Emma Mansfield is an insured & accredited voice, yoga & somatics movement practitioner with over 30 yrs experience. Classes in St Austell, Lostwitiel & Par.
She specialises in trauma-informed practises to soften, sooth & strengthen. She also offers 1:1. Lovely Yoga Cornwall was founded in 2011. I have over 20 years experience as a fitness trainer, exercise to music leader and singing teacher and have been teaching yoga for over 6 years. I trained with Simon Low, the UK's leading yoga teacher, at the Yoga Academy in Kent and have continued my professional development with other teachers including Donna Fahri, Julie Gudmestad and Lisa Peterson. Lovely Yoga offers a range of different classes including somatics and fitness classes. Prices include equipment including bolsters, blankets, blocks and yoga straps.
17/08/2025
Hello lovely peeps...
You might want to come to Lostwithiel next Saturday for the amazing FREE Sing Along the River event which I programme.
It is a great day of free choirs and music alongside the river Fowey, fab food and drink and lots of opportunities to join in...
Parking is very limited in Lostwithiel so if you can come by train...
For those of you who have attended Park Yoga - here is the evaluation form to be completed.
I am running my summer programme of classes for the next two weeks - here it is attached - only the 5.30pm class on Thursdays.
Autumn term classes start on Tuesday 8th September with new classes at Cornubia in Par on Wednesday evenings - watch this space for more information
Enjoy this lovely weather
17/06/2025
Seated sun salutations, somatics and so much more in the morning air..... Tuesdays 9am and Thursdays at 10.30am - everyone is welcome and classes will be outside over the summer as long as it is not raining, if not we will be in the Oasis studio - upstairs at the back of the community centre
17/06/2025
A few places left on Thursday's in the Oasis Studio for step, aerobics with weights, fab music - burn 500 calories and get 500 steps in before 10.30am -
Chair yoga will be outside over the summer so do come and join us and give it a go, first class is free - 9.15am on Tuesdays and 10.30am on Thursdays - 45 mins
12/06/2025
575 calories burned, 5500 steps and lots of happy steppers - Thursdays at 9.10am in lostwithiel - a few spaces left xx
11/06/2025
FREE try out sessions on Thursdays this month in Lostwithiel in the lovely, calm and fully equipped Oasis Studio, at the back of Lostwithiel Community Centre, Chair Yoga at 10.30am, Somatics at 5.30pm and Yoga at 6.35pm - with Emma Mansfield and a lovely gang of local people.
11/06/2025
Just a reminder about FREE Park Yoga in St Austell on Sundays at 9.30am - see you there.
10/06/2025
We had a wonderful mind, body and soul soothing somatics session in the Oasis Studio, Lostwithiel, this morning. We even managed to relax Ralfie the springer spaniel!
I have a few places left on Tuesday mornings at 10am and 11.15am, Thursday evenings at 5.30pm and Fridays at 9am
If you need to slow down and get back into your body, gently stretch, strengthen and ease out tight areas physically, mentally and emotionally - then somatics is for you - come and join us
Lots of people ask me about what I do... "what is somatics"... "what is chair yoga like"... "will yoga help me release stress and relax"... I say "come and give it a try" so now is your chance and for FREE
Between June and July I am offering free class passes to people who would like to try out a class (subject to availability) and if you introduce a friend to a class, you can both have a free class too.
This will run from from Tuesday 3rd June to Friday 25th July to book email me lovelypublications@gmail.com or call 07803 176416
17/05/2025
Don't forget to join me and thousands of others taking part in Park Yoga all over the UK tomorrow at 9.30am.
We'll be at Poltair Park, St Austell. Look out for the green flag and me in a GREEN PARK YOGA top.
We are honouring the end of Mental Health Awareness week tomorrow and I have some free Chai tea bags to give away - generously donated by Park Yoga sponsors Yogi Tea. The blend and all the lovely tea bags have made my kitchen smell amazing.
You might want to bring a flask of hot water and have a cuppa after the session....
See you there - 9.30am, bring a chair, blanket, towel, some water, sunscreen and a big smile for Yogi Tea.
29/04/2025
FREE PARK YOGA SESSIONS - starting Sunday 4th May, 9.30am at Poltair Park, just opposite St Austell Library, up from the station.
These FREE sessions will be running for the next 20 weeks and are for beginners, newcomers and those who have practised before and chair-based yogi's are really welcome.
The session will be lots of fun, include something for everyone and offer up a joyous way to start the day.
No need to book, just show up and do let myself and/or the other instructors know of any health issues we need to be aware of.
Bring a blanket, mat or towel, fitness clothing, water, sunscreen if it's super hot and most important a big smile....
Somatic movement therapy, yoga and chair-based classes beginning and running this autumn with Emma Mansfield- see website for details and click this link to find out more about the power of somatic movement - https://shorturl.at/8CHLo
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Having benefitted from the spiritual and physical teachings and practices of yoga, which enormously supported my recovery from mental illness, I decided to train as a yoga teacher.
I already had extensive experience as an exercise to music teacher and choir leader but found the two year training course, with Simon Low at the Yoga Academy, incredibly influential. It not only deepened my skills as a movement educator but gave me deeper insights into anatomy and physiology, the nervous system, the fluid body, posture and joint care.
Today, I am a fully accredited and insured yoga and somatic movement educator registered with the British Wheel of Yoga, Yoga Alliance and Yoga Alliance Professionals. I keep my DBS and First Aid Certificates up-to-date and have also trained to accredited certificate level in counselling, communication skills and psycho-dynamic psychotherapy.
Most recently I have qualified as a Somatic Movement Teacher with Lisa Peterson at White Horse Yoga in Devizes and have continued my professional development with Simon Low other teachers including Donna Fahri.
As part of my recovery from mental illness I also researched and published The Little Book of the Mind; an accessible and easy to read book that unpacks and demystifies the medical language of mental health. It was also an attempt to de-stigmatize mental illness.
We really can’t control what happens to us in life but we can make some attempt to control how we deal with things.
However trite it may sound, my life has taught me that in every painful experience, problem or challenge we face there is always a gift and a valuable lesson.
Yoga helps us to find those gifts and develop wisdom.
As we learn how to harness the unhelpful narrations and programmes of the mind, we can transcend past patterns; replacing old behaviours, habits and fantasies with acceptance, peace and harmony. Just like life, it’s an on going process, one that yoga enormously supports.
