Evolve Somatics

Evolve Somatics Trauma-informed Somatic Teacher 🧡 Somatic Strength & Kettlebell Coach 🧡 Advanced Embodied Yoga Teacher 🧡 Somatic Breathwork Facilitator
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L I V I N G A J O Y F U L L I F ECan you spot me in the picture? Can you see that smile on my face?!I realised a f...
25/03/2026

L I V I N G A J O Y F U L L I F E
Can you spot me in the picture? Can you see that smile on my face?!

I realised a few years ago that I was living my life in the shadows - in the shadows of other people and their wants, needs, expectations. I was moulding my life - personal and professional - to fit in with others.

And so I was always living with the anxiety of comparison and not being good enough.

A few things fell into place around this time - they didn’t just land in my lap though; I had made conscious choices to journey along on some new paths.

I completed my trauma-informed somatic teacher and coach training and I became a StrongFirst kettlebell instructor. And these two worlds collided in the most beautiful way 💫🌟

Being a trauma-informed somatic teacher and strength coach is a bit niche and sometimes I find it hard to describe exactly what I do in a few sentences but I truly believe in what I offer.

It’s not something you do to attract big audiences or celebrity stars - I do a lot of 1:1 work and my classes are intentionally small.

Community and connection are at the heart of what I do - to support people who are looking for a whole-body approach to support them through their trauma. We work with functional, intuitive and yoga movement, functional strength and weight training, somatic breathwork, guided relaxation and other mindfulness practices. We talk, we listen, sometimes we create.

I have just returned from my latest training weekend (Imperial Programme Minimum and StrongFirst Resilience) with the wonderful - and more than ever, I feel confident with who I am and what I do. Plus, I get to be part of a genuine community of brothers and sisters in strength.

The StrongFirst values really resonate with my more somatic approach - strength, grace, softness, listening in / noticing, breath, laughter…

Thanks to for organising such a great weekend and to for hosting us at his awesome studio ( ) and to all the assistants / senior instructors who encourage and share their wisdom. So grateful 🙏🏻

I am living my most joyful life 🖤

17/03/2026

❤️ INTUITIVE MOVEMENT: for me this is not thinking about what I should do but moving in a way that feels good for my body.

I move the parts of me that want to move, rather than force the body into shapes that feel restricted or guarded.

I do a lot of this movement, especially before weight training when I’m “checking in” to see how I’m feeling in my whole body, before committing to lifting heavy weights. Sometimes I discover that I don’t in fact feel like training after all!!

Listening into the body… notice your rhythms, internal landscape and signals from within… that way you will work with your body rather than against it ❤️🤍❤️

16/03/2026

🙌🏻💪🏻 confidence is growing in the 20kg Turkish Get up 💪🏻🙌🏻

Slow and steady works best for me:

⚡️4 or 5 short sessions a week,
⚡️progressive overload without fatiguing,
⚡️being able to breathe calmly (or recover my breath before continuing),
⚡️time in between sets to move and shake off,
⚡️listening to my body before I start training (and during) for any signs or messages that things need to change / aren’t quite right,
⚡️making sure I’m enjoying myself and not training because of guilt or ‘shoulds’

Love and strength,
Lou xx

🖤 Trauma-informed somatic work for children and young people 🖤Today, our focus was on creativity, having-a-go, team work...
11/03/2026

🖤 Trauma-informed somatic work for children and young people 🖤

Today, our focus was on creativity, having-a-go, team work and having fun!

We always take the time to check-in first - to try and notice our body, our thoughts and our feelings. Today was a “I don’t know” day and that is ok!

Sometimes we don’t always know what is going on in our inner and outer worlds. But if we can find something joyful that helps us to better connect to ourselves, then we’re on the way!

