I’m Karo, your new yoga gal.

I’m originally from Poland, left my heart in Portugal and currently live in Cork, Ireland. I’ve been practising yoga for over 10 years now and look for anything that promotes softness and rest, allows you to play & have fun, makes room for curiosity & trust.

I live close to the ocean with my wife and our crazy (yup, I said that!) dog 🐶

Book classes

Things that matter

✿ If it’s not accessible, it’s not yoga

I didn’t write this, although I wish I did. It’s from Jivana Heyman’s beautiful book Accessible Yoga. I can only speak from a perspective of someone who lived in a fat body her whole life–there’s only a few more things that feel better than learning to adjust asanas to work for your body, and not the other way around.

✿ Student first, teacher second

Being authentic and authentically human means making mistakes. I believe I have the knowledge & tools to teach, but I’ll always be a student myself. You’ll learn something from me, I’ll learn something from you. Yoga’s cool like that.

✿ As Tricia Hersey beautifully wrote, rest is resistance

I’m tired. I’m sore. I’m tense. The world is making me feel all those things. The pace, the pain, the things that don’t matter yet we fight for them. And I refuse to take part in that. I want to rest. I want to feel ease and comfort. I want to feel real joy. I want to build connections. I want to feel alive, and not just a 9 to 5 robot.

✿ This is a safe(r) space

Safe is subjective and will be different for everyone. But living as a queer, autistic & fat person, I know how it hurts to be squeezed into things you don’t fit, whether it’s obvious or very well masked. My dream is creating a space where we’re all free to feel okay with being vulnerable. If there’s anything I can do to make that happen for/with you, please let me know.

✿ Standing against social injustice, always

The purpose of yoga is not to make you feel good. It was never meant to be good vibes only. In fact, I’ve been using yoga to feel mad, bad & sad first (again, I didn’t write this. It’s a title of a great book by Lisa Appignanesi about, wait for it, history of women). And I really believe we can use the tools of yoga to make the space around us better for all, one step at a time.

✿ Supporting my queer community…

…and other underrepresented minorities. Are LGBT+ yoga classes different from regular, undefined ones? Not really–but it’s a matter of recognising and inviting your wholeness into the practice, not just the bits and pieces that are socially acceptable.

I’m so freaking tired of every other post here sharing tips and tricks, best practices, knowledge you won’t find anywhere else, knowledge you can’t miss, I’ll tell you everything because I’ve lived it all and studied it

Some words for Spring 🌸

1. Currently reading Private rites by Julia Armfield
2. Feels relatable
3. More of Julia, and something that’s been on my mind for a while
4. Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero (we need more glimmers)
5. Rest is sacred by O

Please don’t be that person 🤡

#accessibleyoga #inclusiveyoga #fatyoga #neurodivergentyoga #restorativeyoga

As we move into Spring, expect a ton of beach yoga, park yoga, yoga in the woods, yoga in (fill with any location possible) class offerings all around and that’s FANTASTIC. But there’s also a growing expectation to attend all of those. Yo

Just in case someone needed a reminder today that you are not your work, you were not born to work and you need to/have to/should rest too ❤️

Tricia Hersey’s #restisresistance #wordsarevibrations

My qualifications & trainings

Accessible Yoga Training, 50h - Accessible Yoga School, 2025

Leading Simple Yoga Nidras - Nourish Yoga School, 2025

Modern Yogi Teacher Training, 300h – Heart and Bones Yoga, 2024/2025

Yin Yoga Teacher Training, 50h – Sampoorna, 2023

Yoga Teacher Training, 200h – Himalaya Yoga Valley, 2021