Embodied Yoga Classes - Creating Space
Hi, I’m Moira — founder and facilitator of New Thoughts New Feelings Embodied.
This is a space for yoga and movement that centres listening, choice, and relationship with your body. Across all classes, the invitation is to move, rest, and notice, not for performance or getting it right, but to come back to yourself in a way that feels honest and possible.
Some practices are slow and quiet. Others are more dynamic, rhythmic, or expressive. What they share is a common ethos: that your body is not something to control or perfect, but something to be in relationship with.
Classes are held in community spaces in and around Preston, with St Christopher’s Church Hall as our home base, a place where we gather to practise together in a simple, accessible setting.
You’re welcome exactly as you are. Whether you’re new to yoga, returning after time away, or exploring a different way of moving, there is space for you here.
All yoga equipment is provided including mats, bolsters, blocks, blankets and eye pillows, however if you want to bring your own you are more than welcome.
Start your Yoga journey in Preston today, by booking one of the sessions below online now.
A Little Bit About Moira
I've been practising yoga for over 15 years, and what began as a way of finding steadiness through life's challenges has become a lifelong journey of curiosity, learning, and coming home to myself.
After completing my first 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2023, I knew I wanted to keep exploring. Since then, I've continued my studies in Embodied Yoga Facilitation (250 hours), Chair Yoga, Yin Yoga, Embodied Rest™, Shake the Dust™, trauma-informed space holding, biomechanics, nervous system regulation and embodied movement. I genuinely love learning, and I'm continually inspired by how ancient wisdom, modern science and lived experience can come together to help us move, rest and relate to ourselves and each other with greater compassion.
But qualifications only tell part of the story.
Everything I share has first become part of my own life.
Over the years, my own practice has changed as my body has changed. Living with arthritis and spondylosis in my spine invited me to move away from striving and towards listening. Instead of asking my body to fit an idea of what shapes and movement should look like, I began learning how to work with it.
Through yoga, embodied movement, strength work, breath, rest and other supportive practices, I've been able to return to living and moving without pain. That journey has given me a deep trust in the body's remarkable capacity to adapt, recover and discover new possibilities when we learn to listen rather than force.
It has transformed not only how I move, but how I teach.
I don't believe yoga is about achieving the perfect posture or becoming more flexible than the person next to you. For me, it's about building a relationship with your body that is compassionate, curious and sustainable. Some days that relationship feels strong and energised, other days it asks for softness, rest or laughter. All of it belongs.
My classes are an invitation to explore your own experience without judgement. You'll find professionalism and evidence-informed teaching sitting comfortably alongside warmth, humour and joy. I care deeply about people, about community, and about creating spaces where everyone feels welcome, whether you're stepping onto a mat for the very first time or have been practising for years.
My hope is that you leave each class feeling not that you've performed, but that you've met yourself with a little more kindness, a little more understanding and a little more joy than when you arrived. Because when we learn to care for ourselves with compassion, we naturally bring more compassion into the communities and world we share.
