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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 sequencin

g 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.

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?

16/08/2026

GRACE… my bestie ✨🔱🫶

This friendship is nothing short of it.

One of those rare friendships that feels effortless. No striving, no keeping score, no trying to be anything other than exactly who we are.

Just a deep sense of recognition.

In non-dual Ta**ra, grace can be understood as consciousness recognising itself. And I think some friendships are exactly that …mirrors of recognition.

You see me, and somehow I remember myself.

You remind me of parts of myself I’ve forgotten. You challenge me, make me laugh, hold me when life is hard, and somehow make being completely myself feel safe.

And perhaps that’s why some people become our greatest teachers without ever setting out to teach us.

They teach us how to love, how to receive, how to soften, how to be seen.

Some friendships need work, care and tending… and that’s beautiful too.

But there are those rare ones where the connection feels like it was already there, waiting to be recognised.

This friendship is one of those.

Nothing short of grace. 🤍

06/08/2026

What’s it really all about?

“Is yoga a religion?”

It’s a question I’ve been asked many times.

“If I’m Christian, can I practise yoga?”
“If I’m Muslim, can I practise yoga?”
“If I don’t follow any religion, is yoga still for me?”

Yoga has a rich, complicated history. Like all human traditions, it has been shaped by culture, politics, power, philosophy and the people who have carried it through time.

It has been used to liberate.

It has been used to control.

It has inspired profound compassion.

It has also existed alongside social structures that created inequality.

The more I study yoga, the more I believe its greatest gift is not that it gives us answers.

It teaches us how to enquire.

At the heart of yoga is sādhana — the practice of carefully observing ourselves, questioning our assumptions, and slowly aligning our internal stories with reality itself.

It asks:

“Is this actually true?”

Not from a place of judgement.

But from curiosity.

For me, yoga isn’t about adopting a belief system.

It isn’t about replacing one worldview with another.

It is about cultivating the awareness, discernment and compassion to meet ourselves and the world more honestly.

So what is yoga really all about?

…it’s not about becoming more spiritual.

…it’s not even about becoming a “better” person.

Perhaps it’s about becoming more truthful.

More courageous.

More compassionate.

More willing to let go of the stories that no longer serve us.

I’ve written more about the relationship between yoga, religion, history, power and sādhana in my latest article.

You can read the full piece via the link in my bio.

🤍

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04/08/2026

Your greatest qualification as a yoga teacher isn’t how advanced your practice looks.

It’s your willingness to sit.

To observe.

To listen.

To surrender.

Sādhana isn’t about collecting spiritual experiences or mastering complicated postures. It’s the quiet, courageous practice of noticing the stories we tell ourselves, questioning them, and allowing reality to teach us something truer.

Again and again.

As teachers, our personal practice is the ground beneath every class we offer. It shapes our presence far more than any cue, sequence, or playlist ever could.

When we commit to our own sādhana, we become less interested in fixing people and more interested in witnessing them. We create spaces that are non-judgemental, compassionate and deeply human, while also offering enough challenge…tapas, the transformative heat… for genuine growth to occur.

Holding space doesn’t mean making everyone comfortable.

It means being steady enough to stay present while transformation unfolds.

The most impactful teachers aren’t those with all the answers.

They’re the ones who continue to practice.
Who continue to question.
Who continue to soften.
Who continue to surrender.

Your practice isn’t separate from your teaching.

It is your teaching.

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28/07/2026

This weekend, our mantra in our Yoga Teacher Training family was:

“We are not starting a cult.”

Easy to 🤣😆🤭😝😜 at…

I’ve heard too many stories from teacher trainees and practitioners over the years who have been told by other teachers to push through pain, ignore their intuition, accept criticism of their bodies, or stay silent in the face of emotional manipulation because “that’s the practice” or “the teacher knows best.”

That isn’t yoga. That’s an unhealthy relationship to power.

Which is why, in our teacher training, we don’t teach ethics by simply asking students to memorise the yamas and niyamas.

Why?

Because the Yoga Sūtras are one text among many in the yoga tradition, not in the tradition of yoga. They arise from a particular philosophical framework - one grounded in dualism and a specific moral worldview. They’re historically significant, but they’re not the only way to think about ethics.

On my yoga teacher training we instead ask students to think critically…“How do I become a more ethical human and teacher?” By looking outside of the box…

Our ethics curriculum begins with questions, not answers.

✨ Do you understand transference and how can you start tracking it in your relationships…
✨ What is your relationship to authority?
✨ How do you meet difference?
✨ How do you communicate your boundaries?
✨ Who is wellness actually for? Who is implicitly and explicitly welcomed, and who is left out?
✨ What are your preferences and biases?
✨ What projections are placed onto your body because of socially constructed ideas about race?
✨ What support do you need to recognise and work with your own samskaras, rather than unconsciously acting them out?

These aren’t abstract philosophical questions. They shape every class we teach, every adjustment we offer, every interaction we have, and every community we help create.

To me, ethics isn’t about obedience.

It’s about critical thinking. Power. Consent. Self-awareness. Accountability. Humility.

Because the goal of yoga isn’t to produce compliant students who never question the teacher.

The goal is freedom.

And freedom requires that we keep asking better questions.

19/07/2026

To access your new reality, you have to leap.

You have to leave the familiar waters, even when others think you’re crazy for doing so.

You have to release the heavy grip of hesitation, procrastination, second-guessing, and the belief that you have to do everything alone.

Yes, it can feel terrifying.

How will you be safe in the wild, electric pulse of being fully alive?
How will you function without the comfort of playing small?
Who will you be without fear holding you back?

Here’s the truth:

You don’t need to have all the answers before you leap.

Life is wild… but it is also wise.

It awakens you, stretches you, and invites you into the next season of who you’re becoming. Nothing in nature rushes, yet everything unfolds in perfect timing.

You are not separate from that wisdom.
You are part of it.

Trust the process.
Trust your becoming.
And when the moment comes…

Leap.

✨ The life you’re longing for exists on the other side of courage.

Transformation Courage

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