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Yogi Permission to be Human, York (2025)

30/09/2025

Hey, it’s been a while friends.
As we head into autumn, the perfect time to be inspired by nature and let go of what we no longer wish to carry. Just as the leaves fall from a tree, so can we let go of what is no longer serving us.

In class we’ve practiced some autumn teachings of letting go, noticing our habits, beliefs, responses and reactions. Are they aligned with our values? Are they the essence of who we are? Can we get curious - without judgment - and simply notice with compassion how we show up for ourselves and for others?

In yoga philosophy, these patterns are called samskaras - the grooves left behind by our past actions and experiences. They shape how we think, feel, and move through life, often without us realising. But our practice gives us the chance to bring awareness to those patterns, to pause, and to ask: is this helping me live in alignment with my true self?

This is why setting an intention matters so deeply. When we choose a quality - patience, courage, kindness, balance - we are planting a new seed. Each breath, each movement, is a chance to water that seed and gently create new patterns.

So as we step into autumn, let’s practice releasing what no longer serves us and consciously choose what we’d like to carry forward. Our time on the mat becomes practice for life itself.

Much love, Michelle ❤️

25/09/2025

✨ Join Our Welcoming Yoga Community ✨

Whether you’re new to yoga, returning after a break, or looking to strengthen your practice, this is the perfect opportunity to deepen your connection to yoga.

💫 Why Join?
You’ll explore gentle movement, breathwork, and meditation in a calming and supportive environment. Each class is personalised to meet you at your level, ensuring a pace that feels just right for your body.

✨ What to Expect:

🧘‍♀️ A nurturing environment to build strength and flexibility
🧘‍♀️ Focused guidance on balance, grounding, and mindful movement
🧘‍♀️ A peaceful wind-down at the end of every session to leave you refreshed and rejuvenated. The perfect antidote to busy modern life!

But we’re more than just a weekly class; we’re a growing community of like-minded people who support each other. We also host yogi socials, workshops, and special events!

Come as you are, and find connection, calm, and maybe even a few new friends. 💛

📍 John Jeffery Pavilion, Wigginton

📅 Tuesday Evening 7.15-8.15pm

📩 Email: hello@louiseyoga.uk for more info or to book your spot or send me a direct message here or link in bio.

If you have any questions, feel free to send us a message - we’re always happy to help.

We look forward to welcoming you to our yoga community!

Warmest wishes,
Louise & Michelle 🙏

24/06/2025

🧘‍♀️ Gentle reminder Tuesday Yogi’s 🧘‍♀️

Looking forward to an energising flow this evening, we’ll be moving with the breath in a rhythmic, meditative way. We’ll balance this with some cooling yin postures as we wind down - so your blankets or a towel, blocks or bricks will be useful this evening.

Looking forward to saluting the sun as we’re now officially in the SUMMER season 😎 I think the weather needs reminding!!

29/03/2025

Healing, Samskara & the Path of Yoga

Anniversaries often bring reflection. Three years ago, I was recovering from surgery - navigating not just the physical body healing, but the mind body too.

The good news? We don’t have to stay stuck. We can rewrite our patterns…here’s how!

Samskaras are like the grooves in a well-worn path and the more you walk a certain way, the deeper the track becomes. They’re the mental and emotional imprints left by our past experiences, habits, and choices. Some samskaras are helpful, like the automatic way you brush your teeth every morning. Others, though, can keep us stuck, like always doubting ourselves in new situations because of a past experience. These patterns shape how we see the world and react to it, often without us even realising it.

Recognising a habit is one thing, but breaking it requires action. Each time we reinforce an old pattern, we confirm to ourselves: This is just who I am, (‘I’m an anxious person’ or whatever you identify with). What if we shifted that? What if, instead of giving up when things got hard, we said, I keep going no matter what?

To create real change, we need to consciously form new, supportive habits.

For me that looks like; I keep going with the yoga practice, switching off the TV, putting that chocolate bar in the cupboard as opposed to my mouth (sometimes). I make a conscious decision not to enforce ‘non-serving’ patterns until the ‘good’ ones are ingrained.

When you start implementing new habits, you will start changing and growing. You might be more patient with people around you, feel less anxious about situations, be more at peace with yourself and the world, be more forgiving, and happier too.

We can’t always control our circumstances, but we can change the way we perceive them. We can face the truth instead of seeing it through a filter (vrittis) and stay in the suffering.

Healing isn’t linear, and transformation doesn’t happen overnight, but we can rewrite our story.

Thank you to all the teachers at for the embodied experience of all your teachings 🙏 transformative ❤️

24/02/2025

Exciting News: Bookings for Our Foundations and Progressive Foundations Are Open! 🌸

Whether you’re new to yoga, returning to yoga, or looking to strengthen your practice, this is the perfect opportunity to deepen your connection to yoga.

