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Monday 6:30am - 9:15pm Tuesday 10am - 9pm Wednesday 6:30am - 9pm Thursday 10am - 9pm Friday 6:30am - 7:30pm Saturday 9am - 1pm Sunday 9am - 11:30am 5pm - 6:30pm

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Akram "Warm" Yoga Studio

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A heated authentic Yoga sanctuary in Addlestone, Surrey ✨
🥇 Winner - OmYoga Magazine Favourite Yoga Studio 2024
🥇 Winner - Muddy Stilettos Studio of the Year in Surrey 2023
🥇 Zahir Akram - Om Yoga Magazine Yoga Teacher of the Year 2024

29/12/2025

The pelvis is like the foundation of a building (metaphoricaly framed). If it’s even slightly off-level, the whole structure feels wonky and unstable (science backs this: pelvic tilts from muscle imbalances affect posture, balance, and how poses like folds or backbends land) ⚖️😩🤷🏾‍♂️
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I broke mine many moons ago falling off a moped 🏍️(wish that story was cooler, tbh) and I’ve spend my fair share of years studying it. 👉🏽 Turns out even something small like stepping off a curb awkwardly can nudge your pelvis out of alignment. It’s your centre of gravity, so when it’s off, everything’s off. Balance wobbles and poses can feel rubbish 🥹
The sollution to those days you feel worse at yoga? Don’t push or fight your body on those tough days. Yoga progress is never linear. embrace the fluctuations. Rejoice on the good days and laugh off the bad ones. You will be back to normal next week 🫶🏽

22/12/2025

Have you been on the mat and thought 💭 “am I even doing this properly?” 🤷🏾‍♂️🫣
As far as I’m concerned, if you are not in pain when in the pose, you are winning. The less someone knows, the more of a fuss they make about what is the right or wrong way to do a yoga pose. The more a yoga teacher knows, the less the fuss. This is called the Yoga Dunning-Kruger Paradox.
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A cognitive bias where people with limited knowledge in Yoga overestimate their expertise and competence, leading them to be more dogmatic or fussy about “rules”.
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20/12/2025

When I say “traditional”, I don’t mean the 1940’s. I’m talking way back. In the case of 🦚 - the 10th century. I’ll be writing an in depth blog on the origins and history of these poses so sign up to our newsletter - www.AkramYoga.co.uk 🙏🏾
Also….. auto captions changed Vajrasana to Roger Asan and I thought, why not? 🙄

16/12/2025

With my experience, I can tell you that a lot of modern yoga is built on myths, not movement science. We treat cues as gospel and chase shapes our skeletons were never meant to make.

Ready to practice smarter, not harder? Follow along to learn how to make yoga work for YOUR body.

05/12/2025

My original reel was like 2 and a half mins long - I cut it down to get straight to the point.
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Essentially, beginners (& especially my fellow hamstrung heroes), get things wrong by doing poses in a way that doesn’t accommodate where they are in life. If your hammies feel like guitar strings 🥹, “hinging from the hips with straight legs” is your ultimate nemesis 😦🤯🫣
You can make that your goal for sure (though personally I think that approach is a bit dated) - but for now, do the pose this way so you can get where you wanna get.
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1. Bend your knees 🦵
2. Stick out your ample posterior 🍑
3. Bring hands to the flow (and belly to your thighs) 🤞🏽
4. and stay here till the day you can straighten your legs 🙄🙏🏾

Trust me fam. It feels like 2 steps back but it isn’t. It’s science 🧬

03/12/2025

A simplistic overview of why so many people can feel worse after yoga 🧠. It’s a question I get asked so often.
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If you feel worse after class, it’s just a process. Over time, you’ll learn, as I did, to find that balance between brute caveman effort and that serene, point-your-toes “surrender” ⚖️
In yoga it’s called finding the balance between sukha and duhkha (pronounced Sook & Dhook - but not by everyone 🙄😤). It took me years, so don’t stress if you feel sore or feel like you’ve just been dragged out of a shark’s mouth after yoga 🦈😖
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You are not alone. Just like soreness from other physical disciplines, it will pass as the body (the brain specifically 🧠) adapts. Just keep going. If you’re doing yoga, you’re winning fam 🙏🏾🙏🏾

26/11/2025

ThThe most effective, evidence-based way to improve your forward fold? 🔬
It’s not what you think.
Keep watching. It’s only three steps.

And yes… I let the captions spell out Paschimottanasana 🫣
Because why not?

Quick disclaimer:
Even though I talk about the nervous system here, I don’t teach “nerve flossing” in a yoga class. That stuff belongs in the hands of a physio, not a yoga teacher trying to look clever on Instagram.

My approach is simple: I use my understanding of physiology to adapt what already works, instead of forcing fancy drills that don’t belong in a yoga class.
Know what I mean?

Q -Wait fam, why shouldn’t yoga teachers teach nerve flossing? I’ve seen loads of teachers do it 😦😳

My reply: 😏
Nerve flossing is brilliant in the right hands. The issue is accuracy. If you misjudge it, you can aggravate symptoms instead of helping.
I prefer to keep yoga yoga and let physios do the physio work. My job is to make the existing practice safer, simpler, and actually effective.

23/11/2025

When poses don’t go the way you want them to. Or they feel harder than they should. Always go back to basics. Before alignment and workshops and anything else, go back to the core of what makes yoga. It’s almost too simple which is why people dismiss it. Physical Yoga starts and ends with physiology 🧠

21/11/2025

The question I’ve been asked the most over the years, apart from “why don’t you like hugs?” Is what on earth am I stretching in this pose? 🙄❓The answer is actually really complicated. But there is also a simple(ish) answer.
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If you bend backwards, you stretch the front. If you bend forward, you stretch the back. Where specifically in the back is dependant however. Know what I mean? 🫣🧐😏
In future reels I’ll try and explain the science in my usual dumbed down fashion.
Also, I used the word “stretching” loosely. That’s not always what happens 🥹😩🤷🏾‍♂️🫥😤

Address

157 Station Road
Addlestone
KT152AT

Opening Hours

Monday	6:30am - 9:15pm
Tuesday	10am - 9pm
Wednesday	6:30am - 9pm
Thursday	10am - 9pm
Friday	6:30am - 7:30pm
Saturday	9am - 1pm
Sunday	9am - 11:30am
	5pm - 6:30pm

Website

http://www.akramyoga.co.uk/

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