With Neasa Mc Hugh.
Indulge in a rejuvenating cool-down session designed to complement your active lifestyle. Whether you’ve just wrapped up an intense gym session, a vigorous power yoga practice, or a long day of hiking, this all-levels class is the perfect way to unwind and restore balance to both body and mind.
Prepare to dive deep into each pose, holding for at least 8 breaths as you release tension and invite relaxation. This practice isn’t just for post-workout; it’s also ideal for winding down before bedtime, helping you ease into a peaceful and restful night’s sleep.
Join us and let your breath guide you to a state of blissful tranquility.
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Yin for Hips and Pelvis – 45 mins
With Chris Molloy.
This Yin class, led by Chris, will help create space in the pelvic area and open up to free any stuck emotions in this sacred space. For this practice, and for your own comfort, Chris recommends using props: a bolster, two blocks and a blanket. Remember you are working with soft tissue rather than muscles, so take your time and hold for as long as feels good for your body.
Chill Restorative Practice – 45 mins
With Brian Malone.
A simple restorative practice to help unwind and relax. You’ll need two bolsters (if you don’t have bolsters, big pillows will do), three blocks (if you have no yoga blocks, book will do), and two blankets.
If you would like some music to listen to, you can put on this playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Zl403f4QF8Kw2r5jKnfMq?si=EM2XiTojQWSTIdypQpmLaA&pi=e-uEv0kPT2Th66
Yin for Emotional Release – 60 mins
With Aga Chojnacka.
This powerful yet soothing practice is ideal for evening and a pre-bed time. Focus around energetic centres like the Heart and Root Chakra can feel intense, especially at times when they need most attention and care. Aga will gently help you navigate through those feelings, leaving you in charge of the level of challenge you want to embrace and work with.
By cultivating stillness and surrender, this practice will help you to shed tension, remove blockages within your energy flow, and restore ease in mind and body, leaving you relaxed and ready for a good night’s sleep.
Bedtime Yin – 30 mins
With Natasha Meehan.
The fast pace of modern life often leaves us with few opportunities to wind down and get a greater sense of self. Combat this issue by incorporating this yin practice into your daily routine.
It focuses on your lower back, shoulders and hips – a deeply relaxing process you can use to help you get ready to sleep or to give yourself a well-deserved early afternoon break.
Restorative Yin for Period Pain Relief – 60 mins
With Aga Chojnacka.
The Restorative Yin yoga class offers a gentle and nurturing practice specifically designed to alleviate discomfort and soothe menstrual cramps.
This class focuses on slow, passive stretching poses that target the lower abdomen, hips and lower back, where many women experience discomfort during their menstrual cycles. Through deep breathing and longer holds, the body is encouraged to release tension and promote inner healing and relaxation.
Props such as bolsters, blankets and blocks are utilised to support the body in poses, allowing for maximum comfort and ease. This class provides a safe sanctuary to honour and care for the body, offering relief and a sense of calm during menstruation – your kapha time.
Yin for Emotional Release – 45 mins
With Aga Chojnacka.
This yin yoga class focuses on opening up the hips and releasing tension in the body’s fascia. We’ll hold poses for longer periods to allow for a deeper release of tension.
Expect to move into hip-opening poses like pigeon and dragon, and use a foam roller in myofascial release techniques for added relaxation. Remember to focus on breathing deeply throughout each pose and tune in to your body’s needs. Adjust the intensity of each pose as needed, to ensure a comfortable and safe practice.
Incorporating mindfulness and relaxation techniques, this yin yoga class is perfect for those seeking to unwind and release tension in the body.
Revitalising Yin – 60 mins
With Sam-Lee Doyle.
Join Sam for a revitalising Yin yoga experience that targets the liver and urinary bladder meridian lines, promoting balance and harmony within the body. This class will guide you through a series of gentle, long-held poses that stimulate the flow of energy along these meridians, helping to release tension, improve circulation and support organ function.
Through deep stretches and mindful breathing, you’ll activate the liver meridian, which is associated with detoxification and emotional well-being. This practice encourages the release of stagnant energy, allowing for emotional release and rejuvenation.
Additionally, we’ll work on the urinary bladder meridian, which runs along the back of the body. By opening up this pathway, you can ease tension in the spine and alleviate stress. The poses in this class will focus on promoting flexibility and relaxation in the lower back and hips, contributing to improved energy flow and overall comfort.
Whether you’re looking to enhance your physical flexibility, reduce stress or promote emotional balance, this Yin yoga class centered around the liver and urinary bladder meridians offers a holistic approach to wellness. All levels are welcome to join in cultivating a sense of calm and renewal.
Slow and Grounding Yin – 30 mins
With Nicky Lewis.
A grounding and slow yin practice to release the tension in your body and mind. Grab a couple of pillows and get cosy – a great practice for just before sleep.
Deep Shavasana and Breath-focused Meditation – 15 mins
With Rohan Hennessy.
