Imperfect Yoga

02/03/2026

Poses that are working well for me at 4.5 months pregnant (half way point time wise!)

1- pretty much all standing postures (with some modifications on parivritta parsvakonasana which generally gets replaced and or heavily modified (twisted side angle). Twisting triangle is still ok.

2-modified versions or additions to classic forward folds - turning them into side stretches + gentle counter twist and a limited forward fold depending on the day. Side bends are generally awesome anyways.

3-headstand, some days pincha or handstand at the wall - because it takes the weight off belly wise - but there's also more weight generally so not staying there too long and some days just not feeling it. Shoulderstand and plough are pretty much off the menu / far too uncomfortable already.

4-camel, thunderbolt, reclining hero, standing backbend or puppy pose all generally feel really nice but have to be careful and mindful not to overdo it with everything being a bit more lax in the pelvis region. I only go if I feel strong / engaged (keeping on at the gym a couple of times a week helps!)

5- occasionally I throw in a wheel on good days but mostly not at this point really!

Things that help - a) blocks for standing forward folds to work more on elongating the backbody without curving into the fold. b) listening, taking a few more days off than I normally would and doing shorter practices and longer warm ups or gentler practice -just because - but also enjoying a full session when feeling it, c) getting in the gym for some (not crazy but fun cardio) + weights d) appreciating the fact that mindfulness allows me to enjoy my practice sometimes even more as I discover new limitations and what works for me during this part of the journey.

Feeling grateful for the practice, the breath, and the mindset of acceptance and openess to change it helps me to continuously cultivate. ✨✨

01/02/2026

Every time we come here I love how all the colours and diverse objects mix and match and compliment all the diverse people and shapes in the room!

We are always so well looked after. The perfect vibes for a Yin session and all kinds of creative ways to practice.

This week we did a tuning fork chakra meditation and long hold yin with bowls.

It was awesome!

Lovely to be greeting new faces at the start of this year as well ♥️

Here's to many more colourful yoga brunches in 2026!

😎🌎🌸

19/01/2026

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Dear Imperfect Yogis, I hope you enjoyed a fabulous holiday season! Imperfect Yoga is back for 2026, with a few upcoming changes over the next months.... I waited a little while since the last newsletter because I wanted to be sure, but I can now tell you that this Imperfect Yogini is around 3.5 mon...

17/01/2026

Why 'Imperfect' yoga?

Well, because EVEN IF on one day you feel a pose click, like you are in the flow, like everything is perfect, your body and your mind are exactly as you would like them to be, you can be assured that on the next day, it will not be the same. And that is the whole point of yoga actually, to keep coming back to the practice and the present as it is, not as we would like it to be-

The 1st of November 2025 was one of those days for me, where the practice felt really great and everything flowed. At the end, I lay in savasana and felt a prickling sensation in my belly and wondered if the last embryo the IVF clinic we had transferred yesterday was perhaps implanting. I smiled at the thought that I might be connecting to my future baby through a yoga practice, and it was really cool. 'That's a great way to welcome someone into the world', I thought.

It turns out the embryo did stick, and then the rest of the year ended up being very turbulent with multiple burglaries, problems with the baby dad, and I got depressed and anxious. This is not the way l wanted to welcome my baby into existence. 😕

But you know what, every single day is different.

EVEN IF November 1st was a great day on and off the mat, all we can ever do is take each day as it comes. For sure my on-mat practice is changing a lot, and I'm training in prenatal and postnatal yoga now so that I can adapt for me and baby and share that knowledge with other imperfect (yoga) moms 🙂.

Chaturangas and up dogs are starting to be limited, anything belly down or deep twist is off the menu, and I can feel the body softening with the relaxin hormone peaking now. For a more 'hypo' body like mine that's actually a kind of cool experience which will also help me understand other types of students better.

I will be continuing to teach up until the end of May / mid-March although demoing less of some poses!

