Tuesdays 1pm to 2.15pm (Starts Tuesday 2nd April)

We live in a culture of suppression.  We treat our bodies like machines, can’t escape from our racing minds, and often don’t know what we want.Tantra Yoga is a fusion of powerful poses, deep stretches, and meditation.  While performing strong poses, you are guided to relax your body and mind, so that even in the face of stress, you learn to let your inner passion flow.  You don’t need to sweat to have a beautiful body, or control your mind to be peaceful.  When you relax, everything flows.  This applies to Yoga and to life.  This 75 minute practice begins dynamically, winds to slow, challenging postures, and ends with a 15 minute Tantric meditation.  Take time on a Tuesday to drop the expectations you’ve placed on yourself, and enter a state of bliss.

Tuesday & Thursday evenings 7.45pm to 9.30pm (Starts Tuesday 2nd April)

This class is taught in the Mysore style tradition where students practice individually and at their own pace.  The class is meant to be a stepping stone between the led evening Ashtanga and the early morning Mysore Self Practice classes.  It is ideal for those students whose other life commitments do not allow for them to attend the early morning Mysore sessions, or for those who wish to try this way of practicing before committing to the morning classes. All practitioners of the Primary Series are welcome, from beginners to those that have completed Primary Series or have completed the Beginners Ashtanga Course.

The starting time is between 7.45pm to 8pm and finishes when you wish within the given time, up to 9.30pm

This class can be used as part of the Discount Class Passes or paid drop in but is not part of the early morning Mysore payment.

Thursdays at 7.45 pm is a level 2/3 Ashtanga Full Primary Series class, led in Sanskrit and counted in the traditional method. This is an opportunity for those who have been practicing levels 2 and 3 for a while to experience the full breath of the primary series. A challenging fast pace class with strong group energy, open to students of different levels of experience. Students can stop whenever they feel they need to or when the teacher suggests it.

This class will explore refined alignment and techniques that promote healing in key areas of the body such as the low back and shoulders. We’ll learn how to integrate and employ the body as a harmonious whole in asana and other daily movement. Restorative and dynamic poses will be used to discover how to release or engage where the body needs opening or support. Suitable for those wanting to deepen their knowledge of the body, as well as those wishing to address injuries. The class begins with a quiet meditation to bring us into a state of deep listening to the body.

The most athletic form of yoga, Ashtanga Vinyasa is a dynamic, physically demanding, flowing practice. Students will be led through some or all of a set series or postures, practised in a particular order, know as the Primary series. This practice aims to build heat in the body to help it to open and to release toxins.

These classes follow a vinyasa flow sequences of postures, with elements fused and integrated from various traditions in Yoga.  Particular emphasis is given to detail to the postures, to the bandhas and the breath and style and sequencing can vary from teacher to teacher! The Dynamic practice can be as strong as Ashtanga, but the difference being that is does not follow a set sequence of postures, so giving you the opportunity to experience various postures from the Yoga asanas  Being a stronger more athletic practice a certain level of fitness is required prior to starting any of the classes.

“Ha” means sun and “tha” means moon and hatha yoga is about the union of opposites. Hatha yoga aims to harmonise body, mind and spirit. The classes draw on the classical hatha yoga postures which help to build strength and stamina, also focuses on the alignment of the body whilst adding an element of flow. Pranayama (breath work) and meditation are also key to the practice and help to bring balance to the breath and the mind.  If you have never tried Yoga before this is a great place to start, and for those who enjoy a less strenuous practice a great practice to stay with.  Despite being a more relaxed class you will still gain the benefits of creating strength while increasing your flexibility!

Hatha Flow takes its root from the traditional Hatha practice, but postures being linked together with a flowing sequence or vinyasa.  Stronger than Hatha, but still providing the benefits of strength, stamina, flexibility and relaxation, but all in a more dynamic style!

Iyengar yoga is a form of Hatha yoga as practised and taught by B.K.S. Iyengar; one of the most influential yoga teachers of the 20th century. This method focuses on the structural alignment of the body through asanas (postures) and pranayama (breathing practices) to unite the body mind and spirit for health and well-being and is firmly grounded in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.  It is characterised by great attention to detail and precision of alignment. B.K.S. Iyengar has pioneered the use of various props such as belts, blocks, blankets chairs etc. to make the poses accessible to those who are unable to fully achieve them and to help experienced practitioners to have deeper understanding of them. Iyengar yoga is considered a powerful tool to relieve the physical and mental stresses of modern day life as well as a route towards self realisation.

