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Yoga classes focusing on what each person needs, with caring pose options for all bodies.

Group classes, 1 to 1 sessions, corporate wellbeing and events, plus regular relaxing yoga nidras

31/01/2026

Wow - what a day coming up tomorrow. Full moon and the cross-quarter day of Imbolc. I'll be celebrating by running a unique event in Calstock with written meditation/mantra, plus yin yoga and a special intention-focused yoga nidra for Imbolc beginnings. If you can't make that though, do treat yourself with a read through of the newest Full Moon Yoga pose blog at essentialyoga.uk.
Imbolc blessings to you all 💜🌿💜

27/01/2026

Last chance to get booked in for the Imbolc yoga special on Sunday 1st Feb at 4.30pm at Calstock Village Hall. Just a few places left now. This time there's a written meditation activity as well as yummy stretchy yin yoga poses followed by blissful rest in the sleep of the yogis. All welcome - no experience needed. Book via essentialyoga.uk website or email louise@essentialyoga.uk. Link with full details in comment below.

21/01/2026

Yoga at Calstock Hall - Wednesday 6-7.15pm every week. Tonight we'll be taking our time over our physical poses and our breath and exploring the path to stilling the mind. Why not join us? Returners and newcomers all welcome, including beginners. Bring a mat - message/email me for info: louise@essentialyoga.uk
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19/01/2026

How was the New Moon for you yesterday? Did you find some time for yourself. to move gently and to reflect? The thoughtful cat-cow yoga movements can help us connect with our body, our mind and our breath. Great for any time of the month. Read all about it on my https://www.essentialyoga.uk/post/yoga-for-the-moon-phases-cat-and-cow-poses blog post.

12/01/2026

Intention, Yoga & Nidra - Repetition, Relaxation and Rejuvenation
Sunday 1st Feb 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Imbolc marks the beginning of the return of life to the land. The dark days are behind us and we really start to see signs of rebirth; the green shoots of the spring crocuses and daffodils poking through, buds on the trees starting to open. Another Spring and Summer are ahead. Where are we going with our path this year? To explore we have a special event of 3 yogic practices:
Likhita Japa is a practice for spiritual, mental and emotional wellness, involving repeatedly writing mantras as a form of meditation or devotional action. This practice helps with concentration and is a lesser known but simple and effective method of meditation. Additionally you create a beautiful design to take away with you. In this workshop, we will also consider how this might be used with sankalpa/intention in order to set us up for the year to come.
The relaxing yoga practice will involve longer held physical poses with plenty of use of props to support the body. There will be personally tailored options, and gently moving counter poses between the longer held poses. This style of yin yoga fosters a calm energy and allows the fascia (connective tissues wrapping our organs and muscles) to release.
Yoga nidra, on the other hand, is not a physical movement practice; participants find a comfortable place to rest - again props are always encouraged to help you find stillness - then we allow the body to completely rest while the mind follows the full nidra technique into an effortless and restorative state of complete "non-doing".
These 3 practices together will help us explore our soul's purpose, and encourage a deep relaxation of not only the body, with deep release found in the stretches, but also a deep rest for the mind, as it is led through the layers of consciousness to a state of bliss.
Email louise@essentialyoga.uk for details and to book

03/01/2026

What a lovely comment in email today - read the blog on their website or mine, but do enjoy the gorgeous full wolf supermoon tonight - stunning

02/01/2026

It appears the pictures I intended for yesterday's post only made it to FB not Insta - so here's an extra post to make up for it

01/01/2026

Today we welcome in the calendar year 2026. What will you welcome in to your world this year? I'll be moving and breathing, dreaming and creating - and trying to share as much of that as possible with those around me.
As we head to another Full Moon on 3rd Jan there's a new yoga pose blog available on the website at www.essentialyoga.uk/blog so find some inspiration to look at things from a different perspective there.
Also a quick reminder to book your place on the special event for Imbolc - taking a creative look at intention/sankalpa/mantra as well as gently moving and finding the bliss of yogic sleep. Places are filling up fast, so book yours at www.essentialyoga.uk/events-workshops

18/12/2025

The next New Moon is just round the corner, so here is great pose in which to pause, and from where we can easily move forwards to a multitude of possibilities. Where will your next steps towards 2026 take you? Where do you wish to head? Perhaps a sankalpa is forming to help you follow your path.
My blog on Table Top pose for the New Moon can be found at https://www.essentialyoga.uk/post/yoga-for-the-moon-phases-table-top-pose

12/12/2025

On Wednesday we looked at Tandavasana in class. Today I saw a reel giving additional insight that I thought I'd share. Link in first comment.

03/12/2025

Here comes the Full Moon, so take a peak at another pose for the full moon blog - this time it's Goddess pose - over at essentialyoga.uk/blog

29/11/2025

Plan some time in for yourself during the festive run up (or treat a friend or relative💜) - still a few spaces left for this relaxing stretch and rest session on Sunday 14th Dec in Calstock.

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Welcome to Essential Yoga

Having danced since aged 2, and still dancing today, I moved over time to include more and more yoga in my movement practice; it’s not only great for the body but also brings massive mental and spiritual benefits.

I’ve always been driven to seek new knowledge, and share that understanding with others so it was kind of inevitable I became a fully qualified yoga teacher. So building on that solid basis and decades(!) of experience of different movement forms, I aim to help others find the all-round well-being that yoga can provide; Strength, stamina, the ability to be still, and, yes, in due course, increased flexibility. Yoga bring benefits to everyone, and can be practiced by every body, regardless of size, shape, age, gender or fitness.

With a focus on good alignment, careful transitions, and a linkage to how each person feels at any given time, Essential Yoga classes provide a thoughtful path to physical, mental and spiritual well-being. I particularly follow the natural seasons and rhythms of the wheel of the year, and classes are designed to work with the varying needs and feelings those changing seasons bring.

My classes are friendly and empowering with a welcome for all. I aim to create a relaxed, learning atmosphere, where each person can take their practice to the level they wish, and to provide a mix of energising and relaxing asanas/poses and pranyamas/breathing. I also like to bring some explanation of phrases, terms, physiology, concepts, philosophy etc into the classes to aid understanding of the “why” of yoga.