This is a space for you to experience traditional yoga practices that suit and feel good in your body. Each class explores different asanas (postures), pranayamas (breath work), relaxation/meditation, mudras (gestures) and mantras. In this class you can expect to practice traditional Yoga asana (standing, lying down, Surya Namaskar, seated, forward bends, backbends, inversions and twists.) This class is your space for you to flow, connect to your breath, build strength and flexibility, and find a sense of calm.

Many of us will experience anxiety as a normal response to life's stresses. For some of us, the impact of living with anxiety may feel severe when it interferes with our day to day lives. You are not alone. Research has shown Yoga to be a valuable way of supporting people to manage their experience of anxiety. This class is a warm, welcoming and safe space for you to explore a variety of Yoga practices aimed to support you to manage your experience of anxiety. We recognise that we may all experience anxiety in different ways, and so we encourage you to listen to the wisdom of your body and choose the practices that feel right to you in that moment.

The practices explored may include:

Movement practices to support, ground, help release tension, explore up regulation and down regulation.

Breath practices to help initiate the relaxation response in the nervous system.

Mindfulness and meditation practices to support our minds to remain anchored in the present moment, rather than rushing into the future.

The practices aim to empower you to create a sense of safety, comfort and ease in the body and mind, shift thought patterns that no longer serve you, and help you build resilience; all of which can enhance your ability to self regulate and cope with your experience of anxiety.

Our breath is a truly wonderful thing. We have the capacity to alter our mood through the breath. Breathing practices can be a powerful way to revitalise your body, mind and emotions. This class is a space for you to explore the breath at a pace that feels good for you.

Prana is generally translated as 'vital energy' or 'life force', yama means 'to control', ayama means 'expand'.

Pranayama is seen as the bridge between the body and the mind, and is a wonderful ancient practice and system of techniques of controlling the breath to create vitality, increase and purify our energy and lifeforce (prana). The breath can be seen as a symbol of prana and the practices of pranayama were used by the ancient yogis as a way to focus and calm the mind, and cultivate balance in the body and mind. Today, breath practices are valued for their role in autonomic balance, stress reduction, cognitive function and helping to manage our emotions.

The class will involve some gentle movement as a way to connect to body and breath, followed by am exploration of breathing practices, including the classical pranayama's in a supine and seated positions.

Chair Yoga is a wonderful way to experience the benefits of a Yoga practice in an accessible way. Chair Yoga is suitable for anyone, and in particular anyone with reduced mobility, medical needs or those experiencing persistent pain. Each class will begin with a connection to the body and breath, followed by a gentle warm up for the joints and the spine, poses to help build strength, balancing poses, and finishing with gentle movements to soothe in preparation for relaxation/meditation. We will always begin in a seated position, and we can stay seated for the whole practice if you choose to. There will be an opportunity to experience some of the poses in a standing position and using the chair for support, should you choose to practice off the chair. Everything is a suggestion, there is always an invitation to listen to your body and be guided by your inner wisdom.

An energising class to help set you up for the rest of your day.

A Yoga practice to build heat and connect to your breath. The class will include Sun Salutations, standing and seated postures, and then move into a meditative sequence to close practice and calm the mind.

Variations will always to be offered to suit and feel good in your body. There is always an invitation to listen to your body and be guided by your inner wisdom.

Yin class; always quiet, always slow, always a place where we can find space for ourselves. Each week will focus on a different theme, and is explored through floor based postures. This is a slower paced, quiet, contemplative practice, which allows for a lot of focus on the breath. We will explore a series of passive floor poses which are held for up to 5 minutes. The longer holds allow the muscles to relax and help release any deep held tension. We can access the connective tissues; promoting flexibility and strength in our joints. Yin is based on the Chinese Meridian Theory, so by holding postures we can stimulate the flow of energy through meridians to help bring balance to the body and mind.