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Imogen is a yoga teacher, author, reiki healer based in the UK
Vinyasa flow, yin and restorative cla

Imogen has trained under the expert eye of Katy Appleton and Judith Hanson Lasater and is a Yoga Alliance-certified teacher of dynamic Vinyasa flow. She has been practising yoga since her teens and has a background in reiki and the energetic body. Imogen believes yoga is the key to balance in life both on and off the mat. With breath being central to her classes Imogen combines uplifting sequencin

g with a simple yet potent lunar antidote. Through her teaching she hopes to inspire possibility and galvanise self-awareness and self-nourishment. Imogen fiercely believes that yoga is for everyone, that it is a vital tradition that transcends all race and religion, fundamental in all of our lives more so now than ever before. Imogen is grateful to all her teachers and to those who have touched her on her yoga path.

28/07/2026

This weekend, our mantra in our Yoga Teacher Training family was:

“We are not starting a cult.”

Easy to 🤣😆🤭😝😜 at…

I’ve heard too many stories from teacher trainees and practitioners over the years who have been told by other teachers to push through pain, ignore their intuition, accept criticism of their bodies, or stay silent in the face of emotional manipulation because “that’s the practice” or “the teacher knows best.”

That isn’t yoga. That’s an unhealthy relationship to power.

Which is why, in our teacher training, we don’t teach ethics by simply asking students to memorise the yamas and niyamas.

Why?

Because the Yoga Sūtras are one text among many in the yoga tradition, not in the tradition of yoga. They arise from a particular philosophical framework - one grounded in dualism and a specific moral worldview. They’re historically significant, but they’re not the only way to think about ethics.

On my yoga teacher training we instead ask students to think critically…“How do I become a more ethical human and teacher?” By looking outside of the box…

Our ethics curriculum begins with questions, not answers.

✨ Do you understand transference and how can you start tracking it in your relationships…
✨ What is your relationship to authority?
✨ How do you meet difference?
✨ How do you communicate your boundaries?
✨ Who is wellness actually for? Who is implicitly and explicitly welcomed, and who is left out?
✨ What are your preferences and biases?
✨ What projections are placed onto your body because of socially constructed ideas about race?
✨ What support do you need to recognise and work with your own samskaras, rather than unconsciously acting them out?

These aren’t abstract philosophical questions. They shape every class we teach, every adjustment we offer, every interaction we have, and every community we help create.

To me, ethics isn’t about obedience.

It’s about critical thinking. Power. Consent. Self-awareness. Accountability. Humility.

Because the goal of yoga isn’t to produce compliant students who never question the teacher.

The goal is freedom.

And freedom requires that we keep asking better questions.

19/07/2026

To access your new reality, you have to leap.

You have to leave the familiar waters, even when others think you’re crazy for doing so.

You have to release the heavy grip of hesitation, procrastination, second-guessing, and the belief that you have to do everything alone.

Yes, it can feel terrifying.

How will you be safe in the wild, electric pulse of being fully alive?
How will you function without the comfort of playing small?
Who will you be without fear holding you back?

Here’s the truth:

You don’t need to have all the answers before you leap.

Life is wild… but it is also wise.

It awakens you, stretches you, and invites you into the next season of who you’re becoming. Nothing in nature rushes, yet everything unfolds in perfect timing.

You are not separate from that wisdom.
You are part of it.

Trust the process.
Trust your becoming.
And when the moment comes…

Leap.

✨ The life you’re longing for exists on the other side of courage.

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06/07/2026

☀️ Sizzling Summer Sadhana is here! ☀️

This summer, your yoga practice doesn’t have to take a holiday!

I’m so excited to invite you to join me for a 7-week online Summer Sadhana, designed to keep you connected to your mat, wherever life takes you.

Whether you’re travelling, soaking up family time, parenting little ones, or simply juggling the beautiful chaos of summer, these shorter practices are designed to fit around your life… not the other way around.

✨ You’ll receive:
🧘‍♀️ 2 x 30-minute classes each week
• 1 energising Vinyasa Flow
• 1 nourishing Yin practice

🌍 Practice from anywhere in the world, whenever it suits you. Every class is pre-recorded, so you can press play at a time that works for you.

