The Glasgow Yogi

The Glasgow Yogi Yoga classes in Glasgow and the surrounding area that encourage you to explore and develop the strength and flexibility of your body.

01/08/2026

Softening the Web πŸ•ΈοΈ a restorative myofascial session 😌

Fascia is the body's web-like connective tissue, that plays a key role in our every day movement, posture and how we hold stress in the body. In this session, using the breath and a variety of props including myofascial balls, blocks, blankets and bolsters we'll slowly move to soften this web and encourage hydration, and ease in our tissues.

This session will open with breathwork, a gentle yoga practice focusing on functional movement patterns, into a restorative held shapes which we will combine with myofascial release techniques, and finish with deep rest.

I am so excited to share this offering with you! And would love for you to join me at my home on Saturday 15th August.

Any questions please feel free to drop me a message πŸ₯°πŸ™Β 

Link with all the deets is in my bio or visit the Yoga Barn websiteΒ 

The full buck moon πŸŒ™ a time to step into your own power and let go of identities that you have outgrownYesterday evening...
30/07/2026

The full buck moon πŸŒ™ a time to step into your own power and let go of identities that you have outgrown

Yesterday evening 29th July was the full buck moon. Called such because it's the time of year where the young male deer shed their antlers to make way for new velvety ones to grow.

And like the buck sheds his antlers it's a reminder that we too can let go of identities that we have outgrown.

For me this has been a year so far of dismantling identities.

Letting go of jobs, relationships, beliefs and even names (more on that later πŸ˜‰). All of which once held such high importance to me now I release to the wind. It's not that these areas of my life suddenly lost importance. But over time they started to feel heavy, taking up more space than they should.Β 

I realised with a growing feeling of discontent that the more we hold onto the less space there is for us to grow. I spent years labelling myself with identities in some form or another, telling myself that these identities were what made me belong, but in reality I always felt on the outside. These identities kept me trapped in a version of myself that was static and unmoving.Β 

This year I crossed the threshold into my third decade on this earth and something shifted in me that made me decide to let go of pretty much everything that did not make me feel valued. Thus far I can't say it's been a particularly pleasant process, in fact it's been pretty uncomfortable and a little confusing.

I thought that maybe perhaps the buck who sheds his antlers feels the same way. If I meet him I will have to ask, and although I cant say for certain I get the sense that instead he has faith in this process and knows that on the other side new velvety antlers will grow in their place.

So while the process of letting go of old identities may feel uncomfortable and uncertain there's one thing I can share with you for sure.

Letting go of a whole lot of things has allowed me to slowly, somewhat shylystep into a sense of my own power.Β 

And if I had never let go I would never have known what this feeling of growth and strength is and through some of the discomfort? That feeling of strength actually feels pretty great.

21/07/2026

Just a nice little thing you can do for your shoulders 😌

Sometimes we forget that the nicest things we can do for ourselves are often the simplest.

They aren't flashy or fancy, they often don't take a lot of time or effort.

They are the small things that just bring us back to the most simple state of all - just being.

Lots more of this πŸ‘† and other simple things as we explore the fascia.

Join me for Softening the Web 😌 on Saturday 15th August at 12pm

08/07/2026

Functional Hip Strengthening Moves ✨

We spend a lot of our time sitting down in this modern age so our hip flexors can get weak over time.

These are some of my favourite moves to counterbalance that. If you joined me for Yoga on Friday Kālī Collective Yoga Studio Glasgow last month you'll for sure have seen these movements!

This month we pivot our focus to stretch rather than strength with a combined focus on pranayama. Come join me would love to see you on the mat πŸ₯°βœ¨

26/06/2026

Crow to tripod headstand? I gotcha 😌

This is all about building strength through the shoulders to help slow the descent into potential face-plant territory 🫣

This drill can help as we allow the blocks to catch us adding in tiny little lifts like these will also help build the strength required to exit your crow to come back out πŸ’ͺ

Normally though the hardest thing about this shape isn't having the strength, it's having the courage to take your weight forward enough to catch the shape.

We're down to the last few spaces for next week's workshop The Wisdom of Crow. Where we'll chat all things crow pose (how to enter and exit, transitions like this and a few variations and drills to help you build a relationship with this posture). We'll finish with restorative rest and the mythology behind the Crow.

(And no you don't need to be able to "do" crow to come along!)

I'm so excited to share this offering with you it's been some time since my last workshop so I can't wait to share space with you πŸ™πŸ¦β€β¬›

πŸ“… 4th July 2026
⏰ 12-2pm
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Link in bio to book or visit the Yoga Barn website ✨

Or stay tuned for more kitchen yoga tutorials πŸ˜‚

12/06/2026

The Wisdom of Crow πŸ¦β€β¬›

Intelligent, observant and deeply adaptable, the crow reminds us that flight first begins with curiosity.

