August 2026

In this newsletter:

• Classes
• Workshops
• You - The Community
• Three Years of Phoenix Yoga
• Our New Front Door

Classes

We are running a reduced scheduled over the holiday period, so if your favourite teacher / class doesn't appear on the schedule it's because they're enjoying a well earned holiday! Our normal schedule will resume in September - along with some new classes!

Workshops

Thank you to all of you who have attended our workshop this year we will be returning with new workshops after the summer holidays. Let us know if you have any particular workshop you would like.

Going Away?

You can still join your favourite yoga teachers when you're away - don't forget most of our classes are also online!  Sign-up in the usual way - it's free for Annual and Monthly members!

Community Corner

Put Yourself in the picture on our new Our Community page, which introduces some of the people who make Phoenix what it is. We would love it to grow.

You don't need an extraordinary yoga story, a perfect pose or years of experience. If Phoenix has become part of your week, month, life your story belongs there too. To take part simply email us with:

• A photograph you are happy for us to use
• A few lines about what brought you to Phoenix and what keeps you coming back
• The name you would like us to publish.

Three Years of Phoenix Yoga

What we could not have predicted when we opened was everything our community would bring to Phoenix.

Once we got over the deer in the headlights stage we decided we wanted to become a really community yoga studio: rooted in Putney, serious about the teaching and generous in the way we welcome people. Three years in, that is still the plan.

Thousands of classes have been taught. People have arrived for their first ever class, returned after years away, trained with us, taught with us and taken yoga into schools, hospitals, safehouses and the wider community.

There have been beginnings, endings and difficult weeks. There have also been fundraisers, new friendships, deeply ordinary Tuesday evenings and those classes that somehow give you exactly what you needed. My favourite phrase is from a regular -

"Some days yoga feels amazing. Some days you just feel shit but you're glad you came. Both are worth it."

We're not simply a timetable or a room full of mats. It is you the people who keep turning up - for themselves and, often, for one another. We are enormously proud of what we have built together. Thank you all!

Read the birthday story

A New Front Door

The old website could tell you when a class started and how much it cost. It was less good at explaining what Phoenix feels like, who will welcome you, or where to begin if yoga is completely new.

The new site brings the studio, teachers, classes and community together in one place. It should be easier to find a class, understand the options and meet some of the people behind Phoenix before you arrive.

Have a look around. If something is unclear, missing or simply does not work, please tell us. The website is for you too.