Kate Oates Yoga

05/09/2025

Less effort. More excellent… Who’s in?!

• What if change felt exciting?
• What if it brought ease instead of effort?
• What if, instead of walking up an escalator backwards, a few intentional shifts made your days feel better?

The kind of change I help people create through coaching, yoga & cold water therapy is energising, lasting & REAL.

No fads. We work out what works, experiment, keep our eye on the goal and build habits, routines, strategies that actually fit.

I blend:
➰ Mindset work (coaching)
➰ Movement (yoga, walking)
➰ Nervous system tools (cold water, breathwork, creativity)

I work with people navigating career upheaval, burnout, leadership pressure — or that quiet “is this it?” whisper. They know there’s more, but they’re not sure how to reach it. They’re ready for growth with less grind.

A client once said I helped him find the blocker “like rolling a boulder out of the way.” That’s exactly what this work does.

➰ Coaching → redundancy, reinvention, team overwhelm, lost spark ~ untangled into confident action.
➰ Yoga → 1:1 sessions for real people (even with that football injury from 2004).
➰ Cold Water Therapy (or tailored nervous system focus without 💦) → reset, regulate, uncover what’s under the noise.

⚡️ I blend body & mind because they were never separate to begin with

⚡️I’ve built a business around helping people feel like themselves again so they can thrive as themselves.

⚡️Less effort. More excellent!

If any of this hits home, let’s talk 🗣️

Ponder it over the long weekend. Could a more rounded approach work for you….? Are you curious? 🙄

Ponder. DM me. Comment. Send carrier pigeon. You do you, I’ll be here, eagerly waiting to make BIG SHIFTS 💥

Happy FrI-YAY!

Kate x

04/09/2025

✨Saw this, read it twice, got butterflies, SMILED. Hell to the y e s ✨

04/09/2025

✨NEW STUDIO VIBES ✨

Friday Flow & Fundamentals has a brand new home ⟶ the gorgeous Luna Wholebeing Studio right here in Cheadle Hulme!

〰️ Bright, calm, beautiful space (think bolsters, blocks, mats all ready for you… bolster poses incoming)

〰️ Every Friday, new time 9:30–10:30am

〰️ Studio created & owned by friend & fellow local mum & business owner, Denise 🌙

What you’ll get in class?
✦ High-quality tuition, rooted in 13 years’ experience
✦ Breathwork, flow, pose fundamentals, developments & relaxation
✦ Modifications, encouragement, laughter & safe progression
✦ A reset for body + brain, to end the week on a high

⚡️This Friday kicks off the new term!⚡️

⟶ Discounted Term Bookings only available THIS WEEK = 8 classes for the price of 7 (grab it ASAP!)

⟶ You can book Single Classes, too for £15pp (availability depending)

⟶ All bookings are online (link my bio)

⟶ Everyone is welcome! New? Old? Injured? Stiff? Lacking confidence? There is space for you here 🫶🏼

⟶ These classes are small groups, big vibes, plenty of attention.

Come join me at Luna, for Fri-YAY flows & FUN, it’s going to be magic! 💫

Questions? DM, email, get in touch xx
(yoga@kateoateselevate.com)

Kate & Denise x

Ps. Please feel free to share with friends, fam, creaky colleagues, etc 🙃🙏🏼

03/09/2025

Turns out it wasn’t mindset. It was nervous system overload 🙄

I don’t hear this a lot because people don’t see it until we work together…. Then it’s UNMISSABLE 🫣

So many of us get told the same thing:
~ “You just need more motivation” (say this to any peri/ND/parent & watch out….)
~ “Change your mindset”
~ “Just think positive”
~ “Push harder!”

WTAF. Yes there’s room for attitude shifts and removing negative shades, but there’s a lot more to unpack, too.

We are a ‘push’ society. We do just keep going. Stoic. Slightly stupid, but stoic.

I learnt it the long way round (a story for a whole other day) - for me it wasn’t mindset. It was totally utter and completely nervous system overload.

