Yes. You don’t need to know the names of poses, understand Sanskrit, own yoga clothes or know what you’re doing before you arrive.

Being new is enough.

My classes are deliberately small, which gives me the opportunity to teach the people who are actually in the room rather than teach a sequence and expect everyone else to fit themselves around it.

Yes. You don’t need to know the names of poses, understand Sanskrit, own yoga clothes or know what you’re doing before you arrive.

Being new is enough.

My classes are deliberately small, which gives me the opportunity to teach the people who are actually in the room rather than teach a sequence and expect everyone else to fit themselves around it.

Yes.

Flexibility isn’t an entrance requirement for yoga any more than being strong is an entrance requirement for going to the gym.

You also won’t hear me announce, “If you can’t do this, do this instead.”

My teaching is prop-first. We can begin with support – a brick, bolster, chair, wall or another version of the movement – and explore from there. There doesn’t need to be one “proper” version of a posture that everybody is trying to achieve.

There isn’t really a useful way of being “better” at what we’re doing.

Someone beside you might have practiced yoga for twenty years and be able to put their leg somewhere spectacular. They still can’t feel what’s happening inside your body.

That’s your part of the practice.

No.

A yoga practice doesn’t become legitimate because it happens on a rectangular piece of rubber.

We can use a mat, chair, wall, standing practice or combinations of these depending on what’s appropriate for you.

Yes. There is always a chair available.

You can also move between a chair, standing and the floor rather than choosing one way of practising for an entire class.

Yes. Chairs, bolsters and yoga bricks are available in class.

I teach prop-first rather than waiting until somebody appears to struggle before introducing support.

Yes – and you don’t need to lose weight before beginning.

A larger body can change how certain positions feel and how different parts of the body meet one another. That’s useful information, not a failure to perform the pose correctly.

We work with the body that’s actually practising.

Tell me if you’d like to, but you don’t need to demonstrate difficulty first.

We can use chairs, walls and props, reduce transitions between standing and floor-based practice, or keep your practice away from the floor entirely.

Yes.

And you don’t need to become unusually still, quiet or neurotypical-looking in order to do either.

Yoga and meditation involve attention, but attention does not always look like stillness.

Rather than promising that one environment will suit every autistic person, I’d prefer to give you information and let you decide.

You are welcome to contact me before booking by email or WhatsApp, or we can arrange a phone conversation. We can talk about the room, lighting, music, class structure, sensory considerations, communication or anything else that would help you assess whether the class could be a fit.

You do not need to disclose a diagnosis to ask for something you need.

Yes. This is a stim-inclusive room.

Bring your stim toys if you use them. There are also items and props available in the room.

If you suddenly need to move during meditation, change position, rock, fidget, open your eyes or otherwise respond to what your body is telling you, you can.

You don’t need to suppress a regulatory behaviour in order to look like you’re “doing yoga properly.”

You can always change position, use a prop, move to a chair, stim, rest or stop.

One reason I deliberately keep classes small is that I can pay attention to the people in the room. Sometimes I may notice discomfort and quietly offer another possibility.

I won’t always know what you’re experiencing internally, though. You never need to wait for me to notice or give you permission to change what you’re doing.

We can also talk discreetly during or after class if something isn’t working.

Yes, although “yoga helps anxiety” is too simplistic an answer.

Some people find movement, breathing practices and meditation supportive. Some practices can also feel uncomfortable or activating, particularly when you’re already anxious.

You will never be required to close your eyes, continue a breathing practice that makes you dizzy or uncomfortable, or stay in a position because everybody else is still there.

Depression does not disqualify you from a yoga class, and if you can make it (full acknowledgement of the challenge of this during hard times here), your mat awaits.

Yoga can form one part of someone’s wider wellbeing or healthcare, but I don’t present yoga or meditation as a replacement for appropriate mental-health treatment.

There may also be days when getting yourself to a class is enough. You don’t have to arrive energetic, positive or “ready to work on yourself.”

Taking medication does not automatically prevent someone from practicing yoga or meditation.

This includes commonly prescribed SSRIs and MAOIs.

I also have lived experience of practicing yoga and meditation while taking sertraline, citalopram and escitalopram. That doesn’t make me the person to advise you about your prescription, but it does mean medication isn’t an unusual or uncomfortable subject here.

Your medication and health circumstances are individual, though. I won’t advise you to alter or stop prescribed medication, and questions about your prescription belong with the clinician or pharmacist responsible for your care.

ADHD medication doesn’t automatically exclude you from practising either.

Things such as hydration, temperature, dizziness, heart rate and how you’re feeling on a particular day can all be relevant to physical practice.

