Yogi Sanctuary

Flight School Workshops at Yogi Sanctuary sit alongside the regular Sunday 12.30pm classes and are designed to give you the extra time to play and experiment at a level that works for you, while being guided by Anna, our incredible Aerial yoga teacher, so that you gain the skills and confidence to progess.

Come and learn to fly with us.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
20th June : Flight School Beginners
25th July : Flight School Improvers
15th August : Flight School Beginners
26th September : Flight School Improvers
24th October : Flight School Beginners

Aerial Yoga is open to 12 years and above. No experience necessary for our Beginners workshops. Reach out if you have any questions 😊
Book via the app or website

For years we’ve talked about flexibility, mindfulness, rest and self-care.
Now it’s time to talk about strength.

Not gym culture.
Not punishment.
Not shrinking ourselves.
Real strength.

The kind that helps you carry shopping without thinking twice.
Get up from the floor with ease.
Protect your bones.
Support your joints.
Move confidently through life.

Research continues to show that strength training is one of the most important things we can do for healthy ageing, particularly for women through midlife and beyond.

That’s why Empower, our Circuit classes, have become such an important part of what we offer at Yogi Sanctuary. Alongside Yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi and Aerial, strength training helps us build resilient bodies to support the lives we want to live.

We’re also delighted to welcome Fran to our Empower team alongside Laura. Fran will take our Friday class at a new time 5.45pm and Laura continues in her 9.30am slot on a Tuesday.

At Yogi Sanctuary we believe wellbeing is built through the practices, habits and connections that help us feel strong, balanced and fully alive.

We cannot do much about your environmental, financial or nutritional wellbeing - though our activities certainly help with your sleep - but we can help you take care of the rest. We believe each pillar strengthens the others.

Together they support a life of vitality, resilience and wellbeing.

Today I learned that one of our community members, a young woman I have known since I first began teaching yoga, is facing breast cancer.
Since her diagnosis she has already undergone surgery and is now preparing for chemotherapy. She is making decisions and facing challenges that no young woman should have to face. I have no words for what I am feeling for this beautiful girl with a heart the size of the earth and whose energy transforms every room she enters. I always smile when I see her name on the class list.

Too many times in recent years someone I care about deeply has walked this path.

Another incredible woman in our community continues to show up with extraordinary courage and grace as she navigates her own treatment. Her heart, her passion, her determination has blown everyone away. She is an inspiration.

And last year, we lost a beloved member of our studio family to this disease.

As a yoga teacher, I sometimes wonder whether what I offer is enough. It is only movement and breath. An hour away from the noise of life.

But moments like these remind me why I teach.

Not because yoga can fix everything. It can’t.

But because sometimes it offers a place to rest when life becomes unimaginably heavy. A place to breathe when the future feels uncertain. A place to be held by a community that sees you, cares for you and walks beside you.

To the women facing battles they never asked for: your strength humbles me.

Teaching yoga gives me the privilege of meeting people for a season of their lives.

Sometimes that season is joyful. Sometimes it is painful. Always, it is an honour.

Today my heart is with every woman facing breast cancer, every family supporting them, and every person carrying burdens that others may never see.

You are stronger than you know and you do not walk alone.

Sending much love Stef # # #

This month in Book Club, we read The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller. The group loved the atmospheric Cape Cod setting – which drew us straight into the story - and the novel’s complex relationships, which prompted plenty of lively discussion about morality and the choices made by certain characters. The ending proved divisive - and some of us also found the shifting timelines too distracting, but there was no shortage of debate! 7/10. What did you think?

📚Join us for our next read – Gillian Mc Allister’s Famous Last Words. If you’ve read it - no spoilers 🤫.

📚Want to chat about this and all things books? Then join us Sunday 12th July for our monthly Book Club. This is our Book Clubs first birthday so expect extra special cake 🍰

Strong bodies. Strong minds. Strong communities.
Research shows that resistance training is one of the most powerful things women can do as they age. Supporting bone density, muscle is mass, balance, mobility, metabolism and brain health particularly through perimenopause and beyond.

That’s why Empower has a place on our timetable.

It’s not about burpees, bootcamps or pushing to exhaustion. It’s about building strength that supports everyday life, moving well, feeling capable and having a laugh with a welcoming group of people while you do it.

We’re now looking for a qualified fitness instructor to lead our Friday 5.30pm Empower class and become part of our growing wellness community.

If you believe exercise should leave people feeling stronger, more confident and more connected, we’d love to hear from you.

Get in touch to find out more.

June is often a strange month.
The year isn’t new anymore, summer holidays haven’t arrived yet, and we are running on autopilot.

The diary gets busier.
The days get longer.
Work ramps up.
Weekends disappear.
And somehow we tell ourselves we’ll make time for ourselves later.

When things calm down.
When work eases.
When life feels less hectic.

But what if the thing you need isn’t another item on your to-do list?

What if it’s an hour to move.
To breathe.
To stretch.
To switch off.
To laugh.
To connect.
To remember what it feels like to be with yourself again.

Whether you’re looking for strength, flexibility, calm, better sleep, less stress, community, creativity, friendship or simply a reason to leave the house for an hour, there might be something waiting for you this month.

➡️ Swipe through to see our June classes, clubs, workshops and events.
Your future self will thank you for booking before life gets in the way. 💛

Most of us feel like we don’t have enough energy.
But maybe, we just need to stop scattering the energy we already have.

Our monkey minds and attention are constantly feeding something:
A thought.
A habit.
A worry.
A dream.
A relationship.
A belief.

It can be exhausting.
I know. I spent a good half an hour this morning trying to focus on class writing but instead filling my head with an internal monologue of what I would love to say to my noisy neighbours from hell who are incapable of normal volume speech and whose base line of constant yelling and shouting to each other shows zero consideration for anyone else and makes sitting in our garden pretty miserable (mini rant over sorry ☹️).

Was I focusing on the right thing? Almost certainly not as it yielded no positive results, didn’t get any meaningful classes written and just filled me with stress hormones! What I should have been doing was concentrating on my work rather than fantasising about them moving house.

In yoga the practice of focus is called Dharana. It’s focusing without forcing, without striving, simply learning to place our attention where it matters most. Dharana within the Sutras is within the journey to meaningful meditation, but it can be a useful tool to master for day to day life.

It’s incredibly difficult. Our minds will want to skit away from anything that is hard.
It takes awareness, presence and practice. We need to train our minds like we train our bodies.

Last month in class, through Svadhyaya and our exploration of Samskaras, we became more aware of the patterns shaping our lives.
This month we ask a different question - where do I want my energy to be focused on?

Throughout June we will explore focus not as an intensity but as a gentle returning. A returning to body. A returning to breath. A returning to what matters. We’ll be exploring what happens when we stop trying to do everything and instead become more intentional about where our awareness and energy goes.

✨Because where attention goes, energy flows.

✨June Class Theme: Dharana – the practice of focussed attention and awareness.
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