09/03/2026

🤩 W O W !! 🤩

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us over the weekend but especially those women who offered their time, love and energy in supporting us with their offerings:

Katy Murraywith.lena Lena Parsons
Kerry Robinson
Zoe Pirie
Maz and Ian Woodend

And my beautiful colleague and friend Cath Munro

Looking forward to what happens next!
Lou xx

07/03/2026

🖤 Women’s Somatic Strength & Kettlebells for IWD 2026 🖤

🖤 Celebrating International Women’s Day - with our weekend event!
07/03/2026

🖤 Celebrating International Women’s Day - with our weekend event!

Hello! My name is Lou and I am a trauma-informed somatic teacher and strength coach. This is a piccie of me in my beauti...
05/03/2026

Hello! My name is Lou and I am a trauma-informed somatic teacher and strength coach. This is a piccie of me in my beautiful studio in Kendal where I welcome students of my classes and my 1:1 clients.

I support people (adults and young people) who are managing trauma and other life challenges:

~ chronic conditions
~ illness recovery
~ PTSD
~ anxiety
~ suicidality
~ menopause
~ stress
~ depression
~ chronic pain
~ grief
~ disability

I work collaboratively with folk who are looking for a “whole body” (somatic) approach to supporting them on their journey towards healing… bringing together their physical, emotional, mental, instinctive, spiritual etc parts…

Together we create a personalised “toolbox of INNER and OUTER resources” to support themselves better.

This could be through:

~ movement,
~ breathwork,
~ strength and heavy weight training,
~ guided meditation,
~ mindfulness practices,
~ guided relaxation,
~ focussed listening
~ psycho-education
~ time to talk
~ games
~ creativity (art/music)

Some of my week is taken up with coaching women in body and heavy weight training and I also do a lot of community work with Dr Cath Munro promoting / supporting women’s wellbeing in Kendal, the South Lakes and the wider Cumbria community.

When I’m not working, you’ll find me spending time with my youngest son and my partner, renovating our house, walking our dogs, spending time with friends, training and eating cake 🖤

Feel free to get in touch with any questions or if you’d like to work together; I’d love to hear from you 🖤
Lou xx

🖤 trauma-informed somatics for children and young people 🖤It is always such an honour to be trusted with supporting your...
03/03/2026

🖤 trauma-informed somatics for children and young people 🖤

It is always such an honour to be trusted with supporting your young folk through their worries and challenges.

The intention in our sessions is no different to those with my adults - how to feel safe enough that we can start to notice what is going on in our whole body; and what ‘tools’ do we have to support ourselves in times of need?

In this session, we worked with colour, texture, favourite animals, sorting into groups, the warmth of a hot water bottle and the smells of essential oils - lovely 🥰

01/03/2026

❤️ IWD 2026 (Kendal) BOOKING LINKS ❤️
Here they are! Thank you for your patience 🙏🏻

Saturday is at The Fellside Centre and Sunday is at Kerry Robinson’s () beautiful new studio!

LINKS ALSO IN COMMENTS below 👇🏻🤩

We REALLY hope you’ll join us for our usual Menopause Cafe, and the two (one on each day) open forum discussions around women’s wellbeing - no need to book but do turn up and bring friends / family with you ❤️

Much love ###x

25/02/2026

🖤 R E S T L E S S B O D Y
When you’re wired but tired…
You need to move but don’t have a huge amount of energy

We had a great session today - really listening to what the body needed with no pressure to ‘succeed’ and with no expected outcomes.

Smiles by the end of the session really said it all 🖤

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Kendal

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Wednesday 9:15am - 12pm
Thursday 9:30am - 4:30pm
6:30pm - 9:30pm

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My name is Lou Curry; I am a mum to two boys and a trained primary school teacher.

I started Evolve Yoga Cumbria because I want to share my passion for yoga with every ‘body’; no matter their age, religion, ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation, body shape, social background etc....

Yoga is about listening to your body and working at whatever level is right for you, on any given day - finding the balance between challenging yourself and being loving towards yourself and, connecting to the innate power and beauty of your own body and mind.

A yoga practice teaches us to mindfully move and connect with our breath, which leads us to be mindful and present in our daily tasks. It teaches us the freedom to be still and it connects us, one to another.