Yoga in the Big Smoke

Yoga in the Big Smoke I teach power yoga and yin yoga in studios and to private clients around London

Come and join me  representing  in the capacity of YIN !  We will do beautiful and relaxing yin centering on a heart ope...
13/03/2025

Come and join me representing in the capacity of YIN ! We will do beautiful and relaxing yin centering on a heart opening theme to connect to ourselves, and our dearest. In Chinese Medicine the heart is the primary organ of Summer, with the sun shining and the longer days we become more open and sociable, more able to relate and reach out yet we conversely become aware of this natural exposure and therefore our own vulnerabilities. We know that to truly connect we must also be vulnerable; we know that to authentically connect we must also show our shadow side: hence we can become cautious and hesitant. Showing our vulnerabilities and our darker sides, our warts and all is risky - we fear that others may shun us or reject us. Yet we are most loveable because of our imperfections and our because of our human fallibility. This yin session will allow us to feel grounded and rooted and enable us to connect to our heart, our intuition and ourselves. Come join me ! The session is at 10.15 on Monday morning !

Workshop alert ‼️ I am doing an Autumn YIN workshop on Sunday 6th October  Chelsea from 2-3.30.  Autumn is the season wh...
20/09/2024

Workshop alert ‼️
I am doing an Autumn YIN workshop on Sunday 6th October Chelsea from 2-3.30. Autumn is the season where nature displays her true beauty, shorter days, dappled light, the trees an array of hues, blue skies and crisp cold air. It is a goodbye to Summer and a warning of the hard Winter to come. We begin the descent of down and in and button down the hatches but we also see the beauty around us and we are inspired. Autumn is the season which touches our souls and is connected to the organs of the lungs, our breath being the segway in to other dimensions. Come and explore this through yin, myofascia release and acupressure. It will be both deeply relaxing and deeply moving. Hope to see you there.
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Come and find out about my yin yoga training - 100 hours with  - I am holding a Q&Q session Saturday 20th July 10.30-11....
11/07/2024

Come and find out about my yin yoga training - 100 hours with - I am holding a Q&Q session Saturday 20th July 10.30-11.30 Camden. We will do a yin class, I will answer your burning questions and you can have a Yin Yoga workbook - a notebook with pictures of the yin poses and variations on their respective families plus all the meridian channels of Chinese Medicine… come and find out more. The session is free. If you are even thinking about it come along!!! I look forward to seeing you there ❤️

Thank you for all welcomed me back to teaching - my first class after a long break due to illness.  It was wonderful to ...
19/06/2024

Thank you for all welcomed me back to teaching - my first class after a long break due to illness. It was wonderful to see old and new faces . I have missed teaching and it was great to be back. Teaching yin always makes me emotional as it has profoundly affected the way I view and love life. I hope to see you Chelsea 2pm Wednesday. Also if you are interested in doing my yin training I have a Q&A coming up Saturday 20th July at Camden. This is free and involves a short class and an opportunity to ask questions about the training. Everyone welcome ! 🙏 🤗

Come yin with me.  2pm  Chelsea.  Class is online and in person.  I am so looking forward to starting teaching yin after...
18/06/2024

Come yin with me. 2pm Chelsea. Class is online and in person. I am so looking forward to starting teaching yin after some serious health problems. Tomorrow it’s all about balancing the fire of summer with softness and steadiness.

Yin Yoga - the first yin class I ever practiced was with Paul Grilley, the godfather of Yin Yoga.  Previously I practice...
11/06/2024

