kristin.yoga

🌞 What do you get when 8 friends for over 30 years (plus one recent but very special addition) come together for a yoga retreat ?

🙌📚 A summer holiday for the books!

💝 Thank you to .maher88 & friends – we are so grateful for our time together with you, & so grateful to Michael who just keeps on coming back to Peyrounet & bringing all of his great friends! Must build more rooms & a bigger studio!

🌌🌄🌝 We saw kingfishers & heard nightjars… Had visits from the deer, foxes & tawny owls at the pond… Viewed Jupiter & the Galilean Moons through the scope… Swam & kayaked down the Aveyron… Walked the edges & country lanes & took in the most breathtaking sunsets… Visited local villages & landmarks… Practised yoga every day… & very much enjoyed some down time together over meals & in the shade of the big linden tree, including birthday celebrations for Pete. Butterflies, bees, cicadas, moths, stag beetles (so many stag beetles!!), bats, lizards, glow worms… And of course our host with the most, Mr Bear, was alongside through it all & finally seems to enjoy kayaking (he even squeezed in a much-needed snooze) before his cheese feast 🧀👌

🧑‍🎨 A couple of rest days, a few prep days, & on Fri we welcome our Yoga+Art à la Campagne group for one week! Looks like the sun is here to stay… we can’t wait to see you all again & welcome our first-time visitors for what is going to be another fun week in our little corner of Occitanie!

📆 It’s a mostly-full Livestream Class Schedule this week with 26+2 at a slightly earlier time on Sat & with Johnny. is covering R&S on Sunday, & you’ll see .johnny.yoga & for their usual Weds & Sun classes, too.

Wishing you a happy Solstice, a wonderful week ahead,
& of course much time on your mat & in your practice – out in the garden or at the park –
& don’t forget your SPF & to breathe through your nose!

🌞 With Metta & Cool Wishes
K & J xx

👋 Practising this much yoga does make you a little crazy 😉


🙆‍♀️ We just wrapped up our last class of our first 26+2 Yoga Intensive of the summer (two more Intensives & three more retreats to come!) & it has been a wonderful & inspiring five days with four incredible Yogis – Thank You!

📆 We have a few more hours together before they head home & before Bear holds his usual grudge against us, blaming us for making his friends leave!! We’ll see you in classes tonight & through the week, & remember it’s a slightly modified Livestream Class Schedule this Saturday & is covering R&S on Sunday. You’ll see .johnny.yoga & for their usual Weds & Sun classes, too.

Wishing you a wonderful week ahead
& of course much time on your mat & in your practice.

🌞 With Metta
K & J xx

🐝 Le sigh! 😌 So far, summer 2026 is so good! We hope you’ve been enjoying it too.

🌝 We welcome our 1st guests of the summer on Weds for our 26+2 Intensive (cannot wait to see you!) & our friends of the forest are ready to meet & greet – most of them w a babe or two in tow!

🦊🐇🦌 We haven’t managed to capture every spotting – missing are the baby roe deer & the baby hare we spotted last week – but mom & baby fox have been making a nightly visit to the pond – sound on for the sweetest sounds

🪺🌌 Birdhouse is full of blue t**s about to fledge, cuckoo has been visiting the garden (looking for nests to steal!), treecreepers nesting & bats roosting in the studio walls, golden orioles helping to control slugs, had to stop the car & wait for the hoopoe fledglings to clear the lane on our way home from the river, & we heard the churr of a nightjar in the garden last week… exciting to hear nightjar for the first time ❣️

🦋🌳 The linden tree is in full bloom – buzzing all day & all night (‘ommm’) & hundreds of butterflies drinking from the linden blossoms & flitting around scabious in the butterfly field.

🌼 The air is sweet w honeysuckle, mock orange & linden – honeysuckle all over the garden, studio, woodland & hedgerows in full bloom too.

🌄 Sunsets have been off the charts 📈💥

🤦‍♀️ We made the mistake of telling Bear that his ‘friends are coming soon’ & now he won’t venture far from home….

👷‍♂️ Johnny & Cyril are almost finished w rebuilding the barn roof – just a few more roof plaques to fit & then some sealing (tiles coming later in the summer).

