Pathak Yoga

Pathak Yoga Pathak Yoga is a young, dynamic company that specialises in Office Yoga. We teach you there - right Well, not with us! We can even get you fit in 10 minutes!

Today’s working world is busy and hectic for everyone, be it down to work load, urgent and conflicting deadlines, challenging colleagues or clients, frequent travel, uncomfortable chairs, irritating commutes, combining work and family – you name it: the list is endless. In today’s world, even evenings at home or out with friends can seem stressful, and it’s hard to find the time or the discipline

to do any exercise at all. And if you do find time, it will often be cardio-based workouts because everyone is trying to get fitter, and doing yoga seems like the lazy way out. We will make sure your yoga lesson is a workout, too, but without giving you the stress to the joints of 30 minutes on a treadmill. Whether it's our after work classes, lunch time classes, or any of our health and safety focused chair, desk or "standing yoga" sessions, we can guarantee you'll feel refreshed and much healthier afterwards.

03/08/2026

New YouTube and on demand yin yoga class 🤗

27/07/2026

Why do people cry in yoga and sound baths?

On Friday I spoke about this and so much more with on her show Mental Health Matters.

We’re often taught that some emotions are acceptable, while others should be suppressed, hidden or quickly moved past.

But emotions are not simply “good” or “bad”. They are experiences moving through the body.

Sometimes movement, breath or sound changes the information going from the body to the brain. This can activate learned patterns involving the brain, the nervous system and the whole body, and bring something into our awareness that we weren’t consciously aware of.

And this is also why working with the body can be so helpful. Giving the brain different information, repeatedly over time, can help weaken or override existing neural and behavioural patterns.

So if you cry in yoga, meditation or a sound bath, it doesn’t necessarily mean something is wrong.

Maybe something is simply being felt.

And maybe that’s a good thing. 🥰

24/07/2026

I’m off on holiday next week (yes, again 🤭) so if you want to see me before late August, join me on Sunday in Brockwell Park.

DM for details 💜🤗🩷

20/07/2026

I teach a very specific relationship to yoga.

One that values self-inquiry over superficial self-improvement.

And that’s why I don’t believe yoga is for everyone.

Yoga doesn’t become more accessible by removing the very ideas that make it yoga.

Of course everyone can benefit from movement, breathing and relaxation.

But yoga was never intended to stop there.

Its purpose is to help us understand ourselves, consciousness and our place in this world more deeply.

And that inner journey won’t resonate with everyone.

16/07/2026

People often say that yoga is whatever you want it to be.

But does respecting a tradition mean changing it until it fits our beliefs, or allowing it to speak on its own terms?

In this short, I explore why I believe yoga is more than physical postures and why understanding its wider philosophy matters.

13/07/2026

Yoga has always been much more than creating shapes with the body.

It offers a way to deepen our relationship with ourselves, our bodies and the world around us.

Katu Pranam is one of the many ways we explore this deeper dimension of yoga on my on-demand platform.

For those who want to move beyond the surface and discover a more meaningful relationship with yoga.

Link in bio. 🥰

29/06/2026

Words like Namaste and Guru are often used in the yoga world, but rarely understood within the philosophical systems they come from.

(Clips from short film Namaste Yoga by Fijian Indian filmmaker - watch the whole film on YouTube, you won’t regret it 🥰
https://youtu.be/v2717zbuXHM)

The problem isn’t borrowing words from another culture.

The problem is reducing profound ideas about consciousness, self-realisation and the nature of existence into slogans, labels and aesthetics.

Yoga deserves to be understood on its own terms.

Have you come across other yoga words that you think are widely misunderstood?





25/06/2026

Most people think Hatha Yoga is a style of yoga.

Usually a slow one.

But Hatha Yoga is actually a vast category of practices that uses the body, breath and mind as tools for self-realisation.

Which raises an interesting question:

If we’ve misunderstood Hatha Yoga, what else might we have misunderstood about yoga?
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21/06/2026

International Yoga Day always makes me reflect on how differently yoga is understood in the West compared to the tradition it comes from.

We tend to reduce it to movement, flexibility and posture-based practice.

But at its core, yoga is concerned with something much more fundamental: how we relate to ourselves, our thoughts, the changing nature of life and ultimately how we understand the universe.

I’d love to know how you experience yoga - as movement, as meditation, or something else entirely?





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