Yogashona

�500 hrs Yoga Scotland teaching diploma. (2013-2015)

�Certified vishoka meditation teacher.

If you’re tired of constantly trying to fix yourself, become a better version of yourself or figure everything out…

…you’re welcome here.

⬇️ Start with STAYING when it feels hard. Himalayan Institute (2019-2020)

For more detailed info on all current class options and to book please see the website.

04/09/2026

Move. Stretch. Relax. Unwind.

Sometimes that’s exactly what you need.

Weekly all levels, chair & gentle yoga classes.
In person and online.

I’d love to see you there.

🧡

Booking link in bio.

02/09/2026

Sometimes I practice yoga to switch on.

To notice my body.
My breath.
My thoughts.
What I’m feeling.
What’s here.

And sometimes…

I’ve paid quite enough fu***ng attention for one day. 😂

There’s a lot happening in the world right now. We can open our phones and be confronted with more suffering, anger, fear, destruction and uncertainty than we know what to do with.

I used to think yoga shouldn’t be another escape from our lives.

That the practice was learning to stay.

I still believe there’s enormous value in that.

But I think I’d accidentally created another little hierarchy. 🙈

Switching on = meaningful practice.
Switching off = avoidance.

And I don’t think I believe that anymore.

Sometimes we need to turn towards.

Sometimes we need to put things down.

Sometimes yoga can be an opportunity to explore what’s happening within us.

And sometimes we can stretch, move, breathe, switch our brains off for an hour and have a lovely lie down in a darkened room 😂

You can come because you want to pay attention.

You can come because you’re exhausted from paying attention.

Both belong.

And maybe what you need from your practice won’t be the same every time.

My weekly yoga classes are there for all of it.

If you’d like to practice with me the link to book is in the bio.

I’d love to see you there 🧡

01/09/2026

I’ve been thinking about depth in yoga.

And I think I might have been getting it slightly wrong.

I’ve spent a lot of this year exploring some fairly deep territory in my own practice and work.

You might have noticed 😂

Meditation. Mantra. Self-enquiry. Some big questions about how we meet ourselves and our lives.

And somewhere along the way, I think I started to associate depth with going deeper.

More insight.
More enquiry.
More understanding.
More healing.
Something new to discover.

Meanwhile, there are my ordinary weekly yoga classes.

Sometimes I teach movements I’ve taught hundreds of times.

I use cues and say things my long-term students have heard hundreds of times.

We move.

We breathe.

We come back.

And someone may well arrive wanting to explore their relationship with themselves.

Or they might have tight hamstrings and want a really good lie down.

They might be feeling stressed and could use some relaxation.

Or they might want an hour to themselves where nobody is shouting “Muuuum! 😂😮‍💨

None of those is doing yoga more correctly.

Because I’m beginning to wonder whether depth was never somewhere we had to get to.

Sometimes depth is simply the quality of relationship we have with what’s already here.

This body.

This breath.

This feeling.

This familiar movement, for the 1,234th time.

Here, again.

Maybe I don’t need to keep inventing yoga.

And you don’t need to make your practice profound.

We can just practise.

🧡

If you’d like to practise with me, my weekly classes are

Monday
9:15am all levels online
11am chair @ NS golf club (£8 drop in no need to book)
7pm all levels @ The Riverside Centre NS & online

Thursday
11am gentle mat/chair (£10 drop in no need to book) @ NS golf club
7:30pm all levels @ Wigtown & Bladnoch golf club

Online booking link in bio.

28/08/2026

A group of us are gathering together here on Sunday.

There are six of us so far, and there’s still room for a few more.

We’ll move our bodies.

Breathe.

Sit quietly.

Sing mantra.

Eat together.

Drink tea.

Gather around the fire with a question — or the wood burner/tray of beautifully adorned candles if the Scottish weather has other plans. 😂

There’ll be conversation and plenty of space around it.

Nothing to achieve.

Nothing you need to prepare.

Just a few hours away from ordinary life in a beautiful place with some other lovely humans.

Where Messy Humans Belong

Sunday 30 August
2pm–around 7ish
Overlooking the river Dee estuary
£50

If you’d like to be one of the lovely humans joining us, message me today or tomorrow and I’ll send you the payment details and directions.

I’d love to have you there.

🧡

26/08/2026

I was at our stunning venue today getting ready for Sunday.

And now I’m really bloody looking forward to it!! 🧡

We walked through where we’ll practise if it’s dry.

Where we’ll practise if it’s raining.

Where we’ll eat.

Where we’ll gather around the fire — or the wood burner/candle extravaganza if Scotland has other ideas. 😂

We looked at what’s growing in the garden for our meal.

We decided who’ll be responsible for biscuits 😋

And suddenly it stopped being an event I’ve been planning and started feeling like an afternoon that’s actually about to happen. ☺️

There’ll be six of us here so far.

A small group.

Movement. Breath. Stillness. Food. Mantra. Fire. Conversation. Good company.

And a beautiful place to spend a Sunday afternoon.

There’s still room for a few more if you fancy joining us.

Where Messy Humans Belong
Sunday 30 August
2pm–around 7ish
Overlooking the river Dee Estuary
Nr Kirkudbright
£50

I’ve got space in my car if you need a lift.

Message me if you’d like to come.

🧡

24/08/2026

Come for the yoga.

Come for the food.

Come for the view.

Come because you fancy sitting around a fire for a while.