Yin Yoga - the first yin class I ever practiced was with Paul Grilley, the godfather of Yin Yoga. Previously I practiced vinyasa, asthanga or dynamic. The faster, harder, more sweat the better. I practiced these yoga styles almost with self flagellation - and was self punitive when I couldn’t get in to certain poses (which I still can’t 🤣). Yin changed this. It profoundly transformed my understanding of yoga, what yoga is and what it could be. I had a light bulb moment and it changed my teaching, the way I thought and the way I practice. Yin is the yoga maverick, in a world where ‘busyness’ and perfection and ‘bigger, better’ things are pursued at whatever cost (mental, physical, emotional and spiritual), Yin stands quietly and does not judge, welcomes all abilities, allows the pose to land in to the body without the assumption that there is a perfect pose to aspire to. There is no such thing as the perfect pose! Yin is about how it feels, not how it looks. The contradiction of the yoga poses - to allow you to feel the pose but also your hands must be at 12 o’clock and your back foot at a 40 degree angle and elbows tucked in- yin shows 2 fingers to this and it is all about how it feels in your body. You can then become the master of your practice, not a teacher tells you stand with your feet together because it looks better that way …. Yin is about slowing down in our fast paced modern world - and yes it’s hard to slow down because then we are confronted with ourselves …. But when we sit with ourselves we may become also our own best friend. Come to YIN Wednesdays at 2pm Chelsea.

NEW YIN CLASS -  Chelsea 2pm Wednesdays - a much needed respite on hump day.   or
11/06/2024

NEW YIN CLASS - Chelsea
2pm Wednesdays - a much needed respite on hump day. or

Congratulations to these new Yin teachers. They have spent 100 hours studying anatomy and yin and Chinese Medicine and I...
02/11/2022

Congratulations to these new Yin teachers. They have spent 100 hours studying anatomy and yin and Chinese Medicine and I am so proud to know that some are already teaching what we all need more of in our lives YIN ☯️. The training confronts preconceptions of alignment and gets you to understand anatomy. It also takes you on a journey of understanding emotions and their validity. These teachers put their heart and sole in the learnings and I couldn’t be more in awe or .sharon64 .kusmierczuk

19/06/2022

2 years of you ❤️❤️❤️

The Yin Yoga Workbook…. Consists of 98 pages of illustrations of the poses of yin, with multiple variations (obviously n...
17/06/2022

The Yin Yoga Workbook…. Consists of 98 pages of illustrations of the poses of yin, with multiple variations (obviously not exhaustive), an intro about yin yoga, plus a meridian line section at the back clearly illustrating the channels and the points and a brief intro on Chinese Medicine. There is more info on stories. Thank you 🙏 so much for the interest so far. Like I said before I have ambivalent feelings about bringing this in to the world - but it’s here and ready to go!!! The cost of the book is £10 and if you want it sent out to you post and packaging on top. IF you are interested please DM - with address and I will send payment details and will send it out to you !! Woo hoo. Multiple books - at 10 you get one free… Also if you are doing my yin training - this is complementary. I am very excited to be teaching a training with this in hand 🤚

The Yin Yoga Workbook - has the yin poses with their variations in the families as created by the yin maestro Paul Grill...
15/06/2022

The Yin Yoga Workbook - has the yin poses with their variations in the families as created by the yin maestro Paul Grilley. I created this book as whilst teaching yin trainings I thought it would be super useful to have a book which illustrates the poses plus their modifications. So here it is !!! Obviously there are infinite modifications but in this book there are the extremes plus the obvious. And then maybe a few more. And then at the back there are illustrations of the meridians. So yes this is a complete Yin Yoga Workbook. More details on my stories. It’s just come back from printers ! I will be selling these so let me know if you are interested ! Oh yes and special thanks to for the illustrations 🙏🙏🙏 The book arrived in the midst of family chaos and sadness (my beloved half sister died after a short battle with cancer) so although I am proud I am feeling confused and bereft. I did hesitate in posting this and I do hesitate in sharing my private life … but I write in an attempt to be honest.

Wednesday 11-12Friday 2.15-3.15pm  Come and yin with me  Chelsea.  My classes are yin plus I incorporate Chinese medicin...
31/05/2022

Wednesday 11-12
Friday 2.15-3.15pm Come and yin with me Chelsea. My classes are yin plus I incorporate Chinese medicine techniques from using acupressure points to massage to invigorating Qi. Come and explore yin and these techniques with me. Moving and invigorating Qi is the root to all healing …

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