Yoga Classes
Improve your overall wellbeing and health in our yoga classe
Our Yoga classes are for those who want to improve their health, mindset, and quality of life. We will help you calm the mind, connect within, and improve your well-being and health through gentle yet rejuvenating courses.
My Yoga Classes
Yoga Classes for Leicester, Oadby and Online.
Hello! It's nice to meet you! I'm Cheryl Wimperis. An ex-professional ballerina is now coaching lifestyle and yoga in Oadby, Leicester and online.
My yoga group classes in Oadby are popular and designed to make you feel good mentally, emotionally, and physically.
I offer group classes, an online class, and private one-on-one yoga tuition.
If you want to take one of my yoga classes in person, privately, or online, please get in touch with me today!
Alternatively, my website allows you to book and attend a group or online class.
I look forward to meeting you and working as your yoga instructor.
Namaste 🧘♀️
Yoga and Holistic Health
Yoga is the union of the individual self with the universal self.
Another option is yoga. Yoga yields results that can be restorative and rejuvenating. Another method for relaxation and unwinding is through pranayama. It enhances our ability to navigate periods of difficulty and uncertainty. Yoga enables us to progress. When we engage in yoga, we transition into a realm filled with abundance, understanding, insight, and mindfulness, allowing us to reconnect with our true selves and become more self-aware and content.
Centred and fully present, we feel light, inflow, and connection to ourselves, and the world seems easier to navigate. We are drawn to opportunities and experiences and live in flow with our surroundings.
Yoga has many aspects, and when practised in its most complete form, the ultimate aim is to discover the "Self" and improve the quality of our lives.
There are eight limbs to yoga, creating a "wheel of practice" and four paths. These paths teach us how to be successful in life and manage the mind.
When the word yoga comes to mind, many people think about standing on a mat and performing poses. Still, the physical aspect is only one part of this incredible system that supports us through life's challenges.
Yoga is as much about what we do 'off the mat' as it is about what we do on the mat. Read more about the main components of yoga practice: The exercise part of yoga (the asanas) helps us balance the body and mind.
When we live a sedentary lifestyle, disease and misalignment can become a problem and manifest as aches, pains, and illness in the body and mind.
Yoga is an inclusive practice recognising that we are all different and have different needs and starting points. However, with the proper guidance, yoga can help us manage and reduce stress.
- Balance blood pressure levels
- Release Weight
- Build strength. Increase flexibility
- Work on toning and lengthening the muscles
- Help with diabetes and inflammation
- Soothes, aches, and pains
Breathe is life, and Prana, flowing through our breath, is our life force. We are not taught how to breathe correctly, but yoga provides simple and practical tools that enable us to become more aware of our breath.
This helps us better deal with stress, which can result in tension and discomfort within the body. Many breathwork exercises (pranayama) exist, and they have different functions and purposes.
Still, through pranayama, we learn to use the lungs to their maximum capacity. We also exercise the heart and respiratory system correctly, which keeps us full of vitality and improves our mental health.
Many of my students have reported improvements in:
- Mental Wellbeing
- Happiness
- Focus
- Motivation
- Drive
- Self-esteem
- Clarity
- A sense of purpose
- Improvements in anxiety
- Depression and low mood
- Better sleep and the ability to relax
- Feeling more in control
- Nutrition (which is an integral part of yoga practice)
Another crucial element in our yoga practice is learning to relax and unwind properly. Our modern lifestyles have caused us to find quick-fix ways of relaxing, such as drinking alcohol, using recreational drugs, not sleeping, and being busy to avoid stillness. Being busy doesn't allow our bodies and minds to rest properly.
Stress is caused when our nervous system activates our "fight or flight" mode when we are not adequately resting. Chronic stress and fatigue can develop, leading to different diseases in the body and mind. Deep and intentional relaxation, called restorative rest, is what we learn through our yoga practice.
My yoga students always leave my classes feeling energised but equally rested. Self-awareness and meditation enable us to live with more clarity, peace, trust and understanding about who we are. Everything starts with our thoughts!
When we deeply understand our body, we then deeply understand our mind, leading to understanding our lives. Meditation is a powerful and straightforward tool that improves concentration, emotional awareness, balance, focus, and calm and spiritual awareness. Meditation helps us calm the mind, chatter, step back, gain perspective on life, and enjoy the true meaning.
