Slow, strong, judgement-free yoga and breathwork in a sunlit studio five minutes from the seafront. No poses to perform, no lycra required — just an hour that belongs entirely to you.
It's 4pm and you realise you've been breathing into the top two inches of your chest since the 9.30 meeting. Somewhere below your collarbones, the rest of you is waiting.
They crept up around Tuesday and never came down. Your jaw is in on it too — you notice, unclench, and thirty seconds later it's clenched again.
Body horizontal, lights off, mind doing laps of tomorrow. You've technically slept, but you can't remember the last morning you woke up actually rested.
Screens, lists, other people's needs. You can't remember the last time you noticed your own feet on the floor — your body has become the thing that carries your head to meetings.
You tried a class once. The playlist thumped, everyone else seemed to know the choreography, and you left feeling worse. That wasn't yoga's fault — and it isn't what happens here.
500-hour Yoga Alliance teacher
Yoga Alliance Professionals' senior training standard — most teachers qualify at 200 hours
Trauma-informed breathwork facilitator
Trained to guide breathwork so your nervous system stays feeling safe — with choice, not pressure, at every step
First-aid trained · fully insured
8 years · 6,000+ hours taught
Everything here is small, slow and personal — whether we're working one-to-one on your mat or breathing in a circle of eight. Every body is welcome exactly as it arrives.
£55 · 60 minutes
A private session built entirely around your body — old injuries, desk shoulders, postnatal recovery, or simply wanting to learn without an audience. We move at your pace, always.
£25 · 75 minutes · max 8 people
Eight mats, one candle-lit room, and an hour of guided conscious breathing that shifts more than you'd expect. People arrive wired and leave lighter, steadier and surprisingly warm.
£90 · 75 minutes · up to 4 guests
Gongs, bowls and chimes washing over you while you do absolutely nothing. Book one for yourself, a friend's birthday, or the end of a very long week.
Book a class, or send a note first if you'd like to talk. Tell me about your body, its history, and what you're hoping for.
Your first session is a conversation as much as a class — we move gently and notice what your body actually enjoys.
Regulars settle into a rhythm: a weekly class, a monthly sound bath, a short home practice that follows you between them.
I found yoga the unglamorous way: a running injury, a physio's suggestion, and a beginners' class I nearly walked out of twice. Somewhere between the third wobble and the final rest, something landed — I'd spent years living entirely in my head, and here was an hour that gave me my body back.
That class became a daily practice, the practice became trainings — five hundred hours across the UK and India, then trauma-informed breathwork — and eight years ago it became this studio: one warm room in the North Laine, five minutes from the sea.
Slow doesn't mean easy, and strong doesn't mean straining. I teach bodies, not shapes — the pose bends to fit you, never the other way round. Expect clear guidance, endless variations, the occasional burst of laughter, and full permission to rest whenever your body asks for it.
The studio itself is a wooden-floored room on Gardner Street with morning light, too many plants and no mirrors. Come as you are; leave a little more yourself.
One candle-lit hour of guided breathing in a circle of eight — arrive wired, leave heavy-limbed, quiet and surprisingly warm. It's the single fastest way to feel what this studio does.
£15 · 75 minutes · Small group · max 8
Blankets, bolsters, eye pillows and tea all included — bring warm socks and nothing else. If a circle isn't right for your body, I'll tell you before you pay a penny.
Save me a matI told Maya I was the least flexible person she'd ever meet. She said flexibility wasn't the point — and then spent a year gently proving it. I've never felt stronger, or less judged.
The breathwork circles are the reset button I didn't know I had. I sleep better for days afterwards — my partner can tell which weeks I've skipped.
The sound bath Maya ran for my mum's sixtieth had four of us floating out the door. The most original present I've ever given, and the most repeated.
The studio is one warm, wooden-floored room at the back of a North Laine courtyard, five minutes from the sea and seven from the station. If it's your first visit, these photos are exactly what you'll find.
Studio 2, 44 Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 1UN
Not in Brighton? One-to-one sessions also happen online — the same unhurried pace, from your own living room.
Open in Google MapsClasses run mornings and evenings, six days a week. Pick your time below and tell me anything I should know about your body in the booking notes — the rest of it, mats, blocks, blankets and tea, already lives at the studio.
Book a classFirst breathwork circle £15 · no memberships, ever