💫 Why Join?
You’ll explore gentle movement, breathwork, and meditation in a calming and supportive environment. Each class is personalised to meet you at your level, ensuring a pace that feels just right for your body. With smaller class sizes, you’ll receive individualised attention, allowing you to progress confidently and comfortably.

✨ What to Expect:

🧘‍♀️ A nurturing environment to build strength and flexibility
🧘‍♀️ Focused guidance on balance, grounding, and mindful movement
🧘‍♀️ A peaceful wind-down at the end of every session to leave you refreshed and rejuvenated

We would love to have you join us here at Spaces are limited, so don’t miss out! The term begins on Tuesday, 25th February, from 6 PM - 7 PM at Wigginton Community Pavilion

🌸 As new buds bloom, and the days get lighter, it’s the perfect time to refresh your mind and body. What’s growing for you this season? 🌸

If you have any questions, feel free to send us a message - we’re always happy to help. You can reach out here on here or email hello@louiseyoga.uk

04/01/2025

Welcome to 2025—the year you finally prioritise you!

This is your chance to embrace health, wellbeing, and balance in your busy life. Whether you’re brand new to yoga or rediscovering your mat, we’ve created the perfect space for you to breathe, stretch, and thrive.

We’re more than just a yoga class—we’re a growing community of over 85 local students, here to support you every step of the way. 💚

Here’s what we offer:
🌿 Weekly in-person and online classes
🌿 Fun yogi socials, workshops, and retreats
🌿 A welcoming, judgment-free space for everyone
🌿 A focus on balance, strength, and finding calm

In our classes, you’ll feel supported, empowered, and ready to reconnect with yourself—body and mind. ✨ Our new term starts next week, and we have just a few places left across our classes, why not come and join us ✨

We’d love to welcome you to our wonderful yoga community. Feel free to get in touch or drop any questions below in the comments

💌 Ready to get started? Message me here or email hello@louiseyoga.uk to reserve your spot!

17/09/2024

🧘‍♀️🌻Ready to feel stronger, more flexible, and calmer in both body and mind?🧘‍♀️🌻

Our new beginner-friendly classes are designed just for you—no experience needed! Starting at 6pm on the 24th September at the Wigginton Community Pavilion.

🌼In these classes, we focus on enhancing mental and physical well-being through gentle movement, breathwork, and meditation. With small class sizes, you’ll receive personalised attention in a welcoming, inclusive, and calm environment. Whether you’re a complete beginner or returning to yoga, you’ll feel supported every step of the way.

🧘‍♀️Each session runs at a steady, accessible pace tailored to individual needs, helping everyone feel engaged and confident. The focus is on your personal journey, building strength, maintaining flexibility, and grounding yourself with balance poses.

🙏Every class concludes with a relaxing session, giving you the time to reset, revive, and renew.

To book your space click the link in the bio 🌻

I’m really looking forward to welcoming you into our .uk friendly and supportive community ❤️

If you have any questions please get in touch,

Michelle 🌻

05/09/2024

🌙🧘‍♀️Join Our Friendly Yoga Community 🧘‍♀️☀️

Are you ready to start something new this September? I’m excited to announce an exclusive 6 week yoga program, designed specifically for beginners, those returning to yoga, or anyone looking to strengthen their foundational practice.

Have you thought about starting yoga but feel unsure if it’s for you? I truly believe that Yoga is for **every body**! 🧘‍♂️✨ No matter what your experience level, flexibility, or fitness, my classes are designed to meet you where you are. With gentle guidance and a welcoming community here at , you’ll be supported every step of the way.

I’ve shared my yoga journey (in my pinned post), and how my practice has changed with the tides. Yoga is for EVERYONE and EVERY BODY, and the benefits are truly transformative!

✨ Increased Flexibility & Strength
🧘‍♀️ Stress Relief
💫 Improved Focus & Clarity
⚖️ Posture & Balance
❤️ Emotional Well-being

As the seasons begin to change, it’s the perfect time to start something new. Whether it’s a fresh habit, a personal goal, or a journey of self-improvement, embrace September as your month of transformation.

I’m really excited about supporting you on your yoga journey and welcoming you to class 🙏

Come as you are—everyone is welcome!

Join me at and discover how yoga can meet you exactly where you are.

If you or someone you know is interested, simply DM your email address and I’ll add you to the waiting list.

Small classes so spaces are limited 🧘‍♀️

Starting Tuesday 24th September 6-7pm,
Wigginton Sport Pavilion

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03/08/2024

Have you ever thought about trying yoga but unsure if it’s for you? You’ve heard it can help with insomnia, stress, anxiety and worries - or that it builds strength, balance and flexibility in your body.

