The Yoga People, London (2026)

29/01/2026

Yin Yoga poses to connect with your heart ♥️

Yin Yoga offers a gentle way to meet the heart in a lived and felt experience in the body. Through long-held and supported shapes, we create the conditions for softness, release, and honest awareness.

Heart-centred Yin Yoga poses invite us to:
- Soften the front part of our body
- Peel back the protective layers around the heart
- Meet unresolved grief and sadness with awareness
- Take an honest look at the masks we wear to “protect” ourselves
- Move into spaces we avoid or bypass
- Listen to what’s ready to be felt

4 Yin Yoga poses to connect with your heart:
🧘🏻‍♀️ Anahatasana (Melting Heart)
🧘🏻‍♀️ Open Angel
🧘🏻‍♀️ Closed Angel
🧘🏻‍♀️ Reclined Butterfly with a bolster under the heart

Let sensation be your guide, not intensity.

These practices are less about “opening” the heart…
and more about recognising the ways in which we disconnect from, avoid and bypass certain emotions, wear masks in the name of protection or chase a fantasy of love.

We’ll explore this theme deeply in our upcoming Yin Masterclass:

🕊️ Recognising Real Love: A 2-hour journey into the heart through stillness, inquiry, and embodied truth.
📆 15th of February
⏰ 4:00–6:00 pm
📍 Online via Zoom

Link in bio to join 🤍

26/01/2026

FREE Yin Masterclass: Recognising Real Love 💗

Join Jamie for this heart-focused Yin Masterclass. A 2-hours honest journey into the heart, beyond illusion, performance, and the stories we tell ourselves about love.

🕊 Yin Masterclass: Recognising Real Love
🗓 15th of February
🕝 4:00–6:00 pm UK time
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟 Link in bio to sign up

In this online practice, we’ll move through deep Yin poses, long holds, marinating rebounds, and guided inquiry to gently peel back the layers of how love is shaped, projected, concealed, or distorted in our lives.

This is an invitation to look beyond the Valentine’s Day movie – beyond transaction and expectation – and recognise love as freedom, truth, and presence.
The kind of love that isn’t performed, but revealed.

As in all Yin Yoga practices:
Something reveals. Something dissolves. And something is always there.

A space to listen deeply, soften honestly, and remember that the love you are seeking… is
already within you. 🤍

Link in bio to sign up ✨

19/01/2026

Yin Yoga isn’t just a slower style of movement. It’s a healing practice.

Yin Yoga works on layers many dynamic practices will never reach.

In Yin, we hold postures in stillness for longer periods of time, gently stressing the connective tissues, fascia, and joints. This creates space not only in the physical body, but in the energetic body too. After each shape, we soften into rebound. This allows the body to respond, integrate, and reset.

This rhythm of stress and release is where healing happens.

Through Yin postures, we can intentionally access different areas of the body – like our hamstrings, flanks, chest or groin – that correspond with the Chakras, our energetic centers.

By staying, feeling, and listening, we begin to sense how physical sensation, emotion and energy are deeply intertwined.

This is why Yin becomes a powerful portal for inner work:
🕊️You’re not rushing past sensation
🌱 You’re not performing shapes
✨ You’re meeting yourself where you are

For some, Yin balances a strong, dynamic practice.

For others, it becomes a bridge into meditation, self-inquiry, and deeper awareness.

For teachers, it opens the door to more therapeutic, inclusive, and transformative ways of holding space.

Through the body, we access the energy centers.
Through stillness, we learn to listen.
Through Yin Yoga, healing becomes truly embodied.

12/01/2026

The body always speaks.

We just don’t always listen or take the time to feel.

Yin Yoga teaches us how to hear the subtle signals and tune inside: To become aware of sensations in our body, where they arise and how we feel.

Through stillness and long holds, we slow down to notice what’s been waiting beneath the surface — emotions, memories, and sensations asking for space.

And the most beautiful thing? Our body is a map.

Knowing what energy centers and meridians connect to different parts of our body reveal a lot of information for us to work with. Each part of our body and organ connects to a different emotion. Once we identify this, we can bring the light of our awareness to these emotions and go deeper in our healing journey.

This is yoga as self-discovery. 
Not fixing. Not performing.
 Simply creating the conditions where something true can be felt and met with presence.

✨ What emotion is ready to be heard right now by you?

02/01/2026

Yin Yoga as a portal to our personal truth.

When we slow down and hold yin yoga poses for an extended point of time, the body begins to speak. Not in words but in sensation, emotion, memory, and subtle knowing.

Yin Yoga invites us into stillness through its long holds, quiet nature and minimal effort. We dive deep into the fascia and our connective tissue.

As the mind softens, layers begin to peel back, and what remains is something simple and honest:

The body already knows:
🌙 What needs attention
✨ Where we’ve been holding on
⚡️ What we’ve been avoiding
🌟 Where we’ve been lying to ourselves
💫 When we’ve been caught in fantasy or illusion

Through Yin postures, we tune into that wisdom. Not by forcing insight, but by bringing awareness to it and listening without judgement.

