This is our first panel discussion in over a year. Increasingly, as we reflected upon a subject it became obvious. In a time where mental health challenges are endemic, the practice of yoga to help manage our mental health is what we chose to highlight with our community.

We are not medical professionals, but yoga teachers, some of us are mental health experts, on this, we must be clear. Therefore, our scope here is not in offering advice but in sharing our own experiences.

All teachers on the panel have been chosen for their concerns or personal experience with this topic. What we will be discussing is how each person has used yoga to increase mental health and their challenges.  In addition, how their approach to practice and teaching has been led or amended by this.

Our aim is to convey the fact that you are not alone in your struggles.

For all of us who have suffered from mental health yoga has been formative in helping deal with and help reduce these issues. However, outside the fact that it has so evidently worked experientially, it’s still unclear to most of us exactly why this is. In exploring more about why yoga works so well to alleviate mental health complaints, we may be able to help others in our teaching better to use yoga in the way and to the effect that we have used it.

Donations are greatly appreciated and anything beyond the event costs will benefit our charity partners.