Every woman is a beautiful flower, capable of blossoming at any age.

Nina London’s Radiant Flower classes are showing women in Bermuda how to do just that.

The Stage 3 uterine cancer survivor had to rebuild her health after undergoing treatment. Through gentle movements and breathing techniques, she found a way to release stress, boost her confidence, and reconnect with her feminine energy.

Eager to share with others, she started teaching qigong classes in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where she and her husband, Bill Rosser, spend six months of the year.

Qigong, an ancient martial art, focuses on movement, breathing, and meditation for overall health. A year ago, she decided to step it up.

“After I started practising, I realised that my energy was back, my sensuality, my life force, my energy,” she said. “At first it was just a qigong programme but then I realised something was missing.”

To her next class, she took a bunch of her favourite flowers. Called silk cotton, they resemble a giant, bright yellow blossom.

“We put them in our hands and started moving with the flowers and I saw magic happen ― everyone started smiling and their energy transformed.”

It was as if a light bulb went off for the veteran life coach. A new way of teaching was born.

Nina, a former columnist with The Royal Gazette, had once written an article comparing women to “beautiful flowers” and had used flowers in her classes before, but had never incorporated them quite so directly into her practice.

“Like flowers, we just need the sun. We just need energy. We need gentle rain, we need guidance to blossom – and we can blossom at any age, at any season of our life.

“We just need to know what to do with our body. Because we all have this energy inside, it just needs to be awakened,” she explained.

She describes Radiant Flower as “a transformative programme designed especially for women who are ready to reconnect with their energy, sensuality, inner light, and release stress and tension”.

In her first class in Thailand, she gave every woman a silk cotton blossom and asked them to hold it up.

“I said, ‘Think about that. You're a flower. What flower are you? Where are you right now? How do you feel?’”

With each description, the connection and the visualisation grew stronger.

“We do flower breathing. We do graceful movements with flowers in our hands. And we dance. This is the programme I created a year ago in Thailand.”

Based on that success, she started a Radiant Flower group in Bermuda that has been appreciated by women aged 20 to 83.

“We feel the energy, we talk about sisterhood, about connecting to other women, feeling their energy. It's igniting feminine energy, essential energy,” Nina explained.

“When we work, we use a lot of what's called yang energy, male energy. We need to use it to work, to survive, to compete, to do all this stuff ― but we forget that we have so much feminine, graceful, flowing energy.”

It’s an energy that Radiant Flower ignites through “movement, dancing, breathing, and healing”.

“It’s a really amazing practice, and it's one of a kind and I'm very proud of that,” Nina said.

She’s seen the confidence it builds. In one instance, a 73-year-old woman was offered a job but wasn’t sure she was up for it. After the class, she said she felt strong enough to take it.

“It was the best compliment. She said, ‘I will do it. I am radiant. I am a flower.’”

The 60-year-old initially thought the classes would appeal mainly to women in her age group. She has been surprised by the range of interest.

“It attracts all kinds of women. I think everyone can find something – from girls lacking confidence who want to reconnect with their body, to women who want to feel and understand themselves more deeply.

“We do massages to prevent breast cancer, for example. We have some massages you can do every day for lymphatic drainage. There are so many components in the course,” she explained.

“It’s also to restore vitality, reconnect feminine energy, reduce stress, and support emotional balance. This is what you can do in the morning to ignite your energy.

“It’s a simple practice. And the beauty of it is, you don't need to be fit. It's not yoga, you don't need to be thin or fit. There is stretching, there are dancing moves.

“It's very gentle. So that's why women of any age can do it. They can do it any time of the day if they want to do it on their own.

“They don't need any equipment, just flowers. If not, it’s OK, but if they have a couple hibiscus in their hands it’s more fun.”

• Radiant Flower meets Saturdays from 10am to 11am in the Botanical Gardens. Nina London also offers private classes. Contact her to register: ninalondon.com