Some traditional vinyasa flow, with Rocket style creative freedom to help you to ground, align and find connection to yourself for the day ahead. A slow flow start setting a calm tone for the week.

Join for Foundations of Yoga as part of our series to give you the foundations you need to develop your practice.

Charting asana, breath, vinyasa flow, alignments, meditation and philosophy. We spend time reping out asana and talking through the postural shapes, to build foundations for strength, flexibility, mobility and agility. This session is for everyone, whether complete beginner or revisiting aspects of your practice. It's also an open environment for questions, exploration and trying new things on the mat.

A slow, deeply intentional, but strong Vinyasa practice for the whole body for all levels. Expect longer held pauses for mind-body connection and guided breath cues to help guide you through this deep and sometimes challenging practice.
The beginning of the class will allow you to create a space for reconnection with your inner Self through opening meditation and pranayama (breath extension), which should remain as a part of your practice for the rest of the session. Towards the end, you can expect a grounding sequence in order to slow down the breath and reflect on your experience on the mat.

This session is truly for everyone, all genders, ages and abilities.
The slow and graceful pace of the class will help you to learn how to listen to your body and gain the strength, not just physically, but mentally in the first place.
Everyone in this class is usually encouraged to use the yoga props along with trying many adjustments which are always offered to take in order to explore our boundaries and find the edges.

This Yoga practice is about quieting the fluctuations of the mind and creating a relationship with our mind, rather than being constantly in a separation and uncontrollable fight inside. Through the conscious and mindful movements along with a breath, you will be guided to stay present and take most of the experience off the mat into your daily life.

Every session is a different experience.

Early Hours

Rhianna will be taking you through the summer with a beautiful start to the day-working with vinyasa to gently stretch and wake up the body. Expect tasters of yoga philosophy, great playlists and closing savasana with a mini Thai Yoga forehead massage to set you up for the rest of the week ahead.

Part of our series to give you the foundations you need to develop your practice. Charting asana, breath, vinyasa flow, alignments, meditation and philosophy. This session is for everyone, whether complete beginner or revisiting aspects of your practice.

4 ounces to move 1000 pounds_

What is tai chi ?

Perhaps the black and white pattern in a circle like 2 fishes chasing each other or yin and yang comes to one’s mind. …….

“ Si Liang Bo qian Jin “ is a Chinese saying : using 4 ounces strength to move a 1000 pounds weight. This saying is frequently heard in Tai Chi classes around the globe.

This concept is not about one’s size, or even if your opponent is stronger than you are. It is about using tai chi concepts in practical life application.

With this concept we are dealing with “live weight” or moving object, and by applying leverage. But using mind and intent and NOT force.
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My name is Adrian Ling, I learned tai chi when I was young, from the old master back in Malaysia. I began to take tai chi more seriously for the last 5 to 6 years. And been teaching in community centres, libraries and among friends and families.

I like to introduce the basic tai chi and qi gong to our community, both for wellness and physical health .

We will be working towards learning forms. Eg. Yang style 8, 16, 24, 32 forms.

Or Chen style 18 forms.

These will come to light more when we are physically there. The forms are the building blocks of tai chi.

And tai chi can be translated as : The supreme ultimate.

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Book now for this session to explore movement and breath from a new angle.

A slow restorative session that mixes long held postures with long slow breathing, accompanied by mind expanding guided meditations throughout and set to slow music.

Some traditional gentle vinyasa flow, with added Feldenkrais-inspired floor work and deep body resetting to get you into your body for the day ahead, set to music. Expect free-flowing movements and easy transitions, as well as an intention setting for your day.

A 75 minute gentle and full-body regenerative session.

A vinyasa flow is designed to capture the essential elements of primal movement.

During this session we ask ourselves "what would I be like if I had never sat in a chair or been able to get my food from walking around a busy supermarket. What would my body feel like if I had to run, climb and move just to survive".

This session is a discovery session, with yoga as the key vehicle. Balance, strength in posture and finding new movement patterns.

Special Notes: Set around vinyasa, expect some workshop moments and non-yogic movements.

You may sweat.

