Akram "Warm" Yoga Studio

Akram "Warm" Yoga Studio Addlestone's heated authentic Yoga sanctuary.
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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

04/05/2026

Now, just to be clear, I’m not dissing any teacher 🫣 or saying that you shouldn’t teach the poses mentioned above 👆🏽 They are absolutely fine and work really well for certain populations. The teachers at my studio who teach them clearly have immense confidence in their students, and when a student has a decent level of tolerance, those poses can be very effective 👍🏽🙏🏾
The reason I’m sharing this is to help you appreciate that following conventional tradition isn’t always necessary. Challenging ‘what has always been done’ doesn’t mean you are disrespecting the yoga lineage. In fact, challenging the teachers who came before them is exactly what the most celebrated masters (like Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois) did themselves.
If you are not honoring what feels right, you are not doing yoga. So, teach those poses by all means. But teach them because it feels right, not because you feel you should 👊🏾💥

01/05/2026

In the eyes 👀 of the Tao, the greatest barrier to truth is the belief that you have already found it. People often see education (like a Yoga Teacher Training) as something that will build them up. But I feel like true education starts in the process of unlearning. Being dismantled 😤. As a wise old yogi 👳🏾‍♀️ once said; “If you arrive with a closed fist full of facts, there is no room for the universe to take your hand.”. Er, that yogi was me btw 🫣🧐
But I’m sure you knew that from reading my book 📕 😏👊🏾

30/04/2026

Anatomy is just an interpretation of how a body moves, and Philosophy is just an interpretation of how we live.

29/04/2026

I’m Zahir 👳🏾‍♀️ yoga teacher, exercise physiologist 🫀, and someone who spent years doing yoga before I actually understood it. bit embarrassing really.
this account is for students and teachers who want to go deeper than the poses. the science, the philosophy, the tradition. all of it, no gatekeeping, and occasionally some very bad anatomy puns 🫣🫶🏽 (catch them at your peril).
I’ve trained hundreds of students and teachers, and in 2024 Om Yoga Magazine named me Yoga Teacher of the Year 🎖️which I am still slightly smug and embarasssed about.
follow along if you want to understand yoga beyond the poses as the irony is that it actually end up helping you understand the poses 🧐😤🤷🏾‍♂️

27/04/2026

Yoga injuries stem not from the practice itself, but from a flexibility and strength mismatch.
They happen when we pursue extreme flexibility without building the necessary strength and control.
And that’s what the standing poses offer.
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Work the muscles when you stand and stretch them when you sit 🙏🏾👊🏾

22/04/2026

This MJ inspired chair pose loads your intrinsic foot muscles 👣 in a way that standard chair pose never touches. Your toe flexors are the unsung heroes of every standing balance you’ve ever attempted, and most yoga classes completely ignore them. Warrior III, Tree pose, basically anything on one leg… it all starts down here 🦶
Don’t stop til you get enough ankle stability 🫣😤

21/04/2026

“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.” - Voltaire 🧐😳💡
The biggest driver for deeper forward folds (standing or seated) remains consistent, patient repetition of the actual movement itself. The social media “tweaks” (like specific activations or drills) often deliver only marginal, short-term gains for most people, not the transformative shifts often promised.
Repetition is boring. But it is works 👊🏾

16/04/2026

Just like getting sick 🤢 when pathogens 🦠 overwhelm our immune system - we feel the symptoms. The demand on our immune system exceed its ability to fight back. The same things happens with our lower back. The daily loads (prolonged sitting, awkward lifting, repetitive movements, emotional stress) accumulate. When we consistently exceed what our lower back can handle, pain emerges as a warning signal ‼️⚠️
This 60 second reel is science made simple 🔭🧬
There is NO WAY I can cover every nuance, INDIVIDUAL VARIATION, genetics etc in one video. I break this down further on YouTube 🙏🏾👀

14/04/2026

I know I sound like a broken record on this point and that is intentional. Some messages deserve repetition because they can completely change how we practice YOGA 🤨🧐 👇🏽
Simply hanging in standing poses, relying on gravity gradually makes us WEAKER and less stable.
In contrast, holding yourself up builds real strength, stability, and RESILIENCE 💪🏾👊🏾.
👉🏽 as I say in class all the time 👉🏽 It should feel like your body is being fighting the demand of gravity, whilst being stretched at the same time 😳💡
yogateacher

10/04/2026

Most students hurt even more when they’re prescribed poses for an injury they have 🚑
Believe me, I’ve been on the receiving end of it 😭
The most empowering thing we can do as yoga teachers isn’t to fix our students. It’s to know enough so we can help them understand their own pain.
When someone finally gets WHY they’re hurting, not just what stretch to do about it, that’s when everything shifts.
That’s how you really impact someone’s life. For all the right reasons 🙏🏾

09/04/2026

Back to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & back to my educational content 🙏🏾👇🏽
All my online courses are are designed NOT to instil a dogma, or to teach your everything (that’s impossible) but to give you the confidence to challenge conventional YOGA WISDOM. The same “wisdom” that for many students, causes more harm than good 🧐💬
My goal is to help teachers discard collective “knowledge” and to discover their own truth - as true wisdom (from back pain to yoga beyond the poses) comes from personal experience rather than following the crowd.
Education should be about EMPOWERMENT and not obedience 🙏🏾

08/04/2026

Our last day in Taghazout 😭
A wise man once said that life is a constant journey of self-discovery. I’ve discovered that I just want to stay in Morocco 🇲🇦

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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

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