Yoga Nature Sheffield

01/09/2026

Entering the Vijñāna-bhairava-tantra.

Every year, we explore a thread that deepens practice beyond the mat.

From October and over the next year or so, we’ll be exploring the Vijñāna-bhairava-tantra, an ancient Tantrik text offering 112 different doorways into direct experience.

Breath, body, sensation, sound, stillness, movement, thought… nothing is necessarily outside the practice.

At the heart of the teaching is a sense of fullness and belonging. The possibility that nothing needs to be added or taken away for us to belong to this moment, this body, this life.

Rather than trying to become something different, the invitation is to become present to what is already here.

What is Reality, in truth?

These sessions will take place in our classes: Tuesday & Sunday 6pm and Thursday 6:45pm.

01/09/2026

Free yoga classes at the Nether Edge Festival. We look forward to welcoming you.

Nether Edge Festival

18/08/2026

Come celebrate our neighbourhood with us and volunteer with the Nether Edge Festival.

We are seeking volunteers for Party In the Park (September 20th) and other festival events.

www.netheredgefestival.co.uk/volunteering

21/07/2026

Our latest article dropped on Substack 😊
https://whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/the-body-between-the-muscles-what

14/07/2026

Our latest essay on Substack forms the fourth thread in an ongoing exploration of trauma-informed practice, embodiment and movement.

We began by exploring how life experiences can shape our nervous systems and our relationship with the body. We then turned towards embodiment (the practice of inhabiting our lived experience more fully) and functional movement, the ways awareness and adaptation reveal themselves through daily life.

Here we explore a deeper question: Why are movement, emotion, thought, breath and awareness so profoundly interconnected?

https://whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/beyond-muscles-and-bones-the-tantrik

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Trauma, embodiment and functional movement as expressions of a living whole

06/07/2026

This essay forms the third thread in an ongoing exploration of trauma-informed practice, embodiment and movement.

We began by exploring how life experiences can shape our nervous systems and our relationship with the body. We then turned towards embodiment, the practice of inhabiting our lived experience more fully.

Here we explore functional movement and how awareness, adaptation and nervous system regulation reveal themselves through the everyday acts of moving, reaching, balancing and living.

Movement, trauma and embodiment as a living conversation

01/07/2026

28/06/2026

Play with sound on 🔊

Are you a Yoga Disruptor?

If you've ever questioned what yoga has become...

If you've ever wondered whether there's something deeper...

If you've ever felt that yoga is about more than shapes on a mat...

Pull up a cushion.

You're in good company.

The conversation is just getting started.

We'd love to hear what this film stirs in you. If it resonates, share it with someone who might enjoy joining the conversation.

🎤

23/06/2026

In our previous Substack essay we explored embodiment through the lens of non-dual Śaiva Ta**ra.

For some readers, the ideas no doubt felt intuitive.

For others, terms such as Śiva, Śakti, spanda, and pratyabhijñā may have seemed beautiful but difficult to grasp.

This is completely understandable. The Tantrikas were attempting to describe something that ultimately resists language: the nature of consciousness itself.

No metaphor is perfect. Every comparison breaks down eventually. Yet metaphors can help us approach ideas that are difficult to understand conceptually by pointing towards something we already know through experience.

What follows in this next essay are several different ways of approaching the same insight.

Not different truths.

Different windows looking into the same room:

whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/when-philosophy-becomes-experience

Five Ways of Understanding Śiva, Śakti, Spanda and Recognition in Everyday Life

21/06/2026

Our latest Yoga Nidra podcast, for Litha. Summer solstice blessings to you all ☀️

whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/aum-beneath-the-mountain-a-litha

The name Litha comes from the 8th-century writings of the Anglo-Saxon monk Bede, who described midsummer as Ærra Līða — before Līða — and Æfterra Līða — after Līða.