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🌿 What's Happening This Week at the NaMasYoga Studio? 🌿

This week we're excited to be hosting 'Zen for Men', led by the wonderful .flow_state.

Many of you already know and love Homby's teaching style, calming presence, and ability to create a relaxed, welcoming, and supportive environment. As part of the NamasYoga team, Homby brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and genuine passion for helping people move, feel, and live better.

In recognition of Men's Health Week and Father's Day, this special workshop has been designed with the modern-day man in mind.

Over 1.5 hours, Homby will guide participants through a practical movement-based workshop focusing on men's biomechanics, primal movement patterns, functional strength, mobility, and overall wellbeing.

The session combines elements of:

✨ Yoga
✨ Basic Animal Flow
✨ Functional Strength Exercises

Together, these practices create an accessible and engaging ground-based movement session designed to build strength, improve mobility, increase body awareness, and support long-term physical health.

The workshop will then slow down with breathwork, restorative stretching, and nervous system regulation techniques to help reduce stress, manage anxiety, and encourage relaxation.

To finish, you'll be treated to the soothing sounds of Homby's live handpan during your final relaxation — a beautiful opportunity to completely unwind and recharge.

Whether you're looking to improve strength and mobility, support your mental wellbeing, learn practical tools for stress management, or simply spend time with a group of like-minded men, this workshop offers a welcoming and supportive space to do just that.

Why not treat yourself, or share this with a father, partner, brother, son, friend, or any man in your life who could benefit from some time to move, breathe, relax, and reconnect? 🤍

📅 Spaces are available to book: https://gymcatch.com/app/provider/10826/events/9356631

For any questions regarding the workshop, please contact Homby directly:
📧 [email protected]

We'd love to see you there.

🇮🇹✨ Tuscany Yoga Retreat | 20–25 September 2027 ✨🇮🇹

I am so excited to finally share a project that I have been quietly working on behind the scenes...

In September 2027, I am planning a very special 'Italian Cultural Yoga Retreat in Tuscany'.

Nestled amongst rolling vineyards, ancient olive groves, and the breathtaking Tuscan countryside near Siena, our retreat home will be a beautiful historic villa full of charm, character, and authentic Italian spirit.

Imagine waking up to panoramic views across the Tuscan landscape, beginning your day with yoga, enjoying delicious local cuisine, exploring centuries of history and culture, sharing long outdoor meals beneath the Italian sky, and embracing the slower pace of life that makes this region so magical.

This retreat will be about so much more than yoga.

✨ Daily yoga practices
✨ Beautiful Tuscan food
✨ A traditional Italian cooking experience
✨ Time to rest, recharge, and reconnect
✨ Exploring local culture and history
✨ Meaningful connection and community
✨ Space to slow down and savour life

My vision is to create a warm, welcoming, and supportive experience where we can practise together, explore together, share wonderful food, make lasting memories, and immerse ourselves in the beauty of Tuscany.

📍 Tuscany, Italy
📅 20–25 September 2027
🏡 Historic villa near Siena

If this sounds like something you would love to be part of, or if you would like more information, please email: [email protected] or send me a DM.

I would love to hear from you and share more details as plans unfold.

Places will be limited to maintain an intimate and community-centred experience.

I truly cannot wait to share this experience with you.

With love,

Mas x ❤️

✨ A Chapter Closes, But the Connections Remain ✨

Today felt a little emotional.

After nearly three years of teaching , I have made the difficult decision to step away and focus my energy on growing NaMasYoga Studio. This decision was not made lightly. Fusion has been such an important part of my teaching journey, and leaving behind something that has brought me so much joy is never easy.

What started as a yoga class became so much more.

Over the months and years, we shared movement, breath, laughter, challenges, recovery journeys, life updates, and endless conversations. We celebrated victories, supported each other through difficult times, and somehow managed to create something very special.

After class this morning, as we gathered together for a cuppa and cake, it became clear just how much this group has grown beyond yoga. We even decided to start our own Fusion Ladies WhatsApp group — because what we have built is more than a weekly yoga class. It's friendship, support, community and genuine care for one another.

Who would have thought that a simple yoga class could become such a strong support network?

Together we've survived countless Chair Poses, wobbled through Tree Poses, laughed through my occasional miscounting, mixed-up body parts, and moments of complete confusion. Yet somehow, through all of that, we've also shared wisdom, encouragement, kindness and so many laughs.

