Yoga with Polly

21/11/2025

✨Inspiration✨

Put on a video to practice, it inspired me and I ended up pausing it and creating this little sequence! Note the grasshopper pose only just getting off the ground, your practice does have to be perfect, just have fun exploring.

Also didn't plan on adding it to Instagram so soz for props and weird angle/poor lighting 😂.

21/11/2025

✨Awe✨

On the school run today, where, let's be honest, we often feel very rushed, Nelly stopped and excitedly handed me a leaf as a gift - 'Mummy, mummy, a golden glittery leaf!'.

In that moment, I thanked her, took a breath and purposely slowed down. We stopped and looked at all the ice crystals on wooden posts, leaves in the sun, leaves in the shade and marvelled at the rainbow glittery-ness on all the different colours and surfaces.

When we are younger, experiencing awe and wonder is so natural, and as we grow older we move from awe to 'there is no time to stop'.

Our yoga practices this term have been themed around the Yamas and Niyamas - this past week Saucha (Purity) asking us to be present and pure in our connection to ourselves/practice/world around us and next week Santosha (Contentment) timed with Thanksgiving and giving gratitude for abundance. They very much invite you to experience awe. But why you may ask?

Recent research has looked into the effects of awe physiologically and psychologically:

✨A recently published study found
evidence that awe plays an important role in
nature’s ability to decrease stress and increase
well-being (Anderson, Monroy, & Keltner, 2018)
✨Awe increases our connectedness with others.
✨Awe may also expand our perception of time.
One study found that people induced to feel awe
agreed more strongly with statements suggest-
ing that time is plentiful and expansive than did
people induced to feel happiness (Rudd, Vohs,
& Aaker, 2012) (think about the effect of that on the nervous system!)

If you are interested in more research on the topic feels free to pop a message below and I'll send over a research paper covering recent research :). And if you want to experience some awe in a yoga practice 😉, message me to see where I have space next week ❤️.

19/11/2025

✨Tutu School, Relax & Unwind with Yoga with Polly✨

So excited to announce that Yoga with Polly will be holding the next Relax & Unwind session at Tutu School, Britford, Salisbury.

Set in the upstairs of a converted barn in Britford Farm, this venue is perfect to escape the outside world and take a pause during the hectic Xmas season.

The extended practice will start with a yin yoga practice and we will then shift intention to restoration as we move towards Savasana. Herbal tea included, blankets and pillows a must!

Book via yogawithpolly.com or pop us a message.

Dec 14th, 4-6pm, £20

19/11/2025

New Venue Announcement! - Relax & Unwind, Dec 14th 4-6pm

New Venue Announcement!! Our next Yin and Restorative extended practice will be in the beautiful TuTu School, Britford, Salisbury. The school is upstairs in a converted barn on Britford Farm, just behind Britford Farm Shop. This being a super convenient location for both Downton and Wilton yogis as....

25/10/2025

✨Yoga & Coffee Socials✨

Lush space , awesome people, on point coffee . Last Saturday of every month we meet and the sun never fails to shine for us!

15/10/2025

✨ Personal Practice Current Faves✨

A couple fun things I've been playing with in 's new classes on her's and new platform, Innr Space Yoga.

They were from different practices but they really complement each other so popped them together!

01/10/2025

01/10/2025

✨Season on Letting Go✨

Just as the trees begin to shed their leaves, nature invites us too to let go. Autumn is the season of the lungs, which alongside the physical world around us prompt an inviting of new breath and a need to begin to release the old to begin again and breath more life into one self.

So although change and this shift to a new gear can be hard, and we can be wanting to live in the past and try and hold on to summer, just like an exhale the change is inevitable. Don't fight against, work to this new rhythm.

Every season and phase is just as beautiful as the one before, only different. Step forward with open arms to embrace autumn 🍁.

19/09/2025

✨The Arrival✨

At the beginning of every practice I teach, before any movement practice, we arrive.

This is a space for awareness, awareness of our energetic, emotional, mental and physical selves. A place to take an inventory of what's going on within us.

This is a space of presence, allowing the outside world to wait, where we focus on being in the moment.

This is a space of acknowledgement for what we are bringing to the mat, and knowing that whatever it is, it is enough.

This is often the one part of the practice where I will also close my eyes, to join the group in climbing inside before we make our offering of energy and intention to ourselves and in the teachers seat also to others.



thank you for capturing this moment 🫶🏼