Why Copyright ©️ is important & why I’m speaking up.

2019 ♥️ Evolution

Buckle up folks……

the main point is further down after my little intro into why this post is so important for me today

Anavrin was borne from trauma & grief. My pain.

There’s no two ways about it.

I had so many struggles from day dot finding my faith & yoga saved my life.

During the first 15 years of practicing, experiencing life, trying to make sense of everyone else’s WHY- Why do they hurt me, do the things they do…I flipped the script.

What is my WHY.

Firstly WHY the f am I letting people get away with it? I’m an empathetic person, compassionate to not want to hurt others. I was a people pleaser, didn’t like hostility because it makes me feel queasy…

All created by everyone else’s WHY. Being a human punch bag both physically & emotionally since a little girl, these were the protections I needed not to break…I wanted to make it all better. If you’ve ever been in this position you’ll know what I mean. A constant state of feeling in danger, your senses- especially energy reading through the roof & the floor - a magnet for feeling.

I also had a strong no nonsense attitude, too big for someone so small 😅 and to my detriment many times : trauma response…

I didn’t need love

I didn’t need support

I didn’t need anyone at all….

Because never had anyone without a hidden agenda. My Nan moved away when I was 8, the only one who gave me peace, abandonment became a deep rooted fear.

There were times I let myself believe I was loved until it came to crashing down, this girl learned that I wasn’t loveable.

Until I found my HOW: my faith & yoga.

Confirmed my fears, I didn’t need to be loved by anyone else but gave me space;

They showed me how to love myself, set boundaries to protect myself instead of living in a deep state of alert & rejection.

Over the years the world, my world has changed through hard work, trial & error.

To bring about change, I held myself accountable for the way I was hard on others by being unmanageable, loud, deeply dark in humour and out of wild control.

I can hand on heart say I was never unkind to anyone else other than myself I held accountability on myself with this. To stop justifying the behaviour of others through the lens of my existence. Some people are simply motherf and horrible people who need to sort out their own WHY.

I stayed true to myself while unpacking the trauma and packing only what is necessary for the journey.

It’s still a process to this day.

Due to this traumatic event led life one added bonus is a mind that absorbs everything, can think outside the box and spiritually ingrained connection that I know when something is happening beyond my scope of view even by looking at a photo on my phone.  It definitely opens up your energy centre to the cosmos.

Now whether you listen to it or just become aware of impending doom is another thing 😅

An adhd mind does make for complications as it will literally power down your body & self it it’s useless for your journey. I used to think it was a me thing…Turns out it’s actually something telling me to stop wasting my time!

And so came Anavrin. People around me who knew of my past were confused as to how I became so infused with love, about 20 years asking me to show them poses, breathing techniques. This began in earnest 5 years later when I had came out of the other side of such a dark chapter of abuse and I was strong, resolute & really calm.

It was during that chapter everyone on this planet was put on notice: Stick your WHY UP YOUR 🍑 if you think I’m here to be your HOW.

The game changes right there, my kindness now comes conditions.

I’ve done the love & light, but this just totally compromises my values. So this too has evolved over the past 4 years.

It reads more like show up or shut up. Back up the truth you say or go elsewhere with your nonsense ♥️ said with love of course 😁

I do not do things by half.

And I hate sharing what I’ve studied although very proud….I will take a qualification even if I don’t want to practice something as a profession to find out what it’s all about.

From repeated (YTT)Yoga leading to my Ayurveda practitioner certification, meditation to kundalini - tantra- sound therapist- mindfulness, become a PT because I wanted to know about weights and muscles to lose weight & tone up correctly 😅 I took my reflexology qual because I was told about the importance of not massaging my the heel area during pregnancy, neurology became a part of my psychology qualifications & there’s more:

•Walk leader & Shinrin Yoku for nature

Yoga:

•Pre & Postnatal

•Yin

•Restorative

•Hit

•Aerial

•Children

•Pilates

•Aqua

•Meditation: Mantra & Chanting

•Spiritual coaching

•Menopause & wellbeing

•Crystal healing

•Aromatherapy

•CBT

•NLP

There’s others I can’t recall off the top of my head but over 3 decades of my discovery journey via open university, travelling to London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Somerset, Cardiff I have attended courses to enhance my wellbeing. I don’t offer all the services I could because it’s not for me as a guide but they do give me the best way to relay how I see healing. How everything interconnects.

