Green Deva

Green Deva “Your body is the only place you have to live. You only get one of them and they are temporary.

Green Deva Yoga brings the ancient wisdom of yoga to life through gentle, accessible practices designed to help adults over 45 reconnect with their bodies, quiet the mind and move through life with greater ease and confidence. Be kind to it, nourish it, move it, say nice things to it and love it. “

Someone described the end of class this week as "the first quiet ten minutes I've had all week." Honestly, that's most o...
28/08/2026

Someone described the end of class this week as "the first quiet ten minutes I've had all week."

Honestly, that's most of what meditation is, not a special skill, just permission to be uncrowded for a bit.

If you've been meaning to get back to a regular practice, there's no catching up to do - just come to the next one. Wedn...
26/08/2026

If you've been meaning to get back to a regular practice, there's no catching up to do - just come to the next one.

Wednesdays in Hooton, doors open if you fancy it.

Most mindfulness now gets taught purely as a stress-relief tool. There's an older idea underneath it that's less about m...
24/08/2026

Most mindfulness now gets taught purely as a stress-relief tool.

There's an older idea underneath it that's less about managing a mood and more about learning to watch your own experience honestly - less of a quick fix, but it holds up far better on the hard days.

We touch on this kind of thing regularly in class if it's something you're curious about.

I sometimes spend part of class just on hands and wrists - such a small thing, but it changes everything about how the r...
21/08/2026

I sometimes spend part of class just on hands and wrists - such a small thing, but it changes everything about how the rest of the body settles.

The details really do matter.

Have you noticed the evenings drawing in already - it always makes me think about what I want to carry into the new seas...
19/08/2026

Have you noticed the evenings drawing in already - it always makes me think about what I want to carry into the new season, rather than what I'm losing from the last one.

Yoga's a good place to have that kind of quiet think.

A small thing I mentioned in class this week that seemed to resonate: most of us have forgotten how to fully exhale - we...
17/08/2026

A small thing I mentioned in class this week that seemed to resonate: most of us have forgotten how to fully exhale - we've got so used to holding a bit of tension it's become the baseline.

A few rounds of proper breathing and you can genuinely feel the shift.

It's one of my favourite parts of Tuesday's class.

A question newer students think about: "Am I doing this right?" Mostly, if you're steady and at ease at the same time, y...
14/08/2026

A question newer students think about: "Am I doing this right?"

Mostly, if you're steady and at ease at the same time, you are.

That balance is really the whole of it - the rest is detail.

Someone asked me this week why sitting still for ten minutes feels harder than an hour of postures. Honestly - it often ...
12/08/2026

Someone asked me this week why sitting still for ten minutes feels harder than an hour of postures.

Honestly - it often is.

The mind doesn't switch off just because the body has stopped moving.

That's exactly why it's worth doing.

Something I keep coming back to in class: it's rarely the big breakthrough moments that shift things - it's just turning...
10/08/2026

Something I keep coming back to in class: it's rarely the big breakthrough moments that shift things - it's just turning up, week after week, without needing this particular Tuesday to feel life-changing.

If you've been meaning to get back into a routine, Wednesday in Hooton is a nice, low-pressure place to restart.

The bit of class I love most isn't the postures - it's the first few minutes where everyone just arrives. No pose, no ex...
07/08/2026

The bit of class I love most isn't the postures - it's the first few minutes where everyone just arrives.

No pose, no expectation, just settling into the room.

Worth remembering you're allowed to do that in the rest of your week too.

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