Yoga with Lynne Bentley

02/01/2026

21/12/2025

✨Today is World Meditation Day — and the darkest day of the year.

✨Here at the Dru Centre, we’ve just changed the outdoor lighting.✨💛✨
✨Thanks to a local Dark Skies project, our new lamps are softer and face downward — better for wildlife, and they let us see the stars again.

✨It feels symbolic.

✨☀️✨At this time of year, when everything around us is rushing, nature is doing the opposite. It’s turning inward. Resting. Waiting for the light to return.

✨🌟✨Meditation gives us a way to do the same.

“This night brings darkness to the spirit, although it does so in order to illumine and enlighten it.”✨🌟☀️🌟✨
—St John of the Cross

✨🌟💛Today might be a good moment to sit for a few minutes.
✨Or to ask: What do I want to train my mind to do in 2026?

✨💛✨If the answer is “go deeper,” you’re warmly invited to join our next Meditation Mastery course, starting in March — a steady, practical path for learning to calm the mind, soothe reactivity, and reconnect with your centre.

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👉 Learn more at druyoga.com

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12/12/2025

Some poses invite us to open.
Others invite us to listen.

Paschimottanasana — the sitting forward bend — is one of those shapes that quietly gathers you back to yourself. As the spine lengthens and the belly softens toward the thighs, the whole back body begins to release. The kidneys, held safely just beneath the lower ribs, respond with a subtle sense of settling… almost like water finding its level again.

In yoga, this region of the back is linked with the water element — flow, clarity, emotional release. When we fold forward, we’re not just stretching the hamstrings; we’re giving the body a moment to let go of yesterday’s tension, to soften resistance, to return to something quieter and more grounded.

And beneath it all is a deeper invitation: to gather our energy inward rather than constantly spilling it outward. A small gesture of brahmacharya — not restraint, but a gentle choosing of what nourishes us.

This pose is a reminder that sometimes, the most powerful shifts begin in the simplest shapes.

Step-by-step
1. Sit on the floor with the legs outstretched. Lift through the crown of the head, creating space through the spine.

2. Hinge forward from the hips, allowing the body to gently curve in the upper back, neck, and head.

3. Relax in this position, lengthening through the crown of the head with each in-breath and with each exhalation, softening the whole body gently down towards the thighs. There is no stress or strain in the body.

4. Complete by uncurling up to a sitting position, allowing yourself to breathe softly for a moment or two.

If you have tight hamstrings, please place a small cushion or bolster under the knees. For many people, a small cushion or block under the hips helps to tilt the pelvis forward and allows you to rest much more deeply into the posture.

Tomorrow, we continue with weekend two of the Dru Yoga Teacher Training Course, where I'll be exploring this posture with the trainees. Wish me luck!

22/11/2025

The humming bee breath is definitely one of my favourites and has seen me through some difficult times. It's also another tool in our Yoga Toolkit for Grief. Try this any time you feel a bit wobbly...

* Sit comfortably, back tall, hands resting in your lap.
* Inhale through the nose.
* As you exhale, gently hum the breath out, keeping a steady rhythm.
* Repeat twice more, before resting in stillness and silence, which will be amplified after the vibrations of the humming.

This is such a beautiful nourishing, calming breath. Enjoy.

16/11/2025

11/11/2025

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Page 239 from ‘Joy Chose You’.

For anyone who need it tonight x

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04/11/2025