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Experienced, qualified yoga teacher with an interest in nutrition and sound. I love weaving together postures, breath, meditation, music & mantras.

I offer practical suggestions on how to reclaim your health and vitality. One2One and Online classes. I work with individuals and companies to create tailor-made plans that will help to shift and improve your health. I offer you practical suggestions on how to reclaim your health and vitality by using diet, exercise and simple home remedies. To achieve a truly balanced life style one must pay attention to your Enviroment, Sleep, Nutrition, Fittness and Attitude. Through basic dance movements, music, deep yoga stretches, chanting, breath work, and meditation you’ll discover the natural rhythms of your own individual body, mind, and spirit. Regular classes in West Hampstead, Queens Park, Hampstead, South and East London. Private courses, On-Site classes. Adult Hatha Yoga, Sivananda Flow, Yin & Yang. Kids Yoga
Teens Yoga
Yoga Over 50
Pregnancy Yoga
Special Yoga for Children with Developmental Challenges. Fitness Yoga
Yoga for Your Back
Corporate Yoga

05/12/2025

WAW WAW!
Feeling gratitude to be part of the Penchmi community for over a decade!
Our last gathering coincided with the approching of the last full moon of 2025.
special portal
On December 4, Super Full Moon in Gemini. This amplified, intimate lunar energy invites grounding, balance, and reflection as we close the 2025.

This week's Penchmi-Abeiè- Koroleko special session was a strong, true turning point for me as dancer— tender melodies by Moussa and bold rhythms by Demba & friends guided our bodies between earth and sky, a moving conversation with our ancestors, felt as pure emotion in motions, embodied flowing feelings.

Grateful for magical Irineu’s guidance — challenging, generous, fun, and always awakening something new in my body & soul 🌕 I sweat my prayers, once again.
With infinite joy, always.

Gratitude to

sound

& all the Penchmi fam.💞

28/10/2025

Love and overstanding

27/10/2025

Fez Festival of Sufi Culture & World Spirituality – Fez, Morocco

17th Edition · October 18–21, 2025
Theme: Living Poetically – Art and Spirituality

In the heart of Fez, Morocco’s ancient spiritual capital, I had the privilege of attending the Faith Festival of Sufi Culture and World Spirituality — a profound gathering where art, devotion, and interfaith harmony intertwined.

This 17th edition, Living Poetically, invited each of us to explore the sacred in everyday life: through music, poetry, meditation, and mindful presence. It resonated deeply with the essence of yoga and contemplative practice, reminding us to return inward, to breathe, and to live with awareness and intention.

Voices from many traditions — Sufi, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist — joined in celebration, offering a luminous example of interfaith dialogue and unity. The festival also echoed the intimate connection between spirituality and ecology, showing how caring for the Earth mirrors the care we bring to our own hearts.

More than an event, it was a living mandala of cultures and souls — a poetic pilgrimage into consciousness, compassion, and creativity.

📸 All photos are my own.
For more information, visit www.faithfestival.org

27/10/2025

Fez Festival of Sufi Culture & World Spirituality – Fez, Morocco

17th Edition · October 18–25, 2025
Theme: Living Poetically – Art and Spirituality

In the heart of Fez, Morocco’s ancient spiritual capital, I had the privilege of attending the Fez Festival of Sufi Culture and World Spirituality — a profound gathering where art, beauty, love, devotion, and interfaith harmony intertwined.

This edition, Living Poetically, invited each of us to explore the sacred in everyday life: through music, poetry, meditation, connections, and mindful presence. It resonated deeply with the essence of yoga and contemplative practice, reminding us to return inward, to breathe, and to live with awareness and intention.

Voices from many traditions — Sufi, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish — joined in celebration, offering a luminous example of interfaith dialogue and unity. The festival also echoed the intimate connection between spirituality, education and ecology, showing how caring for the Earth mirrors the care we bring to our own hearts.

More than an event, more than entertainment, it was a living mandala of cultures, smiles and souls — a poetic pilgrimage into consciousness, compassion, education, Art and creativity.
I connected with wonderful souls and left my heart in the Fez Medina.

📸 All photos are my own.

27/09/2025

Penchmi .
Pinch Me at Glastonbury!

At the end of July, I walked into the heart of Glastonbury — a land rich, fertile, and alive. 🌱
Trees whispered, flowers opened, butterflies danced on beams of sunlight. The scent of rain rose from the earth, clouds drifted in their own rhythm, and when night came, after the drumming circle around the fire, silence revealed a carpet of stars.

We camped in a circle of friends and we shared nutritious good— familiar and new — held by laughter, drumming, and dance. Senegalese rhythms carried us
higher, and deeper, opening sacref portals, guided by the great Demba, Ofelia, Irineu, Morr and many luminous artists. Each beat awakened joy, and sometimes grief until the vibration glowed through every smile. 🥁

I hadn’t come to teach yoga… yet one morning, beneath a tent, reggae humming in the background, I found myself sharing yoga. A spontaneous practice of breath, flow, and connection — Partner yoga woven with trust and play, captured so beautifully by Yaz. 💛

I arrived seeking rhythm, movement, and dance — I left with so much more: stillness within sound, light within community, beauty mirrored everywhere.
Maite, you are a bright star!
Glastonbury, you are a living practice. Namaste.

29/08/2025

Vrksasana
La Posizione dell' Albero ci invita a radicarci a fondo per poterci elevare con stabilità e grazia. Le radici della nostra pratica sostengono il tronco del corpo e aprono la mente verso il cielo.
Fisicamente questa asana migliora equilibrio, concentrazione e forza nelle gambe, mentre a livello interiore migliora resilienza e connessione con la terra.

