Kim Woods Yoga

HEART WIDE OPEN
A Restorative Yoga Practice to Break Down the Walls Around Your Heart

At the Studio Bhāvanā (Morland Avenue , Leicester LE2 2PF)
Saturday, 6th December, 10am - 12pm
£ 20

Focusing on gentle, heart opening poses is a wonderful way to help release emotions and
to invite more compassion and love into the heart centre. As you move through each
pose in this deeply healing practice, you’ll be encouraged to take your time, move
mindfully, and pause to feel any shifts in your body, mind, and soul. Being present with
the fullness of your breath, and compassionate with your heart.

There will be time for questions/chat over tea & cake after the class ends.

Everyone welcome 💗

Do you often have headaches, neck ache, or tension in between the shoulder blades, lower back or buttocks? Is it difficult to release that tension? Then this workshop is for you!

A Yin Yoga and Self Massage Workshop
With Kim Woods

Yin with Balls and Blocks – to stretch and massage tension away.

This two-hour workshop combines yin yoga poses and self-massage techniques to relieve tension in your body and your mind.

Using 4 tennis balls, 2 socks and a block you will release muscular and fascia knots (this practice is also known as myofascial or deep tissue release) in the neck, upper and lower back and buttocks. We start at the neck, using a block to stimulate the area just below the skull. This helps to diminish headaches, neck stiffness, shoulder and back pain. We continue with Yin poses, using tennis balls to stimulate the area in between the shoulder blades, lower back and SI-joint, finishing at the buttocks.

Surrender, let go, see tension melt away.
All the poses are adaptable with the use of props, so the workshop is ideal for those new to yoga as well as seasoned yogis. All props provided. Cuppa/cake after class.

DATE: Friday 28th November 2025
TIME: 9.30am - 11.30am
LOCATION: Studio Bhāvanā, Morland Avenue, Leicester, LE2 2PF
COST: £20 (KWY Members £16)
BOOK NOW:
Email [email protected]

HEART WIDE OPEN
A Restorative Yoga Practice to Break Down the Walls Around Your Heart-

At the SPACE to BREATHE (Hotel Street, Leicester)
Saturday, 22 November, 1.30-3.30pm
£ 20 (20% discount for Space to Breathe unlimited members)

Focusing on gentle, heart opening poses is a wonderful way to help release emotions and
to invite more compassion and love into the heart centre. As you move through each
pose in this deeply healing practice, you’ll be encouraged to take your time, move
mindfully, and pause to feel any shifts in your body, mind, and soul. Being present with
the fullness of your breath, and compassionate with your heart.

There will be time for questions/chat over tea & cake after the class ends.

Everyone welcome, book now

Saturday 22nd November Restorative Yoga Workshop with Kim - £16 for unlimited members/£20 non members

1.30 pm - 3.30 pm

Heart Wide Open

A Restorative Yoga Practice to Break Down the Walls Around Your Heart

Focusing on gentle, heart opening poses is a wonderful way to help release emotions and to invite more compassion and love into the heart centre. As you move through each pose in this deeply healing practice, you’ll be encouraged to take your time, move mindfully, and pause to feel any shifts in your body, mind, and soul. Being present with the fullness of your breath, and compassionate with your heart.

There will be time for questions/chat over tea & cake after the class ends.

It's a pleasure to host one of Kim's wonderful restorative immersions again on Saturday 22nd November. Bookings at www.spacetobreathecollective.co.uk Kim Woods Yoga

A Yin Yoga and Self Massage Workshop
With Kim Woods

Yin with Balls and Blocks – to stretch and massage tension away.

This two-hour workshop combines yin yoga poses and self-massage techniques to relieve tension in your body and your mind.

Do you often have headaches, neck ache, or tension in between the shoulder blades, lower back or buttocks? Is it difficult to release that tension? Then this session is for you!

Using 4 tennis balls, 2 socks and a block you will release muscular and fascia knots (this practice is also known as myofascial or deep tissue release) in the neck, upper and lower back and buttocks. We start at the neck, using a block to stimulate the area just below the skull. This helps to diminish headaches, neck stiffness, shoulder and back pain. We continue with Yin poses, using tennis balls to stimulate the area in between the shoulder blades, lower back and SI-joint, finishing at the buttocks.

Surrender, let go, see tension melt away.
All the poses are adaptable with the use of props, so the workshop is ideal for those new to yoga as well as seasoned yogis. All props provided. Cuppa/cake after class.

