Yoga for real life - guided by movement, breath, and presence.
I'm Jocelyn, a yoga teacher and doctor, offering welcoming classes in Oxford and online to help you move, breathe, and feel more at home in your body.
Here’s what we did in class — save it for your next home flow.
A combination of breath, balance and strength.
Take what you need for your practice 🤍
Here’s what we did in class — save it for your next home flow.
Move with your breath, take what you need, and let the shapes meet you where you are today.
Warrior 3 can feel hard because it’s not just a balance pose.
It asks for strength, control, focus, hip stability, core engagement, and a surprising amount of patience from the standing leg. Casual.
So if Warrior 3 feels wobbly, awkward or impossible right now, you’re not doing anything wrong — it just helps to build towards it in stages.
Save this one for your next practice, and remember: wobbling is not failure. It’s feedback.
Have a yoga question you’d like me to answer? Comment below or DM me for a future Ask Joce! 🤍
One of the most common misunderstandings in downward dog is thinking your heels need to touch the floor and your legs need to be completely straight.
For a lot of people, forcing that shape pulls the spine out of it and shifts the pose away from what is actually helpful.
A small bend in the knees and lifted heels can give you more space to lengthen through the back, keep the hands grounded, and send the hips up and back more clearly.
So if your knees are bent in downward dog, that does not mean you are doing it wrong.
It may simply mean you are working with your body rather than trying to force a version of the pose that is not serving you.
The shape does not need to look a certain way to count.
What matters more is whether the pose is doing what it is meant to do.
Bit of a core focused flow for this class - side planks, crunches and boat (all with options of course!) 🤍