Charlotte Douglas Yoga

17/03/2026

With thanks to Normal for this well-researched article on yoga teachers’ pay, t’s definitely worth a read.

I found myself both encouraged and unsettled reading it. Encouraged, because there are studios beginning to offer rates that genuinely reflect the depth of skill, experience, and care that teaching requires. And unsettled, because these still feel like the exception rather than the norm.

For many of us, teaching yoga is vocational. It’s something we feel called to do. It’s a privilege to hold space, to guide, to witness.
But that sense of devotion is often what leaves teachers vulnerable.

No sick pay. No holiday pay. No pension.
And ongoing CPD that we fund ourselves, because we care about the integrity of what we offer.

When you really look at the full picture, it becomes clear: the way teachers are paid doesn’t reflect the reality of what it takes to do this work sustainably.

If we want a healthy, thriving yoga community, then the people holding it need to be supported too.

It is good to keep things simple and straightforward. Such as it is essential that yoga teachers talk about money and pay rates and working conditions. Such as it is essential that we are realistic: we live in this world with its costs and cashflows, with the balancing of different balls, with somet

16/03/2026

Somatic Breath: Exploring the Breath from the Inside Out
April 18th 9.30 - 12.00

In this workshop, we gently turn our attention toward the breath, not to control or improve it, but to experience it more fully. Through slow, guided somatic movement, you’ll explore how the body can become a more open and responsive channel for breath and vitality.
As awareness deepens, the breath often begins to feel less restricted and more spacious - supporting steadiness, clarity and ease.

For more details and booking: https://bookwhen.com/charlottedouglasyoga/e/ev-sbwah-20260418093000

12/03/2026

It sometimes feels as though everything is described as trauma-informed these days.

Whatever the modality, breath-work, sound healing, ice baths, cacao ceremonies, transformational workshops, the label appears everywhere, like a luminous sign post towards safety.

But if we use that ‘label’ we need to be really clear that we understand what that term means in practice? What safety really means.

Trauma-informed work isn’t simply a philosophy or a line on a website. It asks for a real understanding of the nervous system & a responsibility for the people who step into the spaces we hold.

Trauma-informed practice isn’t about promising that nothing difficult will ever arise. Bodies hold history. Breath, sound, stillness, movement, all of these practices can open doors inside people. Sometimes that’s beautiful. Sometimes it’s destabilising.

When we invite people into deeper states of feeling or sensing, we are also inviting unpredictability.

Which means we need more than good intention.

In a class or workshop, someone might begin to panic, struggle to breathe, dissociate, or suddenly feel unsafe in their own body. In those moments, the idea of being trauma-informed becomes very real.

Knowing how to recognise what is happening, knowing how to slow things down, orient someone back to the present moment, & support them without forcing, fixing, or taking away their agency, is an essential skill.

Being trauma-informed also means understanding the limits of our role.

Do we know when something is beyond our scope? Do we understand how to support regulation rather than push people deeper into an experience they cannot yet hold?

Ultimately, it is less about the label we use & more about the responsibility we carry. The real question is not whether our work is trauma-informed, but whether we are truly prepared to care for the human nervous systems that enters the room.

04/03/2026

When you move with awareness, you update the map.

Slow down.
Feel the habit.
Interrupt the unconscious pattern.
Create choice where there was autopilot.

In the quiet of slow movement, your nervous system learns something new.

02/03/2026

March Class Series - Wake Up & Feel the Aliveness in Your Body

If you’ve been feeling stiff, tired, or like your body isn’t quite yours, this 4-week series is an invitation to slow down, tune in, & begin to move again. To notice the little signs of life returning, in your body & around you.

Over 4 weeks, we’ll explore:
🌱 Week 1 – Noticing & Sensing - Tune in. Start to feel again.
🌀 Week 2 – Coiling & Gathering - Awaken spinal & core elasticity.
🔥 Week 3 – Gentle Activation - Bring movement back to your body.
☯️ Week 4 – Integration & Exploration - Expand with full bodied awareness.

This is about feeling more awake in your body.
More responsive.
More like yourself again.

Spring doesn’t require a dramatic transformation.
It asks for small, consistent shifts.

If that feels timely for you, I’d love for you to join us.

You’re warmly welcome to drop in for individual classes or book the full 4-week series to move through the progression together.

For more details - www.charlottedouglasyoga.com/class-schedule

02/03/2026

Do you live your life on auto pilot?

What if there was another way?

One that gave you choice, agency & autonomy

What then 🤔

What do you think?

27/02/2026

What Your Body Already Knows

Your body doesn’t need fixing.
It needs listening.

In Somatic Yoga we practice staying with sensation, without pushing, without shutting down, without overriding what’s there.

We slow down.
We feel.
We reconnect.

I invite you to join me in class

Tuesday morning at 9.30am online, or come and find me in person in Frome.

Details in profile

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24/02/2026

I’m tired of dogma.
I’m tired of catharsis being mistaken for healing.
I’m tired of transformation being marketed like a product.
I’m tired of six-week resets, twelve-step reinventions, fixed timelines for becoming “better.”

I’m tired of people claiming they have the answers.
And I’m deeply tired of being told what to do.

What I’ve learned, through teaching, through working with nervous systems, through living in a body, is that regulation does not respond well to force.

The nervous system does not reorganise because someone insists. It reorganises when it feels safe enough.

And safety is built through:
💚repetition
💚permission
💚slowness
💚choice
💚relationship

Not intensity. Not certainty. Not charisma.

The quiet path isn’t passive.
The subtle path isn’t weak.
The gentle path isn’t less effective.

It’s just harder to sell.

And those of us who choose it often feel we have to explain ourselves, as if we’re lacking ambition, or edge, or power.
We’re not.
We’re working with biology, not branding.