Yo Yoga Soul Yoga Therapy Hull

Yo Yoga Soul Yoga Therapy Hull Yoga in Schools. English teacher, SEN, PGCE, MA, Yoga Therapist (CNHC), She / Her YoYogaSoul also offers Yoga classes in the Chanterlands and Avenues community.

As a full qualified Yoga Instructor and Yoga Therapist (CNHC registered) accredited by the British Council for Yoga Therapy, I can help you to work on relieving specific health conditions, bringing the body into balance, both physically and emotionally. We have also developed an effective healthy minds and well-being programme with workshops for Business and Educational staff. We also provide Yoga and Mindfulness for pupils and students in schools and colleges in Hull and the surrounding area. Yoga has been proven to have the following benefits: reduces anxiety and stress; improves fitness, academic achievement and behaviour. Do inquire about our FREE yoga classes.

20/02/2026

Exam season is often more than just a test of what’s in the textbooks. For many students, it’s a time when the nervous system goes into overdrive—leaving them feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in “fight-or-flight”.

If you’re a student, parent, or educator you are noticing:

🌪️ Hyperarousal: Racing hearts, panic, or inability to sit still.

😶 Hypoarousal: Feeling numb, “spaced out,” or completely shut down.

📉 Loss of Agency: Feeling like the exams are something happening to you, rather than a challenge you can meet.

I’m here to help you find your ground.

My approach to Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TSY) isn’t about perfect poses or “pushing through.” It’s about using invitational language and gentle movement to help you reclaim a sense of safety in your own body.

How I support you:

✨ One-to-One Sessions: Personalised tools for self-regulation, building a “toolkit” of breathwork and grounding to use even during the exam.

🏫 School Workshops and classes: Gentle, inclusive group sessions designed to lower collective anxiety and provide “brain breaks” that actually reset the nervous system.
You are more than your grades. You are a person with a body that deserves to feel calm and capable.

📩 Schools & Parents: I am currently booking one-off workshops and private blocks for the upcoming term. DM me to discuss how we can create a supportive space for your students.

04/02/2026

GCSE and A-Level exam season is nearly here. For many students, the pressure isn’t just in the head—it’s in the body. Shoulders up to ears, shallow breathing, and racing hearts.

As an English teacher for 29 years and an accredited Yoga Therapist, I’ve seen how stress blocks memory. Yoga Therapy helps down-regulate the nervous system, moving students from ‘panic’ to ‘performance’ mode.

Here’s one “Exam Hack,” such as Box Breathing (Inhale 4, Hold 4, Exhale 4, Hold 4) to use right before the exam paper starts for calm and focus.

I’m now booking Revision De-stress workshops in schools for the spring/summer term.

Schools, DM ‘EXAM CALM’ for my 2026 workshop offerings.

31/01/2026

Just for fun!

Yorkshire Yoga is the new style.

Forget jivamukti.

Instead of a Kirtan I will have a Bontempi Organ and will sing John Shuttleworth classics such as Pigeons in Flight, and an Austen Allegra Y Reg.

Who can forget the haunting melody of the Nirvana parody, Smells like White Spirit?

Just for fun of course! Having a sense of humour and never taking one seriously is essential to life enjoyment!

25/01/2026

Leonard Cohen’s famous lyrical line “There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in“ suggests that our flaws are not failures to be fixed, but an entry point for finding ourselves.

There’s a modern counterpart in Harry Styles’ song, Aperture which is a metaphor for inviting in radical acceptance of one’s vulnerabilities allowing for a more authentic connection to others. In the video Styles is chased by a shadowy figure he realises he must embrace.

Both Cohen’s and Styles’ musings on light and shadow reflect Carl Jung’s psychological concept of the Shadow: To become whole involves facing our darker shadow selves. When we stop hiding the cracks (Cohen) and open the aperture (Styles) and look directly at our hidden depths (Jung), we realise that the “light” illuminates that healing isn’t about being perfect; but self-acceptance of those parts we consider broken.

25/01/2026

Leonard Cohen’s famous lyrical line “There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in “ suggests that our flaws are not failures to be fixed, but an entry points for finding wisdom.

There’s a modern counterpart in Harry Styles’ song, Aperture which is a metaphor for inviting in radical acceptance of one’s vulnerabilities allowing for a more authentic connection to others.

Both Cohen and Styles musing on light and shadow reflect Carl Jung’s psychological concept of the Shadow: To become whole involves facing our darker shadow selves. When we stop hiding the cracks (Cohen) and open the aperture (Styles) and look directly at our hidden depths (Jung), we realise that the “light” illuminates that healing isn’t about being perfect; but self-acceptance of those parts we consider broken.

24/01/2026

Get • Every year I’m invited to to help the pupils move towards the successful study of their PE qualifications.

This Monday’s sessions are about the use of music in exercise classes, a module pupils are studying.

Music affects mood and energy and I source and create my own playlists for my Yoga sessions.

At Wyke I will be showcasing different types of movement set to music to set tempo and mood, for example:

•Classical: Increases relaxation and productivity.

• Drumming: Energizing, grounding and facilitates connection.

• New Age: Calming and can bring down the energy levels.

