Alice Faulkner

Alice Faulkner is a yoga teacher and Reiki practitioner based in Leeds, UK, who also works as an NHS doctor. She teaches Hatha, Vinyasa and Trauma-Informed Restorative Yoga. She is known for Yoga & Reiki in the Woods, a series of outdoor practices in Otley Chevin Forest Park, and for the yoga retreats she leads in Kenya.

Alice has practised yoga for 10 years. She describes her practice as rooted in personal growth, fostering connection and a deep reverence for nature. She is a Reiki practitioner trained to Usui Level 2, and her Insight Timer teacher page describes a deep-rooted passion for holistic health and nature-based wellbeing. She spent her childhood in Africa. She has since lived in, travelled around and taught yoga in Kenya, including at Kilima Gardens, and that love for the land, people and culture inspired her Reconnect, Rest and Rewild retreat.

In her yoga classes Alice aims for a serene, supportive atmosphere that grounds people, with an emphasis on the fundamentals of yoga: asanas, philosophy and history. She guides students to connect with breath, body and intuition. Her stated hope is that people leave feeling stronger, with greater self-trust, and feeling more authentically themselves than when they arrived. Through Yoga & Reiki in the Woods she offers Yoga Flow, Restorative Yoga and Small Group Reiki sessions for adults of all experience. She also teaches private yoga and Reiki sessions, one-to-one or for two people, in the woods and indoors, and offers private and corporate events. Collaborative sessions have included Sound Bath with Reiki and Yoga & Forest Bathing.

Reiki is central to her work. Alice describes it as a gentle Japanese energy healing technique that promotes deep rest, balance and wellbeing. A session begins with a warm welcome and a chance to share what you would like support with. You then settle, lying down or seated, and breathe and ground. Alice guides the energy with words, mantras and Reiki techniques, using hands-on or hands-near healing, and the session closes with quiet rest and gentle reflection. She offers Reiki in small groups and privately, in the woods, in studios and venues around Leeds including Headingley, Harewood Estate and Bingley, and online as Distance Reiki.

The woodland of Otley Chevin Forest Park, near Leeds, is where her weekly outdoor practice takes place. One student, Marco, wrote in a 2024 testimonial on her website about practising with birdsong and the breeze through the trees as the only background noise. Her Kenya retreats move the same ideas to a wilder setting. Reconnect, Rest & Rewild is a 7-day yoga retreat at Kilima Gardens, a family-run eco-luxury retreat in native leleshwa bush in Nanyuki, in the foothills of Mount Kenya. Days include sunrise meditation, Morning Flow Yoga, Stretch & Restore Yoga, a group Reiki session, farm-to-table meals, a Full Moon Ceremony and visits to Nanyuki town and the historic Mau Mau caves. Safari & Yoga is a 5-day retreat at Entumoto Safari Camp in the Maasai Mara, combining daily yoga with guided game drives, walking safaris, open-air bush meals and a wild spa.

Alice's classes and sessions suit adults of all experience, and her retreats are for people who want to step away from everyday busyness, rest and reconnect with themselves. She says each retreat is somewhere she has personally experienced and fallen in love with. Participants quoted on her retreat pages describe leaving feeling energised, whole again, deeply nourished and more connected to themselves.