The perfect end to any class, join Rohan and Sam-Lee for this guided Shavasana practice followed by a breath focused meditation practice.
Evening Practice – 15 mins
With Olivia Power Ryan.
Release the day that’s been, opening into a state of connection and deep listening with the self. Melting the body open to softness, nourishment and deep receptivity so that you can hear the inner voice and reconnect.
This practice includes some gentle movement to open the body physically, transitioning into a lying down, deeply restorative meditation practice.
Perfect for before sleep or when in need of a healing practice.
Beginners Course – Bonus Savasana Practice – 10 mins
With Brian Malone.
The perfect completion to our beginners series or as a stand alone practice, a deeper look at the pose Savasana – the final resting pose at the end of almost every yoga practice. Learn how to relax and rest your body with this guided savasana practice.
Evening Yin – 30 mins
With Chris Molloy. This is a gentle shoulder opener class, suitable for all levels.
We will allow space into the shoulders and upper back while letting the body receive breath into any tightness in that space. If you have shoulder injuries or upper back pain, then please go slowly; hold the poses for a few breaths, then build up to hold a little longer. Practising this class each day will allow you to open up to the possibilities of back bends and upper body strength.
Yin Practice for Hips – 45 mins
With Aga Chojnacka
A great one to combine with Aga’s ‘Pilates for Sciatica’ classes.
Depending on what benefits you’re looking for, this class can be used at different times of the day, as well as on warm or cool muscles.
This soothing practice is meant to help you relieve stress from your body and mind, leaving you in charge of what level of intensity you want to work with. It will release tension from your hips, improve flexibility and blood flow through the area, bringing the whole system at ease. Relax and let the tension melt away.
Yin & Yang for the Glutes – 30 mins
With Catherine Bernard
In this 30-minute practice, Cat will take you through a series of postures and exercises for the glutes. Some will be repeated a number of times, for strengthening and mobility, and others will be held for longer, for stretching. Having strong glutes is so important, as they help stabilise the body, improve posture and lessen lower back pain.
Yin for the Spine – 45 mins
With Catherine Bernard
In this 45-minute practice, Cat will take you through a selection of Yin postures that target the spine. In our daily lives, we might move the spine in two directions at most, and that’s why so many people feel stiff and get back pain. In this practice, the spine will move in all directions: forward, sideways, backward and twists.
The benefits will be physical, with improved mobility and range of motion, as well as energetic, as a lot of nerves, blood vessels and organs are connected to the spine.
Upper Body Release – 15 mins
With Grace Clarke
Slow Flow perfect after a long day in work, especially if you have been sitting at a desk. Opening the back body and Spine, Neck, Shoulders and Lengthening out the Side body.
Lower Body Yin – 30 mins
With Elaine Yau
A short & sweet practice of yin to help release tightness in the hips. We will work on inner hips with Butterfly pose, Square/ Shoelace for outer hips, Dragon pose for hip flexors & finishing with Caterpillar for the back of the hips.
Have 2 blocks (you can use thick books), a blanket to hand.
Upper Body Yin – 25 mins
With Elaine Yau
Help release any tightness & tension in the upper body with this short & sweet practice of yin. Focusing on the shoulders, chest & upper back with longer held postures to help bring more space & openness to these areas.
Have a blanket, couple pillows/bolster to hand.
Cosy & Slow – 25 mins
With Grace Clarke
Enjoy this lovely Restorative/ Yin Practice. Pefect if your having a duvet day or looking to relieve some stress and come back to the body. Grab a bolster and block or even a pillow and books and get ready to feel Nourished!
Crown Chakra Yin Yoga – 40 mins
With Aoife McDermott
Final Practice within the Chakra Yin yoga series. Props : 2 Pillows or Bolster and a Blanket.
Rest & Release Yin – 60 mins
With Dani Hiro
Enjoy this calming and nourishing full body Yin practice suitable for all levels. Props : Bolster or pillow, Blocks or Books and a blanket.
Third Eye Chakra Yin Yoga – 40 mins
With Aoife McDermott
6th Practice within the Chakra series.
As we enter the brow chakra, we look back at the steps behind us with new vision. Adding indigo to our ever-expanding bridge we now have enough colors to see that we are, indeed, building a rainbow. Once we see what the pattern is becoming, we can intuit the steps necessary to complete it. Our sight gives us guidance. We can see where we have been, where we are now, and predict where we are going.
Spotify Playlist : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/52UhyyzJM1rb4Tv87xA0MH?si=61bc44979415421a
Sacral Chakra Yin Yoga – 40 mins
With Aoife McDermott
Part 2 of the Chakra yin yoga series working with the Sacral Chakra. Working with the lower belly and pelvic bowl, the element of water and exploring our relationships, boundaries, creativity, sexually and our emotions.
Throat Chakra Yin Yoga – 40 mins
With Aoife McDermott
Part 5 of the Chakra Yin Yoga Series.
