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Asteria Movement, Leeds (2025)

17/06/2025

If you are pregnant and looking for a class that is more than just movement, it also:

🪷 Deepens your connection with your body.

🪷 Supports you to tune into your instincts.

🪷 Invites you to unwind the patterns you're holding onto in your body and mind.

🪷 Guides you to find your own flow.

So that you can increase confidence in your body literacy, trust in your intuition, advocate for what you need and stand in your own power as you navigate pregnancy, birth and beyond... Then this is the class for you.

And of course, you still get movement tailored specifically to pregnant bods that:

🌻 Eases aches and pains.

🌻 Builds strength at a pace that suits you.

🌻 Increases flexibility and mobility.

🌻Supports a balanced, well functioning core and pelvic floor.

🌻Teaches you tools and techniques you can take away with you.

🌻Offers you plenty of time for much needed rest and relaxation.

This all round class supports you to take what you need, everything is optional and there are lots of options.

Open to all levels, this class is suitable for experienced yogis and complete beginners alike. Show up as are, if you just want to lie down on a mat for an hour that's welcome too 😅

Join me on Wednesdays at Yoga Hero, 6-7pm.

Book via Momence or follow my 🔗🌳

*Many health conditions and circumstances can be accommodated for but there are a few things in pregnancy which means yoga isn't advisable - please DM if you want to check suitability.

16/06/2025

There is a creation story inside of you.

It lives in every cell.

It began with the creation of the universe and continues inside of you.

Living, breathing, stardust in motion.

A story of earth, wind, water and fire.

Join me in class this week where we will explore fragment of this story.

This is embodied hatha flow, Summer Solstice style.

Journey into your inner cosmos with me:

Friday, 18:15, Community Yoga - book via my 🔗

or

Sunday, 10am, Sunday Service Leeds (cover for ) - book via Momence

04/06/2025

Fridays is Yoga ✨

These classes are open level blending hatha yoga, somatic movement, and deep rest.

🌱 They support you to increase mobility, strength and flexibility at a pace that suits you.

🧘🏻‍♀️They are suitable for all levels of experience from experienced yogis to beginners. Non-bendy and pre&postnatal are welcome.

🪷 Inspired by natural rhythms, we use movement, meditation and breath to welcome ourselves home to our bodies, deepen our connections with our internal worlds and remember our relationship with the world around us. We leave with a greater sense of presence, ease and belonging.

🌛 All sessions end with a guided relaxation. On the last Friday of the month we have a Yoga Nidra session dedicated to nourishing deep rest. The next Yoga Nidra 27th June.

🌞Join our small, inclusive group for community and connection as we explore the flow of Summer.

💜 These are yoga classes for the whole of you and you are welcome just as you are.

💰 You can drop in for individual classes or book a discounted pass for 4+ sessions. Sliding scale pricing. No-one turned away for lack of funds, various PAYC options available.

🌈 is a welcoming, community oriented space. We are upstairs in the studio space on the mezzanine floor - no lift unfortunately. You can find more accessibility information in the booking info and via the website but please get in touch if anything isn't clear or you want to check this is the right space for you.

You can DM any questions and to book or follow my 🔗

https://buytickets.at/asteriamovement/1481184

03/06/2025

Something wonderful happened at pregnancy yoga last week.

The room was breathing in unison, but moving in different ways. Some within and through Asana, others in their own flow.

You could see - and feel - everyone was tuned in; to their bodies, the room, their own experience. Sensing, feeling, expressing.

This is intuitive movement. Listening in, knowing what your body-mind needs, and following that. Not what a teacher says, not what someone else is doing. Allowing body to guide you and trusting that.

This deep inner listening is a doorway into flow. Where we move away from expectation, fear, desire. And instead respond to our ever changing bodies and environment. Allowing intuition to guide us.

Here we can hear our bodies 'yes' and 'no'. We know what we need, when to act, to pause, to speak.

This is an incredibly powerful skill. Especially for birth and parenting. And if you want a physiological birth, vital.

It isn't woo woo. It's backed by science. Even the NICE guidelines back maternal instincts.

But in a world that increasingly encourages us out of our bodies and away from our intuition, for many of us, these are skills we do have actively draw ourselves back to and practice.

If you are pregnant, and want to increase your body literacy, hone your intuition and find your flow, join us for Pregnancy Yoga on Wednesdays at 6pm.

🖌️ Mara Freidman

27/05/2025

It's my monthly Yoga Nidra session at Open Source Arts this week. Yoga Nidra is a deeply restorative guided rest practice, I offer this once a month as part of my regular Friday Yoga class at 18:15.

This is a chance to fully rest your whole body, quieten your mind and support nervous system regulation. Suitable for all and especially beneficial if you're feeling stressed, anxious, burnt out or plain exhausted.

It's an effortless practice done lying down that lulls you into the space between sleep and wakefulness. Here, we can work with the unconscious, unlock creativity and reset your whole system. We will spend half an hour here after half an hour of optional movement to ease our way to rest.

No experience required and bendy, pre & post-natal bods welcome.

Bring a blanket, bring your whole self, maybe a friend and anything else you need to keep you comfortable and help you to rest such as a pillow or quiet fidget.

I offer sliding scale pricing for financial accessibility with PAYC options available to anyone otherwise unable to attend due to cost.

DM any questions or find more info and booking here:

https://buytickets.at/asteriamovement/1481184

*Please note, we are in the dance studio on the mezzanine floor up one flight of stairs so unfortunately there is no wheelchair access.

15/05/2025

This week we are working with the theme of self-love. Exploring the ways we meet ourselves and practicing self-compassion, acceptance and grace.

Join me at Open Source Arts Fridays, 18:15 for mindful movement, breath and rest.