I also have lived experience of practising yoga and meditation while taking both ADHD medication (Vyvance and Concerta XL specifically). That doesn’t make me the person to advise you about your prescription, but it does mean medication isn’t an unusual or uncomfortable subject here.

Your medication and health circumstances are individual, though. I won’t advise you to alter or stop prescribed medication, and questions about your prescription belong with the clinician or pharmacist responsible for your care.

Usually, yes.

You do not automatically need to stop practising yoga because you’re menstruating.

You might, however, want something completely different on day one of a painful period than you wanted a week earlier. Your practice can respond to that. The style of yoga I teach actively invites you to notice what your body is telling you and make choices accordingly.

This is a hot-water-bottle-friendly space. If lying on your belly, particular movements or certain positions don’t feel comfortable that day, I’ll offer alternatives wherever possible. You are always welcome to use extra props, rest, change position or opt out of something entirely.

You don’t need to push through discomfort to keep up with the class. Making the practice work for the body you’re actually in that day is part of the practice.

Yes.

And things such as temperature, sleep, energy, balance, joint comfort and simply how you’re feeling that day can influence what practice feels useful.

You don’t need to hide those experiences from the room or push through them to complete the planned practice.

Pregnancy deserves informed, appropriately trained support. At this time, I am not specifically trained to work with pregnant people, so I won’t advise you to attend my general classes during pregnancy or attempt to adapt the practice beyond my current scope of training.

What I can do is help you find someone who is. I have a rich network of yoga teachers and other wellbeing professionals, including practitioners with specialist pregnancy training, and I’m very happy to refer you to someone who can support you safely and confidently during this stage.

Please feel free to get in touch – you don’t need to figure out where to go next on your own.

There isn’t one number of weeks that’s right for every person or every birth.

Current guidance recommends a gradual return to physical activity after childbirth, taking into account your recovery, the type of birth you’ve had and any complications. Gentle activity may be appropriate quite early for some people, while returning to more demanding exercise can take considerably longer.

Recovery after a vaginal birth, Caesarean birth, assisted birth or pregnancy and birth complications can all look different. Rather than using an arbitrary countdown, we’ll consider where you are in your recovery and what guidance you’ve received from your healthcare team before deciding whether returning to class is appropriate.

If you’re unsure, please get in touch before booking. I may recommend speaking with your GP, midwife, pelvic health physiotherapist or other maternity healthcare professional first.

You might be in the minority as my yoga classes often have more women than men, but you won’t be intruding on a women’s space here.

You don’t need to be flexible, know anything about yoga, or come with someone else. Whatever has brought you to class, you’ve booked your place and the space is yours too.

No.

You don’t owe me (or anyone) information about your gender, body or medical history simply to attend yoga. I use gender-neutral language wherever possible in my teaching, and I’m always open to being corrected if I get your name or pronouns wrong, or to using a different name or pronouns if these change.

If something connected with your transition affects how you’d like to practice – comfort, movement, surgery recovery, medication, binding, energy or anything else – you’re welcome to talk to me privately if you want to. You only need to share what feels relevant and useful for your practice.

My aim is to give you options and space to make choices about your own body, without asking you to explain or justify those choices.

Yes.

Not as a special class or marketing category. As people coming to yoga.

No.

Eyes open, closed, softly focused somewhere in the room – all are legitimate possibilities.

Stop.

You don’t need to wait until I offer Child’s Pose, and you don’t need to explain yourself.

It depends on what you’ve signed up for.

Regular classes don’t come with homework or an expectation that you practise between sessions. Coming to class can be enough.

Some courses or programmes may include optional or recommended practices between sessions to support what we’re exploring together. If that’s part of what you’re booking, it will always be clear beforehand.

Either way, the intention is to create practices that can fit into real life, rather than give you another thing you’re supposed to be doing.

The practice space is phone-free as standard other than using my phone to play music.

There can, of course, be reasons someone needs access to a phone – caring responsibilities, medical or accessibility needs, being on call or simply something happening in your life. Talk to me and we’ll work around it.

No. Students are not currently photographed or recorded as part of my classes.

I am also not currently recording my teaching.

If I ever record myself teaching for training, supervision or feedback purposes, I will tell everyone explicitly beforehand and arrange it so students are not being recorded.

Your presence in a yoga class is not consent to become somebody’s content.

Not currently (27 September 2026)

Yes. I’d love to.

You don’t need a spare room, beautiful yoga corner or even enough floor space for a mat before you’re allowed to have a home practice.

We can look at the space and life you actually have.

That could mean showing me photographs of your space, walking me through it on a video call, or working together one-to-one to find practices that genuinely fit.

