Kate Oates Yoga

Kate Oates Yoga 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.

If you're constantly busy but never quite moving forward, this is for you.I coach in companies, but I also coach folk di...
26/04/2026

If you're constantly busy but never quite moving forward, this is for you.
I coach in companies, but I also coach folk directly, too. I love working with people, and those who seek out self-development themselves, they are the proper gold 💫

A constant mental-loop? Full diary, tired body, noisy thoughts, everyone needing something....
You want to move forward. But another day. Today is too busy.

You're not lacking ambition.

You're operating from survival, and (I know you know this); survival isn't sustainable, never mind strategic. Coaching gives you practical tools, mindset challenges, and a much-needed appointment to PUT YOURSELF FIRST.

Through 1:1 sessions, we work on:
✦ Getting clear on what you actually want (not just what feels urgent)
✦ Building confidence that's rooted in who you are
✦ More energy, less survival, more creativity
✦ Strengthening your voice and boundaries
✦ Permission to steer your own ship

I work with bright, busy people who are ready to stop mind-circling and coordinating chaos, and start building what's next (a client recently said "brick by brick, thought by thought").

6 sessions across 12-16 weeks.
Zoom or in-person: Cafe/coffee or walk/talk.

Strategic, personalised, confidential.

I want you to know yourself. Back yourself. Build what's next.

Let's talk

A phrase my partner hates? "You can move, you're not a tree?"Another one (he loves it when I get going): "If you don't c...
21/04/2026

A phrase my partner hates? "You can move, you're not a tree?"

Another one (he loves it when I get going): "If you don't change anything, nothing changes."
(Him: eye rolls.)

Staying comfortable is a strategy, actually. It is. One made in fear. Highly ineffective if your dream is not your current reality, or you seek growth, newness, challenge, etc.

I see brilliant, capable people doing the same thing, expecting something different, wondering why nothing is shifting.

New doors need new thinking 🤔

New behaviour needs new input 🗺️

New norms need new options 💭

Sometimes a full unlearning of what you thought "doing well" looked like is not a crisis. It's big, brilliant growth. If you're not "doing well" according to your own expectation, then CHANGE THINGS! Find that new door. Explore a new habit. Build your next thing.

One wonderful life, yours for the taking.....

(Pink trainers optional but highly recommended 🩷)

➜ Ready to do something different? COMMENT / DM / send carrier pigeon or visit https://kateoateselevate.com/individuals/ x

When the meaning of something leads to the directly opposite result - is that a paradox? Irony? (On another note entirel...
19/04/2026

When the meaning of something leads to the directly opposite result - is that a paradox? Irony? (On another note entirely, googled the definition of irony for J last week. Neither E or I think they nailed it?!)

Anyway I recently spent a morning with Karen and her gorge crew and the theme was “Imperfect.” The aim was to capture us, purposefully unpolished, real and human in a world of mounting AI and deep fakes.

To me; having spent decades of life showing up as expected (masking my arse off till it floored me), this was like a joyfully rebellious green light; one I didn’t know I was waiting for! 🤩🫶🏼

[NB: I don’t feel the need to be something else in this group EVER, it’s just the environment that brought this feeling so starkly to life]

So to this club, I showed up in tracksuit bottoms. Busy few weeks, hadn’t washed my fave clothes, needed comfort. No “photo ready” outfit, no expectation; infact the opposite. Imperfection felt wonderfully permitted.

The paradox was, that by me leaning into the unpolished, permission-to-rebel energy, Karen captured the most effortless, natural photos of me! ✨🫶🏼 All because I was given permission to be imperfect, flawed, real. I made less effort, and in embracing the flaws and thinking “f**k it”, the opposite of imperfect was the outcome 🌈

I’m not the only one who subconsciously waits for permission. It’s human behavior. I think we all need some freedom right now?

If you’re still reading:
🌿 Are you waiting for permission to say, be, or wear something?
🌿 Whose standards are you subconsciously adhering to?
🌿 What would imperfect look like today?

Imperfection is a gateway to being ourselves. I love the version people become when they remove the mountain of ‘shoulds’ they live by. It’s freeing. It’s efficient too - we get time and energy back that’s otherwise wasted (and I hate waste!)

I urge you to bring imperfect into your world next week? See what happens? 💭

(I’d say TELL ME, but this isn’t a tactic for engagement - it’s a joy moment) (and maybe an excuse to share these pics?) 🌈



📸 Look at us 🤩

I need to say something (else) about Rocket Yoga..... It's isn't inaccessible!!It really, really isn't! If you know me, ...
19/04/2026

I need to say something (else) about Rocket Yoga.....
It's isn't inaccessible!!
It really, really isn't! If you know me, you'll know I don't do superior. I don't do unachievable. I do REAL!

Rocket sounds intense. I know. The name alone puts people off - it conjures images of people doing handstands and looking like they've been practising since birth. But that's not fair to it.

I advise people who have done 10 vinyasa flow classes. Like, ever. That's the entry point. Simply so that I don't have to explain downward dog, and so we can all enjoy the flow, y'know?

95% of what you do in a Rocket class is movement you already know.

