Yoga Quota spreads the benefits of yoga to those who need it most.


​The benefits of yoga are amazing, but often the people who would benefit most can't access it.

So in 2014 our founder, Anne, started a movement to combat this problem. Since then Yoga Quota has worked to make yoga accessible to vulnerable groups.

​We are a registered charity (no. 1161833) and work with a brilliant community of Charity Partners to deliver yoga to their service uses. 

​Our free charity classes are taught through our network of Badgeholders, an amazing group of yoga teachers located throughout the UK. 

We believe that a regular yoga practice can be transformational, and we've received some amazing feedback from charity clients:
The Yoga Quota team invited me in with warmth, just like everybody else. They gave me space to practise. They guided me through simple postures and breathing and everything with it. I started practising again, slowly, little by little. Like an animal lost in the desert learning how to drink again drop by drop.
- Charity Client, 2017

Why 'Quota'?

Every 50 clients who visit our studio we make one 'quota' and with this one quota we teach one free class for a vulnerable group. This means that when you practice at Yoga Quota, your practice gives back to those in need. 

CEO
Harriet McAtee

Our current CEO, Harriet, stepped into the role in December 2017. Harriet first entered into the world of yoga as an uncoordinated 13 year old, and has been in love with it ever since. Her practice solidified during her undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland, Australia, where she initially completed a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) and a Bachelor of Arts (Art History) (Hons Class I). She went onto complete her MPhil, also at the University of Queensland, whilst also tutoring undergraduates and assisting with research. ​
In 2014, Harriet commenced her 350 Hour training with My Health Yoga, and began teaching that same year. Since that time, she has accumulated over 1,000 teaching hours and is currently an E-200 RYT (Experienced 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher) and YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider) with Yoga Alliance. Harriet recently completed her 85 hour Registered Pregnancy Teacher Training with Sally Parkes. She is currently completing her 300 hour certification with YogaLondon.
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Harriet began practicing at Yoga Quota shortly after moving to Oxford in November 2015, and joined the teaching team in January 2016. Yoga Quota and its amazing students and teachers have quickly become family, and she celebrates every opportunity to teach and practice. Working within such a wonderful charity has enabled Harriet to tangibly provide clients who often need yoga the most with an experience which she knows has created profound change in her own life. Her teaching has also thrived as a result of the diverse and engaging community of charities with which Yoga Quota partners.