Yoga with Rebecca

09/06/2026

Regular classes continue with Rebecca at:

Brookenby Community Centre
Tuesday evenings
6pm to 8pm
Offering a chance for a chat, friendship and discussion around any topic brought by attendees. Usually health based.
This is followed by a yoga practice, breath centric and encompassing the mind as a careful observer.
Fee only £1 as it's
Fully funded by National Lottery
Community Fund for Svastha Lincs CIC

Crescent Community Hub
Campden Crescent
Cleethorpes
Tuesdays 10.45 to 11.45am
Yoga for Seniors (and less able bodied)
Chair based but standing and floor also used for those who are able
Cost £7

All are welcome
Please drop me a line if you'd like any further information 🙏🏻

04/05/2026

The therapeutics of yoga practice are well recognised. It's good to see menopause also now being out into the equation as it's something very close of my heart, age and stage of life.

Of course, yoga therapy is a different topic altogether with a way more personalised holistic approach, but both have validity for application in health promotion, longevity and healthspan

📖 Impact of Brisk Walking Alone Versus Combined with Yoga on Cardiovascular Risk Indices in Postmenopausal Women: Quasirandomized Controlled Trial

A recent quasirandomized controlled trial found that combining brisk walking with yoga led to greater improvements in key cardiovascular risk markers among postmenopausal women compared with brisk walking alone. A total of 139 women participated in the combined group. Favorable changes were seen in:

✅ Body mass index and waist/hip circumference
✅ Blood pressure
✅ Cholesterol

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30/04/2026

Here it is
Next retreat day

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12/03/2026

We are very happy to announce that The National Lottery Community Fund has given the go ahead for the continuation of our project at Brookenby Community Centre. This comprises of a weekly meeting with a warm inviting atmosphere. Tea and a good chat. We discuss health, especially emotional and mental health issues and ways in which we can support each other and our selves. We reach far and wide in our chats and everyone gets a say. This is followed by a gentle relaxation practice based on the holistic principles of viniyoga. Not yoga as most people know it at all. Accessible and noncompetitive based on self observation, calming and connecting with oneself.
That may sound a bit much for some, but it's not anything other than an opportunity to relax the mind and really notice how we feel. This in turn is the gateway to self empowerment in self care.
Our mission is to assist local people in this rural community feel better. Feeling better is completely individual so your measure is entirely individual.

We meet Tuesdays 6pm to 7.30pm approximately. Sometimes we are a little later depending on the conversations we have.
Brookenby Community Centre
Upstairs.
We have a couple of spare mats, all other cushions etc are provided.
Please bring a blanket for relaxation.

We look forward to seeing you there.
Rebecca and the Team at Svastha Lincs CIC

15/02/2026

The week of advanced yoga therapy training has drawn to a close.
A week of deep personal reflection, slow and empowering practice. Just what I needed.

Ojas, our source and resource of essential energy has been a wonderful topic to delve in to.

What depletes us differs from individual to individual. Even the health of our parents at conception is worth considering.

How we fuel and nourish our self is so important. How we eat, who we eat with, how distracted we are when eating all effects the way our body absorbs the goodness in food.

What company do you keep when eating? Is it the TV, phone, a noisy canteen, loud music, a distracted quick grab of something with no nutritional value?

Does your body know how to handle healthy food? If something healthy hives you wind, indigestion, bowel issues, reflux or bloating this means your digestive fire has been disturbed. It needs rekindling, nurturing and bringing into balance.

When we digest food well, we nourish our energy, all of our cells and tissues and restore ojas and hence, health.
A slow and steady reset that doesn't push our body into rebellion is the only way. This way we build and restore, conserve and rest, step by step. Yoga and kśema are together a path to healing on every level.

If you are interested in restoring your health, building resilience and turning your health around in a non-harming self empowering way, please get in touch.

10/02/2026

Yoga therapy is so much more than most folk realise. Every time I attend more training my fire is stoked.
I'm currently studying how our energy stores, a simple explanation for Ojas, which is way more complex than that, has to be considered when looking at our health predicament.
This ayurvedic term is part of our overall health and part of the system that is Agni (digestive fire) and Prana (life force and circulating energy). If we live a life that abuses our digestion and drains our prana we simply lose the ability to maintain and create Ojas. What's more it's all reciprocal. Mess with any one of these and you are doing your health a disservice.
Low Ojas can be seen in dull skin and eyes, poor digestion, physical and emotional instability as well as depleted immunity, chronic illness, autoimmune disease and chronic fatigue.
In a therapeutic viniyoga practice a slow, methodical and individualised plan is created to move the client towards health.
Slow is the key, as ojas is depleted over great lengths of time and cannot simply be restored with a few shots of good food, āsana and relaxation.
As ojas is kapha the key is to work in a consistent way. The digestion has to be rehabilitated and supported so nutritients can even be absorbed. Great food with no agni will not benefit a depleted body. The worst case scenario of this is refeeding syndrome, an awful issue first discovered when American soldiers who liberated concentration camp victims in WW2 and fed them as much as they could. This is a catastrophe, and in depleted ojas situations it would rarely be as dangerous as this but digestion that is used to UPFs, overeating, eating late at night etc will not work correctly.
When nutrients cannot be absorbed our body rebels and things like bloating, constipation, indigestion and diarrhoea can result. But rather than address the underlying cause people end up thinking they have an intolerance or allergy. This is fear based self diagnosis, again another symptom of the instability of ojas in the system.
Furthermore, when we have malabsorption the dhātu-s (tissues) don't get their nourishment which means blockages in energy arise, again leading back to poor or no ojas being created..

This complex system, that i have only really touched ther surface of and know do very little about is key to health. There is no point in sporadic extreme exercise, healthy eating for one day or one good night's sleep. We.all.have to learn to respect our body so we can nurture physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual health.

If you are interested in truly restoring your health i would love to support you in your journey. Yoga therapy is nothing to do with headstands, hamstrings or gymnastics prowess.
Please get in touch 🙏🏻💙

24/12/2025

As the year draws to a close and some festivities occur, I'd like to say a huge thank you to all the students, clients and friends who come to my yoga classes.
I truly appreciate your attentiveness and committment to the practice of viniyoga.
Without students I am not a teacher.

And i am so grateful for the teachings I received this year from the wonderful Sheela Shankar and Gary Kraftsow

Blessings and peace for 2026

13/09/2025

Note to self.

08/08/2025

Faith in yoga śraddhā is sometimes the thing I need reminding of the most 🙏🏻
Any practice especially a spiritual one has to be believed in for it to be effective. The mind is a potent mediator in how we receive the healing that is being given from any given practice.

Today I was at a bit of a loss with a private client. They are unwell and emotionally are struggling too. In this kind of circumstance pretty much every form of āsana based practice is completely inappropriate. But what we have in the viniyoga toolbox are other powerful methods to bring about a little balance.

For the first time today I "treated" a client with vedic chanting. Most of my students and clients have heard me chant. Some of them know I'm a year and a half into Vedic chanting teacher training. I know how it affects me and it's healing properties are indisputable.

My client today got some rest and relaxation, a break from anxiety and restless legs as I chanted to them. For healing to occur we need rest and space for that to happen.

Thank you to my teacher Sheela Shankar and all my previous teachers in the Viniyoga tradition.

And for those of you interested, I would like to find a student who's interested in chanting for private lessons.

Glass art, We're all Different

27/06/2025

Therapeutic yoga is about self care and when we understand our body's more fully then we promote healing