Discover the joy of lifelong learning in yoga. Leah reflects on her Advanced Yoga Teacher Training journey, exploring anatomy, philosophy, and mindfulness, and shows how curiosity on and off the mat inspires growth, reflection, and a deeper, ever-evolving practice.

Take your yoga practice beyond the mat with these 8 essential books that blend philosophy and asana. Learn to integrate mindfulness, ethics, and self-awareness into your practice, turning poses into a daily path of growth, presence, and inner reflection.

Explore the path of the feminine through Movement for the Feminine, a weekly women’s circle and movement class. Using somatic practices and body-based inquiry, women learn to embody their soul’s truth, connect with their bodies, and expand into their fullest selves in a supportive, soulful community.

Karma Yoga isn’t just about grand gestures — it’s about bringing mindfulness and compassion to everyday tasks. While cleaning my mum’s kitchen, I discovered how simple acts of service can become a spiritual practice, cultivating patience, gratitude, and presence. Even small actions, done with care, can embody love and mindful living.

Yoga is more than just movement — it’s a personal journey of self-awareness, compassion, and connection. Each time we step onto the mat, we bring our whole selves: our breath, emotions, and energy. Recently, I was reminded of the importance of creating a safe, supportive space when a student experienced a panic attack during class. Moments like these highlight how powerful yoga can be for healing, trust, and growth — both for students and teachers alike.

Discover the deeper meaning of “Haseya,” an Indigenous word symbolizing rise and renewal, and learn how Ajeet’s powerful storytelling encourages compassion, healing, and community support.

October brings powerful energy with the transition from Summer to Autumn, eclipse season, and the Virgo New Moon. As Libra season unfolds alongside the Aries Full Moon, it’s a time to embrace change, find balance, and step into personal growth.

Focusing on transitions between yoga poses transforms your practice into a moving meditation. Learn how mindfulness in the journey, not just the poses, builds stability, resilience, and presence.

If you’re like me, a total sun worshipper, this time of year is such an adjustment. As we swap the endless sun for grey and damp shorter days, it’s okay to feel a little low as summer fades.

After a lower back strain, I discovered how yoga and the Zen concept of Beginner’s Mind (Shoshin) can guide recovery. Listening to your body, adapting your practice, and embracing each moment as a learning opportunity turned pain into mindful growth.

Learning from the trees: I admit, I might be biased, but I think autumn is the most magical season of the year. The memories of summer are still fresh, yet the world around us is already shifting, whispering of change. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, late summer is considered the 5th season of the year, associated with the element of Earth. How fitting. The Earth steadies us, holds us when storms gather, and offers a quiet strength to root deeper. She gives us the ground to plant, to rest, to transform.

Walking in nature, even in the big City we live in, I notice the leaves crunching underfoot, witnessing nature's signs of Autumn drawing ever closer. It is one thing to observe the calendar milestones but to truly witness it with all your senses helps embody the changes to come.

Pleasure is not always loud or extravagant. Sometimes it is simple: the sweetness of a laugh that escapes without asking permission.

When you laugh, your body remembers joy in its purest form. The tension that held you hostage melts. The pulse softens. You are, for a brief moment, completely free.

I’ve been inspired this month by witnessing yoga as action amongst the teachers at Oca. Sometimes the world feels like it's burning, whether in our personal lives or when bearing witness to global events, and we feel disempowered to change things for the better. Through yoga practice, exercising compassion towards ourselves can then enable us to do the same to others when “off the mat”.

Every season, I look forward to the ingredients in our Riverford boxes. As we transition into autumn, the variety of organic fruit and veg becomes truly bountiful—a testament to nature’s growth and the human labour invested through spring and summer.

September always feels like a time of fresh starts - the air shifts, routines change, and we find ourselves settling into a new rhythm. This month also began with a lunar eclipse, which felt like a reminder of how life moves in cycles, and how every ending makes space for something new.

As we draw near to the end of summer, my body and mind are already feeling a shift, a time to surrender and welcome new beginnings is fast approaching.

September marks another year of my journey around the sun, an occasion for celebrating and giving thanks for the gift of life.

Teaching at Oca Yoga this August felt like stepping into a living conversation with the practice and with the students who gathered each morning. My own time on the mat has taught me that Ashtanga isn’t just about shapes or series, but about the way discipline softens into presence.

This month’s theme is presence and surrender—learning to listen to the wisdom of the body. In yoga and traditional medicine, our organs hold emotions: the liver stores anger, the kidneys fear, the heart joy. By practicing presence and body awareness, we can tune in, release, and realign with what truly matters.