'Befriending Me'
Befriending Me is a gentle online programme supporting wellness and resilience through yoga, accessible movement, meditation, nervous system education and community.
It is for anyone living with persistent health challenges, including chronic pain, fatigue or fluctuating capacity. It may also support you if you are neurodivergent, highly sensitive, stressed, overwhelmed, overworked or experiencing burnout.
You are welcome exactly as you are, with no pressure to keep up, push through or fix yourself.
Are you living with persistent health challenges?
Perhaps you experience chronic pain, fatigue, fluctuating energy or a body that can feel unpredictable. You may be living with ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, an autoimmune or inflammatory condition, Long Covid, multiple sclerosis, autonomic dysfunction, POTS—or another condition that affects your everyday capacity.
You may also be neurodivergent, highly sensitive, stressed, overwhelmed, overworked or experiencing burnout.
When difficulties persist, the familiar pathway of receiving treatment and “getting back to normal” may no longer fit. You may have received very little meaningful support or encountered promises of quick fixes and miracle cures that have left you feeling disappointed or let down.
What I offer is a little different.
It is not therapy, although it may feel therapeutic.
It is not medical treatment, although it may offer meaningful support.
It is not a cure, although it may help you understand yourself, reconnect with your body and find gentler ways to live with what is here.
There is nothing to fix and no expectation that you should push through. You are welcome exactly as you are.
Online Classes 2026
YogaRogueUK Classes 2026 offer a gentle, steady rhythm of online movement, breath, and embodiment for tired bodies and sensitive nervous systems.
These live Zoom classes are for people living with chronic fatigue, pain, stress, burnout, or anyone seeking a calmer, kinder way to care for themselves.
You are welcome to move, rest, or simply be present, with Pay What You Can access and full access to class recordings.
Using yoga, meditation and embodiment practices, nervous system exploration & education and community to support both your physical and mental well-being.
YogaRogue practices are all about developing wellness and resilience in the nervous system, supporting us to manage fatigue, and pain, and all of the other collections of symptoms that come along with so many difficulties.
What does that mean?
Feel better, find a way forward, move from overwhelm to resilience, better manage pain and fatigue.
We also include people with stress, overwhelm, burnout. Many of us with persistent health issues, began on the journey with stress and burnout ... join us to find support sooner.
When we have practices, there are always options, you can join however you feel today, and wherever you need to be:
yoga mat, chair, sofa, bed!
I am Helen Machen-Pearce
I am a Nervous System Educator
I am a Yoga Teacher and Embodiment Teacher
I am a Coach
I am a Teacher of Yoga Teachers
I am a Doctor with 25 years experience (retired)
I am also 'in recovery' from burnout and persistent health challenges - the journey continues...