#earthbasedwisdom

At Yoga Nature Sheffield, we offer yoga that nourishes the nervous system, honours the body, and returns you to what’s already within. 

Rooted, real, and deeply restorative. 

Yoga was a practice of presence.  Before mats, mirrors and memberships, there was breath.  Stillness.  Sitting with the sacred. 

Yoga was never created to sculpt a body.  It was a path of awakening, of remembering what you already are.  Not becoming more.  Becoming home. 

🕉 A Glimpse Into Yoga’s Past 

The roots of yoga stretch back thousands of years, into the forests of ancient India, where seekers sat in stillness to listen deeply. 

The earliest texts, like the Vedas and Upanishads, speak not of poses, but of devotion, meditation, and liberation. Asana, meaning “seat,” was simply a stable posture for long periods of inner stillness, not a gymnastic feat. 

It wasn’t until Tantra emerged, between the 5th and 9th centuries CE, that the body was truly honoured as a sacred vehicle for awakening. Tantric philosophy brought a profound shift: 

🌀 Divinity is not elsewhere. It is here, in this breath, this body, this earth. 

From Tantra came the recognition of spanda. The subtle pulse of life, the throb of the cosmos in all things. 

True yoga arises when we attune to that pulse, not when we override it. 

🌍 Earth-Based Wisdom: A Shared Remembering 

This remembering lives not only in yoga, but in the earth-based traditions found across cultures. 

Wisdom keepers across continents knew that everything, stone and stream, breath and bone, carried spirit. There was no divide between the sacred and the everyday. The body was not a tool to conquer, but a vessel of deep knowing. 

Like yoga’s roots in the forest-dwelling sages, earth-based practices honour: 

the spiral of the seasons 

the rhythms of sun and moon 

the interdependence of all living systems 

At Yoga Nature, we honour this shared remembering.  A weaving of global roots and ancestral echoes.  One essence. Many languages. 

🧘 What Fitness Yoga Often Misses 

Contemporary yoga has often lost its roots in search of results. 

Fitness-style yoga tends to: 

Prioritise form over feeling 

Centre aesthetics over awareness 

Push the nervous system rather than soothe it 

Ignore breath, presence, and subtle energy 

Missing are: 

The energetic body 

The inner inquiry 

The connection to something larger than self 

In this version, the body becomes a machine.  In true yoga, the body is a field of remembering. 

🌿 Yoga Today: A Path of Reclamation 

At Yoga Nature, we return to living lineages not by replicating the past, but by honouring its essence. We root our practice in the earth, the breath, and the body's wisdom. 

Our approach weaves: 

Tantra’s reverence for embodied divinity 

Spanda’s pulse of aliveness 

Earth-based wisdom that sees body and land as sacred 

The healing science of the nervous system 

Seasonal and somatic rhythms 

Trauma-aware teaching and rest-led philosophy 

We move slowly  Because the deepest truths come in the pause.  It’s in the silence. 

🌌 Inner Ecosystems: Microbiome, Mycelium & the Vagus Nerve 

Yoga doesn’t only shift the body, it awakens subtle networks: 

The vagus nerve, key to emotional regulation, is stimulated through slow breath, deep rest, and mindful movement. 

The gut microbiome, like the mycelium of the earth, is nourished by rhythm, calm, and conscious living. 

The mycelial web, underground and alive, mirrors the interconnection of all life, much like the subtle body in yogic maps. 

These are not metaphors. They are realities of the living system, within and around us. 

🕊 You Were Never Disconnected 

Yoga is not about becoming more. It's the art of becoming home.

Yoga is not reaching out, it's falling inward.

Yoga is not a tether, it's a thrum. A remembering of the pulse beneath all things.

You are already the thing you seek.