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Yoga for real bodies and real lives. Functional, sustainable movement that supports strength, balance and mobility without strain.

Thoughtful, inclusive classes where you can work with the body you have today. Beginners & improvers classes in Reydon and W I completed my 200 hour Yoga Alliance registered holistic training programme with the World Conscious Yoga Family in Rishikesh, India. My yoga practice has been an important tool in living and moving with presence, embracing life's ups and downs offering ways to find perspective, awe and contentment everyday and in everything. To me, the practice of yoga is simply the practice of skilful action in present moment awareness; making the wisest choice for our Self, and that's what you'll practice with me in my classes. My physical practice is now with functional movement at it's heart to strengthen the long stuff and lengthen the short stuff to support our body to support itself and move towards a more centred state of being. Contact [email protected] for more information or to book your place.

11/09/2026

I love Autumn. I really do. It’s my favourite season.

But I also find it an unsettling threshold. So much change, the expectation to get organised and be productive after a summer off schedule - as though the answer to this unsettled time is make a better list with a nice notebook.

I love exploring these seasonal shifts through an Ayurvedic lens, where this seasonal shift is associated with Vata and qualities of movement, change and instability.

I find this way of paying attention so interesting. Not as a set of rules and guidelines but a way of noticing what’s happening around and within us.

I’m exploring a way of sharing this for something new around the Autumn Equinox - 8 days of simple autumn rituals, practice and invitations to notice.

Because I’d like to think that Autumn isn’t just about getting our s #!t together. How about you?

09/09/2026

Starting yoga can leave us with all sorts of feel-good feelings. There’s the dopamine rush of moving our bodies. There’s the feeling like we’ve done something good for our body. There’s the feeling from our joints having moved through their capable range of motion. There’s feeling like we might have worked on strengthening our body. Or simply that we think yoga is good for us, and I’ve ticked it off the list today by going to class.

There’s also a perception that the ‘magic’ of yoga lays within the postures themselves. That if we do them AND get really good at them, THAT’S when we’ll feel the benefits of yoga. That somehow twisting is detoxing our organs, or sun salutations is some magic formula that will align all our chakras and we’ll suddenly be floating on cloud nine after.

So, we go to class, and we go through the motions. But sometimes, it really doesn’t feel good, because actually, its 7pm, and the last thing we want to be doing is sun salutations, we leave a class buzzing, and struggling to fall asleep a few hours later – wondering why.

There’s nothing wrong with sun salutations. But sun salutations are 1 option, they’re not a requirement of yoga.

They’re heating, and energising, and masculine in their energy and form. They wake you up.

But yoga doesn’t have to wake you up just because you’ve rolled out your mat.

Yoga can help support you to wind down in the evenings, and help you sleep (and it’s not with sun salutations). Yoga can help support you through difficult times (and it’s not by doing more sun salutations). Yoga can help remind you that you’re a valuable human being aside from everything you DO all day every day (and you guessed it, it’s not by doing sun salutations).

Sun salutations, like everything in yoga, is a tool. And like any tool, we can get really good at using them wisely.

And honestly, to discern the wisest tool to use, I think we could all get more comfortable with the idea that sometimes the most useful thing to do… is less.

Just because you feel like you SHOULD be doing sun salutations, doesn’t mean your body NEEDS them.

And if you’re looking for a yoga class where we explore yoga in context to our changing seasons and selves, that’s exactly what you can explorie in my classes.

https://www.sarahlewis.dance/

07/09/2026

You might love Autumn. The prospect of cosy nights and twinkly lights. The stunning display of red, orange, purple and gold and crisp autumn leaves underfoot.

But you also notice you feel oddly unsettled. Maybe more anxious, scattered, restless or depleted. You can’t quite put your finger on why.

You go to yoga, hoping to feel better. And whilst you’re doing the class, you feel surprisingly exhausted, and put it down to the fact that you weren’t consistent over summer. The next day, you feel the same underlying discomfort. That underlying feeling hasn’t shifted at all.

One of the many gifts of a seasonal yoga practice is the context it gives our practice.

The traditional western yoga practice was developed with consistency and routine in mind. It completely removed the sister science of yoga (Ayurveda), which removed the CONTEXT to our practice.

In Ayurveda, the transition into Autumn is understood as a time when qualities like movement, lightness, dryness and change become more pronounced.

So instead of committing to a predetermined practice, and go through the motions just because it’s Tuesday, and this is what we do on Tuesdays, a seasonal practice asks, ‘what is happening around me – and within me – now? And how could my practice support me with that?

So when Autumn feels unsettled, it might not actually be to do with us, but the way we practice yoga can help us be more ok with the unsettled-ness. It can help us discover ways to be with the changes, and understand why we’re experiencing it in the first place.

