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I’m a yogi and yoga teacher offering Vinyasa Flow classes and private tuition to people of all levels including beginners.

Established Senior Yoga Teacher ✦ Inclusive, anatomy-led tuition ✦ Specialist in Yoga for Men, Sport & Athletes ✦ Group, private & corporate sessions ✦ Executive Coach ✦ Focusing on strengthening, heating and balancing poses to awaken muscles and safely challenge the body, with restorative postures to bring the body and mind to a nurturing close. For me, the apex of Yoga is finding strength and confidence, mentally and physically, and is accessible to everyone.

29/10/2026

Riiiiighhhhht? 👊🎧🫠

28/10/2026

Maybe I should be telling you to clean your mat after every use… But if you’re like me, I get home, go see the fam, mat discarded! We’re human 🫠 But our mats still need a clean and half-term-breaks are a great time to do it! 🧼

Here are my YOGA MAT CLEANING TIPS ⬇️

🧽 Sticky mats:
Washing machine, no soap! Simples. Wash + hang it out to dry thoroughly. OR, just use a wet cloth with a really small drop of washing up liquid. Scrub both sides, rinse (shower, hose pipe or power hose all work), then leave to dry fully. Voila.

🧽 Rubber mats: (pictured)
These need a bit more TLC! Genuine rubber is great for grip under your palms, but it’s sensitive to detergent.
❌ No abrasives, no washing up liquid. 
I use a homemade cleaner of:
✨ Warm water
✨ Tsps baking soda
✨ 1 drop essential oil (peppermint, this time).
1️⃣ Spray gently, wipe over.
2️⃣ Wipe over again with a totally clean, damp (not wet) cloth.
3️⃣ Let it dry thoroughly.

‼️ Whatever your mat, WASH BOTH SIDES! When you roll it up, the back touches the front: floor on face. Bah.

Considering a rubber mat? ⬇️
My mat came from a brand that no longer exists. But it’s AWESOME. However, if I were to buy a rubber mat again, I’d get a DARK COLOUR because it’s so natural that dirt clings/is hard to shift.

🧼 Not got time today? Save this + return to it for when the urge hits (or it gets to the point where you won’t put your forehead down, whichever comes first!)

No judgement here folks!

Back on the mat Monday 2nd November.
No mat inspections planned…. 😉

Ps. Spaces available ~ JOIN US!

(Practise with me in a group class, a November WORKSHOP (or two), or your very own 1:1 SESSION. All info in link in bio or just ASK me about it. No salesy-faff. Just the options (🔗🔝)

KateOatesElevateYoga

27/10/2026

Elevate Yoga | Autumn/Winter 2026 Schedule (ie. All the yoga things, refreshed + ready to make the rest of 2026 sing!)

➡️ SAVE THIS so you can find it when the time is right (and I’ll pin it too!) 📌

Swipe through for all the ways to find confidence in your body, health and mobility with me + a yoga mat…

✨ Weekly Yoga ✨
* MON 6:45 - 7:45pm | Familiar Flow Yoga (been before)
* MON 8:00 - 9:00pm | Vinyasa Flow Yoga (All levels/Beginners)
* TUE 9:30 - 10:00am | Brilliant Basic Breathwork (NEW)
* WED 6:45 - 7:30am | Morning Flow Yoga, online (All levels/Beginners)
* THU 7:30 - 8:30pm | Yoga Class for Men (All levels/Beginners)
* FRI 9:30 - 10:30am | Yoga Flow Fundamentals (Beginner focus)
📍 Mon + Thu at CHMC. Tue + Fri at the lovely LUNA WHOLEBEING.

✨ Beyond the weekly ✨
* PRIVATE YOGA | 1:1, pairs or small groups. Your home, garden or online.
* WORKSHOPS | Monthly Sundays. SLOW for stillness, FOCUS for technique.
* EVENTS | Workplaces, wellness events, collaborations. Even 8’ the Comic Relief boardroom, in the L’Oréal warehouse and on a stage up the Shard (they really happened!)

“Absolute diamond of a gal” 🩷

⚡️ Yoga is for every body. Old, young, injured, athletes, total beginners + other teachers. An abundance of energy, a strict policy on safety. I live it, and I love it ⚡️

And this community are FAB 💛

Which one’s calling you? Tell me in the comments, or DM me and we’ll find your fit.

