Yoga with Owen

Yoga with Owen Join me in one of my classes in Dorset through the link below.

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Let’s breathe together, move together, and grow together.

Before I head to Nepal in September for my 300 hr Advanced Teacher Training, I still have a month full of classes and a ...
29/07/2025

Before I head to Nepal in September for my 300 hr Advanced Teacher Training, I still have a month full of classes and a workshop!

As always, I have sessions in Dorchester, Portesham, and Upwey in the evenings and day, which are all beginner-friendly and include everything you need, from mats to props; it's setup and ready for you once you book your space onto a class.

Tuesday, 05/08/2025, will be my monthly donation classes in Dorchester, where you can pay what you want to, or even come for free if you wish, for either or both sessions. These have been popular since starting them three months ago, which has been great to see, as both experienced and new people have come along to them and enjoyed a relaxing yoga session and/or a sound bath.

I also have my last 3-hour workshop in Portesham Village Hall on 09/08/2025 from 13:00 to 16:00. This will be a really relaxed session of Yin Yoga, breathwork, and a sound bath using singing bowls. I'm really looking forward to this session, so hopefully we can all let go and relax into August with this longer workshop together!

It is going to be a busy month before I run off in September for 5 weeks for my next advanced teacher training, and I can't wait to then share what I learn upon my return. I hope you can all get your yoga fix this month before I leave, which will help sustain you in the meantime!

You can book onto any of these sessions via the link here: https://gymcatch.com/app/provider/7338/events

Let me know if you have any questions about these classes/sessions, and I'll hopefully see some of you at one of them soon!

All the best,

Owen

After announcing earlier in the week, I am incredibly excited to share a new style of workshop with Amelia of , who wil...
12/07/2025

After announcing earlier in the week, I am incredibly excited to share a new style of workshop with Amelia of , who will be offering a beautiful flow alongside my yin yoga teaching and sound bath at Stratton Village Hall. The workshop will be taking place on 27/07/2025 from 13:00 to 16:00 and allow you to release both mentally and physically through a complete practice.

It will be our first time teaching together, and we hope to be able to share our styles with up to 15 people. From beginners to the more experienced among us, all will be welcome, with all props and mats being provided as part of the session as well.
You can book you space via this link to my gymcatch site: https://gymcatch.com/app/provider/7338/events/6990698 or Amelias site here: https://gymcatch.com/app/provider/8439/events/6982771

If you have any questions about the session, please feel free to contact us and we will get back to you as soon as possible! Hopefully we will see some of you there!

This Tuesday marks the next Donation Yoga Classes in Dorchester! I am offering both my 'Gentle Yoga' AND my 'Yin Yoga an...
29/06/2025

This Tuesday marks the next Donation Yoga Classes in Dorchester! I am offering both my 'Gentle Yoga' AND my 'Yin Yoga and Sound Bath' to be booked with a donation, meaning YOU PAY WHAT YOU WISH TO. I'm hoping this makes my classes, and yoga in general, more accessible for everyone to try out or start a new style they maybe haven't experienced before.

You can book your space here: https://gymcatch.com/app/provider/7338/events

I provide everything you need for the sessions, so, unless you wish to bring your own, I set up mats and props in advance of you arriving, meaning you can literally book your space, and everything is there ready for you. No need to do anything but turn up once you have booked your space.

The classes are limited to 15 people per session, so make sure to book soon if you are interested, as it was full last month, and I don't want to disappoint anyone if booked out!

I host these classes each week at the Prince of Wales School Hall and will be doing these donation sessions each month on the first Tuesday of the month, so there's plenty of opportunity to give it a try! Hopefully I'll see some of you there soon!

An often-overlooked area in our lives we can neglect is the need to set aside time to become introspective. To look insi...
21/06/2025

An often-overlooked area in our lives we can neglect is the need to set aside time to become introspective. To look inside and understand what it is and why we are reacting in certain ways, our wants/desires, or the way we simply view ourselves day to day.

The practice of yoga goes way beyond the asanas/poses we all likely undertake in classes or self-practice, with the asanas being just one of 8 limbs of yoga. One of the aspects beyond the poses is the act of “Svadhyaya”, which translates to “One’s own reading / Self-study”. If we are unable to check in with ourselves mentally as well as physically, then how can we understand where change may be required? Do we even know who we are on a basic level? What makes me, me in the world?

