REBECCA ABBOTT

FOUNDER & LEADER,
BE STILL MOVEMENT & GRACE X STRENGTH

Bec Abbott has been practising yoga for around 25 years. Alongside her Christian faith, yoga has helped her navigate chronic stress, anxiety, burnout, depression, insomnia, infertility, an eating disorder and the pressures of everyday life.

Having experienced the impact of yoga in her own life, Bec wanted to share it with others, particularly Christians who were missing out on yoga’s benefits due to concerns about its ties to Eastern religions. So in 2000, Bec undertook a 460-hour Diploma of Yoga Teaching with the International Yoga Teachers Association in Crows Nest, Sydney.

Bec established Be Still Movement in 2001 and began teaching Christ-centred movement & meditation classes in her local church in Turramurra, Sydney. In 2024 Be Still Movement became a registered non-profit and began to grow – with more locations, participants and teachers.

Be Still Movement continues to partner with local churches in Sydney to run classes that combine biblical meditation with the movements, breath techniques and mindfulness of yoga. Bec strongly believes that these elements of yoga will in no way compromise the Christian faith. Rather, they are evidence-based somatic tools for calming the nervous system and preparing the mind for relaxation and meditation in a way that no other discipline does. Therefore, they are powerful vehicles to help our busy, distracted minds connect with ourselves and with God.

Alongside building Be Still Movement, Bec is a trained journalist, spending over 25 years as an editor, writer and communications manager, largely in Christian organisations. As Head of Eternity News, Bec had the pleasure of co-hosting the award-winning podcast Run Like a Woman. Currently, she is the panel host on Helping Hands TV – a program dedicated to social good which airs on Channel 9, 9Gem and 9Now.

Perhaps most importantly, Bec is Mum to three incredible, young-adult women; wife to a creative kids’ minister; and the smitten owner of two dogs. She’s a devoted member of her church home at St James Anglican, Turramurra. Bec’s also a self-confessed coffee addict and a literature snob.