Therapeutic yoga · Edinburgh

A therapy room that happens to teach yoga

I trained first as a physiotherapist and came to yoga late, and sceptically. What convinced me was not a posture but a patient — a man of sixty-one, told his back was 'wear and tear', who got his life back by moving deliberately for twenty minutes a day.

Loweddy is built around that. Classes are capped at ten. Nobody is asked to do a shape they cannot control. If something hurts we change it, in front of everyone, because watching a teacher adapt is how you learn to adapt for yourself.

I still work alongside physiotherapists and will say plainly when yoga is not the answer — more often than the wellness industry admits.

If you are coming back from surgery, or told to 'keep moving' without being told how, this is the room for that.

Struan BellYoga therapist, C-IAYT