Diana Reynolds Yoga

02/01/2026

A very Happy New Year to all my wonderful yoga students. Wishing you all happiness and really good health throughout the coming year.
I look forward to sharing more yoga with you all from next week.

02/11/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/video/well/move/100000010423399/yoga-teacher-charlotte-chopin.html

If you haven't started yoga yet there is still time!

At 102 years old, Charlotte Chopin’s day consists of a simple breakfast, spending time outdoors and teaching yoga.

10/10/2025

Today is World Mental Health Day.
If you struggle with mental health issues why not consider trying yoga?
Yoga is a mind-body exercise that helps teach you to quieten your mind. Studies have shown that yoga can reduce stress, anxiety and depression. It gives you a greater sense of well-being and inner peace.

As writer Debasish Mridha said "You may not be able to control the whole world but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga".

07/08/2025

Enjoying a lunchtime class outside in the sunshine yesterday.
So good to breathe in the real outside air and feel the ground beneath our feet!

20/05/2025

Some wise words from Thich Nhat Hanh from his book Peace is Every Breath: A Practice For Our Busy Lives, just in case you don't make it to class this week.
"If we have too many worries, fears and doubts, we have no room for living and loving. We need to practise letting go."

01/01/2025

Happy New Year to all my fantastic students.
I hope you all have a wonderful 2025 and look forward to seeing you again on your mats next week!

01/10/2024

You may have heard of the inspirational Simon Boas. He was an aid worker diagnosed with incurable cancer who wrote in his local paper reflecting on his approaching death with wisdom and humour. He left his wife with some instructions "be joyful; connect with people; rejoice in the little things". Words worth pondering.

08/06/2024

Just in case you missed yoga this week, I shared some wise words from the author Morris West, worth pondering.
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never see the sunshine".

28/05/2024

At last yoga on Just One Thing!
If you haven't heard any of these short programmes about how to improve your health and well being, they are worth listening to. Now we have an episode about yoga, its amazing benefits to our health and how it can slow down ageing. Very interesting.

How yoga can boost your brain and lower your stress, and even reverse signs of ageing.

15/02/2024

Exercise better than anti-depressants

A new study published in the British Medical Journal has found that exercise is even better than anti-depressants at treating depression.
According to the study walking or jogging, yoga, and strength training appeared to be more effective than other types of exercises.
This is no surprise to people who practise yoga and as one of my students said today "Well we already knew that didn't we!"

If you didn't know and you suffer from depression come and give yoga a try. You will feel better in so many ways.

Even low intensity activities such as walking or yoga are beneficial According to the World Health Organization, more than 300 million people worldwide have depression.1 When individuals recover from a major depressive episode, they have a high probability of relapse, and in some cases a tendency to...

01/01/2024

A very Happy New Year to all my wonderful students. May you have a very happy, healthy and peaceful year. I look forward to sharing many more hours of yoga with you.

As we begin a New Year consider the words of Thich Nhat Hanh "Because you are alive everything is possible".

03/11/2023

Pema Chodron's thoughtful words from this week's classses just in case you had to miss this week.

Though we can't predict or control what will come up next or how we will feel about it, we can do something about how we react. We can work on how we relate to whatever comes up.