It is important to allow this therapeutic practice to be part of our lives, be that through meditation, time to be just with ourselves, or directly within our yoga practice. Simply looking at a situation we have been in and asking, “What made me feel that way?”, “Why did I react like that?”, or “Where do I want to be?” can make a big difference when done regularly to learn to love and know yourself.

It isn’t a selfish act to dedicate periods of time to ourselves; if anything, it’s the opposite. Without learning about ourselves, we cannot be there to support others in their time of need or know how to work through situations we may find challenging, and that’s why it is so important.

On 28/06/2025, Saturday next week, I am hosting a workshop called “Who am I?” where we will all get a chance to be there for ourselves through a personal written meditation (which isn’t shared and is private to each individual), a soft Yin Yoga session and finally a Sound Bath/Meditation. Why not join me for this 3-hour session at Portesham Village Hall 13:00 – 16:00 to allow yourself that time to practise this element of your yoga practice?

You can book your space here: https://gymcatch.com/app/provider/7338/events/6789513

All the best

Owen

Due to popular demand, I have slightly altered my next 3-hour workshop to be a bit more of a relaxing session than hard ...
14/06/2025

Due to popular demand, I have slightly altered my next 3-hour workshop to be a bit more of a relaxing session than hard work. 🙂 This session will start off with a brief introspective written meditative practice, 1.5 hours of Yin Yoga, plus a 1-hour Sound Bath and Breathwork. The aim throughout this workshop is to focus on stillness, silence, and how to be comfortable with ourselves.

Starting off the session, we will be having a cup of herbal tea and looking internally to set our scene. This is NOT a sharing exercise but a personal reflection to allow yourself a moment to check in with YOU.

From here, we’ll move slowly into a calm, relaxing Yin Yoga session using props to find our own expression of each pose and enjoy stillness and silence as we go. It is worth taking account of when do you truly ever get this in day-to-day life and enjoying being able to just be with yourself. We can allow our mind to be grounded in the present and release tension wherever possible.

Finally closing off with a 1-hour Sound Bath to let us fully let go of any mental or physical tension left in the body using Crystal Singing Bowls and some light Breathwork.

As always, I will be providing everything you will need for the workshop, from mats and props, and pen and paper for the first opening exercise. It is recommended you bring extra layers and any blankets or pillows you may wish to have for the Sound Bath to make sure you are as comfortable as possible throughout the session.

I am hoping that you will come away truly relaxed and maybe even learn something about yourself as the session progresses. Hopefully I’ll see some of you there!

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT!On Saturday 28/06/2025, I will be hosting a 3-hour workshop explaining how we can reach different ...
08/06/2025

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT!

On Saturday 28/06/2025, I will be hosting a 3-hour workshop explaining how we can reach different forms of meditative states through different mediums. During the session these will include: Movement, Stillness, Breathwork, Sound Baths and even a short written exercise to ourselves.

Expect a lot of time to be at peace, and enjoy looking deeper to learn more about yourself with a cup of herbal tea along the way. There will be some Gentle Yoga and some Yin Yoga, with some mental reasoning behind the benefits of both, in addition to how both silence and sound, through sound bath meditation, can also help us find peace in a world full of distractions.

Booking is essential and can be done via my gymcatch website here: https://gymcatch.com/app/provider/7338/events/6789513

It should be a really enjoyable workshop so I hope to see some of your there! This is the first of a few workshops I am hosting, including a collaboration in July with another teacher, which I'm incredibly excited to share with you all soon!

All the best

Owen

If you have been to any of my yoga classes or sound baths, you may have noticed I refer to the breath a lot. Some of you...
02/06/2025

If you have been to any of my yoga classes or sound baths, you may have noticed I refer to the breath a lot. Some of you may wonder why I bring such a big emphasis to something we all do naturally or even think it strange that I am so passionate about something that might appear small, like breathing?

