Maxine Yoga

Need to move? 🧘‍♀️ Join me on Zoom this evening at 18.30 for a gentle and cooling practice. For all levels. Text privately for Zoom link.

A vital component of asana is the breath, and how we can use breathing to release stress and to strengthen our body and our resolve.

We have the power to work with our breath to:✨Reset ✨Rebalance and ✨ Renew our body’s systems.

Prāṇāyāma means the expansion or extension (āyāma) of the breath (prāṇa).

This experience is embodied, and we get to self regulate its beneficial effects from within.

Newcomers welcome✨

Greetings from my yoga deck in the heart of the great outdoors of Cornwall this week. ✨

All Classes resume back in the London studio and online next week Aug 18. ✨

🪷 Join me for two Summer Break classes

One gentle flow session each week over the next two weeks.

🪷Gentle Yoga Flow for All

Free yourself from stress. Begin with movement to help reset your central nervous system and enter a space of inner calm.

Tuesday 4 & 11 August, 18.30
✨ ONLINE only

I look forward to meeting on our mats in person again soon.

Please text me privately for the Zoom link.

Back to our usual in person / zoom schedule from Tuesday 18 August.

I’m teaching from idyllic Cornwall. This was just before my morning practice today. Can you believe they’ve built a yoga deck since we were last here? It feels like it was waiting for us! 😊🙏.

Join me online tonight at 5:00 pm for an hour of Jewish Mindfulness and Meditation (JMM) as we welcome in Shabbat.

Experience an embodied, spiritually grounded practice rooted in the principle of kavanah (intention and presence).

Together, we will enter the spirit of Shabbat through breath, meditation, reflection, and mindful presence.

Zoom link:
https://zoom.us/j/977611369?pwd=dE93d2xxSCt0VzNMVklCODhOaUtEdz09

Meeting ID: 977 611 369
Passcode: 035091

Kabbalat Shabbat with JMM continues as a monthly online gathering.

First Friday of each month
5:00 to 6:00 pm
Free of charge, open to all

We look forward to welcoming you as we pause, breathe, and enter Shabbat with intention and presence. ✨

Sessions are led on alternate months by Maxine Levy and Mika Hadar-Borthwick.

About the teachers:
🕊️ Maxine Levy is a senior yoga teacher and co-founder, with Mika, of JMM at Alyth. She specialises in therapeutic yoga, pranayama (breathwork), and Jewish mindfulness, blending ancient wisdom with accessible, healing practices.
🕊️ Mika Hadar-Borthwick brings a rich background in Hasidic healing, the Alexander Technique, subtle yoga, and psycho-physical integration. Her work is rooted in spiritual embodiment and contemplative practice.

Dear friends,

This Wednesday I’m excited to be offering a fun yoga class full of cooling restorative practices. Hot weather it may be but get excited .. very cool yoga awaits! 🧘‍♀️ *Summer Evening Yoga* 🪷 Unwind with an evening flow on the (weatherproof!) JW3 Beach. Find some calm and mindfulness amidst the hustle and bustle of Finchley Road. Suitable for beginners.

👉 Tickets: https://www.jw3.org.uk/whats-on/young-jw3-beach-yoga-evening-flow-4663

My home, with this splendid view, is also my yoga studio and Zoom room this week. Taking a daily moment to reset, especially in this crazy world, is a no brainer, right? Yoga was designed as a self practice, a way to connect to yourself, in both body and mind.
It can be challenging to practise yoga from home, whether that’s self practice or joining a Zoom class. It’s totally understandable. Sometimes it’s simply not an option logistically, but many other times the biggest obstacle is the mind. It takes intention to use one space for a different function.
A small adjustment is needed and that includes your mindset as much as moving any furniture.

Maxine’s London classes are online and in person.
Suitable for all levels
Tuesdays 18:30 to 19:45
Wednesdays 9:30 to 10:45 (UK time)
DM for details

Bring in the sun ☀️

We are all solar beings. We have a solar plexus for a reason — when we recharge, we feel energised. Let the light flow in and notice how your mood and energy can shift.

This photo is from the Home Studio after my self-practice this morning 🌿
I hope it’s as sunny and fresh where you are 🙏🌏

Join us this week for yoga at the Alyth Studio, London. Classes run weekly both online and in person through to summer:

🧘 Tuesday 18:30–19:45 — General Yoga
🧘 Wednesday 09:30–10:45 — Gentle Yoga
🧘 Wednesday 11:15–12:15 — Mellow Chair Yoga & Meditation (online only)

✨ Take a pause in your week to unwind, move your body, and feel the difference
✨ We’ll explore a blend of movement, breath, and stillness to support energy, strength, stability, and balance
✨ I’ll guide you step by step, with plenty of options to suit every body
✨ Message me privately with any updates or questions so I can support your needs
✨ Let me know if you’re coming so I can prepare mats accordingly

Nothing flourishes without the right nutrition and living conditions, humans included. Have you noticed that you are the same?
Spending quality “you time” on your mat — moving, breathing and letting go of what you don’t need with conscious awareness and intention — shows you time and again how yoga brings together all the elements you can directly access from within to support your return to total wellbeing.

Yoga is an ‘inside job’. It is a lived experience.
You may not be able to control everything around you, but you can learn to self-regulate and gently recondition your internal environment, helping you return to a healthier, more balanced ‘you’.

What a revelation that a simple 75 minutes on your mat in class together can change how you live :)
After all, what are your living conditions, if they are not in essence, a physical expression of how you inhabit your body😊

🧘Join Tuesdays at 18:30 and Wednesdays at 9:30 & 11.15 London time for a total reboot and recharge.

London Classes. Online and in person. Open to all.

🧘 Tuesday 18:30–19:45 — General Yoga
🧘 Wednesday 09:30–10:45 —Gentle Yoga
🧘 Wednesday 11:15–12:15 — Chair Yoga (online only)

🧘 WhatsApp for details: +447957270899






kaivalyadham

🇮🇳 Greetings from the ashram. This is a (not-so-great) selfie I took this morning with my teacher of 25 years, and Head of the Kaivalyadhama Institute (Kdham.com), Sri O. P. Tiwari.
His teacher was Mahatma Gandhi’s teacher. Yes, really.
It’s deeply inspiring to be here, and to dedicate time to immersing myself in practice.
Kaivalyadhama is a hugely important centre for India and internationally, with ongoing research into the scientific and therapeutic benefits of yoga, as well as its philosophical roots and original sources.

🇮🇳 It’s very nourishing for mind body and spirit to be here 💫

🙏I hope you’ll join me this evening online, 18:30–19:45 for a regenerating reset to balance mind body and breath.

💫 Classes for the next three Tuesdays are open to ALL. �💫 Message me directly for links. �
DETAILS�🗓 Dates: 27 January, 3 February & 10 February�⏰ Time: 18:30 – 19:45
✨ Gentle, deeply rejuvenating active classes�✨ If you miss a live session you’ve booked, you’ll receive the recording�✨ Or order recordings to enjoy in your own time �✨ £45 for all three classes or £17 per class / recording