Rise and Wild

26/10/2025

It’s an honour to guide these wellbeing and nature programmes with and for the Green Angels - The Land Trust programme 🙏🏼🌳🌱

25/10/2025

🧘🏼‍♂️🙏🏼🍂 Community classes…

This is yoga like you might not have imagined. It’s functional, accessible, slow & steady, a really grounding practice for autumn and a lovely way to reconnect with yourself during the week. There’s no need to be flexible and everybody’s welcome 16+ inclusive to all.

If you want to feel less stressed, more balanced, and a bit stronger & relaxed, this gentle approach to embodied movement & rest is for you.

Weekly classes are 1 hour:
⊛ Mondays 6pm
⊛ Mondays 7.30pm
⊛ Wednesdays 6pm
⊛ Fridays 9.30am

If you have any questions or hesitations, get in touch for a chat and if you’d like to come along, please book here: https://www.riseandwild.com/yoga

Rach x

Gentle and grounding classes for living well day-to-day. Combining functional movement with mindfulness practices; breath connection, yoga philosophy, rest and relaxation. Rachel includes modified postures and shares options for people to make the practice their own. These are gentle classes and we....

22/10/2025

Rising early, meeting under starlight and being with the becoming of another day ✨

There’s something really special about doing things a little out of the ordinary & sharing experiences with others. Getting up early and gathering with like-minded and kind folks, journeying through forest and up hills with one shared intention: To be here and see the sun rise… To have a sense of the earth turning 🌍

To be here 🙏🏼♥️

I originally organised a sunrise walk after somebody on one of my nature and wellbeing programmes told me that, in all her 60 years, she had never seen the sun rise. Since, we’ve walked to raise money for charities, to gather outdoors, to share stories & morning brews, and address limiting fears, and most recently to embrace the darkening days of autumn. Here’s to the wild ones, and the becoming-more-wild ones. It’s an honour to guide and share moments & mornings like these with you 🤎🌲

16/10/2025

I was walking with Chai 🐾🌳 through the woods the other day, meandering along a route where wild lives were growing, sporing and decomposing in all their glory. Finding our way alongside river and rock and tree roots, following footsteps of folks who have been taking care of this land for generations, and more recently, young souls who have been creating earthly sculptures and river crossings and all kinds of imagination-running-free things.

Tears filled my eyes. Present, entirely in the now, senses alive and taking it all in. Feeling part of something truly wild and at home in the family of natural, living things. To be here, breathing, being, experiencing wonder and joy, peacefulness & intrigue. The creak of dry wood and the moo-ing of cows in a field nearby. Mushrooms, everywhere, tiny bonnets in the undergrowth… white-gilled & red spotted fly agaric cushioned between the blanket of moss, and brackets in seemingly open relationship with birch trees. I walked slowly, pausing often to stand with great big oaks & so many other. Meandering, humming and watching my happy little dog explore all of this new and ancient land. I felt elfish, gently & playfully finding my way.

The birds were singing, calling, and the wind teased the autumning leaves… some falling, lightly through space. I often wonder what freedom that brings to the branches after a summer laden with leaf, berry and seed. My feet, too were light, traversing a path which had only recently been made, space now within the overgrowth for new life to rise up and grow.

Here’s to the wildwood, the wild ways, and experiencing wonder on a cool, autumnal mid-week morning dog walk 🙏🏼🌳✨

12/10/2025

~ Being as nature intended 🌱

In our bodies, with the land and inherently connected. Finding balance and rhythm and honouring the cycles of life, the seasons & energies within and around us. Life often changing... Morphing, creating, deceasing. Resting before we’re on the floor & flat out exhausted, not as a reward for getting everything done, but because that’s how nature designed life to be. See the leopard in the tree. Watch sun rising, sun setting. Notice plants through autumn and into winter. Learn from the little ones, life honouring life.

We feel it in our bones, this ancient knowing that we are nature, although it isn’t really the story we’re exploring in our technological evolution. Computers, light bulbs, phones… they’re always on. As a species we’re indoors, all of the time (on average, 22 hours a day here in the UK). These feet were destined to journey over plains & climb trees and to be free. Overly structured play defeats the point, folks confide with AI whilst sitting in silence side by side friends, and convenience seems to overrule connection. Is it just me or is “modern-day life” starting to feel a little bit bizarre. The disconnect that comes from all the tech and too many hours sitting at a desk. Motorways, traffic jams, 10-hour work days, plastic in the food we eat and… I won’t go on.

As this stuff becomes more & more real, we’re here remembering another way… a wilder way, guided by our intuition, the wild within and mother nature’s teachings. What would it be like to live a little more as nature intended? In sync with our circadian rhythms and feeling inherently part of something so much bigger than you or I. To have kin within the natural world, to befriend your body and feel alive and well, most of the time. To feel at ease, with peace and wonder and a tribe around you. And a belief that this is real, it can be real. I wonder, are the majority living what’s truly right for us, rather than just what’s prescribed for us? And where do we go from here?

