Kate Oates Yoga

If you wanted to take years to recover from redundancy, I've got a list ➡️

How do you feel reading it?

🤔 Going through redundancy right now?
🤔 Watching someone you love go through it?
🤔 Recognise yourself from a redundancy you had years ago and never quite shook?

Redundancy doesn't stay in the building you've just been asked to leave. Dammit.

💬 It's the "The pay isn't great but" job applications.

💬 It's the "Can I do that? Probably not" fear when reading a spec that's entirely doable.

💬 It's the "I'm fine" at a family dinner because it's so overplayed in your head it's too big.

💬 It's the shame that stops you talking about it (again).

These patterns are backed by data on prolonged recovery and poor career decisions made under pressure. Data showing a negative redundancy can fester inside our brains and beliefs for YEARS.

➡️The antidote isn't time. It's foundational work.
➡️ Redundancy Rewire exists because I wish I'd had it.

READ MORE on my website (🔗 in bio) or comment/DM "REWIRE" and I'll direct you there x

I lied. Yoga is not that complicated, I promise! BUT, in an effort to make my classes accessible to diaries, this next bit might sound complicated… but it’s not, bear with me! ➡️

My booking system might be lying to you….. If you’ve tried to book a class, seen it full, and written it off, please don’t take that as definite ❗️

Three of you have said as much in the last week; you’ve gone to book a class, my system said it was full 🧘🏻‍♂️

But, because I offer flexibility to the term-crew, it’s often the case likely that I do have space…. And that space could be your yoga fix!

Term bookers have always been able to flex sessions when dates don’t work (because life happens and yoga shouldn’t be sacrificed). That means that spaces in a class are often available, including at short notice.

I keep tabs on the flexes and movements (because you know the system - EMAIL ME (no, I won’t remember when you mention it after class; oh I wish) - you are fab at telling me and I note them down) h o w e v e r, the online booking system hasn’t got a clue!

I can’t have a system’s blind spot getting in the way of a yoga fix, so let’s not let it 💛

Nutshell: if you want to book a Single Class and my system says it’s full, don’t believe it. Email me and ask if there’s a space. I’ll open us a space in the booking system, et voila, YOGA TIME 🙏🏼

Perks of being my own boss. Peril of being so passionate about yoga that I hate the idea of it not being available 🫣 Building in flexibility on purpose. Not a water tight system, because it’s flexible, and that’s the point 🌈

Brilliant week on the mat. Thank you for bearing with my limited-but-increasing demos. My torn (abdominal) muscle is speedily on the mend. I’m being extra careful and very keen to be r e a d y for the rocket workshop, a week on Sunday. Yay! (3 mats left. Join us. Link in bio) 🚀

Beat the system. Come to yoga.

Look after yourselves… and of course you voted, right? ⬆️📸

See you soooon x

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A stark insight from a mixture of things in a short space of time: chat with a friend, a coaching client’s feedback and a brilliant podcast episode on something totally unrelated but nevertheless saying the same thing.

People assume confidence and belief are the interchangeable; related, intertwined. But they’re distinct.

💎 Confidence is one’s belief in being able to do something. Say a task. Evidence of having done it or a similar task before gives us confidence.

💎 Belief is bigger but invisible. With no KPI or proof; it’s a belief of something less tangible (like a god, for example).

Confidence without belief will eventually falter.

This feels more clear to me every time I read it.

Yet, when I try to conclude if you can truly have one without the other, I get in a tangle (seriously!) 😆

What do you think? Are they distinct tiny our experience? And can you have confidence without belief, or belief without confidence? Spill the belief, ahem, beans! ⬇️

🎶 Sorry not sorry. Addicted to this song!!! 💃