Katiewhiteyoga, Grantown on Spey (2026)

09/02/2026

R E T U R N

Join me for an Embodied Yoga Retreat on a private island this June 9th - 13th.

Eilean Shona is a car-free wilderness haven, nestled in a loch on the dramatic west coast of Scotland.

Return becomes a retreat you feel in your bones the moment you arrive on Eilean Shona - a private island where June stretches long and golden, the air softens, and something inside you finally exhales. It’s a place that invites you back to yourself in a way modern life rarely allows.

Return is an immersion into KWY Embodied Practices shaped by the island’s own rhythms. Breath, sensation, and presence become your compass as you move through Embodied Flow, Yin, Forest Bathing, cold‑water dips, sauna warmth, kayaking, and pockets of wild, nourishing silence. Nothing to perform. Nothing to perfect. Just a steady, gentle returning to the truth of your body.

The island itself becomes part of the teaching. Tides show you how to rise and fall without force. Forest paths show you how to soften and root. Wide, open horizons show you how to release what you’ve carried too long. Each day unfolds with a natural arc - awakening, expanding, unwinding - mirroring the season’s own slow unfurling.

Leave your car - and the world - on the mainland. Step onto the boat. Cross the water. And settle into a private island sanctuary where we’ll have exclusive use of the brand‑new yoga space overlooking the sea.

Daily Schedule
Morning Meditation (outside if weather permits)
Morning Embodied Flow Yoga
Brunch
Mixture of daily activities
Evening Embodied Yin Yoga
Dinner

Shared Twin Rooms Only
Includes boat to island, all meals, 2+ yoga classes a day, sauna, kayaks

Chef Kate Turner will nourish the retreat with seasonal, island‑sourced meals. Her cooking is warm, creative, and deeply connected to Eilean Shona, making each meal a grounding part of the experience.

Trained in London and seasoned in Michelin kitchens, Kate now cooks as a private chef, blending precision with a relaxed, personal touch. Living on a Highland croft, she grows ingredients and tests recipes inspired by the land. She can’t wait for you to taste the West Coast.

07/02/2026

Please support our Food Hub - you can bring your donations when you come for class Grantown YMCA Community Centre x

03/02/2026

I’d love to share a little clarity around the two restorative‑like classes I’m offering, because while they both invite deep rest, they each have their own flavour and intention.

Embodied Yin - a different kind of practice.

Where traditional yin asks for stillness, Embodied Yin recognises a deeper truth: movement and stillness are partners. One cannot exist without the other. This practice honours that dance.

I’ve been quietly shaping this class for a long time, feeling both excitement and hesitancy because it doesn’t look like most yin offerings. And that’s exactly the point. It’s different - intentionally so. If you enjoyed The Quiet Body workshops, this is for you.

In Embodied Yin, we don't try to be still or move, we allow for both. We allow what wants to settle to settle, and what wants to move to move. We follow the natural spirals woven into our DNA. We’re bathed in sound. We pandiculate between motion and rest, rediscovering not only ourselves but the easeful, relaxed nature that’s always been there beneath the noise. There is guidance and sequences that honour meridian lines and elements, but the BIG invitation is inner guidance.

This class is taught entirely from the heart, and I’m genuinely excited to finally share it with you. I'd love for you to give it a try.

Mondays 5:30pm and Wednesdays 7pm

Restorative Yoga - all about REST

A practice that asks nothing of you except to arrive as you are. Where props cradle the body, breath unwinds the mind, and time stretches open enough for the nervous system to remember what ease feels like. It’s a gentle return to yourself - spacious, unhurried, deeply nourishing.

Sundays 5:30pm

01/02/2026

February asks us to gently stoke our inner Fire 🔥

As the light begins its quiet return, this month becomes a beautiful bridge between deep winter rest and the first hints of awakening. It’s a time for gentle heat, steady movement, and practices that help you feel more awake in your body.

My full weekly schedule has something for everyone. Come move, breathe, and reconnect with yourself through:

Embodied Flow
Mondays 7pm
Thursdays 6pm
Saturdays 8:30am

My signature class that combines strong movements, stillness and interception. Traditional asanas found in Ashtanga met with the modern approach where focus is on connection rather than control.

Hatha Yoga
Wednesdays 530pm

A steady, traditional practice with clear postures, intentional pacing, and balanced strength + mobility. Great for building foundation, alignment, and presence.

Restorative Yoga
Sundays 530pm

Deep rest for the nervous system. Fully supported poses held for longer periods to invite softness, release, and replenishment. Ideal for stress, fatigue, and grounding.

Embodied Yin Yoga
Mondays 530pm
Wednesdays 7pm

Slow, meditative holds and movement that target fascia and deeper tissues. Encourages gentle movements, stillness, introspection, and gentle opening - perfect for cultivating patience and inner listening. This is not only a static practice :)

Plus, Live ONLINE Embodied Flow every Thursday 645-8am, book online for link, donation based.