Come because you’d quite like an afternoon that’s yours.

Come because you’d like to spend a Sunday afternoon with a small group of lovely people doing something a little different.

You don’t need a profound reason. 😂

We’ll move our bodies, breathe, be still, drink tea, eat together, and gather around the fire as afternoon becomes evening.

And…we’ll see what happens.

Where Messy Humans Belong
Sunday 30 August
2pm–around 7ish.
Overlooking the Dee Estuary
Nr Kirkudbright
£50

Four lovely humans are already coming.

If you’d like to join us, send me a message and I’ll send you the payment details.

🧡

21/08/2026

I sat down with my notebook earlier to start planning “Where Messy Humans Belong”

You know… properly.

Overarching theme.

Discussion topic.

Asana practice.

Pranayama.

Mantra.

Profound question for around the fire.

Presumably culminating in my recognition as one of the world’s top ten most transformative yoga teachers. 🤣🤣🤣

And before I’d written anything else, this was what appeared at the top of the page:

REMINDER: IT’S NOT A FU***NG PERFORMANCE!!!

😂

Ah 😮‍💨

Because I could very easily take an afternoon that’s supposed to be about allowing ourselves to arrive exactly as we are…

and turn it into something I need to get right.

I could try to make it profound.

Make sure everyone has a deeply meaningful experience.

Carefully construct the practices so that we arrive at some beautiful collective insight by the fire.

In other words:

perform.

So I stopped trying to decide what the afternoon needed to become and asked a much simpler question:

What feels alive enough to explore together?

And this came:

Where are we performing to belong?

Where are we trying to be calmer, cleverer, easier, stronger, happier, more spiritual, more capable, more agreeable, more compliant, more put together — whatever we imagine will make us more acceptable to the people around us?

And perhaps even more interestingly:

What happens when we notice that we’re doing it?

I have no idea where that enquiry will take us.

That’s rather the point. 🤣

We’ll move.

Breathe.

Be still.

Eat together.

Sing.

Sit around a fire.

Talk.

Perhaps walk.

Maybe sit in silence.

And we’ll see what happens.

No breakthrough required.

No transformation promised.

It’s not a fu***ng performance.

Not for you.

And apparently, not for me either. 😂

Where Messy Humans Belong
Sunday 30th August
2pm–around 7 or whenever you’re ready to leave the fire.
overlooking the estuary nr Kirkudbright
£50
Maximum 10 people

2 spaces are already spoken for.

If you’d like to come, message me and I’ll send you the payment details.

🧡

19/08/2026

Sunday 30th August
2pm–around 7 or whenever we leave the fire
Nr Kirkudbright
£50
Maximum 10 people

We’ll move. Breathe. Eat. Sit around a fire. Chant a little. Drink tea. Talk. Be quiet.

And nobody has to become anything before we begin.

If you’d like to come, message me and I’ll send you the payment details.
Full directions will be sent before we meet.

Come as you are.

We’ll start there.

🧡

18/08/2026

There are plenty of places you can go to work on yourself.

To become calmer.

Happier.

More flexible.

More regulated.

More mindful.

More spiritual.

More healed.

More whatever-you-think-you-should-be-by-now. 😂

This isn’t one of them.

How about we spend a few hours meeting the person who’s already here?

Moving.

Breathing.

Being still.

Eating together.

Sitting around a fire.

Talking.

Being quiet.

Not trying to manufacture a particular experience.

Not trying to feel better.

Not trying to become anything.

Just paying attention to what’s here.

And seeing what happens.

You might leave feeling wonderful.

You might not. 😂

That’s not really the point.

Don’t come to this event to be anything other than

— alive

With whatever that entails today.

Where Messy Humans Belong

Sunday 30th August
2pm–around 7 or whenever you’re ready to leave the fire
overlooking the Dee estuary
Nr Kirkudbright
£50
Maximum 10 people

If you’d like to come, send me a message and I’ll send you the payment details.

Full details will be sent before we gather and lift sharing can easily be arranged.

One of the 10 places is already spoken for.

You don’t need to arrive as a better version of yourself.

You can simply arrive as you are.

🧡

17/08/2026

Where Messy Humans Belong — Sunday 30th August.

We’re gathering for a few hours overlooking the estuary tides.

Not a retreat.

Not a workshop.

Not another opportunity to become a better, more healed more spiritual version of yourself. 😂

Just some time together to practise being ‘here’.

We’ll move.

Breathe.

Be still.

There’ll be asana, pranayama, relaxation and meditation.

We’ll drink tea.

Share a light meal made with produce from the garden.

Gather around the fire.

Chant a little mantra.

Sit with a question.

Talk, perhaps.

Be quiet, perhaps.

And see what’s here.

You don’t need to be good at yoga.

You don’t need to be calm.

You don’t need to arrive feeling particularly spiritual.

You don’t even need to be having a good day.

2pm–around 7pm
Or whenever we’re ready to leave the fire.
Overlooking the Dee Estuary,
nr Kirkudbright.
£50
Maximum 10 people

I’m keeping it small because I’m feeding you — and because this is Scotland, so there’s every possibility all 10 of us will need to fit inside. 🌧️😂

If you’d like to come, send me a message and I’ll send you the payment details.

Your place is confirmed when payment is received.

Full directions will be sent before the gathering, and lift sharing can easily be arranged.

Messy humans welcome. Obviously. 🧡

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