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I love to teach yoga.

The best thing about it is seeing a group of people pause and check in with themselves, make friends with their bodies and discover new ways of finding freedom and comfort to move well.

It's a nourishing role for me too, and I understand the power yoga can have to support us, through my own experiences with chronic illness.

I enjoy seeing people discover things about themselves both physically and mentally. I love to see people soften and ease out in their bodies and begin to let go of tightness and tension. I feel great satisfaction seeing people’s big smiles and intuitive stretches at the end of a Yoga Nidra and the way they begin to move more easily and tell me stories about how yoga and meditation have helped them in their daily lives.

I still teach traditional pranayama, meditation, mudra,bandhas, & yoga nidra deep relaxation.

The asana practices I teach are movements which are useful for everyday movement.

I teach practices that I believe are helpful to the people in front of me and are appropriate to their lives.

I enjoy exploring the scientific underpinning of the practice of yoga.

Although I don’t believe that something has to be scientifically proven to work, it’s great when it can be & I think this encourages some people to try things out.

I am interested in the plasticity of the brain, body mapping, & how through moving slowly with awareness we can become more comfortable and at ease in our bodies.

I believe that through yoga we become better at reading the messages sent to us from our neuromuscular system & better at responding to them appropriately.

I am fascinated by modern pain science & how this relatively new knowledge in the Western world can be applied to our yoga practice for rehabilitation and recovery from illness and surgery.

I have a particular interest in how yoga & meditation can support chronic pain & the effect of meditation on our interaction with others & the world around us.

I love research & ongoing CPD training, planning classes and courses & writing Yoga Nidras, working with different groups of people with varying needs.

Quaifications Overview & Insurance

I completed a two-year teacher training program with Swami Vedantananda Saraswati in 2000, through the Bihar School of Yoga, Satyananda Yoga Centres (UK), accredited by the British Wheel of Yoga. I have been a full-time yoga teacher since then.

In 2019, I completed Pete Blackaby's humanistic yoga course and now incorporate his approach into my teaching of postures and breathing practices. I continue to teach pranayama, meditation, mudra, bandhas, and Yoga Nidra.

In 2023, I completed the Therapeutic and Reflective Writing Techniques Course with the Professional Writing Academy.

I regularly attend CPD and update courses to keep my teaching fresh and inspired. I also participate in yoga classes, writing workshops, and receive ongoing support through coaching and co-mentoring.

I am insured by the British Wheel of Yoga.

person liying on back with knees and arms in the air doing a gentle yoga posture

Yoga teacher Rebecca Allen, reading yoga books and planning a workshop

I started my working life as an intellectual property litigation solicitor, but I have now been teaching yoga as my full-time work for over 20 years.

As well as teaching weekly classes, I have also run residential yoga retreats, co-trained on teacher training courses, delivered Yoga Nidra teacher training and am a final class assessor for yoga and Yoga Nidra teachers in training.

I enjoy research and am fascinated by modern pain science and how this relatively new knowledge in the Western world helps to explain why yoga and meditation are so helpful for people living with chronic pain or illness, and with recovery from illness and surgery. Although I don’t believe that something has to be scientifically proven to work, it’s great when it can be and I think this encourages some people to try things out.

For over 16 years I have taught a specialist class for people living with ME/CFS and other fatigue related conditions and more recently I have been working with Sheffield Hallam University and an NHS service on a research project to develop and deliver a yoga programme for people with Long Covid.

I am now also running Yoga and Writing for Wellness Workshops and you can read more about those here.