Core Power | Yoga – 30 mins

With Snehaa Midha.
Get ready to ignite your fitness journey with this high-intensity class that will sculpt and tone your entire body.
This practice combines challenging workouts to torch your muscles and push you to your limits. With a focus on core, arms, hips and legs, you’ll experience a series of dynamic bodyweight movements that will leave you sweating and feeling the burn.
Consistency is key: if you make this practice a regular part of your routine, you can expect to see dramatic results in just a few weeks. Get ready to transform your body and unleash your inner strength with Snehaa Midha’s guidance.

Backbends – for Posture and Stress Relief – 45 mins

With Aga Chojnacka.
As intimidating as backbends can seem, it is very rewarding to reclaim your body to the extent of being able to do them. The work towards more challenging asanas – like Full Locust (Poorna Salabhasana), explored in this practice – will help you release stress from your chest and heart area, improve your posture, and invigorate you on a hormonal level. This class will give you a strong basis in advancing your practice and helping you enjoy being in the moment.

Hatha for Grounding – 60 mins

With Aga Chojnacka.
A close-to-mat practice that will balance the yin and yang energies within you. Address your fire and your water, offering your body some heated asanas followed by lengthy, calming yin challenges.
Perfect for when you’re trying to uplift your energy and get back to a regular practice after a break, as it offers plenty of rest and support; it’s a great slow-down class to get you grounded and relaxed.

Twisty Flow to Bird of Paradise (Svarga Dvijasana) – 45 mins

With Maider Arrausi.
Twists have the quality of being calming and yet energising; they activate the digestive system and restore the natural range of motion to the spine.
In this twisty flow, Maider will guide you through a variety of deep twisting asanas and lead you to a peak pose, Bird of Paradise, with lots of options to deconstruct it. This practice will activate the fire within and bring a calming quality to the mind.

Mandala Flow to Bird of Paradise (Svarga Dvijasana) – 45 mins

With Maider Arrausi.
Mandala flows are creative and beautiful; they challenge concentration and trust by moving in 360 degrees around the mat. In this energising and accessible flow, Maider will deconstruct birds of paradise, giving lots of variations. Bird of paradise is a standing-balance pose that is believed to build confidence, boost energy and fight fatigue.

Juicy Hip Flow – 30 Mins

With Sam-Lee Doyle
There are over 20 muscles that cross the hips, hamstrings, psoas, adductors, biceps femoris and iliacus to name a few.
When hips are tight, they increase the load and cause overuse of the spine.
In addition to the benefits of improved range of motion and circulation and decreased back pain, opening the hips can create an energetic shift or release as well.
Yogic tradition holds the hips as a storage ground for negative feelings and pent-up emotions, especially ones related to control in our lives.
Hip-opening can also create space for the birth of new ideas and new pathways.
Opening the hips gives us access to freedom in the body and in our own unique expression, creatively, physically, sexually, and spiritually.
An exploration of Yang and Yin style of practice, building heat to create space, using this space to surrender in effortless ease.

Upper Body Flow – 30 mins

With Sam-Lee Doyle

The physical demands (or lack thereof) of modern life have a way of drawing the chest in on itself. Long hours at the computer or behind the wheel tend to round the shoulders forward, bring on a turtle neck and generally cause the upper body to go into a defeated slump.

Specifically, the pectoralis minor muscles that underlie the bigger pec muscles scrunch up while your upper back muscles — especially the serratus anterior — become weak. This muscle imbalance can cause chest pain and restrict your range of motion. Throw a frozen rib cage into the mix and you have a recipe for oxygen depletion, thanks to the fact that drawing a full breath can make the intercostals that connect the ribs feel a bit touchy. All that upper body tension is the gift that keeps on giving and next thing you know the pain is travelling all the way down your spine into your lower back.
The body stores emotions and chest openers are good for releasing sadness, grief, anger and frustration. The more you expand your sternum, rib cage and the rest of your upper body with chest openers, the more blood, oxygen and nerve circulation will be freed up to invigorate you mentally and physically.
This class is designed to open the upper back, the chest and the heart area. Creating space across the front of the body and working with the space in between the shoulder blades, we will actively counteract our everyday sitting posture.

Hamstring Flow – 60 mins

With Cat Bernard
Cat takes you through a slow flow yoga practice to open the hamstring and hips and work your way up to Hanumanasana, aka Monkey pose or the yoga splits.
If you are a beginner, this practice is doable, take it at your own pace, and focus on the supported versions of the pose and all the drills. If you are more advanced in your practice, this will bring you safely to the peak pose and might give you more freedom of movement.
Props: Blanket, blocks, strap.

End of Week – Slow But Strong Flow – 60 mins

With Niamh
A full bodied Vinyasa Slow Flow, designed to energise the body and calm the mind! Moving at a slower pace is not necessarily an easier approach, if anything, it’s usually a little more challenging. Expect to move, breath, challenge and restore your mind, body and sense with this end of week flow, designed to press the reset button after a week behind, and a week ahead of you! Level 1 and 2