Guided Meditation & Cultivating Emotional Balance – Saturdays 11am to 12 @ Hubert St – By Donation
Starts Saturday 6 February. Bookings required
A half hour guided meditation followed by a presentation and a discussion drawn from the Cultivating Emotional Balance program. We will practice meditations to calm the mind, expand our perceptions of the world and cultivate the positive qualities of the heart.
With Rob, Jude, Celesta and Ashton
11 to 24 January 2021
6:00-7:00am Mon to Fri; 8:15-9:30am Sat & 8:30-9:30am Sun
Ready to start the year feeling healthy and positive? The mornings are bright and warm and the crows are calling at the Hubert St Studio.
The 14 Day Yoga Challenge is a daily morning yoga practice designed to kick start your year with a healthy body and healthy mind. Daily yoga practice is challenging, rewarding and transformative.
This course is open to everybody, with any level of yoga experience.
Monday and Saturday with Rob, Tuesday and Sunday with Celesta, Wednesday and Friday with Ashton, and Thursday and Saturday with Jude (you can choose the 8:15am hatha or 9:45am gentle hatha class on Saturday).
Bookings required. See below if you have an existing pass.
One month unlimited class pass. Upon purchase you will be able to book into an unlimited number of classes for 30 days. See more details in the long description below.
Hatha Yoga is a combination of asanas (postures) and pranayama (energy control using the breath) built on a foundation of ethics. This asana practice works towards increased flexibility, strength, balance and improved functioning of body systems. The class begins with yogic breathing practices, with the asana practice increasing in intensity to suit the level of the class and flows into deeper stretching as the body warms up. The class concludes with a relaxation/ meditation.
Starting the day with a dynamic yoga practice is highly recommended as you can work deeply into the systems of the body. The digestive system is at its most empty, the circulatory system gets moving, and the parasympathetic nervous system is activated (the bodies ‘rest and digest’ mode.
Yin yoga is a meditative practice that gives us time to slow down and connect with the body, and to explore the depths of the body and mind. The yin approach to yoga practice targets tissues of the body that are difficult to affect in more dynamic styles of yoga.
In this five week term we will build a yoga practice from the ground up – starting with the load bearing parts of the body (the feet and the hands) before moving on to other body parts. The aim is to get the body moving with more freedom – using the postures of yoga and the principles of Function Range Systems to clean up the mechanics of movement.
A 5 minute morning routine everyday and short (10 minute) homework videos will be posted with a recommendation that these be practiced 3 times a week in addition to the classes.
What you will learn/ experience:
The foundations for a safe practice
Exercises to increase ease of movement in the hips, shoulders and spine
A short sequence to effectively maintain the body and prepare for any activity
Basic breath work and integration of this into a movement practice
In this five week term we will build a yoga practice from the ground up – starting with the load bearing parts of the body (the feet and the hands) before moving on to other body parts. The aim is to get the body moving with more freedom – using the postures of yoga and the principles of Function Range Systems to clean up the mechanics of movement.
A 5 minute morning routine everyday and short (10 minute) homework videos will be posted with a recommendation that these be practiced 3 times a week in addition to the classes.
What you will learn/ experience:
The foundations for a safe practice
Exercises to increase ease of movement in the hips, shoulders and spine
A short sequence to effectively maintain the body and prepare for any activity
Basic breath work and integration of this into a movement practice
The next 5 week term will start 11 Feb
Suitable for complete beginners to experienced yoga practitioners.
For those new to yoga or those coming back to your yoga practice, this class will introduce you to a sequence of postures (asanas) and give you an understanding of the foundations of hatha yoga practice.
Each class will focus on strength building postures and gentle stretching, as you are guided through the yoga postures (asana), breathing techniques (pranayama) and meditations. The aim is that you body will have more freedom and less tightness, and your mind will be more clear and calm.
What you will learn/ experience:
The foundational postures of hatha yoga
Instructions on how to bring safe and correct alignment and engagement in the postures
Guidance though breathing techniques and how to link those with the movements
For those new to yoga or those coming back to your yoga practice, this class will introduce you to a sequence of postures (asanas) and give you an understanding of the foundations of hatha yoga practice.
Each class will focus on strength building postures and gentle stretching, as you are guided through the yoga postures (asana), breathing techniques (pranayama) and meditations. The aim is that you body will have more freedom and less tightness, and your mind will be more clear and calm.
What you will learn/ experience:
The foundational postures of hatha yoga
Instructions on how to bring safe and correct alignment and engagement in the postures
Guidance though breathing techniques and how to link those with the movements
Getting strong where modern life can makes us weak. Strength has the quality of steadiness and stability but can close you up – so we look to cultivate strength over a range.
For the body: opening the hips and shoulders – and taking the spine through all directions of movement including upside down. For the mind: calming the mind in order to be able to choose what we attend to.
