Welcome to YOGADEVON

Autumn 2025

Moving into Autumn: the harvest steadily ripens, berries glow on trees, the last flowers of summer bloom as, insects and birdsong drift on the cooling air of each new day, shadows lengthen, and darkness deepens in the evening sky as the earth turns towards winter.

For now, it’s time to enjoy the soft turning of our senses inwards, as we move from the expansion of summer into the reflective beauty of Autumn as nature starts to return back to source.

The dates of the Winter day retreat is Sat 29 Nov – more details on the workshop pages.

Hope to see you on a yoga mat soon!

Metta

Naomi x

Current Class times

Mindful yoga to uplift, balance and cultivate understanding of mind, body, emotion, flow and stillness.

Tuesday morning, 0930-1030, Shirwell village hall, £10 drop in.
Wednesday evenings, 1800-1900, Tarka Clinic, Barnstaple, £9 per class in a block of sessions.

A Yoga, Mindfulness, and Meditation teacher for over 25 years in North Devon, Naomi offers Mindful Yoga Flow classes, as well as Healing Arts and Mind-Body Wellness workshops and retreats in Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra, Mindfulness, Trauma Release, Chakra Balancing, Meditation, Massage and Self-Care, Breathwork, Pranayama, Qigong, and Bioenergetic Yoga Flow.

Developing your yoga practice in a class will guide you to open, release, relax, breathe,  strengthen, stretch out your edges and understand more about the incredible ‘you-ness’ of being you.

Simple, profound life practices of yoga and mindful wellbeing guide you to cultivate awareness, compassion, and gratitude, empowering you to experience more freedom, lightness of spirit and joy in knowing this life’s true potential.  My teaching practice is infused by my daily Vipassana meditation practice, holistic bodywork experience, and Usui Reiki Mastership that give an ever-changing understanding of our relationship to mind, body, spirit, and universe.

Is this for you?

My yoga sessions are welcoming, friendly, inclusive, and down-to-earth – I teach people from all walks of life, without any aspirations of creating a perfect body, whatever that may be! All shapes, sizes, ages, and starting points are welcome: wobbly, unfit, stiff, and creaky parts included!

This is a safe, compassionate space in which everyone is accepted as they are. Coming to a yoga class will help your body to become more strong, balanced, toned and flexible for sure – one of the wonderful benefits. Yet Yoga, breathwork and mindfulness can also transform your perception, insight and understanding of being alive, connecting you to the heart’s boundless love, awareness and freedom.  As such, yoga is a healing art practice that brings freedom and wellness in its wake, on many levels. All I ask is that you come with an open heart and mind, standing on your yoga mat as if it were the first time.

My teaching is infused with nature’s rhythm, guided by daily meditation, regular silent retreats, and exploration of mindful Hatha and Vinyasa flow, Yin and Anusara yoga on my own mat, and anchored in the Mahasi Forest School of Buddhism, the foundation of my life practice. Teaching with compassion, fun and individual attention, I hope to inspire you to develop an authentic, individual yoga practice that works for you. I would love your yoga practice to give you boundless potential to enjoy a life of harmony, grace and joy during the short time we have together on this beautiful planet.

The pages in this YogaDevon website will give you information about how I teach yoga, mindfulness and wellbeing sessions, along with weekly yoga class times and details of workshops, retreats, and complementary therapies in Barnstaple and across North Devon.

Complementary Therapies

At YogaDevon, I also offer complementary therapies including aromatherapy, holistic massage, reflexology, Indian Head Massage and Reiki and chakra/energy balancing. These can be a powerful catalyst to support you on your journey of self-healing, inner growth and wellness.

Workshops and Day Retreat

I facilitate Saturday morning yoga workshops at YogaDevon each month throughout the year in Barnstaple and across North Devon. These are lovely informal gatherings to deepen and explore your practice: mindfulness, meditation, chi gung, hatha flow and heart vinyasa flow, yin, yoga nidra and restorative yoga, breath work and relaxation sessions to develop and integrate different aspects of yoga and mindfulness practice into your daily life off a mat. Vegan chai tea and cakes are always included!

Also bi-annual day summer and winter retreats to reset, recalibrate and relax through a day of immersion in beautiful healing arts practices of bioenergetic yoga flow, mindfulness, rest, creative arts and journalling, yin yoga, nature, self care and massage, all with delicious plant-based and vegetarian food.

Please look at the YogaDevon workshop page or contact me for more information.

 Wheels of Ananda CIC:

The founder of the Wheels of Anand CIC; a grassroots non-profitorganisation to bring inclusive, accessible and free mindful wellbeing to marginalised groups in our community who are facing challenging life circumstances that impact upon physical and mental health. We currently facilitate mindful wellbeing trauma-informed programmes for survivors of sexual abuse and domestic abuse, also supporting patients and carers living with the impact of cancer and terminal illness at the Fern Centre, NDDH, and North Devon Hospice, and a very popular, fun group for 60+s who are isolated in the Ilfracombe area in partnership with One Ilfracombe. You can find out more at: www.facebook.com/wheelsofananda

Published Books: The Mindful Mother

The author of ‘The Mindful Mother: a Practical and Spiritual Guide to Enjoying Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond with Mindfulness,’ published by Watkins Publishing (2015), available at Amazon and Waterstones.

‘The Mindful Mother’ offers simple insightful guidance and inspiration to support you through pregnancy, labour and into early motherhood. Through meditation and self-awareness techniques using Buddhist and yoga practices, you can cultivate a mindfulness practice through the joys and challenges of becoming a mother. For women who want to understand the paradox of ‘I really love my baby and family but….” and consciously enjoy growing into mothering life.

Reviews:

This is a book I highly recommend to mothers and mothers-to-be. It is like an insightful friend who understands deeply what becoming and being a mother really means. — Janet Balaskas, Founder of Active Birth 

Naomi’s book is inspiring and encouraging, realistic and open-hearted. She addresses the deep challenges and joys of mothering from a truly profound perspective and her book will be of huge benefit to any woman who ever pauses to think about just what we are trying to do when we mother our children. –Uma Thuli Dinsmore, Founder of the Womb Yoga Movement

An essential guide every woman will benefit from reading, as she moves on her journey through pregnancy and into motherhood. It will encourage and empower you to think about your new role as a mother in a unique, more mindful way, and the part you play in the glorious process of creation as you bring new life into the world. –Tara Lee, leading pregnancy and postnatal teacher, The Life Centre, London

A book you will keep referring to help inspire a spiritual mindful practice in the day-to-day of motherhood.  A book full of gems and aha moments using simple and helpful tools and practices to keep you connected to yourself while looking after your family. –Nadia Narain, Head of Pregnancy Yoga, Triyoga, London