Come, let’s find a way 🪾🌱 🫁👣🙏🏼🌍♥️

01/10/2025

Join me on Wednesdays, 6 til’ 7pm for a gentle yoga practice, honouring these autumnal evenings 🍂🍄‍🟫🧡 in a warm and inclusive space in Macclesfield town centre.

Weekly, book as you go or explore a special offer for a free class ☺️ More info & to book: https://www.riseandwild.com/service-page/wednesday6pm

Rach xx

26/09/2025

🌱 It’s great to be supporting the Green Spaces for Wellbeing team this week, delivering some refresher training in nature-based approaches to wellbeing. I lead these as really experiential days, putting facilitators back into the seat of being a participant as well as developing their community facilitation skills. I’m looking forward to Monday as we explore another green space and approaches to greencare and social prescribing.

We welcomed the autumn equinox with some amazing refresher training and Wild !

The sun shone and we enjoyed slowing down to reconnect with ourselves and the important purpose of the Green Spaces programmes, focusing on session delivery and quality - ensuring we continue to bring the relaxing and mindful element to all our sessions. 💚

20/09/2025

Wellbeing with Nature 🌱🌿💚

These six week programmes support folk to explore & deepen their relationship with nature. With the natural & living world, and with themselves. We gather for one day a week over six weeks and throughout that time begin to nurture relationships with one another too… so many stories, joys & tears that come up along the way. I know that M doesn’t like spicy crisps (which another soul shared one week when he forgot lunch), but also that he loves frogs and can name almost any bird or being we meet on site 🪲 I know how often S worries about her children and the deep care she has for hedgehogs in her garden. B loves roses and is going to be a grandmother, and T lights up when talking about nature & recent adventures ~ she listens too with a deep compassion. P learns best visually and has found her place sitting under & with a great big oak. We gather as a community and get to know the ups & downs of one another’s lives.

On these programmes, which evolve over the years and change with the seasons, we explore pathways to nature connectedness. I weave in wellbeing support for both human & environmental health, with creative and conservation-based activities, nature knowledge, ancient wisdom, movement, mindfulness, herbs, stories, folklore, breathing practices and rest. And loads more over the 30 hour course (+ additional time outside the programme and along the way).

Being well doesn’t happen in isolation. The heart and the head, the liver and the legs, the mental & the physical, the me & the you, the earth & the air, the environment and us. Everything is connected. These Nature and Wellbeing programmes are for remembering, care taking, communicating and reigniting a sense of wonder, kinship and reciprocal living 🌍 As we come toward the end of this summer-autumn programme, I’m exploring a couple of new partnerships and sites to add to a winter-spring series 🙏🏼🌀

15/09/2025

Doing things extra-ordinary and creating new experiences for people 🌱🌞

Whist delivering one of my six-week Nature & Wellbeing programmes recently, we were exploring how and where we experience awe within the natural world. Everybody becomes animated at this point, sharing stories about being by the sea, camping as a child, growing veggies from seeds, and watching the sun rise. One participant wasn’t as forthcoming, a glimmer of sadness in her eyes and later, checking in with her she told me quietly that in all her 50+ years of life, she hadn’t watched the sun come up. I swallowed my surprise, and in the months following spoke to so many others who haven’t seen a sunrise, or a sunset either. Our disconnect from nature illuminated, so many folks living in built up areas, surrounded by unnatural light and a very real fear of being out after dark.

There’s something really special about witnessing the earth turning. And to share it with other folk, gathering in the darkness to walk under moonlight (and with a torch!) Climbing up a hill and sitting at the top with a brew, watching the view reveal itself in shades of pink and orange and sometimes - a not so vibrant grey. This is the Peak District in Autumn after all! I’ve organised a couple of sunrise walks since, for our participant to experience a sunrise, and another to raise money for a domestic abuse charity that was facing closure. Before the clocks change, on a Sunday morning in October, I’m guiding another and it would be lovely to have you join us.

Sunday 12 October
Meeting at 6am
📍🌲 Macclesfield Forest

A little more info & how to book (6 places remaining): https://www.riseandwild.com/service-page/sunrise-oct

13/09/2025

Yatha pinde tatha brahmande, yatha brahmande tatha pinde 🌍

“As is the universe, so is the human body, and as is the human body, so is the universe” 🌀

Ancient wisdom from the Yajur Veda, a text and teachings that have survived for over five thousand years and continue to guide many of us exploring the foundations of yoga, spiritual practice and our interconnectedness with nature & life itself. As is the universe, so is the human body… as is the macrocosm so is the microcosm ~ our bodies and our being are smaller representations of a larger whole. The seasons, our internal weather systems, the way water moves, energy disperses and cells divide, the patterns that govern life on Earth (and beyond!) are intrinsically linked to the patterns within our own human experience & make up. The structure of our bodies too reflect the structure of the cosmos.

Everything within the universe exists within us and everything within us reflects the entirety of the universe. It’s all connected. We’re all connected ♥️

07/09/2025

These days 🙏🏼🌱🍂 find out more about our Reset days, and if you’d like to join us on 30 Nov comment below and I’ll share more info 🥰

31/08/2025