A slow, spiritual, but strong Vinyasa practice for the whole body for all levels. Expect longer held pauses for mind-body connection and guided breath cues to help guide you through this deep and sometimes challenging practice.
The beginning of the class will allow you to create a space for reconnection with your inner Self through opening meditation and pranayama (breath extension), which should remain as a part of your practice for the rest of the session. Towards the end, you can expect a grounding sequence in order to slow down the breath and reflect on your experience on the mat.

This session is truly for everyone, all genders, ages and abilities.
The slow and graceful pace of the class will help you to learn how to listen to your body and gain the strength, not just physically, but mentally in the first place.
Everyone in this class is usually encouraged to use the yoga props along with trying many adjustments which are always offered to take in order to explore our boundaries and find the edges.

This Yoga practice is about quieting the fluctuations of the mind and creating a relationship with our mind, rather than being constantly in a separation and uncontrollable fight inside. Through the conscious and mindful movements along with a breath, you will be guided to stay present and take most of the experience off the mat into your daily life.

Every session is a different experience.

A cover for Basia

Hatha Flow with Ebba

This session is a complete nourishment for body, mind & spirit. Hatha yoga is slightly slower paced, staying in positions longer which make us have time to feel the different dynamics in the posture, find good alignment & tune into the breath. Hatha Yoga is a Grounding practice and is proven to reduce stress & anxiety.

Ebba studied classical Hatha Kriya Yoga in India, close to the Himalaya mountains 🏔️ 2012. Since then she explored many different modalities of yoga & healing.

We keeping the backbone of this class traditional Hatha yoga, simple but powerful but with some extra room for divine expression.


- PRANAYAMA (breathing) Learn different breathing techniques to balance nervous system & enhance your vital life force energy (prana)
- SUN-SALUTATIONS increase circulation of Prana & warm Up Your body.
- DEEP SLOW HATHA FLOW Often we weave in a philosophy and have time to go deeper into the poses.
- GROUNDING STRETCH Unwind & stretch out.
- RELAXING CRYSTAL SOUNDBATH Complete Restoration & Integration
- MANTRA 🕉️ Vibrate into a higher state of consciousness.

In this session you will experience your spine be realigned, spirit lifted & energy levels restored.

BREATH WORK - Energising breath-work to bring you into the present moment.

PILATES FLOW- Starting with slow & precise movement originated from the core. Building up to a sweaty flow to good VIBES tunes!

SOUND HEALING - Closing with total relaxation to Devine sounds of crystal sound bowls.

A Playful Vinyasa is a session to help you casually explore the edges of your practice, with a lot of proprioceptive cues focused on the sensation of the body. We will primarily explore the ideas and sensations of what happens at the boundaries of our movements, so the moment the stretch reflex contracts against a movement or how it shifts from one part of your body to the next as we flow, and how we move past that space into deeper ranges of motion.

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This session is free, or pay as you wish, or you can go for non-monetary exchange and bring a smile or a candle.

This is a FREE SPACE to practice yoga. This session is an open invitation to come and enjoy a yoga reset! Yoga is for everyone and this is an open session for all levels. There will be time after the session for chai and chats and space to explore any aspects of your practice that you wish!...

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The Yoga-Social is a FREE weekly meet-up exploring all kinds of different yoga, and non-yoga for expanding our ideas around health and wellbeing, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.

The Yoga-Social sessions will be different every week and are always free for everyone!

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YOGA / COMMUNITY / MOVEMENT / DISCOVERY

Yoga in the Stars is a project by The Metahealth Movement, a not-for-profit working towards elevated health.

We are thrilled to announce that £9,943 has been donated to Yoga in the Stars by The National Lottery Community Fund for a special new project The Yoga-Social!

The project is to create a space for people to come together around health and well-being. A free space to practice yoga, breathwork, movement, dance, tai chi and talk about health, food and lifestyle. Use the studio equipment and space in an open, inclusive and fun way. Expect spontaneous workshops and sessions, as well as a dedicated self-practice space, and we hope to invite other local yoga teachers to host sessions and workshops throughout the year to help grow and enrich the community.

Reach out to us with ideas.

Yoga really is for everyone, it’s a personal thing, and is a lifestyle choice that goes way beyond the mat and into every aspect of life, and we hope that this grant helps you to explore what this can mean for you as we discover together.

#NationalLottery and the National Lottery players, thank you!