I have personally benefitted from Pranayama/breathwork practices in my own life, both on and off the yoga mat, to keep me calmer and less anxious and, through more intense techniques, even get through trauma in my life through grief and abusive relationships where I still held onto stress. There is something incredibly simple but powerful about just slowing down our mind racing and bringing our attention to a relaxed place where we can simply focus on the rise and fall of our inhales and exhales from belly to chest and back down from chest to belly. Almost half of the population are effectively out of practice from 'functional breathing', be that through mouth breathing, chest breathing and many more commonly done bad habits, and I try and use my time in each class to stress the benefits of a more functional and relaxing breath.

Through my certification through Oxygen Advantage, one of the leading breathwork specialists in the world, it has been interesting to discover how what we might think of as a yogic way of breathing, deep inhales and exhales, is generally not even what was traditionally done in yoga until the 20th century. There are many different breathing techniques, and that doesn't mean they are wrong, but I personally like to bring what I have learnt through my certification into my classes to help beyond the work we put in on the yoga mat to go into life off of it as well.

I am incredibly passionate about this aspect of my teaching and hope you all benefit from it when attending regularly or even as a one-off session. I incorporate it into 99% of my sessions, one way or another, be it a yoga class or sound bath; it has a place to help us relax. When science meets tradition, it is really interesting just how practices from thousands of years ago come around to be proven to help us through scientific evidence. How did they know all this?!?!

As of June, the first Tuesday of each month I will be offering both my "Gentle Yoga" and "Yin Yoga and Sound Bath" sessi...
26/05/2025

As of June, the first Tuesday of each month I will be offering both my "Gentle Yoga" and "Yin Yoga and Sound Bath" sessions on a donation basis. This means you can pay what you believe is a fair price for the session/what you can afford for either or both classes.

For both sessions, you'll find a beginner-friendly class with everything you need provided. Mats and props are set up in advance for you, meaning you can literally bring yourself, any extra layers you may want for the final relaxation section of each class and a water bottle, and you'll be good to go. You don't need to have done yoga before to enjoy these sessions, so why not give it a go?

You do need to book ahead via my website here: https://gymcatch.com/app/provider/7338/event

Let me know if you have any questions about either of these weekly sessions, and I will do my best to answer them as soon as possible!

Hopefully I'll see some of you there along with my regular attendees each week!

All the best,

Owen

Just finished a beautiful Private Yin Yoga and Sound Bath session in a beautiful setting. 1860s barn conversion, middle ...
25/05/2025

Just finished a beautiful Private Yin Yoga and Sound Bath session in a beautiful setting. 1860s barn conversion, middle of the woods and with lovely people attending who had travelled from all around the world to reunite for a friends celebration.

I am available for these private bookings in any capacity that you may want. Yoga, Sound Baths and Breathwork can be combined or simplified to one aspect only for whatever your requirements are. Get in touch and we can make a custom plan together for you!

Hopefully be back here again later in the year!

Every Tuesday I run two back to back Yoga and Sound Bath sessions at The Prince of Wales School Hall in Dorchester.Some ...
19/05/2025

Every Tuesday I run two back to back Yoga and Sound Bath sessions at The Prince of Wales School Hall in Dorchester.

Some of you may have seen me on Saturday at the at Maumbury Rings playing Crystal Singing Bowls which, if you enjoyed it, I actually use each week at the 19:45 class along side Yin Yoga for a full relaxation session.

The Yin and Yang class is similar to Gentle Yoga in it's style with the first half involving strengthening and balancing poses but followed in the second half with some longer held softer poses in the second half of the class The Yin Yoga and Sound Bath session is fully slowed down using plenty of props and adaptions of each pose to make it right for our bodies followed by a 30 minute sound bath.

Both classes are beginner friendly with all props and mats provided free of charge. All you have to do is book onto the class via my website here: https://gymcatch.com/app/provider/7338/events
Classes are £10 for one off bookings OR if you enjoy them you can buy a "10 class pass" at £7 a class and book those ten classes within a year of booking to save some money each class.

Let me know if you have any questions about the classes here or other sessions I run and hopefully I'll see some of you soon!

All the best

Owen

A great retreat day by Jeni and Dan! A lovely thing to be a part of too. Would highly recommend looking at their future ...
19/05/2025

A great retreat day by Jeni and Dan! A lovely thing to be a part of too. Would highly recommend looking at their future sessions as this has something for everyone at it!

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