Welcome to YOGADEVON

|Winter 2025/26

Moving through Winter: grey skies, wind and rain, punctuated by stark sunlight upon bare branches, snowdrops and the soft stirring of earth towards the scent of spring.

For now, nature guides us to replenish and restore our energy at source, resting until the air warms and fresh vitality of spring rises. Soaking in winter sunlight upon our face as we slowly move towards longer days of light and the promise of warmth.

A weekly yoga class can give you space to be, heal and nurture yourself each week, guiding you to build inner strength, vitality and resolve in mind and body to thrive, enjoy and live your fullest potential through the seasons unfolding.

Hope to see you on a yoga mat soon!

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 and Mind-Body Wellbeing weekly classes, workshops and retreats.

The founder of the Wheels of Ananda CIC – a non-profit organisation – I also facilitate free mindful movement and wellbeing trauma-informed specialist programmes integrating yoga, qigong, mindfulness, breath-work and relaxation techniques, and other community events for different groups facing challenging life circumstances across North Devon.

All yoga and wellbeing sessions cover a diverse range of healing arts practices from Yin Yoga,  Yoga Nidra, Mindfulness, Trauma Release, Intuitive somatic flow, Chakra Balancing, Vipassana Meditation, Relaxation, Acupressure self-massage and self-care, Breathwork, Pranayama, and more recently Qigong, and Bioenergetic healing movement.

Developing your yoga practice in a class is an invitation to open, release, relax, breathe, strengthen, and gently explore your edges—while coming into a deeper understanding of the incredible you-ness of being you. Through simple yet profound practices of yoga and mindful wellbeing, you are guided to cultivate awareness, compassion, and gratitude, empowering a sense of freedom, lightness of spirit, and joy in discovering this life’s true potential.

My teaching is shaped by daily Vipassana meditation and mindful yoga practice, regular silent meditation retreats, holistic bodywork, and my Usui Reiki Mastership, offering an ever-evolving understanding of the relationship between mind, body, spirit, and the wider universe. Rooted in the Mahasi Forest School of Buddhism and inspired by the reflection of nature’s rhythms, my personal practice explores Hatha and Vinyasa flow, Yin yoga, Qigong, Yoga Nidra, and Anusara yoga and trauma-informed  therapeutic approaches to yoga. Teaching with compassion, playfulness, and individual attention, I hope to inspire you to develop an authentic yoga practice that truly works for you—one that supports harmony, grace, and joy during our short and beautiful time on this planet.

Is this for you?

My yoga sessions are welcoming, friendly, inclusive, and down-to-earth. I teach people from all walks of life, with no aspiration toward creating a “perfect” body, whatever that may be. All shapes, sizes, ages, backgrounds, and starting points are warmly welcomed: wobbly, unfit, stiff, and creaky parts included. My classes also encompass and support those seeking greater emotional wellbeing, personal agency, and equanimity while navigating life’s challenges.

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.

The pages in this YogaDevon website will give you information about how my approach to teaching 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 Retreats

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, trauma-release, 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 mindful yoga and wellbeing retreats to connect, recalibrate and reset the nervous system through immersive days of deep relaxation and healing arts practices of bioenergetic yoga flow, mindfulness, rest, creative arts and journalling, yin yoga, nature, self care and massage, all with delicious, nourishing 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-profit organisation to bring inclusive, accessible and mindful wellbeing to marginalised groups in our community who are facing challenging life circumstances that impact upon physical and mental health. We currently facilitate free mindful wellbeing trauma-informed programmes for women survivors of sexual and domestic abuse, also supporting patients and families living with the impact of cancer and life-limiting illness at the Fern Centre, NDDH, and North Devon Hospice, and running fun, popular mindful movement for life groups for 60+s living in Ilfracombe and Barnstaple and surrounding areas. 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