Downward dog.
Triangle.
Warrior.
It's yoga!

Larry Schultz just packaged it in a way that gives you structure AND freedom in the same breath - which, if you've ever felt simultaneously bored AND overwhelmed in a yoga class, is genuinely life-changing.

✦ No prior Rocket experience needed
✦ Options for every body throughout
✦ Playful, not precious
✦ Sweaty, satisfying, and genuinely fun

The whole story - including the rebel history, the 4 sequences, the weekly system that gives your body 140+ poses in a week - is sitting in my email series right now.....

Join my list and get both emails! Read the full stuff and get INSPIRED!

Sign up here: https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/928918/120036240372270788/share

Already signed up? Get excited 🤩

Workshop details are in there too.

Come on. You're curious. I can tell....

Kate x

This isn’t just about the STUNNING new tapas restaurant we’ve got in cheadle hulme ~ but let’s start there! is a welcom...
17/04/2026

This isn’t just about the STUNNING new tapas restaurant we’ve got in cheadle hulme ~ but let’s start there! is a welcome new haunt in CH, and today we were lucky enough to get a pre-opening coffee and cake courtesy of one of my Friday class regulars; an all-round incredible, warm, supportive, sharing, enthusiastic and joy-bringing human, L; who invited us in, showed us the place and shouted us a delicious coffee and Madeline cake 👌

This is a new tapas restaurant. It’s decorated exquisitely! It opens next week and Cheadle Hulme is welcoming the freshness with open arms. I can’t wait to book in! 🍽️🍹🇪🇸🌿

The other thing this is about is community, and how buzzing ours is ✨ When you strip it back, yoga classes (which accidentally create communities); bunches of strangers who kept returning to the same class, week after week, and getting to know each other on small or big levels, sharing space, sharing experiences and prioritising the same hour every week. It’s awesome!

It’s a part of teaching that’s not explicitly obvious when you journey into teaching, and it’s one of the best perks 🫶🏼

Friday crew, today was fab, and special to spend some non-mat time with you ✨ Obviously, massive credit to L for the VIP treatment (and the staff at Dos Hermanos 👌🙏🏼)

All of my crews: same community joy applies! Whether you actively contribute or not (never any pressure), you’re a bunch of folk doing good things at the same time, and you’re alright, y’know? ☺️

Thanks for being my community. I dig you.

Happy Fridays ALL xx

Self-awareness is a life skill!! 📣 You are the CEO of your life. Yet people are being taken where the wind blows them, w...
17/04/2026

Self-awareness is a life skill!! 📣 You are the CEO of your life. Yet people are being taken where the wind blows them, without realising they could direct the course. Running on autopilot. Assuming. Assuming is such a danger territory!

I swear down, it didn’t occur to me for 30+ years that I could stop and make an informed plan about my own life (I’m not joking! 🫣) I went with expectation, I had a great time, I didn’t question it; just cracked on. And I’m not unique in this.

When did you last genuinely ask yourself:
🎤 What does happy look like for me when I’m 60? Am I aware of what that is and how to create it?

Or:
🎤 Why did I react like that?
🎤 Why does that person irritate me so much?
🎤 Why do I say yes when I mean no?

Not just at work. In life, too. Knowing yourself, what fuels you, what drains you, what you avoid and what you seek, is direction-changing data 🧭

That data starts you moving somewhere deliberate. With purpose. With excitement! (Yes it’s possible 🌈)

In practice, self-awareness looks like:

✦ You don’t send that sharp message at 11pm
✦ You notice you’ve been avoiding a conversation for three weeks and you name it
✦ You get curious about why you always over-explain yourself to certain people
✦ You start wondering what your physical tension is telling you

We all have avoidance strategies. That’s not a flaw, it’s human. But naming them is strategic and makes things actionable.

Understanding how you behave under pressure, rather than how you think you do, changes your relationships, your decisions, your direction.

This is the work I bring into businesses. Not as a tick-box exercise, but because organisations that invest in self-aware humans build stronger teams, make better decisions, and lose fewer good people.

Are you human-curious too? I am so intrigued by humans. Coaching puts this front and centre 🧠

⟶ If you lead people, or you’re building a culture where people actually thrive, this is worth a conversation. Link in bio 🔗

For the men who’ve been meaning to try yoga / keep being told to try yoga / yoga bla bla…. Do you have tight hips?Concre...
16/04/2026

For the men who’ve been meaning to try yoga / keep being told to try yoga / yoga bla bla….

Do you have tight hips?
Concrete hamstrings?
A back (/knee/hip/disc) that complains?

Maybe you run, lift, cycle, climb.
Maybe you sit at a desk all day.

Your body is starting to shout a bit louder these days?

Yoga really does work. This isn’t fancy, flowy or performative. This is real bodies, moving functionally and freely.

Yoga transforms how you move, breathe and feel in your bones and limbs and brain! 🧠

This class goes out of its way to be welcoming to men. It’s ok to FEEL AS FLEXIBLE AS A WALL 🧱 There’s no complex poses, no incense, no frills.

