Rise and Wild

Rise and Wild Sharing practices and supporting people to connect with their body, mind, breath and the natural world around us.

🧘🏽Guiding gentle yoga & embodied practices.
🌲Co-creating spaces for people to reconnect with nature, nurturing human & ecological wellbeing.
🥾Retreats, workshops and gatherings.
🌀Earthly living and community. Creating places, classes, workshops, courses and retreats for people to come together, to reconnect with themselves, to rise, rest and rewild our lives. I'm Rachel Barker, an accredited Natu

re & Health Facilitator and Yoga Teacher, based in Macclesfield working across Cheshire, the Peaks, Greater Manchester and beyond.

Out for a morning walk as a family ♥️🙏🏼 Introducing our daughter, Indy River to Tegg’s Nose (more so the coffee shop ☕️🙊...
03/09/2026

Out for a morning walk as a family ♥️🙏🏼 Introducing our daughter, Indy River to Tegg’s Nose (more so the coffee shop ☕️🙊)

I can’t tell you how good it feels to be back with the trees & wandering with my girls. Going slowly, honouring new terrain and this body that carried and birthed a baby less than a couple of weeks ago. The explosion of love that is coursing through, beyond my own being and this heart that now lives outside my chest… Further still, to our friends and families, our village and community who have rallied around us celebrating this little soul joining the fold. How grateful I am to be here, how often I dreamed of this reality 💫

We are incredibly fortunate that the Fire, Rescue & many other Services were able to control the spread of this week’s f...
23/07/2026

We are incredibly fortunate that the Fire, Rescue & many other Services were able to control the spread of this week’s fire at Macclesfield Forest 🌲🦌 Many other fires this summer, caused by human mistake and error, have caused much more destruction to the land, wild habitats and ecological health.

I’m all for encouraging people out into natural spaces and places when it is safe to do so (NOT when there are fires raging). But we should do so with a sense of responsibility, to nurture and care for the land. Do not take the risk of anything that ignites, especially into extremely dry environments… BBQs, ci******es, incense, tin foil. And please, please, please take everything home with you… the knowing that some people leave smouldering fires, discarded bbqs, food wrappers, even tents etc after their ventures continues to break and infuriate my heart.

We can do better.

MACCLESFIELD FOREST FIRE UPDATE | Please avoid the Macclesfield Forest area while this incident remains ongoing.

Firefighters and a helicopter are continuing to work at the scene, damping down hotspots and monitoring the area.

We have also found further evidence of disposable BBQs and campfires. With the ground and vegetation extremely dry, even a small spark can quickly start a fire and put people, wildlife and the environment at risk.

For more information https://orlo.uk/00ayS

Six years of guiding these nature and wellbeing programmes for people and they still blow me away 💚🌿 Each one is differe...
23/06/2026

Six years of guiding these nature and wellbeing programmes for people and they still blow me away 💚🌿 Each one is different, shaped by the people who attend, their individualities and the land upon which we gather. Seasons turn, and guarantee nothing (we’ve had so much rain & many cold days on this most recent 6-week spring and early summer journey!)

The feedback we’ve received brought tears to my eyes, as it always does. Forever grateful to create, facilitate and guide these programmes and to the Green Angels team for their ongoing collaboration and support.

If you would like to find out about upcoming programmes, get in touch with me 🌱

Rach x

Feel calmer & reconnected. Breath, movement, philosophy and rest classes. Not like the yoga you might otherwise have kno...
17/06/2026

Feel calmer & reconnected.

Breath, movement, philosophy and rest classes. Not like the yoga you might otherwise have known…

Kind, inclusive, gentle paced community classes in Macclesfield 🧡

Find out more or book to join an upcoming class here: https://www.riseandwild.com/yoga

26/05/2026
Returning to wilder ground, remembering this way of beingand heading home a little more rooted.Thank you for joining me ...
12/05/2026

Returning to wilder ground,
remembering this way of being
and heading home a little more rooted.

Thank you for joining me wild Souls…
until our paths next weave together.

🌱🌍🌀🤎🔥🪶♥️🐺🌷

Between our day-to-day lives, roles and responsibilities, we rarely give ourselves permission or space to just be, do we...
27/04/2026

Between our day-to-day lives, roles and responsibilities, we rarely give ourselves permission or space to just be, do we?

🪴Space to settle, relax & connect on Wednesdays.

Join me for an hour’s guided practice on a Wednesday evening (6 – 7pm) to feel calmer & more at ease in both body and mind. It’s yoga… without any need to be flexible, strong, supple or even still.

Join me this week, or next in Macclesfield 💚
Find out more & book here: https://www.riseandwild.com/service-page/wednesday6pm

♾️ Folks with injuries, limited mobility, arthritis, busy minds, disabilities and neurodiversities join my classes & are supported and feel welcomed.

All the info for our upcoming 6-week Wellbeing with Nature programme below 🙏🏼Wednesdays through May and into June 🌱
18/04/2026

All the info for our upcoming 6-week Wellbeing with Nature programme below 🙏🏼

Wednesdays through May and into June 🌱

Join me tonight (Wednesday) at 6pm 🌸 in Macclesfield for an hour’s peaceful practice. A gentle yoga class exploring the ...
08/04/2026

Join me tonight (Wednesday) at 6pm 🌸 in Macclesfield for an hour’s peaceful practice. A gentle yoga class exploring the Pranamaya Kosha, the energy body, to bring about balance and remember the vitality of life (even if we’re shattered & spent).

Accessible movement, breathing techniques, philosophy, poetry and a whole lot of rest.

I teach at a slow pace & I’m expecting the class to be quiet this week with the Easter hols, so even more space to move & rest and breathe and be.

Classes are £12 (if that’s out of reach I offer reduced/free places, send me a message 🤍)

For more info or to book follow the link 👉🏼 https://www.riseandwild.com/service-page/wednesday6pm

🙏🏼🌱

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