Yoga with Bernie

01/06/2026

10 years ago! Where does time go! I only know it's 10 years ago because Facebook says so! (It's may be that it was longer and this may have been a re-share)

30/05/2026

What a beautiful day 🥰 Perfect for our last classes before a week's break. I'm back at classes on Monday 8th June. Look after yourselves, enjoy your week until we meet again. ☯️🙏💕
(Also, in the meantime, Monday Qigong 3pm next block will be added this weekend, if you would like to join us - there's space on Mondays).

30/05/2026

🌞 I know you all like an outdoor class, so both classes will be outside today - please come prepared. ☯️🙏

24/05/2026

Update: Also, June/July classes - Next blocks almost full - just a couple of spaces for Zen Yoga available for Mondays 1.30pm, Wednesday 10am and 7.30pm, Thursday 6.15pm and 7.30pm.

🚨 NEW NEWS!! 🚨
Fresh blocks now open for booking at The Coach House, Rhyddings Park 💚

🧘‍♀️ Zen Yoga – Thursday @ 6.15pm
Block of 6 sessions • £30
📅 25 June – 30 July 2026

🌿 QiGong – Saturday @ 10am
Block of 6 sessions • £30
📅 27 June – 1 August 2026

🧘‍♀️ Zen Yoga – Wednesday @ 10am
Block of 6 sessions • £30
📅 24 June – 29 July 2026

✨ Small & friendly classes with Bernie
✨ Calm, welcoming, and perfect for wellbeing

📍 The Coach House, Rhyddings Park
🛒 Book your block: www.friendsofrhyddingspark.com/shop

Yoga with Bernie

22/05/2026

🌞 It's looking likely that we'll be able to have classes outside tomorrow. Just letting you know so you can be prepared.

19/05/2026

The weather is so often a topic of conversation as we arrive to classes, so, I thought you might like this.

17/05/2026

One for local walkers - Where am I? Do you recognise the pipe? Pothouse area, toward Jackhouse, but I took the footpath behind the houses to explore. It's a lovely area. I stopped at the pipe, just to use as a focal point. I'm just curious 🤔

16/05/2026

This is why I so often talk about fascia - have a read.

Fascia is a delicate, strong, 3D matrix of connective tissue surrounding every muscle, bone, organ, nerve, and blood vessel throughout your whole body. Only in recent years, it has been recognized as one of the body’s most important organs.

Mainly built from collagen and water, it gives inner support and helps tissues slide smoothly past one another whenever you move in every step you take.

When fascia stays healthy, it feels slick, mobile and wavy. But things such as inactivity, repeated strain, injury or long term stress may make it lose elasticity and turn dense, tacky or stiff.

Stiff fascia may attach to muscles and surrounding tissues, forming adhesions, which reduces overall movement range and makes motion feel heavy and tight.

Tense fascia may squeeze muscles and nerves, creating painful knots known as trigger points. Since fascia forms one connected system, tightness in one place, like your calves, may trigger pain elsewhere, like your lower back.

When fascia grows too stiff, it may create pressure, up to 2,000 pounds per square inch, on nerves and blood vessels, causing numbness, tingling or weaker circulation. 😮

Taking in toxins, like chemicals and heavy metals, and holding negative emotions, like stress and trauma, may make fascia stiff, limited, stuck, essentially locking tissue in a contracted condition. This physical shift lowers lymphatic movement, causing inflammation, ongoing pain, limited mobility and emotional blockage.

Reduced movement of lymph and life force energy, Qi, leads to fatigue, and chronic, whole body illness. The buildup of stress, toxins and inflammation inside the fascia may speed aging and play into illnesses like cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

13/05/2026

Thank you all so much for joining me on our Well-Being Retreat. Also for your kind words - I love reading them all, I find it very heartwarming. I send my heartfelt thanks to you all and deeply appreciate your presence, words and gift showing your appreciation ❤️ You all play your part in making our weekend amazing. 💞🙏