We teach a range of yoga classes in the Sheffield community.
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This post isn’t anti-YA. It’s pro-yoga.
Pro-transparency.
Pro-integrity.
And most of all: pro-practice.
It's a call.
A call to remember yoga as a state, not a status.
A path, not a performance.
A lineage, not a lifestyle brand.
May we protect what is sacred.
May we listen deeper than branding.
May we walk the path, not just teach it.
Let’s walk it with integrity.
Let’s make space for depth again.
Let’s serve yoga, so yoga can serve the world.
04/10/2025
Videos from yesterday's autumnal walk.
The oak unravels slowly,
spirals of time in every limb.
Leaves loosen their hold,
a quiet surrender,
a golden hymn.
Moss drinks the hush of rain,
stones remember what was green.
Mushrooms rise, soft lanterns
in the fading scene.
Everything yields,
and in that falling grace,
the forest breathes again
into its own still space.
01/10/2025
A poignant piece in a time of ecological grief, societal disintegration, exploitation of resources and oppression of people and Earth. Read on to find out how Kali is a medicine for these times...
She comes clothed in dark.
Not to destroy life,
but to end the lie it was built upon.
To slice through illusion.
To make space for truth.
Kālī is not here to comfort.
She is not a goddess to pray to for sweetness or ease.
She is the force that interrupts what has gone too far.
The wisdom of endings.
The intelligence of collapse.
She is a myth, yes. But more than that, she is a mirror.
In a time of ecological unravelling, societal disintegration, and spiritual forgetting, Kālī is not a symbol of fear.
She is a response.
Read the full article on our blog: whatonyogaearth.tumblr.com/post/795935086502690816/kālī-endings-that-set-us-free
24/09/2025
In celebration of Navarātri (Nine Nights of the Goddess which started Monday 22nd September) our new blog post explores the significance of 108 and how it relates to the feminine.
There’s a quiet mathematics woven through the fabric of yoga, a language of ratios, cycles, and measures that speaks without words. Nowhere is this more beautifully embodied than in the number 108.
Numbers are more than counting, they are symbols of cosmic rhythm. In yoga, 108 reduces to 9, the sacred feminine cycle of gestation & renewal. Across cultures, 9 carries the imprint of the Goddess, from Navarātri to the Ennead, from the Muses to Celtic triple cycles. Even the word feminine holds “nine” within it.
In the yogic and Vedic traditions, 108 is not chosen at random. It reflects a harmony between human life, planetary patterns, and the unseen architecture of consciousness.
Astronomical Resonance:
The distance between Earth and the Sun is about 108 times the Sun’s diameter.
The distance between Earth and the Moon is about 108 times the Moon’s diameter.
This proportion means the Sun and Moon appear the same size in our sky, a symmetry visible in solar eclipses, events long regarded as spiritually potent.
Sacred Geography:
Traditional India speaks of 108 pīṭhas (sacred goddess sites), each a pulse point of Śakti across the land.
The Body as Microcosm:
Āyurveda teaches there are 108 marma points, vital junctions where body, mind, and prāṇa meet. These are subtle mirrors of cosmic constellations.
Mantra & Meditation:
Repeating a mantra 108 times is said to align practitioner and cosmos, bringing the mind into resonance with the order that sustains life.
When we reduce 108 numerologically: 1 + 0 + 8 = 9. This is where the spiral turns inward.
If your curiosity is piqued, you can read the full article on our blog:
Beneath the forest floor,
the mycelium hums.
Beneath our breath,
Spanda pulses.
A silent song. A thread of life.
The spider spins her listening lines.
Our nervous system listens too,
through the vagus nerve,
through the gut’s wild garden
of unseen kin.
In yoga,
we tune to this web,
not just stretch and stillness,
but the spirals of fractals,
the echoes of stars,
the music of string theory
vibrating everything into being.
You are not separate.
You are shaped like the whole.
Move slowly.
Breathe deeply.
You are part of the pattern.
Yoga is a practice of remembering, of reweaving ourselves into the pulse of life. Beneath every breath, posture, and still point, there is movement, a silent tremor of becoming. Across ancient yogic wisdom, Earth-based cultures and modern science, we find a shared truth: everything is vibration, everything is connected.
From Spanda Yoga to string theory, from the living soil of the mycelium network to the spiralling patterns of fractals, yoga offers us not only a map inward, but a map back to the whole.
Here is a juicy piece to sink our teeth into. A tough conversation to have, but an important topic to reflect upon.
