I am passionate about yoga, massage, and creativity as a tools for self-enquiry, awareness and connection…
…where we can all feel a little bit more at home and authentic in ourselves. I am committed to sharing these tools and practices in a way that is accessible.
My work aims to cultivate bodily-autonomy, expression, and healing. This always means acknowledging and understanding how certain bodies are marginalised, and impacted by trauma, and welcoming in the complexity and messiness of each of our unique experiences.
Get in touch…
bodybitsbrighton@gmail.com
About Lou
Lou Thomas is a queer, neurodivergent, non-binary yoga teacher, massage therapist, and creative arts facilitator, who helps people connect with their bodies, themselves and their communities. Their work sits the intersection between well-being and social activism, and focuses on LGBTQIA+ community building. They offer deep-tissue massages and run accessible, therapeutic, and playful yoga classes and workshops around Brighton to help people explore, find centre and feel a little more at home and connected in our bodies and the world.
They studied sexual dissidence masters at The University of Sussex, where their research focused on embodiment in a digital world as we learn to navigate sex, relationships, sexuality, dating, disability, and mental health. They have trained in Hatha and Restorative yoga, as well as with The Yoga Nidra Network, Therapeutic Yoga and The Accessible Yoga School, for whom they are an ambassador and continuing education student. They have trained in deep tissue, integrative, and advanced clinical massage therapy with Jing Advance Massage Training.
All their work is trauma informed, and anti-oppressive and intersectional in approach, as they help us navigate the shifting, complex and essential relationship we have with our bodies and multilayered selves, and experience a sense of connection and wholeness in who and what we are. Lou’s work centres accessibility, and they teach using thoughtful cues which emphasise consent and autonomy, not punishment or performance. They have a deep respect for the practice and roots of yoga, and engage in a continuous process of study and reflection as a white practitioner, acknowledging the colonial erasure and violence of it’s history and the on-going cultural appropriation, commodification and lack of access for POC within the industry.