When your system is running on empty ~ anxious, exhausted, braced for impact ~ the brain can’t think its way out. The brain is not in an environment where it can solve problems or think creatively. Fear-mode doesn’t get up anywhere, even if our adrenals think it does (😬)

Mind + body have to move together. That’s how we recover, and how change sticks 🫶🏼

⟶ If you’ve been stuck in the loop of “fix your mindset” and it hasn’t worked, it might not be your head. It might be your nervous system. I know this shizz. Let’s talk xx

(My freebie download is a really good way to start thinking bigger ↑ 🔗)

02/09/2025

Back on the grrriiddddd ⭐️💛🙃
(Who cares? Nobody. Fair play. HEY nonetheless!) 🙌🏼

How are you? 🤩

How’ve you been?
What have you been up to?
How many trillions of photos did you take?
Are you happy but also desperately need some QUIET TIME?!

Me, all of the above ⚡️👌🏼👍🏼🫶🏼🩵

August at Team O / Elevate HQ:

〰️ Small human snack demands on repeat. Said human is 7 – can walk, talk, dance, sing, is highly skilled in multiple areas and knows where the fridge is. But still, the asking.

〰️ Middle-lane drivers ‼️ I covered a LOT of M-roads this summer for our annual return to Cornwall. I don’t want driverless drivers but the drivers I saw this summer could do with some system updates 😆

〰️ Labradors are gorgeous, caring, soft, loving, snuggly, naughty, silly, gross, annoying and basically big furry seagulls

〰️ Cornwall delivered Mediterranean skies, soggy walks, ice cream and sand in every crevice of the car (still 🏖️)

〰️ Peak District bike rides ⟶ legs like jelly, sore butts, small-person biggie (20 miles!) 🚲

〰️ Out-of-office mode ⟶ 70% nailed, 30% failed (because running your own business never stops - so it’s not an unhappy 30%!)

Summer. Salty hair (J still has sand in his), tonnes of fresh air, walks, dog fun, feral house, all of it xx

Back now. Ready for September.

Let’s go ✨ x x

25/08/2025

✨I doooooooooo! ✨

Yoga team, 1 week to go!

Have you booked? Are we full? Are we not? Who knows - get online and booked your goodness in!

〰️ Mondays 6:45pm – Familiar Flow
〰️ Mondays 8:00pm – Flow for All
〰️ Wednesdays 6:45am – Online Sunrise Flow
〰️ Thursdays 7:30pm – Yoga for Men
〰️ Fridays 9:15am – Flow & Fundamentals

All at Cheadle Hulme Methodist Church (SK8 7AL), except Wednesday which is online and so nationwide! 🌍

✅ Bookings lock your space
✅ Bookings boost your motivation
✅ Showing up = yoga goodness for body + brain 🎉

Remember, I’m on email ~ send questions or hellos to: hello@kateoateselevate.com

See you soon.
Don’t hesitate ~ you won’t regret it!!

Kate x
Ps. Worried about flex dates? Email me 📧

24/08/2025

SLEEP & YOGA 🧘

A new study just confirmed: Stretching-based movement – like yoga – improves sleep… better than cardio!

Participants who stretched regularly fell asleep faster, stayed asleep longer, and had better sleep quality overall.

🧠 Yoga regulates the nervous system, slows the heart rate, and calms the busy brain. That’s gold dust.

If you’re waking up tired, can’t get comfy, or feel like your body’s buzzing at bedtime… it’s not just stress. Your nervous system may just need a reset.

🧘‍♀️ I teach weekly classes in Cheadle Hulme, including strong, grounding flows designed exactly for this. Breath, stretch, nervous system calm.

✨ Friday 9:15am – Flow & Fundamentals
✨ Monday 8pm – Flow for All

Both have space in next terms starting w/c. 1st September. I’ve been running these classes for 7 years. This could be just the start your sleep’s been waiting for 💤

Book your block at https://kateoateselevate.com/yoga

Or send me an email if you’re not sure where to begin (yoga@kateoateselevate.com 📧)

Sleep better.
Move better.
Feel more like you, with me!