Imperfect yoga will take pause over the summer, but we'll be back in the autumn. Less retreats this year, but yoga brunches as usual! Swipe to see that start of a baby bump and a foetus doing headstand. 😎😁

04/01/2026

Imperfect Yoga-Brunches are back as of this Saturday.. first one back of the year at Grand café!

Sign up here:

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The full winter spring programme here:

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Join us for a morning of yoga and indulgence in the private upstairs salon of reknowned patissier Sébastien Gaudard's café in the 9th district of Paris. Brunch will be served afterwards. Quality yoga mats included.

02/01/2026

A New year begins again in the mountains!
2025 was a great year for Imperfect Yoga - our Paris community well and truly exists now and is solid.
There have been many fabulous yet simple retreats both in France and abroad, and I'm looking forward to welcoming yogis back to class at the regular yoga brunch and evolving as a teacher and a human being.

Happy new year everyone 🎉🎊🌞

28/10/2025

It's that time of year again soon!
This year Imperfect Yoga is going to a Chalet / spa in the Chartreuse for Christmas and New Year... Yoga, hikes / skiing depending on the snow, hot tubs, a massage if you fancy, and all the holiday vibes. Join us for Christmas, New Year, or for a few days between the two ✨🌲🦌

Prices starting at 580€
DM for the deets!

24/10/2025

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Dear Imperfect Yogis, As one of you recently pointed out, I've perhaps been having a little too much fun with AI generated yoga + halloween themed images... OK, guilty! Being a creative soul, sometimes I get carried away. There will be two Halloween themed sessions next week - a Yoga-Dinner session....

05/10/2025

I wanted to post this moment of catching balance today... I wanted to write something 'deep' to accompany it, and I did write a text that was honestly far too long - in fact so long it does not fit in the Instagram caption limit. At the end of the day, I realised the main thing I wanted to say was that going upside down brings me joy. I'm working on hands and forearms these days (along many other things !) and 'almost' finding balance, 'almost' being ready to come away from the wall brings me a lot of joy... I'm grateful for that. It's one of those silly simple pleasures not unlike curling up with a hot water bottle when it's cold and wet outside. Same but different. I also enjoyed the latter today.

In less than 10 minutes it will be Monday. Perhaps the world doesn't need more philosophy on a Monday so much as it needs some joy and softness to kickstart the week... So that's all I have to say. If the week is tough, upside down and / or hot water bottle. This is kind of a 'note to self' but feel free to try it out too. It also helps the joy factor if your hot water bottle is also cute and smiling at you. 🍁🤩😘

14/09/2025

A peak into Military Yoga!

Here's alook inside a 'Military Yoga' session at Basement Studios Paris.There are quite a few regular yogis who just love this format with Imperfect Yoga - i...

11/09/2025

Stepping into the rentrée like Mary Poppins with a Manduka brolly 😁🫧

04/09/2025

So I came accross this really fun photo from about 17 years ago here, and found it jolly entertaining.

In my mind, I had this idea that back in the day, some time many years before starting yoga, I had this random ability to do a fairly decent wheel pose. THIS is the fairly decent wheel pose of my minds eye. Ehem, need I say more.

You know how sometimes you look back and reminisce the past, then you get stuck in impressions of what you thought you once were? Let's face it, we all have a tendency to idealise the past or the future and to compare ourselves to what we believe we were or could have been.

This is just proof that those illusions are just that. I mean, I'm not judging past me either, I remember this being a really great day, and I remember feeling strong in the body I was in then as I feel strong in the body I'm in now, generally. It's the same body, and I'm still bow legged with limited joint ROM and compensatory strength as one can clearly see here!

And although I have a different conversation between body and mind going these days, through yoga practice, I still feel it is somewhat a continuation of the same conversation.

To live life is to engage with the world, whether that translates into making shapes, or making conversation, with the self, with the other, with the universal. To live life is to be, just as we are, and a sense of celebration is a natural cosequence of that - I find wisdom emerges alongside a kind of irony which recognises that all is as it once was and will always be, and all is perfect just the way it is because it is unchanging despite being in constant flux.