Yoga for Life: A Psychology-Informed Foundation in Practice and Wellbeing

Everything you want from a yoga teacher training — without the teaching part.

Who It’s For

  • Yogis ready to deepen their personal practice

  • Long-term practitioners wanting a return to the essentials

  • Teachers seeking to re-anchor before further training

  • Anyone curious about yoga’s science and psychology

No teaching assessments. No pressure. Just embodied learning, reflection, and self-discovery.

The Experience

This 4-week blended journey invites you to slow down, breathe deeply, and explore yoga through new lenses — psychological, philosophical, and embodied.
You’ll study how yoga shapes the brain and nervous system, experience different styles of practice, and learn to build a sustainable routine that supports lifelong wellbeing.

What You’ll Gain

  • A personalised home practice plan

  • Tools to regulate stress and nurture emotional balance

  • Confidence exploring different styles and traditions

  • Understanding of yoga’s ethical and philosophical roots

  • A 40-hour certificate (Yoga Alliance Professionals Pre-Foundation)

Upcoming Courses

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March 2026

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June 2026

Rediscover yoga as a lifelong practice for calm, clarity, and curiosity.
This Southport/Burscough-based month-long, 40-hour experiential course blends classical yoga philosophy with modern psychology and neuroscience to help you reconnect with your body, balance your mind, and design a practice that truly fits your life.

The Course

  • Week 1: Yoga as Psychology & the Inner Practice

    Focus: Mind–body awareness, ethics, reflection, and the psychology of self-regulation.

    Understand yoga as a science of the mind and a way of living. Learn how awareness, breath, and attention transform thought patterns and stress responses.
    Apply Patanjalis 8 Limbs: yamas, niyamas, and self-study to real life, exploring boundaries, self-discipline, and compassionate living.

    Week 2: Breath, Body & the Nervous System + Yoga Styles

    Focus: Embodiment, regulation, and how different styles influence energy, attention, and mood.

    Explore the vagus nerve, the autonomic nervous system, and pranayama as tools for calm and balance. Experience and compare foundational yoga traditions: Hatha, Ashtanga, and Vinyasa, understanding their philosophy, structure, and physiological effects.

    Week 3: Positive Emotion & Neuroplasticity + Yoga Styles

    Focus: Positive psychology, compassion, and balance between effort and ease.

    Discover the “calm toolbox”: how movement, gratitude, and mindful attention build emotional resilience and rewire the brain. Continue exploring styles such as Yin and Restorative Yoga, learning how they nurture rest, reflection, and nervous-system recovery.

    Week 4: Integration & Future Pathways

    Focus: Integration, sustainability, and lifelong learning through yoga.

    Bring it all together! Design your personal practice plan and reflect on how yoga supports your life beyond the mat.

  • 4 × 5-hour Sunday sessions (12:00-17:00) + ~3 hours home practice weekly

    March 2025 Dates: 1st, 8th, 22nd, 29th.

    June 2025 Dates: TBC

    September 2025 Dates: TBC

  • The course will be shared between Mula Yoga Studio, Burscough & Mandala Yoga, Birkdale.

  • Join the Pilot Cohort – £400


    Be part of the first group to experience Yoga for Life at a special pilot price of £400.
    We’re gathering feedback, refining content, and preparing the course for accreditation, after which the investment will increase.
    If you’re curious, committed, and love being in at the beginning of something meaningful, this is the best time to join.

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Facilitators


  • Helen is founder/owner of Mula Yoga & Movement, she blends mindful movement, embodied breath, and functional flow to help you explore your potential. A yoga teacher since 2016 (while working as a veterinary nurse), she opened Mula Yoga in November 2019 to create a community for those drawn to self-inquiry, deeper practice and movement freedom.

  • Natalie is studio owner at Mandala Studios in Southport, offering yoga, breathwork, sound healing and holistic healing in a warm, inclusive space. With a no-fluff approach to self-discovery, she supports each individual to show up as they are and reconnect with body, mind and soul.

  • Emily is a Chartered Psychologist (BPS) and experienced yoga teacher with two research master’s degrees and a PhD in progress. She blends psychology, neuroscience, and classical yoga philosophy to help people cultivate balance, awareness, and curiosity. Her teaching is reflective, evidence-informed, and rooted in making yoga a lifelong practice for wellbeing.