Hope to move with you soon,
Kate x

Article (thanks for the share M): https://www.sciencealert.com/one-form-of-exercise-improves-sleep-the-most-scientists-say #

19/08/2025

AUGUST 🫣🙈🎾⚽️🥅🤪🩵📞🏖️🧩
Out of routine.
Bit feral?
No idea what day it is.

This carousel is scheduled. Because I’ll be off grid, trying to ignore my phone and find fun ways to make Jacob go on a walk with me (help?)

But you might still need a nudge.
To pause 🫶🏼
To check in 💭
To ask what you actually need ~ not ideally, not hypothetically ~ but actually 🩵

Something tiny that helps you not scream / collapse / drink later 😝

Or just get straight to the easy win:
Breathe.

Then carry on being your magnificent, mid-chaos self!!

George approves.
Back in September.
Miss yoooooou x

18/08/2025

✨2 weeks to go ~ your yoga cheerleader checking in✨

Yoga classes still very much ON in a few weeks, now’s the time to get your spot sorted if you haven’t already! (But please like this anyway, al others see it? You’d be doing me a solid 👌🏼)

〰️ Mondays 6:45pm – Familiar Flow
〰️ Mondays 8:00pm – Flow for All
〰️ Wednesdays 6:45am – Online Sunrise Flow
〰️ Thursdays 7:30pm – Yoga for Men
〰️ Fridays 9:15am – Flow & Fundamentals

All sessions at Cheadle Hulme Methodist Church (SK8 7AL) ~ except Wednesday, which is online from wherever suits you.

💡 Bookings = your place is secured
💡 Bookings = you’re more likely to turn up
💡 Turning up = all the yoga benefits 🎉

I won’t be checking socials in August, but I will be checking my inbox ~ so drop me a message if you’ve got questions: hello@kateoateselevate.com

Get your August admin done now and thank yourself later!

Thaaaaaaaaaanks!
Kate x

Ps. Miss you. And the movement 🤪

17/08/2025

Local friends! Especially those with stiff-legged men in your life 🧘‍♂️

My Yoga for Men class is back this September – and I’d love your help spreading the word (or nudging your other half along... kindly, of course).

This class is NOT about being flexible. This is yoga for real people so that they can feel better – in their back, their hips, their brain, their sleep.

This class is for men who’ve maybe never done yoga, think they “should” stretch more, or want to move better and hurt less.

Friendly, expert-led, strength-based and 100% non-wan*y.

I am a Senior Yoga Teacher with 13 years experience, I specialise in Yoga for Sport & Athletes so injuries are welcome with pre-discussion - I want yoga to help people move more freely in their bodies, in an environment that is supportive, inclusive and encouraging. We can do this!

JOIN ME and 10 blokes for my established YOGA CLASS FOR MEN:

📍 Cheadle Hulme Methodist Church
🗓 Thursdays at 7:30pm from 4th Sept
💰 £105 for 8 weeks | £15 drop-in if there’s space

If you know someone who might love it, or need it, please do send this their way.

Last term 12 men got into a wonderful weekly habit, and I'd like to make the new 'term' just as excellent! 💪

BOOK YOUR SPACE NOW at 🔗 https://kateoateselevate.com/yoga/

Thanks,

Kate

Elevate your life & achieve your potential with life and leadership coaching and yoga tuition with Kate. Ex-corporate leader & senior yoga teacher

16/08/2025

10 days away just rewrote my entire to-do list - no word of a lie!
I'm sharing because I think most of us don't look up after hols and I want to scream from the rooftops that you might be running in the wrong direction!?

I came back from holiday, sat down to “crack on”, and ended up binning most of it.
Not because I was avoiding work - because my priorities had completely changed - which I only realised after doing a spontaneous “visioning” exercise.

One big piece of paper.
Space and time (vital ingredient, fellow parents).
Five life categories.

And I came out with 3 big, audacious goals I can’t stop thinking about!!

Clean slate. Clear mind. Big focus.

And for the first time in months, I’m genuinely excited to open my to-do list - so much so that I made my partner take our child out so that I could crack on - and I'm smiling! YAY!

Clean slate. Clear mind. Big focus.

Can't wait to share it with you in Sept 🩵

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See you soon, xx