This class is:

✦ Real anatomical movement focusing on muscles, joints, mobility and function. All explained simply 💪🏼
✦ A class that connects poses to sport, to stress and real life 💪🏽
✦ Strong, grounding movement that releases what’s tight and rebuilds what’s switched off 💪🏾
✦ With me, a runner, ex-corporate leader, trained in Yoga For Sport & Athletes, taught 5,000 hours of yoga over 13 years and, vitally, who COULDN’T TOUCH HER SHINS before yoga (not an exaggeration) 👌

This class is the basics, done safely and well.

Showing up is the only requirement!

✦ THURSDAYS @ 7:30-8:30pm
✦ ❗️New term starts TONIGHT❗️
✦ Venue is Cheadle Hulme Methodist Church with free parking.
✦ Last day for term deal discount TODAY ‼️ (Term is £175 for 13 classes + includes motivation to turn up each week).
✦ Single bookings are £15 each, only where space allows.

Book at https://kateoateselevate.com/yoga

Don’t overthink it, JOIN US! ⬆️🔗

Have you heard of Rocket Yoga and immediately thought... that's not for me?I said the same thing once! Then I trained in...
13/04/2026

Have you heard of Rocket Yoga and immediately thought... that's not for me?

I said the same thing once! Then I trained in it and WOW!

I fell completely in love with it! Or was it the freedom? The playfulness? The lack of form over function?

Rocket is a style of yoga created by a man called Larry Schultz - a student of the founder of Ashtanga who, famously, did not like the rules. So he rewrote them. He took the structure and the depth of Ashtanga and made it more playful, more accessible, and more progressive, without losing any of the good stuff.

He called it Rocket because it gets you there faster.

I've written a full (genuinely fascinating, I promise) deep-dive email about the whole system - a system I threw 60-hours of study and sweat into in 2016, to become a qualified sharer of his system and this playful practise.

I share what it is, where it came from, why it builds confidence in your body faster than almost anything else I've taught in 12 years.

Sign up to my mailing list via the link in my bio and it'll land straight in your inbox!

Two emails. Full story. Zero faff.

You're going to want to try this.......

Kate x

Tight hips? Long day? Never stepped foot on a mat?Perfect! I mean, yoga is perfect for you. And you for it 🤩My classes a...
12/04/2026

Tight hips? Long day? Never stepped foot on a mat?
Perfect!
I mean, yoga is perfect for you. And you for it 🤩

My classes are built for real life bodies, not Instagram ones.

We move, we stretch, we rest.

No pressure. No pretzel poses (but some fun ones, to keep you curious, sometimes, and you can laugh back?)

Our yoga is grounded, practical movement to help you feel better in your body and mind.

➡️ NEW TERM KICKS OFF TOMORROW.

Weekly classes:
MONDAYS 6:45pm | Intermediate Flow
MONDAYS 8pm | All Levels Flow
WEDNESDAYS 6:45am | *online* Morning Flow
THURSDAYS 7:30pm | Men's Yoga Class
FRIDAYS 9:30am | Fundamentals

➡️ Classes run across Stockport + online.

➡️ I also teach private clients, individually and in small groups.

➡️ I also teach sports teams and athletes, and/OR, corporate classes and events!

Want to try some yoga with me? Message me for times, info, everything, I'm all ears!

You just have to start!!You really, really, really, really, REALLY don't have to be good at yoga. You don't even have to...
11/04/2026

You just have to start!!

You really, really, really, really, REALLY don't have to be good at yoga. You don't even have to know what you're doing. But you do have to start it so that you can get those famous benefits (they’re well known and documented for good reason).

We’ve all been the person wondering which way round the mat should go.

Or been surprised that, it turns out, you don't know left from right (I'm with you there).

Nobody’s judging.

Everyone’s busy trying to breathe and balance.

Everyone's realised, as they're turned up week after week, that it really doesn't matter.

You can do your thing, learn your way, at your pace, and it's all good.

New to yoga? Not new to yoga but newly curious? You’re more than welcome here.

➡️ NEW TERM KICKS OFF w/c. 13th April.

Weekly class Schedule:
🌿MONDAYS 6:45pm | Intermediate Flow **FULL**
🌿MONDAYS 8pm | All Levels Flow
🌿WEDNESDAYS 6:45am | *online* Morning Flow
🌿THURSDAYS 7:30pm | Men's Yoga Class
🌿FRIDAYS 9:30am | Fundamentals

➡️ Classes run across Stockport + online.

➡️ I also teach private clients, individually and in small groups 🏡

➡️ I teach sports teams and athletes ⚽️

➡️ I host corporate classes and events 🌿

📍 In-person are Cheadle Hulme.

💻 Online are zoom.

🎥 I'm on YouTube for the folk who have the discipline and inclination to practise on their own schedule (search 'Kate Oates Elevate Yoga' on YouTube).

➡️ First class? I’ll send you everything you need to know. Pop me a message.

Kate x

Next week, we return to the mast, folks!Have you booked your spot?JOIN ME! Details below x
10/04/2026

Next week, we return to the mast, folks!
Have you booked your spot?
JOIN ME! Details below x

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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!