If you’re curious about how a seasonal practice could help support you, my autumn timetable continues on 8th September, with practices shaped by the season we're actually living in.

Pop me a message, or find out about classes here: https://www.sarahlewis.dance/

31/08/2026

The to-do list is mostly ticked off, the washing is mostly done. Everyone has been fed and the washing up is finished. The appointments have been made, the library books returns and the email you kept forgetting has finally been sent.

You’ve done so much. So you collapse on the sofa. Phone in hand. Or the next episode lined up. And you hope you’ll switch off.

And superficially, the distraction works.

But…

There’s that constant feeling that you’ve forgotten something. Your shoulders never quite feel like they can relax. Your stomach never quite gets the chance to let go.

We get good at stopping, and ‘switching off’, without actually knowing how to arrive with the end of the day; where your shoulders can actually put the work down, you feel like you can actually rest and there’s nothing else you should be doing.

That’s what I love about the Wednesday Evening Reset in Reydon, Southwold.

It’s an hour to slow things down enough to notice what you and your body need after a busy day.

The goal isn’t to improve our fitness or flexibility. We’re not performing ‘wellbeing’. We’re winding down. Putting the to do list to bed. And giving our body an opportunity to be its most rested self. And then go home, and actually enjoy the evening.

Wednesday Evening reset, 6-7pm – Reydon Sports and Community centre.

Try your first class for £5 (message or comment below ‘RESET’ and I’ll send you the details)

28/08/2026

You haven’t outgrown dancing.

You just don’t want the 2am bedtimes, the sticky floors and shouting to be heard over the music.

We don’t outgrow the need to dance. The feeling when you’re on a dancefloor, without a care in the world. The moments where you feel so alive and connected to your dance, and the people you’re dancing with that everything else almost feels like a blur.

The need for dancing, if anything grows. To find your community that isn’t defined by age or location. Being with supportive people so you know you can dance with no judgment. Dancing for pure joy, rather than performing for anyone else.

You can find that with me, at Feel Good Fridays in Reydon, Southwold, and the Dance jams in Norwich.

Feel Good Friday: https://www.sarahlewis.dance/

Dance jam: https://www.glasshousedance.co.uk/get-involved -m1g8p1jz

25/08/2026

Dear beginner yogi,

I know how you think a yoga class will be when you turn up. A room full of people in Lycra. Everyone sitting comfortably on the floor in contemplative silence, or limbering up. And then the class starts; everyone can already touch their toes, or maybe even get their leg behind their head like they could when they were 6. And afterwards, everyone floats home to light a candle, burn incense and be mysteriously serene.

Well, I’m here to tell you it’s nothing like that. In a real beginner yoga class, someone’s usually trying to work out which way round their mat goes. Someone is quietly copying the person next to them, or looking at me with the expression of ‘what did you say?’. Everyone moving in slightly different ways, and someone else doing something completely different to work with their body. There are laughs and quiet sighs when something feels good.

You’ll be scooped up with open arms by the people who have been coming for years. You’ll be known by name, and you’ll likely have a favourite spot in the room to roll out your mat.

And underneath all of that?

Everyone in the room is learning how to support their bodies. Learning to notice. Learning and practicing how to make adjustments.

You’ll get to know what your body feels like when it feels amazing AND you’ll get to know what it feels like when your body doesn’t like something.

You’ll learn that yoga isn’t something to perfect, or even be good at. And none of this is just for the hour that we spend together each week in class. It’s for walking a little more comfortably around town and for getting out of a chair, or off the floor with a little more ease. It’s learning how you can feel a little steadier on your feet, knowing how to work with a changing body and keeping strength, flexibility of mind and independence as we get older.

It’s not glamorous. There aren’t any gold stars or rounds of applause. But there’s something quietly brilliant about feeling more at peace in our own body and with our own experience of life, and the ripple effects that has on the people around us.

Just know that you are so welcome here. We’ve been waiting for you.

Sarah x

24/08/2026

One of my yoga participants was reflecting on the lasting change that yoga has made in her life, and she revealed a story that told me everything.

She was having an MRI scan, when she noticed her body beginning to respond, as many of us would, to the noise, the enclosed space, the feeling of not being able to move. I think we can all relate!

Her body was saying, ‘I don’t like this’.

And without thinking, she started to do a breathing practice we sometimes do in class. It came really naturally, as a familiar way to be with what’s here.

It obviously didn’t remove the situation, or her from it. It wasn’t even to override the uncomfortable feeling. But she knew it was something she could do, to be here, now, in this moment, knowing it is transient and will pass. Just one breath after the next. A familiarity to return to, even through things we don’t want to be going through, but can’t change.

