Yoga Ema

Yoga Ema YOGA: strong, intelligent vinyasa, dreamy yin and embodied philosophy �

Hari bol! It's been some time since we raised our voices together, and I'm delighted to say we'll be holding a sweet cha...
31/10/2025

Hari bol! It's been some time since we raised our voices together, and I'm delighted to say we'll be holding a sweet charity kīrtan at during the winter holidays!

This is a donation-based offering, with all proceeds going to our friends at to support their beautiful beautiful work supporting migrant women and creating a real sense of community in Govanhill (and beyond).

And you're in for a treat because it won't just be me leading, I'll be joined by my lovely friend and stunning musician - I can't wait to chant together again, with her and with you all!

Join us at on 28th December, for chanting, a bit of chat and hanging out, sweet vegan snacks and tea! 

find the link in my bio ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

I'm sure you've heard that the yoga tradition loves cows. Not only are they venerated for their gentleness, generosity a...
23/10/2025

I'm sure you've heard that the yoga tradition loves cows. Not only are they venerated for their gentleness, generosity and general adorableness - We chant for cows at the end of every ashtanga practice, Krishna is the protector of the cows, and she (the cow) represents our connection to the Earth, infinitely nurturing and supportive. 

In the Śrimad Bhāgavatam, the Earth, trampled upon by "conceited demons dressed like kings" (sound familiar?) takes the form of a cow, to tell Brahma about her misfortune and ask for help. 

What can cows teach us about our relationship to this Earth? About how our yoga practice can help us to take care of Nature, the source of all our sustenance? 

This month in Philosophy Club - 🌱 Holy Cow! On Nurturing, Non-exploitation and our Connection to the Earth. 🌱

We'll discuss:
🐮 virtues and symbolism of the cow - as the Earth, and also as the Senses

🐮 how our senses connect us to Nature

🐮 why Protecting the Cows is a Divine Act

🐮 capitalism, exploitation, and protecting our resources

🐮 how our yoga practice can help us nurture and protect our Earth (in our everyday, modern lives)

Join us this Sunday at or online on Tuesday 11th November. 

Om! (or do I mean, MOooo!!) 🐄🙏🌳

I'm sure you've heard that the yoga tradition loves cows. Not only are they venerated for their gentleness, generosity a...
23/10/2025

I'm sure you've heard that the yoga tradition loves cows. Not only are they venerated for their gentleness, generosity and general adorableness - We chant for cows at the end of every ashtanga practice, Krishna is the protector of the cows, and she (the cow) represents our connection to the Earth, infinitely nurturing and supportive.

In the Śrimad Bhāgavatam, the Earth, trampled upon by "conceited demons dressed like kings" (sound familiar?) takes the form of a cow, to tell Brahma about her misfortune and ask for help.

What can cows teach us about our relationship to this Earth? About how our yoga practice can help us to take care of Nature, the source of all our sustenance?

This month in Philosophy Club the topic is
🌱Holy Cow! On Nurturing, Non-exploitation and our Connection to the Earth. 🌱

We'll discuss:
🐮 virtues and symbolism of the cow - as the Earth, and also as the Senses
🐮 how our senses connect us to Nature
🐮 why Protecting the Cows is a Divine Act
🐮 capitalism, exploitation, and protecting our resources
🐮 how our yoga practice can help us nurture and protect our Earth (in our everyday, modern lives)

Join us this Sunday at or online on Tuesday 11th November.

Om! (or do I mean, MOooo!!) 🐄🙏🌳

21/10/2025

does philosophy get in the way of the physical practice of yoga?
QUITE THE OPPOSITE

If you've ever approached challenging poses you know how much the mind is involved in how we practise them - and the same human tendencies that show up on the mat are the very same ones that yoga philosophy is concerned with.

So we can bring these teachings with us as a support to our physical practice - they can help us to get strong, by harnessing our mind and letting it support us, instead of the opposite.

This is central to how I practise and teach physical yoga, and I'm excited to share the tools and perspectives I use to bring yoga's wisdom teachings into my āsana classes. 

THIS WEEKEND!
Embodied Philosophy - it's but ON the mat.
Join us on Saturday at if you want to integrate all your parts into your practice and your teaching - body, mind, and heart.

Link in my bio! Or go to merchantcityyoga.com/workshops-and-courses 💪💪💪

20/10/2025

🪔 Diwali, festival of light ✨ most of all the light of knowledge, wisdom and truth that shines, even in the darkness ✨

"Install the luminous gem in the shape of the divine name 'Rama' on the threshold of the tongue at the doorway of your mouth, if you will have light both inside and outside, O Tulasīdāsa."
Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas

I teach yoga that seeks to go through the body to something beyond, but you can only get there by working skilfully with...
20/10/2025

I teach yoga that seeks to go through the body to something beyond, but you can only get there by working skilfully with your physicality - working with what is, rather than trying to make it into something it's not.

