Adaptive Yoga UK

04/01/2026

This wonderful yoga organisation, committed to inclusive, accessible yoga for everyone invites you to a free event. Come for yoga, cake, warmth and inspiration. In Tring on Saturday 10 January 2026. see you there.

Everyone welcome:

03/11/2024

Hi all AYUK followers, I’m thrilled to be back (after a longer than intended break from this page) with some exciting events and useful stuff for getting out and about. I recently discovered the amazing Yoga for Health and Education TrustYHET organisation dedicated to inclusive yoga for all abilities. They do fab retreats and some great online events. Take a look, and if you can, support them by joining. I’m very happy to belong to this community.

18/03/2023

Welcome to anyone landing here from Adaptive Yoga Network. Hope you find the joy and ease of all things Adaptive Yoga here.

04/09/2022

Start off your Autumn with a great workshop for everyone interested in or practicing Adaptive Yoga. The Essence of Adaptive Yoga Poses on Saturday 1st October at the Westway Sport Centre in west London.
Your workshop leader is Karen Russell: she's trained with Matthew Sanford - founder of Adaptive Teacher training and the Adaptive Yoga movement, and with the best European Adaptive Yoga team at Stoke Mandeville (home of the Para Olympics). All through the pandemic Karen worked tirelessly in maintaining her regular Adaptive Yoga class on zoom, and live streaming for Adaptive Yoga Live. There is no one more enthusiastic for Adaptive Yoga and a great teacher.
The Westway Sport Centre hosted the first UK Adaptive Yoga class, which is still running and we hope that some of the very experienced Adaptive Yogis from that class will be there on the day too.
Expect to have your expectations of yoga upended, expanded and uplifted. Karen will examine some of the core yoga poses to show that 'while yoga poses discriminate, yoga does not discriminate' (Matthew Sanford).

Workshop details
Saturday October 1st, 2pm - 5.30pm
Westway Sport and Fitness Centre
1 Crowthorne Road, London W10 6RP

Tube: Latimer Road. Disabled parking available (contact the centre) and car park.

The workshop is offered free of charge to all by Adaptive Yoga Network. If you can make a donation to the workshop your support will help us run more workshops and training and bring Adaptive Yoga to a wider audience. Donations can be made at https://gofund.me/8efbd7e4.

Let us know by 20th September if you're coming and really hope to see you there.

"More than any other yoga class I've been to, I feel that adaptive yoga is… Adaptive Yoga Network needs your support for More yoga for the disabled community

31/08/2022

New and very special Adaptive Yoga Workshop for teachers on 1st October - The Essence of Yoga Poses - at Westway Sports Centre, West London. contact: adaptiveyoganetwork.mail@gmail.com for booking and information.
What are the sensations of a yoga pose for someone with limited mobility? Here's a rare opportunity to find out and work with Adaptive Students, and other teachers.
Karen Russell, the workshop leader teaches adaptive yoga in person and online. In May 2022 year Karen and two adaptive yoga students trained with Matthew Sanford at Mind Body Solutions - we all want to share this work with you all.
Workshop is 2pm to 5.30pm and is fully supported by Adaptive Yoga Network https://www.adaptiveyoganetwork.org/
Please donate to our work if you can at https://gofund.me/d87a1364
Spaces are limited - email adaptiveyoganetwork.mail@gmail.com to book a mat or for more info.

07/08/2022

New Adaptive Yoga Workshop - The Essence of Yoga Poses - Saturday 1st October at Westway Sports Centre.
What are the sensations of a yoga pose for someone with limited mobility? Here's a rare opportunity to find out and work with Adaptive Students, and other teachers.
Karen Russell, the workshop leader trained teaches adaptive yoga in person and online. This year Karen and two adaptive yoga students trained with Matthew Sanford at Mind Body Solutions - we want to share this work with you all.
Karen Russell, the workshop leader trained teaches adaptive yoga in person and online. This year Karen and two adaptive yoga students trained with Matthew Sanford at Mind Body Solutions - we want to share this work with you all.
Workshop is 2pm to 5.30pm and is fully supported by Adaptive Yoga Network https://www.adaptiveyoganetwork.org/
Please donate to our work if you can at https://gofund.me/d87a1364
Spaces are limited - email adaptiveyoganetwork.mail@gmail.com to book a mat or for more info.

