Ashtanga Yoga Plymouth

06/09/2026

Hello September! 🍁🍂🌾

It was lovely to be back teaching today after a short break. Thank you to all the awesome Ashtangis who brought such lovely energy to class! 🙏✨

With September bringing new beginnings, is it time to start your own Ashtanga journey? If you’re looking to take space for yourself, move your body, gain mental clarity, or connect with a friendly community, you are so welcome here.

Why practice Ashtanga Yoga?

•Physical Vitality: Build natural warmth to support your immune system, digestion, and lymphatic health.

•Strength & Flexibility: Safely loosen tight muscles and build functional strength.

•arity: Use breath and movement to quiet a busy mind and bust daily stress.

Whether you're brand new or returning to your mat, Every Body is welcome! 😊🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️🙏

📍 Where: Compton Church

⏰ When: Tomorrow at 6:00 PM

Bring a friend or come make a new one. Slide through the photos below for a few helpful beginner tips! 📷👇

05/09/2026

✨ Sunday Morning Reset ✨
Slow down. Breathe deeply. Move mindfully🪷

Join us tomorrow at 10am at Block Gym for an uplifting Ashtanga yoga practice devised to leave you feeling grounded, balanced and energised from the inside out ☺️

Then make the most of your Sunday...☀️🌊
Enjoy a walk by the sea, wander around the market, grab a coffee and carry that post-yoga calm into the rest of your day.

💛 Every Body welcome….Whether you’re completely new to yoga or have an established practice, you’ll be welcomed just as you are 😀🧘‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️🙏

✨ A little reminder...
Your yoga mat isn’t a place to perform.
It’s a place to come home to yourself.

Ashtanga yoga has never been about achieving the “perfect” pose or seeking external approval. It’s an inward journey - a practice that supports physical, mental and emotional wellbeing while cultivating strength, resilience and peace.

There is nothing to prove.
Nothing to compare.
Nothing to achieve.

Just breath.
Movement.
Presence.

The more we practice, the less it’s about what the body can do and the more it’s about how we feel, how we respond to life, and the peace we create within ourselves ☺️

02/09/2026

Despite what social media often portrays, Ashtanga Yoga is not just for gymnasts and 20-somethings in crop tops....

In my 40s I slipped a disc and my physio told me my core wasn't strong enough to support my back, even though I was doing all sorts of exercise! Around the same time, my belly bloating even had a colleague asking my hubby if I was pregnant!

That was my wake-up call. I found Ashtanga yoga, and today at 60, I am healthier (better immune system and no more hay fever👏), fitter, stronger, and more resilient - both physically and mentally - than I’ve ever been. No matching workout sets, extreme flexibility, or prior experience required!

Our welcoming community brings together people at every stage of life from 18 to 81, including beginners, uni students, busy professionals, and many students in their 50s, 60s, and beyond (my oldest student is 81 and has been practicing with me for 13 years!)

Because Ashtanga acts as a true moving meditation, this dynamic practice calms a busy mind, improves sleep, helps de-stress, and builds functional core strength to help protect your back. 
Every posture can be modified so you can safely challenge yourself, build confidence, and show up exactly as you are.

Class Timetable:

Sundays @ 10:00 AM: Block Gym, RWY 

Mondays @ 6:00 PM: Compton Church

Wednesdays @ 6:15 PM: Parish Centre, Stoke Damerel Church

Ready to feel stronger, calmer, and more energised? Every Body welcome 😊🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️🙏

Book your space at www.plymouthyoga.co.uk

31/08/2026

Return to the mat, return to yourself ✨

I hope you’ve had a wonderful bank holiday weekend.

As summer softens into autumn, it’s the perfect time to ease back into a routine and carve out dedicated space for yourself 🌻

Starting Sunday, September 6th, our regular schedule resumes. Rooted in tradition, each practice uses movement and breath to help you reconnect, build strength, and find inner calm. And I can’t wait to welcome you back!

Why Ashtanga Yoga? Unlike slower or more variable styles, Ashtanga offers:

✨A structured sequence that allows real progress.

✨A perfect balance of discipline and mindfulness

✨A moving meditation that calms the mind while energizing the body.

✨Physical challenge paired with deep mental clarity.

Join us on Sunday at 10am at Block Gym and experience the endless benefits for yourself😀

Whether you are completely new to yoga or a seasoned practitioner, every class includes modifications so you can show up exactly as you are.

