Tasneem Harms Yoga

25/05/2025

❗Attention: Women of All Ages❗There's so much information and awareness currently out there on how GOOD and ESSENTIAL strength & resistance training is for women. Every age and in every life stage.

Having an appropriate amount of healthy skeletal muscle is important and critical for life - making daily tasks like lifting your babies & grandbabies, carrying NON-plastic 😉 shopping bags, moving about, and walking up and down stairs, a whole.lot.easier.

Skeletal muscle is no longer JUST associated with aesthetics, performance and strength - it's the Organ of Longevity - linked with reducing the risk of chronic diseases (aka Cardiovascular Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity), by helping to regulate cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood glucose. ⬅️ THIS, and so many more reasons why describes muscle as "the body's armour" and champions it as a major role player in HOW we age.

Ladies, do yourself a favour and get lifting🏋🏽‍♀️💪🏼

24/10/2024

BEYOND excited to announce my upcoming workshop on the importance of strength training for women! 🤸🏽‍♀️ Join me to learn how to build strength 💪🏼 boost confidence 🦸🏻‍♀️ and achieve your fitness goals 🎯 Limited spots are available, so sign up early to secure your place!

Shoot me a DM for the link to sign up or scan the QR code on the flyer 📲
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12/08/2024

Yoga session for Women's Day/Week/Month with Learning In Reach Parents at RAD in Lavender Hill 07.08.24 🧘🏽‍♀️👑💃🏽👯‍♀️💪🏼🪷🧡

My heart was brimming with pride & love for these women and this session.

Last week, I had the absolute pleasure and privilege to share a Yoga session with Learning In Reach staff, teachers and parents at our now weekly sessions in Lavender Hill. We spent the session reflecting on the women in our lives, who they have been to us, what they mean to us, the experiences we have shared, and the lessons we have learnt from them. We reflected on our personal growth and self-acknowledgement. We shared stories of inspiration.

We used Yoga poses like Goddess Pose (above), Mountain Pose, Standing Archer Pose and balancing sequences together with affirmations to highlight our physical strength, balance, resilience, worth and ability to achieve the goals that we set for ourselves. (An important reminder of that which we already have within us.) I revelled and breathed in the beauty of the group repeating the words out loud.

Our session ended with a gratitude practice, exploring what each of us was grateful for about being a woman, feeling a sense of appreciation for our own WOMAN-NESS.

I am so grateful for this work and for this life. For growing into my womanhood, being held by other women, and holding other women up. I am grateful to have learnt this lesson🙏🏼

I'm also grateful to all the women who have been a part of my life. Thank you for your wisdom💜

And thanks for reading Fam!
Happy Women's Day/Week/Month to you and to the women in yours. May we grow stronger together✌🏼

P.s I am excited to announce that I've launched a crowdfunding campaign to further expand my work in Lavender Hill. To learn more and contribute, please visit the campaign page at the link in my bio 🔗

22/01/2024

Our Tuesday evening Grassy Park Yoga Class is in search of a new home! We are looking for a safe, gentle indoor space. Parking behind a gate for evening classes would be ideal. An attached outdoor facility would be a bonus! Private gym/wellness space/sports club facilities are what we are aiming for. An empty space where we can expand our Yoga and Movement classes from and offer in-person coaching/training is also an option. Please connect with Tasneem if you own/know of something appropriate. Your help will be deeply appreciated. Happy Monday and have a peaceful week ahead!

10/01/2024

Closing meditation with New World Foundation 19.12.23 🧘🏽‍♀️ // Yesterday was my first session for the New Year and I got to spend it with an incredible bunch of humans who work for an organisation in Lavender Hill. I've been working with New World Foundation since September of last year. Each week I visit the Foundation's HQ in Lavender Hill and we spend our sessions moving, breathing and sitting in stillness. It has been a deeply moving experience for me, and work that I hope to continue and to be able to share with more NGOs/NPOs in the future. // I would like to be able to gather Yoga/exercise mats for the Foundation, so our sessions can expand and include more movements and practices on the floor. As part of this wish, I hope that our community will be able to assist + support in gathering/donating old or unused mats and/or props and in sharing + spreading the word. Please and thank you x a million🙏🏼🤲🏽 and thank you for reading friends, I hope you're having a groovy start to 2024. Happy Hump Day to ya🐪✌🏼

05/01/2024

Perhaps the most exciting addition we are aiming to have in the Park! 🌳 🎭 🎤

A wooden stage, nestled in the park, completely open to the public!

