Unity Through Yoga

Unity Through Yoga Welcome! I teach mixed-ability yoga to build strength, flexibility through playful flows. I’m also creating an online yoga community and app - stay tuned!

My classes blend movement, breath, and philosophy to support your body and life.

Most New Year resolutions don’t fail because we lack discipline. They fail because we don’t spend enough time thinking a...
04/01/2026

Most New Year resolutions don’t fail because we lack discipline. They fail because we don’t spend enough time thinking about how we want to live on the way there.

I’ve been reflecting on the idea that how we create an experience defines that experience — on the mat, and far beyond it.

If the process is rushed, forceful, or disconnected, the outcome carries that quality with it.

This new Substack piece explores:

• why resolutions often fall apart
• the difference between goals and vows
• what yoga philosophy has to say about process, presence, and commitment

If you’re curious about approaching this year with a little more intention — not perfection — the full post is now live.

👉 Read it via the link in my bio or here: https://open.substack.com/pub/steveclark324023/p/resolutions-vows-and-the-way-we-get?r=52wnw4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I had a chilled out companion for my daily Pranayama practice this morning (Sparkles the cat). Animals are a great teac...
04/01/2026

I had a chilled out companion for my daily Pranayama practice this morning (Sparkles the cat). Animals are a great teachers of how to be present in the moment. In this example - knowing when to take rest and committing to it fully, and ignoring all distraction :)

“Do not let fear lead to inaction.”The Bhagavad Gītā isn’t asking us to abandon compassion, accept fate, or look away fr...
14/12/2025

“Do not let fear lead to inaction.”

The Bhagavad Gītā isn’t asking us to abandon compassion, accept fate, or look away from suffering. It’s asking us to act — without collapse, without cruelty, and without losing ourselves in fear.

This is my lived-experience reflection on the Gītā, action, responsibility, and compassion — written as a parent, not a philosopher.

🔗 Full post on Substack / link in bio

https://open.substack.com/pub/steveclark324023/p/the-bhagavad-gita-is-not-asking-us?r=52wnw4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Tried yoga before but didn’t stick with it?You’re not alone — most people don’t.Here’s the difference 👇My classes aren’t...
30/11/2025

Tried yoga before but didn’t stick with it?
You’re not alone — most people don’t.

Here’s the difference 👇
My classes aren’t about nailing perfect postures or keeping up with a rigid flow.
They’re about moving through life with more ease — body and mind.

We break things down into stages so everyone can find their level.
You’ll build strength, mobility and flexibility — without taking yourself too seriously.
And yes, you’ll probably laugh at least once.

📍 Cheadle | Mondays 7.15 - 8.15pm | 50% off your first class with code FIRSTCLASS50.

It’s yoga that feels good — not yoga that looks good.

https://www.unitythroughyoga.com/empowered-flow-yoga-cheadle

27/11/2025

Long day at the desk?

Your neck and shoulders have been doing unpaid overtime.

This flow starts ridiculously simple, then sneaks in some fun movement patterns that wake up the brain → body connection. A bit of nervous system, a bit of mobility, a bit of “what even is that move?”… basically the stuff that stops stretching from feeling like punishment.

Do it once. Do it twice. Send it to someone who visibly carries tension in their upper traps like it’s a personality trait.

You don’t need more time in your day.
You need more ease in the time you already spend moving through it.

Most of us are carrying more than we admit — work, family, deadlines, and the constant pressure to hold it all together....
26/11/2025

Most of us are carrying more than we admit — work, family, deadlines, and the constant pressure to hold it all together. It shows up in tight shoulders, bad sleep, short fuse, and that feeling of being “always on”.

Men’s Yoga on Thursdays is a chance to drop some of that. We work on mobility, strength, breathwork and nervous system regulation in a way that actually fits real life — not the Instagram version of yoga.

If you’ve never tried yoga before, you’ll fit right in.
50% off your first class.
Tomorrow night — 6–7pm at InHale Yoga Studio in Hale/Altrincham.

