Community yoga in Leeds
Welcome to Leeds Community Yoga. We run affordable and inclusive yoga sessions for under-served groups and less-advantaged communities. Our classes offer people the chance to come together to move and breath in way that is fun and helps with physical and mental health and wellbeing.
Our aim is to make yoga accessible to everyone, including those who are older, have long-term health conditions, larger body types or low incomes. In one of our accessible yoga classes everyone is doing something different that suits them.
Leeds Community Yoga
Leeds Community Yoga is a not-for-profit organisation. It uses funding to offer access to yoga and its wellbeing benefits to marginalised groups and disadvantaged communities in the city of Leeds.
Classes
Compton Centre Community Hub, Harehills – Monday 12-1pm
Church of the Epiphany, Gipton – Thursday 6-7pm
Oakwood Lane Medical Practice, Gipton – Friday 2-3pm
Jamyang Buddhist Centre, Holbeck – Sunday 11.45-12.45 (second of the month)
Accessible Yoga
Accessible yoga is open, welcoming and everyone goes at their own pace.
Supporters
Supporters of Leeds Community Yoga include Gipton and Harehills councillors Mothin Ali, Deputy leader of the Green Party and Salma Arif, Deputy leader of Leeds City Council, Dawn Coulthard-Hullah, Owner and Manager of EarthTree yoga, Wetherby and Kerry Cawthray, Senior yoga teacher.
Mothin Ali
Deputy leader of the Green Party and City Councillor for Gipton and Harehills
Salma Arif
Deputy leader of Leeds City Council and Councillor for Gipton and Harehills
Dawn Coulthard-Hullah
Owner and Manager of EarthTree yoga, Wetherby
Kerry Cawthray
Senior yoga teacher
Yoga’s benefits
Yoga has been found to offer physical and mental health and wellbeing benefits and can help draw communities together.
About
Leeds Community Yoga’s founder and project manager is Dr Sally SJ Brown, a 300-hour accredited teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga. Teaching for over nine years Sally is a graduate of the Accessible Yoga School and a health and yoga researcher – read her book and articles.
What is yoga?
Yoga is a tool that can help ‘fast track’ us to a happier, healthier, happier way of being. Yoga’s roots are in ancient South Asia and it’s suitable for people of all faiths or none. As well as movement yoga traditionally includes breathwork, mindfulness and philosophy.
Get in touch
To find out more about Leeds Community Yoga, or to get involved, get in touch.