DATE: Friday 21st November 2025
TIME: 9.30am - 11.30am
LOCATION: Studio Bhāvanā, Morland Avenue, Leicester, LE2 2PF
COST: £20 (KWY Members £16)
BOOK NOW:
Email [email protected]

Open Day. This Saturday, 11th October. Free YOGA classes all day.

Happy Shoulders, Neck, Back & Face
A Yin Yoga and Self Massage Workshop - With Kim Woods

Targets deep tension. Calming, meditative. Suitable for all.

Do you want to soften your face and release tension in your shoulders, back and neck? If so, this long Yin session combined with self-massage is for you!

We begin the class with some face yoga and with breathing techniques to release tension in the face, jaw and neck. This will also increase the blood and energy flow into the face, which has an energising and softening effect. We continue to use the breath throughout the practice to remind us to relax the jaw and face and to calm the nervous system down. We'll also practice some gentle movements for the eyes, jaw, neck, shoulders and back; these are followed by long-held, Yin poses to release these areas even more. We end with Savasana using tennis balls to release tension in the upper back.

All the poses are adaptable with the use of props, so the workshop is ideal for those new to yoga as well as seasoned yogis.

If you have time you can stay for a cuppa and cake after class.

Thursday 24th July 2025, 9.30am - 11.30am
Studio Bhāvanā, Morland Avenue, Leicester, LE2 2PF
£15 (KWY Members £12.50)

Restorative Yoga Workshop – Be Still
Anxiety-Balancing Practice - Calming Your Body and Mind
Deeply relaxing, Deeply Healing. Date: Tuesday 22nd July 2025
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Place: Studio Bhāvanā
Cost: £15 (KWY Members £12.50) This restorative practise is designed for anyone who ever experiences anxiety in mind or in body at any time …. all of us? It features face-down restorative poses to ground, calm, and soothe your body and mind.

Conceptual insight is not required for change; in some cases, it actually interferes with it. By working in a body-based realm, we can bypass this mental interference. We can feel rather than think the emotional experiences that heal us. Restorative yoga emphasises relaxation and inner work. Relaxation is important in changing your emotional patterns. Awareness of your direct experience, especially the ability to distinguish comfort from discomfort, will help you deepen relaxation, and balance your body and mind.

Restorative Yoga Workshop with Kim Woods
Deep Rest - Blissful Sleep Saturday 7th June 2025
From 1.30pm to 4pm at The Space to Breathe
£17.50 (20% off for Space to Breathe Unlimited Members)


Restorative yoga can help improve sleep by promoting relaxation and reducing stress, which are common factors that disrupt sleep patterns. By slowing down the nervous system, restorative yoga helps the body transition into a state of rest and calm, making it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep.

This series of restorative poses is designed to soothe your senses and re-set your nervous system enabling better sleep:
-Restorative yoga helps reduce stress by calming the nervous system and promoting relaxation. This can help individuals who struggle with stress-related insomnia.
-Restorative yoga can help shift the body’s nervous system from the “fight or flight” response to the “rest and digest” response, which is essential for sleep.
-By promoting relaxation and reducing stress, restorative yoga can help improve the overall quality of sleep, leading to more restful and rejuvenating sleep.
-Studies have shown that restorative yoga can help reduce symptoms of insomnia, such as difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep.
All props are provided.

There will be time for questions/chat over tea & cake after practice, 3.30pm to 4pm.

YIN YOGA & SELF MASSAGE WORKSHOP
CREATING SPACE This two-hour workshop combines yin yoga poses and self-massage techniques to create space in your body and calm your mind.

Our hectic lives are so often about needing to be somewhere, having to do something and trying to be somebody. Yin yoga affords us the opportunity to stop. During the workshop you’ll discover the numerous physical and mental benefits of relinquishing striving, controlling and aiming for a destination and instead of allowing, letting and surrendering in a pose.

The longer holds and slower pace of the class allows for the stretch to move beyond the muscles and into the connective tissue. Yin works in association with acupressure points from Chinese medicine. This practice is especially useful in easing stiffness and increasing flexibility.

You’ll learn self-massage and ball rolling techniques you can use at home. They are a useful way to continue the practice of releasing muscles and calming the nervous system.

All the poses are adaptable with the use of props, so the workshop is ideal for those new to yoga as well as seasoned yogis.

All props provided.

There will be time to enjoy a cuppa and cake (hopefully in the garden) after the workshop ends. (Any dietary requirements please let me know at time of booking).

Booking is now open. DATE: Thursday 29th May 2025
TIME: 9.30am - 11.30am
LOCATION: Studio Bhāvanā, 3 Morland Avenue, Leicester, LE2 2PF
COST: £20 (KWY Members £16).