About

Hi, I’m Rebekah, founder of Yoga Lila. I’m a qualified Yoga Therapist with the British Council of Yoga Therapists and a senior yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals. I believe in the power of yoga to transform our lives and that this potential for positive change is available to everyone of all ages and abilities.

My professional journey

My experience in the field of Yoga spans over the past 25 years and is grounded in qualifications, professional experience, and personal practice. I enjoy sharing the therapeutic benefits of Yoga with children, teenagers, families, and adults of all abilities. As a Yoga Therapist I have specific expertise and interest in working with young people who have additional needs and/ or are experiencing challenges with their mental health.

I have been part of the core teaching faculty for the Universal Yoga 200hr Teacher Training course since 2016 and have been a guest teacher on the Teen Yoga Teacher Training course. I hold a PGCE in post 16 education and have worked for many years as a teacher and group facilitator in Further Education and charity settings for adults and young people who have a learning disability.

My current qualifications are as follows:

200h and 500h advanced Yoga Teacher Training at Yoga Alliance Professionals accredited centre
550h Yoga Therapy Diploma with Yoga United Education
Teen Yoga Therapy with Teen yoga
Rainbow Yoga Teacher for Children and Families
Gentle Yoga with Integral Yoga
Certified Special Yoga Practitioner (SYSC Level 1)
Foundation in Dance Movement Therapy with Dance Voice
BA Hons Education and Dance
Post Graduate Certificate in Education
ITEC Holistic Massage, Reflexology and Indian Head Massage
SUP instructor and AUP Yoga instructor
Nature Connection with the University of Derby
Clear enhanced DBS check for Children and Vulnerable Adults
Paediatric and adult first aid

My personal story

My commitment to the practice of Yoga touches all aspects of busy family life. One of my passions is connecting the teachings of the ancient Vedic texts to our modern day lives, which I believe is a pathway to living consciously with a reverence and gratitude for life. Yoga is the art of living well. My personal journey with yoga intensified in my late 20’s when I discovered that I wouldn’t be able to have my own birth children. This loss was a vehicle for discovery, and I dived deeply into the teachings of Yoga philosophy and experienced a deep surrender and trust in the unfolding process of life. Highly sensitive and empathic, I sometimes experience periods of anxiety and use this experience to deepen my understanding of the body-mind-spirit connection and the therapeutic application of yoga.

I’m a busy adoptive parent and enjoy a rural somerset life with my husband, children, dogs, cats, and chickens. I love to be outside as much as possible and you may find me foraging in the woods, paddling in the streams, running through the fields, or swimming in rivers. When not at home in Somerset you’ll find me at the beach where I’ll be exploring the rock pools and swimming in the sea.

Yoga can be translated to mean Union.

Through Yoga practises we come to experience the union of body, mind and energy. We experience the ultimate oneness of our existence. Lila is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘Divine Play’. Yoga Lila – The Yoga of the divine play, of which we all play our part.

At Yoga Lila we embrace all aspects of our embodied existence on this planet whilst knowing that in the stillness of the heart there is a unified truth which is beyond our individual and collective stories. In Yoga Vedanta we call this Brahman. Through my own personal practice, I have come to experience the paradox and beauty of Lila. As we embrace our role in this story of life, enjoying the play as it unfolds with its fullest potential, we experience its joys, the beauty and grow through our experiences of pain and suffering.

Through the practice of Yoga, we develop an increasing detachment to our story, whilst living fully and compassionately we are able to reside in a place of unity, trusting the flow of our personal and collective unfolding Lila.