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I’m a yogi and yoga teacher offering Vinyasa Flow classes and private tuition to people of all levels including beginners.

Established Senior Yoga Teacher ✦ Inclusive, anatomy-led tuition ✦ Specialist in Yoga for Men, Sport & Athletes ✦ Group, private & corporate sessions ✦ Executive Coach ✦ Focusing on strengthening, heating and balancing poses to awaken muscles and safely challenge the body, with restorative postures to bring the body and mind to a nurturing close. For me, the apex of Yoga is finding strength and confidence, mentally and physically, and is accessible to everyone.

30/11/2025

Christmas gifts that are fun, unique and exponentially good for you! 💝🎄

At Elevate, you can gift your loved one(s):

〰️ Reduced back pain
〰️ A more mobile, stable spine
〰️ Deeper, restorative sleep
〰️ Headspace, time, permission, routine
〰️ A community
〰️ Improved strength, stability and tone
〰️ Joint support
〰️ Actual, real, calm me time
〰️ Physical development, freedom, capability
〰️ Tools to regulate their nervous system

You get to gift education ✨
You get to gift health ✨
You get to gift them what they aren’t giving themselves. A pause. Permission. Time to tune inwards ✨

🎁You can gift them a yoga workshop

🎁You can gift them a weekly yoga class

🎁You can gift them a community of likeminded, inspiring people (including 2️⃣ Men’s yoga classes from Jan!)

🎁You can gift them weekly online yoga, a subscription to Elevate Yoga Club, a totally-for-them private yoga session or a cold water experience 💦

Please ask me about Elevate gift vouchers for:
➜ Private 1:1 yoga for runners and athletes
➜ Private 1:1 yoga for pure relaxation
➜ Private 1:1 pregnancy yoga (IRL or online)
➜ A one-off private 1:1 session to add depth, challenge or funkify their flow
➜ A 6, 10 or 11 week bundle of yoga classes
➜ 3 single class passes
➜ A weekly pass to Wednesday Morning Online Yoga
➜ A ticket to this Sunday’s Festive Yoga Workshop
➜ Monthly Elevate Yoga Club membership with 25 plus classes on demand
➜ 1:1 cold yoga therapy
➜ Flexi vouchers for anything in the new term

I am all about wellness experiences, education, empowerment and expertise. I am in my element offering yoga and cold water.

A brave, brilliant and totally unique gift, and what better way to say I love you than please stay healthy so you can live longer?!

DM me, email me, or browse kateoateselevate.com for a feel for things.

Give the gift of feeling better!! 🧑‍🎄🎁

27/11/2025

I keep meeting brilliant people who shrink at work 😔 Not because they’re not capable, but because the environment doesn’t feel safe or encourage it….

People dim their humour.
They soften their opinions.
They hide their voice.
They overwork.

They shut off the bits that make them them, to keep the stability, the salary, the security. Some do it to prevent boisterous rebuke from louder leaders who normalise extrovert behaviour in leadership (what?)

This shrinking to keep stable in a role that is slowly eroding human excellence, is a real and complicated trade-off. No judgement here either; it’s tough and fears are real 🌎

What I see with people who are experienced and excellent at what they do:
• They are constantly editing themselves, which means their nervous system never gets into safe mode.
• Their body stays tight, closed, small
• They breathe shallow; constantly alert, panic-mode, read to run from the tiger
• Their confidence slowly erodes because their system is on alert all. day. long.

It is not sustainable.

Masking drains confidence.
Masking drains energy.
Masking drains excellence.

Senior leaders feel stuck. Trapped between being the provider, yet carrying a version of themselves that isn’t the full picture. It shrinks them. It blurs their thinking. It suffocates. And it is so, so common ~ this came up in 3 coaching conversations in the last few weeks alone.

But here’s the hope and we have the tools, we now need to create the space and permission to work on them!❕

We do our best work when we show up as ourselves, even in tight, pressured roles. With pause, strategy and support, we create more minutes in unmasked mode. And minute by minute, thinking changes. Confidence returns. Fear loosens. Brilliance comes back ✨💫🧠

Let’s be our real selves!!! Are you with me?

📸 Real-me and my ADHD lunch of dreams. I wouldn’t have shared this a few years ago, out of shame. But being awful at meals has nothing to do with being excellent at my job so I now laugh, send it to my pals and say “I am WINNING” - and I feel it!

25/11/2025

Darker mornings 🫣 Daylight diminishing (.lights fans rejoice!) and the Christmas lists whirling round heads! (If you’re the person on the parents WhatsApp group sharing that you’ve already wrapped everything…. Insert expletive)

This month coaching chat is getting sharper. Wonderfully, really, albeit from a place of PURE STRESS. The gloves are off and the purity is rather impressive 💥

People are being way more honest with themselves. Less small talk.
Much more “sh*t needs to get done” and NOW.

People are admitting what they already knew in September. July. April. That the pressure isn’t sustainable. The juggling act is messy, and it has just got messier with the big-thing-in-one-calendar-month [he’s 7 and yes he’s counting].

In yoga and in coaching, I’m seeing the clenched jaw becoming a personality trait - because the “I’ll keep pushing until things calm down” story is catching up. It is forcing people to have real conversations. To ask better questions. To ask questions they avoided before.