Gli alberi non sono solo necessari per la mostra dopravvivenza e importanti allegorie e simboli: nell'esistenza dei popoli hanno sempre avuto un valore sociale e politico. Pensiamo agli ulivi in Palestina, simbolo di continuità, memoria e resistenza. Estirpare un albero significa tentare di sradicare un’intera identità. Piantarne uno è atto di cura, amore, appartenenza e radicamento.
Radicarsi, crescere, resistere.

Vrksasana – Tree Pose 🌳
In yoga, the Tree invites us to root deeply so we can rise with balance and grace. The roots of our practice sustain the upper body and open the mind toward the sky.
Physically, this asana strengthens legs, improves balance, and sharpens concentration, while inwardly it teaches focus, resilience and groundedness.
Trees are more than symbols: in people’s lives, they hold memory, continuity, and power. Think of the olive trees in Palestine, representing resilience and belonging. To uproot a tree is to attempt to attack an identity. To plant one is an act of care, resistance, and rooted presence.
Root. Rise. Resist.

15/08/2025

On Anger, Truth & the Courage to Stand on the Right Side of History

In recent months, many 'celebrities' have begun speaking about the ongoing g3noc!de in G@za. But when I listen, I notice — there is no anger. Their words are about “sadness” and “heartbreak.” They are modelling passivity to the masses. They say: be sad for P@l3st!nie, but ignore it for a while first, and then, years later, talk about it quietly, with melancholy.

This is dangerous. It tells people to treat what is happening as an inevitable tragedy that has already occurred. But it hasn’t. This is not an “accident” or an unavoidable disaster. It is a crime — still happening, in real time, in front of us.

I cannot contain what I feel. My soul feels split open, and pouring ancient tears and deep sounds. The anger I feel is alive, necessary. It is survival. It is self-defence. It is resistance.

In the language of yoga, we speak of satya — living in truth. This means seeing reality clearly, even when it is uncomfortable. Grief is still, internal. Rage moves, acts.

And let's be clear: G@za is not an isolated wound. The same colonial machinery, the same extractive greed, the same dehumanising racist logic fuels the suffering in the C0ng0, in SUdan, and in so many other lands torn by war. These are not separate tragedies — they are branches of the same poisoned tree. The root is c0l0n!alism, and its fruits are exploitation, displacement, and blood.

Conscious anger is not blind hate — it is energy that rises when someone crosses a line and causes harm. It is prana — life force — rising to protect life and humanity. A spiritual practice does not ask us to be neutral in the face of injustice. It asks us to act.

This is not the time to close our eyes in the name of “inner peace", "good vibes". It is the time to carry our practice off the mat — to use our breath, our words, our bodies, our knowledge to stand for liberation.

Rage for the oppressed. Speak for those who have been silenced. No complicity with the 0ccup@tion.

09/08/2025

Under August’s Full Sturgeon Moon in Aquarius, we’re gifted clarity, fresh perspectives, and the courage to follow your gut, your ancient intuition, the ancesor's guidance. Like the ancient sturgeon, tap into your longevity, resilience and timeless wisdom.
Trust your moments of insight and synchronicity.
Connect with your family and the wide community, you are not an island!
Release control, welcome flow.
This is your moment to see with fresh eyes and step into transformation.

I ground.
I flow.
I shine.
I serve.
I give.
I join.
Ancient wisdom in my bones,
Aquarian light in my crown.
I walk my sadhana, each step caressing the Earth.
Guided by the Sturgeon wise Moon.

🌱

29/07/2025

Ciao beautiful people 🌞🌿

Overflowing with gratitude after the magic of Penchmi in Glastombury.
To Demba, Maite, the incredible artists, and every hand behind the scenes — thank you for offering us "not just entertainment", but soul nourishment, care, deep healing, rhythm, and connection.

To everyone who came with open hearts — your warmth, smiles, hugs, kisses, deep presence — and the forest and fields that held us like a great big embrace… and of course, to Mother Earth, our constant source of support, life and grounding 🌍💚

It was deeply emotional to reconnect with new and old friends from over 25 years ago, since arriving in London in ’99 through the West African music scene and to now share this time as family, as Penchmi — what a gift!

Demba, my friend — thank you for your inspiring wise choices & timing, the Divine African rhythm, and the flow in action — through your enchanted drumming, chanting, and dance, with masters who give their all, every single time.

Also special shoutout to our impromptu Yin & Yang morning yoga — a little laughter, a little sweat, and a beautiful touch of Double yoga love 🤸🏽‍♀️🌀🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏾👭🏽

This gathering is something else.
It’s real. It’s alive. It’s Penchmi.
Unique, rooted, wild, beautiful.

Until next time 💫🔥❤️

21/06/2025

Community vs. Business

A community is a living web of relationships based on mutual care, solidarity, and voluntary exchange. People show up for each other not because they're being paid, but because they feel responsible for one another’s wellbeing. In a true community:
Support is reciprocal but not transactional.
Help is given freely, not priced.
Trust grows through shared experience, not customer retention.
You bring soup when someone’s sick. You lend a hand when someone’s moving. You check in, unprompted. There may be skill swaps, childcare exchanges, shared meals, a listening hear, a shoulder to cry on — no receipts, no invoices, no marketing.

A business, on the other hand, is a structured system of exchange for goods or services in return for money. Even when wrapped in friendly language — “community hub,” “safe space,” “family vibe” — if you're paying for access, then you are a customer, not a community member. Businesses can be warm, ethical, and socially minded — but they are not the same as community:
The smile comes with a price.
Access is limited by
ability to pay.
Support is offered within working hours.

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Tuesday	8:30am - 7pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 7:30pm
Thursday	8:30am - 7:30pm
Friday	9am - 6pm
Saturday	10am - 7pm

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