Yogi Sanctuary

June is often a strange month.
The year isn’t new anymore, summer holidays haven’t arrived yet, and we are running on autopilot.

The diary gets busier.
The days get longer.
Work ramps up.
Weekends disappear.
And somehow we tell ourselves we’ll make time for ourselves later.

When things calm down.
When work eases.
When life feels less hectic.

But what if the thing you need isn’t another item on your to-do list?

What if it’s an hour to move.
To breathe.
To stretch.
To switch off.
To laugh.
To connect.
To remember what it feels like to be with yourself again.

Whether you’re looking for strength, flexibility, calm, better sleep, less stress, community, creativity, friendship or simply a reason to leave the house for an hour, there might be something waiting for you this month.

➡️ Swipe through to see our June classes, clubs, workshops and events.
Your future self will thank you for booking before life gets in the way. 💛

Most of us feel like we don’t have enough energy.
But maybe, we just need to stop scattering the energy we already have.

Our monkey minds and attention are constantly feeding something:
A thought.
A habit.
A worry.
A dream.
A relationship.
A belief.

It can be exhausting.
I know. I spent a good half an hour this morning trying to focus on class writing but instead filling my head with an internal monologue of what I would love to say to my noisy neighbours from hell who are incapable of normal volume speech and whose base line of constant yelling and shouting to each other shows zero consideration for anyone else and makes sitting in our garden pretty miserable (mini rant over sorry ☹️).

Was I focusing on the right thing? Almost certainly not as it yielded no positive results, didn’t get any meaningful classes written and just filled me with stress hormones! What I should have been doing was concentrating on my work rather than fantasising about them moving house.

In yoga the practice of focus is called Dharana. It’s focusing without forcing, without striving, simply learning to place our attention where it matters most. Dharana within the Sutras is within the journey to meaningful meditation, but it can be a useful tool to master for day to day life.

It’s incredibly difficult. Our minds will want to skit away from anything that is hard.
It takes awareness, presence and practice. We need to train our minds like we train our bodies.

Last month in class, through Svadhyaya and our exploration of Samskaras, we became more aware of the patterns shaping our lives.
This month we ask a different question - where do I want my energy to be focused on?

Throughout June we will explore focus not as an intensity but as a gentle returning. A returning to body. A returning to breath. A returning to what matters. We’ll be exploring what happens when we stop trying to do everything and instead become more intentional about where our awareness and energy goes.

✨Because where attention goes, energy flows.

✨June Class Theme: Dharana – the practice of focussed attention and awareness.
Next weeks classes

Too hot to move fast? Your body might be asking for something different.

When the weather is heavy and energy feels low, more intensity isn’t always the answer. Sometimes what we need most is to slow down.

Unwind is your permission to soften.
Slow restorative yoga. Gentle movement. Deep breaths. No pressure. No rushing. No needing to hold it all together.

✨ Calm your nervous system
✨ Release tension and stress
✨ Sleep deeper
✨ Leave feeling lighter, steadier and more like yourself

Because rest isn’t lazy. It’s powerful.
Come and unravel. Your body will thank you. 💛

Creativity isn’t just about making beautiful things.

It slows busy minds. It settles nervous systems. It creates focus, presence and calm.
It invites us away from screens, pressure and endless doing and back into something simple, grounding and deeply human.

Which is why we created MADE ✨

Our new creative club at Yogi Sanctuary brings together mindful workshops designed around creativity, wellbeing and connection.
From sea glass art to pottery, book art to macramé, painting to crochet these are afternoons designed not around perfection, but around slowing down, learning something new and rediscovering the joy of making something with your own hands.

Held in the peaceful surroundings of our beautiful studio, each workshop offers space to breathe, create, chat, learn and simply be. Tea, homemade cake and good company included as standard.

No experience needed.
Just curiosity, openness and a willingness to create.

Swipe through to discover what’s coming →

Places are intentionally limited to keep workshops relaxed and welcoming, so booking ahead is recommended.

Book via our website https://www.yogisanctuary.co.uk/workshops-and-special-events

MADE ✨ Creativity for wellbeing, one project at a time.

Your nervous system is probably overloaded with stimulation and desperately needs space.

Space to slow down. Space to soften. Space to exhale.

Most of us move through life switched on and tied to screens, schedules, noise, notifications, responsibilities.
Our bodies adapt to that pace. Muscles tighten. Breathing becomes shallow. Blood pressure and heart rate rising. Minds stay busy long after the day is done.

This is why practices like Yin Yoga matter.

Unlike stronger styles of yoga, Yin invites stillness. Long held floor-based postures gently work into connective tissue, our fascia, ligaments and joints, helping improve mobility, flexibility and circulation while encouraging your body to shift out of “doing mode” and into rest. Our yin includes padded mats, bolsters, mini bolster so bricks, blocks, straps and blankets. Everything you need to switch off and turn inwards.

Then comes the magic ✨

Floating cocooned in silk hammocks while therapeutic sound vibrations from crystal bowls, gongs and calming instruments wash over you.
Sound can help guide the body towards deep relaxation. The hammock offers gentle support and a feeling of being held — creating space to fully let go.

No rushing.
No striving.
No performing.
Just stillness.
Breath.
Rest.
Tea. Warmth. Home.

Your new favourite Friday evening ritual awaits 💛

✨Friday 29th May 7-9pm
✨Book via the website or app.

Wild Thing looks wild and free when you see it flowing in a sequence but in reality this pose can feel surprisingly confusing.

The body needs preparation, the pose needs setting up correctly and you need to know what goes where or you risk collapsing into it with shoulders jarring, hips falling and not really knowing where your hands, feet and chest are meant to be.

It is a pose that becomes lighter and stronger and more expressive when you understand the body mechanics.

In this workshop we will slow things down and break it all apart :
✨shoulder and hip opening
✨weight transfer and orientation
✨hand and foot placement
✨ how to lift and support the hips
✨ different entries and exits
✨ modifications and variation’s

This is not about achieving the perfect looking pose but about understanding how your body moves, building confidence in your own expressive movement and flow so that Wild Thing feels spacious and supported and strong.

Expect drills, playful exploration, technique, mobility with and plenty of “ooh that makes sense now “ moments

Where the Wild Things Flow
6th June 12-1.30pm £20
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