As a teacher, we often wonder whether we are making a difference. Looking around the table this morning, I realised that together we've achieved something really meaningful. I've watched so many of you become stronger in your bodies, calmer in your minds, and more confident in yourselves. But you've also had an incredible impact on me.

The truth is, this group has been one of the greatest highlights of my journey as a yoga teacher.

Thank you for trusting me, supporting me, laughing with me, and allowing me to be part of your lives.

Whilst this chapter may be ending, the friendships and connections we've built will continue.

I feel incredibly grateful, humbled and blessed.

Love you all very much ❤️

Mas 🌿✨

🌸 YOU ASKED… SO WE LISTENED 🌸

According to many of you… Victoria gives the BEST savasana massage at the end of class 😂✨

And because you all love it so much, we are so excited to share that Victoria will now be offering her own Wednesday Morning Gentle Flow classes at NamasYoga Studio 🤍

📅 Starting Wednesday 10th June 2026

Her classes will focus on:
✨ Gentle mindful movement
✨ Breathwork & grounding
✨ Mobility & softness within the body
✨ Nervous system support
✨ Deep relaxation
✨ AND of course… her beautiful relaxing savasana massage at the end 🫶😂

This class is perfect if you are looking for:
🌿 A softer midweek reset
🌿 A calm & welcoming environment
🌿 Supportive movement without pressure
🌿 Time to reconnect with yourself
🌿 A peaceful start to your Wednesday

Victoria creates such a warm, safe, supportive, and nurturing space, and many of you have already experienced her calming energy within classes at the studio. We are both so excited for this new offering and cannot wait for you to experience her sessions ✨

Please make sure to book onto her classes via Gymcatch…

☀️ JUNE AT NAMASYOGA STUDIO ☀️

June is bringing beautiful new offerings, workshops, retreats, and community events across Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire — all centred around movement, stillness, connection, and wellbeing 🤍

🌙 NEW CLASS ADDED:
Moving Into Stillness (every Monday)
Due to popular demand, this calming Monday evening class is now added to the timetable.

A nourishing blend of mindful movement, breathwork, yin yoga, and guided relaxation designed to help you slow down, release tension, and reset after busy days.

Suitable for all levels ✨

🌸 Welcome Victoria
Gentle Flow every Wednesdays (start 10th June)
We are so excited to welcome Victoria to the studio.

A soft and supportive practice focused on mindful movement, mobility, breathwork, and creating space to move with ease and kindness.

☀️ JUNE EVENTS ☀️

🎶 Sound Healing Case Studies
• June 5th, 6th & 26th

🌞 Summer Solstice Celebration
• Sunday 28th June at Sudbury Gasworks
Celebrating International Yoga Day with movement, rest, community, and connection.

🌙 Nurturing Stillness at Fizzio Fit
• Sunday 14th June
A deeply restorative evening of rest, meditation, breathwork, and stillness.

🧘‍♂️ Zen for Men with Homby
-Friday 19th June
A supportive session celebrating men’s wellbeing through movement, breathwork, relaxation, and mindfulness.

✨ RETREAT UPDATES ✨
🌴 One final shared space available for Bali Retreat 2027
🍃 One final room remaining for the Peak District Retreat
EMAIL: [email protected]

📲 IMPORTANT BOOKING UPDATES From 1st June are now through Gymcatch — please follow NamasYoga Ltd to make bookings.

Thank you for continuing to support this humble, safe, and welcoming community. Whether you are completely new or have practised with us for years, you are always welcome here 🤍

✨ I promised myself I would be back in June once everything settled… and here I am (earlier than I thought 🤪)✨

Starting again. Slowly. Gently. Kindly 🤍

Today was an hour in the gym with my husband — definitely slower than what I’m used to, definitely feeling it 😂… but I showed up, and right now that feels enough.

Sometimes we forget that beginning again does not need to look dramatic or perfect. It can look like moving slower, taking breaks, adjusting expectations, listening to your body, and learning to be gentle with yourself through the process.

And honestly? That still counts 🫶

It was so lovely seeing familiar faces in the gym again today. Little moments like that remind me how important community really is — being surrounded by supportive people who simply let you show up exactly as you are.

No pressure. No perfection. Just taking things one step, one breath, and one workout at a time ✨

A gentle reminder for anyone else restarting something this month:
You do not need to rush your healing, your progress, or your journey. Slow progress is still progress 🤍

Here’s to rebuilding strength with softness this time 🌿