A small fortune has been paid, time & hours the most expensive. But all worth it so I be the guide I want to be.

I don’t want to niche down on one aspect of Yoga, that wasn’t my journey hence why I consider healing a 360deg space of Being,

I don’t want to be an authority on any given component.

My aim has always been to offer a whole being look at you.

To be yoga, to be love, to be you.

That’s where my mantra comes from.

I wasn’t yoga, I wasn’t love, I didn’t know myself.I don’t want anyone to have to feel as lost as I do or as I ever did.

My career in motherhood (flippancy here 😅) spans 25 years learning and preparing for their future while being 💯 there for them balances well. This will always be my first over & above everything, including myself. There isn’t anything more important to me.

What blew me away, when I shared about the heartbreak with my son and loss of Mum how other people use this as a way to further themselves. Their WHY is not from a good place.

And whilst I leave their journeys alone, I’m true to mine.

So I call out every single bit of 🐂💩

From trying to move into established spaces for my yoga experiences, bad mouthing this resilience to literally using my work I still receive nonsense behaviours.

Unfortunately for them they now get to feel all my learning all at once, because I’m not messing around.

As you can see , 4years ago the Anavrin evolution had began to take place. I had been actively using the page properly for a little while, sharing my thoughts, feeling out social media - terrifying! 😅

Already it’s out there be yoga be love be you- a separated when supported the post.

I’ve always seen Yoga as something to BE not do. My posts, classes have reflected this.

So now I get to my point.

A woman who frequented my classes, attributes her love of yoga because of the way I guide, even references my asking her ‘why’ in her About Me on her website.

What she neglects to point out is her entire branding is based on mine. From colours to wording I’m not happy.

I have shown the pages and sites to others. Initially in an unbiased way and everytime the reaction is ‘when are you doing this event’ thinking the work was mine.

She neglects to mention she used my planned trip to Greece as a way to jump in a YTT course, my teaching position when I was off work with my mental health, how she initially used a symbol upon which I have registered ®️ copyright on her website.

Also in 2020 I received a beautiful gift from class yogis a book called Yoga Girl as I reflect this. How lush! So an Instagram page of Yoga Girl Wales was started in jest - the woman in question utilised a combination of these words to start her own page.

These things I tried to ignore as I wasn’t in a good place. Instead I closed the page and started another….Wasn’t reading too much into it. Yet funnily enough when I went to Portugal instead of Greece, guess where it went next!

Instead of listening to my intuition I tried to support this woman with kind words. Maybe as an inspiration for her it’s a compliment.

I couldn’t have been more wrong.

I had to pull her up in then calling herself yogi bear 😂

Bits were rising last year but from now until Mum passed away in weeks to come, my attention drifted.  But of course, spirit having my back kept giving me nagging sensations. Firstly after media silence I felt inclined to tune in only to be shown a previous horror of actions raising its ugly head occuring so I had to shut that down, fortunately everyone knew who it was I stopped hiding that long ago.

Then this woman. Did she know she was using my utilised Be Yoga Love which I said at the end of my classes for years from my evolutionary process of online Balance Yoga Love?

So I posted on my personal page posts that only a guilty person would pick up.

Not new posts I add, evidence of the words in posts over the years with writing celebrating my growth not attacking a single thing.

Picked up and carried! She unfriended, blocked me on platforms. 😂😂

I still had email and WhatsApp so sent a mindful legal letter….

To wit! So she phoned the police as this was harassment. As they said, she’s actually breaking the law and it’s a civil case.

