Beyond Shame
Six evening classes: Yoga, Breathwork & Lecture. 18:30–20:00 UK time, via Zoom & Recorded
14, 21, 28 October and 4, 11, 18 November 2026
Shame does not always announce itself as shame.
Sometimes it sounds like:
Who do you think you are?
Don’t ask for too much.
Don’t take up too much space.
You should be grateful.
Other people deserve this more than you do.
Shame may manifest in the belief that there is something about you that needs to be hidden, improved, controlled or apologised for.
Often, it simply becomes the way you live.
Beyond Shame is a six-week exploration of what happens when we begin to loosen that grip.
These classes will invite you to become curious about the ways shame has shaped the body, the nervous system, our relationships, and our sense of what we are allowed to want.
Shame has a great deal to say about deserving.
Whether you deserve love.
Whether you deserve rest.
Whether you deserve pleasure.
Whether you deserve to be yourself.
Whether you deserve to be seen.
If, somewhere, deep in the system, the answer has become no, then we can spend an extraordinary amount of energy making sure we never receive too much.
Across these six 90-minute sessions, we will explore shame through short talks, breathwork and Kundalini Global yoga. We will look at the ways shame contracts us, silences us, makes us perform, disappear, please, perfect or punish ourselves.
And then we will practise something different.
Taking up space.
Remaining present.
Feeling without collapsing into judgement.
Allowing the body to experience effort, pleasure, rest, strength and stillness without immediately deciding whether we have earned them.
Yoga gives us a remarkable place to explore this because the mat can reveal the relationship we have with ourselves.
Do you push?
Do you apologise?
Do you compare?
Do you disappear?
Do you believe you have to suffer before you are allowed to rest?
The practice gives us the opportunity to notice those patterns and, slowly, to create another possibility.
This is an invitation to no longer allow shame to make every decision.
You do not need any previous experience of Kundalini Global or yoga to join these classes. You are welcome exactly as you are.
Classes are taught live on Zoom and recorded for catch-up via Vimeo, available throughout the series and for four weeks after it ends. You are welcome to join at any point and will receive recordings of any sessions you have missed.
The Wednesday evening community is thoughtful, warm and deeply engaged. It is a space in which difficult material can be explored with curiosity, humour and care.
Join me for Beyond Shame.
Perhaps you will discover what is possible when you stop believing you have to earn the right to be yourself.