There is something very human about hearing people voice, admit, acknowledge, accept that this simply isn’t working anymore and that it is time to sort it out.

If you’re feeling this, even in a muddled, blurry way, please don’t ignore it 🫶🏼

Let it help you. Please, embrace the whisperings. Listen. Let it in. That’s your brain, and it’s telling you something 🗣️

Is there clarity under the noise? This could be the point in the year where you finally stop coping and start changing....

And yes; I can help; but you can help you too 🫶🏼

📸 You don’t have to dip your bod in cold water for clarity, but that’s the way I do it! 3 minutes every morning; just me and the birds (sometimes the cat). When you are forced to focus on breathing because it is so cold, your brain goes WILD for clarity, and I’m hooked on it 🤩

24/11/2025

The feeling when you’re stuck, pressured and squeezed from all angles. GAH. It’s sh*tty. And whilst tiny shifts can feel irrelevant when the pressure is huge, they’re NOT.

Tiny shifts help your brain build new pathways and new possibilities. Little by little, they open you up to more expansive thinking, different ideas, and problem-solving that can help you deal with the real pressure underneath everything 🧠

Small acts of rebellion like…
💫 Closing your laptop at 6pm instead of 7pm (/10pm).
💫 Eating your lunch somewhere that isn’t your desk.
💫 Choosing a walk over a meeting (that never needed to be a meeting)
💫 Taking a 1:1 call on a walk (surely you’ve seen their face enough?)
💫 Make yourself take 3 deep breaths (belly-out style) before replying to something that’s wound you up....

People are feeling trapped by workload, job security, stability, and exhausted by trying to be the version of themselves that ticks all the boxes.

When life tightens, people tighten. It’s human and it’s exhausting 😭

We don’t need a big dramatic reset. We can start with small, deliberate moments of freedom today. Tomorrow. Tiny adjustments 🔋

I DARE YOU to turn up the rebellion one notch, maybe go bigger (oh so bold), with:
👣 A walk...without your phone!
🧘 A stretch - a minute behind your desk now or a 30” mins on YouTube
🪀Something playful or creative (colouring book with swear words in it?)
👍🏼 Say “yes!” when you’d have usually talk yourself out of it!

Being in survival mode feels all levels of stagnant. To those feeling it this week, this month, you’re doing amazing.

Make sure you’re talking and meeting your own needs 💛

📸 Rare photo of me not smiling, from the talented

23/11/2025

NEW FOR JANUARY!
A Beginners Yoga Course for Men
6 weeks. 10 spaces. Real movement for real men.

Kicking off Monday 5th January at 5:30pm.

This is for men who:
⟶ Feel stiff
⟶ Sit a lot
⟶ Used to exercise but now… not so much
⟶ Want to move but do not want to join a bendy yoga class
⟶ Need accountability
⟶ Want to start 2026 feeling better in their bodies!

Yoga for tight hamstrings, stiff backs, weak knees and brains that have been in overdrive for decades.

Not chair yoga.
Not Instagram yoga.
Just supportive, practical, functional movement.

The studio will be warm, welcoming and calm.
We start from the beginning.

6 weeks for £75.
Jan 5 to Feb 9.

You can book for yourself or gift it to someone who needs it.
Link in bio!

22/11/2025

This!! Oh so much THIS!
What wonderful words, what powerful words and what grateful feels. Thank you Matt Caddick (you talented fellow!) 🙏🏼🙌🏼

19/11/2025

Pleeeaaase, think of your nervous system! ✨
Everyone seems to be running on fumes already. Bodies tired. Brains fried. Tight shoulders, broken sleep, sniffles… and the classic “it’s just that season, isn’t it?”

It feels a bit early, doesn’t it?
The fatigue I mean, not the baubles.

Your nervous system doesn’t know the difference between fun chaos and draining chaos. It just knows pace. Noise. Demands.

And it starts whispering…..

If we don’t hear the whispers, the body finds another volume.

Festive Flow is our deliberate pause 🫶🏼

A nervous system reset.

A reminder that rest can be pleasant and supportive… not impossible.

On Sunday 7th December, join me for:

⟶ Grounding breathwork
⟶ A warming, fiery flow under fairy lights
⟶ Slow, supported long holds with bolsters and blankets
⟶ Deep release and real peace
⟶ A long Yoga Nidra to reset your whole system
⟶ Goodie bags, homemade treats and our warm community

2 hours to soften, breathe and restore before the season kicks in! 🎄✨

Sunday 7th December
5 - 7pm
£49 Inc. GOODIE BAGS + homemade treats

*3 spaces left* 💨

Your nervous system will thank you 🎄

Link in bio to book ✨

Address

Cheadle Hulme
Manchester
SK8

Website

http://www.kateoateselevate.com/

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I’m a yogi and yoga teacher offering Vinyasa Flow, Rocket and Pregnancy Yoga classes, workshops and retreats. I teach groups, corporates and one-on-one people/couples/small groups for private tuition. I love outdoor yoga too so over the summer, we take it to parks and gardens.

For me, the apex of Yoga is finding strength and confidence, mentally and physically, and is accessible to everyone. I believe yoga is available to all bodies and abilities, and that there is no better time to start than now!

I am an ex-marathon runner, an M.E recoverer, and a naturally passionate and positive person. I found yoga through illness 5 years ago and have not looked back.

I would love to share my yoga enthusiasm with you!