Yoga Nature Sheffield

Our latest Substack article: What embodied yoga really means, and how we hold it within Yoga Nature classes:

whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/embodied-yoga-is-not-modern-wellness



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Our latest article on Substack. "Trauma-Informed Yoga Is Not a Trend. It Is a Different Relationship to Power"

Read in full and subscribe for more at:

whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/trauma-informed-yoga-is-not-a-trend

A balanced yoga practice weaves together strength, flexibility, balance, and restoration. Supported by breathwork, meditation, and, ideally, mantra.

In Yogic Quest, these elements are reflected in the game’s core mechanics. You’ll discover a range of card types, each representing a different aspect of practice, as this post highlights.

My general starter advice is to craft a deck that feels balanced and harmonious, but don’t be afraid to explore your own path. You might choose to focus on building strength, mastering balance, cultivating kindness, or even diving headfirst into monster hunting!

There’s no single way to overcome Avidya. Many paths lead to success in your quest.

Find out more about Yogic Quest: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yoganature/yogic-quest

“We are all inside this contradiction.”

Modern yoga teaches non-grasping and other 'yamas' while demanding constant visibility, marketing, competition, and self-branding.

This new Substack note explores the uncomfortable tension between yogic ethics and spiritual capitalism.

If these reflections resonate with you, come subscribe for more honest writing on yoga beyond the wellness industry gloss...

https://substack.com//note/c-262862459

Yoga Nature Sheffield (@yoganaturesheffield) Stop Quoting the Yamas While Undercutting Everyone Modern Yoga: Spiritual Capitalism in Lycra People in yoga love to talk about the yamas and niyamas. Ahimsa. Asteya. Aparigraha. Satya. Non-harming. Non-stealing. Non-grasping. Truthfulness. But sometimes I wonder if modern yoga has turned them into....

A very enjoyable game of Yogic Quest last night, thank you Julie & David 🌷

Kickstarter pre-launch page now live:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/yoganature/yogic-quest

Our latest post on Substack. Part One of this article on the history of Mantra takes us from the Ṛg Veda up to the classical Yoga of Patañjali.

whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/mantra-and-yoga-part-1

Mantra and Yoga Part 1 From Vedic Sound to Classical Discipline

The Kickstarter pre-launch page for Yogic Quest is now officially live. Please consider having a look and clicking on 'Notify me on launch' and sharing it with family and friends. The more follows we get before launch the better. Thank you ૐ

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yoganature/yogic-quest

And I'm looking for suggestions for someone who can help me make and edit a 60-90 second trailer video for the game. Anybody know a good video creator, quite local to Sheffield ideally? ❤️

Coming soon: Yogic Quest The four player deck-building adventure into the heart of yoga.

A recording of our Beltane yoga nidra (as shared in classes last week) is now available for our Substack paid subscribers 💛

https://whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/gold-in-the-hedgerow

The word Beltane comes from the Old Irish Bel Tene, meaning “bright fire.” Traditionally, fires were lit at the beginning of May, marking a shift in the land, from quiet growth into full expression.

At this time of year, that fire is not only found in flame, but moving through the land itself, in colour, in scent, in warmth, in the subtle quickening of life as it reaches outward to meet itself.

This is a season of blossoming, of pollination, of exchange. When what has been growing quietly begins to express itself fully.

This practice is a journey into that living fire, as it appears in the world, and as it awakens within you…

Gold in the Hedgerow A Beltane Yoga Nidra

Our latest Substack article. Where Śakti Speaks Unnamed: Forgotten Women’s Voices In Ta**ra and Yoga.

https://whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/where-sakti-speaks-unnamed

The archive of yogic and ta***ic traditions is not silent about women, but it speaks of them in ways that require careful listening. Their presence is diffused, refracted through layers of symbolism, encoded in the language of śakti: the dynamic principle without which consciousness itself remains inert. Yet between these metaphors, and sometimes despite them, we can discern the contours of lived female participation: practitioners, initiators, visionaries, and transmitters whose voices were gradually softened or obscured as traditions crystallised into textual and institutional forms. To attend to these voices is not merely an act of historical recovery; it is a reorientation of how we understand yoga and ta**ra as living, evolving fields of practice.

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Where Śakti Speaks Unnamed Forgotten Women’s Voices In Ta**ra and Yoga

A recording of our Ostara Yoga Nidra from this week's classes.

Ostara marks the Spring Equinox, the moment when light and darkness come into equal relationship. Not opposing, but balancing, adjusting in real time.

In the natural world, this balance is not static. It is responsive. Alive. Sensory.

Water begins to move beneath the soil. Sap rises through trees. Animals emerge, guided not by thought, but by deep internal rhythms.

Your body is part of this same intelligence.

Your nervous system is constantly sensing, responding, recalibrating.
Finding balance not by holding still, but by adapting moment to moment.

Not abruptly, but through a quiet tipping, where light begins, almost imperceptibly, to overtake the dark.

After a long season of holding,
something within the land, and within your body, begins to rise.

This Yoga Nidra practice is an invitation to feel that directly...

https://whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/moor-fascia-and-still-star

Moor, Fascia & Still Star An Ostara Yoga Nidra