Charlotte Douglas Yoga

27/01/2026

Introducing the first in a series of workshops - early bird price is live now & places are limited.

📅 March 14th
⏰ 9.30 - 12.00
📍Thrive Pilates, Frome
💷 £27 Early Bird (exp 22/02) | £30 Standard

Listening to Your Body: Foundations of Somatic Movement

Laying the foundation for a body-led practice - This workshop is an invitation to explore the fundamentals of somatic movement and mindful, embodied yoga. Through gentle, guided practices, you’ll discover how to move with ease, awareness, and intention, tuning into your body and breath.

We will weave together simple, foundational somatic tools, including:
🌱Soma Scan & self-touch: checking in with your body & sensing support
🌱Yielding before movement: allowing the body to soften & find readiness
🌱Pulsing, oscillating & pandiculating: reawakening muscles & fascia
🌱Moments of melt & rest: integrating movement with ease & digestion
🌱Moving slowly & mindfully: cultivating refined, controlled, & pleasurable movement
🌱Breath exploration: discovering new choices & allowing prana to flow
🌱Connection to ground, gravity & space: creating openness & a sense of embodied presence

The practice emphasises “less is more”, encouraging you to explore effort & ease together, put your brain in your body, & notice subtle shifts in sensation, balance, & alignment.

Who it’s for:
Anyone curious about moving with more awareness, reducing tension, & developing a mindful, embodied yoga practice.

No previous experience needed.

Booking details: www.bookwhen.com/charlottedouglasyoga/e/ev-sdyal-20260314093000

23/01/2026

Another great piece of writing from Subtle Yoga with Kristine Weber

Mushy Yoga - the word says it all, but if yoga ever wishes to be taken seriously, then we need to step away from the mishmash of spirituality, vague platitudes, and feel-good language that asks nothing of us. Yoga is a time-proven practice, rooted in inquiry, lived experience, and a deep relationship with the body and the mind. It was never meant to soothe us into complacency or bypass discomfort with niceness.

At its heart, yoga asks for attention, responsibility, and discernment. It asks us to sense, to feel, to notice cause and effect, and to be changed by what we discover.

Thoughts?

(edit: I wrote this blog after the first day of a yoga therapy conference I went to last week. That first day was particularly disappointing. But there were some better presentations on the following days. And while some of the didactic pieces were interesting the yoga that was offered was not. It was subpar. And it pi**ed me off. So I wrote this blog about "mushy yoga". I want more out of yoga and yoga therapy because I have been working hard, for many years, to bring it into the health care system. So I want professionals to get better trained and step up the game. Some people found my blog offensive. I was called "elitist" and "a snob." Then I felt bad about myself for writing it. Because I was acculturated to be a good girl, positive and sweet, like all little girls born in the 1960s. I took it down for a few days to rethink what I had written, now it's back up, unedited. If you need to pretend this blog was written by "Christopher Weber" instead of Kristine, that's fine. And when you accuse him of being a snob, he won't care (and you probably would never accuse him of that anyway, you would just admire him for his clarity of thought). Worldview is the lens through which ALL of our perceptions are colored. I put the blog back up because it actually is important for this info to get out there, and anyway, I put on my big girl panties - I'm not afraid of trolls in my closet or my comments anymore).
If you'd like to read the blog, check it out 👇

21/01/2026

Somatic work isn’t mystical. It’s your nervous system doing exactly what it evolved to do.

But when you stop thinking about your body and start living inside it, the experience can feel extraordinary.

Not because it’s magic, but because you’re finally sensing life directly.

Have a listen & let me know what you think.

20/01/2026

6-Month Mentorship for Yoga Teachers

Are you stepping into private 1–1 teaching & want support navigating real students, real challenges, & your own confidence?

I offer a 6-month, one-to-one mentorship designed to meet you & your clients where you are.

Each month, we meet for a 60-minute call, guided by your needs & the questions that arise in your teaching. Between sessions, you have ongoing WhatsApp support for reflections, questions, or situations as they happen.

I bring 15 years of teaching experience & 10 years as a yoga therapist, working with individuals navigating a wide range of complexities.

