Autumn 2025 Yoga & Pilates Classes

🧘‍♀️ Chair Yoga: A Gentle Path to Nervous System Balance

Chair yoga offers a powerful yet accessible way to support nervous system regulation, especially for individuals with limited mobility or those new to yoga. By combining mindful movement, breathwork, and gentle stretches—all performed while seated—chair yoga activates the parasympathetic nervous system and promotes the relaxation response, helping the body shift from stress to calm.

Slow, intentional breathing during chair yoga stimulates the vagus nerve, which plays a key role in lowering heart rate, reducing blood pressure, and promoting relaxation. Movements like spinal twists, shoulder rolls, and forward folds gently release tension stored in the body, encouraging a sense of safety and ease.

For our community, chair yoga can be a valuable tool to foster emotional resilience, improve sleep, and enhance overall well-being. It invites participants to reconnect with their bodies and cultivate inner peace—one breath at a time.  And all this is available in the Recreation Hall in Gullane on a Wednesday at 11:15 to midday, followed by a cuppa.  There is a very similar class at Tantallon Court in North Berwick on Fridays at 12:15, without the cuppa and also in West Barns Village Hall on a Friday at 10:15.  This latter class has a thriving social afterwards and there is often home baking.  

People come in all shapes and sizes.  Yoga comes in all shapes and sizes.  There is a Yoga class just for you so don't give up and consider trying Chair Yoga if you are still trying to find something that works for you and getting up and down off the floor is not quite your favourite thing any more.  

Tuesdays - Pilates - West Barns Village Hall

Nov /Dec Block / 6 weeks / Nov 4, 11, 18, (no class on the 25th), Dec 2, 9, 16 / Block = £54 / £11 drop-in 

09:15-10:15 - INTERMEDIATE PILATES / spaces  

10:30-11:30 - BEGINNER PILATES / spaces

Resumes Jan 

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Tuesdays - Yoga - Haddington 

Nov /Dec Block / 6 weeks / Nov 4, 11, 18, (no class on the 25th), Dec 2, 9, 16

All in the Upper Hall, The Bridge Centre, Haddington

• 5:15pm class (only available to current attendees) / WAITING LIST / Block = £48 / £10 drop-in

• 6:30pm class / SPACES / Block = £54 / £11 drop-in

• Resumes Jan 

Fridays 

Yoga (ladies only) - Athelstaneford

08:30am to 09:30am, please enquire for directions to venue / £10 drop-in per class.  Class is ongoing. 

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Yoga - West Barns Village Hall

10:15-11:15 -HATHA YOGA - Chair Yoga Plus++ - West Barns Village Hall.  Cost = £45 for 6 week pass, £10 drop-in.   Classes are ongoing.  

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Chair Yoga - Tantallon Court, Tantallon Road, North Berwick. 

12:15-1pm - a Chair Yoga class for the home owners at Tantallon Court.  Non home owners are also welcome.  Please contact me to arrange access to the venue.  £5 per class.  Classes are ongoing.  

What and how do I teach Yoga & Pilates

Most of my Yoga classes are Hatha Yoga classes.  Very breath led, functional movement, classic yoga poses but not always done in the most traditional ways.  Lots of options.  

Gentle Hatha Yoga - I will avoid weight bearing on knees and wrists in this class usually.  

Chair Yoga + - in this class every attendee will have a chair as well as their own yoga mat and I teach yoga exercises showing both chair and other versions.  Lots of choices and you don't have to lie on the floor if you don't want to.  

Pilates classes are very fun and functional.  There will be a variety of exercises that honour the Pillars of Pilates and the focus is on mindful movement with lots of interesting and fun progressions.  The aim is to stretch tight muscles and strengthen weak ones.