It made me reflect on the times this has happened to me. How a tool from my yoga practice just naturally comes into the moment without thinking, at doctor’s appointments, during difficult conversations, during physical discomfort.

And I think this is one of the most valuable things we can develop through yoga.

Not just the ability to move with less pain, but the ability to notice what’s happening and respond to it. Noticing when we’re overwhelmed, or says ‘I don’t like this’, and have an idea of might help. Sometimes, it’s to take action, sometimes it’s to remove ourselves from the situation, sometimes it might be in the middle of an MRI scan, and sometimes it might be on a yoga mat.

You never know when something you’ve practised will become useful. That’s why I love teaching Yoga in Practice; a class that explores movement, breath, body-mind awareness – not as something to perfect, but skills you take into your life.

Yoga in Practice
Tuesdays (from 8th September)
9.15-10.30 am
Reydon Village Hall

Message me ‘Yoga in Practice’ and I’ll send you the details.

21/08/2026

We’re told loudly and constantly: exercise makes you healthy.

But a short scroll on social media tells you that ’exercise’ has a very specific picture. It has one body type, endless free time, a gym as a backdrop and a highly restricted lifestyle to boot.

It easily looks like a mould we’re all supposed to fit, and when we don’t, exercise looks like something you either succeed or fail at.

Most people who message me about starting yoga or dance say the same thing: ‘I want to get fit’

Totally fair! We want to feel good, and well, and, yes, moving your body ticks that box, amazing endorphins and all.

And here’s the difference: People come for the exercise, but they stay for how it changes everything else.

What actually keeps people coming back to a dance or yoga class isn’t the workout.

When you move in a way that doesn’t feel like exercise, you do more of it. You enjoy it. And it stops just being a class, and becomes something that changes how the rest of your life feels. Not just the hour, but the rest of the day and the rest of your week.

Life feels a little less heavy. We have more energy for the things, and people we love.

And it’s not just a nice side effect. New research is starting to back up what dancers have always known: the joy, the flow, the immersive moment in movement that you love is doing more for you than the workout itself (Sussex Ui, 2026)

In reality, you come for the exercise, and you stay for the joy.

In-person classes start back the week commencing 7th September.
If you’re coming because you want to feel stronger, fitter, more capable – that’s a great reason to start.

But stick around, and see what else shows up.

Message me ‘Reydon Yoga’ for details

18/08/2026

If you’ve been thinking you should exercise more, but every version of exercise you’ve tried has left you feeling like you’re somehow doing it wrong, maybe you don’t need more discipline.

Maybe you need a different relationship with movement.

One that helps you feel stronger and more comfortable in your body without asking you to exhaust yourself first.

One that adapts to you, rather than expecting you to fit yourself around it.

One that leaves you with more capacity for the things you actually want to do — walking, dancing, gardening, playing with the kids, getting down on the floor, getting back up again.

That’s the kind of yoga I teach.

Not yoga as a performance.�Not yoga as punishment.�Not yoga for people who already feel at home in fitness spaces.

Just thoughtful, functional movement that helps you feel better in your body — and supports you to keep doing the things you love.
Classes start again from 8th September in Reydon and Wrentham.

There are mat and chair-based classes, class passes and drop-in options, so you don’t need to commit to a punishing five-day-a-week regime 😉

Message “Reydon Yoga” and I’ll send you all the details.

31/07/2026

For years, we're taught that wellbeing is something we earn.
If we wake up earlier.
Move more.
Meditate every day.
Find the perfect morning routine.
Drink enough water.
Get enough sleep.
Read the books.
Listen to the podcasts.

The message underneath is almost always the same:

If you just keep improving yourself, eventually you'll feel like enough.

The heartbreaking part is that many of us become incredibly good at taking care of ourselves, while quietly believing we're still the problem.

One of the most meaningful things a yoga student has ever shared with me wasn't that she'd become more flexible, or stronger, or finally mastered a pose.

She told me she'd changed the label on her morning alarm from "Go for a run" to "You are enough."

Not because anyone told her to.
Because she'd stopped relating to herself as a project to fix.

I'm not interested in teaching people how to squeeze more wellbeing into an already overflowing life. But creating a space where your body stops feeling like something to manage, and starts feeling like somewhere you can come home to.

I think that's where lasting change begins—not when we finally become the person we think we should be, but when we realise we never had to earn our worth in the first place.

If that sounds like the kind of yoga you've been looking for, I'd love to welcome you to class in Reydon.
Woodland yoga coming at the end of August, and if you're further afield, online classes are on their way. Message or comment ‘YOGA’ to be the first to find out more.

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