Charlotte Douglas Yoga

11/05/2026

“Restorative yoga teaches us that slowing down is not a luxury. It is a profound way of waking up to our own lives” Judith Hanson Lasater

Join me, every Thursday at from 7:15 - 8:15pm

A beautiful new studio in Frome 🧘‍♀️

And if you’re in the mood for it, you could join me at 6-7pm for Somatic Yoga - the perfect double bill.

07/05/2026

Many of us experience breathing mostly in the front of the body, the chest rising and falling, the belly moving gently with the breath.

But did you know that the lungs sit deeply into the back body too?

and that the ribs are designed to widen and respond in all directions?

Breathing is inherently three-dimensional.

And sometimes simple shapes can help us sense this more clearly:
🌱lying face down
🌱hugging a cushion
🌱resting over support
🌱softening into a restorative child’s pose

These kinds of practices can invite awareness into the back ribs and posterior body, creating a feeling of spaciousness, support, and breath moving where we may not usually notice it.

Often, it’s not about breathing more deeply, but about sensing more fully.

👉 A gentle reminder that there are still a few spaces left for this Saturday’s Somatic Breath Workshop.

👉 We’ll be exploring breath, nervous system regulation, embodiment, and the subtle ways awareness can reshape how we inhabit ourselves.

👉 Booking details in the link

06/05/2026

It is letting the body become knowable from the inside, learning to sense & feel from within.

The practice itself may look very simple, like not much is going on. But the actual experience of it has the potential to be profoundly rich, alive, & nuanced.

In this somatic approach, the point is never the shape. It’s the quality of attention moving through it.

🌀Shoulder rolls become a way of mapping where movement begins.�🌀Clavicle slides reveal how the chest organizes breath, support, & reach.�🌀Archer pose asks how direction reshapes the relationship between spine, ribs, & shoulder girdle.�🌀Triangle pose becomes less about alignment & more about distribution, how effort travels, where it accumulates, & where it can soften.

Running through the practice is an inquiry:�❓How is movement different when you initiate proximally?�❓Can you maintain width across your clavicles?�❓Can you imagine your arms starting at the midline?

And in this, you are putting your brain into the body & the body into the brain. Over time, something subtle begins to reorganise itself.

You start simple.�From there, complexity is added, more range, more load, more coordination. The task stays the same but as the demands increase, the practice is to stay in relationship with the body.
Curious? Join me in class & experience it for yourself:
Thursday 9:30am
Thursday 6pm

29/04/2026

Hi, my name is Charlotte.

Seeing as there are a few new folk here, I thought I’d introduce myself.

I’ve been living & breathing yoga & all forms of embodied awareness for as long as I can remember. I’ve fallen in & out of love with the practice more times than I care to admit, but without fail, I’ve always found my way back.

I’m a deep thinker, a bit of a nerd, & I love nothing more than talking about embodiment, neuroscience, fascia, data, magic, mystery, & so much more. I’m here for all of it.

I used to think I was an extrovert, but over time I’ve come to realise I’m far more introverted than I ever gave myself credit for.

The place where I feel most at home is on the mat, sometimes rolling on the floor exploring intuitive movement & what feels good in my body, other times finding new ways to sequence movement as an entry point into felt experience.

It’s where the noise in my head softens, & also where I feel most confident guiding others to do the same.

I like to integrate somatics with therapeutic yoga. It’s invitational, inquiry-led, & its magic lies in its simplicity.

Guided by the principle that less is always more, it’s an approach to practice that has carried me though the good & bad times. I’m not sure where I’d be without it.

My hope is that we may meet on the mat one day, in shared practice.

Where to find me?

Tuesday 6pm - Thrive Pilates, Frome
Thursday 9.30am - Sun Room,
Thursday 6pm -
Thursday 7.15 - Restorative Yoga -

Maybe see you there 🙏

17/04/2026

An interesting article on dysfunctional breathing which explores how many otherwise healthy people may be living with altered breathing patterns, often shallow, fast, or effortful, without realising it, and how these patterns can feed into stress, fatigue, and anxiety. What stood out for me is the feedback loop between breath and nervous system: how each continuously shapes the other, so the way we breathe can reinforce the way we feel.

This is why working with the breath matters, it’s one way we can begin to influence that loop, and build greater capacity and tolerance within the system.

In my upcoming workshop on the breath, we’ll explore what Donna Farhi calls The Essential Breath: spontaneous, fluid, permeating the entire body. A breath that is attuned to both physical and emotional needs - adaptable, rhythmic, and responsive - providing stability, calm, or energy as the moment requires.

This is the foundation of effective breathing.

Workshop Details: https://bookwhen.com/charlottedouglasyoga/e/ev-sbwah-20260509093000

You might think of breathing as automatic, but dysfunctional breathing can arise even if you’re healthy

14/04/2026

👉 Updated Schedule - Starting Next Week

You may not know this, but for the past nine months I’ve been holding a weekly online class on Tuesday mornings.

It’s been a steady, intimate space, & I have loved seeing it grow.

From May, I’ll be expanding the schedule to include a Monday evening Wind Down Restorative, to help you transition out of the pace of the day & into a more settled, supported state.

My in-person classes are also beginning to find their own rhythm, & I’m really looking forward to being back in the studio with you all, sharing space, practice, & presence together.

I’ll also be offering a Breath workshop in May, & in June, I’ll be repeating my Foundations of Somatic Movement workshop, which previously sold out.

If you’ve been curious about joining, then I would love to welcome you into class.

👉🏻 Receive 50% off your first class.

👉🏻 Sign up to both workshops & receive a 10% discount

13/04/2026

The spine is not just a structure that holds us upright.

It’s a living, responsive pathway, one that directly influences how we breathe, how we feel, & how we experience ourselves.

When the spine is rigid, the breath feels restricted.
When the breath is restricted, the nervous system begins to organise around that limitation.

I felt this myself just the other day. A small restriction in my spine made breathing painful. And as my breath became more shallow, I noticed something else rising - anxiety.

I couldn’t name any speciifc reason for the anxiety, but I could feel that my body had less room to breathe.

So many of us are walking around with a background hum of anxiety that we can’t quite account for. And often, it starts with breath that has over time, become more & more contained.

This is exactly what we’ll be exploring in my upcoming workshop Somatic Breath: Foundations of Effective Breathing

📅 May 9th, 9.30 - 12.00
📍Thrive Pilates, Frome

I can’t promise you the answers but I can offer you some questions to explore.

A somatic playground into the breath & finding more space in the body.

📹 Mobilise the spine using a resistance band

❓Can you refine movement initiation with breath specifically directed to the band?
❓How does your breath change when you have freer movmenet in your spine?
❓What else do you notice?

📖 Experiential Anatomy - Leila Stuart