Start the day well with yoga and poetry!
Join Emma Conally-Barklem for a creative outdoors yoga session, which will be accessible to all with lots of fun options.
We’ll unleash our inner Brontë in a breath-led, uplifting session which connects body, mind, and soul in the lush surroundings of Parson's Field. This will be followed by a spoken word performance of selected verse from Emma’s own Brontë sisters collection, Hymns from the Sisters, and some recent Brontë-inspired poetry.
Date: Sunday 22 September, 10am - 11am
Tickets: £7 (under 12s free)
Location: Parson's Field. Head up Church Street past the Museum on your left, and enter through the gate on the left.
Suggested age: 16+
Suitable for all abilities. Wear loose clothing and bring some water. Bring a mat if you have one, but we do have some supplies. We aim to host this outside weather permitting.
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Emma Conally-Barklem (she/her) is a yoga teacher, author, poet, and grief worker based in North Yorkshire. She’s an ambassador for accessible and inclusive yoga, teaching workshops and retreats around the world. She has a YouTube channel, EmmaLiveYoga, teaches yoga for grief for Good Grief UK, and is part of Marie Curie UK’s ‘Legacies’ campaign, which spotlights end of life care and will-writing and is currently showing on UK television and across various media outlets.
Emma was a lecturer in English Literature for thirteen years and has an MA in Victorian Literature. Pushcart Prize nominated, Emma had a summer residency at the Brontë Parsonage Museum and was named one of Ilkley Poetry Festival’s New Northern Poets 2022 and 2023. She was commissioned to write a poem after Ted Hughes for the fiftieth anniversary of the festival which was filmed around Ilkley.
Her first poetry collection, ‘The Ridings’ at Written Off Publishing was curated into her first photography and poetry exhibition, ‘The Ridings: Bradford Working-Class Family Life, Loss and Landscape 1970s-1990s’ at South Square Gallery, Bradford.
Most recently, Emma has filmed an episode of Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes for the BBC as she leads Robson and actress Laura Norton in a nature poetry workshop. Her collection on the Brontë sisters, Hymns from the Sisters, is out now at Querencia Press.