Hi, I'm Kathryn.welcome to Maitri
A Vinyasa-trained yoga teacher with a dance background, a soft spot for cats and tea, and zero interest in performing wellness perfection.
Twelve years of dance,
five on the mat,one studio.
I came to yoga the way many of my best students do — looking for mental clarity in a moment when life felt off-balance.
Before yoga I spent twelve years teaching dance. That world taught me how bodies move, how to hold a room, how to be patient with a student finding something hard. But it also taught me how easy it is to confuse "perfect form" with what actually matters — which is the person on the mat, doing the practice as it's available to them today.
Yoga arrived as something more honest. Less performance. More medicine. The first time I held a long pigeon and let myself breathe through it, I think something quietly rearranged itself.
That's the practice I teach at Maitri. Strong when you want to move. Soft when you need to slow down. Both, often in the same class. No jargon, no chakra-talk, no pretending I've got it all figured out — I haven't, and neither do you, and that's where the good stuff is.
"I'm not the perfect yoga teacher. I'm a real one — and that's the whole point."
What "Maitri" means
Maitri (मैत्री) is a Sanskrit word for loving-kindness — particularly the kindness you offer yourself.
It's the opposite of the inner voice that says you're not flexible enough, not skinny enough, not "spiritual" enough, not doing it right. Maitri says: show kindness to the version of yourself that showed up today. That's the practice.
It's also why the studio is called what it's called. Because every class — power, hatha, flow, slow — comes back to the same idea. Move with strength. Rest when you need to. Be a friend to yourself. Yoga looks different on every body, and different day to day on the same body. All of it counts.
A small studio
on the Crowthorne high street
The studio is small on purpose. Warm walls, wood floors, soft natural light. Mats, blocks, blankets and bolsters all provided. The shelves stock rolled towels rather than retail.
It's a fifteen-minute walk from Crowthorne station, with easy parking just around the corner at Morgan Recreation Ground. People come from Wokingham, Bracknell, Sandhurst and Ascot — but it always feels like a local place.
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Two cats. A lot of tea. Books on the bedside table I'm always halfway through. The gym is its own kind of practice — strength matters off the mat too.
Some weeks the practice is a power flow at 7am. Some weeks it's a bolster, a blanket, and ten minutes of breathing.
Both count. Both are yoga.
250-hour Vinyasa-trained
Continuing professional development across hatha, restorative practice, and trauma-informed teaching. Insured and registered.
The mat
is waiting.
First time? Take 25% off your first class. No commitment, no pressure, no expectation that you'll love it — just one hour to find out.
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