Becky Farbstein Yoga

11/06/2026

One of the hardest parts of teaching yoga is allowing yourself to change. I remember when I gave up teaching and practising this way. ⬆️ It was scary as hell. My ego was terrified that I would no longer be able to claim to have a "strong practice" if I wasn't regularly contorting my own body into this kind of shape. Even more terrifying was the notion that people would stop practising with me if I didn't plan classes that allowed them to contort this way too.

Allowing ourselves to grow and change our minds is one of the best expressions of our yoga practice. Maturing as a human, and as both a student and teacher of yoga, reveals ease, steadiness, and confidence in the practice that is a much stronger expression of an advanced and integrated yoga practice than any shape could ever be.

15/12/2025

Tis the Season for Yoga at Home.

My holiday gift for you is three yoga practices that you can do anywhere, anytime, to help you survive the next few weeks.

#1: Downward Facing Dog at the table/kitchen counter. AKA: oh f*ck I burned the turkey pose.

#2: sukhasana in the closet
AKA: I can't believe xenophobic Uncle Raymond actually just said that.

#3: lion's breath into the refrigerator
AKA: if Aunt Miranda asks about the calories in the dessert one more time, I'm going to stuff this mince pie down her throat.

Happy Christmas everyone. Keep breathing.

08/12/2025

I'm approaching my final week of teaching for 2025 and reflecting on the past year. Social media values and elevates big flashy moments. Accomplishments. Successes. Yoga isn't like that. My professional highlights, and the things I value most about my job, go largely unseen and unpictured. The thing that motivates me to teach, week in and week out, is the quiet consistency of my students. It is getting to observe and help guide a practice for people who are there every Tuesday at lunch or every Saturday before the rest of the world gets going. It is the students who know how to take rest, the ones who skip every vinyasa, the ones who know which variations of poses are best for their bodies and their lives, the ones who keep building skills without grasping for shapes.

So thank you to everyone who has practiced and trained with me this year. Thank you for being there, behind the scenes, and completely off camera, doing the hard, unglamorous, repetitive, sometimes very boring work of self-study and self-inquiry. I'm so lucky to get to be part of this community.

If I don't see you in the next week, I hope you have a restful and happy holiday season. See you in 2026 for, let's be honest, pretty much more of the same. 🫡

24/11/2025

30/10/2025

I'm very much a "plan ahead" sort of person but I acknowledge (and even celebrate) those of you who are last minute kind of people. So if you are thinking that actually maybe you do want to get the f*ck out of London for two nights, it's not too late to join me and an absolutely stellar crew of folks for a weekend of yoga, food, rest, and quiet away from the city next weekend (7-9 November). DM me if you are reading this and thinking "yes." 🙏🏼

11/09/2025

The number one question I get when people are considering enrolling in a yoga teacher training programme is "Do you think I'm good enough? I can't do a handstand."

It's not about the handstand. It's never been about the handstand.

To teach yoga, you have to realise it's not about you anymore. That's why we don't focus very much on our own asana practices in my 200-hour YTT programme. We spend more time learning about the history and philosophy of these rich traditions we call yoga. We build the skills and confidence to stand in front of a room of people and confidently lead a yoga practice. We learn about the diversity and range of human anatomy and injuries so we put ourselves in our students' shoes and support their practices with empathy, intelligence, and care. We study pedagogy so we can craft yoga classes that maximise our students' potential to learn and develop their understanding of yoga. And in the end, we finally recognise that, through all of this study and inquiry, we have deepened our own yoga practices on and off the mat to a level that goes so much deeper than whether or not you can hold a handstand.

Curious? Eager to learn more?

Join our Open Day on 27 September at to get all your questions answered.

08/07/2025

Last summer I deleted all these hell apps from my phone and it was so good that I'm doing it again. Check studio schedules for when I'm teaching in the coming months, and email me if you are keen on the retreat. I wish you a summer with abundant gelato and fresh air, a few great books, and fewer hours spent chained to your phone.

10/04/2025

I don't think you ever stop needing to get on the mat, but I do think that many people's relationship to the physically of yoga changes over their lifetime. I used to truly need the physical practice to get grounded and shake off the chaos. Extremely dynamic, challenging asana practice was what allowed me to have the experience of getting out of my head, and because it facilitated that experience of calming the mind chatter, it was effective yoga. For me, the combination of getting older and also finding other physical outlets for moving my body in challenging ways means that I now use the time on the mat to do what my teacher describes as "managing the human experience." Observe the starting point, regulate the breath and mind's reactions to some level of physical challenge, and then ultimately, get still.

All experiences of yoga are equally valid and good if they offer us an opportunity to get out of our own way so we can be present and responsive to the fluctuations of life, without giving into extreme reactivity.

That's it. That's yoga.

12/03/2025

CALLING ALL YOGA TEACHERS

Have you been teaching for a few years and now you're starting to consider some additional training? Look no further. and I have put together an advanced training curriculum at that includes training to develop your practical teaching skills including class planning, sequencing, assisting, and applied anatomy, as well as the space to dive deeper into advanced yoga philosophy and issues of inclusion and accessibility. Between the two of us, we have more than 40 years experience practising, teaching, and training yoga teachers. We're confident there's really no other advanced training quite like ours.

We'd love for you to join us for a free online Q+A and information session on April 7th @ 7:30pm. All information and links to book in profile.