Inspired by gentleness, precision and letting go, this practice draws together different elements of yoga: softness combined with strength, inner balancing outer stillness flowing into movement. The yin form of yoga is based on holding postures passively for sustained periods of time, encouraging softness and internal release.

Inspired by gentleness, precision and letting go, this practice draws together different elements of yoga: softness combined with strength, inner balancing outer stillness flowing into movement. The yin form of yoga is based on holding postures passively for sustained periods of time, encouraging softness and internal release.

This class is finished with a 15 to 20 minute meditation which students can choose to participate in or not.

This class is suitable from 12 weeks to term and welcomes all pregnant students from complete beginners to practiced yoginis. Breath and modified yoga asanas (poses) are taught in sequences to ease mums-to-be through pregnancy and labour.  Postures are taught to relieve some pregnancy discomforts from sciatica to heartburn, create strength and flexibility, while encouraging the gentle opening of the pelvis with postures to birth your baby.  Very simple breathing techniques are used to relax both body and mind throughout pregnancy and as a practice to lead you though your labour from first contaction.  Each class is finished with a Yoga Nidra, which is a deep relaxation to help you really let go an enjoy the changes to your body as you grow with your baby and get a bit of rest!!!

This class on Monday evenings from 7.45pm – 9pm is a Level 2/3 for students with a previous yoga practice, and who wish to continue with a more traditional and dynamic style of yoga! We recommend that you take this class in conjunction with another regular pregnancy yoga class to give you a fully rounded practice at this time.

The Saturday 9am class is for Second Trimester Students and will focus on practices that will deal on pregnancy niggles, helping to strengthen and create stamina within the body while giving a place to relax and learn some wonderful and beneficial breathing techniques. This class is slightly more dynamic and traditional to the yoga practice as the second trimester allows for students to still enjoy back lying and inversion sequences! We do not take students under 12 weeks pregnant, but if you are over 30 weeks and would like to join this class, please let the teacher know before the session starts so she can make the modifications to ensure you are practicing safely.

The Saturday 10.15am class is for Third Trimester Students and will take you safely from around 30 weeks up to your birth, so you can enjoy a practice that will provide you with the tools for labour and to keep yourself active and relaxed as your body adapts to your growing baby.  If you wish to join this class while still in your second trimester that is absolutely fine to do so.

This is a fun class for mums and babies every Wednesday at 11.30am! You can some along any time from 6 weeks after the baby’s birth if you had a vaginal labour or 8 weeks c-section,  or when you and baby are ready to join.  This class is a mix of spending bonding time with your babies over song and yoga postures for both of you.  After a brief intro at the beginning of class, we then create a class around any particular issues, usually targeting areas such as pelvic floor strengthening, relaxing shoulders and necks, lower backs, wrists and lots of twists for the tummy, as wells as providing ease to colic, constipation, teething etc for baby!  We are even brave enough to attempt and mum and baby relaxation! some times it works beautifully and everyone gets to enjoy 15 minutes of quiet time, other times  it is complete bedlam, but we have a lot of fun and at the end you can enjoy a well earned tea and cake over baby chat with other new mums in the class.

Postnatal Yoga (for mums only) – One Sunday a month 11.15am to 12.30pm, £12.50 per class or can be used as part of the Discount Class Passes. Post-natal yoga provides opportunities to connect with other women at similar stages of the postpartum experience, a powerful antidote to the isolation that often accompanies early parenting. This specially designed yoga practice helps you reclaim your post-pregnancy body. Starting gently to ease you into practice, the class is appropriate for women new to yoga, or yoginis looking to find a smart way back to a full practice. The poses will emphasize abdominal toning, pelvic floor and back strengthening. We will spend time releasing stress from the neck, shoulder, and upper back area. These areas often become tense from nursing, and carrying both baby and supplies. A restorative pose and guided relaxation will complete the sequence, leaving you calm and restored before returning to your baby.

A gentle and restorative class for older yogis focusing of keeping the joints mobile and hydrated… and finishing with a deeply indulgent relaxation!
£2 donation – This class is open only to Seniors.