Light Holistics

17/11/2025

Tuesday nights 8-9.30pm join Stephen, 8-9.30pm at Culcheth Methodist Church for Hatha Yoga - last class before Christmas- December 2nd.

Inspired meditations, deep relaxations, and full body activations, based on 20 years teaching and 15 years learning!

Check out Stephen’s latest YouTube video below!

Welcome to Yoga with Stephen. My mission is to facilitate your growth towards unity in being, a healthy, happy, and whole body, mind, and spirit, and a life ...

03/11/2025

Many shapes
Many names
But deep inside
We’re all the same 🧡

Join us in Culcheth, Warrington every Tuesday night up until 2nd December for a whole hour and a half of meditation, yoga warms-ups, a full sequence of yoga poses, and relaxation. No need to book. Just walk-in. Still only £5 per class with discounts for regulars! If you like your yoga at home, join us online for the same class Thursday nights 8-9.30pm. Details on my website. 🤸‍♀️

Book me online for Reiki, Reflexology, Aromatherapy and Massage Therapy – including Deep Tissue and Relaxing Swedish massage in my Birchwood Therapy Room. Appointments available up until December 1st 2025. www.lightholistics.com. 💆‍♀️

Reiki training available on request for Reiki 1, 2 and Master Level. Details online and message me to discuss.

Check out my latest YouTube video @ Yoga with Stephen for an introduction to Yoga Nidra – the classic yogic relaxation method, filmed at the beautiful location of Lake Wasdale.

https://youtu.be/UghOvTqadZ8?si=IV363cF4tsj2I4eq

Have a wonderful November!

Stephen

29/10/2025

Join me for 10 minutes of conscious relaxation using the ancient yogic technique called Yoga Nidra – or conscious sleep, from a wonderfully calm day by Lake Wasdale. In this free video from my YouTube channel @ yoga with Stephen, we relax the body, deepen the breath, repeat a short affirmation, rotate our consciousness, and become aware of heat in and around the body, visualised as golden light. Enjoy! 🙏🔥🧡🔥🙏

Welcome to Yoga with Stephen. My mission is to facilitate your growth towards unity in being, a healthy, happy, and whole body, mind, and spirit, and a life ...

25/10/2025

Headstand flow from Lake Wasdale last week, during a moment of calm weather!

We all suffer from physical stress and mental trauma. Yoga, meditation, and Holistic Therapies help to balance the body’s nervous system, restoring our natural balance, and calm the agitated mind, restoring our focus and vision. Blending a balanced body with a calm and focused mind, we start to experience what psychologists call the flow state. Yogis, mystics, and contemplatives call this experience ‘opening the heart’, which makes itself known through presence, elevated feelings, lightness of being, vibrant magnetic currents, feelings of connectedness and communion, and spiritual qualities such as peace, love, and inspiration. 🔥

You can join us every Tuesday night at Culcheth Methodist Church Hall for 90 minutes of meditation, yoga movement, and deep relaxation for just £5. No need to book for our mixed ability walk-in class. Or if you prefer to practise in the comfort of your own home, join us Thursday nights on zoom. For massage therapy, including Deep Tissue and Relaxing Swedish Massage, Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Indian Head Massage and Reiki, you can book me at my Birchwood Therapy Room, using the online booking system at www.lightholistics.com

Happy Halloween and All Saints! 🧡

Stephen 🙏

12/10/2025

Strength comes from momentum
Steady focus, heartfelt dreams
A seed, a spark, we feel within us
That slowly grows into a tree.

We flourish when we pursue our heart felt impulses, with focus, dedication, passion, and love. We regress when we obsess over danger and threats, othering other people, beings, and even situations, imprisoning ourselves in fight or flight reactions. Yoga, meditation, and Holistic Therapies are examples of activities that help us breathe and reconnect to those soft, beautiful, impulses, rising from within, inspiring us to take the next steps towards a better world.

Join us Tuesday nights in Culcheth and Thursdays on zoom for yoga – 8-9.30pm, and book me online for Reiki, Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Indian Head Massage, Deep Tissue and relaxing Swedish Massage treatments in my Therapy Room in Birchwood.

04/10/2025

Here I am in a simple kneeling lateral stretch from my last trip to Lake Wasdale, with a short poem about unity. The vision of yoga is unity, as an experience, rather than an ideology. It starts within us, between our body, mind, and soul, and then expands outwards, seeing in all beings the same spark we feel within. A great yoga sequence facilitates a healthy body, a focused mind, and a happy soul, and helps us treat life with greater calmness, compassion, and creativity.

Join us Tuesday nights in Culcheth and Thursdays on zoom for yoga – 8-9.30pm, and book me online for Reiki, Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Indian Head Massage, Deep Tissue and relaxing Swedish Massage treatments in my Therapy Room in Birchwood. Follow me for free on YouTube at Yoga with Stephen https://www.youtube.com/

27/09/2025

Here I am stretching out my hips on the wonderful beach at Aberdovey in Wales – we do have some wonderful coastlines in the UK when the weather is fine!

