COURSES
Beginner’s Courses
Beginners Courses
We are passionate about our beginners’ courses. We have been teaching them for over 8 years. These courses are tried and tested and we are always adding to them to ensure we offer the best information and learning possible.
We will cover
- Breath work – calming the mind and nervous system
- Postures – flexibility, mobility. We share different styles of Yoga so that you are able to join any class on our schedule.
- Strength – how to build a sustainable practice
- Moving meditation – on breath and postures to help us feel fully absorbed and forget about our worries.
Learn in person at our lovely studio: Limited to 12 people to ensure you get all the attention you need to start your Yoga journey in the best way.
Cost: £95
LEVEL 1
Foundations. Learn the basics of an enjoyable and sustainable yoga practice.
You will receive:
- 6 classes with your peers taught by an experienced teacher (more than 5 years’ experience)
- Weekly emails with practice and technique videos
- Focus on standing postures and breathing techniques.
Each week we will cover:
Foundational poses: Sun Salutations, Standing Poses including side bends, rotations and forward folds. Balances, backbends and options for mild inversions (where appropriate).
Advice and technical coaching on how to avoid injuries.
Modifications and postural adjustments to suit your body.
Experience of the different styles of Yoga that we offer on our weekly schedule
Advice on how to build a sustainable and regular practice to meet your goals whether it’s flexibility, stress management, health or balancing out your other weekly activities.
Come and join us for a truly fun and informative 6-week journey!
LEVEL 2
Refine your practice. Now that you have the basics start to build on your understanding and practice to add some additional postures and refine what you’ve learnt in level 1.
Week 1: Where does Modern Yoga come from
Week 2: Yoga Sutras: Stilling the Mind
Week 3: Concept of Dhristi + 8 Fold Path
Week 4: Concept of Dharana + Aum – other ways to find focus
Week 5: Concept of Santosha and benefits of yoga to our vestibular system
Week 6: Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Other offerings for our health from Yoga to explore
We recommend that you complete Level 1 before joining level 2 if you’re not sure please CONTACT US
UPCOMING COURSE DATES
IN STUDIO Level 1
Mondays
23rd June – 28th July
7:30PM – 8:45PM
In Studio Level 2
Mondays
23rd June – 28th July
6:00PM – 7:15PM
Pregnancy Yoga Course
We offer a rolling 6-week Pregnancy Yoga Course. This allows us to provide you with consistent and high quality support. You can join from 12 weeks and can continue to book in 6-week blocks. You also gain access to our Pregnancy Yoga video library with additional practices you can do at home.
The aim of these classes is to create a space for mums-to-be to breathe, move and connect with their babies. Empowering women to take care of their health and wellbeing during pregnancy, prepare for labour and learn tools they can use to support themselves in postpartum. All in a friendly welcoming environment where you can meet others going through this stage of life too.
Over the course you will explore:
- Ways of moving to support, strengthen and balance the changing body.
- practices to balance and nurture yourself through challenges such as tiredness, nausea, vomiting, aches, pains, and a whole host of other unexpected things!
- Ways to soothe shoulders, neck, hips and back.
- Movements to help optimise your baby’s position for birth.
- Tools and techniques to help progress and manage your labour.
- Pelvic floor health.
- Breathing techniques to reduce stress and anxiety.
- Relaxation practices to unwind and replenish energy.
- Practices to connect with your baby.
As part of the course, you will also have access to a video library with practices and tutorials.
About Jo Harris our Pregnancy Yoga teacher
Jo has been a yoga teacher since 2014 guiding students in Vinyasa Flow, Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga, Baby yoga and massage, Yoga Nidra and Restorative Yoga. Jo has also trained as a Doula, offering practical, emotional, informational support to parents going through pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
This training coupled with years of teaching pregnancy and mother and baby yoga and becoming a parent too, provides Jo with a great understanding of the physical and emotional process of becoming a mother. A process also known as matrescence. Jo aims to provide a space for women to feel empowered to explore the possibilities of moving their body, prepare for labour, recover from pregnancy and birth and bond with their baby. Classes are supportive, bringing together a community of women to share in their experiences of pregnancy and motherhood.
