Yoga

At the Lotus Retreat we run weekly yoga classes with a variety of styles and approaches including Vinyasa Flow, Ashtanga, Kundalini and Hatha. Whether you are a complete beginner or an experienced yogi there is something for everyone. Yoga at the Lotus Retreat will bring a deeply nourishing dimension to your week. Our shala is a beautiful, sacred space, class sizes are small and all our teachers offer a personalised, nurturing style of teaching.. During the summer the patio doors can be opened onto the courtyard offering light and air. You are welcome to stay and browsing our India boutique, have a treatment or enjoy our fabulous cafe after your session.

Please contact your teacher directly. Block booking is required for our classes, unless indicated by an * in which case drop-ins are welcome. (Please note there is usually a supplement for drop-ins.)

Class TimeTable

Monday

9.30 - 10.30 am: Mindful Yoga Class with Catherine. All abilities welcome (£12.50)

6.00 - 7.00 pm: Vinyassa Flow with Sara. All abilities welcome* (£12.00)

7.30 - 8.30 pm: Vinyassa Flow with Sara. All abilities welcome* (£12.00)

TUESDAY

7.30 - 9.00 pm: Women’s circle with Rebecca. MONTHLY

WEDNESDAY

6.00 - 7.00 pm: Hatha Yoga with Loueze. All abilities welcome (£12.50)

7.30 - 8.30 pm: Hatha Yoga with Loueze. All abilities welcome (£12.50)

THURSDAY

9.30 - 10.30 am: Mothering circle with Rebecca. MONTHLY

6.15 - 7.15 pm: Slow Flow Yoga with Kini All abilities welcome* (£12.50)

7.30 - 8.30 pm: Tai Chi/ Qigong with Janette. All abilities welcome (£12.00) See Tai Chi page)

FRIDAY

10.00 am - 2.00 pm: Zen Lounge, an untutored relaxing space with the Lotus Cafe.

Saturday

9.30 - 10.30 am: Women’s Mindful Yoga with Catherine. All abilities welcome (£12.50)

12.30 - 1.30 pm: Universal Yoga with Ira. All abilities welcome (£12.00/ £40.00 - 4 week block)

SUNDAY

11.00 - 12.00 pm: Men’s Hatha Yoga with Rod. All abilities welcome (£12.00)

5.45 - 7.45 pm: Reiki Circle with Kathleen. MONTHLY (£20.00)

TEACHERS

Catherine Bailey

Catherine offers a mindful approach to her hatha yoga classes. Integrating breath and body
awareness throughout her class. The morning classes help you to ground, be present with
the moment, rebalance, strengthen and enjoy yoga as a nurturing, healing experience. Leave feeling energised and ready for the day.

Mindful Asana Yoga: (Monday 9.30 - 10.30 am)

Mindful Asana focused yoga class strengthens and creates movement and flow in the body. With breath and body awareness, we mindfully move, stretch and energise. The class includes sun salutations, standing and seated asana and final relaxation, Savasana/yoga nidra. Suitable for practising yogis in the morning and beginners at 6pm.

Women’s Mindful Yoga: (Saturday 9.30 - 10.30 / 11.00 - 12.00 am)

Catherine’s Saturday mornings classes are designed to uplift and improve your wellbeing by strengthening mental, physical and emotional health and creating balance in a natural, holistic way. Mindful Balance also promotes inner peace, helping you to calm the mind and body.

Cost £50 for 4 classes. Try class available. Online live/replay available for missed classes.

Email: catherinebailey.info@gmail.com or telephone: 07825 771154

Universal Yoga with Ira

Wednesday 9.30 - 10.30am & Saturday 12.30-1.30pm

I have been practicing yoga for over 10 years, and for me, it is far more than just physical exercise - it is a transformative tool for the body, mind, and soul. Yoga provides a space to process emotions, reconnect with ourselves, and access the incredible inner resources we all hold within.

My journey with yoga has deepened over the years, especially during the challenging times brought about by the war in Ukraine. Teaching yoga has become my way of offering balance, strength, and peace to others.

I specialise in Universal Yoga, a dynamic and holistic system created by Andrey Lappa. This style focuses on harmonising the body and mind through active asanas, pranayama (breathwork), and mindfulness. It is designed to challenge practitioners of all levels while helping them find alignment, balance, and inner calm.

Join me for a practice that energises the body, calms the mind, and restores the spirit. Together, let’s take a step toward self-discovery and growth.

Email: iralight3@gmail.com

telephone: 07762733023

Katalina Valda

Embodied Wisdom Yoga Flow: Thurdsay 6.00 - 7.00pm

A hatha-vinyasa style yoga class, with the vinyasa part slower paced to allow accessibility for all abilities.

Kini's classes are heart-centered explorations of the self, beginning with pranayama and grounding practices to tune in and find our centre, and with invitations to reflect on emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Her classes are a blend of traditional hatha poses, with a focus on your internal experience of the posture, and slow vinyasa sequences as moving meditation with the breath, the creation of heat to alchemise our experiences into self-empowerment and somatic release exercises to move stagnant energy through the body, making space for innate wisdom to emerge. Classes are also inspired by her connection to the natural cycles of the Earth, the seasons and the phases of the moon; her perspective being we are nature and intrinsically intertwined with the way it is ever-changing and ever-evolving, in this way we can look to nature for deeper truths about our selves and our journey through this place and lifetime. 

£12.50 per class (based on a 4 week block booking) or £14.50 on a drop-in basis. 

For more information, bookings or to contact Kini:

Telephone:  07973 686 454

Sara Coles

Vinyassa Flow: Monday 6.00 - 7.00 / 7.30 - 8.30

Sara has been teaching yoga for over 20 years and is feeling blessed to be teaching students, old and new, at the Lotus Retreat. Sara's core style of teaching is Vinyasa Flow: a dynamic, fluid practice that focusses on creating alignment and balance in the body and the breath. Flowing sequences strengthen, tone and bring balance the body, the mind and the emotions.

Sara teaches with great compassion and intuition - tuning into the needs of her students and drawing on her many years of experience. You can expect Sara's classes to be both gently challenging and relaxing: suiting the needs of her students. 

For more information, bookings or to contact Sara:

Telephone: 07875 009787

Loueze Miller

Loueze is a highly qualified Yoga teacher with over 25 years of teaching experience, having trained and studied both in the Uk and around the globe in India, Thailand, Australia, Greece and Turkey. 

Teaching a vinyasa style yoga in a non-dogmatic, compassionate and humorous way, Loueze guides you to a joyful, expanding pain-free, safe personalised yoga life journey.  

Each session incorporates asana (postural) flow sequence, pranayama (breathing techniques) and meditative relaxation skills, allowing the practice to promote and help maintain physical health, flexibility, mental and emotional well being.

Louoeze has a diverse portfolio that spans from working on a 1-1 basis with high profile private clients to group work, retreats, workshops, therapeutic clinics, and studios. .

For more information, bookings or to contact Loueze;

Telephone: 07773277650

Email: innersenseyoga@hotmail.co.uk

Rod Diaz