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Saturday 9am - 5pm Sunday 9am - 5pm

Ayatana, 4 Reeve Road, Stansted (2026)

05/06/2026

It's been a good week 🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️

New classes, private students, attended a Combat class I haven't been to in months & loved it, physio, courtesy car, tattoos, tattooed myself! chucked a barbell about & did about 5 squats amongst chatting 🙈

3 weeks until my Summer Solstice retreat!

Next weeks 90 min Inversion class is FULLY BOOKED! 🙌🏻 But there's lots of other classes for you to attend 🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️

AYATANA, Stansted Mountfitchet
Monday 9.30am
Tuesday 9.30am, 6pm & 7pm
Tuesday *NEW Yin Yoga 11am

Ugley Village Hall
Friday 9.30am

Akasha Wellness, Bishop's Stortford
Sunday 9.30am
Sunday 10.40am & Thursday 7.30am - Hot Yoga

04/06/2026

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01/06/2026

*New 90 min Yin Yoga class 💚

Huge thanks to .somers.3 & .chipperfield for booking onto my 1st, new Yin Yoga class added to the Ayatana schedule 🙏🏻

I'm not newly trained to Yin, I've actually been qualified for just over 3 years & love the practice, but the timing to add a regular class to the studio has never been right.....until now!! Attending my wonderful teacher Jac's retreat in Bali in April re sparked my love for it, so I created some space & have taken the chance!

Yin Yoga embodies TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), drawing deeply on the meridian lines, or the Qi (life force energy) that moves through & connects our emotions, organs & seasons.

I took these 2 lovely students through a Late Spring practice today. In Yin, this is associated by the Earth element, represented through the Spleen & Stomach meridians.

The Stomach meridian moves down the front of the body & legs, the Spleen meridian travels primarily along the inner legs.

The 'shapes' are held for longer, heavily supported with props & are guided by breath - Ujjayi breath which allows the body to fully relinquish into the support of the earth beneath you.

Rather than focusing on the 'Yang' of muscle activation, Yin Yoga targets the deeper connective tissues, the tendons, ligaments & fascia, allowing their fibrous like state liquify & find more fluidity. This leads to better mobility & exploring the parasympathetic state, our rest & digest over the sympathetic.

Whether it's Yin or Yang, isn't Yoga just magic!!! ✨

As from next week, this class will be held on Tuesdays @ 11am - 12.30pm

£16pp drop in or 4 for £60

31/05/2026

• C O N S E N T • ✋

I place these cards at the end of everyone's mat at the start of my larger classes. I set them down as shown on blue, 'Yes' to adjustments please & explain that on the other side they're red for 'No' adjustments today thank you.

No questions asked. No explanations need to be given. Simply to choose what they prefer.

I attended a class as a student last week & I genuinely don't mind what is being taught. There are elements to a Yoga class that I prefer over others, but to be honest, it's an opportunity to listen & enjoy!!

What I notice more is what isn't done, especially when it's the fundamentals.

The teacher didn't say hello, ask my name, or introduce herself. If there was anything that she needed to be aware of (there was no h&s form completed beforehand) but the biggest one was that she adjusted me without asking consent.

I actually like adjustments, but it really made me think about how I would feel if I didn't?? Someone putting their hands on me if I didn't like being touched?? She had never met me before & knew nothing of my history.

What are your thoughts??

Classes start again tomorrow.....don't forget to book on!!! 🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️

30/05/2026

My ducks have never been in a row & I've never ran a tight ship!

I'm unorganised, forgetful (peri-meno kicks my arse some days with that) & often late....
But I'm passionate, hard working, fiercely loyal & love with my whole heart ♥️

I used to feel like I was a bit chaotic. Now I love & appreciate that I just live fully in the present moment. It's the only place that life truly exists ✨

❤️

29/05/2026

No filter needed on this one 🌊🧘🏼‍♀️🛖

Last day of our Cornish holiday & caught a class this morning with my lovely who moved to Newquay from Stortford 2 weeks ago!!!

It's important as a teacher to go to other teachers classes. This one had a strong focus on alignment, (teacher is an Osteopath) & gentle....however there was a 10 breath Utkatasana...we all know a 2 breath 'Chair Pose' feels like 10, so 10 feels like 20!

We've had the most fantastic week with the weather & our accommodation, The Headland Hotel has lived up to every expectation 🤍

I'm back next week lovely Yogis, with 2 NEW classes on the schedule!!

