Yoga with Pollyanna

“Treat your body like it’s a place you want to be”
Advice that I finally put into action.
Who knew sober; non caffeinated life could be joyful?
Who knew that I could reclaim my personal practice so fully by being on this path? ✨🌱✨

🌞😎 Has this summer been a little too hot to handle... getting active, struggling with going to the gym?

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Some reflections from participating in the Teacher Training weekend in June, alongside a phenomenal group of Yoga practitioners, nurses, dancers, researchers, social workers and housing professionals...

Like many Yoga Teachers, their expertise spanned many sectors, and the breadth and depth of skills represented, was truly astounding.

Thank you to the incredible sensitivity and diligence with which you facilitated the training weekend, and for holding the space for all to engage with the complexity of Learning Disabilities; I felt enervated to be back in the mode of 'learner' though I never really left, I just slowed my roll!

This training has opened the door to a new phase of growing and learning a across the Umbrella Yoga network.

Heartfelt thanks to the workshop hosts:

Dr Ellie Firth

Emma Stripe

Alison Henning

& Rachel Gosling

Why Teaching Adults with Learning Disabilities Benefits All Teacher Training in Yoga For Adults with Learning Disabilities: An All Abilities Modality   I joined the Teaching Adults with Learning Disabilities 30 hour Yoga Teacher Training weekend in June thinking I knew just what to expect. Alison Henning, Dr Ellie Firth, and Emma Stripe, and Rachel Gosling

💚 A glorious Yoga session today, with time for reflection & biscuits 🍪 ✨🫶

🩵 What a wonderful way to celebrate 🙌 our final class before the summer holidays

💚 And the fact that our fab partners will be soon celebrating the launch of their end of year film project!

🩵 We’ll be coming along to watch the short films shot with on July 10th screening at the

Today we moved, shook, practiced our GORILLA 🦍 poses & reverse table tops & warriors !

Really needed this bottled 🌞 🌼 sunlight from ✨🪄✨ tried the calendula & beeswax magic out today!
Face is very grateful 🙏

💛 it’s been genuinely life altering to be a part of a learning circle of people this past weekend with .yoga.uk launching the Teaching Yoga for Adults with Learning Disabilities CPD…
🧡 We all have a lot of innate wisdom, much of it a product of hard fought for survival
💛 I acknowledge that my own experiences are often very different from the majority, and the dissonance of being a neurodivergent individual, working harder than everyone else & gaining less support is part and parcel of inherent systemic inequalities that UY seeks to address…
🧡 what astounded me most about the course participants was the commonality, across our contributions & the variety of intersections between our experiences not just as yoga teachers, but as AFAB people, as teachers, as people with variant specialties & experiences of discrimination and disabilities of our own…
✨ I’m so proud of everyone who showed up so fully, especially people who gave so much even when they may have been feeling very emotionally overwhelmed or exhausted…
Absolute respect & love for this new group of friends & learning buddies.
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✨ 🌱💚 new class alert! 🔔

✨🙏🌱 Monday 2-3 pm

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Fabulous to see active in Deighton & the stunning decoration all around The Chestnut Centre ✨ 🧶

💚Thank you for a hosting such a glorious showcase of local businesses & entrepreneurial icons!
💚Fantastic to meet .marketing & (discovered a mutual appreciation of 🎨) & Swift print Uk & we had a delightful catch up with our research partners Health & Innovation centre….
Not to mention past & present fabulous partners &
💚🌱☀️ looking forward to nurturing these new connections & supporting these businesses to boost their productivity through investing back into their staff well-being, and generating social value impact whilst doing so!

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💚Thank you for a truly glorious morning & afternoon of local businesses & entrepreneurial icons!
💚Fantastic to meet .marketing & & Swift print Uk & we had a delightful catch up with our research partners Health & Innovation centre….
Not to mention past & present fabulous partners &
💚🌱☀️ looking forward to nurturing these new connections & supporting these businesses to boost their productivity through investing back into their staff well-being, and generating social value impact whilst doing so!

✅ Working with Umbrella Yoga unlocks tangible results for staff teams
✅ Each staff well-being session & Virtual Studio subscription pays for additional needs communities to access free yoga

🌞💚 Another beautiful Spring day
🌸 🌕 Yesterday heralded 2025 Full Flower Moon of May

🌀 With the sun comes the shadow: we are short on water 💧the sunlight is bountiful, but crops are parched.
🌾 My late brother Stewart was a farmer and he’d tell you that balance that brings abundance
🤔 How to apply the logic of abundance & balance to life paths?
🚜 As we tend our soils, for a richer harvest, of which there is never any guarantee, can we root down stronger, even in the face of future adversity?

🌱how do we keep our whole selves full? In a world that is increasingly hungry for our resources?
🐦‍⬛It can be easy to give away our most precious of currencies ✨ without seeing this subtle shift until we hit “burnout”.
🪾As a field that has been sown & not left to “fallow” and reseed to regain its nutrients, so with the human biome
🪵Our own systems require fallow time, not just a holiday in the sun, but co-regulation every day, through the “not-doing-but-being” & mindful experiences, in-body, earthed.
🌾Aliveness can look like stillness.
💚Productivity can look like play.
🌱Rest can be proactive.
🌞Movement can be mindful…
🧘 Presence of mind, can look like a body based practice such as a slow run, yoga, a swim, a climb 🧗

🌱 Even just 5 minutes on waking to tune into your own needs can bring more energy & self awareness.

💚How are you tending your own 🌱 energetic equilibrium ⚖️

🐦‍⬛Have you been listening to your inner song, as nature wakes up & birds are 🪺 sharing their voices?

Today I was lucky enough to spend the morning in Slaithwaite (pronounced ‘-Slawit’ if you’re not local!) in the wonderful converted chapel 💒 (see second - 4th slide)

Highly recommend you wander over the Colne Valley, that lights up like a gem with burbling brooks and emerald green star mosses carpeting the 🌳 🌲 woodlands & adorning the archaic dry stone walls.
What a lucky person I am.
Thanks again to our fantastic partners & especially to the participants today ☀️☀️☀️

Funny coming across these Dog 🐶 interventions in outdoors yoga 🧘 from last summer!

Bloopers & comedy gold!

💚 .yoga.uk is all about connection.

💙With our breath, our mind, our bodies & each other.
💚This approach also extends to our partnerships!
💙We have made so many friends & have collaborated with more than 55 community partners over the last 5 years since we begun life in 2020!

We are collaborating with the fantastic Step Up day centre to create personalised Yoga prompt cards - to support adults with learning disabilities to practice at home, and with their families.

📸 As part of this project, I was lucky 🍀 enough to spend a wonderful afternoon at the Step Up Day Centre photographing ’ and the amazing Yogi’s in the session.

🧘‍♀️ The group will have their very own set of tailored prompt cards with them featured practicing a range of asana & breath work & meditation!

😊 There was so much laughter & so many smiles today- movement, and connection- are the ultimate medicine!