Come for intelligent sequencing firmly grounded in physical and subtle anatomy, stay for an immersion into the philosophical teachings of yoga. 💁

Practise with me -

Mondays: Vinyasa 6pm, Yin 7.30pm -
Tuesdays: Queer Joy! 10.30am - at The Deep End
Wednesdays: Yin 7.30pm at
Thursdays: Morning flow 8-8.45am at

for more info on all classes see yogaema.com/classes 

or if you'd like a practice personally catered to you and your anatomical or other needs, DM me to chat about working 1:1.

Hello October friends! 🍁This month I'm excited to bring you so many offerings and some new classes across all my passion...
01/10/2025

Hello October friends! 🍁
This month I'm excited to bring you so many offerings and some new classes across all my passions - philosophy, yin, teaching methodology, and heart-centred vinyasa ✨

Check it out: 

🍁Tues 7th October: Philo Club ONLINE! 

🍁Thurs 9th: New! Morning Flow all levels vinyasa starts at

🍁Fri 10th: YIN TGIF at

🍁Weds 15th: New! Yin Yoga at

🍁Sat 25th: Teachers' CPD: Weaving Philosophy into Āsana Classes 

🍁Sun 26th: Philo Club at  

It's gonna be deep, soulful, and full of connection. 🙏 Hope to see you there! 🌚

{scroll👉} Nature is so magic, so awe-inspiring, because she is all things. Light, dark, comforting, wild, vast, intricat...
26/09/2025

{scroll👉} Nature is so magic, so awe-inspiring, because she is all things. Light, dark, comforting, wild, vast, intricate, she gives us everything we need, she takes it all away. She is beautiful and she is neutral - compassionate, yet aloof, infinitely generous and sometimes severe.
She is us and we are her, and if she is all things then so are we.
🌊🙏🌚🌪️⛰️💫

the ✨magic✨ of lying on the floor - is back. YIN TGIF! to unwind at the end of the week, and experience good sleep, a no...
21/09/2025

the ✨magic✨ of lying on the floor - is back.
YIN TGIF! to unwind at the end of the week, and experience good sleep, a nourished body, and clear mind.
Friday 10th October at 7pm at in Cathcart

find the link in my bio and stories ✨✨

I've been nostaligising a bit on my yoga journey - and what's made me the practitioner and teacher that I am. We are all...
17/09/2025

I've been nostaligising a bit on my yoga journey - and what's made me the practitioner and teacher that I am.

We are all a mix of the teachers we've encountered and who have touched us (they stay with us forever!) - the various styles we've practised, how they've supported different parts of us and the needs we had at different times..

The way I practise and teach now is still so heavily influenced by my first teacher Oleg who taught me vyayama sukshma and pranayama, iyengar precision, as well as philosophy and so much humour.

Then there's the discipline, deep subtlety and energetics of ashtanga yoga, my practice held so tenderly by Judi and Rose Anne at MCY and the wonderful visiting teachers Judi invites.

I encountered Jivamukti yoga in 2015 with Tonya Arno who visited Oleg's studio in Saint Petersburg and it lit me up to the devotion, philosophy, chanting, and ethical veganism (which I'd already been practising since 2011)

And such a big impact was made on me by Demelza Feltham who taught me how to explore big postures, flow in a mandala, and inspired me with her incredible wealth of knowledge.

Aaaand truly I just learn so much from the people who practise with me (cheesy but true) - they inspire me to support and challenge them, to be adaptable and clear in my instruction, and they teach me so much about the practice of yoga itself.

So here are some pictures I dug up from over the years..
1. At 'Zona Yogi' - 's studio, in 2015
2. Fannying about on At Isaac's Square, Saint Petersburg, in 2014
3. Ligovsky 50 complex in St Petersburg, one of the various locations of Oleg's studio. I went here twice a week without fail, travelling through the dark, ice and snow, to be warmed by the practice and feel totally new ways of being.
4. Me and Oleg in 2019, the last time I was in Russia
5. Intro to Jivamukti workshop at Zone Yogi in 2015
6. First time I got Ganda bherundasana - I went home after Demelza's Tuesday night Mandala class and practised it straight away. 2017.
7. MCY fam 🙏🙏
8. Mysore with , 2022.
9. 'Magic Monday' crew at MCY - 2019
10. My first yoga book, borrowed from mum.

For me it all comes down to this.
16/09/2025

For me it all comes down to this.

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Yoga Ema

I teach yoga that is strong and subtle, imaginative yet rooted in tradition. We’ll move in beautiful and strong flows, but always with inward directed awareness that involves the mind and the heart, too.

Through great attention to the detail of the physical body, we make space and build strength and integration, which allows us to move more deeply into the inner world.

Up until my late twenties I was the unsportiest person you ever knew, with plenty of bad habits and complete disconnection from my body. While living in Russia I came across a remarkable teacher (https://www.facebook.com/gladkikhom) who properly introduced me to the powerful practices of hatha yoga. Soon I was practising daily and delving deep into all the yoga practices and texts that I could find.