Yoga for balance, ease and vitality
Immerse yourself in a Scaravelli-inspired yoga practice that invites you to slow down, turn inward and explore movement with greater awareness. Initially, you may notice improved posture, better mobility and a deeper sense of emotional ease. Over time, as your movement becomes more balanced and fluid, you may begin to experience greater clarity and freedom, alongside a return to your natural vitality.
Whether you’re new to yoga, experienced, or navigating physical or emotional challenges, you’ll be welcomed into a warm, supportive space to explore, restore and rediscover yourself in a new way.
Yoga classes
For all – from beginners to advanced, with corporate packages and trauma-sensitive sessions for mental health.
Yoga therapy
Personalised 1:1 sessions to support with physical or emotional challenges, or to deepen your practice in your own way.
Yoga workshops
Exploring specific shapes, anatomy and physiology, yoga philosophy and other valuable yoga concepts.
Moving with awareness and ease
Rather than striving for ideal shapes, this practice is an invitation to meet yourself with care and curiosity. You’re guided to listen inwardly and respond to what your body needs, creating movement that’s nourishing, responsive and aligned with where you are in each moment.
"By softening and honouring who we truly are in each moment, progress often unfolds more quickly - and with far greater ease - than force ever allows. A natural lightness often emerges and you may even find yourself smiling as you move."
Sophie Chamings
Yoga Teacher and Founder
Movement
Strength, mobility, and alignment—developed in response to your body, creating a greater sense of ease, freedom, and lightness in movement.
Feeling
A space to soften and settle. Through breath and awareness, tension begins to dissolve, revealing a steadier, more grounded clarity.
Essence
A quiet return to yourself. Through intuitive, nourishing movement, rediscover a deeper sense of aliveness that feels spacious, connected, and whole.
About me
Yoga has been a turning point in my life, supporting my healing from developmental trauma and helping me reconnect with my body in a way that feels safe and alive. Alongside strength training, it’s helped to restore my balance, presence and confidence after years of stress and burnout. My work is now to share this embodied, life-changing approach to help others feel the same.
Scaravelli-inspired yoga
I offer Vanda Scaravelli-inspired yoga that invites a more intelligent, easeful relationship with your body through breath, gravity and attentive awareness. This approach moves away from rigid alignment and instead supports spinal freedom and the body’s natural rhythm and capacity for balance, ease and vitality.
An intelligent approach
My training, accredited by the British Wheel of Yoga and Yoga Alliance Professionals, is grounded in science-led, intelligent movement and contemporary anatomy. Shaped by leaders in movement science, fascia and neurophysiology, it bridges research with embodied practice – supporting safe, responsive and potentially transformative movement that values listening over force and individuality over control.
A trauma-informed approach
I bring a somatic, trauma-informed approach to yoga, informed by my own healing journey and Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Foundational Training. I support movement that’s responsive, safe and deeply attuned to the body’s intelligence. Over time, you may experience a growing sense of agency – the ability to make better choices for your body, your energy and your life.
Drawing on ancient yoga wisdom
With over 20 years’ engagement with yoga, I have a deep connection to the ancient roots of movement, philosophy and healing – especially those backed by modern science. Following time in Asia, I’m passionate about weaving classical yogic wisdom with embodied practice, supporting holistic wellbeing, mindful presence and informed self-exploration.
Blog
The power of alignment for energy
The way we align and organise our body—from the feet all the way to the top of the head—has a profound impact on how we…
Trauma-informed yoga: Returning to choice, safety and the wisdom of the body
Trauma-informed yoga isn’t a separate style of yoga so much as a different way of relating to practice itself. Where more traditional or “standard” approaches…
Vanda Scaravelli: Rediscovering ease and aliveness in yoga
Vanda Scaravelli remains one of the most quietly influential figures in modern yoga, not because she created a system or sought recognition, but because she…
Our Address
1 Gibfield Park Ave Atherton Manchester M46 0SU
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