This session will be run by Emily Phillips of The Embodied Beings.
As the season begins to turn and the pace subtly shifts, so do we. As leaves change on the trees, nature reminds us of the beauty found in letting go.
Join us for a one-hour outdoor yoga session on the South Lawn, taking place before the Garden opens. This quiet, early-morning practice offers space to pause and take stock – to notice the quality of the light, the temperature of the air, and the subtle rhythm of your own attention. Through gentle movement and simple reflection, you’ll be invited to sense what you want to carry forward into the coming term or season, and what you’re ready to set down.
This is a revitalising outdoor practice for this back-to-school moment of the year when routines begin to return, the air feels a little sharper, and there’s a quiet invitation to begin again. This session offers a slow, embodied flow guided by breath, sensation, and the changing world around you. We’ll move through grounding shapes, spacious transitions, and gentle, energising sequences designed to help you recalibrate through listening for what your body needs to feel steady and alive..
Come as you are. Leave feeling clear, refreshed, and quietly energised – attuned to yourself, your next chapter, and the turning of the world around you.
No prior yoga experience is required; beginners are welcome. Yoga mats will be provided. Please bring water and a throw or blanket to stay warm.
About the Embodied Beings & Emily
The Embodied Beings are a group of local, excellent yoga facilitators who all trained with Calli Popham, our lead teacher of the outdoor sessions for the last 4 years, under her Teacher Training school- Embodied Beings. As Calli’s work has continuously evolved towards a focus on training teachers and running her yoga studio, Flow State in Hove – we wanted to ensure the yoga sessions still had the same heart and soul as they have done over the years of Calli leading them.
Emily offers embodied yoga classes that celebrate strength, mobility, and the simple joy of moving. Her teaching balances spice and rest, effort and ease, inviting students to approach their practice with curiosity, playfulness, and wonder. She holds a safe, inclusive, and welcoming space for students to explore what their bodies can do. For her, emotion is motion, and yoga and movement practice are experienced as a form of moving meditation — a way to listen, process, and arrive more fully in the body.
She is a qualified pre- and postnatal and teenage yoga teacher and has been teaching since 2019. Emily teaches publicly in Haywards Heath, as well as offering 1–2–1 sessions, and has been seen at The Movement, Madisons, and Linear Fitness, where her regular weekly classes take place.
Emily trained with Calli at Stretch in London, initially seeking to deepen her own yoga practice, and in the process discovered a genuine love of guiding others to experience joy and wonder in their own bodies. As her teaching has evolved, it has become increasingly shaped by a deep curiosity about how we age — how we might move through the later chapters of our lives with strength, mobility, and adaptability, while also cultivating nervous system resilience to meet the realities of a fast-changing world. Her work acknowledges that practice exists within a broader social and environmental context, offering something more grounded than wellness as escapism, and instead supporting students in building capacity, presence, and care for the lives they are living now.
