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
18/11/2025
As we welcome the penultimate new moon of the year on 20th, it feels good to take some time to look within and contemplate what intentions you'd like to take forward into 2026. Each new moon is a time of darkness and allows us an opportunity for reverence, but this Cold Moon can help us prepare for the next year ahead. Ideas contemplated now can germinate in these dark months like those physical seeds buried deep underground. This darkness is the signal to begin the process of growth towards the light. What would you like to bring to fruition next year?
Maybe my pose for this new moon can help you find that contemplative state. Check out my blog on Rabbit pose over at essentialyoga.uk/blog
14/11/2025
Join us for a relaxing and restorative yoga special to celebrate the coming Winter Solstice. First some gently stretching yin yoga and then a totally restful yoga nidra, guiding you to a state of bliss through "non-doing". Starting at 4.30pm with ample time to chill and chat after with this friendly yoga community, and including a healthy grounding snack, why not treat yourself to something special in the final run up to the festive season. Email louise@essentialyoga.uk to book.
04/11/2025
As we approach the Full aspect of this Beaver, or Frost, Moon you'll find a new blog available working with one of the most stabilising and grounding poses, which allows us to look out and be open to whatever this strong energy brings. Read all about Mountain pose, and many different and accessible options, and maybe give it a try this Full Moon. https://www.essentialyoga.uk/post/yoga-for-the-moon-phases-1
Samhain: Descent, Ancestors & the Feminine Underworld As the final leaves loosen their grip and return to the soil, the festival of Samhain arrives like a whisper from another world to remind me its time to remember and descend. In the Celtic Wheel of the Year, Samhain marks both an ending and a...
19/10/2025
As we head towards the New Moon on Tuesday there is a new yoga blog available to help your practice.
19/10/2025
19/10/2025
All ready for the community cafe event at Calstock Village Hall. Come and say hi and see what goes on in the village
18/10/2025
Come and chat with me at this event to showcase all that goes on in Calstock
Calstock in Conversation this Sunday. Please spread the word and come along. It is hosted by Calstock Community Cafe so lots of lovely things to eat. If you are contributor we will be setting up from 11AM. See you there.
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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.
Classes use gentle music to suit the level and focus of the class. Mats and props are provided at classes taught at Space To Move in Plymouth, but if you wish to bring your own that is great.
Please wear clothes which are comfortable and that you can easily move and stretch in.
I also offer 'One to One' yoga sessions for all levels, either as one-off classes or as a series to help develop your own practice.
I am fully qualified and insured, and a registered teacher with the professional yoga body, Yoga Alliance.