A space for
- Yoga and movement workshops
- Music
- Open Mic weekends🎤
- Theater
- Ceremonies

The possiblities are endless with your help! ✨️
We are gathering donations through snapscan for your stage- link is in our BIO. 🙏

Thank you, we love you for being here!
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04/01/2024

We're having another pop-up practice tomorrow at the beach. Same place (on the paving between the Civic Centre and the water). Come join us!

03/01/2024

Happy 2024!🎉

Wishing you a year FILLED with peace + presence of mind✌🏼

As we look forward to the year ahead, I'm taking a moment to remember + savour the sweet gifts of 2023🙏🏼Grateful for this practice, for this community + opportunity to share🧘🏽‍♀️ Thank you to Everyone who shared in a class, who carved out time for themself, who remembered a tool they learned + used it on their own in their daily life, who took the time to share feedback, who gave us space to practice together in their home. Thank you thank you thank you🙏🏼 I am deeply grateful + in awe of our community. I hope to continue to share, to support + guide your practices, to learn alongside you.

May your strength + your softness continue to grow in the New Year! 🪷

All my peace,
All my light,
All my love,
Tasneem

26/12/2023

03/12/2023

The goal is to live in harmony with our cycles, and to holistically support the changes taking place in our bodies 🏹

Hay Instagram World 🌍 happy December!

In the next few weeks we'll be diving into the different phases of the Cycle... To be able to give our body what it needs, we gotta know what's going on! We'll also be exploring ways in which we can support these changes and bring relief to PMS symptoms ⭕

Do you experience PMS symptoms? Mood swings, cramps, bloating, pain, cravings etc.? It's a definite YES for me! 🙋🏽‍♀️

29/11/2023

Empowerment comes from understanding🦸🏽‍♀️

Understanding the changes and fluctuations happening in our body during our Menstrual Cycle 🔁 and having the knowledge to support them means bringing ⚖️ balance ⚖️ to our cycle and, subsequently, our lives ☯️

Over the next month, I'll be diving into a topic that is close to my heart. It recently came up in a conversation with a dear friend, and I've been itching to explore it further in our weekly Yoga practices. So, I'm thrilled to have the opportunity here to open the door wide and share 🚪 Let's explore holistic ways to achieve a balanced Menstrual Cycle together!

If you experience PMS or related symptoms, join the conversation. Share your experiences in the comments 🙋🏽‍♀️

Stay tuned for insights and let's empower ourselves and those around us ✌🏼

23/10/2023

Hay Facebook World🌍

Anyone out there suffering from bouts of or constant pain anywhere in and around the neck, shoulders and back? 🙋🏽‍♀️ Almost all of us have dealt with some type of Musculoskeletal pain in one or more of these regions before. If you haven't, keep doing what you're doing💪🏼

But if you have, or are currently still suffering, you know how much it sucks right? And how much it can affect you physically, psychologically, at home, at work, your mood and your emotions 😪🎢

The people who do all the cool and necessary research are proving how effective stretching can be in managing and reducing pain 👏🏼

A study done in 2016, reported significant improvements in neck function, neck and shoulder pain and quality of life across 96 office workers with moderate-to-severe neck pain. All they did, was stretched! 🤯

A more recent study done this year compared Hatha (physical) yoga to stretching, and found that Yoga was as effective as stretching in reducing pain ✅ improving psychological status ✅ and physical performance ✅ in office workers.

Yes please! 😁 More Yoga! 🤸🏽‍♀️

If you raised your hand before 🫵🏼why not give this routine a try. Just a few tips before you get going...

🧘🏽‍♀️ Move slowly
🫁 Breathe (throughout)
🕓 Go for as long/short as you have time
🗓️ Do it daily, before you get up out of bed/before you put your head down to sleep.

The research showed that stretching twice daily, 3-5 per week, for 4 weeks resulted in significant improvements.

Happy moving and breathing. I hope this sequence can help support you🙏🏼

Namaste✌🏼