This is how truth reveals itself: from the inside out. 🕊️🤍

18/12/2025

In winter, the body turns inward. Yin Yoga meets us there.

Winter is the season of the Water element. A time to slow down, rest, and turn inward. Yin Yoga helps us to listen more deeply to what’s happening beneath the surface.

Through long-held Yin poses, we work into the fascia and connective tissue, stimulating energy lines and inviting release where things feel stuck.

As the body softens, awareness deepens.

Emotions, sensations, and subtle truths begin to surface. What was hidden in the unconscious can slowly come into view.
The groin and inner legs are closely linked to the Water element. Yin postures that target this area can help to:
💧 Activate the Water element if it feels depleted
🌊 Pacify the Water element if it feels excessive

Yin poses to explore the Water element:
🧘‍♀️ Butterfly
🧘‍♀️ Happy Baby
🧘‍♀️ Dragonfly
🧘‍♀️ Outrigger

Remember: not every pose will suit every body. Sensation in the groin is the guide, not how a pose looks. Use bolsters, cushions, or blocks under the pelvis or knees as needed.

Yin is about sustainability, sensitivity, and listening — not chasing intensity.

Save this for your winter Yin practice.

11/12/2025

Why Yin Yoga is the practice for Winter ❄

As we enter winter’s quiet embrace with longer nights, deeper stillness and more darkness, we naturally move into the most yin time of the year.

This season invites less stimulation, less pushing and more listening, resting, simply being.

Our bodies begin to crave stillness in a different way. Space. Slowness. Depth. This is where Yin Yoga becomes our most powerful ally.

Yin Yoga is a quiet practice that gently guides us inward:
✨ To marinate in long-held postures
🌙 To reconnect to our body
🪐 To release deep layers of tension & stress
⭐️ To soften away from the noise & pressure of the season

It is a practice of deep listening: to sensation, emotion, and the quieter truths beneath the
surface.

If you’d like to explore this stillness more deeply, you’re warmly invited to our upcoming Yin Masterclass: Returning to Your Truth. A class designed for you to pause, listen, and come home to yourself.

❄️ Special Yin Yoga Masterclass - Returning to Your Truth
📆 December 31st
⏰ 10:30am-12:30pm
📍 Zoom

Link in bio to sign up.

04/12/2025

FREE NYE Yin Masterclass: Returning to your Truth 🤍

Join Jamie for a special Yin Masterclass: A gentle descent into the quiet places within, where truth lives beneath the noise, beneath the illusion, beneath the layers of daily life.

🕊️ Yin Masterclass: Returning to Your Truth
🗓️ 31 December
🕙 10:30am–12:30pm UK time
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Link in bio to sign up

In this 2-hour online practice, we’ll move through deep Yin poses, long holds, and spacious rebounds to soften the distractions of the mind and return to what is essential.

A moment to attune to your truth. The kind that is personal, private and profoundly clarifying so you can step into 2026 aligned, grounded and connected.

Close the year with stillness ✨
Begin the new year from within 🤍

Lin in bio to sign up.

27/11/2025

We all come to yoga for a reason...

Maybe it was physical pain, heartbreak or loss.
Maybe a life shift like a change in career or relationship.
Maybe a friend or family member brought you to a class.
Or just the sense that something had to change.

But we don’t stay for the poses, we stay for the transformation.
And paradoxically, our transformation doesn’t happen when we finally nail our handstand or have perfected our chaturanga. Or even when we obsessively practice every single day like our life depends on it.

The real transformation begins:
✨ When our yoga practice becomes a portal to our inner world.
✨ When you go beyond the asana and begin to meet the truth underneath: The grief, the fear, the stuck emotions, the stories stored in our body.
✨ When you let stillness reveal what movement often keeps at bay.

This is when yoga stops being something we do - and becomes the way we live. A path that teaches us how to hold space - for ourselves and others - through the messy, raw and powerful process of healing.

Follow us for teaching tools, insights and training opportunities that will help you to teach yoga as a path of true, embodied transformation. ♥️

24/11/2025

Jamie’s perspective on how yogic philosophy completely changed him:

“Ancient yogic philosophy-rooted in timeless truths — has transformed the way I see, understand, & experience life.”

✨ It opened me up to a new perspective, a new landscape of life.
✨ It taught me that life is a mirror-what I attract or reject is a reflection of myself.
✨ It gave me a conceptual framework to relate to my soul, humanity, and the bigger picture.
✨ It led me to explore Western psychology, uncovering my shadows and patterns.
✨ It became the container that holds it all-the philosophy, the psychology, the self-inquiry.

How has yoga philosophy changed your life? Let us know in the comments bellow 👇🏼😊

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