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Long hours, tight shoulders, and a mind that will not settle. Breath and stillness that fit inside a week that is already full.
Most professionals who come to Poonam know exactly what they should be doing. Fitting it in is the part that defeats them.
“I'm at a desk for ten hours and it shows.”
Neck, shoulders, lower back. A body shaped by a chair rather than by movement.
“I can't switch off at night.”
The laptop closes and the thinking does not. You are tired without being able to sleep.
“I've tried the gym and it didn't stick.”
Not because you are lazy. Because 7pm is unreliable when work is unreliable.
“I feel like I'm always slightly behind.”
Running on adrenaline for so long that calm feels unfamiliar rather than restful.
The morning class runs 7:15 to 8:15, deliberately. Evenings get eaten by work; mornings rarely do. Doing it first means it is already done, and the day starts from a different place.
Some people want the fixed morning slot. Others need something that moves with their week.
The physical changes are slow. The nervous system responds faster than most people expect.
Getting up is harder than the practice. Poonam will tell you to move bedtime rather than push through on less sleep.
Almost everyone reports sleeping better before they report anything else. That alone tends to make the mornings easier.
Desk tension eases. Most people also notice they can hold attention longer, which is the part nobody expects.
Say so. Poonam teaches clients in London and the USA over video at hours that suit them. A fixed 7am class is not the only option, and pretending it is would waste both your time.
One-to-one sessions are arranged around you rather than a fixed slot, and they work over video from wherever you are. Plenty of Poonam's clients practise from hotel rooms.
An hour, two or three times a week, is where most people land. If that is not available, shorter and more frequent beats nothing — twenty minutes done regularly is a real practice.
Neck, shoulders, hip flexors and lower back, usually in that order, and in shallow breathing that most people never notice. Sessions start there because that is what a desk does to a body.
It can be, if that is what you want. But most professionals who come are already tired — what helps more is a nervous system that settles, not another thing that demands effort.
The morning class runs five days a week and is when most working people practise. One-to-one sessions can be arranged earlier if that suits better.
That is the usual starting point, not a disqualification. Breathwork gives the mind something concrete to do, which is why it tends to work for people who find sitting still impossible.
Tell Poonam what your week actually looks like and she will tell you what is realistic.
