December 2024 ♥ St Monans ~ Good evening friends, clients, neighbours, soul-friends :) I begin my note with HOPE - I hope this finds you well and warm and taking these busy weeks in your own stride as far as is possible. Massage treatments in St Monans, East Neuk of Fife Thank you for your continued support and patience in my much longer than planned 'home clinic' in St Monans. It's a true joy to work on authentic humans who are rowers; brave souls recovering from cancer, long COVID, injuries and accidents; workers on drilling ships in the Black Sea and off-shore in the North Sea; new Mums and fellow healers! Establishing a clinic and small studio space that is purpose built is still a high priority but a lack of finance as a one woman team in business and in my personal life prevents me from doing this in the quality in which I would like to. The design and vision is formed so in future if & when stars align I hope to bring my dream space to life and fulfill the many requests I receive for private classes and day retreats. January 2025 brings Semester 2 in the academic year where I have a parallel focus as a Lecturer in Physiology on the Pre-Med program at the University of St Andrews. Thursday mornings and Fridays all day will remain to be my days with available massage therapy appointments with greater flexibility time wise from May 2025. ~ Barre class at Crail Community Hall continues with the current 4 week block finishing next Tuesday 10/12/24 after which we take a natural pause to resume on Tuesday 07 January 2025 - TBC via email to my 'frequnt flyers' and my Instagram page (@therapybyalicemooney). Yoga classes at Fairmont St Andrews and Saints Sport University of St Andrews gym) will follow the same pattern in 2025. ~ Endeavoring to share my newsletter with you on this December evening before my final day of treating massage clients and teaching yoga classes for this week before I flee to London town on Friday morning to see a close friend and Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake ballet at Sadlers Wells. My first time to revisit London and to go to the theatre in ~18 months :) As a former ballet dancer through my school years and teens seeing professional dancers perform is truly fab, so is switching wardrobes from active wear to heels and a little glam, so is switching from drinking my body weght in herbal teas to drinking a glass of champagne or two! now Florence marathon is complete. I share a few photos below from a lively, cleansing, cathartic, spiritually uplifting race AFTER a being in a wild spinning vortex / mouth of a wolf / belly of a whale experience of two cancelled flights, sleeping overnight in Paris CDG airport, lost luggage on arrival to Florence with all my race kit inside, on the morning before the marathon joining Parkrun Florence for a community feel good 5 km easy run to find balance but to slip and fall very badly. With injuries, pain and sheer energy depletion on what was intended to be a part of a personal healing journey, the marathon seemed to be a fading possibility after my 3 months of training in Scotland. With the help of off duty medics, kind strangers, the grace of God, the subtle powers of prayer and affirmations, drawing on practices I know in terms of breath work, meditation and yoga which became almost survival tools from my guesthouse, I recovered enough overnight to run on Sunday and enjoy blissful chill time apres race in a city that will always have a part of my heart. I will be here over Christmas/Winter Vacation winding down with a visitor from home - Co. Wicklow, Ireland. If you meet a silver fox in St Monans who looks a little like me and is hot stepping it along the coastal path, swimming in the tidal pool, collecting Christmas lunch from Ardross farm shop, at mass in St James RC St Andrews etc. - it's my Mum Gabrielle! ~ Gratitude to Amber Meredith-Jones, talented designer of my original logo in 2018, for the redesign for my Christmas blessing to one and all. 'Shanti' translates from Sanskrit as peace and in the peace mantra: 'Om shanti, shanti, shanti' - we chant it x 3 times to invoke: 'peace in me', 'peace in you', 'peace universally'. From the cockles of my heart, I wish you peace. Love Alice x | 
