Bethan Gray Yoga

02/07/2025

The Great Remembering ❤️‍🔥

I feel that there is an entire underbelly of our society that’s been in the shadow: artists, creatives, healers, voices of change… that is coming into the light. As if the whole world has been split in two - one half a pantomime of ego parading in suits and box ticking and fitting to a certain type of ‘human’; the half that’s been in control for a very long time and that has made everything that’s not that seem ‘odd’, ‘dangerous’ or ‘less than’… and the other half that are sensitive, and creative, and love without borders or boundaries.

It suddenly feels like the ‘old world’ - the old hustles and the old programming - feels incredibly backward and archaic… and that people are ready, ready, ready to live in a different way.

The people to be feared aren’t the ones asking for more colour, vibrancy, time to rest, time to create, time to love… the people to fear are the ones who’ve been running the show behind marble pillars sitting on diamond thrones who keep us in a state of forgetting our own voice, power and sovereignty. Who massage their own egos by sending kids off to war while never once pulling a trigger themselves.

25/06/2025

An online mini-retreat offering in these turbulent times of inner peace, gentle guided embodied yoga, stillness, cell-deep relaxation and inner enquiry / self reflection / journaling.

Join a community of likeminded souls and life explorers for a free/donation-based afternoon of 'Coming Home To Self' this Sunday 29th June, on Zoom - 2pm-4.30pm (London UK Time).

There is nothing that's required of you, only for you to set the intention to tune into your inner listening, and to begin to tune out the outside world, just for a little while.

Join us here: https://bookwhen.com/rootsoftolos/e/ev-sq5b-20250629140000

Any questions, please email bethangrayyoga@gmail.com

with warmth & love,
Bethan x

05/06/2025

Have a coffee but make it ✨yoga✨ (or something like that….shortly after this photo he got cramp in his foot) (for anyone who asks if Si does yoga with me)

05/06/2025

Join me on the mat! Each Thursday morning in June 7.30am-8.10am to wake up your body and focus your mind for the day ahead 🌱

This morning we will be doing 27 Sun Salutations (for all abilities!) from the comfort of your own home ✨

There’s still time to join us in an hour by following the Zoom link here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82667808034

Meeting ID: 826 6780 8034

🙏✨

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We offer a wide range of help across our 7 key pillars of support – from mental health services and respite breaks to financial grants, mobility assistance, and expert benefits advice.

Our dedicated team works closely with trusted partners, including the NHS and fellow military charities, to ensure you get the right help, at the right time.

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02/06/2025

108 Sun Salutes to the Marines - Throughout June - Join me from your own home!

Join me for 40 minutes every Thursday morning throughout June (7.30am-8.10am) to raise money for The Royal Marines Charity - a charity who support current and ex-veterans of The Royal Marines and their families.

'108 Sun Salutes To The Marines' is charity fundraiser organised by my good friend and fellow Skipton yogi Claire McGillycuddy Smith (owner of Balanced Life Physiotherapy), as this is a cause very close to her and her family's hearts.

Together with other yogis we are hoping to raise significant funds to support this incredible service that assists Royal Marines families with health, wellbeing, education and employment. They also assist in funding and planning funerals for ex-veterans, while providing lifelong support, advice and camaraderie for serving and retired Marines and their families.

Read more about what The Royal Marines Charity do here:
https://rma-trmc.org/get-support/

If you would like to be involved, please book onto a class with me here and donate generously to Claire's Just Giving page here:
https://www.justgiving.com/team/108salutes?utm_medium=TE...

About The Classes - We will start with a gorgeous sunrise meditation, and lead into 27 rounds of Sun Salutation A's which will take around 40 minutes in total 🙂

This is open for everyone - all you need is a body, a mat (or not if you prefer to practice on the floor!), and space to move in!
We will enter the day with an intention, energising movement and there will be optional chance for you to journal at the end!

Across the 4 weeks in June, we will complete 108 Sun Salutations together!

Join us!! Book now!!

(You will be emailed the Zoom link just before the sessions)
Book Here: https://bookwhen.com/rootsoftolos/e/ev-sykz-20250605073000

Yorkshire Yogi with a vision to become a free human ~ life explorer through the lens of yoga: weekly yoga classes in Skipton, yoga and meditation retreats & more! Co-founder of Holistic House Skipton. This is my class booking site only. For more information about retreats, Holistic House Skipton or....

19/05/2025

I’ll be coming off social media for a little while to tune inward, focus on me and tune out the outside world - being close to just my practices for a while 🌱

Email bethan@rootsoftolos.com for class enquiries, and book classes at www.bookwhen.com/rootsoftolos

See ya on’t flip side!
❤️‍🔥

12/05/2025

Out of office is well and truly ON! 🌴🌞

There are no classes this week aside from Thursday night’s Guided Meditation & Relaxation class (7.30pm - one space left if anyone wants to grab it!) which is being covered by Caroline Wilson .caroline ♥️

Have lovely weeks ~ back to normal classes next Tuesday 20th!

10/05/2025

There was a time, not too long ago, if you’d asked me “what do you most want from your life?” I’d have answered “I just want to be mentally free”.

I write this with tears in my eyes as I look at this painting.

I remember vividly the process.

The fear. The desperation. The loss. The anger. The inability to sleep without choking. The inability to shower without losing my breath. The days and weeks and months and… years, really… where *this* was my only voice.

I was sitting at my desk in my little art room and as I scribbled and splashed ink on the paper - first the body, then the neck, then… nothing.
Some colour, maybe?
I added yellow, red, blue, green.
I watched the colours merged into one and form a murky darkness.
Ah, that’s better.

I read something somewhere that said ‘a healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man wants one.’ And I feel that so deeply in my bones, but instead of physical sickness, mine was sickness of the mind. A sickness that feels like an inky black fog that starts off as a drop in the mind, and slowly begins to pour into every inch of your being, until your bones, cells, blood, muscles, are filled with insipid darkness and you’re drowning in it.

I used to berate myself that there was no reason for it. Why couldn’t I get out of bed when I had a beautiful life? Why did my heart beat so fast from walking up the stairs, when people were living in poverty? Why were my ears ringing in pain from silence when there were people being chased by bombs?

I sit here now, calling myself back from the desire to ‘do’ more, to ‘be’ more, teetering on the edge of a choice: ‘Push harder. Create more. Earn more money’? Or ‘Be happy with just where you’re at, put your mental health and your nervous system first, keep it slow and enjoy the gentle process’?

And I remind myself that there was a time, not too long ago, all I wanted was to feel mentally free from the prison of my body and mind.

And now, truthfully, I truly am. And I can hardly believe it. Thank God for Yoga. Thank God for Ta**ra.

(Internal) freedom is a state of mind ✨ it’s possible.
**ra

03/05/2025

More slow, snoozy weekend days that look like this, please 🥰 my Brown Eyed Girl. Who else is enjoying cosy pup-cuddles today?

Next week’s yoga & meditation classes have some spaces, book yours here: www.bookwhen.com/rootsoftolos