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Yo Yoga Soul Yoga Therapy Hull 🧘‍♀️Neuro- Somatic Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Therapist
📖 Reclaiming voices through Literature
🧠 AuDHD
🍎 29yrs School Educator | School Specialist | Hull

As a full qualified Yoga Instructor and Yoga Therapist (CNHC registered) accredited by the British Council for Yoga Therapy, I can help you to work on relieving specific health conditions, bringing the body into balance, both physically and emotionally. YoYogaSoul also offers Yoga classes in the Chanterlands and Avenues community. We have also developed an effective healthy minds and well-being programme with workshops for Business and Educational staff. We also provide Yoga and Mindfulness for pupils and students in schools and colleges in Hull and the surrounding area. Yoga has been proven to have the following benefits: reduces anxiety and stress; improves fitness, academic achievement and behaviour. Do inquire about our FREE yoga classes.

02/10/2026

I know to my own cost that no one applauds you for healing. In fact, you usually get resentment.

When you are neurodivergent, a survivor of trauma and/or toxic relationships, you are conditioned to keep everyone else comfortable. You mask your pain through performance and shrink your needs just so everyone else can take up space.

But the moment you stop self-abandoning, people get angry because you establish boundaries sending a signal you are no longer conveniently available for their mistreatment.

In my trauma recovery I lost my family, a partner, and friends and it left a quiet, heavy lonely space because my new life had to cost my old one. But honestly, I believe you HAVE to choose the discomfort of self-protection through strong boundaries over self-abandonment.

This exact reality is what drives my Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Therapy.

I do not practice a sweet version of yoga - I use it to reclaim power. We use somatic movement to help you discharge the anger of what you’ve survived, and build an internal fortress so you can finally be the person you fall back on.

The quiet after you clear the toxicity isn’t an empty void—it is your safety. Your doors are open here. 🤍

✨ Click the link in my bio to book a 1:1 Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Therapy session.

Choosing a yoga therapist is a massive decision, especially when you are looking for a trauma-sensitive approach. Safety...
28/09/2026

Choosing a yoga therapist is a massive decision, especially when you are looking for a trauma-sensitive approach. Safety, trust, and feeling completely secure in the space are everything.

That is why I am really glad to share that I am officially registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC).

If you haven’t heard of the CNHC before, they are the independent UK regulator for complementary healthcare. For you, this registration is essentially a massive badge of reassurance. It means an external professional body has thoroughly checked my training, insurance, and ethics. You can step onto the mat knowing that you are working with someone held to strict national standards of safety and accountability.

Getting this registration meant I had to prove that my training meets the rigorous UK National Occupational Standards for yoga therapy. It means I’ve put in the hours studying anatomy, physiology, and how to safely adapt yoga for complex mental and physical needs. I also commit to ongoing training every year, carry full professional insurance, and abide by a strict code of ethics.

I wanted to take these extra steps because you deserve the highest level of care and professional safety on your healing journey.

If you have any questions at all about how trauma-sensitive yoga therapy works or what a session looks like, drop me a DM or click the link in my bio.

25/09/2026

My brain does not do linear. It does deep dives. 🚀

If you are neurodivergent, you know exactly what this feels like. Your thoughts don’t follow a neat, predictable path. They jump around, hyper-focus, connect random dots, and plunge into intense, obsessive research rabbit holes at the most inconvenient times.

For a long time, society tells us this trait is a flaw. We are told we are “scattered,” “obsessive,” or “unable to focus.”

But in the world of true trauma recovery, this exact wiring is my ultimate superpower.

Because my brain naturally thrives on intense, deep dives, I didn’t just stop at standard yoga training. My neurodivergent need to understand the why drove me straight past performative “woo-woo” vibes and directly into the concrete logic of neuroscience, somatic anatomy, and nervous system regulation.

I don’t do superficial “love and light.” I want to know exactly how trauma stores itself in the tissues, how the vagus nerve communicates, and how to build actual, clinical safety for a brain that never shuts down.

If you have a brain that jumps around, overthinks, or feels everything intensely, you don’t need a crowded wellness circle with vague spiritual scripts. You need a practitioner who actually speaks your language.

My private 1:1 clinical space is structured, logical, and entirely safe for your intense, brilliant, non-linear mind. No performance, no judgement —just evidence-based somatic therapy designed for how your nervous system actually works.

