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Imogen is a yoga teacher, author, reiki healer based in the UK
Vinyasa flow, yin and restorative cla

Imogen has trained under the expert eye of Katy Appleton and Judith Hanson Lasater and is a Yoga Alliance-certified teacher of dynamic Vinyasa flow. She has been practising yoga since her teens and has a background in reiki and the energetic body. Imogen believes yoga is the key to balance in life both on and off the mat. With breath being central to her classes Imogen combines uplifting sequencing with a simple yet potent lunar antidote. Through her teaching she hopes to inspire possibility and galvanise self-awareness and self-nourishment. Imogen fiercely believes that yoga is for everyone, that it is a vital tradition that transcends all race and religion, fundamental in all of our lives more so now than ever before. Imogen is grateful to all her teachers and to those who have touched her on her yoga path.

04/10/2026

✨ Don’t forget you can drop in for just £16… ✨

Not ready to commit to a whole block of classes? No problem at all.

You can join me and the lovely Yoga with Doireann for any of our Autumn Term classes on a drop-in basis …. whether you fancy a strong and energising Vinyasa Flow, a slower evening of Yin, or Yoga for Strength on a Saturday morning.

There’s a class to suit your week:

🌿 Vinyasa Flow
Monday 6.30pm — Gibbons Hall, Southdown
Tuesday 6.30pm — St Mary’s Church Hall, Redbourn
Wednesday 8.45am — Park Hall, Harpenden
Friday 12pm — Park Hall, Harpenden
Sunday 8.30am — Park Hall, Harpenden

🌙 Yin Yoga
Wednesday 7.30pm — Abbeyfield Hall, Southdown

💪 Yoga for Strength
Saturday 8.30am — Park Hall, Harpenden

Drop-in: £16 per class
Just DM me if you’d like to come along and I’ll send you the details.

Or, if you know you’ll make a few classes, the All Class Pass is just £3.50 per class, giving you the freedom to attend any or all of the classes during the half term.

Autumn term runs 7 September – 25 October 🍂

Come and practise with us… no long-term commitment needed. Just bring yourself, your mat and a little space to breathe. 🤍

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28/09/2026

Change the conversation.

I’ve been thinking a lot about connection lately.

Not just having connection, but the QUALITY of the connections we create.

How well do we communicate?
How willing are we to listen?
What happens when one connection in the web changes its tension … and how does the rest of the web respond?

Because we are never really separate.

When one thread moves, the surrounding threads feel it.

And perhaps this is true of our nervous systems too.

Every piece of information we receive, every conversation we have, every interaction we experience can change the way our nervous system responds. It can alter what we notice, how we interpret something, how we move, how we feel, and ultimately the quality of our experience.

So perhaps connection isn’t always about doing something together.

Sometimes it is simply about paying attention.

Getting a little closer.
Listening a little more deeply.
Allowing new information to enter the conversation.
Noticing what changes when we do.

And maybe that is where connection begins:

inner awareness becoming outward connection.

We discover ourselves.
Then we discover the threads around us.
And finally, we discover the tapestry we can create together.

What if connection isn’t about having something to say, but about being willing to pay attention?

📸 whatctshoots 🙏🔱✨

23/09/2026

Hip stability is about more than strength. It’s about control.

The deeper stabilising muscles around the hip can play an important role in supporting the SI joint, the lower back and the overall integrity of the pelvis.

And when those deeper muscles are doing their job, the bigger, more superficial muscles can often work with even more power.

Yet these stabilisers are so often overlooked.

Try this in your Warrior III → Half Moon:

🌿 Hug the outer hip in.
🌿 Kick back through the lifted leg.
🌿 Keep a slight bend in the standing knee.
🌿 Get longer through the midline.
🌿 Slowly open and close the hip, keeping the pelvis level.
🌿 Resist the temptation to simply hang into the standing hip.

Instead, see if you can control every tiny movement.

Can you open the hip without the pelvis tipping?
Can you close it without collapsing?
Can you maintain that sense of length and integrity as you move?

And if you lose the integrity of the position, come out of it.

That’s not failure. That’s the practice.

We’re teaching the body to stabilise, respond and control movement rather than relying on the joints or bigger muscles to do all the work.

This is the kind of detailed, intelligent strength work we explore in my Yoga for Strength classes.

📍 Saturday mornings
⏰ 8:30am
📍 Park Hall, Harpenden

Come and try it … drop-ins are welcome.

17/09/2026

CONNECTION.

Is really the heart of why I teach now.

Within the asana, there is connection.
Beyond the asana, there is connection.

Connection on so many different levels.

The chains of muscles working together.
The layers of connective tissue communicating and responding.
Bones meeting bones.
Breath connecting movement to the nervous system.

And then the connections that reach beyond the physical…

Our mental health.
Our spiritual health.
Our sense of belonging.
Our connection to nature, to purpose, to community
….and of course to each other.

I have been reading recently Johann Hari ‘s Lost Connections. His writing explores how disconnection from fundamental human needs can impact our mental health. And the idea has stayed with me.

Because we are relational beings. We need to feel seen. We need to belong. We need meaningful connection.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons I love teaching so much.