📅 7 weeks of classes
💛 Just £80
🎥 Recordings available until the end of September, giving you over two months to revisit your favourite sessions.

This is your invitation to stay consistent, move your body, calm your mind, and carry your practice through the summer with ease.

Enrolments are open now for a limited time, so if you’d love to join, don’t wait too long. To sign up, simply send me a message or click the link in my bio to reserve your place.

Who’s joining me for a Sizzling Summer Sadhana? 🔥☀️

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02/07/2026

Celebrating today CRITICAL THINKING 🤔 in the Yoga world with my amazing colleague Firdose Moonda and some of our teacher trainee community.

One of the things yoga has taught me is that devotion to this work and critical thinking don’t have to be opposites.

Somewhere along the way, parts of the modern yoga world began treating questioning as disrespect. We repeat things because they’re “traditional,” quote ancient texts without asking who wrote them, when they were written, or what social and historical context shaped them. At the same time, we practice a form of asana that has evolved dramatically over the last century while often claiming it has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

That isn’t an attack on yoga. It’s an invitation to understand it more deeply.

Ancient texts are invaluable, but they are products of particular cultures, times, and philosophical agendas. Modern postural yoga is also a product of history… one that includes innovation, adaptation, and influences that extend beyond the ancient world. Both deserve to be studied honestly rather than idealised.

Critical thinking doesn’t diminish yoga; it enriches it.

If our practice is truly about inquiry, awareness, and reducing ignorance, then we should be willing to examine our assumptions, challenge cherished narratives, and remain open to evidence… even when it makes us uncomfortable.

Questioning isn’t the opposite of respect. Blind acceptance is not the same as wisdom.

Yoga asks us to wake up, not shut down. It asks us to see clearly, not simply believe. And perhaps one of the most yogic things we can do is hold reverence to what has past and curiosity at the same time. ✨🙌🔱

30/06/2026

“Every body is speaking. The question is: are we listening?”

So much of teaching yoga lives in the quiet.

Not in the cues we give, but in the moments between them.

In observing.

In listening.

In learning to read the room before asking anything of it.

Every class is a gathering of stories. Each person arrives carrying something different… physically, mentally, emotionally.

Our role as teachers is to create a space spacious enough to hold it all.

We listen beyond words.

We notice the rhythm of the breath, the quality of focus, the energy that rises and falls across the room.

We see how people sit, how they hold themselves, where there is tension, where there is ease, where movement flows and where it asks to be met with patience.

To truly watch a body is more than seeing a shape in a pose. It is understanding form and function. It is knowing anatomy well enough to offer touch with skill, sensitivity, and respect - and knowing when presence is the greatest adjustment of all.

Teaching yoga asks us to use more than our eyes and ears.

It asks us to pay attention with our whole being.

Because every body is speaking. The question is: are we listening?

23/06/2026

35°C. Outside. Practising yoga with a mop as my prop.

Not quite what Shakespeare had in mind, perhaps… but then again, maybe exactly what he meant. 🧐

In Love’s Labour’s Lost, he writes:
“Light seeking light doth light beguile light.”

What was he getting at?

The scholars in the play are so devoted to studying, learning, and becoming wiser that they lose touch with life itself. In seeking enlightenment, they blind themselves to the very light they’re looking for. Too much striving, too much seriousness, too much effort to improve.

🥸 Obsessive study can literally strain the eyes. 👀

Metaphorically, it can do the same thing to the soul. 🫶

How often do we convince ourselves that wisdom lives in the next book, the next training, the next achievement, the next perfect place? How often does our search for growth rob us of the lightness we’re seeking?

Are you chasing enlightenment?

Can you allow joy to be the practice?

Can you stop taking yourself quite so seriously?

Can you meet this moment with awe and wonder?

Can you put down the weight of needing things to be different?

Can you loosen your grip on the fruits of your efforts?

Today, in the heat, balancing with a mop and laughing at the absurdity of it all, I was reminded:

Perhaps wisdom isn’t something we arrive at.

Perhaps it’s what remains when we stop striving long enough to notice the light already here.

May we seek wisdom without losing the wonder.

