Rebecca James Yoga

13/11/2025

Jacqui and I have been planning a wonderful day for you all.
Sunday 7th December
The Open Practice, Basingstoke
10.00 am - 4.00 pm

* gentle yoga to stretch out and relax your body
* mindfulness meditation for calm and clarity
* a talk on foods you can eat to fight stress
* delicious lunch
* leave feeling restored and ready to take on the world from a more grounded and peaceful place

We still have a couple of spaces left.
email me to book: bex.yoga@gmail.com

http://rebeccajamesyoga.co.uk/
https://www.jacquimayes.co.uk/
https://www.theopen-practice.co.uk/

12/11/2025

Yoga Psychotherapy at The Open Practice
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"Bringing the body into the therapy room"
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Yoga psychotherapy can help you explore ways of reducing anxiety and depression, managing stress or chronic pain and making a safe container to feel and process past experiences and present emotions.
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I use counselling skills, psychotherapy and yoga interventions to help you feel whole.
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Yoga psychotherapy helps you connect and motivate yourself with compassion rather than self-criticism.
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I offer a free 15-minute exploratory phone call.
If you're interested email me at bex.yoga@gmail.com.
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Please share and spread the word - yoga psychotherapy is a new and emerging therapy that brings body and mind together for a holistic approach.
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If you have any questions or need more of an explanation please ask. I am more than happy to explain how I work and how it can benefit you.
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bex.yoga@gmail.com

11/11/2025

RESTORE - another wonderful retreat with the fabulous restore team. Eleven years together and still going strong!! We must be doing something right : )

07/11/2025

Thought for the day:

“The only true journey is the one within.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm off to share yoga at the wonderful RESTORE retreat today.
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This quote reminds me that we have so much to learn, so much wisdom to uncover and freedom to experience when we dare to go inside and explore our own inner realms.
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You can go to Japan or the Peruvian rainforest, but you can also just sit where you are in silence and be an adventurer of your internal landscape.
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As Dick Schwartz says - nothing inside you can hurt you if you're not afraid.
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But we might well have some fear or anxiety when we start this journey so If you need a guide I am happy to help.

26/10/2025

Free meditation class starting in November at The Open Practice, Basingstoke.
Wednesdays 1.10 - 1.50 pm.
Please share : )

23/10/2025

Thought for the day

16/10/2025

Hmmm... thought for the day:

“You can recognise a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”
― Niels Bohr, Danish theoretical physicist (1885–1962)

Bohr came up with this statement when talking about the nature of electrons. Physicists had discovered that the electron both is a particle and is not a particle at the same time. To solve this problem Bohr and others suggested treating the nature of the electron as a “great truth”.

What does that mean? Let us first take an example of a small truth: “The earth is round”

The opposite of the above statement is: “The earth is flat". As the first one is a truth – albeit a small truth – its opposite has to be a falsehood. Therefore, the earth is not flat, and we can assert this categorically.

The interesting and important conclusion that Bohr and others reached about the nature of the electron is that the above logic does not apply in its case. For example, take the simple statement: “The electron is a particle”. The opposite of this is “The electron is not a particle”. Bohr and his team reached the conclusion that BOTH the above statements are correct – they convey a Great Truth.

At the level of logic, this seems absurd. But what Bohr tried to convey through his famous statement is that life is above logic. If we confine ourselves to logic, we can comprehend only the small truths – which have nothing to do with life. (Venky Ramachandran).

Albert Einstein conveyed the same point to his colleague Max Born in the following words:

“What applies to jokes, I suppose, also applies to pictures and to plays. I think they should not smell of a logical scheme, but of a delicious fragment of life, scintillating with various colours according to the position of the beholder. If one wants to get away from this vagueness one must take up mathematics. And even then one reaches one’s aim only by becoming completely insubstantial under the dissecting knife of clarity. Living matter and clarity are opposites – they run away from one another. We are now experiencing this rather tragically in physics.”

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the idea of truth, and how we so often tie ourselves in knots trying to make sense of everything through logic alone. But life is full of paradoxes - moments that seem to pull in opposite directions. We tend to feel we have to choose one side or the other, yet life becomes richer, more compassionate, and more joyful when we allow both to exist side by side.

01/10/2025

Hello

I'm currently completing my psychotherapy training and would love to offer two people the chance to work with me in a series of eight low-cost sessions.

I have experience supporting people with a wide range of challenges, including persistent pain, stress, anxiety, depression, chronic health conditions, cancer, dementia, perfectionism, PTSD (including trauma linked to a medical diagnoses), as well as experiences around menopause and peri-menopause.

You can find out more about me and how I work here: https://www.rebeccajamesyoga.co.uk/

I am available in Wi******er on Mondays and Basingstoke on Wednesdays.

Please feel free to share.

20/09/2025

Your Doctor tells you to do yoga...now what?
https://yogatherapy.health/2025/09/03/your-doctor-told-you-to-try-yoga-now-what/

Not all yoga is the same. This article has some good advice to help you find a yoga teacher or class that is right for you.

Sometimes working 1-1 with a yoga therapist can help if you struggle with pain, sleep, stress, digestion. They will help you to work out a personalised yoga prescription to help you move back to balance.

By Cheryl Albright You’re sitting in your doctor’s office, having consulted with them for a chronic problem you’ve had for some time. Toward the end of the visit, they say, “Maybe you should try yoga.” You nod, smile politely, and walk out with no real idea of what to do next. Do you join ...

01/09/2025

It's back...Wednesday morning yoga in Alice Holt Forest from 11.00 - 12.00.
Come and join us - we meet by the cafe!
www.rebeccajamesyoga.co.uk

27/08/2025

Life can feel challenging when stress, anxiety, pain, or fatigue take over.
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You might find yourself always caring for others but struggling to take care of yourself, feeling disconnected from your body, or pushing through exhaustion without compassion for your own needs.
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My approach is gentle, calm, and supportive. By combining yoga techniques with talking therapy, I support people to reconnect with their peaceful centre, reduce the weight of stress, and live with greater balance and self-compassion.
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Clients often tell me they feel calmer, sleep better, experience less pain, and discover better tools to cope with overwhelm after working with me.
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Many also find a kinder relationship with themselves, learn to set healthy boundaries, and feel more resilient and joyful in daily life.
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If you’re ready to begin reducing stress, anxiety and pain I’d love to support you. Send me a message to find out more:
bex.yoga@gmail.com
I work in Wi******er, Basingstoke and Alresford.

21/08/2025

Restore Balance - Mind, Body & Mood
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Ever feel like your head is in one place, your body in another, and your to-do list is in outer space? You’re not broken, you may be out of balance.
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That’s where I come in.
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At Rebecca James Therapy, I bring together Yoga Therapy and Integrative Psychotherapy - two powerful approaches woven into one whole-person practice.
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*Stretch out the stress in your muscles.
*Untangle the knots in your thoughts.
*Process difficult emotions
*Reconnect with you - steady, centred, and clear.
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It’s not therapy. It’s not yoga. It's both providing a space to feel whole again.
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Rebecca James Therapy
Rebalance * Empower * Transform

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