Yoga with Polly

Yoga with Polly Hatha yoga, yin yoga and breathwork classes/workshops/retreats in and around Salisbury area.

YWP strives to provide teaching that is accessible to those both experienced and new to the practice, focusing on function and anatomy rather than aesthetics.

Repost from 2 years ago-✨ Trying to change Blue Monday into something positive!✨ Negative thinking about 'the most depre...
19/01/2026

Repost from 2 years ago-
✨ Trying to change Blue Monday into something positive!✨

Negative thinking about 'the most depressing day of the year' will make you just that, depressed/negative!

🔹The colour blue doesn't actually symbolise the negative. In many cultures, areas of thought and psychology it has a variety of positive connotations.
🔹Blue is calming (apparently the colour blue has an effect on the brain producing chemicals to calm) as seen in its representations in nature the sky and the sea. But particularly with reference to the sea it represents strength, and also loyalty, knowledge, trust, stability, wisdom etc. You'll notice many airlines, medical professionals and national flags use the colour blue.
🔹Chakras- the throat chakra is blue; symbolising creativity, ability to communicate and express oneself. The third eye chakra is indigo/bluey purple and symbolises knowledge and intuition.
🔹So instead of taking Blue Monday to mean you should be sad or underwhelmed today, use it to do something creative, be loyal to someone around you, learn something new even if it's the smallest thing, or simply take a moment to chill out ♥️🧘🤸🙏.

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✨Join me✨An hour of yoga at Bad Hand Studio (West Hill, Bournemouth) followed by coffee and company in the cafe downstai...
14/01/2026

✨Join me✨

An hour of yoga at Bad Hand Studio (West Hill, Bournemouth) followed by coffee and company in the cafe downstairs.

9am on Saturday 24th Jan (only 2 spots left!)
8:45am on Saturday 21st Feb
9am on Saturday 28th March

Can't wait to share these mornings together ❤️.


10/01/2026

✨Your practice impacts more than just you✨

Super sweet moment where I was filming a portion of a flow to add to sequences this term *spoiler*. Nelly had come home and saw I was doing yoga and shouted 'yay, yoga', grabbed a mat and then ran in 🫶🏼.

Whilst you may step on your mat for your own personal reasons, there are positive ripples outside of that practice.

Whether it's modelling habits of looking after oneself for bubbas, or allowing you to more presently connect with others off the mat, it is more far reaching than just about you.


✨Make it yours✨Have you ever felt pressure to do more? Or that you're not doing it right or well enough until you've don...
09/01/2026

✨Make it yours✨

Have you ever felt pressure to do more? Or that you're not doing it right or well enough until you've done something a certain way or pushed too far?

We've been conditioned to keep going for unrealistic ideals of perfection or someone else's idea of enough.

That's where the functional approach comes in. An appreciation that everyone is different, beautifully unique in fact. That on any given day your intention for what you need from your practice will be different. And an appreciation for being content and having gratitude for where you are now. Growth is not linear, neither is it crossing a finish line that keeps moving every time you get close to it.

The theme of this week's classes was security in your relationship to yourself.

Celebrate you - make it yours rather than making it more.

✨New Year, New Gratitude for self✨New year, societally, is focussed on what we don't have, who we aren't and that we are...
31/12/2025

✨New Year, New Gratitude for self✨

New year, societally, is focussed on what we don't have, who we aren't and that we aren't enough. It asks us to add more tasks to our daily routine, to extend more energy outwards to only feel bad when we are then exhausted and unmotivated to continue and nothing has changed.

There are reasons New Year fads don't work or last. Naturally this is our time of wintering. Of going inwards not striving outwards, of intuition and introspection and appreciating who we are and celebrating that, not a barrage of we aren't 'good enough until we've done this'.

This isn't a season for adding more, it's a season for removing all the noise and finding what really matters has been there all along.

So a plea from me, if you make any New Years resolution let it not be one focused on an addition of something that needs doing, but a subtraction of expectations of achievement and an appreciation of what you already have achieved, revelling in your gratitude for where you are and what you already have.

🎄 Merry Xmas Everyone🎄
25/12/2025

🎄 Merry Xmas Everyone🎄

22/12/2025

✨Time with you✨

Nelly saw me doing Awakening A's and immediately rolled out a mat and started mimicking me. I paused the video I was following and asked if she wanted me to teach her and we could do some together.

She does a sweet upward facing dog and that little thumbs up she gives me at the beginning is the cutest 😊.

✨That's a wrap on 2025✨Thank you for everyone supporting Yoga with Polly this year 🙏🏼💗. I hope you all find some moments...
19/12/2025

✨That's a wrap on 2025✨

Thank you for everyone supporting Yoga with Polly this year 🙏🏼💗. I hope you all find some moments of rest in the Xmas joy and madness 🌲.

See you in 2026.

14/12/2025

✨Relax & Unwind meets Tutu School✨

A big thank you to for letting us take over their beautiful studio for some much needed pause in the festive period ❤️. And to everyone who came for helping untangle so many fairy lights 🤣.

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 😂.

✨Awe✨On the school run today, where, let's be honest, we often feel very rushed, Nelly stopped and excitedly handed me a...
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 ❤️.


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