Luna Rose - Dereham Yoga and Pilates Studio

28/04/2025

When we are children we go from helpless babies that don’t know how to work their bodies to running around playing inside a few years without much instruction

If you watch young children you often see them casually getting into positions that adults call “yoga poses” without even thinking about it

They can’t tell you what it’s called or what muscles they are using but they can do it better than you

My job is to tell adults how to move because they have completely forgotten how to be spontaneous or move without taking orders 😳

I undo everything that they learned before and teach them how to play again

No animal except for a human adult needs another animal to tell it how to move

It’s not normal, it might be common but it’s not normal

My entire goal is for my clients to realise they don’t need me as their body knows exactly what training to do

I’m just there to translate for the body until they are back in touch with it

Yoga is literally having your body, mind and energy connected back up and if you have that, you don’t need a teacher, you are the teacher

I’m currently learning to walk again as an adult. Fair play to babies this s**t is hard!

Babies are pre verbal though so they can’t tell you how they do it 🤣

28/04/2025

INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT

Following the recent legal situation I feel the need to clarify my position.

I am autistic and gender non conforming/ non binary and I’d sure like to feel safe in my own space.

My studio is an inclusive space for people of ALL genders and people who don’t have a gender. Intolerance will not be tolerated.

We are also autism, neurodivergence and disability inclusive, if that’s an issue…..

GO AWAY.

Ps there is only one toilet for the building and its gender neutral

09/10/2024

A review of my service

What I do depends on what you need 🙏

09/10/2024

Yoga with crutches

This requires a lot of upper body strength

09/10/2024

If you are only for autistic people why doesn’t your business name say so?

Because businesses that exclude people like me don’t say so, therefore I am acting the same as they do

Seems logical to me

09/10/2024

I’m getting a few enquiries lately

But you can’t book in without chatting to me first as I don’t work with everyone you have to be the right fit

My expertise is wellness and healing for autistic clients or those that suspect they might be

As most autistic people have some level of physical disability, however mild, this requires a different approach

I teach using my mobility aids unashamedly- if this isn’t for you literally every other yoga teacher doesn’t do this, google them

If you are strongly neurotypical we will not gel and I can find a suitable neurotypical teacher for you on google (type in “yoga for neurotypicals” maybe I dunno)

I can teach able bodied people but honestly I’m better with my own kind

If I am for you, I’d love to hear from you rather than all the people that think I’m not good enough to do my job because of my autism

Neurotypicals may attend group sessions if accompanied by an autistic adult

03/08/2024

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have made the difficult decision going forwards that I am no longer going to be teaching general yoga and Pilates sessions at the studio and will be focusing on helping people with disabilities, neurodivergences and mobility issues

I have made no secret of the fact that I was diagnosed autistic 5 years ago. My expertise is in autism and co-occurring disabilities and I’m very good at what I do

It is increasingly impractical given my own mobility issues for me to be teaching physical classes and sessions to able bodied people - there are better instructors out there for you, I’ve done it, I can’t do it anymore

I also offer life coaching and holistic fitness consultancy for autistic and ADHD clients, particularly the late diagnosed

I’m sure I will lose followers over this but I just wanted to explain why I have been quiet

Obviously there will be a change of direction in terms of the posts I am making. If autism triggers you feel free to unfollow

Namaste etc
Luna

16/04/2024

Hey Luna

Why do you tell every new client you’re autistic?

This one time I had a client at work who I was really helping (he was definitely autistic by the way)

Told him I was autistic, his next comment was “should I really trust you then haha”

I truly wish I had told him to f**k off but I was taught to respect my elders

So I tell everyone upfront and if they don’t like it - they can f**k off

Namaste 🙏

13/04/2024

Hey Luna

I hear you are autistic but I’m NoRMal can you still help me?

Hello and thanks for your enquiry

Ask yourself why does my brain being different to yours scare you so much?

For many years I didn’t even know I had the ‘tism and I spoke to normal people like all the time!

I can help anyone

Except people who don’t like autistics

They can do one

Namaste 🙏

26/03/2024

06/03/2024

I’ve received a few messages asking about classes and I am sorry I have not yet replied

Here is how it is

I am autistic with mild physical disabilities. I use walking sticks and I need to use them to physically teach yoga especially as I am getting over burnout

I have no problem in teaching “able bodied” people but they could well have a problem with me teaching them

Also I’m currently fat following severe burnout

So if you are up for a class with a teacher who is both fat and disabled please let me know

I’m a bloody good yoga teacher but I’m not putting myself out there for judgement

You know the score before you sign up

Comment below; or not if you do / don’t want classes

I’m not going to turn into one of those skinny blonde yoga teachers any time soon

06/03/2024

Would you attend a yoga class if the instructor was disabled and using walking sticks?

Because the answer to that question is the difference between me restarting classes and not right now