• M O N D A Y
9.30am - All abilities
11am - *NEW 90 min Yin Yoga -
- Both at Ayatana, Stansted Mountfitchet

• T U E S D A Y
9.30am - All abilities
11am - *NEW Dynamic/Workshop 90 mins (this week is Inversions)
6pm - Power Yoga
7pm - Power Yoga
- All at Ayatana, Stansted Mountfitchet

• F R I D A Y
9.30am - All abilities
- Ugley Village Hall

Sunday 9.30am - Classic
Sunday 10.30am - Hot Yoga
Thursday 7.30am - Hot Yoga
in Stortford, beautiful studio, please book directly through their website. Non members welcome 🤗

22/05/2026

🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️ Who is Yoga for??

Answer....everyone!!! 🤍

This lovely bunch attended my 'All Abilities' 9.30am class this morning at Ugley Village Hall

I'll be honest, I don't like labelling classes with ability level because what does that even mean??? Who I would deem to be an advanced practitioner is probably not what you expect & has absolutely nothing at all to do with flexibility, whether you can touch your toes or do a deep backbend.....& I mean nothing....

But I do because going to a class can be intimidating & this isn't an hour of a dynamic, strong practice, so the wording needs to reflect that.

My 'All Abilities' classes do have some heat but what one student finds physically hard, to another can feel easy. Our anatomy plays a huge role in what our physical bodies will allow us to do but the physical postures or the asana, are only one limb of our Yoga practice.

Men, women, a range of ages, this is what I love about the community that I have created & continue to grow 🤍

There is no hierarchy to the versions you take. Props are used to open up, to expand, to get your prana, your energy flowing freely. There's no expectation from me, I generally ask you to leave your expectations of yourself at the door & come in with an open mind & heart ♥️

If you follow me & haven't been to a class before, I'm your incense burning, mantra chanting, Sanskrit teaching, long Savasana with massage kind of teacher....

I'm not for everyone, I don't want to be!! But if what I've said sounds like a bit of you, come along 😊

• Monday 9.30am - Ayatana Stansted
• Tuesday 9.30am - Ayatana Stansted
• Friday 9.30am - Ugley Village Hall

🔗 Link in bio to book

16/05/2026

This week was 'Mental Health Awareness Week' 💚

6 months ago today, I lost someone I loved the bones of to su***de. I knew he was struggling, I'd known for 18 months, but never in my wildest nightmares did I think it would lead to him taking his own life 💔

I'm not over it. I think about him every day. I don't think I'll ever understand why someone as incredible as him thought that we'd be better off without him, we're not. But that's the thing about mental health, it's a dark cloud that can smother anyone to the point of despair.

I'm grateful for the glue that's kept me together. 'Picking up the pieces of each other to get through'

Mental health is a complex monster. I won't even begin to say I know how to combat it, I only know that I'm lucky enough not to suffer.

Just know that my studio, my sanctuary, is a safe place. Come as you are. No expectations.

15/05/2026

🌑 N E W M O O N I N T A U R U S ♉️

My own little Taurean beauty held a Gong Bath for me after my event tonight! She weren't bad at all....then told me to sit up & wiggle my toes, laughing her head off! 😂

I had a lovely bunch of ladies in the studio tonight, 2 groups of 3 friends....who knew each other! A couple of returners & 4 newbies 🤍

♉️ Ta**us is the 1st Earth sign of the Zodiac (Capricorn is the 1st of the standard year) A fixed sign that sits in the middle of seasons....Spring into Summer in this case.

They hold themes of steadiness, feeling rooted with an enduring energy 🪾

'Root to Rise'....we need to be rooted in our own truths, our own realities before we can rise & grow.

What/Who/Where makes you feel rooted, secure & safe???

♉️ 🌎

14/05/2026

It's been a headstand kind of week!! Not just for me & my students, other Yoga teacher friends have done the same with theirs ❤️

This is Sirsanasa 2, where your hands form part of the tripod that supports you.

It's that bubbling Summer energy on its way, it's naturally calls for a more active practice, more Yang than Yin ☯️

That's what you get from Yoga that differs to other practices. Seasonal shapes & breath that flow with the time of year ❤️ An innate sense of what our body needs & what will feel more natural which each turn of the wheel.

This is also what I love about small classes where I know my students practice. I would never bring in headstands to a full studio class of large numbers.

I will be adding 90 min sessions to my studio in June, classes of 4 & inversions will be on the schedule 😀

📸 pic taken in during my 7.30am Hot Yoga class. Come along!!! Book directly through Akasha, non members welcome 🤗

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