With grief for me comes change.

While this stuff gets sorted I’m using be yoga live so I can still be separate but remain true to my work, I shouldn’t have to but I need to keep moving forward.

So I decided to update my website colours, look at my services etc before coming back in the new year these too began to be reflected in her stuff.

Finding out she had called an event Breathe & Be, the same as one she attended with myself, same symbol, calling things yoga experiences & Flows (something else I had consciously chosen to do for a USP)

Obviously by this point it was blatant infringement, I wrote a post, thought it would stop the BS.

Now it’s like dangling a red rag to a bull.

She has decided in wisdom to continue with Be Yoga Love, using sanctuary, BYL, be yoga be love be you. Calling her stuff Breathe Body Being, still insists on using a female symbol not unlike the one I use for indie rose yoga, while passive aggressively aiming posts about being yourself.

This isn’t passive aggressive this is putting someone on alert for the next phase.

ALL MY WORK HAS AUTOMATIC COPYRIGHT ©️ AND ITS WRITTEN ALL THROUGHOUT MY SITE AND POLICIES. I’ve even installed right click tech now to the site as further protection so traffic is monitored and visitors recorded.

I’ve raised the issue with both Facebook and Instagram, my solicitor is compiling the evidence to send to Google and to their website hosting platform. If they do not remove their branding and do something of their own, it will ultimately get taken down and I will post about that as well.

You cannot undo a digital ‘footprint’ and hosting platforms have liability and regulations to uphold copyright law.

I have 7 years of evidence just on the website evolution that’s without social media and written statements from in person support.

I am not messing around.

I do not want to be famous, get clicks and likes . I don’t pose to look like anyone else.

I want to help others

I want my pain to mean something

I want it to mean peace, sanctuary for others.

I know what it’s like to have to travel to find inner harmony, when the journey is actually walking a path home to you.

This post will be regularly updated and shared on all my platforms until the situation is resolved.

It’s not clever nor funny. Especially if you’re someone who discusses this with this woman saying! What is she going to do? You’re amazing keep doing you’ or ‘she’s jealous because of how you can bend’ 😂🤣 (that’s my favourite one, I don’t want to do anything where my veins are strained in my neck to copy someone who is clearly embodying the pose) in the words of Shania Twain:

That don’t impress me much.

Stop enabling her BS by not seeing the truth.

Trouble is for those people I get to see all that too 😉

I don’t have to look for this stuff. I’m loving the progress at my own role and personal growth.

People send it to me.

Others read it and laugh at the blatantly ignorant way it’s being done.

Spirit tells me.

Now I know there can be crossovers. I gave that benefit of the doubt. It seems as though conversations take place and she doubles down on sharing what she’s doing as though it’s innocent.

Tbh I’m not the only one she uses to post stuff. Check out Nicole . She’s an ‘inspiration’ too.

I’m not a bitter person. I do not give 2 toots about other yoga teachers, other teachers come to The Sanctuary to teach their own classes…I have teachers who have more expertise in their little fingers than I will ever have who come to my sessions…

I’m not competitive.

I had that beaten out of me as a kid, but that’s another story.

All I ask is Don’t use my life earned hard work and branding. It hasn’t magically appeared.

I spend days, I’ve spent years learning, planning, nurturing my brand & how I guide with the renamed eCY method to ANAVRIN METHOD, this also as a result of ensuring my work is easily associated with Anavrin.

I see many teachers, guides that inspire me everyday. I don’t use their work, that inspiration I use personally, if I share the info I’ll tell people to check them out to.

I’m not perfect, no doubt I’ve done something to p:ss people off, formulated words that resemble someone else’s….in the past when finding my symbol I found other local teachers had similar, not wanting to step on their mats I immediately removed and changed my own.

I’m the first to notice and change that.

If you’ve gotten here,

Thank you for reading ♥️

Let’s support each other by being individually equal, be inspired but not plagiaristic.