💌 Check your inbox for this week’s Mon newsletter
✅ Check yourself in for class tonight & through the rest of this week & next!
📆 Johnny .johnny.yoga teaching Weds, Helen teaching this Fri & next Sun, George teaching Sun, & no Yoga Homework this week but some next week 👌
🙆‍♀️ Join us for 26+2 on Sat at 9.30am – 90 min format w the Intensive Yogis!

🌞 Wishing you a wonderful, yoga-filled week
K & J xx

🏹 “I see only the eye of the bird.” -Arjuna
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🪲 Have you got the yoga bug? We do, too… We’ve had it for a while now & can confirm that it’s our favourite bug… And it’s also highly contagious & can come on without warning‼️ 😉

🤝 Welcome to those of you who have just started your yoga practice with us;
💫 Welcome back to those of you who are getting back on your mat after realising that letting go of your practice wasn’t such a good idea (yeah, we learned that lesson a while ago, too – not doing that again! 😜);
🙌 Welcome – Welcome – Welcome to those of you who are practising more consistently & frequently than ever before! We hope you are enjoying the fruits of your practice 🍓🥝🍇🍒🍑

✨ Keep going with the momentum of your practice – it’s a big promise, but we do promise that you will not be disappointed with what yoga has to offer you.

💌 Check your inbox for this week’s Monday newsletter
✅ Check yourself in for class tonight & through the rest of this week!
📆 Johnny .johnny.yoga will teach his usual on Weds, George will teach his usual on Sun, & Kristin will be with you for all of the above
❣️ Heads Up – next Monday is a modified Bank Holiday Schedule – 26+2 FLOW (60-min format) at 9am ONLY.

🌞 Wishing you a wonderful, yoga-filled week
& an extra sunny Bank Holiday weekend 🙌
K & J xx

💌 This week’s email just landed in your inbox (if you’re on our mailing list, of course!) – a day late because of the Bank Holiday.

🦋 It is a reminder that yoga won’t solve all of our problems, but it sure does go a long way in offering us the space, perspective & clarity to do so.

👉▶️ It is the best ‘reset’ button we know of, & a button that we need to press as close to daily as possible.

🙌 Go on… Push the button!!!

🤔 WHY do you share so many not-yoga-related stories, photos & videos? You might be asking…

🌹☺️ Because they are the little things that remind us of how precious, beautiful & extraordinary life is, even when our problems feel insurmountable & the world is as it is.

🌄 This week’s offerings include more wild orchids, butterflies that have fallen asleep on them, walks & views & my favourite furry grass (no music because the sound of the nightingale in the tree is too magical).

📆 We are already 3X classes in this week & all of the rest of this week’s classes will run as normal. Johnny .johnny.yoga will teach his usual on Weds, George will teach his usual on Sun, & Kristin will be with you for all of the above.

💌 Check your inbox for this week’s Monday newsletter
✅ Check yourself in for class tonight & through the rest of this week & next!

🌞 Wishing you a wonderful, yoga-filled week
K & J xx

🪺🐦‍⬛👩‍🌾🦎🦗🌾🪻🛠️🌄 It’s long walks season, nesting bird season, gardening season, bearded iris season, green lizard season, wild orchid season, jaw-droppingly beautiful sunset season, & big jobs season (new wood store for all of our fallen trees from the storms, & a new barn roof to be built once the old roof is down – hooray for getting rid of the eyesore!).

🤸‍♂️🙆‍♀️🏹 & It’s always yoga season – but PLEASE NOTE that it’s a BANK HOLIDAY SCHEDULE NEXT MONDAY 4th MAY - & those of you who have been missing Hatha Flow as much as we have will have a chance to practice it again then (& maybe next Bank Hol if it goes down well this time around).

🙇‍♀️📖🙇🏻 It’s also very much dialogue season for those of you who are training to teach 26+2 this year with us (& technically it’s still registration season for the TT if you’ve been thinking about it but haven’t pushed the button on it yet…. Consider this your sign! 👉🔘🙌)

📆 Apart from the modified schedule next Monday 4th, all other classes this week & next will run as normal. Johnny .johnny.yoga will teach his usual on Weds, George will teach his usual on Sun, & Kristin will be with you for all of the above.

