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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 perspec

tive, 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.

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.

22/07/2026

Sometimes, we’re so intent on making the most of summer, we try and fill it with plans and activities before it’s gone.

Then you know what? It goes. And we wonder where it went.

Sometimes, to make the most of summer, we actually need to simply slow down and notice.

Evening Reset isn’t another exercise class to fit in. This is a ritual for noticing the season. A chance to move with the rhythm of this time of year.

Notice the light.
Feel your body moving this summer.
To have a ritual to close the day as the light begins to mellow on another day.

Summer isn’t something to fill before it disappears.
It’s something to feel while it’s here.

Evening Reset Yoga
6-7pm
Reydon Sports and Community Centre

https://bookwhen.com/sarahsyogaspace to book

29/06/2026

We’re in a performance pandemic.

When did dance become a showcase of tricks and flips?
When did yoga become a performance of shapes?
When did rest become something to optimise?
When did measuring steps become a measure of health?

There’s been a slow but steady detachment from our changing body and all its wondrous stories and history and instead, life has become a performance of youth and proof of worth.

We live at a speed that mismatches our own felt-sense of time and quality of living.
We need REAL experiences that match our need for being our beautifully messy, human selves.

We need permission to notice and take pleasure in a face you find in a pebble.
Time to allow our minds to daydream.
Trust and agency in our body and the information it has to tell us.
Live a life that is felt and important to us, no matter what it looks like to someone else.

We need to
BE in yoga
BE in the dance
BE in rest
BE here, now.

And that’s what real yoga does.

It invites you into a process of engaging with life at a natural, not digital pace.

It invites you to stop performing and notice what’s important to you, right now.

It invites you to remember you can put the to do lists down.

It helps you to live a life lived with purpose and meaning without an audience.

17/06/2026

I’m off to PE

YOGA. I mean yoga.

But really, Physical Education is what it is.

Except, my shapes aren’t getting marked, I’m not getting picked (last) for teams, and there’s no bleep after each practice I need to speed up with.

Just me, getting to know this body. Learning what it knows

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