Robin Penney

Founder, Robin Penney Movement

Functional Movement Coach & Steel Mace Strength Coach

500-hr E-RYT Yoga Teacher, Steel Mace Vinyasa & Yoga Detour Certified

I work with midlife women who are ready to build real strength without giving up the yoga practice they love, or running themselves into the ground trying. My approach blends functional strength training, Steel Mace Vinyasa, and the yoga and breathwork you probably already know, built around your nervous system instead of against it.

Since 2012, I’ve coached hundreds of women through movement, not by pushing harder, but by training smarter, with strength, structure, and recovery all built into the same plan.

I was exactly where you are now. Strong practice, quietly falling apart.

10 Years of Yoga Wasn’t Enough for My Midlife Body.

In 2017, my back went out the day I finished teaching a yoga retreat in Santorini. Eleven hours home on a flight, trying not to move, and I knew something had to change.

I’d taught yoga for over a decade by then. I thought a strong practice was all my body needed. My hips and low back said otherwise.

That experience led me to rethink what strength could look like in midlife. In 2024, I completed a Steel Mace Vinyasa certification, and it became the missing piece, strength training that still felt like the flow I already loved.

Now I coach midlife women through Steel Mace Vinyasa, blending strength, yoga, and recovery into one practice.

Choose Strength Over Shrinking.