💌 Check your inbox for this week’s Monday newsletter
✅ Check yourself in for class tonight & through the rest of this week & next!

🌞 Wishing you a wonderful, yoga-filled week
K & J xx

🌞 I know it’s something you’ve all heard from me before….

💫 There is something incredibly special about revisiting the familiar, again & again & again, & finding something new each time.

🌱🌿🪴🌳 Sow the seeds, nurture them, experience the subtle & dramatic shifts, keep returning to see what has emerged.

🌷☀️🍁❄️ Through the seasons, the highs & lows, the rough & smooth… Get to know the layers of yourself through your practice.

👌 Find a practice that works for you & keep returning to it – again & again & again.
🐕‍🦺 For Bear, it’s butt rubs (all the time – does the job!)
🏹 & For us, it’s 26+2.

💌 Check your inbox for this week’s Monday newsletter
✅ Check yourself in for class tonight & through the rest of this week!
📆 Johnny .johnny.yoga will teach his usual on Weds, George will teach his usual on Sun, & Kristin will be with you for all of the above

🌞 Wishing you a wonderful, yoga-filled week
K & J xx

💫 We just realised that, now that we’re both a year older, we’ve both been practising yoga half of our lives!

👌 Consistently – because we know how much easier life is with yoga in it.

❓ Most frequent question in our household: “Are you taking class today?”
🙃 Most frequent response to the question: “YES!!”

😜 Have we ever been inconsistent with our practice? Admittedly yes, but we learned our lesson & we’re not going there again! 😉

💛 Although we can’t do your practice for you, we did make it as easy as possible for you to be consistent with your practice, too.

⏳ Take the length of the class you want to attend, then add 30 seconds to it to get yourself booked in & Zoom loaded on your device, & off you go.

🤔 Then the second most frequent question in our household arises: “Where is it going to land today?”
🙌 And that, Yogis, is the beauty of the great unknown!

💌 Check your inbox for this week’s Monday newsletter
✅ Check yourself in for class tonight & through the rest of this week!
📆 Johnny .johnny.yoga will teach his usual on Weds, George will teach his usual on Sun, & Kristin will be with you for all of the above

🌞 Wishing you a wonderful, yoga-filled week
K & J xx

This week’s shares:
1 – When you register for classes, you too can practice bringing your shoulder to your chin (instant improvement in your standing bow) 🏹
2 – Lilac – gifted by our neighbour Francine 🪻
3 – Hare & Bear 🐇
4 – Bee swarming season 🐝
5 – Baby green woodpecker 🪺🐣
6 – Baby green woodpecker w another hare ☺️
7 – This week’s live-stream class schedule – consider each class an invite from us! 💌

🌱🌷🌿 Spring continues to deliver & we are here for it!

🪺🐦‍⬛🎶🦋🪿🦌🪻🐝 This last week has marked the return of some of our seasonal visitors (& evidence of nesting & hatching in the woodland), as well as visits from some of the residents at Peyrounet as well as our neighbour’s residents. The cattle at Nibouzou (below the viewpoint on our edges stroll) are grazing & nursing their calves & wild orchids are also popping up everywhere, & slightly earlier than usual.

🕗🌄 & Today marks the start of 2026 after-class sunset strolls (exciting!) – those of you who have visited in previous years know how perfect it is to go from class to sunset (or class to dinner to sunset during the summer). We do love a landscape view that leaves us in awe, & we do love Central European Summer Time / British Summer Time!

📣🚜 & In case you haven’t heard: We bought a digger! Hooray for our winning bid in last week’s auction. We hope to welcome it to its new home this week 🤞

😆 Since a few of you have asked “Will there be digger rides?” in reference to our retreat offerings – I mean, why not?! Plus you can save £85 (or more) in our 26+2 Retreat Sale until 12th April 🥳

📆 PLEASE NOTE that the Live-Stream Class Schedule is modified across the Easter Holidays, from this Friday 3rd to Tues 7th April, inclusive. You can still get on your mat with .johnny.yoga on Weds, on Sun & K for the rest – see the Schedule here or check your inbox where you’ll find it in your Mon newsletter 💌

🌞 Wishing you a wonderful week & a peaceful Easter
With Metta
K & J xx