Cost: £75 for 6 weeks (includes video library) or £16 Drop In class only
Pregnancy Yoga Course
Drop in or 6 Week Block
March 8 To April 12
10:45am
Pregnancy Yoga Course
Drop in or 6 Week Block
April 19 to June 7
10:45am
(skips the May Bank Holidays)
MUM AND BABY CLASSES
SUITABLE FROM 6 WEEKS POST-PARTUM UNTIL YOUR BABY IS CRAWLING
These classes are a friendly nurturing space to come and move, breathe, meet other mums and bond with your baby. Having a baby is a huge life change and the body and mind has been through a lot. Join us to support your postpartum recovery, build strength, soothe aches and pains and connect with your baby. We want to help you feel good about yourself and more confident in your body and yourself as a mum.
Within these classes you will:
- Gently strengthen the body from the inside out, with particular attention to the pelvic floor, posture, back and core strength.
- Learn baby yoga stretches to comfort, bond and support your baby’s development.
- Use songs, sounds and rhythms to engage your baby.
- Enjoy time to be at ease and relaxed in a baby friendly environment.
- Meet other mums and their babies.
- Learn tools to destress and regulate your nervous system through those challenging moments of parenting.
At any time during the class, you are welcome to feed, change your baby and do anything you need to as a mum. These classes will be 45 minutes of practice followed by a replenishing herbal tea and snack.
Drop in £15
Every Wednesday in April to 14th May
10:30AM -11:30AM
6 week block £66 or Drop in £15
From 14 May – 18th June
10:30AM -11:30AM
ASHTANGA YOGA COURSE
INTRO TO ASHTANGA YOGA COURSE
Saturdays
1st February / 26th April / 11th October
2:00pm – 5:00pm
This workshop is suitable for:
- Returning practitioners who have taken a break
- Those who practice Led style and want to understand
- Self Practice before trying it
- Totally new practitioners who want to understand Ashtanga yoga.
Learn about Ashtanga yoga so you can confidently join either the Led or Self Practice style of class.
Ashtanga Yoga offers you a set sequence of postures which flow into each other supported by slow and steady breathing.
Develop your understanding of the sequence, the breathing and the flow of the practice with us.
This dynamic style of yoga particularly focuses on opening our hips and shoulders and learning the sequence can be an immensely empowering way to develop your understanding of both your body and of what yoga can offer you.
This introductory workshop will cover:
- History and purpose of the practice
- Postures
- Breathing
- How to confidently continue your practice.
2:00pm – 5:00pm
with Raili Maripuu
£35
APRIL
2:00pm – 5:00pm
with Raili Maripuu
£35
OCTOBER
2:00pm – 5:00pm
with Raili Maripuu
£35
WANT TO TRY ASHTANGA YOGA?
Ashtanga Yoga is a dynamic, flowing and breath-led movement practice. It consists of 6 series. Everyone starts with the Primary Series and works from there.
There are two ways of practicing it:
- Ashtanga Half Led: Led means the teacher is at the front of the class leading everyone through the poses at the same time. Half Led means you get to about half way through the series of poses of the primary series.Most people would recognise this style of class as it is like any movement or exercise class with the teacher at the front telling everyone what to do.We teach this class every Tuesday and Thursday at 7.15-8.30pm
- Ashtanga Self Practice (or Mysore style): You learn the sequence pose by pose and the teacher moves around the room assisting people individually.This is a unique way of learning Yoga and can feel strange at first. But once you’ve learnt some of the sequence it is very empowering and meditative.You start with the Sun Salutations at the beginning of the Primary Sequence and learn it pose by pose. New poses are added gradually.
Your practice time will vary depending on your pace and the number of postures you have learned.
IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO TURN UP AT THE START TIME OR STAY FOR THE ENTIRE SCHEDULED SELF PRACTICE CLASS.
YOU TAILOR THE TIMING TO MATCH YOUR PRACTICE TIME.
We run Ashtanga Self Practice every:
- Monday from 6:30am
- Wednesday from 6:30am
- Thursday from 5:15pm – note this is an evening class
- Friday from 6:30am
- Saturday from 7:15am
Want to learn Ashtanga Self Practice?
We have set up a new slot where Beginner’s to Self Practice can come along and join our Self Practice classes for 45 minute periods in order to start to learn the sequence in a supported manner.
You will be in the self practice room with everyone else, so you can see how the class works and benefit from the lovely energy, but also have additional support from our Ashtanga Teachers.
Beginner numbers will be limited to 4 people and after 4 sessions you will be able to book onto the full session as you will have enough of the sequence memorised to come at any time you wish.
Beginner’s Self Practice Times:
- MONDAYS: 7:15 am
- WEDNESDAYS: 7:15 am
- THURSDAYS: 6.15 pm
- SATURDAYS: 8:15 am
