Our Ethos

Whether your focus is on building strength, flexibility and balance, increasing fitness or learning to switch off, relax and soften, we hope that you will find it here. Our ethos is a realistic, sustainable practice that will help you to move more easily, sleep more deeply, cultivate self acceptance and reduce stress and anxiety.

The longer I do this for the surer I am that ultimately a lot of what we’re offering is time, space, movement and acceptance. These are the conditions in which you can grow, change, shift, evolve and rise.

Kate x

I’ve run this hot yoga studio for going on a decade now, and I wonder if there may still be a perception that hot yoga teachers and students are slim, flexible, young etc. We definitely do have teachers and students that match those descriptions and I love and value them ❤️ But I am not one of those teachers, not everyone fits into those very narrow confines and judgements on appearance (either way) are absolutely not welcome here. Once you come in here you will hopefully feel the truth of that.

Some of the things I hear around weight, appearance, being ‘good enough’ to come to yoga are really jarring for me these days. I’m sort of pleasantly institutionalised in my nice, warm, accepting, supportive, friendly and therapeutic hot yoga studio. Our teachers are genuinely kind, thoughtful women who practice yoga on and off the mat. But it wasn’t always like that and so I do get it.

Our ethos is a realistic, sustainable practice that will support you to move more easily, sleep more deeply, accept yourself and navigate what life throws your way. Yes we have dynamic, fast yoga classes but we also have slower, softer classes too.

So if you want to try hot yoga but feel it isn’t for you due to ‘not having a yoga body’ then contact me and I’ll talk you through what classes are good to start with, what to wear and bring, etc. Once you get over the front door and into the studio and you experience the vibe, the acceptance, and you feel your way through a yoga class with us, you may be on your way to a more balanced, happier, accepting life.

Another option is a private, confidence building session. This is a one off session that includes a chat about you and us, being shown around and a 1-2-1 yoga session. It’s £25 and I’m pretty flexible on availability.

I’d also like to add that being slim, flexible and young aren’t the sole defining characteristics of those people in the same way that being older, inflexible or overweight doesn’t solely define others! Yoga is primarily an internal practice, don’t get sidetracked!