Yay4yoga

25/09/2025

~ SAVE THE DATE ~
Peace and Joy mini retreat at Finzean House is back this December!

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th, 2-5pm

I will email out tomorrow evening with full details and booking link.

Join the mailing list at www.yay4yoga.co.uk

“A savasana a day keeps the nonsense away”

24/09/2025

~ Time to UNWIND ~
Would you like to carve out some time for you, for some gentle movement followed by constructive deep rest? 🤗
No experience needed.
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A couple of spaces available. Please book using link in bio/comments/via website www.yay4yoga.co.uk
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Join us to gently move together, unwinding from the day.
Find your oasis of calm. 60 minutes just for you. Nurturing body and mind.
REST- Breathwork and guided meditation to help quieten the mind MOVE - Gentle Hatha Yoga to nourish, support, strengthen.
RESTORE - Super chilled Restorative Yoga with cushions, bolster, blanket... nurturing the nervous system
RENEW - Inspiring readings each week and a deep, guided relaxation…eyes closed over, lavender eye pillow in place, nowhere else you need to be... relax...

23/09/2025

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🍂 Join us this October for a Deeside Wellbeing Collective community session. A donation-based class held in a warm and welcoming community space. Just bring yourself, wear something comfy, and come as you are.

October’s community offering is a Restorative Yoga session with Ali

Restorative yoga is a grounding practise that helps reduce stress, by down-regulating the nervous system, lowering cortisol levels and promoting a release of feel-good hormones. Using comfortable props to support the body, we invite a gentle surrender and tension release, contributing to physical healing and mental rejuvenation.

It offers benefits for all ages, fostering resilience, mental clarity and innermost joy amidst modern life’s busyness. It allows time and space for introspection and deep rest, as the body is guided into a state of “homeostasis” - balance, renewal.

A balanced nervous system underpins all
wellbeing and optimal health. An hour of restorative yoga is said to equal around 4 hours sleep, but most also notice improved sleep after the session.

Expect simple guided breathwork and gentle meditative movement to help slowly settle into a place of “being” rather than “doing”; moving on to linger in poses, using props to feel fully “held”, for anything up to 20 minutes.

The session will be rounded off with a guided relaxation in supported Savasana pose, all tucked up with blanket and eye pillow. You need no prior experience or bendiness - just an ability to get down to the floor and an openness to gentle movement, tuning inwards and resting. Don’t worry if you have a fizzy mind, this style of yoga helps even the most active to find a balancing quiet.

🧡 Book via gymcatch.com ~ search for Deeside Wellbeing Collective or use link in bio/comments

Our monthly adult donation based classes/workshops in 2025 have been made possible by the award of grant funding from the Aberdeenshire Communities Mental Health & Wellbeing Fund Round 4.

22/09/2025

~ SPACES AVAILABLE THIS TUESDAY 9:30 ~
Do you find yourself rushing headlong into your day then petering out? Do you wish you had more energy both for yourself and those around you? This is the class for you.
We start by taking time, “landing”, with gentle mindful, somatic-style yoga movement, easing out any morning stiffness and tension, mobilising the body, catching up with the mind.
We move on to very gently energising Hatha Yoga.
In the latter part of the session, we really tune inwards, tending to what the body/mind is asking of us. We press “pause”, stop spinning plates and come to a place of stillness, with Restorative Yoga. A chance to re-charge after what, for many women, will have been a restless night/busy early morning.
The key here is supported comfort, allowing the body to release all holding. Women hold so much - this is your opportunity to set it down, re-charge and feel ready to embrace the rest of the day.
All levels of experience welcome including complete beginners to yoga. £10
Please book using link in bio/stories or comments or at schedule in www.yay4yoga.co.uk
Any questions please get in touch - email Ali at yay4yoga@hotmail.com

17/09/2025

~ SUNDAY SERENITY ~
This event is now fully booked, but please do message or email if you’re interested and I’ll let you know of any cancellations.
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A special extended session of restorative yoga, marking the eve of Autumn Equinox and the International Day of Peace. Expect a peaceful couple of hours as we drop down into the parasympathetic nervous system (the rest and digest state) allowing the body and mind to quietly and deeply rejuvenate.
Find out more using link in bio or at www.yay4yoga.co.uk
Email Ali at yay4yoga@hotmail.com with any questions 👍

16/09/2025

😊Repost from
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Meet Ali! One of our weekly practitioners at the studio 🩷

Ali guides small group yoga classes, workshops, and mini retreats, featuring gentle hatha yoga, somatic style movement, and restorative yoga practices suitable for all experience levels.