Yoga can help with all of that; releasing knots in our body and mind. Come follow me while I share my yoga journey. I’ll share videos and photos of me practising the poses, and I’ll pop on and chat about the classes and answer any questions. Recording lives and talking reels is a scary hurdle for me to conquer, but life is full of challenges, big and small. Just as yoga is practice and not perfection, so is life off the mat! We can do this!!

Yoga is for every ‘body’, every age and shape. You don’t need to be able to stand on one leg, touch your toes or move fast through a class. Yoga is what you need it to be, you can find ease or embrace a challenge, or maybe a bit of both?

The toughest challenge is turning up. When the kids and grandkids go back to school; maybe make that time for you?

New foundation yoga classes starting in September! I’d love to hear from you.

20/02/2024

I’m sure you’re familiar with the saying; ‘you can’t pour from an empty cup.’ How much thought do we give to it?

Our brain loves to do! Can we even sit without doing? Stand without doing? Rest without doing? I’ve never noticed how much I do ALL THE TIME. Even in rest.

Emotions are often described as energy in motion. The science is too descriptive to share here, so I urge you to look into it because it will shape shift how you feel and live in your body.

Did you know, in times of trauma, stress or injury, our fascia system stores an image of our body’s position, complete with all the fear, anger, sadness, etc. that was present at that time?

These images/memories of every one of our traumas, injuries, difficult events, situations out of our control can cause a friction with our everyday movement. In the premise of ‘safety first’, we create or hold onto patterns to avoid the original pain, which in turn can creates disease and causes dysfunction.

The mind body connection isn’t something we should pay lip service to, it’s part of ALL our bodies systems working together, and we can’t function optimally without it. I started my yoga journey again to help my busy mind, to move my body and have a pocket of time for me. I couldn’t understand why waves of anxiety, that familiar feeling butterflies in my stomach would surface in some poses.

In the stillness, that moment where the mind stops racing, you can hear the conversation from your body to your brain. I’m anxious. I’m tired. Oooh, what’s that popping? Your body is communicating ALL of the time. Maybe your gut needs to hear that it’s safe, you’re okay. How do you notice if you’re not still?

Rest isn’t a luxury, it’s vital to your health and wellbeing. A frantic body is a frantic mind, how can it not be so? ALL systems work together. You can’t have a mind without a body, or a body without a mind.

My fascia has been popping and twitching for a few days now, I’ve gone in and paid my body attention. I’ve listened, noticed, moved in deep connection with my body (guided by the most wonderful teacher), and it’s doing its healing. How mind blowing is that?!

14/02/2024

Two years ago; a Valentine’s Day I will always remember. The day began joyful, fast forward a few hours, to my world forever changed. Bilateral breast cancer diagnosis. My first thoughts were of my children and if I were not to survive this, how would they cope without their mum? How could I tell my mum when she’d only a few years ago cared for my dad with terminal cancer.

I was a champion at keeping everything locked in, contained, not felt, buried and not shared. I decided not to tell my children until I had a clearer idea of the extent of my treatment and prognosis.

Later that evening my middle child broke down and sobbed when I said it was time for bed. ‘What if this is our last Valentine’s Day?’. When tucking her in she cried and held onto me, thanking God he gave her me as a mummy. That she couldn’t bear to live without me.

I was eating our celebratory meal and playing balloons with them; how could she possibly detect my darkest fears when I was burying them so deeply? This journey has since taught me that nothing stays buried, it will surface as your energy, disease, pain in your body, anxiety and depression in your mind.

When people talk about pivotal moments in their life, here was mine. Within all of our suffering we have a choice don’t we? We can choose fear based emotions, or choose emotions rooted in love. It’s not as easy as flipping a coin, but it’s possible to direct yourself down one path as opposed to another.

I’ve listed a few things that help support my mind and body during brutal treatment to minimise my recurrence risk. A treatment which nearly half of BC survivors stop taking due to its impact on their quality of life.

🌟 Yoga
🌟 Meditation & EFT tapping
🌟 Movement - walking, rebounding, weights
🌟 Gratitude - love for my family, friends, noticing all the abundance in my life and noticing when ego rises
🌟 Limiting alcohol to a couple of units every other month - it’s a known carcinogen
🌟 More plants and fruits, protein, fibre and dairy
🌟 Sleep
🌟 Balance between work and play
🌟 EDMR and accepting & riding ALL emotions

Disclaimer: not perfect at any of the above! Ego, reaction & chocolate sometimes win 🤷‍♀️

02/02/2024

What a wonderful and memorable adventure 🎨🖌️ I thoroughly enjoyed the paint and glitter and my three artists loved my job too! Onto pastures new and loving my new journey. A wee reminder of life’s impermanence and the beauty of embracing change instead of resisting it 🌟 5 years ago today! Before I rediscovered yoga and before breast cancer. We have no choice over the cards we are dealt, but we can choose how to play the game ❤️ let 2024 be a curious and creative one!

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