Yorkshire Yoga & Therapy Centre

We hope you and your loved ones are all well and coping reasonably with life at the moment. It’s a very challenging time in many ways.

Firstly, it remains our intention to reopen the centre. This will be done in due course at an appropriate time, in line with guidance and good practice and when safe  to do so. It isn’t possible to say when this will be yet. Suitable distancing and hygiene measures will be in place as/when the studio opens. As the studio is a self contained unit, with planning and care, we think it will be possible to adapt and operate in a safe manner when the time is right.

In the meantime the following is underway:

Trustees are proactively working on a new business strategy to adapt Yorkshire Yoga to suit the changed world we now all find ourselves in for the short term and beyond.

Grant applications are being submitted to hopefully access funding to support the centre and to enable students to join/participate/continue to attend who are unable to self fund attendance.

A skill review of Trustees and staff.

New/ additional Trustees, volunteers and staff appointments are planned to strengthen and positively progress the centre

A review and analysis of the views and wishes of our tutors and students is planned. Constructive, honest feedback will be very helpful to us in helping us plan and successfully reopen.

Setting up online classes

Staffing

Centre Manager,  Chris is on furlough at the moment. He and his wife recently welcomed a second daughter into their family.

Admin Assistant, Cara will not return to work at Yorkshire Yoga. She is safe and well, with her family at home.

Moving Forward

Yorkshire Yoga was in a great position this spring. There was a strong broad timetable, new classes and tutors due to start, student numbers and income were steadily increasing month on month, we had increasing publicity/social media/local community awareness and some exciting new strong links and partnership work was planned with local key health organisations. Sadly this has all been paused, for the time being. We hope however to adapt and move forward again, having taken stock of our strengths and weaknesses, found ways to work with the new opportunities the changed landscape around us is providing. We hope to restart all the good things we were doing and had in the pipeline.

It remains clear to us that there remains a strong need and wish for a Knaresborough based health and wellbeing centre, accessible to all, providing exercise, holistic therapies, support, friendship and connection, for members of the local community and wider afield. The importance of good health can never be underestimated as we all currently appreciate now more than ever.

We hope you will be part of the next chapter for Yorkshire Yoga and look forward to seeing you again soon.

Please check in again for further news and connect with us on Facebook to support us and see new updates/links to online classes.

Mindfulness meditation is a way of paying attention to, and seeing clearly whatever is happening in our lives. It helps to reduce stress as well as to develop more focus and mental clarity. It has a beneficial effect on our working practices and relationships.

We are running a new eight week introduction course starting in February this year.  For more information and booking please click here…

We are really pleased to announce that Yorkshire Yoga has secured funding to allow us to support unemployed people into securing work, improving confidence and accessing further education.

The ESF Community Grants programme is funded by the European Social Fund and Education and Skills Funding Agency and we are offering specialist support to help people move on with their lives in 2020.

For more information please get in touch or click here to find out more…

We are pleased to announce a new yoga session for Mums to Be…

Pregnancy yoga safely adapts classic poses which help prepare your body for labour and birth by helping to build strength, stamina and confidence in your ever changing body. You can join us anytime from 14 weeks and practice right up to your baby’s birth. You also get to be part of a supportive network of pregnant women during this wonderfully exciting time.

Absolutely no previous yoga experience is required. You can join from the beginning of your second trimester (around 14 weeks) and are welcome to come to class until your baby is born. It’s lovely also to have post-birth Mums visit the class with their newborns and tell their birth story.

Click here for more information