Oceanlight Yoga - Yoga classes, workshops and retreats, Halwyn Road, Newquay (2025)

Oceanlight Yoga seeks to create a space for you to be in your own experience, to let go of daily pressures and tap in to a deeper you, where calmness, comfort and joy have the chance to grow. Maybe to touch an inner ocean, an ocean of breath and a lightness that can sparkle through into your daily life. Join me, Julia, on a journey to the very essence of yoga. Inspired by Vanda Scaravelli's instinctive approach. You will move your body in ways that feel good, creating space for breath and energy (prana) to flow. Giving room to your mind to let go, rest and recuperate. Inspired also by my mum who qualified as a Yoga teacher in the mid 80's, I've been involved with Yoga since my late teens and practised seriously for 20 years, qualifying with Linda Morley and the British School of Yoga's 500 hour 3 year diploma. Breathing practices, mudras, Yoga theory and philosophy are sensitively integrated into lessons and workshops. Most of all I hope to make Yoga fun and give you a refreshing way to experience the deep joy and wonders that it can instil.

29/06/2025

Walking through the still-sleeping village, I could feel the familiar tension in my jaw. Teeth that wanted to gnash but were so well socialised that all their unspent energy travelled instead to my hands, clenched and ready - for what, a brawl with a passing pigeon?

What, you might wonder then, was causing such tightness and inner agro. My friend, I’ll let you into a little secret. It might surprise you but here we go…

Was the object of all the inner teeth gnashing and fist balling an annoying family member, or perhaps the latest antics of some cruel and heinous world leader, or even the van driver who came round the corner so fast he nearly took my toes with him. Forgive me, I’m delaying. No, no, it was none of these, it was quite simply - me.

As this bombshell landed I felt my body start to relax. I laughed. How foolish, how human. Here I was again, making myself wrong.

This time it was my feelings that I’d unwittingly brought judgement down upon. In my head I wasn’t allowed to feel sad, not on a beautiful day like this, strolling down the hill for a sea dip at dawn. How ungrateful of me to be feeling sad!

But in catching myself I realised that pushing my sadness away I was creating an inner battle. I was literally fighting life.

The sadness needed me to feel it. Not to polish it up or push it down. Like anything alive it just wanted to be known, given breath. As soon as I did everything shifted.

The shoulders dropped (hadn’t even noticed them lift), the legs moved more freely and my heart lightened. Not so difficult really, but somehow so easy to forget.

I don’t have all the answers by any means but this not fighting life, this allowing ourselves to be as and who we are is at the heart of all that I do and believe to be true. It’s through liberating feeling and honouring our truths that we free not only ourselves but those around us too. I wonder what is it that you can give some space to today? What is it that you’ve pushed away that wants a little of your time and inner kindness?

24/04/2025

What brings you alive? For me it’s mornings like this where Spirit pushes me out of the door “go now, yes I know no rain is forecast but it’s coming, go now!”

Wandering across the wide expanse of sun-speckled beach and finding myself entirely alone at my favourite sometimes-here-sometimes-not tidal pool (which storms often fill with sand so only a tiny water pixie could bathe).

Yet today, today it is body height deep and not a soul to witness my spontaneous stripping off, plunging in, my virtual mermaid tail swishing with joy. No-one that is except the 2 walkers on the clifftop above - are they breathtaken by my boldness or wondering how they too can scramble down rocks and into the balm of sea-salted cool?

I’ll never know, but what I do is that to follow these nudges, whispers and prods is unfailingly what brings me more and ever more into my aliveness. More and ever more into the deep gratitude of a simple nourishing life.

23/02/2025

Iztuzu beach, hidden away off the beaten track, where protected space allows endangered turtles to make their nests and a warm breeze counters the sun. Voted amongst the best beaches in Europe* it’s just a walk or short ride from the idyllic Lagoon Retreat where I’ll be hosting a group this September.

The Lagoon itself is steeped in nature, a place where heavy clothes and life’s pressures can slide away from tired shoulders. The healing balm of salt water and sunshine just waiting to envelop you with barely another soul for miles.

This retreat truly is one. 7 restful days and 7 starry nights in a haven of peaceful seclusion. Time to connect, time to yourself and the chance to release and reground at a depth rarely felt in today’s chaotic pace.

Movement sessions are languid and will allow your body the freedom to open and sigh; meditation is accompanied by the soft concert of cicadas and occasional ti**le of mountain goats nibbling nearby; sharing circles hold you in tenderness and the sort of kindness that reminds you it’s ok to be you.

This is a week where less is more, a simple but profound paradise for the soul.

If this sounds like your kind of space you can read more through the link in my bio or drop me a message. I’m happy to chat with you, arrange a manageable payment plan and will take care of all the little details like the 30 minute transfer to and from Dalaman airport so you’re looked after every step of the way.

I can’t wait and I’d be so happy to welcome you to this most special experience.

*Trip Advisor Traveler’s Choice 2025

21/02/2025

What NOT to expect at my mini retreat Yoga Circles…
- No complex or challenging yoga postures (these spaces are for ‘real’ women with aches, pains and comfy old leggings not a Lululemon in sight unless you happen to have some). Instead, you’ll be guided through deliciously expansive, kind and intuitive movement that comes solely from what your body wants to do.

- No serious-minded instruction, but instead an invitation to rest, reconnect, regroup, perhaps to play, to giggle or to shed long held tears… A blissful mixture of stillness, spontaneous channelled meditations, deep relaxation, oracle cards, lovingly home made snacks and heart to heart sharing by the fire.

- No judgement, no need to self-edit or to pretend in how you show up, what you say and do or don’t do. Instead, the relief and release, the heart lifting joy of being welcomed wholly as you, just as you are, warts and doubts and tiredness and all. This perhaps the greatest magic, the soul balm of honest connection, restoring your faith in life and in yourself.

You won’t leave changed, but you might feel that way as you’re freed from the burdens and constraints that bind you day to day. You will certainly leave with shoulders further from your ears, a heart more open and a sense that you do, despite everything, belong.

All details in my bio. I’d love to be with you here.

Address

Halwyn Road
Newquay
TR85FS

Telephone

+447810882281

Website

https://linktr.ee/oceanlightjulia

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