Yoga with Chris

14/12/2025

Can you be a SECRET SANTA to someone in prison this year?
🎄 Bring light to someone in prison at their darkest time.
🎅🏾 In prisons across the UK and Ireland, every yoga class, every letter, every moment of stillness is powered by the kindness of strangers.
🎁 Giving to our winter appeal will help us continue to offer hope & connection throughout the year ahead.
🙏 Thank you: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/pptwinterappeal25

10/10/2025

Celebrating turning 60 this week!

Dear Friend, I turn 60 this week, something I can't quite believe as I feel at least 20 years younger! Of course I get the odd aches and pains, but so far nothing that can't be sorted out with a daily dose of yoga. If you'd like the support of yoga as the years clock up, I'd love to share my daily p...

09/05/2025

The yoga charity I work for has a Radio 4 Appeal going out next week. Here's a short film we've made to tell the story of Sue - and the transformative power of yoga and meditation when she was in prison. I'd love it if you could support with a small donation.

27/02/2025

🙏 Thank you to celebrity chef and businessman Levi Roots who is sharing his advice on how to stay healthy in prison, including meditation and yoga, with 5,000 people receiving our peer-support newsletters in prison this week .

🧘 Drawing on his own experience of serving time inside he says: "My mental wellbeing was very important to me and I discovered that simply breathing properly could be the best remedy for anxiety, high blood pressure and depression. It became a major part of everything I did on my journey to becoming the new, healthier me."

https://www.theppt.org.uk/2025/02/25/levi-roots-shares-advice-on-health-in-prison/

29/12/2024

Would you like a month of yoga? - https://mailchi.mp/7e860a3f6d0d/new-year-yoga

07/11/2024

Highly recommend reading Henry Shukman - and trying out his meditation app The Way.

01/03/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/T8dgFhWFTWy3kczY/

22/01/2024

The wonderful Norman Blair is running a Yin Yoga Nine-Day Advanced Teacher Training 11–19 April 10am-5pm

It's in-person at Zolder Studio/London N22; cost £975 (two places available at bursary; £487.50)

A wonderful way to deepen and reflect on Yin yoga practice and teaching. Participants will learn skills and tools for teaching this practice and there will be specific sessions led by external teachers on anatomy, meditation and TCM. Each participant will teach a 40-minute class; all participants will receive a substantial amount of course material and personal guidance.

Norman is one of the most experienced Yin yoga teachers in the UK; he has been running Yin yoga trainings since 2013 and his book ‘Brightening Our Inner Skies: Yin and Yoga’ was published in 2016.

Numbers on course are limited to ten. This small group experience can be a significant factor in encouraging the process of learning. Training hours (60 in total) are eligible for Yoga Alliance continuing education.

https://www.yogawithnorman.co.uk/yoga-training/nine-day-yin-yoga-training

Bookings contact yogawithnorman@gmail.com

This nine-day training will enable participants to teach Yin yoga and so aimed and yoga teachers. This is a wonderful way to deepen and reflect on Yin yoga practice and teaching. All attendees will have already completed a training in Yin yoga.

05/12/2023

A useful reminder to self at this time of year.

24/10/2023

No Zoom yoga tonight, I'm afraid - I've a streaming cold.

15/10/2023

Thanks to all who voted 🙏🙏🙏

We won! Charity of the Year in the Om Yoga Awards 2023.

Thanks to all who voted for us and to our staff and volunteers who made the Om Yoga Show such a success this weekend.

Special 🙏 to Paul, whose sponsored 30-min headstand on Sat has already raised nearly £1,000 to bring yoga and meditation for rehabilitation to even more people in prison:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/yoga-30-challenge

10/10/2023