I’m Emma Peel, senior Yoga teacher and Chinese Medicine practitioner.
I share practices that support presence, clarity and resilience in everyday life.
teaching people not postures
Yin-Side Community is more than just a yoga membership. It is an invitation to reconnect with your body's natural rhythms and the changing seasons through the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This holistic approach helps you find harmony, reduce the stress of modern life and improve your overall well-being.
“Emma has created a community that has given me a sense of purpose, belonging, friendships and support. Her mantra of ‘ yoga for everybody and every body’ has certainly challenged me to think about how I move, think and breathe.”
What you gain
Harmony with Nature: Learn to live in tune with the flow of nature, making the most of each season's unique energy (Qi) for optimal physical and emotional health.
Balanced Energy (Yin & Yang): Benefit from practices that intentionally balance the active (yang) and passive (yin) energies within you, fostering a sense of complete well-being.
Holistic Wellness: Go beyond the mat with a unique fusion of yoga, breath-work (pranayama) and meditation, all designed to support your body's specific needs each season through the meridian system.
A Supportive Community: Join a dedicated space with around 10 live classes per month to connect, practice in real-time, and receive guidance on your journey.
What’s included?
Live Classes: Access *10 live Yoga married with meditation / pranayama sessions each month, allowing for real-time interaction and community connection.
Exclusive Seasonal Content: A seasonal programme designed for your whole life, in line with the Five Elements of Chinese medicine. Each season unlocks a dedicated page featuring a video introducing the current season, guided meditations and pranayama specifically for the seasonal elements. Balanced Yin and Yang Asana classes to align your energy.
On-Demand Library: A rich archive of resources to support your practice at anytime. Catch-up recordings of past live classes so you never miss a session. A library of meditations, breath-work and Yoga Nidra for deep rest and self-awareness.
New for spring 2026
Q&A Sessions: Live sessions focused specifically on the Chinese Medicine aspects of the season. Expanding beyond the physical practice, these will include support around seasonal eating, sleep tips and self-care rituals based on TCM principles for the current element.
Seasonal Transition Workshops: Online workshops around the key seasonal transition dates of the solstices and equinoxes to help you navigate the energy shifts smoothly, turning transitions into a celebrated event.
*Occasional breaks for study, training and hosting retreats.
Yin-Side membership
Like a Yin posture, meaning and true meeting unfold over time. You have to stay long enough for the deeper layers to respond.
Yin-Side is designed to be practiced seasonally. Although you may join at any time, the real exchange comes through continuity and commitment.
This is not about loyalty to a teacher, but devotion to your own process.
Yin-Side Membership
£30.00
Every month
£300.00
Every year
Practise anytime and cancel at anytime
✓ 10+ monthly live online Yin & Yin Yang classes with Emma
✓ Flexibility to catch-up on classes in your own time
✓ Extensive library of Yoga Asana, Meditation and Pranayama
✓ Resources drawing on the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine
✓ Ability to cancel any time
the Five Element System
“The 5 seasons approach chimed with something I was discovering for myself. These have created an understanding of something that even at first I didn't understand, but carry on questioning & returning to. I experience my own experience.” - Yin-Side Member
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The Five Element system is rooted in nature. It offers a way of remembering that we are part of nature, not separate from it.
It is not something to learn so much as something to recognise again.
In practice, it can act as a simple compass - helping you orient when life feels unclear or when you feel disconnected from yourself.
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At the beginning of each season (Spring, Summer, Late Summer, Autumn and Winter), there’ll be new content which expands on the new cycle we’re entering. You’ll discover which of the organs that are most active within this stage of the cycle, the way Qi behaves at this point within the whole process, and how this can be understood in terms of moods and emotions.
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Typically, each movement spans for a period of three months, with the exception of Late Summer, which is a much shorter season. During a season, live classes will explore many aspects associated with the current conditions from both Indian and Chinese thinking. In the membership, you have access to these again and again for the entire season.
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It is important that what we explore together remains in and of the moment. At the end of each phase, a small number of the season’s classes will remain in the library and you’ll continue to be able to access these anytime. The recordings we say farewell to will be replaced by the new season of classes.
More about me
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My Yoga journey began with a book that arrived at a moment in my life when I couldn’t ignore it.
What followed was not only an interest in physical practice, but a growing sensitivity to something subtle and familiar within it - something that felt deeply human.
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I teach through experience.
Encouraging curiosity, embodied awareness, and the willingness to step beyond fixed ideas of what practice should look like.
In my classes and trainings, practice becomes a space where we learn to meet ourselves more honestly - physically, emotionally and energetically - through attention, breath and felt experience.
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I am a registered Senior Yoga Teacher and Teacher Trainer with Yoga Alliance Professionals.
I have over 5000 hours of teaching experience alongside a focus since 2014 in Yin Yoga, anatomy and Chinese Medicine.
My teaching weaves together Yin Yoga, anatomy, Chinese Medicine and Five Elements theory, with a focus on lived experience, nervous system awareness and embodiment.
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Alongside Yoga, I also work with acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in a clinical setting, supporting people with physical symptoms, emotional states and deeper patterns of imbalance.
If you are looking for acupuncture and Tui Na treatment, you can book through The Holistic Touch here
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