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21/06/2026

Solstice Blessings Friends…. ✨
Kenny and I are drinking in the light and all that it transforms.
🐶
Keeping it frivolous…
💡
How far can you throw your beams?
Even if they are small… the light reach farther than you know.
☀️
May this Midsummer bring brightness to your path, gratitude for what is flourishing, and hope for the days ahead.

14/06/2026

READY. STEADY. GROW. 🌱

One of the greatest gifts of retreat is discovering that growth doesn’t happen alone.

In the forest, trees are connected through vast underground networks, sharing nutrients, support, and information. What appears to be an individual tree is actually part of a thriving ecosystem.

We are not so different.

Over these days together, we softened our edges. We became more flexible. We listened deeply. We called upon Saraswati, the flow of creativity and wisdom, and awakened the Green Dragon within… the part of us willing to transform inspiration into action, vision into substance.

But perhaps the most powerful lesson is this:

You don’t have to grow alone.

Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is allow ourselves to be seen in our becoming.

To let others witness our dreams.

To receive encouragement.

To lean into community when our roots need strengthening.

Growth isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s subtle. A new insight. A different perspective. A quiet commitment to yourself.

Like a seed beneath the soil, much of what is transforming may not yet be visible.

Trust it.

The tapestry of you is still being woven.

And just as every thread strengthens the whole, every person who walks beside us becomes part of our journey.

✨ What intention, dream, or seed are you ready to nurture as you move forward?

✨ Want to join us in Lithuania next year? Link to register interest in my bio 👆

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19/05/2026

🧘‍♀️ Such a privilege to spend the day studying with Donna Farhi today in London. She’s has been one of my “girl crush” teachers for many years. What an incredible human.

We explored human development and movement patterning - particularly through the psoas, lumbar, thoracic and cervical spine, the impact of the hyoid bone, and the nuance required to help people move towards tension-free upper backs and necks. Such a complex challenge in the modern world, when so many of us spend our lives folded over phones and laptops.

One of my biggest takeaways was that the spine doesn’t simply need passive extension. Passive extension may temporarily release tension, but it doesn’t necessarily resolve it. The upper back also needs strength - especially through the thoracic region - because if that area isn’t truly supporting us, the tension simply returns.

So much of the work is about strengthening the shoulders and upper back while also creating strategic length and passive extension through the thoracic and cervical spine. Learning how to release and elongate without continuing to over-mobilise the places already carrying too much movement - particularly the lumbar spine.

As a teacher, it also made me reflect deeply on sequencing. Rather than always beginning with sun salutations and repetitive sagittal-plane movement that can reinforce flexion and extension patterns in already mobile areas, there’s so much value in exploring the transverse and horizontal planes first - creating space, awareness and support before asking the body to move more deeply.

And perhaps the most beautiful reminder of all: whenever we hold rigidity in the body, we inhibit the flow of breath, prana, chi, ki … whatever language resonates most. Even in stronger asana, there has to be yielding. Whether in Warrior I or a restorative cervical extension, we have to learn how to soften while we strengthen.

A day full of nuance, curiosity and reminders that intelligent movement is never just about stretching more … it’s about supporting the body to move and breathe with greater ease. ✨

04/05/2026

Three powerful charms around my neck to infuse the start of the YTT this weekend with love. What is the power of 3 all about?

Trika 🕉️ the “threefold” heart of Kashmir Shaivism
teaches that all existence is a sacred union of:✨ Śiva (pure consciousness) ✨ Śakti (divine creative energy) ✨ Aṇu (the individual soul)

Its wisdom reminds us that we are not separate from the Divine… we are expressions of it.

At the core of Trika is Pratyabhijñā… the path of “re-cognition”: not becoming something new, but remembering who we truly are. 💫

Through the triads of:🔺 Will (Icchā)🔺 Knowledge (Jñāna)🔺 Action (Kriyā)

Trika shows that ‘enlightenment’ is not found by escaping life, but by fully awakening within it.

No renunciation…Trika is embodiment…. the body, emotions, senses, and everyday experience become gateways to consciousness itself. The world is not an illusion to reject, but Śiva’s divine play (līlā) to recognise and celebrate. 🌺

In the vision of Trika:🕉️ Everything is Consciousness.🕉️ Everything is Sacred.🕉️ Everything is Śiva.

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