Yoga, movement, meditation & community, grounded in the Algarve.
Come for a class. Stay for a while.

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KAYA is a place for strong practices and slow ones.

For showing up regularly, meeting people and feeling at home.

For movement and stillness.

We built KAYA in Almancil because we live here, and because the Algarve — its light, its textures, its slower rhythm — all shape how we want this space to feel. 

Come for a class. Stay for a while.

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The people teaching here shape what KAYA feels like as much as the room does. Each bring a different practice, a different training, a different story — browse their profiles and find the voice that fits you.

meet the teachers

  • Lulu

    Lulu found yoga while studying psychology in London, and it's shaped everything since. Twenty years on, her classes are for anyone — building strength, clarity, and a little more connection to yourself.

  • Elizabeth

    Elizabeth's sessions bring breathwork and gentle somatic practice together — grounded, accessible, and entirely at your own pace.

  • Christie

    Christie's classes ease you in slowly, giving you space to ground before you move — vinyasa, mandala and yin, all built around the rhythm of the seasons.

  • Lara

    Lara teaches with the kind of energy that's hard to fake — deeply trained, deeply committed, and endlessly curious about where this practice can go.

  • Fabiana

    Fabiana teaches with sensitivity and intuition — every class shaped by the mood, energy and rhythm of the room.

  • Lino

    Lino has been teaching salsa in the Algarve for over 25 years — equal parts instruction, practice, and the pure joy of dancing with others.

  • Emma

    Emma's classes are built to help you feel good in your body and at home in yourself — warm, intuitive, and restorative at their core.

  • Laura

    Laura's classes move between strength and stillness — vinyasa built on sixteen years of studying movement and energy, closing with live music in a savasana worth staying for.

  • Rola

    Rola brings research and real life together — grounded classes shaped by her particular focus on women's health through midlife and menopause.

  • Amy

    Amy trained at the Central School of Ballet and danced professionally before making the Algarve home. Now she brings that energy and light to ballet, contemporary, jazz and mum + baby movement.

a space to move

grounded in the Algarve

Community Meditation

Once a week, we open the doors for a free community meditation. Come along, take a seat and share a little stillness with us.

Wednesdays at 12.30-1pm

The name KAYA comes from the Sanskrit word काय (kāya), meaning “body.” In yoga and Buddhist traditions, it also refers more broadly to the body as a whole system.

KAYA is the realisation of a dream our Founder Alison has carried with her for many years: to create a beautiful, welcoming space where movement, wellbeing, nourishing food and community come together.

meet our founder
meet our founder