• Environmental Sounds: Good for relaxation and restorative poses.

12/12/2025

Starting to feeling a little more festive - the tree and decorations are up.

Happy Restmas incoming!!!!

16/11/2025

For the majority of my English teaching career, I’ve taught Frankenstein written by a teenager and daughter of a proto-feminist, Mary Shelley.

It’s one of my favourite books as it stitches together highly complex ideas in a gothic science fiction novel warning against the arrogance of men replacing women in the act of creation, whereby an innocent yet abandoned Creature is constantly rejected, shunned and isolated by society and his Creator only for us to witness who is truly the monster: Society perpetuated through poor parenting.

Shelley’s novel critiques misogyny, male dominated science, inter-generational trauma and abuse, social inequality, prejudice, and the subjugation of Nature represented in the suppression of the feminine only to produce a type of toxic masculinity in Victor Frankenstein unable to nurture his own Creation who becomes violent and murderous. The Creature laments to his father, Frankenstein, that he is a “filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance.”

In Del Toro’s recent Netflix adaptation, the cycle of abuse and intergenerational trauma is clearly presented, passed from Victor’s father to Victor’s creation, yet it concludes with a hopeful quotation from Byron: “The heart will break and yet brokenly live on.” This encapsulates post-traumatic growth for the Creature who embraces the beauty of life, despite acknowledging his own suffering. The film carries a message of parental accountability, reconciliation, and peace in its final frames. Overall, it is a fantastic work of art in its own right. My review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

How did you respond to the recent adaptation of Frankenstein? Was it true to the novel? ⬇️



16/11/2025

For the majority of my English teaching career, I’ve taught Frankenstein written by a teenager and daughter of a proto-feminist, Mary Shelley.

It’s one of my favourite books as it stitches together highly complex ideas in a gothic science fiction novel warning against the arrogance of men replacing women in the act of creation, whereby an innocent yet abandoned Creature is constantly rejected, shunned and isolated by society and his Creator only for us to witness who is truly the monster: Society perpetuated through poor parenting.

Shelley’s novel critiques misogyny, male dominated science, inter-generational trauma and abuse, social inequality, prejudice, and the subjugation of Nature represented in the suppression of the feminine only to produce a type of toxic masculinity in Victor Frankenstein unable to nurture his own Creation who becomes violent and murderous. The Creature laments to his father, Frankenstein, that he is a “filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance.”

In Del Toro’s recent Netflix adaptation, the cycle of abuse and intergenerational trauma is clearly presented, passed from Victor’s father to Victor’s creation, yet it concludes with a hopeful quotation from Byron: “The heart will break and yet brokenly live on.” This encapsulates post-traumatic growth for the Creature who embraces the beauty of life, despite acknowledging his own suffering. The film carries a message of parental accountability, reconciliation, and peace in its final frames. Overall, it is a fantastic work of art in its own right. My review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

How did you respond to the recent adaptation of Frankenstein? Was it true to the novel? ⬇️



25/10/2025

How many times have I witnessed or being in an organisation that says it’s trauma-informed but pushes responsibility for well-being back onto the individual?

Too many times.

Why?

Because it’s entirely performative.

Community care is trauma-informed because it recognizes that trauma’s roots derive from the collective impact of social inequalities like poverty, misogyny, abuses of power, racism, and structural violence.

Many organisations are set up on hierarchical power structures and instead of working on their own accountability defer back to the individual. This approach does not foster trust, safety, or empowers individuals and their resiliency and creates re-traumatisation.

I often see its prevalence in organisations and services bogged down by complex bureaucracy, like a sort of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and Orwell’s 1984, which micro-manages and observes individuals with a lens of measuring to focus on what is “wrong” or “compliant” with an individual which is highly disempowering. It’s so Foucault!

The ethos of self-care fits entirely with the capitalistic ethic that places the burden of dealing with exhaustion and stress on the individual and this allows the organisation to be free of the duty of care and accountability that comes with it, making people into disposable units.


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As a full qualified Yoga Instructor (200hr) and Yoga Therapist (1,150hr) that is CNHC registered, and accredited by the British Council for Yoga Therapy, I can help you to work on relieving specific health conditions, bringing the body into balance, both physically and emotionally.

Yoga Therapy Hull also offers Yoga classes in the Chanterlands and Avenues community. We have also developed an effective healthy minds and well-being programme with workshops for Business and Educational staff.

As an Educational Professional with over 20 years experience as an English teacher (BA Hons, MA, + PGCE) with a background in SEN Support, Course Leadership, Teacher Coaching, and on the Teacher Trainer PGCE programme at the University of Huddersfield, I also hold the following qualifications to deliver Yoga and Mindfulness for pupils, students, and teachers in primaries, schools, and colleges in Hull and East Yorkshire:

Teen Yoga and Mindfulness Diploma Mind with Heart Mindfulness Trainer for Schools Children’s Yoga Diploma Special Educational Needs Yoga Diploma Yoga has been proven to have the following benefits: reduces anxiety and stress; improves fitness, academic achievement, behaviour, and emotional self-regulation. Do inquire about our FREE funded yoga classes.