Join us on this journey!
When Cheryl teaches me yoga, I feel refreshed and freed up. Through her heartfelt connection to self-inquiry, she conveys new concepts and detailed cues while taking you deep within yourself. You feel grounded with her imagery and tactile cues.
Emma Howard - Online yoga student
Who are the Yoga Classes For?
All abilities and experience levels are welcome in my classes. I'll help you feel comfortable.
Yoga is for everyone. This is the beauty of practising yoga. You can be a wheelchair user, pregnant, recovering from an operation, a child or the elderly. Yoga is designed for all body types and abilities.
I always ensure that I give lots of modifications in my classes, meaning all poses are adjustable to suit needs, and everyone feels included in the class.
Yoga is ideal if you struggle with stress, high blood pressure, inflammation, high cholesterol, or heart problems because the flow can have a steady and low impact on the body while healing our bodies from within. Yoga benefits range widely.
If your yoga pace is steady and slow, I would advise integrating mindfulness walking, swimming, or cycling to support cardiovascular fitness and weight management. This can be built into your Life on the Pointe Lifestyle Programme support.
Start our Lifestyle Programme
Sometimes, we don't know where to begin to make healthier life changes.
During my 90-day transformational process programme, I'll guide you through movement, mindfulness, energy and breath work, nutrition, exercise and more.
What do we cover in our yoga practice?
Warm Up. Moving into our body and Connecting to Breath.
At the start of your practice, you will find a comfortable position on your mat and give yourself time and permission to become present and ready for your practice. We let go of the day and step fully onto our mat with our minds, breathing, and bodies in alignment.
Under my guidance, we scan the body for tension and stress. We then engage in our first breathing exercise, " following the breath," and establishing deep diaphragmatic breathing.
We would then slowly wake up the body with poses that allow us to open up, twist the detox organs, bend, stretch and strengthen whilst seated. Some of these might include:
- Spinal twists
- Cat and Cow pose
- Side bends
- Forward leg stretches
- Chest openers
- Breathe work
- Anatomy
- Kapallahbhati
I will always demonstrate each exercise and offer modifications so you can start at a level suitable for your experience and needs.
Yoga Dynamic Sequences Standing Up
Once we have completed our 30-minute floor-based warm-up, we will feel warm from within and ready for stronger poses that require more leg work, core strengthening, and balancing.
You can change every pose, so if you cannot stand, use a chair to sit on or support you. We also have many support aids to make your practice more comfortable and accommodating. Some dynamic poses might include:
- Sun Salutations
- Triangle pose
- Chair pose
- Plank
- Lunges
- Balancing poses
- Down Dog
- Squats
Again, I will always demonstrate each exercise and offer modifications so you can start at a level suitable for your experience and needs.
Yoga Floor Work and Inversions
After our standing sequences, we will return to the mat and practice our inversions and core work before our final deep relaxation. Some inversion sequences might include:
- Crow and upper body strengthening
- Dolphin pose in preparation for headstands
- Crane
- Head Stand
- Shoulder stand
- Half Bridge
- Bridge
- Fish pose
I will continuously demonstrate each exercise. Each pose has many variations, and I would never expect a beginner or intermediate practitioner to do a headstand in my first class.
We would build our strength and start at the correct level until we feel ready to move on with safe and effective techniques. Headstands and shoulder stands are sometimes not advised by health conditions, so practice with knowledge and correct guidance.
Deep Relaxation - Yoga Nidra
Everyone loves this part of the class. If you have practised with commitment and intention, finishing your practice with a full-body, deep, guided relaxation is one of the healthiest gifts you can give your body.
Deep-guided relaxation techniques allow your nervous system to relax fully, allowing your body and mind to centre and heal appropriately. We rarely sit and be still for 10 minutes each day. When we are stressed, this is exactly what the body and mind need: peace, stillness, and the ability to listen to our body.
How we practice Yoga Nidra:
- We lie down in Savasana.
- Quieten the mind and body after all the activity from practice
- We notice our breath
- Connect with our body and the support underneath us
- Through guided practice, relax each body part
- Focus on our chakras
- Focus on our internal body
- Allow ourselves to surrender and let go
This is a beautiful guided practice, and no other healing practice exists. If you struggle with stress, insomnia, anxiety, and feeling grounded or focused, I highly advise you to start this practice once a day, maybe before bed.