Yoga with Helen

Yoga with Helen 👉 Practice with me on YouTube and let’s move, breathe & grow together: https://youtube.com/?feature=shared

I offer private classes in the comfort of your own home. All you need is enough space to roll out a yoga mat! I provide individual and discounted group rates if you'd like to invite a friend. E-mail me for more information and prices! Helen's classes follow the format of the Ashtanga primary series which realigns the spine, detoxifies the body, and builds strength, flexibility and stamina. Beginning with sun salutations (surya namaskara A and surya namaskara B) and moving on to standing poses, seated poses, inversions and backbends before relaxation. All are welcome :)

Originally from London, yoga has been part of my life in varying amounts from day one! My grandmother was a practitioner of Kriya yoga and is responsible for getting me into my first headstand as a child! In 2011 I travelled to Goa, India and completed the Yoga Alliance Teacher Training course with Yogachara Lalit Kumar at the Himalaya Yoga Valley Centre. On returning to London I taught Ashtanga and Hatha yoga to a wide range of students. As someone with scoliosis, I understand that yoga is completely unique for everyone so I offer modifications throughout the class encouraging students to discover their own practice.

02/14/2026

Hands-on adjustments can be powerful — but only when they’re rooted in consent, clarity, and care.

Touch is never neutral. As teachers, we have to ask ourselves not just can I adjust this student… but why am I adjusting them? Is it for safety? Understanding? Support? Or is it about chasing a “perfect” shape?

In this blog piece I’m sharing why consent should always come first, why verbal cueing matters more than correction, and how thoughtful touch should guide — never force.

Because trust is more important than alignment. Always.

Read it on my website. Link in bio

From Tuesday 27/1/26, I’ll be teaching Yin + Gong every Tuesday at 8pm, running through until the beginning of March Su...
01/26/2026

From Tuesday 27/1/26, I’ll be teaching Yin + Gong every Tuesday at 8pm, running through until the beginning of March
Sunday classes will continue as usual at 6:45pm.

Ahimsa — non-harm in thought, word, and action — is a foundational principle of yoga. It isn’t passive. It asks us to no...
01/26/2026

Ahimsa — non-harm in thought, word, and action — is a foundational principle of yoga. It isn’t passive. It asks us to notice suffering and interrupt harm when we see it.

What’s happening in the US right now, with ICE escalating violence and people being killed by the state, should shake all of us. And it doesn’t stay “over there”. I’m seeing the ripple effects here in England too — rising far-right rhetoric, symbols of exclusion, the slow normalising of dehumanisation.

Yoga is unity. Yoga wakes us up to truth. A practice that ignores suffering is incomplete.

We can’t sit silently while children are taken, people are killed, and fear is weaponised — and pretend it won’t reach us. When a system is willing to harm anyone, no one is safe.

We are all connected. We are all the same.
Now is the time to speak, to act, and to practice ahimsa beyond the mat.

Helen xx

01/20/2026

Baby Bakasana: small shape, big attitude.
A low-to-the-ground arm balance that asks for curiosity more than courage. Lean, lift, wobble, laugh, repeat. Give it a go, see how it feels in your body, and tell me what you notice — strength, fear, surprise, joy, all of it counts.

2016: the year I naively thought progress was inevitable and stupidity was a minority. I was living in LA, working at th...
01/18/2026

2016: the year I naively thought progress was inevitable and stupidity was a minority. I was living in LA, working at the LA Phil, acting, teaching yoga across the city, improvising constantly and believing—very confidently—that Britain wouldn’t vote for Brexit and America would elect its first female president.

Life was full and bright: Hollywood Bowl sunsets, yoga hikes in the Hills, Sunday classes in Silver Lake, boozy midweek Harry Potter marathons. At the same time, I was doing quieter work—ending toxic patterns, confronting my past, learning how to grow up properly.

The year ended in political heartbreak, but it also planted the seeds of the life I’m living now. I wasn’t ready to meet my husband yet, but we were already orbiting the same rooms. I was messy, hopeful, and optimistic—and that, it turns out, was enough.

01/08/2026

If you’ve taken my class recently, you may have noticed I no longer close with namaste.
This wasn’t a casual decision. It came from reflection, study, and a deeper look at lineage, power, and cultural responsibility within modern yoga.

In this blog, I share why I made that choice, what namaste really means, and how I’m learning to practise yoga with more integrity — on and off the mat.

I’d genuinely love to hear your thoughts on this. How do you feel about language and ritual in yoga spaces? Let’s keep the conversation thoughtful and respectful in the comments 🤍

Link to website in bio.

I’ve shared a new piece of writing: “On Becoming Mother.” It’s an exploration of pregnancy as more than a physical exper...
12/29/2025

I’ve shared a new piece of writing: “On Becoming Mother.” It’s an exploration of pregnancy as more than a physical experience — a moment where biology, ancestry, and identity converge. I try to put language around that strange, profound sense of continuity that arrives with motherhood: the feeling of being both a beginning and a continuation, the meeting point of generations, the place where recognition happens before introduction. If any of this resonates, I’d love for you to read it.

https://www.yogawithhelen.org/post/on-becoming-mother

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