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Yoga Reading focuses on health and movement and is based in Caversham, Reading. Get your first class free here: https://yogareading.co.uk/free-class/
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We are movement specialists and offer high quality regular classes and workshops to develop your yoga practice. We also ongoing beginner's courses to set you on your yoga journey in the very best way.

25/07/2025

Have you booked our 2nd August Soundbath yet?

Take some time out for you!

This Soundbath marks the year’s only Full Moon in Aquarius - an opportunity for radical change!

2nd August
6-7.30pm

Spaces limited to 15 so book quickly!

21/07/2025

WHAT's ON IN AUGUST

2nd August: Summer Soundbath 6-7.30pm

9th August: Move in Waves and Spirals 3-5pm

17-20th August Ashtanga Intensive

22-24th Reading Festival - Studio closed

Any questions - get in touch!

18/07/2025

⭐ SPOTLIGHT CLASS for AUGUST ⭐

PILATES with Yulia

Thursday 6.15-7.15pm

Mat-based Pilates class focusing on strength, stability, posture, proper breath control, and flexibility.

Balance all muscle groups' strength and flexibility, with an emphasis on challenging the core muscles with each movement.

No prior Pilates experience required to join this class. Everyone is welcome.

14/07/2025

EARLY NOTICE:

Power Up Your Pelvic Floor workshop is back this September:
Sunday 28th Sept 11-1pm Reserve your Space!

Pelvic floor issues are more common than you think, with 1 in 3 women experiencing at least one pelvic floor issue in their lifetime.

We can suddenly notice changes in our pelvic floor after childbirth or during perimenopause or menopause.Sometimes it’s an ongoing issue we feel we’ve always had.

Symptoms are often very simple to improve, without surgery or any invasive techniques.

The workshop is suitable for you if:
➡ you leak when you sneeze, run, cough, jump or laugh
➡ you wake often to use the toilet at night, or worry about long journeys and going to new places
➡ you experience pain during s*x
➡ you have a heavy or dragging feeling in your pelvis

You will learn different techniques for creating a responsive and supportive core and pelvic floor in this supportive, small group workshop led by women’s health therapist Gemma Miles.

11/07/2025

Sign up to our next block of pregnancy classes and save £21!

Our teacher Jo Harris, as well as teaching, trains other teachers to lead Pregnancy Classes and is also a qualified Doula - which means she works directly with couples to prepare for birth and beyond.

Each class provides you with:

➡ Guidance on movement do's and don'ts during pregnancy

➡ Ways to counter common pregnancy challenges: nausea, aches and fatigue for example

➡ Practical tools for labour preparation

➡ Strength and flexibility sessions that support your pregnant body (include pelvic floor health)

Join our lovely pregnancy group for movement, support and connection.

Next block starts on 26th July 10:45 am - 6 weeks of classes £75 or Drop in for £16 a class

09/07/2025

Join our Ashtanga Intensive!

Come and immerse yourself in learning the purpose and meaning behind this scientific system and start to learn this magical and meditative count (or perfect your knowledge of it if you are already familiar!).

⭐ SUNDAY 17th August - 8am-12.30pm (Brunch at 11.30am) ⭐
FULL LED PRACTICE (with full vinyasa) - focusing on the vinyasa count and the names of the asana

⭐ MONDAY 18 - WEDNESDAY 20th August: 6:30-8:30am ⭐
Extended Self Practice: assisted by 2 teachers

Come and join the community and get the most out of your summer!

Sign up before 20th July and get 10% off learning or deepening your Ashtanga practice!

03/07/2025

Are you interested in myofascial release?

Fascia surrounds every muscle and bone in our body and supports both our movement and stability.

Working with this layer of connective tissue is known as myofascial release and you can do it to yourself with slow intentional movements using balls with different levels of tension.

You don’t need to pay a fortune for massages when you know how to help yourself to release areas of tension and pain.

This workshop will guide you through a release for your neck and spine focusing particularly on our postural muscles.

You will leave feeling taller and with vastly improved comfort in your body.

01/07/2025

If you feel like your mobility and comfort could better following a C Section (whenever it was) we are here to show you that you’re right!

Common issues include:

➡ Stretched feeling across the tummy
➡ Numbness of tingling in the area of the scar
➡ Your core feels weak or disconnected
➡ Back pain or laboured movement
➡ Heaviness or weakness in your pelvic area
➡ Occasional leaking or tension in your pelvic floor

This workshop will help with all of these issues and more so, don’t hang about, come and join us for a fun afternoon of practical techniques that will give you results.

Gemma Miles is a Women’s Health Specialist with a background in Soft Tissue Therapy and Pilates. She helps women restore strength, mobility, and confidence after a C-section using scar massage, breathwork, and core rehabilitation. This workshop provides expert guidance in a supportive space, whether your C-section was weeks or years ago.

5th July, 3-5pm

30/06/2025

Book launch and Q and A with Dr Sarah Gilchrist
5th October 11-12:30

The Essential Guide to Women’s Sleep: Supporting Healthy Sleep Practices for Wellbeing and Performance

Following 20 years of work and study in the high performance sport industry, Sarah has written this practical and accessible guide which covers the concept of female sleep health across the lifetime, including key stages such as menstruation, fertility, working life, birth, perimenopause, and menopause.

It also addresses sleep disorders, pain, and the impact poor sleep may have on mental health.

Readers will benefit from practical and detailed strategies on improving sleep, guidance on sleep aides and technology, and signposts to when clinical intervention is needed.

Dr Sarah Gilchrist FBASES, spent over 20 years working in the high performance sport industry, latterly as a Technical Lead for the English Institute of Sport and Senior Physiologist with British Rowing. Her doctorate specialised in sleep and athletic performance and she now provides consultancy on a range of performance areas, particularly relating to sleep health, through her own consultancy, Gilchrist Performance.

She is on the Advisory Board for the Sleep Charity, a fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and is High Performance Sport Accredited.

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27/06/2025

⭐ SPOTLIGHT CLASS FOR JULY ⭐

EVENING FLOW with Jo

TUESDAYS 6-7pm

A fun flow class using vinyasa yoga at its heart with lots of options to help you develop your own enjoyable yoga practice.

Expect breathing exercises, self enquiry and movements to find fluidity, mobility, strength and ease in my classes. Each class ends with a relaxation to regenerate.

Suitable for all.

Join Jo for just £10 whilst this spotlight lasts!

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Caversham

Website

https://yogareading.co.uk/

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Our Story

We are Yoga Reading. We are Katia and Sophie and Yoga Reading has grown out of our friendship and our total belief in the fact that movement makes you feel better. Every. Single. Time.

As we’ve built Yoga Reading, this belief has been moulded and elevated through our understanding that movement needs to be tailored to your body and your needs – which, guess what, change over time. What we need now in our 40’s is different from what we needed in our 20’s and we know this will continue to change. The skills we have built over the last ten years or so have equipped us with the knowledge of how to support our body’s to be strong and, most importantly, to improve our level of comfort. And this is what we want to share with the Yoga Reading community.

We want to provide the BEST quality teaching and information so that everyone can find the tools and techniques they need to support their busy lives and feel comfortable and strong in their bodies.

We have built a team of teachers to work with us to make sure that there’s a practice on our schedule for everyone. Between us we are skilled in yoga, meditation, injury prevention and reduction, rehabilitation, strength training, anxiety management, standing on your head and being able to sit very still!