Koa Yoga & Mindfulness

🌿 New Saturday Class at Dalbury Lees 🌿

Koa Yoga & Mindfulness is delighted to introduce a new Saturday morning wellbeing yoga class at Dalbury Lees Village Hall, starting this weekend.

Join us on alternate Saturdays from 9am–10am for a gentle, stretch-focused class designed to help regulate your nervous system, release tension and help you begin the weekend feeling calmer, more relaxed and grounded.

Suitable for all levels, each class combines mindful movement, gentle stretching, breathwork and relaxation, with plenty of options and modifications offered throughout.

Whether you’re looking to improve flexibility, ease stiffness, manage stress or simply carve out some time for yourself, this class offers a welcoming and supportive space to move and unwind.

💚 All levels welcome
📍 Dalbury Lees Village Hall
🕘 Alternate Saturdays | 9am–10am
📅 Starting Saturday 4 July

If you’d like to join us or find out more, please get in touch - we’d love to welcome you to the mat 🧘‍♂️

We're incredibly grateful to Derby & Burton Hospitals Charity for funding our Menopause Yoga Programme for another 12 months.

HUGE thanks to Steph Thompson and the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Wellbeing Team for championing the programme, and to everyone who has attended the sessions and shared their experiences and feedback along the way 💙

We're delighted that this support can continue for another year and look forward to welcoming many more colleagues to the mat 🧘‍♀️

🌟 Menopause Yoga Programme Extended for Another Year 🌟

We are delighted to share that our bespoke Menopause Yoga Programme has been re-commissioned for a further 12 months thanks to the generous support of Derby & Burton Hospitals Charity, in partnership with the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Wellbeing Team.

First introduced in October 2023, the programme provides dedicated menopause support for NHS staff at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, alongside wider health and social care colleagues across Derbyshire's local health and care system.

Each session combines specially adapted yoga, mindfulness and breathing techniques to help participants better manage common menopause symptoms including anxiety, overwhelm, fatigue, insomnia and hot flushes.

Over the past 12 months alone, more than 870 bookings have been made by UHDB colleagues, with participants reporting improvements in physical and mental wellbeing, including mood, sleep and stress levels.

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to:

💙 Derby & Burton Hospitals Charity for funding the programme for another year

💙 The UHDB Wellbeing Team for their continued commitment to supporting colleague wellbeing

💙 Everyone who has attended the sessions and shared their experiences and feedback - your support and engagement have helped make the continuation of this programme possible

We're incredibly proud to continue delivering this important support and look forward to supporting even more colleagues over the coming year.

🔗 Read more here: https://dbhc.org.uk/about-us/news/article/charity-funds-additional-menopause-support-for-staff/

🌿 Join Us for Mindful Yoga 🌿

Support your physical health and mental wellbeing with our calming, accessible yoga classes designed to meet you exactly where you are.

✨ What to Expect:
You’ll be guided through a series of poses that build strength, flexibility, and balance, while incorporating mindfulness and breathing techniques to help you relax, de-stress, and reset.

🧘‍♀️ All levels welcome – modifications offered throughout to suit your needs.

📅 2026 Classes:
🔸 Mon – Exertion Fitness, Mickleover | 6:30–7:15pm
🔹 Tues – Dalbury Lees Village Hall | 6:30–7:30pm
🔸 Weds – The Breathing Space Yoga Studio, Derby | 6–7pm
🔹 Thurs – Menopause Yoga (NHS staff) | 8–8:40am
🔸 Sat – The Workhouse Gym, Castle Donnington | 10–11am

📩 For more info or to book, please send a message – we’d love to welcome you to class.

Lovely to welcome some new faces to last night’s session at The Breathing Space Yoga Studio ✨

This class attracts a lovely mix of people who are brand new to yoga alongside those who practise regularly with us. With plenty of options and modifications offered throughout, the class is designed to be inclusive and accessible for all.

Our Wednesday evening flow will help you strengthen and stretch, improve flexibility and balance, and meet you exactly where you are right now.

You can join us:
🧘‍♀️ In person at The Breathing Space’s beautiful Granary Studio, set within the 17th-century Gells House
💻 Or online from the comfort of your own home
📍Wednesdays at 6pm.

With a focus on mindful movement, breathing techniques and relaxation, this nurturing session aims to leave you feeling wonderfully relaxed, calm, grounded and de-stressed.

