Light Holistics

30/05/2026

Make an effort
Concentrate
Then relax
And radiate

Here I am in a one-legged squat variation from my recent trip to Kefalonia.

In yoga we use our body (making an effort) to change our mind (concentrate), to open our heart (radiate).

We use our body to change our mind in several ways.

1. We balance our activity and rest. If we do nothing all day, our energy goes down. If we’re constantly on the go, our energy goes down. If we balance activity and rest our energy goes up.

2. We become aware of how our posture affects our mind. Every shape we make with our body sends a message to ourselves and others. It’s an image we’re projecting, a seed we’re planting, inwardly and outwardly. An open, confident posture changes our state of mind.

3. The way we hold our posture also affects our mental state. Within every pose there is a balance of activity and rest. In meditation pose I lift myself up through my spine but I relax down with my muscles.

Using our body to change our mind our mood lifts, our spirit rises, and our ‘heart opens’ as we start to feel good - which is really the goal! 🙏🔥🧡🔥🙏

Yoga every Tuesday in Culcheth, Warrington, and Thursdays on zoom 8-9.30pm. Book me online for Reiki, Reflexology, Massage and Aromatherapy. Click profile links for books, Substack & YouTube. 🤸‍♀️🧘🏽‍♀️💆🧘‍♂️

25/05/2026

Here I am in Half Moon Pose variation (with a simple poem) with high elbow hands from a lovely day at the Lake District. Every yoga class we practice simple variation yoga flows on a full range classic yoga pose sequence, making the class accessible for beginners but fun for more advanced practitioners.

Yoga, Holistic & Massage Therapies, and Reiki are a way to become more silent and more still. Noise is a fun distraction, but silence helps us find direction. Join us Tuesdays and Thursdays for yoga and/or book me online for Therapies to break up your busy schedule and get some rest and recuperation. 🙏🔥🧡🙏

Check out my YouTube channel @ Yoga with Stephen, and my books on Amazon under author name Stephen Webster – click profile links. Stephen’s Soft Power Substack in profile links. 💆🤸‍♀️🧘🏽‍♀️🧘‍♂️

Have a wonderful bank holiday in the sun!

Stephen

16/05/2026

Here I am in Headstand with leg stretches from my recent birthday break/retreat in Kefalonia with a short poem on states of concentration.

Focus, flow,
Float, fly,
Yoga
Can lift us high

Our posture can lift us up. Our breath flows down. Our heart absorbs and radiates light and life from all around. 🧡

Join us every Tuesday night in Culcheth and Thursdays on zoom for a wonderful blend of meditation, yoga warm-ups and poses, and relaxation.

For massage, Reiki, Reflexology, Indian Head Massage and Aromatherapy available every week until Christmas, book me online via his website. 💆🤸‍♀️

Check out my YouTube channel @ Yoga with Stephen, and my books on Amazon under author name Stephen Webster – click profile links. Stephen’s Soft Power Substack in profile links. 🧘‍♂️

Have a wonderful weekend!

Stephen

26/04/2026

Happy Smooth Sunday everyone!

If you like a thoughful read, and I do, I've just joined substack, where I'll be posting articles on the foundations and cultivation of soft power which builds our world, rather than destroys it. Here's the link!

The Foundations of Soft Power

19/04/2026

Here I am in Side Plank variation from Lake Wasdale. As well as yoga classes and holistic massage therapies I offer Reiki Treatments & Training. Reiki is part of an ancient and universal tradition of hands-on healing. Reiki came into my life through a psychologically transformative Reiki experience which changed the way I relate to people. Many people think that with the advent of modern medicine, hands-on healing is no longer relevant. But as many psychologists, doctors and nurses will tell you, you can’t take the heart out of healing, and our bodies are the fantastic conduit of everything we experience in life. Reiki can be particularly helpful for helping people to relax and deal with stress. I often think of it as a form of assisted meditation. Most people report feeling unusually hot hands when receiving a treatment, and Reiki is linked with pain relief, stress relief, and mood enhancement. It blends very well with other holistic treatments, and many people find it helpful, like meditation, for processing inner traumas and conflicts. I will often use it at the end of a massage treatment as I’ve noticed it seems to reduce the next day pain that can follow from deep tissue massage. If you’re interested in getting a Reiki treatment, feel free to book me online. To learn Reiki, have a look at my website to understand the process, and then message me to set up a Reiki Day for a one-to-one or small group training day in Birchwood. 🙏🔥🧡🔥🙏

Yoga classes every Tuesday at Culcheth Methodist Church Hall and on Thursdays on Zoom from 8-9.30pm, for a wonderful blend of inspired meditation, full body activation, and deep relaxation.

For Deep Tissue Massage, Relaxing Full Body Massage, Reiki, Reflexology, Aromatherapy and Indian Head Massage in my Birchwood Therapy Room, book me online from my website.

For Reiki training message me to set up your Reiki 1, 2 and Master Level training.

Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (link below) for free for meditations, warm-ups, sequences of held poses and relaxations.

https://youtube.com/?si=GE0e25V31mCq_l1s

For some inspired reading find my books on meditation, yoga and the spiritual journey at:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Stephen-Webster/author/B00P7GT55I

Have a great day!

Stephen 💆🧘‍♂️🧘🏽‍♀️🤸‍♀️

06/04/2026

As spring unfolds let’s ride that natural wave onwards and upwards towards the things that make us and our world feel good. Everything we do starts with how we feel about ourselves. If we love ourselves, we’re much more likely to love our neighbour. Yoga and Holistic Therapies focus on helping us feel happy, healthy, and whole, so that through healing and transformation, we can refine, rise and shine, rather than sink and decline.

