Yogashona

However you’re arriving, you’re welcome here.

People come to yoga for all sorts of reasons.

Maybe you want to stretch and move your body.

Maybe you’d like to feel stronger.

Maybe life is full-on and you’d quite like an hour where nobody needs anything from you.

Maybe you want to breathe, rest or meditate.

Maybe you’re curious about yoga beyond the physical practice.

Maybe something in your life feels difficult and you’re looking for support.

Or maybe you don’t have a particularly profound reason at all. 😂

You don’t need one.

My own practice has changed enormously over the years. It’s taken me into meditation, mantra, philosophy, self-enquiry and some fairly deep questions about what it means to be a messy human.

Yours doesn’t have to.

Your practice doesn’t have to look like mine. It just has to become your own.

Some days that might mean exploring something deeply.

Some days it might mean stretching, breathing and having a lovely long lie down.

Both belong here.

You don’t need to be flexible.

You don’t need to be spiritual.

You don’t need to know how to meditate.

And you don’t need to arrive wanting anything more from yoga than whatever brought you through the door.

Come for your own reasons.

You’re welcome exactly as you are. 
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Hi, I’m Shona.

I teach yoga, meditation and embodied practices, offer individual support, and create spaces where people can slow down enough to notice what’s actually here.

I’ve been practising and teaching for years, but my relationship with yoga hasn’t stayed still.

My own experiences of anxiety, addiction recovery, motherhood, neurodivergence, striving, self-improvement and spiritual searching have gradually changed the way I understand the practice.

I spent a lot of years trying to get somewhere else.

Better. Calmer. Fixed. Healed. More confident. More together.

Eventually I became much more interested in what happens when we stop treating the person who’s already here as a problem to solve.

That understanding runs quietly underneath everything I offer.

But you don’t have to come to me looking for deep personal enquiry.

Sometimes yoga is simply an hour to move, breathe, stretch, strengthen and rest.

And that’s enough.

Sometimes something deeper asks for our attention.

There’s room for that too.

I work with movement, breath, meditation, mantra, yoga therapy, self-reflection and honest conversation. Different practices suit different people at different times.

I’m less interested in performing yoga correctly or chasing a particular state, and more interested in helping you meet your actual experience with a little more curiosity.

My role isn’t to tell you who you are or what you should want from your practice.

It’s to meet you where you are and work from there.

You get to come for your own reasons.

I’m glad you’re here. 
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