In response to the first lockdown in March 2020 I began offering online classes which were affectionately dubbed “Weird Yoga” by my students, as the assumption was if I was behind it, it would be WEIRD! They were right in that I did not immediately switch all my live classes over to Zoom, I took some time out while my own life reshaped around the fall-out from the pandemic. I wanted to find a more flexible approach that took into account that people were living and working from home and that being on your mat at a certain time and having the space and privacy to do a class in your own home was going to present more of a challenge to some people than to others. Equality of access to yoga has always been very important to me. I also wanted the classes to be very affordable as many families incomes were severely disrupted by the pandemic. I came up with the idea of filming myself doing the class and offering these recordings via links on my website. Over the following 14 months I created a huge catalogue of work to enable students to continue their practice at home.
Now the time has come to close down WeirdYoga and start something fresh. I am so grateful to everyone who subscribed to the service as it allowed me to keep my business alive so that I could return to teaching when the world opened up again. The WeirdYoga classes will shut as of 31/12/24 and at some point in the New Year I will begin to create a new smaller catalogue of classes that my students can access for free to support the work we do in class, and will be open to non students on a subscription basis.
Watch this space!
x
Michelle