My private individual books are open. Click the link in my bio to book a quiet, 1:1 consultation.

23/09/2026

This was me in a career I began in 1997. But in 2016, I walked away from this as a full-time English teacher.

On the outside, I was a high achiever. I was successful. But on the inside, the wheels were completely falling off. I reached a point where I literally could not function normally anymore.

For a long time, I thought I was just failing. But the truth was much bigger: I had hit menopause, and the sudden drop in estrogen completely shattered the masking mechanisms I had used my entire life to cope with undiagnosed neurodivergence and accumulated trauma.

The full-time career box wasn’t broken—I just didn’t fit into it anymore. So, I went self-employed and part-time to build a life that actually respected my nervous system. I’m still here doing that now. It’s a life built on hard won experience.

That massive, frustrating breakdown is exactly what informs my work today as a trauma-sensitive yoga therapist.

I didn’t learn how to regulate the nervous system from a textbook. I learned and trained in it because my own body demanded it for survival.

Because of my journey, my private 1:1 clinical practice is built differently:

🎭 No performance required: You never have to mask, smile, or pretend to be okay in my space.

🧠 No forced vulnerability: We work at the pace of your physical comfort, guided by neuroscience, logic, and structure.

👌 Zero judgement: I know exactly what it feels like when the survival strategies stop working and the mask falls off.

Going self-employed wasn’t just a career change — it was a transition into my most authentic self. And that is exactly what I help my clients do.

If you are a high achiever hitting that exact same wall of burnout, late-diagnosis, or hormonal shift, you don’t need a crowded wellness circle. You just need a safe, predictable container to finally let your guard down.

My private 1:1 somatic therapy books are open. Click the link in my bio to book a quiet, individual consultation.

20/09/2026

Recent television programming and press coverage have questioned the validity of conditions like ADHD and Autism. For the neurodivergent community, this isn’t an abstract editorial debate. It actively fuels public stigma in a society that already struggles to provide reasonable adjustments in the workplace. By framing a medical condition as a “social construct” it can lessen public empathy and make it politically easier to justify tightening eligibility criteria for Personal Independence Payments (PIP). In fact there’s proven under diagnosis of neurological conditions!

Let’s look at the firm institutional evidence:

🧠 The Royal College of Psychiatrists explicitly warns against “invalidating the condition” and states that ADHD is under-diagnosed and under-treated in the UK, particularly among women and girls.

🏥 The NHS formally defines ADHD as a condition where the brain works differently from most people, impacting executive function, sensory processing, and the nervous system.

👩‍⚕️ A wealth of clinical data shows that living without support or adjustments directly leads to high rates of chronic burnout, anxiety, systemic health inequalities and unemployment. It’s also su***de prevention.

When society demands that we constantly mask or operate in a state of high cortisol just to survive the workday, our nervous systems take the hit.

Yoga therapy isn’t about “fixing” a neurodivergent brain— because your brain doesn’t need to be fixed. It is a clinical, somatic tool to help regulate an overstimulated nervous system, release stored trauma, and rebuild a sense of safety in your own body.

We need systemic, reasonable adjustments in the workplace. But while we fight for a less hostile society, we must also care for our physiology.

If you are navigating neurodivergent burnout and need a trauma-informed, somatic space that completely accepts your neurotype, my doors are open. No masking required because I understand from lived experience all the issues us neurodivergents face.

19/09/2026

For decades, we learn exactly how to survive in a world that wasn’t built for us. Like Nadia in What We Do in the Shadows

We practice the social scripts.
We perform the small talk.
We smile, we people-please, and we shape ourselves into the type of person society expects us to be.

We bury so many versions of ourselves just to keep the peace.

But then, menopause hits. The estrogen drops, the chemical mask we didn’t even know we were wearing completely falls apart, and the survival mechanisms stop working.

It is why so many women in their 50s finally hit a wall of late-stage burnout, uncover deep, unaddressed trauma, or finally receive their late-diagnosis for neurodivergence.

And honestly? It’s the best thing that could happen. Because once that forced mask shatters, you realize you have absolutely zero f***s left to give.