05/05/2022

Fredee - you've been an amazing inspiration to our community for many years, I am so grateful. Coming to the Westway Class in 2014 changed my life in so many ways. I'm humbled to be handed this role and Adaptive Yoga is going to grow and flourish - there'll be some exciting news soon. Keep in touch.

05/05/2022

Dear All... the time has come for me to pass on the running of this page to Louise Edwards, founder of Adaptive Yoga Network as I am stepping back from Adaptive yoga work and community.
It's been a pleasure.
If you wish to carry on following what I get up to in the world of yoga and well-being, find me on YogiFredee
All the best.
💜🧡💚

17/03/2022

Please share, vote, support the below.
Miranda started adaptive yoga with me in London probably about 5 years ago. She's been living with rheumatoid arthritis all her life and had already had both hips replaced by age 18. Adaptive yoga gives Miranda a chance to find more ease in her body and mmibd, as we all do... but adaptive yoga is still totally unknown in the wider community and very hard to find for lack of teachers/funding...
Miranda is a true Warrior Goddess who 2 years ago started an amazing project, at start of UK lockdown to offer FREE ADAPTIVE YOGA CLASSES ONLINE with Adaptive Yoga LIVE . This is still running and could do with your support and winning this competition.

I have just entered the 2022 Yoga Warrior Competition and as I'm Irish (and it's St. Patrick's Day today) Im feeling lucky! 🍀

The Yoga Warrior Competition supports veterans recovering from post-traumatic stress and other psychological difficulties

Yoga enthusiasts, worldwide, compete for the title and an all-inclusive trip to the red rocks of Sedona, Arizona, a professional photoshoot, $10,000 cash, and an exclusive 2-page advertorial in the pages of Yoga Journal (1.3 million readership).

As part of my application I was asked to explain in one sentence 'Why do you want to win Yoga Warrior?'

My answer: "I want to help remove the internal and external barriers to yoga for the Disabled community".

At the moment 99% of the images you see representing yoga are of hypermobile women contorting themselves into impossible shapes.

The majority of people who could potentially benefit from a regular yoga practice don't fit this very narrow idea of a yogi and, therefore, assume yoga is not for them.

Did you know - virtually any yoga pose can be made accessible for people with disabilities?

If your answer was no, that's because different body types and abilities are not currently represented in mainstream yoga studios, publications or advertisements.

Winning Yoga Warrior would provide a unique platform to explain how yoga helps reduce chronic pain and removes the three biggest barriers to wellbeing within the Disabled community: inactivity, stress, and loneliness.

The $10,000 prize money would go directly to Adaptive Yoga LIVE - to provide more opportunities for Disabled people to practice yoga!

Please take a minute to vote for me - https://iamyogawarrior.com/2022/miranda-mccarthy

Many thanks in advance 🙏

Miranda, founder of AYL

15/03/2022

This is great news

We're baaaaack! With our FIRST in-person training for teachers since 2019!

Have you trained with us online? Come see and feel the work up-close. Never trained with us but are curious about teaching to every BODY? Now's the time. Are you an MBS alum wanting to touch the magic again? We'd LOVE to see you! Limited space and partial scholarships are available. Check out our website for all the details. [Link] https://www.mindbodysolutions.org/event/training-for-teachers-foundations-of-adaptive-yoga/

Photo Description: A man facing away from the camera, seated in a power wheelchair. There is a yoga student standing with her arms raised above her head and a bright green shirt. There are two instructors, one in front and one behind her. The instructor behind the student is providing gentle reference on her hips, the instructor in front is providing reference to her upper arms. There is text reading Opening Yoga, Training for Teachers, May 16-20 In Person, Foundations of Adaptive Yoga.