Yoga with Claire

08/01/2026

Restorative yoga - tomorrow 6.45pm!

One hour of complete relaxation, to quieten the mind & restore yourself 🥰💕🧘‍♀️

Message me if you want to join - 2 spaces available ….

08/01/2026

Join me for a free yoga class to celebrate National Iyengar Yoga Day! I will be teaching a free beginner-friendly class to explore the benefits of Iyengar Yoga.

Saturday 17 January
10.30-11.30am
Saints Green Place, Brook Hill, North End CM6 3PQ

Suitable for all ages and levels of flexibility. Iyengar yoga builds strength, stability and peace of mind.

For more information or to book your place, contact me at hanrahan_claire@hotmail.co.uk or 07798 725 557 and leave me a message....

31/12/2025

Happy New Year yogi's!
Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2026 and looking forward to seeing you all back on your mats next week - normal timetable resumes from Monday 5th January...

30/12/2025

Reposted due to wrongly attributed quote - thanks Holly for the heads up!

In yesterday’s Q&A with Abhijata Iyengar, she talked about the enormous contribution that her aunt and “big mother”, Geeta Iyengar, had made to yoga. “Without her,” she said, “most of us would not be sitting together in this hall today. She was a phenomenal person.”

Geeta is quoted as saying:

"In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt. If the mind is wandering while practicing, then one is not fully present, and there can be no union. Involvement, interpenetration and insight are the required qualities for the practitioner." ~Geeta Iyengar~

(Beautiful photo by )

14/12/2025

Remembering Guruji on his birthday with deep gratitude 🙏🏼🪔 (B.K.S. Iyengar 14.12.1918 - 20.08.2014)

12/12/2025

07/12/2025

“Yoga is meant for everyone. Nobody is excluded from it. Whether they are men, women or children, elderly or aged people, diseased or disabled, the path of yoga is open to everyone. However, you have to practise according to your physical, mental and spiritual capacity. Yoga is meant to give us a way to discover or rediscover ourselves. It teaches us how to find the great margin of maximum capacity that we have inside us so that we are able to expose ourselves to ourselves and find out what we really are. When I say that you have to adapt according to your capacity, I mean that you have to find out the potentiality, or the potential energy, that you all have inside and how to bring it to the surface in order to utilise it properly. Yoga exposes inner hidden potentialities. In fact, there is nothing in yoga which dictates who has to do what. Yoga is universal in this sense. It is inappropriate to say, “Do and do not do”. We do not say that this is not to be done or that is to be done. To make such differentiation there has to be some cause. Patañjali says that we have to find out what stage we are at and what our level is. We need to know what our energy is, what our po-
tency is, what we can do and so on. As we proceed further, we have to see that we achieve every step gradually.

In other words, there is no barrier, there is no restriction, no demarcation as such. The words Patañjali uses like potentialities or capacities, are certainly very meaningful, since not everyone has the same energy levels, not everyone can put in the same amount of effort. The power to grasp is not the same in everyone. The practitioner has to understand subjectively the potentialities he or she has and try to expose them to the yogic path rather than exploit them.”

~ Geeta Iyengar
(7 Dec 1944 - 16 Dec 2018)

20/11/2025

YOGA - Tuesdays 9.30-10.30am
Saints Green Place, North End CM6 3PQ

4 more classes left before Xmas!!!
Jump onto your mats and get moving - keep warm 😂🤸‍♀️🧎‍♀️‍➡️

All abilities welcome
Message me to book your space...

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19/11/2025

I'm excited to say that I will be teaching two retreats next year, 2026 - the first one will be a yoga & spa weekend at Champneys. A thoughtful early Christmas present for yourself or someone close...and the perfect way to reset post festive season!

30th Jan - 1st Feb 2026
Champneys, Forest Mere

You're invited to join us!

Email: info@freespirityoga.co.uk for more information or to book your space.

11/11/2025

Dorothea Barron maintains a fitness regime many half her age would struggle with – and says she feels as sprightly as she did at 16

04/11/2025

I love love love this photo - simply because it makes me feel happy - time spent in the water (and in nature) all year round with friends helps me reset - and deal with whatever is going on in life! Self- care is so important- whether it’s yoga practice, meditation, walks in nature or cold water swimming!!

And my friend’s charity, Blossome does such amazing work 🤩 super proud to know you Kim 🥰🥰

📣 We're in the press! 📣

Have you seen the feature on Blossome in the most recent edition of Essex Life Magazine

We are the lead feature in the magazine’s Business & Education section - a wonderful recognition of the growing impact we’re making for people affected by a loved one’s drinking, drug use, or gambling.

The feature covers our growth from Kim's personal blog, to qualifying as a Mindful Self Compassion teacher and also highlights our community activities, programmes, and support.

It also shares our mission to move towards charity status. An exciting move that means we are now looking for business partners and corporate sponsors who might be interested in partnering with us. In return for any corporate support we can offer workplace wellbeing support and self-compassion for leaders training.

🙏 Thank you to everyone who has been part of our journey so far, and to Essex Life for sharing our story.

👉 Read the full feature in this month’s issue or visit https://vist.ly/4cnee to learn more about our work.

Photo: LW Photography