Meet Rachel Skipper – Weblog
Inform us a bit about your self…
Hiya! I’m Rachel. Yoga Coach of 10 years, specialising in Vinyasa and Restorative practices, graduate of SOAS School with an MA inside the Traditions of Yoga and Meditation, and co-founder of The Wellness Philosophy. I’m moreover Mummy to Flo and Ted who’re 4 and 1 years earlier, so very rather a lot inside the thick of it correct now with childcare and instructing, nevertheless can’t say I’d have it each different method!
What does a typical day appear as if for you?
I’m typically up pretty early, spherical 5am, to supply myself a bit little bit of time sooner than the kids rise up to ground myself by practising or planning programs for the day ahead. I uncover that with being a working mom or father, preparation is crucial, and helps deal with my stress ranges all by means of the day. So, whereas I get the kids up and ready for the day, I’ll put collectively a large smoothie to take with me on the go, and infrequently a lightweight packed lunch too. (My dosha could also be very pitta, so ‘hanger’ is an precise downside for me!) On a imply day I’ll be instructing a gaggle class inside the morning then perhaps seeing a personal client. I’ll attempt to match an influence train in on the health middle, and infrequently have some admin to do for upcoming workshops or retreats that I’m working with my enterprise confederate whom I started The Wellness Philosophy with. Then to decide on up the kids.
My evenings are sometimes spent each instructing, supporting the Yogamatters on-line group, or having dinner with my family after which inserting my ft up. An excellent e book in mattress by 9pm is usually how I end the night!
How did your yoga journey begin and what impressed you to develop to be a yoga coach?
I decided to do my preliminary 200hr coach teaching once more in 2013 on the age of 23, after travelling spherical Australia as quickly as I’d completed my BA diploma in Film Analysis. I don’t keep in mind a particular light-bulb second, solely the sense of determining a 9-5 office job wasn’t for me, feeling a bit disillusioned, and intuitively looking for out one factor additional. I expert firstly with a deeply educated Vinyasa yoga coach, Claire Missingham, who instilled a precision and self-discipline into my comply with, along with a love for intelligently crafted and inventive sequencing and music! Claire moreover launched me to the beauty of the Sanskrit language (the language by means of which many yoga texts are written), which I then studied in further depth at SOAS all through my MA and previous.
What impressed you to concentrate on your comply with?
Vinyasa and Restorative yoga practices might presumably be seen as being on two reverse ends of the yoga spectrum, and on this way actually stability each other fantastically in my experience. I’ve always been a very movement-oriented particular person, and as a youthful coach I cherished the fluid grace of a well-crafted Vinyasa class. Nevertheless as I’ve grown older, I love the need to stability movement with stillness and leisure. And as I’ve grown as a coach, I moreover admire subtly and nuance in my comply with, which is one factor that I found inside the Restorative kind, under the educated steering of my coach, Anna Ashby. A quote includes ideas that I’ve been reflecting on recently from the Tibetan Buddhist, Sakyong Mipham, which says that ‘the physique benefits from movement and the ideas benefits from stillness.’ This generally is a reminder to me that I have to honour the need to every switch and uncover stillness as a way to cultivate wholeness.
How have you ever ever seen yoga revenue your school college students?
Neighborhood and connection is likely to be a very powerful revenue that I see. And I solely truly recognised this as quickly as going once more to in-person programs after COVID. People coming collectively on the same time each week to consciously breathe and collectively switch their our our bodies is a strong antidote to the detachment and indifference that we’re capable of encounter so sometimes in trendy metropolis environments. The softer, additional open expressions on of us’s faces as they finish comply with, and the nice conversations that quietly buzz on the end of sophistication is a worthwhile reminder to me that the yoga is most profound once you step off of the mat. So that’s an unlimited revenue I’d say!
What’s your favorite quote or life motto?
There are so many! Nevertheless one which includes ideas is ‘Depend on nothing. Admire all of the issues.’
What’s growing for you in 2024?
I’ll be working my first workshop for Yogamatters, Deep Leisure: Restorative Yoga & Breathwork for Nervous System Properly being, on June 30th which I’m very excited to share. I moreover run month-to-month Reiki & Restore workshops through The Wellness Philosophy which can be always a pleasure, and one different method that I try to facilitate connection and leisure as a way to raise my school college students sense of wellbeing and wholeness. I’m moreover co-hosting a weekend wellness retreat at Florence Dwelling in East Sussex this December (all of the particulars are proper right here). In spite of everything, I’m wanting forward to collaborating an growing variety of with the nice crew at Yogamatters as successfully and connecting with completely different teachers and like-minded peeps on the group platform!
Uncover out additional about Rachel:
Site: https://thewellnessphilosophy.co.uk/
Instagram: @rachelskipperyoga
