Oak Tree Yoga

05/12/2025

https://www.oaktreeyoga.co.uk/journal/2025/12/5/let-go-let-be A Christmas Shift

17/11/2025

Beauty at peace ✌🏼🕊️

11/11/2025

Claire ✌🏼🕊️

Brings joy to the room like no other 🤍

06/11/2025

Ramiah Yogini ✌🏼🕊️

03/11/2025

Backbends in the Autumn sunshine ✌🏼🕊️

A beautiful group of yogis joined us for our last yoga retreat of the season 🥲

2026 dates published next week. Tribe has the chance to book first before general release.

01/11/2025

https://www.oaktreeyoga.co.uk/journal/2025/11/1/skillful-living

Mindfulness is not just a form of meditation, it’s a discipline for living well. Being mindful is the gap between what you are being asked to do and what you say yes to. It’s the space between reacting to a cantankerous person and finding a moment in which to summon up a more constructive respon...

25/10/2025

https://www.oaktreeyoga.co.uk/journal/2025/10/25/rebellion-from-a-calm-place

How well are you doing at maintaining inner peace & sense of hope in the face of this busy, noisy, seeiming-dark world? Patanjali, the great yoga sage, addressed this issue with his students about 2,000 years ago, teaching: Be friendly with happy people, Have compassion for the unhappy Cu

22/10/2025

Twisty goodness ✌🏼🕊️

19/10/2025

Rainy day yoga ✌🏼🕊️

Sunday morning autumn practice looks like this - slow movement, nourishing pranayama & gentle poses held for a long time. Meditation rises naturally.

Doesn't look like much from the outside, but everything on the inside has shifted positively towards comfort and peace, what's known in yoga as santosha 🍂🍁

18/10/2025

When fear arises, lift your heart✌🏼🕊️

The victories & challenges we encounter in our yoga practice become the manual for how to live more skillfully.

Fear has a posture. When we are scared, our breath becomes shallow, our chest caves in & our shoulders roll forward. It's an unconscious attempt to protect what feels vulnerable or afraid—the heart.

Courage has a posture, too: a lifted chest, shoulder blades that sit firmly on the back, and a relaxed abdomen, all of which work in concert to strengthen the spine, stabilize the torso, elevate the emotions, and allow us to breathe more deeply, which helps reverse anxiety and fear-based tension.

That's why we practice bhekasana on retreat.

Heart-opening & courage-building, this posture requires that we lift the chest—challenging work for the shoulders and the front of the chest—while holding our legs stable in an intense quadriceps stretch.

Physically, we need tremendous strength in our back and an equal amount of flexibility in our thighs, chest, and shoulders.

This dynamic blend of strength and flexibility helps us to learn that lifting our heart in the face of fear requires courage & steadfast strength 🤍