As we enter the etheric level of the throat chakra, we enter a paradoxical realm of great subtlety yet powerful influence. The enveloping element of air still surrounds us, yet we reach beyond it into the unknown ether—the realm of vibrations, sound, communication, and creativity. We have passed the halfway point in our rainbow. In the dance between liberation and manifestation, we are now leaving the balance of the heart to focus more heavily on the upper chakras.
Spotify playlist : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3NfVMVPn7bDFeM7OCi1q4R?si=dc0a52910e7e4d55
Heart Chakra Yin Yoga – 40 mins
With Aoife McDermott
Part 4 of the Chakra Yin Yoga series.
Focusing on the Heart Space, bridge the physical with the more ethereal realms. Working with the element of air. Balancing and bridging between the lower chakras and upper chakras.
Solar Plexus Chakra Yin Yoga – 40 mins
With Aoife McDermott
Part 3 of the Chakra Yin Yoga series.
We enter the third chakra through the gates of duality. As we exercise choice, we initiate the will. Through exercising our will, we develop our individuality, discover our strengths and weaknesses, and begin to build the power that will steer our lives. This is a 40 minute guided yin practice, weaving breathwork, visualization and affirmation together to drop deep into our inner fire.
Spotify playlist : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/00jXe8mBzH8NKeyvUO9Ysa?si=fd25d6cfc78e47d2
Wind Down Yoga – 25 mins
With Grace Clarke
Slow Flow Restorative 25 minutes of wind down yoga to release tension and relax the body and mind. This class is suitable for all levels, with optional props (such as pillows).
Sacral Chakra Yin Yoga – 40 mins
With Aoife McDermott
Part 2 of the Chakra Yin Yoga Series.
As we enter the second chakra, we encounter the watery realm of emotions and sensuality. Where we have worked for grounding and stability in the first chakra, we now cultivate feelings and movement; Our associated element has shifted from the element of earth in chakra one, providing support and containment for the fluid essence of chakra two, much like a cup holds water. Invite yourself to feel, sense, and experience the ever moving, fluid energetic resonance of the Sacral Chakra in this 40 min yin yoga practice.
Spotify playlist : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BAz4dNyjJQzPtoTQRUHzR?si=8f429e31d7ab4952
Root Chakra Yin Yoga – 30 mins
With Aoife McDermott
Part 1 of the Chakra Yin Yoga Series.
Welcome to a journey of our chakra energetic system through yin yoga! We begin at the bottom, Muladhara chakra, our root. Invite yourself to explore how you ground down and find safety within. Weaving sensation, visualisation, affirmation and breathing techniques, we impart awareness deep down within and start climbing the rainbow bridge towards enlightenment.
Playlist : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5gspDjyqcMrACo2LcuX1Lz?si=eLLZT6l6SGeu_nz9OHM-vQ
Wall Yin – 40 mins
With Aoife McDermott
Enjoy this Slow and Nourishing Yin practice using the wall for support. Beginner Friendly.
Yin for Stress and Anxiety – 60 mins
With Aoife McDermott
A delicious practice to help alleviate stress and anxiety from the body and mind. Perfect before bed or on those stressful days when you feel you need it most.
Sound Bath – 20 mins
With Ali King
Lie down and enjoy this Restorative Sound Bath for healing and relaxation with Ali.
Restorative Yoga For Back and Shoulders – 35 mins
With Reeta Cherie
Suitable for complete beginners as well as all levels. Restorative Yoga is a super gentle style of Yoga, practiced mostly seated or lying down. This class is designed to help open and move tight backs and shoulders.
Weekly Flow Part 2 Yin – 30 mins
With Dane Hickey
Suitable for all levels including beginners. Join Dane Hickey on the mat for this week’s 30 minute contemplative practice to return to a grounded and calm state. Take a break from your day to focus on your wellbeing with this accessible and fun practice.
Yin & Tonic for Neck and Shoulders – 45 mins
With Aoife McDermott
A lovely full 45 minute yin class to floss in to the neck and shoulders, adding in some soft movement to open up these areas.
Gentle Yin for Hips – 30 mins
With Suzanne McGill
Suitable for all levels. Join Suzanne for this short and sweet Yin practice designed to help open the hips. Suggested props: cushions, blanket and/or block.
Yin Yoga – 45 mins
with Aoife McDermott
A full 45 minutes to tend to yourself and give yourself some time of nourishment. Props : Blanket, bolster or pillows
Yin for the Heart – 45 mins
With Aoife McDermott
A lovely yin practice heart opening practice. Opening up the chest, perfect if you have been sitting down or rounding the spine.
Restore & Renew Yoga – 45 mins
With Dani Hiro
Dani guides you through a Restorative Yoga practice. You’ll need some pillows and a blanket. Dani will walk you through it as you start the video. This practice is super gentle and regenerative. If you need to come down from all the stresses and strains of modern life. This is the practice for you. Enjoy!
