A yoga instructor has set up a crowdfunder in the hope of opening a studio and vegan cafe.

Leyla Ramadan, who runs House of Leyla, has been building a community of yoga students and like-minded people in Gravesend for eight years.

After teaching thousands of yoga classes, guided meditation sessions and educational workshops, she decided that it was the right time to open a space.

The 36-year-old said: “We’re at a point where it would be really nice to have a space. We’ll call it a home – a home of wellness.

“I found a property that would be perfect to open the yoga studio where I can do all my classes, but also have other yoga teachers involved plus all the different treatments I do and bring in other people that do holistic treatments that have the same kind of ethos.

“There will also be a vegan cafe where we can teach people more about nutrition and having those swaps where we have plant-based days and things.”

Leyla has set up a Crowdfunder with a £30,000 target to raise money to lease and change the layout of the building. The project will only be funded if this amount is pledged by December 22 at 12.01pm.

She has already had builders and architects come and look at the building and she has come up with a transformed floor plan to utilise the space.

They will also be applying for grants to help them along the way.

If it goes ahead, the Home of Wellness will have a large studio for classes, workshops and teacher trainings, treatment rooms and a sensory room/nap pod.

There will also be free workshops and yoga classes monthly for those who may not have the funds to join their memberships, as well as a workplace area.

Leya continued: “A lot of people work from home now and sitting on chairs that are not meant for us to sit in all day, and being isolated it can be really difficult to be in that space all day.

“People are procrastinating a lot more. We’re picking our phones up and scrolling, so the workplace area is a really nice answer to that where people can have standing desks so they’re not sitting down all the time.

“We also want to do things like free community classes and free cooking classes and nutrition workshops and support with things like people understanding their menstrual cycles more – things people don’t really talk about much that they could really do with support with.”

She said that the idea is that someone could turn up in the morning, order a juice, do a yoga class, collect their juice, sit down and do some work, go and have some lunch, go back and do some work, do a treatment, do another class, and then go back to their desk.

“So they can spend the whole day there if they want to,” she said.

“But they’re not on their own and everything that surrounds them is towards their physical and mental wellness, so I’m really excited.”

The space, which is in Milton Road, Gravesend, would be open seven days a week and would be the only one of its kind in the area.

There has already been a lot of support for the campaign, with £7,395 being raised so far.

She continued: “It would be really great to have some support and to get it out there and let people know what’s going to happen so people can help with the campaign.”