Yoga with Amanda Fawcett

This week while teaching, I noticed one student appeared to have circulation challenges in her hands, which inspired me to create this little series: Desk Yoga for Hands 🙌

It only takes 5 minutes and is brilliant for boosting circulation, relieving stiffness, and resetting one of our greatest assets, our hands, which we so often neglect in everyday life.

Perfect for desk workers, drivers, phone users, artists, gardeners, sailors, writers…really anyone who uses their hands all day, which I feel applies to all of us!

Supporting children with stress & anxiety through yoga

Children today are navigating a lot, and stress can often show up in ways they don’t yet have the words for. Through gentle movement, breath, and moments of stillness, yoga offers them a simple way to slow down and reconnect.

From my experience working with young people, from primary school through to college, I’ve seen how powerful it can be to create a calm, supportive space where they can just be.

Yoga helps children build awareness, regulate emotions, and develop tools they can carry with them beyond the mat learning that even in overwhelming moments, they can pause, breathe, and find a sense of calm within themselves.

Sometimes, it starts with just one breath.

Working With Children to Reduce Stress & Anxiety Through Yoga

We Can Work Together
If you’d like to learn more about children’s yoga sessions, or feel this approach could support a young person in your life, you’re very welcome to get in touch.

Working with Children to Reduce Stress & Anxiety Through Yoga Creating space to pause, breathe, and feel more at ease.

Life isn’t supposed to go down easy.

We think something’s wrong when things feel hard
when plans change
when we feel stretched
when nothing flows

But maybe that is the point.

Growth doesn’t come from the easy bits
it comes from the moments that test you
the ones you didn’t choose
the ones you’d rather avoid

Not just “getting through it”
but learning, slowly, to work with it

To see that what feels like friction
might actually be shaping you

Not everything is enjoyable
not everything makes sense

But it can still be useful

Your challenges aren’t just costs
they’re part of who you’re becoming 🤍

AMANDA FAWCETT YOGA

I'm looking wonderful people who understand that healing comes in the lived moments... not just on the yoga mat or meditation cushion to join us in Le**os at the end of May for our yoga retreat

We head to the island on May 31st 2026.

Late spring is one of the most magical times to be on Le**os. The island is green and warm, wildflowers blanket the craggy hillsides, and the air feels alive with possibility. You can walk through breathtaking landscapes, swim in secluded coves, soak in the island’s natural hot healing springs, or simply rest and take in the panoramic sea views from your room.

A retreat for everyone

You do not need to be “good at yoga” to come. This retreat is carefully designed to welcome all levels and all bodies, from complete beginners to teachers in training.

Release & Rooting

A few months ago, a student had a big breakthrough while I was teaching at a Ruth White Yoga Weekend at Hawkwood Education Centre. This student was honest, emotional, brave. We stepped outside to breathe and reset, and found ourselves beside this incredible redwood as the sun dropped behind the hills.

It reminded us:
• Feel your feet and let go of what’s weighing you down
• Stand steady in who you’re becoming
• Root yourself in what matters and keep growing up and out

“When we feel the ground beneath us, we remember we already belong.”

I spend so much time guiding the practice that I sometimes forget to notice the shifts in me and in the people in front of me. Then a moment like this comes along and makes it clear:

The shoulders drop.
The breath evens out.
We get our feet back under us.
Steadiness returns.

Yoga keeps teaching me how to live. To pay attention. To stay open. To trust that progress is happening even when we can’t see it yet.

Amanda Fawcett Yoga
Yoga for life as it truly is

Friday Morning Walk - Peace

Some days, the universe gives you a quiet sign to pause, a dove above, the river beside you, and a moment of calm lifted from the week.

This morning, I slowed my steps and lifted my gaze to that beautiful dove, a symbol of peace and hope. A gentle reminder that even when life feels full and fast, hope is always close… often just one breath away.

🕊️ Inhale peace. Exhale anything that weighs heavy.
Let your heart make space for hope today.

Happy Friday ✨
Amanda Fawcett Yoga
Yoga for busy, beautiful, messy life

Thursday Morning Reset ☕🧘‍♀️

Coffee first… always.
And then, a moment to dive into the magic of science behind what we feel on the mat.

I love that yoga isn’t just ancient wisdom, it’s anatomy, physiology, breath, alignment, and the nervous system working together to lift us up, calm us down, and bring us home to ourselves.

Every stretch has a story.
Every breath has a purpose.
Every practice is a little dose of medicine.

Here’s to learning, moving, evolving - one mindful morning at a time. 💛

Amanda Fawcett Yoga
Where science meets soul

Wednesday Wisdom

This morning, the river taught me something quietly powerful…

Worry doesn’t change the tide.
It doesn’t speed the sunrise.
It can’t stop what’s meant to unfold.

And yet, we spend so much precious energy caught in the “what ifs” and “maybes.”

What if, just for today, we gave ourselves permission to stop wrestling with the future?

To soften the shoulders that carry too much.
To breathe into life as it is
To trust that life is unfolding with beauty in everything, only if we pause

Because worry is the most unproductive busywork of all.
And peace arrives the moment we’re brave enough to let go.

Inhale: I am here.
Exhale: This moment is enough.

Amanda Fawcett Yoga
Yoga for everyday, beautiful, busy life exactly as it is 💛🧘‍♀️