Join our welcoming community and build clarity, energy, and balance for the week ahead…..Every Body welcome 😀🧘‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️🙏

Book here - www.plymouthyoga.co.uk

30/08/2026

Soaring through summer at 60 and pretty pleased with my recent progress in aerial acrobatics 🙃🤸‍♀️🎪✨

When I first stepped onto the mat to try Ashtanga yoga in my 40s, I knew immediately I was building strength, flexibility, and focus…but I never imagined it would take me all the way up into the air 🤸‍♀️ Turns out those endless Chaturangas were quietly helping train me to hang upside down with confidence 🙃

Proof that age is just a number and your body is capable of incredible things at any decade.

Grateful for this amazing practice that keeps me grounded so I can fly high.

Here’s to trying new things, pushing boundaries, and building the confidence to keep reaching higher 💛💪

Ready to build your own strength and focus? My Ashtanga Yoga classes are starting back from September 6th and I’d love to see you on the mat….Every Body, Age, Ability is welcome 😀🧘‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️🙏
Book here - www.plymouthyoga.co.uk

📷 Thanks to my fab teachers Katie Allen 𝒜𝓁𝒾 Kirsty 💜 Aerial Allsorts

25/08/2026

Yep! The same Krishnamacharya lineage runs through my own practice and teaching....grounded in tradition and no fluffiness or woo-woo 😉

When I started practicing, I thought spirituality had to announce itself.

I was attending many different classes.
The teachers who opened class with chakras, poetry, half-hour stories — sometimes too much bláblábla and frufrufru — I thought they were the spiritual ones. The Iyengar teacher I was practicing with never did that. Alignment, mechanics, structure. Nothing else. I quietly decided she wasn’t spiritual.

I was wrong.

Time passed. I came to understand that spirituality cannot be taught. We can teach religion, rituals, techniques to calm the mind — but spirituality transcends all logical knowledge.

Now I see her teaching for what it was, straight from the source — the same Krishnamacharya lineage that runs through my own practice today. And with so many new styles and trends claiming to hold spirituality, many beginners are misled.

Not everything that shines is gold.
Not everything that smells of Palo Santo is spiritual.

Photo Yoga photography - Comfy Yoga

23/08/2026

✨ Last chance to practice with me before a break! ✨

Join us tomorrow at 6pm at Compton Church for a grounding and cleansing, calming yet revitalising Ashtanga practice...

This will be our last class until September 6th, so come along, move, breathe and discover the many benefits of this powerful and transformative practice.

Whether you’re new to Ashtanga or already have an established practice, Every Body is welcome 😀🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️🙏

📍 Compton Church
🕕 Tomorrow at 6pm
📅 Back on September 6th

Come join us....your body and mind will thank you 😊

21/08/2026

✨ Finding Balance - Last couple of Classes Before a short Break!

Just 2 sessions left before I pause until September - and I’d love to see you on the mat 😃

In my classes we gather as a community, then move together towards awareness. I encourage students to not focus on perfection, but to focus on being fully present, connecting breath, body, and mind.

Ashtanga yoga is about how it feels... moving the body to quiet the mind, finding balance, and creating space within 😌

Why not discover the endless benefits of this traditional, grounding, balanced practice for yourself..... Every Body welcome 😃🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️🙏

August Dates -

✨ Sunday 23rd at 10am in Secret Garden, RWY

✨ Monday 24th at 6pm at Compton Church

Book here - www.plymouthyoga.co.uk 🙏

18/08/2026

Anyone else?🙋‍♀️
Why not join us tomorrow at 6.15pm for a stress busting, health boosting, calming yet uplifting Ashtanga session in the lovely Parish Centre of Stoke Damerel church.....Every Body welcome 😀🧘‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️🙏

Book here - www.plymouthyoga.co.uk 🙏

Scientific research shows that yoga transforms your brain neuro-plasticity (brain wiring) facilitating more happy thoughts and feelings, and decreasing a whole range of unpleasant ones.

Ashtanga yoga in particular, with all its forward folds, and then counter balance backbends, stimulates important nerves in the brain resulting in a feeling of calmness, that ‘yoga stoned' feeling we know so well 😊

16/08/2026

Sincerely, your Ashtanga Yoga teacher. Please spread the word.

See you tomorrow at 6pm at Compton Church for a stress-busting, calming yet uplifting Ashtanga practice. ..Every Body welcome 😀🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️🙏