Welcome to this week’s Newsletter — the last one for May 2026. I can hardly believe I am saying that, but here we are.

We are just getting back after having a half-term break and we had planned to do some decorating, so that is what we did. It’s decorating that we started back in September just before I became injured, so completion was long overdue. However I am very pleased to say that we have finished it … and I should add that decorating the house was something that I felt really mattered to me, it was very important for everywhere to look neat, bright and tidy, because in my head this is what I practised every day. I felt frustrated and angry because I couldn’t do it, and therefore it wasn’t going to get done. However during this time I learned a very important lesson, which I have written about in Your Whole Self, what really matters and what is important practice. I think it may resonate.

Face-to-Face Classes are back this week, with the exception of Jenny’s Rempstone sessions, while she is away on her holiday of a lifetime in Canada. Those classes have however been rescheduled into the normal timetable so nobody misses out. Our Summer Timetable classes are also now available in the Online Calendar for you to plan.

Online Classes also resume to the full timetable this week, with all Live classes recorded and uploaded to the members’ jtp.zone website ready to replay or schedule into your own timetable.

So let’s get back to my decorating! 

One of the things I have learned is that actually getting decorated, finishing the decorating and trying to make everything perfect isn’t what matters to me, and it is not that important … not really. Yes, it’s nice, and I am glad we are getting it finished, but it is not what matters. My granddaughters don’t care about decorating or whether a wall is smooth and painted pink: what matters to them is that I can play with them, paint pictures, make playdough models, laugh, sing and dance with them. This is what matters to me and what is important practice for me.

Therefore, my question to you this week is what really matters to you? I want you to take time to think a little deeper before you answer. Take a pause, a breath, and think honestly, because for me — being really truthful — what I thought mattered years ago is not quite the same now.

There was a time when I might have said things like having a designer handbag, looking a certain way, or ticking all the I should have this by now boxes. And there isn’t anything wrong with those things, they can be lovely, enjoyable, even meaningful in their own way. But when I really stop and look at my life now, what matters most feels very different. 

So when I think deeply about what matters, this is my list:

• being available for my grandchildren
• time
• connection
• how I feel inside myself 
• how I show up for people around me.

Let’s take this further, because obviously what matters shifts and evolves over time. The smaller things in life become more important, so what about the things we practise every day? Our days are made up of small, repeated actions, things we give our energy and attention to and sometimes, without even realising it, we can be practising things that don’t quite match what truly matters to us anymore.

For example, I know that I have practised rushing, saying yes to everything, being busy for the sake of it, maybe not considering myself and putting me at the bottom of the list … but actually this practice doesn’t match what really matters to me, in fact most of it is completely the opposite.

You may feel the same about what daily practice could be important to our lives, for example:

• more presence
• more ease
• more connection
• more care for ourselves as well as others.

I realise that I mention this a lot in my Newsletters, but every time we talk about how we can make small changes to our lives to make them feel good, better, or the best we can, it makes us notice how we can achieve it and we highlight the things that are important to us. If we can notice what matters, notice what we actually give our time to, and where possible bring these two a little closer together, then the important practice quietly supports the life we truly want to live.

Maybe this week is me inviting you to pause and ask yourself, what really matters to you now? And what are you practising each day? Be curious and aware of perhaps a small shift in the direction that feels right for what is important to you.

Have a fabulous week everyone — keep looking, moving, and feeling good.

With love and support,

Jane xxx