Luna Rose - Dereham Yoga and Pilates Studio

Luna Rose - Dereham Yoga and Pilates Studio Pilates and Yoga teacher and Personal Trainer specialising in exercise for injury prevention

10/10/2025

If I take up yoga/ Pilates how long will it take to solve my problem?

It could take years, but, that doesn't mean you need loads of sessions

I teach you how to work on your own issues. You may get this in one session, you may want more

Some people do loads at home, some people want to be told what to do

People are very individual

You buy as many sessions as you want

That might be 1, might be 10 or you might come weekly for years

I can usually make a difference in 1 session though

10/10/2025

Should you avoid yoga if you are autistic or hypermobile?

No. You should avoid BAD YOGA.

Many autistic and hypermobile people get injured doing yoga to the point many people say to take up Pilates instead

You should also avoid BAD PILATES

a bad class is where you just go along with the group; nobody corrects you and you have no idea if you are doing it right

If you are a beginner, or have a physical issue, large groups are not safe

There are styles of yoga where the exercises are identical to Pilates

I did kundalini yoga for a while - it's much Pilates with added spirituality- it's a core class! The moves are the SAME

Hypermobile people should avoid over stretching and work on stability and strength to support their joints

Ask your teacher if they know about autism and hypermobility and how it affects movement, exercise and body awareness

I do small groups and individuals so everyone gets personal attention and u have loads of equipment to make exercise safer and more effective that you don't get in most classes - even full sized bean bags and a soft floor!

10/10/2025

Is your personal trainer trauma informed?

This week I started doing resistance training for the first time in ages and as I have complex trauma the exercise is releasing old emotions from my muscles

I am absolutely wasted

As clearing all of this from my body is one of my goals, it's fine, I was expecting it to a large extent

But what if you aren't expecting it?

That's not fun

It's happened to me where I have been triggered by fitness and yoga people and it's why I am extremely picky about who I work with

Some people are not ready for what might happen

I've recently given up my gym membership due to having my trauma massively triggered and inexperienced staff that have no knowledge of how to keep autistic people safe - I'm too scared to go in there now

When you work with me we have a compulsory chat first to check you are ready - free of charge

10/10/2025

People take up yoga for lots of reasons

I took it up as I wanted to be more bendy for the other classes I taught

What I wasn't expecting was for the yoga to unmask the fact that I was autistic and didn't know

Warning: yoga may accidentally uncover your real self and you might not be who you think you are

New favourite thing I call them fitness handcuffs 🤣They also can go on ankles These just made me better at press-ups!
09/10/2025

New favourite thing

I call them fitness handcuffs 🤣

They also can go on ankles

These just made me better at press-ups!

Was going through my old photos. This one is from 2018 - this is who I was before the world changed and so did I Meet D...
09/10/2025

Was going through my old photos. This one is from 2018 - this is who I was before the world changed and so did I

Meet Diane she is a Les Mills instructor. Diane certified in 7 Les Mills programmes and many others became a Personal Trainer, yoga teacher and Pilates teacher between the ages of 35 and 40 while running a hugely successful business as an accountant

Then s**t went down

Bad s**t

Lots of it

Diane eventually got sacked for getting old and fat during the pandemic

A pandemic is all very well but if that coincides with you getting menopausal and a fu***ng autism diagnosis you ain't going back to who you were

Diane here likes all the hard classes, she does 25 of them a week for s**ts and giggles.. her hobbies are showing up people half her age and emasculating weak men in bodypump classes it makes her very happy

Diane was fat at school. Her fitness career is her revenge on evil PE teachers

She doesn't yet know she has autism

Maybe some of you remember her, not many. People no longer recognise me in the street.

I changed my name because sometimes you can't live up to your own reputation anymore

Me, I am Luna an ageing yoga teacher, nothing exciting 😉

08/10/2025

Can anyone recommend a gym around Dereham that is suitable for autistic people or maybe has a "quiet hour" at least?

Ideally not a ridiculous amount of light and noise and not too expensive

Option to take clients there would be ideal

Yes I know this looks dodgy My friend suggested these look like some kind of s*x toy 🤣This is, however the best money I ...
08/10/2025

Yes I know this looks dodgy

My friend suggested these look like some kind of s*x toy 🤣

This is, however the best money I have ever spent on a piece of exercise equipment so laugh away

I bought another set for my arms within an hour of trying it so I can wear both at same time 🤣

I have hypermobile hands and feet which make it hard to access my hip and shoulder muscles which are way stronger

This has completely solved the problem and I had the best core workout ever yesterday

I will be taking them to studio for my clients to try

08/10/2025

I have to tell everyone I'm overweight

This one time I lost classes at a gym as people complained I was out of shape

Not great when it's the middle of a pandemic and you have a history of eating disorders

So if you are fatphobic please go away

08/10/2025

Autistic people have a shorter life expectancy than average

This is not because autism itself shortens lifespan

I had autistic burnout so bad I really think I nearly died and I have spent 6 years dragging myself back to some kind of functionality

I will never be able to work full time again, this is my retirement business

I see very few clients, I don't do this to get rich but I feel an obligation to use what I have learned to help other people not end up in the situation I did

Yoga and exercise is how I help people as it's what helps me

08/10/2025

After lockdown and no longer doing the training I used to, my autism became physically disabling

But once you have a physical disability, how the hell do you exercise?

I felt excluded from everything I used to enjoy, it was so upsetting I fell into major depression and barely left the house

I decided it can't be just me so I pivoted and did my Level 3 in Adapting Exercise for disability

Then I basically invented walking stick yoga as I have a balance issue

When life gives you walking sticks

Invent a yoga format using them

07/10/2025

I knew my time in the fitness industry was up when a colleague told me I needed to lose weight and dye my hair to get personal training clients at the gym 😳

Address

First House, Quebec Street
Dereham

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 12pm
Tuesday 10am - 1pm
Wednesday 1pm - 4pm
Thursday 6pm - 8pm
Saturday 1pm - 4pm

Telephone

+441362685493

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