Akram "Warm" Yoga Studio

08/10/2025

Your breath reads emotions better than your therapist. So before we fix the pose, maybe fix our exhale 😮‍💨
For a free Mini Breathing course see link in bio 🔝

06/10/2025

Teacher Training Review ❤️❤️❤️
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06/10/2025

Yoga Teacher Training Assessment weekend 😳
They smashed it 👍🏽
Creating friendships and community (and amazing Yoga Teachers) since 2013 🙏🏾
See link in bio for our next training stating Jan 2026. Only a few spots left ✨

04/10/2025

Another ANATOMY video courtesy of my 5 year old and Spider-Man 🕷️ Science Made Simple 😎🫣

02/10/2025

Tried to use Zaccy’s action figures to teach Anatomy. And how not everyone’s bodies are built the same way. In spite of appearances.
The result is a mixed bag 🫣🤨😏
WHAT YOGA TEACHERS CAN LEARN FROM SPIDER-MAN 🕸️🕷️

01/10/2025

How many variations of Triangle 🔺do you practice? 🤨😤
For the full video 👉🏽 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j54m0vfrxA

08/09/2025

👉🏽 Beginner Yoga Course with Zahir Akram 🙏🏽
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Stiff? 🫤 Stressed? 😡 Feeling left behind? 😏
In 4 weeks you’ll feel stronger, calmer, and finally confident in yoga.
Move better. Breathe better and feel better.
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Take your first steps into learning yoga with our friendly Beginners Yoga Classes Near Me. Explore the fundamentals of yoga over the course of our Beginners Yoga at Akram hot Yoga Studio | Addlestone.

27/07/2025

Laura’s idea of a family portrait 🙄🤔
Just act natural.
Only real men will appreciate the hamstring struggle 😵‍💫🥹

08/06/2025

So this weekend at Teacher Training, we learned the complicated structure that is the vertebral column, the spine, and the pelvis 🦴. And I guess the most important takeaway is to remember that what we’re looking at is a process of evolution, rather than something that we often assume was designed for purpose. Shifting that perspective helps us understand why this structure fails so often — and so miserably.

The spine is complicated… but it can be simplistic. And in order to help you understand, I’m running a CPD course this coming Saturday 📚. CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development — it’s for yoga teachers who want to deepen their understanding of all things yoga 🧘🏽‍♂️. In this one-day CPD, you’ll learn everything I feel you really need to know to become a more confident teacher — and to make sure you’re guiding students in the right way, rather than (accidentally) causing harm, which can happen even with the best of intentions.

That said, the course is also open to non-yoga teachers — anyone who’s dealing with lower back pain, or who has a history of it, and wants to make sure the yoga they’re doing isn’t going to trigger old injuries or aggravate what’s already there 💥.

To Book - https://www.akramyoga.co.uk/back-pain-cpd

If your spine’s been giving you grief — or if you’re teaching others how to move theirs — this might be the course that puts things back into place… literally and metaphorically 😉

04/06/2025

As you might’ve heard, I’ve got a bit of a dodgy back 😏🫣 - I try not to go on about it 😵‍💫
So I’ve poured 20+ years of experience, my own pain, and a whole heap of science 🔬 into this one:

A one-day in-person CPD for yoga teachers on how to adapt yoga for students with chronic lower back pain 💊😰
SAT 14th JUNE - 8.30am-4pm 📆
https://www.akramyoga.co.uk/back-pain-cpd
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Because here’s the truth — around 80% of students have some form of back pain.
And we’re either helping them or accidentally making it worse 🥹

This CPD gives you the confidence and clarity to know what you’re doing — not just from tradition, but grounded in actual research and real-life experience.

If you’re a yoga teacher who wants to serve students better, this one’s for you 👊🏾

🗓️ Starts June 14
📍 In-house at Akram Yoga, Addlestone
🏆 Taught by Om Yoga Teacher of the Year (still sounds weird saying that…)

Spaces are limited — https://www.akramyoga.co.uk/back-pain-cpd

30/05/2025

In my new Blog, I explain through the yogic lens, what ANATOMY is. Here is a summary. It’s taken me a week to write it up and to sound marginally clever 🫣😏
“Anatomy is just a structure, a silent map of possibility, but when we breathe fully 🫁, consciously, we bring fire to the frame and awaken something ancient inside the body that no textbook can explain”
Read the full Blog - WHAT IS ANATOMY? 🤔 - A REFLECTION ON SHIVA & SHAVA 🙏🏾

https://www.akramyoga.co.uk/single-post/what-is-anatomy-a-reflection-on-shiva-and-shava

25/05/2025

The sanctuary- ready for Bank Holiday classes tomorrow 🙏🏾❤️