I love what writes about how transition belongs to all of us:

“We all develop as we encounter traumas, lessons, and transitional moments that not only shape us, but when we’ve healed, can bring us closer to a shared understanding that our differences unite us. We often aren’t as different as we are led to believe we are. None of us ever become someone else entirely – regardless of how we identify – but nor do we stay the same for ever. We all transition. It’s what binds us, not what separates us.”

True trauma recovery isn’t about fixing yourself so you can fit back into a crowded wellness circle or a performative ceremony.

It’s about letting the old survival structures collapse so your actual, raw, authentic self can finally rise to the surface.

You aren’t broken. You are transitioning into who you were always meant to be.

If you are ready to let the mask fall away in a quiet, structured, and sensory-safe environment, my private 1:1 space is open for you. No social scripts, no forced ceremonies—just actual, science-backed containment for your recovery.

Click the link in my bio to book an individual consultation.

14/09/2026

Let’s be entirely real: I’m a neurodivergent trauma-sensitive yoga therapist, and I struggle to do circles, gong baths, and ceremonies.

For years, I wondered how I could work in somatic healing while struggling to fit into the mainstream wellness scene. Then it clicked. I’m neurodivergent, and the “spiritual wellness” world is an overstimulating minefield. Because I am forced to mask in these spaces just to blend in, it means I am not being authentically me. It’s exhausting and leads to neurodivergent burnout.

Watching the mainstream Yoga industry reminds me of when Nandor the Vampire in What We Do in the Shadows joins a wellness cult. He pulls out his own fangs, wears a pastel tracksuit, and forces a deadpan, agonizing smile just to fit into a neurotypical human world that was never built for him. Vampires are the ultimate neurodivergent metaphor. We hate overwhelming sensory inputs, find human social scripts baffling, and need strict boundaries to survive.

Groups or circles require that I heavily social mask like Nandor and in a couple of cases, I experienced public uncontained trauma-dumping. Traditional wellness spaces to me feel like they operate on highly ambiguous, unwritten emotional rules with the expectation to perform vulnerability, make prolonged eye contact, and match the emotional vibration of the room, something that the autistic side of my brain can’t comprehend.

Like Nandor trying to exist in that wellness centre, for a neurodivergent nervous system like mine, it can sometimes feel like compliance.

Because my brain craves neuroscience, structure, and peer-reviewed reality, I don’t do “vibes.” Because I know what it feels like to have my boundaries violated by the ego-driven, I will never force a client to perform healing. The trauma world needs a lot less performative spirituality, and a lot more real containment.

17/08/2026

🕊️ Safe People vs. Half-Safe People: The Sacred Blueprint My Lodger Left Behind.

Finlay my 25 year old lodger, ‘adopted’ gifted son, and trainee doctor provided me with the ultimate gift: true, trauma-informed care through an unconditional, empathetic presence. It was he who noticed my neurodivergence which allowed me to get my diagnosis.

As he moves out today, he leaves behind a sacred blueprint of how we all deserve to be treated by the world—especially those of us who are neurodivergent and healing from trauma.

Through Finlay, I learned what a truly safe person feels like. More importantly, he taught me a brutal but liberating truth: half-safe people are actually unsafe.

🚫 Why “Half-Safe” is Unsafe:

Half-safe people offer acceptance only when you mask, show empathy only when it is convenient, or treat your neurodivergence like a problem to solve. For a trauma-impacted nervous system, this inconsistency creates chronic hypervigilance. It forces you to keep your armour on.

💎 The Blueprint of a Safe Person:

Everyone needs a Finlay. Here is the celebration of his care and the profound lessons he taught my nervous system:

* Presence over fixing: He sat with me without treating my AuDHD like a crisis to manage.

* Honouring agency: He trusted my ability to navigate my own brain.

* A non-judgmental harbour: I never felt like a burden or “too much.”

* Co-regulation, not correction: A safe energy that allowed me to completely drop the mask, be vulnerable and myself. He’s seen my neurodivergent meltdowns and burnouts and held me within a safe non-judgemental space.

* Validating wholeness: Reminding me that I am not broken and need fixing. The latter is a power imbalance; AuDHD people hate lacking agency.

Finlay set the bar high. By showing me what true safety feels like, he gave me the clarity to filter out toxic, half-safe dynamics instantly.

Thank you, Finlay, for being my safe harbour. I love you so so much. 🤍

How does your nervous system react to “half-safe” dynamics? How do you know when you feel safe? Let’s discuss in the comments. 👇

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