If you’re interested in learning Reiki, I have one space available on our Reiki 1 training day in Birchwood on Monday October 20th. Last day for booking is this Sunday September 28th to begin the preparation period. £105 for the day with £30 deposit to secure your place. For more information on learning Reiki with me click below:

https://www.lightholistics.com/learning-reiki

Join us Tuesday nights in Culcheth and Thursdays on zoom for yoga – 8-9.30pm, and book me online for Reiki, Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Indian Head Massage, Deep Tissue and relaxing Swedish Massage treatments in my Therapy Room in Birchwood.

29/08/2025

Yoga is back this week! Tuesdays in Culcheth and Thursdays on zoom 8-9.30pm, every week starting September 2nd. See you on the mat, on the screen, or in the aether! 🙏🤸‍♀️🧘🏽‍♀️🧘‍♂️🧡

12/08/2025

https://youtu.be/mSrn9ZucBlo

Here I am in my lounge with my latest YouTube video – ‘Four Elements Breath Meditation to Lift Your Mood’. Click to view.

Can we change our mood, lift our energy, and raise our vibration? Are we a fixed thing or a malleable flow? Unless we’re referring to our ultimate being, the witnessing Self which doesn’t change, in terms of our body and mind, we are a constant flux and flow. We’re not a rigid thing at all. Nor are we just one thing, in one place, with one point of view. But sometimes we can feel that we are, particularly if we feel stuck or trapped, and it can get us down. In which case here are 3 steps you can take to change your state:

1. Whatever our point of focus is at the moment, we can change it, to something more uplifting. If we’re watching depressing programmes, we can change to uplifting programmes. Whatever we focus on, flows into us, and changes us.

2. If the situation we are in, isn’t working for us, we can try switching our attention within, re-orientating our gaze, reconnecting to our soul and spirit, and taking a break from the world outside. In yoga this is called, ‘Pratyahara’ – the stage of withdrawal and retreat, but you might simply say take a break, have some ‘me-time’, to restore your balance and buoyancy.

3. To the extent that you are lost in past trauma, and future worries, change your focus to the present, the only place where presence can arise, rekindling your spirit. Focus on one thing, here and now, that takes you out of your mental programming, connect to it, commune with it, and get into the flow.

All good meditations do all these things, so if you feel inspired, give it a go, and see how you feel afterwards. 🙏🔥🧡🙏
Yoga break during August, back in September. Bookings still available online for Reiki, Reflexology, Aromatherapy and Deep Tissue Massage. Books & YouTube in links. 💆‍♀️🧘🏽‍♀️🤸‍♀️🧘‍♂️

Welcome to Yoga with Stephen. My mission is to facilitate your growth towards unity in being, a healthy, happy, and whole body, mind, and spirit, and a life ...

06/08/2025

Here I am in my lounge, in a clip from my latest YouTube video at ‘Yoga with Stephen’, demonstrating how holding a pose enables you to stretch further. Flowing from one yoga pose to another is popular these days, and it can be great for warming up the body, getting moving, blood flow, dynamic dexterity, and balance, but to really deepen the stretch, beyond what you normally do, holding a pose works. As this 3-minute video demonstrates, we can move from hands on the toes, to nose on the knee, and I’m sure many more people could do it, if they understood how to hold a pose, and work on it. I once watched someone on a wall in Pathos in Cyprus doing this pose over what seemed like 10 minutes, and she slowly crept forward, millimetre by millimetre, as she relaxed deeper into the pose. There is a danger with these long holds that you overstretch and strain the muscles if your body is too cold, or you haven’t prepared all the parts of the body with an all-round sequence. For this reason, I will generally put these long holds in the middle of the class, after we’ve done a lot of moving and warming. It’s also key that we move forward from the body, rather than tugging with the arms, so as not to strain the back, although I don’t find holding the upper body rigidly straight helpful, as it sends confusing signals to the brain. In the deep forward stretch, the whole backside of the body, including the skin, the muscle fascia, all the individual muscles and the skeleton, are in a deeply relaxed state, whilst the front of the body is tight in the legs and squeezed in the abdomen. We don’t have to overthink this. If our legs are straight, and our upper body is soft and relaxed, it will happen. The pose teaches us we can reach further than we think, and dive deeper than we’ve known, if we hold our ground, and steady our gaze. 🙏🔥🧡🔥🙏
Yoga restarts in Culcheth September 2nd after August break. Appointments available in August for Reiki, Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Deep Tissue Massage and Relaxing Swedish Massage in Birchwood, Warrington 🤸‍♀️💆‍♀️🧘🏽‍♀️🧘‍♂️

01/08/2025

August is here! Time to take a break! Yoga is back in September and massage and therapy sessions are available in August.

For any students or clients I’ve found this Google feedback link. If you feel inspired to give me a review for Reiki, Therapy treatments or yoga, 5 Star Reviews are really helpful in keeping my website up the Google rankings! Link follows:

https://g.page/r/CUOatKGdCf2nEBM/review

Thanks so much and have a wonderful summer! 🤸‍♀️🧘‍♂️🧘🏽‍♀️💆‍♀️🙏

28/07/2025

New YouTube video just uploaded- click below- 8 Key Seated Stretches to increase your elasticity 🙏🔥🧡🧘‍♂️

After standing poses I recommend seated poses, as they are generally the most intense stretches, which is better with a warmed up body. They also give your l...