Increasingly popular with people from all walks of life, yoga is the connection between breathing and movement and can support physical and mental health in various ways. For example, from relieving stress and reduced muscle tension, to improved concentration, helping you feel calmer and more settled, energetic and alive.
Yoga and Fitness
Prenatal Yoga
Our prenatal class has been especially designed to support you on your journey into motherhood. The focus is on breathing practices to promote relaxation and gentle movement to help relieve any discomfort, while keeping the body strong and supple in preparation for labour.
Prenatal Yoga can help you:
- Exercise safely
- Nourish yourself and your growing baby
- Connect with fellow mums-to-be
Suitable from 12 weeks. All levels welcome
Postnatal yoga
Postnatal yoga is the ideal way to ease back into exercise after giving birth, and focuses on healing and strengthening the body to aid postnatal recovery.
This relaxed and supportive class helps you:
- Release tension
- Rebuild strength in key areas, eg abdomen and pelvic floor
- Spend time with your baby and other new parents
Suitable after 6 weeks from birth (minimum). Babies 6 weeks to crawling.
Yoga for long-term health conditions
This class is aimed at supporting people with long term health conditions and the emphasis is on the restorative aspects of yoga including breathing and postures.
Every Body Flow Yoga
Vinyasa yoga focuses on finding relaxation and endurance within more rigorous movement sequences. It helps build and maintain strong bones, muscles and connective tissue.
This helps maintain high metabolism, healthy posture, and an active and alive body
This is a dynamic yoga class, open to all levels. It’s emphasis is the importance of “being in your own skin” and to develop your practice from within.
Yin Yoga
Yin yoga is for you if you are tired and craving energy or if you have too much energy and your mind is overactive.
Yin yoga consists of a series of long-held, passive floor poses that mainly work the lower part of the body. The poses are held for up to five minutes, sometimes longer.
Benefits of a Yin Yoga practice
- Calms and balances the mind and body
- Reduces stress and anxiety
- Increases circulation
- Improves flexibility
- Releases fascia and improves joint mobility
Restorative Yoga
This class creates a friendly environment encompassing gentle movement with the use of props to guide your body towards optimal health.
With minimal yoga asanas (postures), the group will be nurtured through guided meditation in a slow restorative flow with the support of blocks, bolsters, blankets and more. Once aligned, some positions are held for longer periods of time allowing the body to open and stretch, encouraging flexibility, tone and deep relaxation. Through this journey of active rest, healing begins, culminating in a wonderful state of deep ease.
Restorative Yoga can help:
- Guide your body toward homeostasis (equilibrium)
- Quiet the fluctuations of the mind
- Prevent/Reduce Stress/Anxiety/Insomnia
- Reduce Acidity /Alkalise the Blood Balancing PH levels
- Lower Blood Pressure
- Release habitual tension in Body & Mind
- Contribute to weight loss
- Cultivate presence
- Connect to the stillness within
Pilates
“Pilates is complete coordination of body, mind and spirit.”
Pilates promotes strength and balanced muscle development, as well as increasing flexibility and the range of motion in our joints.
Benefits of Pilates include:
- Develops strong abdominal muscles
- Eases back pain
- Builds strength whilst being kind to your joints
- Hones focus by working with the breath
- Improves sports performance
- Improves your flexibility