Together, we’ll refine your listening, assessment, session planning, & relational presence - helping you feel confident, grounded, & clear in your private teaching.

If you’re ready to step into your 1–1 teaching with guidance & support, this mentorship could be for you.

DM me for more details or head to links in my profile

I offer a free 30 minute call in which you can ask questions & decide if I’m the right person for you.

19/01/2026

This week we’re exploring:
Where am I holding on more than I need to?
What happens if I soften a little?
Our mantra will be “As much effort as necessary, as little as possible”

We’ll move slowly and mindfully, creating space to reconnect with your body. Many people tell me that what they love most about this practice is the small, subtle micro-movements, they give time and room to really notice sensation, to pay attention, and to listen from the inside out.

Classes this week:
* Tuesday 9:30–10:30am – Somatic Yoga (Online)
* Tuesday 6:00–7:00pm – THRIVE PILATES, Frome (note the different venue)
* Wednesday 9:30–10:30am – Thoulstone Park, Chapmanslade
* Thursday 9:30–10:30am – Sun Room, Rise, Frome

🌱 Sunday 9:30–10:30am – Community Yoga, Thoulstone Park - Adults £5 | Children go free

👉 Bookings: www.charlottedouglasyoga.com/class-schedule�(cash/card also accepted)

See you on the mat,
Charlotte🙏

17/01/2026

Jumping in on the 2016 → 2026 trend.

In 2016 I was five years into teaching.

I didn’t know much, but I was starting to notice the difference between stability & flexibility, between moving freely & being supported in my own body.

Photo one shows my Downward Dog in 2012 versus 2016. It looked like progress, & it was, but I still had a long way to go.

Cue Hanumanasana.
All those deep hip openers? Probably the reason for the nagging hip pain I deal with now.

That was also the year I started teaching at bigger events & festivals. It was exciting, & filled with so many adventures.

37 Hung Shing Yeh was our family home, & the backdrop to many retreat days filled with laughter, practice, & connection.

It was also the year I was at peak paddling, probably the strongest I’ve ever been & definitely ever will be.

Looking back over the last ten years, I feel amazed at where I am now, & deeply grateful for the people who have been part of the journey.

Now, in 2026, we’re in Somerset.
Life feels quieter, slower, simpler.

There’s a clear sense that the work now is to go deeper, not further, or faster, but deeper into understanding, practice, & presence.

13/01/2026

Where are you absent? Where are you present?

These aren’t abstract questions. They’re invitations into your own body, into what somatic practitioners call PROPRIOCEPTION: your sense of where you are in space & how you feel from the inside.

For many of us, large territories of our bodies exist in sensory darkness.

We’ve lost the map. And with it, we’ve lost something essential about presence, autonomy, & the capacity to truly inhabit our lives.

This phenomenon, sensory-motor amnesia, happens when habitual tension becomes so chronic that we lose both sensation & voluntary control. We forget these areas exist as something we can consciously feel and move.

But here’s the profound part: reclaiming proprioception is reclaiming CHOICE.

When you can feel the micro-moment before you habitually hunch your shoulders, you have the possibility of choosing differently. This is freedom at the most fundamental level, freedom of the soma.

Swipe through for practical ways to tune back in ➡️

Full blog post (link in bio) explores: • Where we tend to be absent (back body, non-dominant side, pelvis) • When we tune out (cognitive override, habit, stress) • How to cultivate presence (specific somatic practices) • Why this matters for true autonomy

Where in your body do you feel most present? Where do you notice absence?

13/01/2026

Somatic/s is a buzz word used by so many but equally misunderstood by so many - and so what does a somatic practice really mean? And why should we even bother?

I wrote this article - called the geography of presence and it speaks to many things - tuning in and tuning out, noticing absence, being present.

Would love to hear your thoughts and how my words perhaps made you feel.

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WHERE ARE YOU RIGHT NOW? I don't mean geographically. I mean: where are you in your body ? Can you feel your left shoulder blade? The back of your ribcage breathing? Your sitting bones making contact with the chair?