dionne’s approach to self care is gentle, encouraging and inspiring. The creative activities, music and prompts in the programme are inspiring without the pressure of needing to do-do-do, and i love the option of choosing your own adventure.”
“I found Take Care of You: Autumn so helpful, it helped me to commit to a new practice, writing morning pages, and stick to it against all the odds!”
- Poppy
“Dionne has a unique gift for holding space for you and where you are in your journey. Her warm, caring, thoughtful, and gentle ways will support you through whatever you are going through.”
- Safia
“I love Dionne’s yoga style, and the fact that there are no strict rules, nothing is “wrong”, you just do what feels right for you. An investment for body and soul!”
- Grethe
“Week 2 is FABULOUSSSSS!!! the yummy prompts. wise guidance. massive amounts of knowledge and expansion. it is literally divine…”
“Being part of Take Care of you: Autumn has been so wonderful. It has helped me to create beautiful self-care rituals, commit to my morning pages and to a more sustainable practice of movement and meditation”
- Gloria
“Dionne is amazing! She helps put everything in perspective and helps bring out the best in yourself in a way that is uplifting and accessible.”
- Kirby
Q + A
Q: When does this programme start and finish?
A: This 4-part programme starts the day you purchase it (your first self care package is emailed to you within 24 hours of your purchase) and as the four modules are sent weekly, it can be explored at your own pace.
Life happens, so there’s no punishments if you don’t get through all the resources within each week. Suggestion is to explore the choose your own adventure road map that comes with each week and has a clear, succinct offering for you, depending on your needs and focus this season. It’s accessible as it curates “one thing” according to whether you’re looking to REST, ACTIVATE or PROCESS. Read more about it above.
Although this programme focusses on the autumn season, there are certainly ever-green tools in this programme, so you might find it helpful to return to content at a later date.
Q: Will the audio and video content expire?
A: No, you will have access to all content as long as Take Care of You: Autumn is online! The audiobook is also available to download.
Q: Hey, i’m a bit new to the yoga stuff, is it going to be all weird pretzel shapes and bossy powertripping telling me to do things my body doesn’t like?
A: I’m so glad you asked this. cause no, beloved. it sure ain’t!
You will receive classes of varying lengths i have recorded for you (to do in your own time…or don’t!)
It’s an offering in my typical style (read and see more on that here). You can play the video then lay down and have a snooze if that’s your vibe that day. Or join in at points.
Or adapt the practice (i offer heaps of alternatives always, so it’s inclusive and adjustable. You always get to choose your own seasoning).
Also, worth mentioning that the yoga + movement part is just one tool that we explore to take care of ourselves during the autumn season.
Q: Meditation…? Aaaaagh!
A: I hear that. that was actually me for about 11 years or so. So i get it. Which is why i wanted to offer a variety of meditation approaches in this programme. Sitting on a pew looking serene and blissed out is not a requirement.
You’re invited to try these offerings and- who knows - you might even have fun exploring! I KNOW!
Or, just leave it behind. as above. it’s just one of many tools.
Q: How much time do i need to dedicate to this?
A: That’s completely up to you but minimum, one minute a week (i know!).
I made this self-paced course for busy people as a way to help balance the often hectic season. This programme is set up so you get a self care package delivered to your inbox each week that you can dip into or keep as a resource to use at a later date.
I purposefully created the audiobook version of this programme so you could access the content in a more flexible way - and you can choose to make your way through that chronologically or dip into the chapters that speak to you.
The yoga and movement videos vary in lengths as you can see above, the shortest is 3 minutes, the longest 37, and you also have access to many more free videos in my library which i curate for you to sync with the theme of the week. So you can use the videos as much or as little as you like.
The meditations are up to 10 minutes long each. Again, use as desired.
The creative activities can also be adaptable depending how much time you have in the week to dedicate to it. I would recommend you taking 30 minutes to an hour if possible. More if you have space for it, less if you don’t!
You also have prompts and check-ins which might be ideas you ponder as you go about your week. Or, as i like to recommend, you can write them out.
The programme is delivered so you can build onto your self care each week, as much or as little as you like. If you really dig something, you can continue it throughout the journey, or drop it and pick up something else that i’m offering.
…Um, not sure i really answered that well but truth is, the more you put in, the more you get out of it, and vice versa.
But also, the key to ALLLL of this, is that this is a supportive and encouraging space for you to get more acquainted with how you show up and take care of yourself.
So if you have a busy week or weeks, learning how to work with that rather than against it (and punish yourself) is going to be your work for the month!
Choose your own adventure and use it as a support rather than a chore.
If you want to chat to me about it, feel welcome to ask me Qs here!
Q: If i join the community group, do i have to introduce myself to strangers and do that awks thing where i tell them about myself?
A: Well, there’s space to do that but personally i kind of cringe in a ball of shy when i have to respond to that “tell us about yourself"?” and never know what to say! So, don’t fear, i have some suggestions for those of you like me which will hopefully make things much more easeful. And fun! …Did i mention fun? That’s the point. Cause if anything’s going to be torturous, there’s simply no point doing it right?
Also, the group is one that is intimate and private plus the people in it are good people who hold space for people to come as they are. So, feel free to show up with bells on, make a video with special effects with a karaoke cover, choreographed and costumed dance interpretation of Daft Punk’s Around The World if that’s your vibe that day (just me?), or dip in and dip out as time permits, sharing if you like, or simply communicating a mood by emoji/gif/song. Completely up to you! No pressure.
You also have the option to skip the whole community group part!
Q: Creativity….but i’m not…”creative”!
A: Sure you are! We all are!
We each have inherent capacity to create and most of it has to do with allowing ourselves space to explore that for ourselves, outside of what we thing “being creative” looks like.
Hint: it doesn’t have to be “perfect” (cause it already is, without being too cryptic).
We get to tune into ourselves in a different way and express that in whatever we feel.
But don’t worry, i won’t leave you hanging. I’m sharing some of my trusted tools that i hope will support you to deepen your own relationship with your creativity.
Whether you are “well seasoned” or “very new” to this. It doesn’t matter. It’s all good. Perfect and unique as you are.
So, should this speak to you, a heads up that
enrolment is open and you can begin when you're ready baybee!
No, you don't have to complete it by a certain time.
Yes, you get access to week 1 content within
24 hours of signing up.
I'm (Pointer Sisters) excited to welcome you, so it resonates,
i hope you'll join me.