Join me Saturday 4th July at my home for this two hour exploration.

Together we'll navigate the foundations of this posture, common transitions and well as some variations.

This workshop is designed to help you build strength, technique and confidence whether you're new to crow pose or looking to refine and deepen your practice.

We'll conclude our time together with restorative postures and the sacred story and mythology behind the crow.

I am so excited to share this offering with you, I hope you can come! Curious but unsure? Drop me a message I would love to hear from you πŸ™

πŸ“… Saturday 4th July
⏰ 12-2pm
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πŸ¦β€β¬› Β£27 members / Β£30 non-members

Visit the Yoga Barn website to book or hit the link in my bio πŸ’š

11/05/2026

Mayurasana - the pose of the peacock 🦚

Sometimes referred to as the running peacock (the legs pointed behind are supposed to symbolise the feathers of a running peacock)

Like its counterpart Pincha Mayurasana (forearm stand or the feathered peacock) this is a creature of many parts and often many years of practice.

Here's my favourite poses to help prepare and open the body for this challenging shape πŸ‘‡

✨ Cat/cow with wrist stretch - to help warm the wrists and spine (also just feels nice on its own!)

✨ Virabhadrasana 3 / Warrior 3 - to help practice the lift of the legs needed for Mayurasana

✨ Navasana / Boat pose - you will need active core muscles for this one!

✨ Purvottanasana - again wrists and back muscles!

If you're looking for a bit of joy and lightheartedness in your practice give this a try πŸ˜‰ happy flying 🦚

This has been sitting on my camera roll for a while! Filmed in my yoga home after Saturday classes I'll be back here in June to share practice with you again but for now I leave you in the amazing hands of the Yoga Barn Team πŸ₯°β€οΈπŸ™

I release that which no longer serves me ✨ At the start of the year I quit my job. After 9 years of carefully crafting a...
22/04/2026

I release that which no longer serves me ✨

At the start of the year I quit my job. After 9 years of carefully crafting and honing a career, of dragging my way up a corporate ladder until blisters formed on my hands. I climbed until I woke up each morning with my chest feeling tighter and my spirit smaller. I climbed until I couldn't any more, I simply stopped.

I looked up - how far this endless ladder seemed to go, up and up and up more pressures, more deadlines, more responsibility - but the most heartbreaking realisation? That this place and this system did not place value in it's people.

I looked down. I looked down at all the mistakes I had made, the lessons I had learned, the hard work and the time and the effort and the many tears that had been shed shaping myself into a mould that never really fit me. And I simply let go.

I let go. I let go of the ladder. With no real plan and without having it all figured out I quit my job. Reckless? Maybe. Was it necessary? Absolutely. Because I knew in my soul I couldn't stay in a place where I did not feel valued.

And I suppose this is the part where I say I landed on my feet. That I became a full time yoga instructor or I found the coveted dream job or maybe even that I won the lottery. But the truth is actually much less glamorous, what actually happened was that I spent a few months in a panicked daze of needing to have control, and of needing to have everything figured out. I hid it all under a bravado but secretly I dreaded the question that everyone asks - what will you do now?

I didn't have an answer, and honestly, I still don't. In all of this I allowed myself time, precious time to give myself space to fully breathe and come home to myself again. The next few months my nervous system began to regulate this slower pace allowed my stressed tf out nervous system to rewire patterns that ran deeper than I first knew.

And I'm excited to let go of old patterns, behaviours and everything that no longer serves me to make space to welcome in this new season of spring, this season of growth 🌱

Even as I have no idea what that looks like!

How the moon lost her shine πŸŒ™Myths of the Asanas - Ardha Chandrasana A story about balance - light and dark, yin and yan...
07/04/2026

How the moon lost her shine πŸŒ™

Myths of the Asanas - Ardha Chandrasana

A story about balance - light and dark, yin and yang, dusk and dawn. Without one we cannot know and appreciate the other.

When Ganesha hurls his elephant trunk tusk at Chandra the moon is pierced and we lose it's celestial glow and the world is plunged into darkness.

After a time to quell his temper Ganesha agrees to allow Chandra to shine at her fullest potential once every 4 weeks. There are many layers of teachings we can peel back from this story one is a reminder of the balance of the sacred cycles.

Without the sun nothing will grow and without the moon there is no shadows, no softness.

This story can serve as our reminder to bring balance into our own lives. Like the physical posture Ardha Chandrasana (half moon) we are encouraged to invite balance into the body strengthening through our legs and flexibility through the hips. Off the mat we can also invite softness along with the strength, rest with invigoration, socialising with quiet reflection.

Like the moon shines at its brightest only once every 4 weeks we too can give ourselves permission not to have to shine at our brightness every single day. Like the moon we can give ourselves permission to wax and wane, to retreat, reflect and come back brighter than we have before.

I hope you enjoyed this tale πŸ™ what asana story do you want to hear next?

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