29/01/2026

Smiling ahead for classes this weekend ☺️

Join me Saturday 8:30-10am for Embodied Hatha Vinyasa, where breath and movement weave you back into yourself.

Or Sunday 5:30-6:45pm for Embodied Deep Stretch, a slow restorative unwind, a gentle landing for your whole being. I have NEW full length soft rugs for a WARM and cosy Savasana.

Sending love x

27/01/2026

Right now, someone is listening to the song you shared with them - and it helps them feel seen.
Right now, someone feels a little more comfortable in their body because of the way you spoke to them.
Right now, someone feels like they matter because you offered a moment of genuine kindness.

Embodied Hatha Vinyasa brings awareness into every pore of your skin to naturally awaken you to how interconnected everything is.
When you feel yourself as part of the whole, your energy moves more freely.

All of your exchanges carry energy - every glance, every word, every small act of care.
Let’s remember that even the simplest gesture can ripple through someone’s inner world in ways you may never see.

Share your love freely.
Share your presence generously.
Because honestly… if we’re not here to love, to uplift, to awaken each other - what are we doing?

23/01/2026

What is Embodied Hatha Vinyasa?

Embodied means fully experiencing something through the body - not just thinking about it, but feeling it, moving with it, and integrating it physically. Freedom is found in the full embrace of life. Making intentional choices and practicing agency offers freedom.

Hatha translates to "force" or "effort," emphasising the physical discipline required in the yoga practice. Symbolic meaning: It represents the integration of solar and lunar energies, encouraging harmony between strength and softness, movement and stillness. It was originally a comprehensive system for spiritual growth - not just physical exercise. Structure and repetition offers freedom.

Vinyasa means to place in a special way. Much like a ‘moving meditation’, vinyasa links breath with continuous movement, creating a rhythm that draws the mind away from distractions and into the present moment. This is what gives rise to the flow state. Absorption in what one is doing offers freedom.

In unison these offer a practice that supports you from the inside out, guiding you towards a body that feels open and supported and a spirit that feels unbound 💫

These elements are then illuminated in other classes:

Mondays 530 Deep Stretch with gentle movements
Mondays 7pm Embodied Hatha Vinyasa (Flow)

Wednesdays 530pm Embodied Hatha

Thursdays 6pm Embodied Hatha Vinyasa (Flow)

Saturdays 830 Embodied Hatha Vinyasa (Flow) no class on training weekends

Sundays 530pm Restore and Nidra

22/01/2026

I'll always be a movement teacher - we are designed to move, bodies of water become smelly if still for too long 😉 people are under moved are over stimulated.

But for me, real liberation lies in meditation. Never about quieting, always about noticing.

Sit, allow stability to be your container, breath to be your anchor. Then? Just notice.

❤️

20/01/2026

Last night a friend came back after class to say come outside, the Aurora is out (thanks Catherine 🥹) then I immediately texted Vic get outside, then my phone kept lighting up with messages: “Go outside — the aurora is out!” So many people reaching out, so many mentions of magic. I ran home to get my mother in law outside so she could see it.

It struck me how, when we witness something beautiful, our first instinct is to share it. To pull others into the moment. To say, “Look. You have to see this.”

There is so much beauty in the world. And sometimes the beauty isn’t just in what we see — it’s in the connection that forms when we want others to see it too.

I’m not sure what moved me more: seeing the aurora with my naked eye, or the feeling of being woven into a web of people who wanted to share that wonder.

Connected by the light 💫

19/01/2026

Take a slow inhale through the nose.
Feel the breath rise gently, as if it’s guiding you toward the person you are becoming.
On the exhale, let the body soften - releasing what no longer needs to be carried.

Inhale: a quiet opening.
Exhale: a quiet letting go.

With each breath, notice the subtle space that appears inside you.
A space where possibility lives.

Allow it to show you what freedom feels like:
the freedom to pause,
the freedom to soften,
the freedom to grow in your own time.

Weekly Class Schedule:

Mondays 5:30 DEEP STRETCH YIN
Mondays 7:00 WARM FLOW
Tuesdays 9:30 Beginners/Gentle FLOW w Angie Lake
Wednesdays 5:30 WARM HATHA
Thursdays 6pm FLOW
no Saturday class - we have teacher training
Sundays 5:30 Restore and Nidra w Katie Hodgetts

16/01/2026

NEW CLASS
Gentle Flow with Angie Lake
9:30am Tuesdays
Beginners Welcome

This class is the perfect compliment to our studio's weekly timetable. Angie will guide a gentle flow class that aims to bring gentleness and softness into the mind, body and breath.

Leave feeling more connected and lighter. Knee issues, want to move a little slower, want to move gently, new to yoga and want to see what it's all about? This is the class for you.

Any questions reach, book online. Lot of love x

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