Kilted Yoga star Finlay in special Lochaber visit

Kilted Yoga star Finlay Wilson and his twin brother, photographer Alastair Wilson, passed through Fort William and Lochaber at the weekend on a special Highland mission.

 

The duo stopped off at various spots during the two days, including a visit to the Highland Bookshop in Fort William to sign copies of Finlay's book, Kilted Yoga, and get new photographs and video footage.

 

Using a vehicle from The Tartan Camper Company, the pair also stopped off in Ballachulish, before heading to Skye and then returning through Glen Coe.

 

It was Finlay's original 'Kilted Yoga' video used by the BBC on its online site The Social which launched him and his yoga practice into the spotlight with more than 100 million worldwide views.

 

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Finlay strikes a yoga warrior pose in the Quiraing. Photograph: AJW Photography
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Kilted Yoga was then released as a book in October last year and has been attracting people’s attention to yoga, Scotland and a healthier way of being and thinking.

 

A certified Forrest Yoga teacher, Forrest Yoga Guardian-in-training and Senior Yoga Alliance teacher, Finlay is currently based in Dundee where he is co-founder and principal teacher of Heart Space Yoga and Bodyworks.

 

As well as his weekly classes, he now also leads classes all over the world and online.

 

"attachment_155022" "" "300"] Kilted Yoga star Finlay Wilson with Sarah-Louise Bamblett, manager of The Highland Bookshop, on Saturday. Photograph: AJW Photography.
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Speaking about his trip to Lochaber, Finlay told the Lochaber Times: 'It was amazing to see people who knew us and came to speak to us while we took images and videos in all of these places.

 

'We travelled through the night from Glasgow to Loch Lomond, through Glen Coe, to Nevis Range, Fort William, then on to Skye and a night surrounded by darkness and the howling wind on the Quiraing.'

 

Finlay described conditions at the Quiraing as 'freezing', but there was certainly a warm welcome from one group of American tourists at Eilean Donan castle.

 

'We arrived early-ish in the morning. The weather was dry and there were not too many people about. But these Americans saw us and just screamed and came running over.

 

'We signed a copy of the book for them and they said it had been our videos which had been the reason for them deciding to make the trip to see Scotland for themselves, which is great.'

 

Finlay believed the whole 'kilted yoga' phenomenon and the amazing images and video it has produced has attracted a younger interest in his yoga classes.

 

'I think the whole kilted yoga thing has lent a more masculine image to it, which is a little bit different perhaps to how it is often portrayed and promoted.

 

'It has certainly attracted people to my classes who say yoga was not something they'd thought about trying previously.'

 

 

 

Finlay Wilson practices a yoga pose near the Corran Ferry during his weekend tour of the Highlands.

 

Photograph: AJW Photography

 

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