Akram "Warm" Yoga Studio

Akram "Warm" Yoga Studio Addlestone's heated authentic Yoga sanctuary.
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A heated authentic Yoga sanctuary in Addlestone, Surrey ✨
🥇 Winner - OmYoga Magazine Favourite Yoga Studio 2024
🥇 Winner - Muddy Stilettos Studio of the Year in Surrey 2023
🥇 Zahir Akram - Om Yoga Magazine Yoga Teacher of the Year 2024

Today whilst training a client, he said that he felt some ‘trapped dense energy’ in his Traps 😵‍💫Drake would have been p...
17/06/2026

Today whilst training a client, he said that he felt some ‘trapped dense energy’ in his Traps 😵‍💫
Drake would have been proud of that line.
But he didn’t mean it in a clever way. He was serious.
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So I said, bro, you have been doing yoga way too long (said in a passive aggressive breathy yoga voice). And we of course laughed at ourselves.
So it made me think… how do you know when you have been doing yoga for too long?? 🫣😃😵‍💫🧐🤔🤷🏾‍♂️🧠🫶🏽🫵🏽

Just checking in 🤍🫶🏽This one is more a reminder to myself 😳🧐😵‍💫👇🏽You’ve heard this before, but what people say about you...
16/06/2026

Just checking in 🤍🫶🏽
This one is more a reminder to myself 😳🧐😵‍💫
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You’ve heard this before, but what people say about you usually reflects more about them than about you. The only reason their opinions can shake you is that you’re clinging to an idea of yourself that depends on them. And here’s the irony. People come to teach yoga and, instead of finding themselves, they can drift further and further away from who they are.
Like a dog endlessly chasing its own tail 😳🫣

Yoga philosophy, or any philosophy 📚, shouldn’t hand you beliefs. It should make you wonder 💭 🤔👇🏽Philosophical musings f...
15/06/2026

Yoga philosophy, or any philosophy 📚, shouldn’t hand you beliefs. It should make you wonder 💭 🤔
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Philosophical musings from my years on and off the mat.

Take number 1. “Sometimes the one who barely knows you believes in who you are becoming, while those closest only mourn who you were.” I’m sure you’ve made friends in the yoga world who believe in you more than you believe in yourself. Further evidence that taking that step towards yoga can change your life in more ways than one 🙏🏾🫶🏽
For Teacher Training or online learning, see link 🔗 in bio 👆🏽

For a while I took my fancy yoga moves for granted. Until I couldn’t do them anymore 🤮. So I thought, let me put the sci...
14/06/2026

For a while I took my fancy yoga moves for granted. Until I couldn’t do them anymore 🤮. So I thought, let me put the science to practise. Stop ✋🏽 trying too hard and trust the art of repetition. Trust the principle of adaption where the brain 🧠 adapts to the demand.

I know I always say this…. But before fancy drills and hacks…. Ask yourself, how many reps do you have under your belt?

I’m a big fan of overdoing something and running it into the ground 🫶🏽
As always, I you are interested in teacher training October 2026 or online CPDs - the links are in the bio 🙏🏾

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13/06/2026

Like most patterns of movement, balancing your weight on your arms in Yoga comes down to technique & timing. Less to do with strength than most people realise 🤔🧠.
Easy for a man to say for sure. But is it because we are stronger? Or just have more faith in our arms? 🤨🤔💭🧐
Food for thought.
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Oh btw, I have a FREE ARM BALANCE ⚖️ playbook online if you fancy the challenge. Different styles and variations that also features . So you ladies won’t feel like it’s just some man patronising you the whole time 😳😅👍🏽🫶🏽
Link in bio 👆🏽

12/06/2026

Three things a serious YOGA student should never get tired of.
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1️⃣: questioning conventional wisdom .
Over the years Yogis old and new have lived like sheep 🐑, just following the crowd and the “traditions”. Whilst following the crowd gives you safety, it usually comes at the cost of your soul. I used to think contortionism was the problem in the yoga world when it’s actually conformism 😲.

2️⃣: studying for clarity, not knowledge 🤔.
Borrowed knowledge is just information, and information doesn’t change you. You stay exactly the same, only with a bigger vocabulary. The Buddha is the best example of seeking clarity. Buddha was not full of wisdom so much as empty of man-made philosophy. 

3️⃣: returning to the basic poses , over and over again.
The basic poses aren’t really about the body anyway, they’re about the capacity to be as you are, rather than who you think you should be 😵‍💫. People leave the basics behind because they think there’s nothing left to achieve. But if you feel you’ve outgrown the basics, maybe it’s your ego that’s outgrown you 🧠.
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For more on the Science and Tradition of Yoga - sign up to our Newsletter. The link is in the Bio.

Marriage and Yoga are the same 🧐🤔🤷🏾‍♂️. You can go alone, but it’s far more fun when you have someone else holding you u...
11/06/2026

Marriage and Yoga are the same 🧐🤔🤷🏾‍♂️. You can go alone, but it’s far more fun when you have someone else holding you up.
Just don’t drop her on thee ‘ed 😳😱🫣
And it just so happens that we are running an in-house partner yoga class this Saturday at the studio. 4-415pm.

10/06/2026

I once read that we should strive to become the person we hope our children will be. Someone who keeps learning, growing, and striving to be better.

In the grand scheme of things, trillions of people have walked this Earth 🌍, and our time here is fleeting ✨. In that brief window, we each have the opportunity to do something today that inspires someone else to do and be a little better.
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Becoming a yoga teacher (and eventually teaching) is hard work 🤢. There will be challenging days and moments of doubt 😭. But when you witness the genuine difference you can make in someone’s life, it’s all worth it.

If you’re on your yoga teacher training journey in 2026 (with us or wherever in the world you are) - stay the course. Someone, somewhere, is waiting for a teacher just like YOU 🫵🏽

For an entire year, I avoided yoga classes because of my bad back. A monkey on my back for nearly 30 years 🚘💥🚑. After a ...
09/06/2026

For an entire year, I avoided yoga classes because of my bad back. A monkey on my back for nearly 30 years 🚘💥🚑. After a particularly painful spasm in class, I stopped classes and practised alone. Eventually, I convinced myself I was done practising yoga 😵‍💫🤢.

As a teacher, this created a massive crisis inside my head. How could I guide others on a path I had stepped away from? 😭

When I finally returned to the mat, I discovered the deeper truth: the injury was real, but the greater suffering came from the heavy expectations I had placed upon myself. I had to teach myself the very wisdom I offer others. I imagined speaking to a student who was struggling… and realised that student was me. 👇🏽
This is what no AI 🤖 can ever replace: the scars of lived experience, the miles earned by walking the road, falling, and choosing to rise again. Real teaching is grounded not in perfection, but in the humble, hard-won battles we have with ourselves.

08/06/2026

You don’t need to be full of knowledge to teach yoga 😵‍💫🫣. Quite the opposite, in fact, as everyone on our teacher training is finding out. The mystics say the best teachers (and students) are hollow, like a flute 🪈 . The flute makes music because it’s hollow, not because it’s full 🎶

If you fancy sharing your love of yoga one day, our next teacher training cohort starts October 26. Link in bio 👆🏽

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157 Station Road
Addlestone
KT152AT

Opening Hours

Monday 6:30am - 9:15pm
Tuesday 10am - 9pm
Wednesday 6:30am - 9pm
Thursday 10am - 9pm
Friday 6:30am - 7:30pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm
Sunday 9am - 11:30am
5pm - 6:30pm

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