CAST all of your assumptions about yoga to one side – now you can do it to seventies disco music and get off the floor and do a bit of jumping around.

Emily Haslam Jones, 35, from Forest Fields, is teaching a new kind of yoga – Kundalini – and the aim is to get fit and have fun.

Emily says: "It's much more active than people would expect. It's great for people who can't sit still in quiet yoga classes. Some people just need a lot more movement to get their stress out."

Emily also teaches more traditional yoga and does relaxed candlelight classes but has added Kundalini to her repertoire to appeal to more active yoga fans.

"We do active postures such as lifting the arms to strengthen muscles, release stress you've got there and build strength. We also do squats to build strong thighs. It makes people not only get physically strong but feel stronger.

"Some people love it and some get a real shock because they are expecting normal yoga – but people get hooked because they realise it makes them feel good."

Emily does two Kundalini classes a week – one at St John's Church in Carrington and another at the Old School Hall in Sneinton – and has had a good response from participants.

She says: "One girl came back after Christmas and had brought seven friends to the class – she was so enthusiastic about how it had changed her life that she convinced them all to come along with her."

Kundalini originates from India but Emily learned the practice in Vancouver, Canada. She has spent time living in Nepal as a humanitarian worker and used Kundalini to manage her stress.

"It's been tested in the most stressful of environments," she said. "It feels a bit like dancing in a nightclub all night, but it's organised in a way so the energy becomes useful to you.

"After the activity, we take it down and breathe which makes the energy useful because you ground it. Instead of feeling tired you feel energetic and able to cope with life."

For details, go to www.yoganova.co.uk