Open level Yoga classes - suitable for complete beginners, pre& postnatal bods, non-flexi bods and experienced yogis alike.

In these classes you are invited to move in a way that suits your body, at your own pace.

You are supported to

🌱 Increase strength, flexibility and mobility in your body.

⚖️ Relieve tension and create balance so you can move with greater ease.

🌀 Deepen your relationship with your inner landscapes of body, thought and feeling.

😴 Rest and regulate your nervous system.

🌳 Connect with the natural world, its rhythms and your own cycles.

These are yoga classes for the whole of you and all of you is welcome.

🤑 Sliding scale pricing to support accessibility. PAYC available if needed. No-one turned away due to lack of funds - please get in touch.

📩 DM any questions

You can find more info and book here:

https://buytickets.at/asteriamovement/1481184

09/05/2025

I crashed and burned this week. It's an old pattern and one that hasn't showed up in a long time. I didn't even realise until way after it happened. In hindsight it was inevitable. I completely forgot to factor in rest. I forgot to look after my edges.

In part because I wish I could do all the things, go all the places, see all the people. Without needing to recuperate in a dark, quiet room for a really long time. Because with two small children, that dark quiet room is an impossibility.

I think my battery is low, never mind social battery. I thrive when my life is slow and simple. I have to increase my capacity gradually. I know this. I live this. And sometimes, I forget. A friend shared a brilliant phrase for this this week, "how human of me".

Our patterns are the wonderfully adaptive ways we have enabled ourselves to move through the world. They have supported us and kept us safe. They show us how efficient and resilient we are. They show us where we meet our edges. How we have done the best we can with what we've got.

We notice them when they become uncomfortable. They show us what is no longer serving us. Where either we or our lives, have changed shape. Our discomfort is perhaps a sign we have outgrown them.

In our bodies, the patterns that no longer fit us often feel like aches and pains. The result of how we sit, move and hold ourselves. And often, these are a call for more stability and strength where we meet our edges. More than flexibility, we crave responsivity; dynamic connection.

In our psyche as in our bodies.

I wonder if our patterns of thought, action and feeling are similar. Are they sometimes a result of where we have bent and flexed to meet someone else? Imbibed someone else's stories, values, expectations. Are they places where we needed to soften our selves, silence our voices? Where once we drifted into someone else's current and were swept away? Are our patterns really ours at all?

When we notice them, are they an invitation to step closer into ourselves. To separate between mine and yours. Adjust our porosity. Stand in our own presence. And respond. An invitation into a dynamic connection with life.

cont. ⬇️

28/04/2025

What would it mean to embody the whole who you are? To be your full self? To embrace every part of you. Taste your full experience. Live in the richness of being human. To dance and delight in it. To play in your becoming and undoing.

What would it be like to savor the moment of bloom in between. To rest here, in this moment. Celebrating your own blossoming. To bask in this full, fleeting, expression of creation, right now. To let go of effort and expectation. To glory in the sweetness of being. Soaking in your belonging to this world, on the cusp of full bloom.

Join me this week:

Pregnancy Yoga, , Wednesday 18:00.

Yoga , Friday, 18:15.

22/04/2025

I often talk about our internal sense of mind; our thoughts, beliefs, patterns, emotions, stories. How our bodies experience and express these internal worlds. How we can explore them through movement.

And that is true. Our bodies are a bridge to these parts of ourselves. Movement and breath can act as a conduit to the unconscious. And to consciousness itself.

And our bodies are not a means to an end. And it is good to be aware of our habits that might seek the world of mind to escape the world of the feeling body.

A practice of movement, awareness and breath is firstly, a way into the body. At its simplest level the body is a bridge to itself. And yet it can be the hardest, most complex step.

Because we often don't really know what it is to actually feel. To experience sensation. To connect with ourselves at this most fundamental level. In a world that has taught us to disconnect and rewarded our numbness.

We often don't have the language to explore or express ourselves, which in turn limits our experience. It took me years of practice (and therapy 😅) to begin develop my own vocabulary, enough time that I know this is a conversation with myself that will continue to ebb and flow throughout the rest of my life.

So this week in class, we are stripping back to basics with an exploration of breath and body. Feeling sensation and finding the words.

Pregnancy Yoga, Wednesday, 6pm

Yoga Nidra, Friday, 6.15pm

🖌️ Human Systems Body Sensations Wheel: Space, Temperature, Pressure and Composition.

21/04/2025

I'm back at Open Source Arts this Friday for a new term of Yoga ✨

These classes are open level blending hatha yoga, somatic movement, and deep rest.

🌱 They support you to increase mobility, strength and flexibility at a pace that suits you. They are suitable for all levels of experience including beginners and non-bendy, pre&postnatal and any other bods are welcome.

🪷 Inspired by natural rhythms, we use movement, meditation and breath to deepen our connection with ourselves and the world around us so that we can leave with a greater sense of presence and ease.

🌛 All sessions end with a guided relaxation. On the last Friday of the month we have a Yoga Nidra session dedicated to nourishing deep rest. Please bring a blanket for this one, maybe a pillow if you prefer your own and anything else to keep you comfy. This term we have two Nidra sessions - 25th April and 30th May.

🌷These are yoga classes for the whole of you and you are welcome just as you are. Join our small, inclusive group for community and connection as we unfurl into the rebirth of Spring.

You can drop in for individual classes or book a discounted pass for 4+ sessions. Sliding scale pricing. No-one turned away for lack of funds - various PAYC options available.

is a welcoming, community oriented space. We are upstairs in the studio space on the mezzanine floor - no lift unfortunately. You can find more accessibility information in the booking info and via the website but please get in touch if anything isn't clear or you want to check this is the right space for you.

You can DM any questions and to book or follow the link in my bio.

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