Take a moment for yourself and join our yoga class every Tuesday night at Culcheth Methodist Church Hall and on Thursdays on Zoom from 8-9.30pm, for a wonderful blend of inspired meditation, full body activation, and deep relaxation. 🤸‍♀️

For Deep Tissue Massage, Relaxing Full Body Massage, Reiki, Reflexology, Aromatherapy and Indian Head Massage in my Birchwood Therapy Room, book me online from my website. 💆‍♀️

For Reiki training message me to set up your Reiki 1, 2 and Master Level training.

Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (link below) for free for meditations, warm-ups, sequences of held poses and relaxations.

https://youtube.com/?si=GE0e25V31mCq_l1s

For some inspired reading find my books on meditation, yoga and the spiritual journey at:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Stephen-Webster/author/B00P7GT55I

Have a great day!

Stephen 🧡

26/03/2026

https://youtu.be/KaAy78bH6UQ

Join me at Lake Wasdale for my free 45-minute whole body 30 pose classic yoga sequence which is the foundational sequence for all my classes. Carefully crafted from over 20 years teaching to mixed ability classes the sequence is designed to give you more elasticity, more strength, more balance, mental relaxation, and spiritual inspiration. Starting with reclined back stretches to warm up our core, we fire things up with standing poses, deepen the stretches with seated poses, strengthen and stretch our back with prone poses lying on our front, and finish with a reclined, inverted shoulderstand sequence, before a few moments of blissful relaxation in Shavasana – Relaxation Pose. You can read about the principles and processes behind this sequence in my book ‘Hatha Yoga for Everyone’ by Stephen Webster available on amazon and my website. Special thanks to Bindi who built me a portable wooden platform for the stoney, uneven ground, which worked wonderfully! Enjoy!

Stephen

Lightholistics - Yoga, Meditation, Reiki, Reflexology, Aromatherapy and Massage Therapies in Warrington. Yoga classes every Tuesday in Cultheth and Thursdays on zoom. Holistic Therapies in Stephen's Therapy Room in Birchwood. Yoga on YouTube with Stephen. Books on amazon.

15/03/2026

Our body is a limited block. Our mind is a limited framework. Our heart is a living flow, and our soul is a wave arising from the ocean of unlimited being. Though we need our body to act and our mind to reflect, the real power is in the heart and soul.

Yoga and Holistic Massage Therapies are a great way to restore your balance of body, mind, and soul, and feel your flow again.

Join our yoga class every Tuesday night at Culcheth Methodist Church Hall and on Thursdays on Zoom from 8-9.30pm, for a wonderful blend of inspired meditation, full body activation, and deep relaxation.

For Deep Tissue Massage, Relaxing Full Body Massage, Reiki, Reflexology, Aromatherapy and Indian Head Massage in my Birchwood Therapy Room, book me online from my website.

For Reiki training message me to set up your Reiki 1, 2 and Master Level training.

Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (link below) for free for meditations, warm-ups, sequences of held poses and relaxations.

https://youtube.com/?si=GE0e25V31mCq_l1s

For some inspired reading find my books on meditation, yoga and the spiritual journey at:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Stephen-Webster/author/B00P7GT

Have a great day!

Stephen 🧡

09/03/2026

Here I am from my trip to Pathos with a pose and poem about breathing.

Our breath reminds us of two things. First to take a moment, to breathe, to turn within, to slow down, to take a break and have some ‘me time’. Second as we follow our breath, we notice it comes from above despite being an intimate part of our being, and it flows up and out beyond us. We realise we are more than a body, and more than a mind, and that our sense of Self reaches far outside. Yoga, meditation, and holistic massage therapies are a moment to breath and conceive a more beautiful life.

Join us for Yoga every week on Tuesdays at Culcheth Methodist Church Hall and on Thursdays on Zoom from 8-9.30pm, for a wonderful blend of inspired meditation, full body activation, and deep relaxation.

For Deep Tissue Massage, Relaxing Full Body Massage, Reiki, Reflexology, Aromatherapy and Indian Head Massage in Birchwood, book me online from my website.

For Reiki training in Birchwood message me to set up your Reiki 1, 2 and Master Level training.

Subscribe to my YouTube Channel (link below) for free for meditations, warm-ups, sequences of held poses and relaxations.

https://youtube.com/?si=GE0e25V31mCq_l1s

For some inspired reading find my books on meditation, yoga and the spiritual journey at his amazon page:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Stephen-Webster/author/B00P7GT

Have a wonderful day!

Stephen 🧡

01/03/2026

To flow in life, we need to let go of our rigid identities. Moving in yoga we feel our physical contours melt, our heart open, and our spirit rise, which is why many people end a yoga class feeling ‘light of limb’ as it says in the ancient yogic texts. We can feel the same flow state in meditation, when we let go of our body identify, by fixing our mind on one point, and feeling our consciousness expand in the stillness. We can also feel it in Holistic and Massage Therapies when physical connection between the client and therapist help to dissolve inner blockages and outer resistances. All of life is flow and when we flow, we come alive! 🙏🔥🧡🔥🙏

Join us for Yoga every week on Tuesdays at Culcheth Methodist Church Hall and on Thursdays on Zoom from 8-9.30pm, for a wonderful blend of inspired meditation, full body activation, and deep relaxation.🤸‍♀️

Reiki training in Birchwood with Stephen is available on request for Reiki 1, 2 and Master Level.

Subscribe to Stephen’s YouTube Channel (link below) for free for meditations, warm-ups, sequences of held poses and relaxations.

https://youtube.com/?si=GE0e25V31mCq_l1s

For some inspired reading find Stephen’s books on meditation, yoga and the spiritual journey at his amazon page:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Stephen-Webster/author/B00P7GT

Have a wonderful day! 🙋‍♂️🧘‍♂️