A yoga class can become a little space where we reconnect.

With ourselves.
With our bodies.
With our breath.
With other human beings.

We arrive as individuals, each carrying our own lives, and for a little while we breathe and move together.

And perhaps somewhere in that shared experience, we remember something we already knew:

We were never really separate.

This is my driving force…

Not simply to teach asana, but to create spaces where connection can happen through the body, through the breath, through practice, and through community.

Because sometimes what we need isn’t to become something more. It isn’t a pill or a new pair of jeans.

Sometimes we simply need to reconnect with what is already there.

13/09/2026

IF YOUR STUDENTS ARE YAWNING, YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT…

Seriously. 😮‍💨

Yawning in yoga class doesn’t necessarily mean “I’m bored.”

Yawning is a physiological response involving a deep inhalation and a shift in arousal. We now understand it as being much more complex than simply needing more oxygen.

And when we slow down, breathe consciously, move the body and create enough safety and stillness to come out of our habitual state of stimulation…

the nervous system starts to change gear.

You might see it as yawning.
A big sigh.
A deeper breath.
A softening of the jaw.
The shoulders dropping.
A spontaneous exhale.

The body is responding.

So when someone yawns in your class, perhaps don’t rush to fill the silence or assume they’ve checked out.

Maybe they’re checking in.

Maybe their body is finally getting the opportunity to regulate.

And teachers … this is one of the reasons I love teaching practices that leave room for people to actually feel what is happening inside them.

We don’t need to control every response.

Sometimes yoga is simply creating the conditions for the body to do what it already knows how to do.

So yawn away.
Breathe deeply.
Soften.
Let go.

You might just be doing exactly what your nervous system needed. 🤍

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07/09/2026

TEACHING IS RIGOUR…
PRACTICE IS RIGOUR…

Sādhana is not a quick fix or something we dip in and out of when life feels comfortable.

It is a daily practice. A commitment to showing up, listening deeply, and allowing ourselves to evolve.

There is something profoundly life-changing about having the space and time to practice… I am not unaware of the privilege I hold having firstly the time and secondly the knowledge.

And to do so within a living tradition, rooted in the South Asian lineages from which these yoga practices come.

I am constantly humbled by what the practice reveals. By the shifts that happen when we keep showing up. And by the support that seems to arrive, often exactly when we need it.

Teaching reminds me again and again that I am not here to give you answers. I am here to create the conditions for you to discover something for yourself.

Classes start back today.

So if you feel that calling … for a little more space, a little more time with yourself, and perhaps the possibility of transformation …

the mat is where you should come. 🌀
📸 whatctshoots ✨🫶🙏

01/09/2026

Refine refine refine
Question the ‘shoulds’
Don’t quit what you love 🧡
Change with the change
More presence
Less proving…

Yoga for Strength deets and 🔗 in the bio 👆

30/08/2026

NEW CLASS: Yoga for Strength 💪🧘‍♀️

Saturdays · 8.30am · 50 minutes

A new yoga conditioning class designed to explore strength building through midlife, using yoga.

The conversation around strength in midlife has become huge … alongside, of course, the seemingly endless conversation about protein!

But what actually is strength, and where does yoga fit into the picture?

There are lots of sweeping claims around yoga and strength:

• “Your body adapts to bodyweight exercise and strength plateaus.”
• “Yoga is mostly skill and control, rather than strength.”
• “Yoga doesn’t produce enough force.”
• “Yoga doesn’t adequately strengthen the posterior chain.”

There are elements of truth in some of these statements, but the reality is much more nuanced.

I want to explore that nuance … and challenge some of the simplified ideas we see circulating on social media … because the conversation around strength, yoga and ageing is much more interesting than it often sounds.

I’ve also written an article exploring what we actually mean by strength, how strength develops, and where yoga fits into the picture.

READ THE ARTICLE — link in bio

And if you’d like to explore some of this practically, come along to Yoga for Strength.

We’ll use yoga-based conditioning to explore strength, control, stability and muscular endurance, in a way that complements your existing yoga practice.

All Pass Packs are valid, or book with a Flexi Class Pack.

Everyone welcome. 🤍

26/08/2026

REFLECTION.

One of the things I find most extraordinary about being human is our capacity for self-reflexivity.

We don’t just experience life … we can turn around and look at the one who is experiencing it.

We can notice our thoughts.
Question our assumptions.
Recognise our patterns.
See where we’ve been protecting something, avoiding something, holding on too tightly.

And sometimes, simply seeing something clearly begins to change it.

Reflection isn’t about endlessly analysing ourselves or trying to become some improved version of who we are.

It’s about creating enough space to see what is actually here.

Because clarity rarely comes from thinking harder.

Sometimes it comes from stepping back, becoming quiet, and allowing the mind to see itself.

Perhaps this is one of the great gifts of consciousness:

the ability to witness our own experience … and, in that seeing, recognise something we couldn’t see before.

Reflection gives us perspective.

Perspective gives us clarity.

And clarity gives us choice.

When did you last take a moment for reflection? And what did you find there?

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