If you want directions or you’re on the fence, just message me.

Today was my last lunchtime yoga session at Eastwoods Insurance Brokers in Huddersfield. Such a great firm investing in...
20/11/2025

Today was my last lunchtime yoga session at Eastwoods Insurance Brokers in Huddersfield. Such a great firm investing in looking after the wellbeing of their staff. I have had a blast and should be thanking them! Its been so much fun moving our bodies in peculiar ways and learning tips and tricks to calm our nervous systems at work. Its been amazing to see the difference in everyone from when they entered the room to when they finished each session. I loved it and can't wait to do more of this type of offering :)

This is my first snowfall of the season witnessed en route to my yoga class in Huddersfield. In might be bloody freezin...
19/11/2025

This is my first snowfall of the season witnessed en route to my yoga class in Huddersfield. In might be bloody freezing, but it made me smile :)

05/11/2025

Looks like the lads from The Dukes of Hazzard have been working on their mobility… that bonnet slide is pure functional movement! 😅

If only more men knew yoga wasn’t about touching your toes — it’s about building strength, flexibility, mobility, and a calmer mind (and yes, it helps with sliding across car bonnets too).

I’m on a mission to get more men into yoga.

Join me every Thursday, 6–7pm at InHale Yoga Studio, Hale/Altrincham.

https://www.unitythroughyoga.com/classes-1

Find your flow in CheadleSometimes the hardest part of yoga is just showing up.So if you’ve been waiting for a sign — th...
02/11/2025

Find your flow in Cheadle

Sometimes the hardest part of yoga is just showing up.

So if you’ve been waiting for a sign — this is it.

Empowered Yoga is now on Monday evenings, 7.15 – 8.15 pm at Yoga Sangha, right in the heart of Cheadle Green.

It’s a friendly, down-to-earth class designed to help you move, breathe and unwind after a busy day — no pressure, no pretzel-poses, just a chance to feel good in your body.

50% off your first class when you book online with code FIRSTCLASS50.

Start your week with a breath, not a rush — and come be part of Cheadle’s growing yoga community.

You can't beat an open fire on a cold day to "warm your cockles" :)Running over and tweaking the lesson plan for tonight...
29/10/2025

You can't beat an open fire on a cold day to "warm your cockles" :)

Running over and tweaking the lesson plan for tonight's yoga class in Highburton. There are still a few slots left for the next 5 weeks - the theme is moving towards stillness.

Come try the class out if you want to experience the class before committing...

1830 - 1930 Wednesday's @ Highburton Village Hall. Northfield Ln, Kirkburton, Hudde HD8 0QT

Email me at hello@unitythroughyoga.com if you are interested in giving it a try...

"To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened...
18/10/2025

"To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever."

I picked Dōgen up again today.
I’ve been deep in studying yoga texts for my teaching diploma — the structure, the sutras, the theory — and I realised I was missing the feeling of truth that first drew me in.

Reading Dōgen feels like a return. His words don’t just make sense; they vibrate with something beyond sense — like I already know what he’s pointing to but can’t quite name it.

Here, he lays out a kind of roadmap:
1️⃣ Study the self
2️⃣ Forget the self
3️⃣ Fall into all things in the universe
4️⃣ Let go of body and mind — ours and others’

Easy-peasy. 😅

For me, this is the real work of yoga — not perfecting shapes but unravelling the self that clings to perfection. The more I study, the more the ‘self’ slips through my fingers like water.

Yet that’s where the practice lives — in the noticing.

When I catch myself gripping, defending, wanting to be seen — that’s where Dōgen whispers: study, forget, fall, let go.

I’m still on step one (maybe one-and-a-half on a good day). But perhaps the Way isn’t something to master — it’s something we keep walking, even as it disappears beneath our feet.

Dōgen was a 13th-century Zen Buddhist monk and founder of the Sōtō school, though his words ripple far beyond any one tradition. The more I read — the Vedas, Daoist texts, Zen writings — the more I sense the same current running underneath:

Many paths, one invitation — to wake up.

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