Our instructor Rachele Smith BSc RYT QMt at Mindful People, Listed with the UK Network for Mindfulness-Based Teacher Training Organisations: meeting the UK Good Practice Guidance for Mindfulness-Based Teachers, suitably trained, committed to continuous professional development and holding appropriate insurance. We fully adhere to the UK Network for Mindfulness-Based Teachers Good practice guidelines for teaching mindfulness-based courses and continue to develop teaching skills through a supervised pathway with The Mindful Academy International, Valencia

Mindful Yoga & Mindful Meditation is a way of life and a way of living more fully and mindfully where each student learns how to bring themselves to a greater place of balance and ease. We’re not all built the same, we all have unique conditioning and needs and Mindfulness embraces and celebrates these differences. Specializing in teaching you how to empower yourself using yoga tools, including asana (postures), pranayama (breathing), meditation and self-study allowing you to live at your fullest potential, regardless of health status. Classes utilize restorative breath and meditative movement as a means of empowering individuals to create a practice that best serves you! In each class, mindful techniques address the fluctuating needs of daily life, by teaching you how to meet yourself where you are and how to adapt your own practice, to work gentle or strong, to create greater balance and ease as you need it most. Yoga classes meet a full spectrum of student needs, including gentle and therapeutic series and athlete specific classes. Classes are appropriate for both beginners and seasoned practitioners. Most classes are especially helpful for those living with chronic health conditions, such as Multiple Sclerosis, chronic pain and chronic stress or anxiety. Mindful Yoga & Mindful Meditation exists for YOU to discover how to use mindful tools to live more fully and mindfully, both on and off the mat!

Mindfulness can be cultivated through mindfulness meditation, a systematic method of focusing your attention Mindfulness is quite simply focusing all your attention on the present moment – that’s the sights, smells and sounds around you, as well as your thoughts, feelings, emotions – and accepting things without judgement.  It may seem simple, but ask yourself when you last saw, touched and experienced your surroundings on your commute to work. You’ll quickly notice you’re often passing through life in an effort to get somewhere, and not actually living it. Mindfulness addresses that. With practise you can improve your relationships with yourself and with those around you. And in doing so many people who practice mindfulness find that they are less likely to get caught up in worries about the future or regrets over the past, are less preoccupied with concerns about success and self-esteem, and are better able to form deep connections with others.

Studies have been confirming the positive impact of mindfulness on stress levels, anxiety and overall mental wellbeing for a while now. But it’s only recently that they’ve picked up on why this might be. It seems as though our worries are left behind when we focus solely on the present. We then return to them with a greater sense of perspective, and they begin to have less of an influence on our everyday life. The power of mindfulness is now so accepted it’s officially recognised by the NHS as an effective method of combating depression. What’s more, 68% of GPs think it would be beneficial for all patients to learn mindfulness, according to the Mental Health Foundation’s Be Mindful Report. 

Professor emeritus Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder and former director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre, helped to bring the practice of mindfulness meditation into mainstream medicine and demonstrated that practicing mindfulness can bring improvements in both physical and psychological symptoms as well as positive changes in health attitudes and behaviours.In addition to formal meditation, you can also cultivate mindfulness informally by focusing your attention on your moment-to-moment sensations during everyday activities. This is done by single-tasking—doing one thing at a time and giving it your full attention. As you floss your teeth, pet the dog, or eat an apple, slow down the process and be fully present as it unfolds and involves all of your senses.

Mindfulness Classes Mindful Yoga & Mindful Meditation is a little more unique to us. It’s essentially practising mindfulness whilst moving through a series of easy-to-pick-up yoga poses, and helps make mindfulness part of your everyday routine. With a Mindful Yoga & Mindful Meditation class from us you get all the physical and mental benefits of yoga with just a little bit extra.We offer the opportunity to put anxieties and clutter of the mind to one side and the tools to put you in control of your thoughts, instead of your thoughts controlling you. In one session you can experience a quieter mind and a new, more confident, authentic voice. All that is required is that you attend with an open heart, a willingness to move your body, a desire to connect in the community and the courage to have a little fun.