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29/05/2026

I’m teaching at the next Saturday - June 6th.

If you’re going to be there, I’d love to say hi - come and find me, either for a chat or to do some yoga with me.

If you’ve been curious about what I do but haven’t quite found the right moment to try it - a festival lesson is a low-pressure way in. Come exactly as you are.

Are you going?

27/05/2026

I’ve been talking about this all month - what yoga isn’t, what the eight limbs actually say, why caturaṅga and padmāsana and handstands were never the destination.

This is the post I want you to keep.

Swipe through; save it; and if anything this month has shifted something - tell me in the comments, I’d love to know.

25/05/2026

Another bank holiday.

The daylight hours are almost long enough, the sun finally seems to be doing something worthwhile most days.

I’ve been thinking lately about how the pace of life has shifted a bit for me recently - in a good way. More predictable, and more actual rest rather than just being between tasks.

It makes a difference. To everything - including how I show up to teach.

What are you doing with today? I hope it involves something quiet.

24/05/2026

Change of scenery Sunday.

I work from home most of the time, which I love - but there are days when I need to be somewhere that isn’t my own four walls.

There’s something about the low-level hum of a coffee shop that does something different to my brain.

I’m not thinking about yoga today, just thinking, occasionally staring out of the window, watching other people also stare out of windows.

Are you a work-from-home person? How do you handle the days when the walls feel too close?

22/05/2026

Can I tell you what my mailing list actually is? Because I think the phrase “mailing list” makes people brace slightly.

It isn’t a weekly newsletter I send whether I’ve got something to say or not, and it isn’t a funnel. It’s where I share what I’m genuinely thinking about, when it feels like it’s actually worth landing in your inbox.

When you sign up, you get a resource I made called Which Practice for What - a guide that matches one of my free practices on Insight Timer to how you’re actually feeling: overwhelmed; wired but exhausted; flat; anxious; can’t sleep. Something specific for each one.

No spam, no hard sell, just considered content from someone who thinks about this stuff a lot.

If that sounds like something you’d want, the link is in my bio.

20/05/2026

My YouTube series - Yoga: More Than You Think - is for people who sit at a desk all day and feel overstimulated, under-rested, and like yoga probably isn’t for them.

Eight limbs of yoga in eight weeks. Seated at your desk (or on your sofa), no mat, no props. Each episode includes an actual practice you can do right there, in your work clothes, on your lunch break, or between meetings. Your pyjamas are a fine choice, too, if you’d rather.

If you’ve been following what I’ve been posting this month, this is where it goes deeper.

Link in my bio - new episode every Sunday at 10:30.

Which limb of yoga would you most want to know more about? Let me know below - I’m curious.

18/05/2026

I’ve been teaching for a while now, and the thing that still gets me is how many people arrive already apologising.

For their tight hips, their stiff spine, their dodgy shoulder, their inability to sit comfortably on the floor, their total inexperience.

None of those are problems; none of them are things to work around. They’re just where we begin.

Swipe through and tell me - did you ever let a “not yet” stop you?

17/05/2026

Earlier this week I was teaching at The Oaks, Bowness-on-Windermere, in the Lake District.

Group sessions are something I love, but there’s something particular about teaching a small group in a beautiful space - there’s still room to pay attention to what’s actually present, to move at a pace that works for everyone, and to make the practice feel personal rather than generic.

This one had laughter in it - the kind that comes from genuinely enjoying yourself, from friends sharing something together, and surprising themselves with what they could do. That kind of joy in a yoga lesson is something I’ll always take over a perfectly silent, perfectly serious practice.

It’s some of my favourite work; and it takes me to some beautiful places.

If you’re curious about booking me to teach a group session - whether that’s a one-off class, a wellness day, or something else entirely - you’ll find my details in my bio.

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15/05/2026

There’s a kind of breath practice that doesn’t ask you to change anything. No counting, no ratios, no technique to get right.

Just watching - noticing the quality of the breath as it actually is, moment by moment, and coming back when the mind wanders.

It’s quieter than most prāṇāyāma (“breathwork”) content; it’s also, in my experience, one of the most useful things you can learn to do.

I have a guided mindfulness practice on Insight Timer that works this way - it’s free, and it’s a good place to start if you’re not sure where to begin. Link in my bio.

Have you ever tried just watching your breath without trying to fix it? What happened?

13/05/2026

Every time someone tells me they’re “not flexible enough for yoga,” I think about this list.

Flexibility was never the point, it was never even really the goal. It’s just what sometimes happens, as a side effect of a practice that was always about something much deeper.

Swipe through, save this if it’s useful, and pass it on to someone who keeps telling you they’re “not a yoga person”.

11/05/2026

It’s the Morning after Strong Enough to Rest, and I’m sitting with it.

There’s a particular kind of quiet after teaching yoga nidrā - not the adrenaline comedown you get after a physically active class; more like everything’s been turned down a notch - including me.

Running your own thing means you feel the full weight of it all: the preparation, the hoping, the teaching itself, the clearing up, and then the morning after, when it’s just you and a cup of tea.

I love this work, even when it’s a lot. Maybe especially then.

How are you doing this Monday?

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