With almost 40 years of personal yoga experience, certifications and trainings, Ali has nurtured a special interest in women’s wellbeing. She highlights the importance of finding the right practise for you at any given stage of life, tuning inwards, listening to what your body and mind are telling you.

She offers a heartfelt welcome, fostering a sense of openness, calm, and autonomy in your yoga practise, through movement, breathwork, connection and deep rest. Come as you are, leave a little more like yourself.

You’ll catch Ali at the studio on:
✨Tuesdays 9:30-10:30am for gently uplifting yoga for women
✨Thursdays 7:30-8:30pm for nurturing yoga for women
✨Occasional Sunday Serenity evening workshops

For more info and to book onto Ali’s classes, please go to her website: yay4yoga.co.uk

Ali will be offering our next community class in October - details to follow shortly 🙏

16/09/2025

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Meet Ali! One of our weekly practitioners at the studio 🩷

Ali guides small group yoga classes, workshops, and mini retreats, featuring gentle hatha yoga, somatic style movement, and restorative yoga practices suitable for all experience levels.

With almost 40 years of personal yoga experience, certifications and trainings, Ali has nurtured a special interest in women’s wellbeing. She highlights the importance of finding the right practise for you at any given stage of life, tuning inwards, listening to what your body and mind are telling you.

She offers a heartfelt welcome, fostering a sense of openness, calm, and autonomy in your yoga practise, through movement, breathwork, connection and deep rest. Come as you are, leave a little more like yourself.

You’ll catch Ali at the studio on:
✨Tuesdays 9:30-10:30am for gently uplifting yoga for women
✨Thursdays 7:30-8:30pm for nurturing yoga for women
✨Occasional Sunday Serenity evening workshops

For more info and to book onto Ali’s classes, please go to her website: yay4yoga.co.uk

Ali will be offering our next community class in October - details to follow shortly 🙏

15/09/2025

~ FINDING PEACE IN THIS LIMINAL SPACE ~
Autumn seems to have arrived in an instant, leaving us little room for transition out of the long days of summer and adjustment to darker evenings. But adjust and transition we must, if we are to make the most of the Autumn’s invitation to soften into the latent rhythm of the seasons. As we approach Autumn Equinox, nature flows between light and dark, holding on and letting go...

“Change is unavoidable. Adapt and flow” - my motivation app offering to me this morning was spot on.

I have space in both Tuesday and Thursday classes this week and you are most welcome to book by the week below

🌟TUESDAY 9:30-10:30 “Elevate Your Day” Gently Uplifting Yoga for Women

🌟THURSDAY 19:30-20:30 “Unwind” Nurturing Yoga for Women

This Sunday, I’m looking forward to a special extended session of restorative yoga, marking the eve of Autumn Equinox and the International Day of Peace. I would love to fill the last couple of spaces. Expect a peaceful couple of hours as we drop down into the parasympathetic nervous system (the rest and digest state) allowing the body and mind to quietly and deeply rejuvenate.

🌟“Sunday Serenity” SUNDAY 21st 18:30-20:30 Restorative Yoga £20 (2 hours incl. nourishing sweet treat)

All sessions can be booked at www.yay4yoga.co.uk

🕊️Wishing you a peaceful week.
Ali

12/09/2025

~ 🍁🍂 AUTUMN EQUINOX 🍂🍁~
Join me on the eve of the Autumn Equinox, for a special extended session of luscious restorative yoga. I have a few spaces left for this popular event. No yoga experience is needed. Read on to find out more.
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Restorative yoga is a calming practice that helps reduce stress by down-regulating the nervous system, lowering cortisol levels and promoting the release of feel-good hormones, contributing to physical healing and mental rejuvenation.
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Using comfortable props to fully support the body, the practise encourages a sense of surrender and tension release, offering benefits for all ages whilst fostering resilience, mental clarity and joy amidst modern life’s busyness.
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Expect to begin with guided breathwork and gentle meditative movement to help slowly settle body and mind into a place of stillness and quiet. We then linger in poses, fully supported, for anything up to 20 minutes. It flies by and you leave feeling a sense of renewal, deeply rested, re-charged. Come as you are, leave a little more like yourself.
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😊I’ll bring along a home baked nourishing sweet treat to take home, easing your journey back to reality.
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Book your spot using the link in comments or in the schedule at www.yay4yoga.co.uk
If you’ve any questions at all, please reach out to me, Ali, at yay4yoga@hotmail.com