All the info, pricing + booking: 🔗 in bio 🔝
 📧 Newsletter link in bio. 📱 WhatsApp Channel in bio.
🫶🏼 I appreciate SHARES & advocacy, thank you for supporting my business!

Kate x

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I’m a Senior Yoga Teacher based in Cheadle Hulme. 13 years running classes in Cheadle Hulme & London. Trained in Vinyasa Flow and modified Ashtanga, with specialist training in Yoga for Sport & Athletes, Rocket, and Yoga for Pregnancy.

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27/10/2026

One of my yoga clients. Late 60s in age. Those stats are oxygen saturation levels 🫁
Before class, then after.

A year ago his wife talked him into trying yoga. He has scarring on his lungs and breathing takes work. We practise together every week.
On tougher days he brings his oximeter.
Some days, this happens ⬆️

What we work on: → circulation around the torso → stretching the muscles around the ribs → opening the sides of the body → breathing into the back of the body 🫁 (Biology textbook diagrams, BAH! A big share of your lung tissue sits at the back. It’s why ICU teams turned Covid patients onto their fronts).

We need our breathing apparatus to be resilient, stretchy, agile. We cared all of the functions to work optimally. Keep those big pumps pumping!

Breathwork isn’t just exercises. 
It’s movement. Focus. Circulation. 
It’s expanding the tissues.

It’s gently challenging what your body already does naturally, but has learnt to do with minimal efficiency. 
We bring that efficiency back 🫁🫡

Recently this lovely man struggled to breathe on a plane. Did he ask for help? No. (Loving eye roll. He’s a grandad and he wanted three generations of his family home safe!)

What he did do?
“Kate, I sat down and did your breathing. 70%, to 82%. Enough to get home”

Bloody hell.

That’s what showing up every week does! (His wife and I, laughing in shock, and thinking f£, saved his bl00dy life!)

JOIN MY NEW CLASS >>> Starts in a week!

📍DENISE | HAIR | YOGA | HEADSPA | WELLBEING | STOCKPORT | MCR

27/10/2026

THEY SAID WHHAAAAAT?
🎙️ After 6+ months of coaching, I asked him what he’d noticed as a result of the work we’d done. This surpassed my expectations and shows you never truly know unless you ask!

This leader’s words broke my game face (ok who am I kidding, but I grinned!)

The leader I rate is one confident asking for help. Who makes room for others. Whose confidence can be quiet yet positively affect everyone in the room.

Research on psychological safety says when leaders admit what they don’t know, their teams speak up more. Pair that with the confidence you already have in your expertise, and you’re on solid ground. Boom 💥

A great leader often has an authentic confidence that people gravitate towards. But don’t ask me about BELIEF as the foundation of it, because I don’t yet have a slide for that 😆

📸 These are real words from a Head Of / Senior Leader I’m currently coaching, on-site, 1:1, for their own growth, at a stage in their career where feedback is minimal and leaves nowhere to grow.

Im sharing clients’ words (with permission) on the outcomes of our coaching every week for the next 7 weeks / until I run out of slides-I-made-on-Canva. Jokes aside, this is evidence of coaching’s power ~ if there is someone in your world looking for support at senior level for DIRECTION, CONFIDENCE, finding blind spots & being a credible, safe space to deeply THINK, grab me. This is my patch and I adore working with these brilliant people.

‘Space for Leaders’ is my 1:1 coaching for excellent senior experts wanting to grow in their leadership. I’d love to talk about more!

25/10/2026

If yoga teacher had a pound for every time they heard “I’m not flexible enough for yoga”, there’d be a justification for the low pay 😂

May favourite saying is “saying you’re too inflexible to go to yoga is like saying you’re too dirty to take a bath” 🛁 True, right?

If you’re fruits, go to your local class. You might just love it / sleep better / move better / get less injuries / run faster / find a welcoming community / find joy from an hour a week of calm, focus & breathwork 💫

24/10/2026

The pinks in the loo queue were vibrant on the rainiest day EVER and since they wanted to head to Stockport, we had a good time surrounded by allllllll the books, with coffee, computer games, macarons (and a Nutella stuffed croissant for the smallest dude 🥐) and now I have TWO MORE BOOKS from brilliant black authors and so I might add them to the newsletter list….

We’re home and dry. Without pink walls but laden with books 📚

STOCKROOM 👌

Address

Cheadle Hulme
Manchester
SK8

Website

http://www.kateoateselevate.com/yoga, https://KateOatesElevate.as.me/, https://linktr.ee/kateoateselevate, https://www.y

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