I’ve been taking a walk down memory lane (thank you facebook images) and I wanted to share with you how/where and when the Yoga Brunch Club started and how much it has grown since the early days.

Back in May 2014 I started Yoga with Clementine, I ran my first few classes from my living room, studios, gyms, church halls, school halls, school class rooms all over London.

When I first started teaching I wanted to encourage friends to try yoga. I ran classes at a space around the corner from my house in Brixton called Papas Park Community Centre. I would cook up different meals at home, ranging from: Navratan Korma, Moroccan Pastilla, Saffron and fennel chicken and Asian slaw. I wanted the whole experience to leave people feeling thoroughly nourished from the yoga and the food. It was such a lovely way to spend an evening, doing yoga and then sitting around a table chatting over some delicious wholesome food.

From here the idea for The Yoga Brunch Club started to grow, before I did my teacher training I had worked running and managing events for over five years. I combined my events experience and love for food and yoga to bring a community together. The first Yoga Brunch Club took place in November 2014 at Brixton East Gallery. These first few events were run in collaboration with Grub Club and two friends of mine Gaia and Laurie. We would spend the weekend of the event cooking up an absolute storm in the kitchen. The first menus from those events varied from huge sharing platters with homemade treats to take home. It’s quite amazing now to think back to how much food we had to cook, prepare and also run the event for 40 people.

Initially it was friends, and friends of friends attending, but word spread and we got some great press in Time Out, Evening Standard and The Guardian. The events started to grow from being once every three months to once a month, I started to take on the work full time and began collaborating with brilliant chefs and cooks including Pickled Plates, Asia Pop, Hopper Shop, A Tavola, Uncle Ho’s and Wilderness Festival.

The first Bristol event took place in 2015 at the brand new space at The Forge, I was still living in London but spending a lot of time in Bristol with my then boyfriend, now husband Dev who encouraged to run the events in Bristol too.

The events continued to grow and I was hosting them in new venues and spaces, I was invited by The Guardian to run Guardian Local events for their audience. In 2017 and 2018 Liberty London invited Yoga Brunch Club to host a series of events on their Reset January campaign, this really was a pinch yourself moment as we ran the yoga class inside the store before the shop opened to the public and served brunch in their private entertaining room that was wood panelled and stunning. Guests even got to take away a Liberty goodie bag.

I have run the Yoga Brunch Club in some really spectacular spaces and the events evolved into weekend retreats in 2019. Here a few of my most memorable moments over the years:

Yoga Brunch Club x Furthermore Film

Yoga Brunch Club at The Old Dairy, London

It’s so humbling and wonderful to look back over the last 8 years and see how far the events have come and grown from that tiny community centre in Brixton. The heart and reason behind all of the events and retreats has always been about bringing a community of people together to share yoga, food and conversation. It makes me so happy to see how many friendships and connections and formed over the years, people have attended weddings, gone on holiday, joined online through difficult times and lockdowns and attended multiple events in person.

I can’t wait to see where this journey takes me next and how the Yoga Brunch Club will continue to grow.

Join me this summer for our Rooftop series taking place on Sunday 3 July, tickets for that can be found here.

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Yoga Brunch Club (where it all began): 2014-2022

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