Booking for this session can be made via the Breathing Space Yoga Studio.

For more information about any of our classes running across Derbyshire, please send a DM or email [email protected]

Our Festive Flows are in full swing 🤸‍♀️🎄

Thanks to those who joined me last Saturday for some Christmas calm at THE WORKHOUSE GYM ✨

Our Festive Flows are designed to build strength, improve balance, and give you simple tools to ease stress and anxiety during this busy season – with a few poses to support digestion for those inevitable Christmas overindulgences!

Our Saturday class runs 10-11am at The Workhouse Gym, Castle Donnington. Members can book via the app, and non-members are always welcome too.

To join us, or to find out more about all our festive flows running across Derbyshire this month, just drop me a message 🎄🧘‍♀️

Wonderful Christmas night out with the Dalbury Lees yoga crew 🎄✨

Laughing, sharing stories and proving once again what a truly special little community this Tuesday class has become 🫶

It’s an absolute pleasure to teach this group, and a real privilege to bring everyone together - to get to know you all, see you support each other, and watch you show up week after week.

A big thank you to everyone who came, we missed those who couldn’t make it.

And a special shout-out to The Bluebell, Kirk Langley for hosting us – it looked incredibly festive and the staff went above and beyond to look after us. Highly recommend 🙌

Our Tuesday yoga continues on 16th, 23rd and 30th December (6.30pm–7.30pm at Dalbury Lees Community Hall) - plenty of time to get your yoga on this Christmas 🧘‍♀️🎄

Message me if you'd like to join us. Booking essential.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… 🎄✨

Tree ✔️
Twinkly lights ✔️
A calm, cosy space and a lovely, welcoming group to unwind with ✔️

Dalbury Lees Village Hall is looking wonderfully festive, and our Tuesday evening flow offers a gentle pause in the middle of a busy December.

If you’re craving a little peace, connection and calm in among the sparkle, we’d love to welcome you from 6.30pm–7.30pm.

Message me to book, or to find out about all our yoga festive flows across Derbyshire this month 🧘‍♀️ 🎄✨

✨ HUGE thanks to my lovely NHS regulars who joined me (virtually) from Whitby for last week’s Menopause Yoga class! ✨

One of the perks of teaching online is being able to roll out the mat anywhere (Wi-Fi permitting!) - so while I was away on a little mini-break by the sea, we still managed our usual Thursday morning session.

Although I’ll admit... I had some extra company! 🐾

At home I have a dedicated teaching space, but in the holiday apartment I had two very inquisitive dogs to contend with.

Sparky (my Whippet-Collie whirlwind) was banished to the bedroom, but Hugo, my blind Boston Terrier, won the golden ticket to stay - where he promptly fell asleep and treated us all to a background soundtrack of tractor-level snoring! 😂

Huge thanks to my lovely ladies who took it all in their stride and said it was the most relaxing soundtrack ever 💙

If you work at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and fancy joining us for a Menopause Yoga session, we’re back to normal this week (no upward- or downward-facing snoring dogs!)

🧘‍♀️ Join us every Thursday at 8am, online via your Wellbeing Timetable

💜 Today is World Menopause Day 💜

Established by the International Menopause Society, this global campaign aims to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and improve the experience of women around the world 🌎

This year’s theme is Lifestyle Medicine - highlighting how nutrition, stress, sleep, and movement can positively impact menopause symptoms and overall wellbeing.

✨ Our Menopause Yoga Programme ✨

Since October 2023, we’ve had the privilege of supporting NHS staff across University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) through our bespoke Menopause Yoga sessions.

Each class combines:
🧘‍♀️ Gentle, specially adapted yoga sequences
🌿 Mindfulness and breathing techniques
💤 Tools to ease stress, anxiety, overwhelm, fatigue, low mood, and insomnia

These sessions offer practical, movement-based Lifestyle Medicine to help women navigate perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause with greater ease.

📆Delivered virtually every Thursday morning at 8am, our programme is free to access for all UHDB staff via the Wellbeing Timetable.

We’ve received incredible feedback from participants about how the programme helps them better manage menopause symptoms, and we’re proud to be part of this inspiring network of support for women’s health!

If you’re part of and haven’t joined us yet, we’d love to welcome you to the mat 🧘‍♀️ 🌸