The studio

A quiet room in a loud week.

Two practice rooms, a tea corner, and a timetable built around real lives — early flows before work, slow evenings after it.

The story

It started with six mats and a borrowed room.

The first classes ran in a community hall with a temperamental old ceiling fan that rattled through every savasana. What kept people coming back wasn’t the space — it was the feeling of being expected somewhere, once a week, by name.

Seven years on we have two rooms of our own and an online circle, and the measure hasn’t changed: does the hour leave you steadier than it found you?

A worn community hall with mats laid out, early days
First visit

Your first class, without the guesswork.

1

Book a mat
Every class caps at fourteen, so booking holds your spot. First in-studio class is half price; Sunday’s community class is donation-based.

2

Arrive ten minutes early
Mats, props and tea are all here. Tell the teacher about anything that aches — that’s what the ten minutes are for.

3

Practise at your own edge
Every pose comes with an easier and a harder door. Nobody adjusts you without asking first.

A teacher greeting a student at the studio door
How we teach

Four things you can hold us to.

Not studio poetry — the working rules behind every class on the timetable.

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Unhurried

No performance pace. The slowest person in the room sets nothing; their own breath does.

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Welcoming

Every body, every age, every level — and a donation class every week so price is never the door.

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Practical

You come with a desk back and a busy head. Classes are built for those, not for photographs.

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Honest

Teachers who say ‘I don’t know’, anatomy over mysticism, and no supplements at the front desk.

Around the studio

A week on Willow Lane.

What the place actually looks like between the timetable slots.

The Sun Room, bright with morning east light

The Sun Room

Flow classes, east light

The Garden Room, softer light for restorative classes

The Garden Room

Yin, restorative, breath

A wall of yoga blocks, straps and bolsters

The props wall

Blocks, straps, bolsters

A small group seated in a circle for a workshop

Workshops

One deep-dive a month

A simple tea corner with cups and a kettle

The tea corner

Where classes end slowly

A relaxed community class with mats spaced widely

Sundays at 9

Donation-based, all welcome

The teachers

Three people, one steady pace.

Plus a circle of 600 members who tell us which classes actually help.

Maya Chen, founder and lead teacher

Maya Chen

Founder & Lead Teacher

Theo Brandt, breathwork and meditation teacher

Theo Brandt

Breathwork & Meditation

Amara Diallo, community host for the Sangha

Amara Diallo

Community Host, the Sangha

Feel the room for yourself.

Come to Sunday’s donation class and meet the place before you commit to anything — or start in the Sangha today.

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