Maybe you have children. Maybe you’re caring for somebody. Maybe you work twelve-hour days. Maybe you’re regularly travelling. Maybe there is nowhere in your home that stays quiet for twenty minutes.

The question isn’t, “How do we make your life accommodate yoga?”

It’s “How can the practice accommodate your life?”

Yes.

One-to-one work can look quite different depending on what you’re looking for. It might involve movement, yoga, meditation, reflection, building practices into your life or simply figuring out where to begin.

My background also includes wellness counselling and coaching, so I don’t assume movement is always the thing somebody needs.

No.

I’m interested in the things that already make you feel more like yourself.

That might include books. It might include music. It might be movement, rest, a television series, a film, creativity, getting outside or something we haven’t identified yet.

I’m not talking about replacing healthcare with a playlist.

I’m talking about asking useful questions like: What music do you love? What book helped you understand yourself? What reliably brings you back into your life?

From there, we can explore what actually supports you.

Potentially, yes.

I don’t believe your yoga or wellbeing practices need to exist in a separate universe from the rest of your care.

With your explicit consent and where it is appropriate within my professional scope, I am open to communicating with professionals already supporting you – whether that’s your GP, counsellor, physiotherapist, fitness professional or another practitioner.

Sometimes the most useful thing I can do is also recognise when something belongs with one of them rather than with me.

If more joined-up support would be useful, talk to me. We can explore what that could look like and whether a tailored one-to-one package would be appropriate.

The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit root yuj, meaning to yoke, join or unite. Originating in ancient India, yoga is a much broader tradition than the physical postures we often associate with it today.

One influential classical framework is found in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, which describes eight limbs of yoga: yama (ethical restraints), niyama (personal observances), asana (posture), pranayama (breath practice), pratyahara (turning the senses inward), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation) and samadhi (absorption).

So, while the physical poses are certainly yoga, they are only one part of a much wider tradition concerned with how we move, breathe, pay attention, relate to ourselves and others, and experience being human.

Further reading:
https://yogainternational.com/article/view/the-role-of-the-eight-limbs-in-contemporary-yoga-practice/

https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/philosophy/8-limbs-of-yoga/eight-limbs-of-yoga/ 

Meditation isn’t one single technique. It’s a broad family of contemplative practices that intentionally work with attention, awareness and how we relate to our experience.

Depending on the practice, you might pay attention to the breath or body, thoughts and emotions, sounds, words or phrases, or awareness itself. Some practices involve stillness; others can involve movement. Meditation also isn’t about successfully clearing your mind. Noticing that your attention has wandered is part of the practice, not evidence that you’ve failed at it.

Of course many people over time have defined meditation but I personally am particularly inspired by meditation teacher and writer Jeff Warren, who describes contemplative practice as a way of deliberately developing how we meet and relate to our experience, with the particular form of the practice being less important than the skills and qualities we bring to it.

Further reading/listening:
https://jeffwarren.org/articles/whatispractice/

https://jeffwarren.org/exploration/rightpractice/

Somatic relates to the body as it is experienced from within, rather than primarily observed from the outside.

The modern field of Somatics was developed by philosopher and movement educator Thomas Hanna, who distinguished between the body viewed from the outside and the soma: our first-person experience of our own living body.

In a somatic movement practice, attention therefore shifts towards what you can actually sense and notice as you move. This might include sensation, breath, effort, tension, ease and familiar movement patterns. Movement may be slower and more exploratory, giving you time to notice how you move rather than simply trying to reproduce a particular shape.

Further reading:
https://feldenkraisinstitute.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/What-Is-Somatics-Thomas-Hanna.pdf

https://www.somatics.com/hannart.htm

Embodied yoga shifts some of the emphasis from what a yoga pose looks like to what you experience while you’re in it.

Rather than trying to make every body reproduce the same external shape, we can pay attention to sensation, breath, effort, comfort and our individual anatomy. The teacher still teaches yoga, but also encourages curiosity, choice and an increasing ability to recognise and respond to the information coming from your own body.

This is central to how I teach at Lost&Found. I’ll teach you the foundations of a pose or movement, while offering different options and the use of props where helpful. I might ask what you notice, invite you to explore a movement more than once, or give you permission to stay somewhere that feels useful rather than automatically progressing to the next variation.

The intention isn’t for you to become better at following my instructions. Over time, it’s to help you become better at listening to yourself.

This approach is strongly influenced by my training in embodied yoga with Irish teacher Laura Wynne and Aruna Yoga, where the emphasis is on teaching the person in front of you rather than imposing a predetermined pose onto their body.

Further reading:
https://www.arunayoga.ie/blogs-for-yoga-teachers/2024/11/what-is-embodied-yoga