Berwick & Borders Yoga

19/01/2026

If you haven't donated yet, there's still time! 🤗

I am so blown away to be writing this, but the CrowdFunder has officially raised over £11000 and this does not include the cash donation from the Friday night musical extravaganza organised by our friends

This is a huge help and will enable us to move much quicker once a premises is secured 💗 this is a massive boost and has made us feel all the love from our beautiful community.

There is a few days left, folks so please carry on sharing our campaign and talking about us! We want to exist for years to come and carry on playing a role in Berwick, and we are so grateful for your support to do so.

Thank you to everyone who has made this amazing sum of money, you're amazing, and we love you!

18/01/2026

Hey, Beautiful Mat People!

This week continuing slow n' steady, so do bring your favourite blanket if possible. We want to protect and support our tender knees and, HELLO, who doesn't love a cosy Savasana? 😴

Points will be awarded for any pom-poms and tassels. 🏆🙌🏼 T x

15/01/2026

Ulp. Today we said goodbye to Miss Myrtle (front). Also known as Gertie Myrtie and, more latterly, Dirty Myrtie and Smelly Cat.

Eighteen and a half glorious years, starting as a tiny gift for Grace's eleventh birthday so Grace too could be initiated into the Guild of Servitude to Our Cat Overlords, as is the family tradition.

Myrtle and her sister Rita studied under the tutelage of the late, great, Roger the Lodger who taught them both how to play with their food and unnecessarily knock things off high surfaces.

After Rita's death at a tragically young age, Myrtle took solace in ornithology, becoming a leader in her field and the two either side.

As she got older, Myrtle largely eschewed the pleasures of going outdoors, enthusiastically embracing the role of house cat. Here she took her duties very seriously, so much so that in 2019 she was finally awarded the Lord Sheddington Cup for her work in the science of allergy promotion.

In her dotage, and with her eyesight failing, Myrtle turned to art, with a special interest in working with mixed media, namely poo and p**s. While her installations weren't always met with unanimous acclaim, no one could deny the scope of her ambition.

Miss Myrtle will be remembered as a shining light of her kind, not just for all of her accomplishments above, but for her gentle nature, old-school stoicsm, and passion for tuna.

She is survived by Spike and Drusilla.

Rest well, little one. Thank you. 🥹🐱♥️###

15/01/2026

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14/01/2026

I love this! And admit it that sometimes the yoga industry can get so far up itself it becomes a parody. 🫣

It can play an escalating game of a spiritual so's-yer-mum, with providers and teachers vying to demonstrate quite how profound and enlightened they are.

I'm always a little sad when I go on trainings and attend workshops at how grim faced participants often are. How unable to laugh at themselves.

Listen, I get it. We should take our business and career development seriously. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't also be fun. Fun shouldn't automatically mean frivolous.

After all, yoga is big on cultivating joy in your life, trying quietly to live the philosophy rather than loudly engaging in a performance.

So's yer mum. 😘♥️T x

13/01/2026

Ah, it's that time of year when anyone in the fitness/wellness industry is promoting their wares! And I'm no exception!

We've got off to a flying start to 2026, with a new class - Yoga for Men- starting up on Wednesday evenings, 7.15 to 8.15. And, of course, there're the regular classes too that continue to thrive. Thank you to everyone who keeps on showin' up and flowin'! 🥰

If you're thinking of taking up yoga - and I'm talking actual yoga rather than a "fitness" version of it - it can be confusing to know what sort to try first. Because there are many!

I list the differences between some types of yoga on my website, but will just say here you'll be best to start with a Hatha yoga class. If you've never ever looked at a yoga mat, a Hatha class is your starting point. Hatha provides you with a solid foundation for pretty much all other types.

And you might be wondering how to find a teacher that will keep your precious body and mind safe. This is trickier because the market these days is flooded with quick "teacher trainings" (often of just a couple of weeks) that simply aren't up to the job.

For some reason, yoga qualifications are rated by hours. 200hrs is a bare minimum you should be looking for coupled with an extensive personal practice. So someone who has taken regular yoga classes for at least a couple of years and THEN decided to take teacher training. 200hrs is a great starting point in this situation. I would avoid anyone with no prior yoga experience with a 200-hr qualification still damp from the printer. Doesn't come close to being enough. (I've blogged on this multiple times. It's a personal bugbear.)

Basically, the more hours of training your teacher has (and this needs to include anatomy and physiology) coupled with a history of regular personal practice, the better and safer they are. Obviously. And, of course, check they have insurance!

And finally, your teacher should have a firm grasp of yogic philosophy and teach through that lens, not simply throw in some fridge magnet wisdom here and there. The philosophy grounds the practice. Hell, it *is* the practice!

If you have any questions about what to look for, what to avoid, get in touch. It might be that you don't want a yoga class, you just want to be able to move and stretch. That's fine! There're plenty of options out there to do just that.

But. If you do let authentic yoga into your life, I promise it will transform it for the better. 🥰🙏T x

06/01/2026

A spot has become unexpectedly available for this new class, Yoga for Men! It starts tomorrow, Wednesday, 7th Jan, 7.15-8.15pm at Babyama Wellness Hub.

We'll be starting gently, seeing where we're at, and looking at ways in which we can learn to move with greater ease and less effort.

So if you've always wondered what the yoga fuss is all about but you've felt too intimidated/creepy(!) being in a class full of women, Men, this is your chance!

See you there. 😉

Berwick & Borders Yoga offers a range of fun and sociable hatha/vinyasa yoga classes to book throughout the week in and around the Scottish Borders and Berwick-upon-Tweed. Look out for yoga workshops and special events too. Book to reserve your spot.

06/01/2026

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Tonight's Coldstream class will be moving online!

Apologies, but I don't want anyone slipping or crashing into anything out there plus, bonus points, it means I won't be sneezing on you either.

Coleridge was spot on when he wrote, "Lurgies, lurgies everywhere, too much snot to think."

But if you were thinking as coming as a drop-in, let me know and I'll send you the link.

Much love, Beautiful Mat People! 🙏🏼🥰T x

05/01/2026

This is closer than I'm comfortable with ... 🫣 Sorry.

03/01/2026

Ooh-ooh, this is good!

I'm coughing away on the couch, courtesy of a post-festive virus, thinking I need to haul my arse up and post something about exactly this.

I know it's expected, as a yoga teacher, to post selfies of me in pose, but honestly? I hate doing it.

I hate the hassle. I hate the effort. But most of all, I hate the misinformation that comes along with it.

Because I literally DON'T CARE if you can touch your toes or even throw any shape on your mat at all.

The poses are the tool not the goal, a fact that seems to slip by many yoga teachers on socials anxious to fill classes and advertising by promising preternatural bendiness and superheroic abilities of strength and balance.

Nah, bruv. Not me, innit.

And even if you DID fancy training for the Cirque du ferkin Soleil via yoga, now's definitely not the time of year to get all keen. Not with the temperature outside and leftover cheese in the fridge.

Listen.

Yoga is about sorting your head out first and then maybe getting fitter and stronger as you go along.

I'll be starting 2026 with classes that will involve lying down a lot, like the hibernating and dreaming bears we should be, here, at the wintry, violet edges of the year

Sounds appealing?

Booking in comments. 🐻😴🙏🏼😘

Advanced yoga isn’t about how complex the pose looks — it’s about awareness, stillness, and mastery of the basics. True progress begins when strength meets calm and the mind learns to rest.