The yoga taught in studios across London, New York, or Melbourne is, at first glance, remarkably similar to that found in many South Asian cities today. Sequenced postures, breath awareness, moments of meditation, and even playlists of gentle ambient music. In many ways, the globalisation of yoga has meant that it has become a shared, somewhat standardised form, whether taught in Mumbai or Manchester. Yet beneath this surface similarity lies a tangle of history, cultural shifts, and ongoing negotiations about how to honour a tradition while also allowing it to evolve.
A Complex Conversation
The question of what to share, what to protect, and how to teach with integrity is not only an Indian story. Many Western teachers, aware of the weight of colonial history and the risks of cultural appropriation, have also wrestled with these questions:
-How to honour the roots of yoga without freezing it in time
-How to adapt language, methods, and accessibility without hollowing out the depth
-How to recognise privilege and historical harm while still participating in this living tradition.
It began as a response.
To the forgetting.
To the disconnection.
To the deep ache of living in a world that so often treats nature as backdrop, resource, or afterthought.
We created Yoga Nature because we believe yoga is more than movement.
It’s a way of remembering.
Remembering that we are not separate from the land,
not visitors on this Earth,
but expressions of it.
Yoga Nature was never just about teaching yoga. It began as a response. To the forgetting. To the disconnection. To the deep ache of living in a world that so often treats nature as backdrop,...
29/08/2025
🌿 Free Evening Yoga at Nether Edge Festival 2025
Step into a calm and welcoming space to stretch, breathe, and unwind. These evening classes will gently guide you through postural yoga, deep relaxation, and simple meditation practices. An opportunity to pause, soften, and feel restored.
Open to those who are completely new to Yoga Nature or returning after some time away.
As the seasons shift, we return to the mat together, with fresh classes, a gentle £28 Seedling Plan, free festival offerings, and a year-long journey into Ayurveda’s wisdom.
Classes recommence Monday 1 September, the perfect time to start your yoga journey as the season turns. All classes take place at the Sharrow Performing Arts Space.
All classes take place at the Sharrow Performing Arts Space.
This Year's Theme: The Doshas and Ayurveda
Every year, we explore a thread that deepens practice beyond the mat. This year, our focus is on Ayurveda and the three doshas: vāta, pitta, and kapha.
Throughout the seasons we’ll explore:
-How each dosha shapes our energy, body, and mind.
-Practical ways to balance ourselves through yoga, breath, and lifestyle.
-What it means to live in rhythm with nature, moment to moment.
This journey will help you not only build strength and ease, but also discover how to move in harmony with your own unique constitution.
Why Yoga Nature?
We offer yoga as more than just movement...
Earth-rooted: attuned to the seasons & cycles.
Inclusive & accessible: all bodies & life stages welcome.
Beyond shapes: yoga as a state of remembering who you are.
Join us this September for grounding, renewal, and a deeper connection to yourself.
At Yoga Nature, the rhythm of the earth informs all that we do. As the seasons shift, so too does our energy, our practice, and the way we show up in the world. That’s why each year, as the height of summer arrives, we close our doors throughout August. This is not a holiday in the traditional sense, it is a conscious, intentional pause. A sacred time of seasonal rest.
Read more in our latest blog post: whatonyogaearth.tumblr.com/post/790491805727719424/why-we-close-in-august-seasonal-rest-as-practice
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We teach a range of yoga classes in the Sheffield community. These include classes for adults, children and young people, classes in schools and businesses, and personalised one to ones Read on to find out more...
Jo and Ben warmly welcome you to Yoga Nature. Jo taught her first class in October 2004, though the business was then known as Soul Shine Yoga. A few years later we became Yoga Nature. Since then we have continued to grow and now deliver seven regular adult classes and numerous kids classes each week, plus many one to ones and workshops. We are also proud to have created Sheffield's first and only Bhakti yoga festival called Ganapati Groove. It's been a wonderful journey and we thank you all for your continued support!
Our Philosophy
At Yoga Nature we aim to show people that yoga is not just about exercise with the word ‘yoga’ attached to it. We offer classes, workshops and events which explore a wide variety of authentic yoga practises which guide us to the depths of our being where we begin to realise our ‘true nature’ which is also in harmony with ‘nature’ - Mother Earth or Gaia - herself. We are not separate anymore, we become whole, expanded and integrated, we are yoga. Through this integration or expanded awareness we begin to realise and become sensitive that when we harm Gaia we are harming ourselves and we may find ourselves quite naturally beginning to change our lifestyles. This is why our guiding principle at Yoga Nature is based on ahimsa or non-harming or, even better, creating harmony.
You can find out more about the styles of yoga that we teach here:
