About our yoga classes.

Designed for absolute beginners with a basic level of fitness, those who have completed our six weeks beginners course and those looking for a mindful yoga class in which to improve their technique. The class will focus on the fundamental techniques of yoga practice and give you a firm foundation so that you can be supported on your journey from beginner to participation in the full range of classes on offer at Deansgate Haus.

Our own signature Hot Yoga series that encompasses postures to work all of your body, as well as your mind. Beginning with exploration of pranayama (breath work), there are 40 postures practiced in a room heated to forty eight degrees to allow your muscles to warm and stretch. This class is suitable for both beginners and experienced students, however not suitable during pregnancy.

Hot Flow classes are more advanced than the Hot 60 classes, with a more dynamic flow of postures. The class is faster paced than the Hot 60 foundation sequence although it includes many of the same foundation poses. The class includes sun salutations with an emphasis on connecting the breath with movement (vinyasa) during the standing sequence. Some experience of practising Hot Yoga is recommended and not suitable during pregnancy.

Practiced in a warm studio (around 28 degrees), this is a class that is perfect for everyone and all abilities. The practice combines breath awareness, intelligent slow flowing movement, longer held restorative postures and relaxation. Open to all levels.

This class is the merging of our Flow and Hot Yoga Styles, with varying sequences that gives you the chance to try new postures. In Fusion classes we encourage our teachers to express their preferred style of yoga set within the hot yoga environment. This class is practiced by candlelight so you can unwind into the weekend.

Yoga for Real Life classes focus on everyday issues and how the breathing exercises, postures, mantras and meditation from Kundalini yoga can help you to achieve happiness, health, lasting relationships, prosperity and to feel better about yourself. The class is based on the Kundalini tradition and includes a dynamic blend of postures, pranayam (breathing), mantra and meditation, which will teach you the art of relaxation, self healing and mental elevation. The class will also include music and mantra.

A class that is perfect for everyone and all abilities. The practice combines breath awareness, intelligent slow flowing movement, longer held restorative postures and relaxation. This mindful practice is multi layered and moves you beyond the obvious musculature and into your connective tissue/fascia while having a profound affect on your nervous system. The overall focus is releasing deep held tension and stress patterns of the mind-body, reducing cortisol levels (stress hormone) focusing and stilling the mind and deeply resting your whole being. Open to all levels.

In Yin Yoga each posture is held for 3 minutes or more. This opens into the thicker layers of connective tissues around the joints that a moving, dynamic practice may not as effectively access. Yin Yoga is a perfect complement to a dynamic practice and an extremely subtle and profound practice on its own, offering space for students to slow down and soften.

Classes simply described as ‘yoga’ do not fall neatly into any of our other class styles. Often this is because the teacher has studied a variety of styles within the yoga tradition so that his/her classes reflect a more eclectic, personal approach. While generally based around posture practice, these classes often also delve more deeply into the subtle ‘inner’ practices of yoga, including breath work and meditation, exploring how the range of yoga practices can help quieten the busy mind and encourage greater peace and happiness.

The pace of a Yogic Mindfulness session is slow and focused, with consistent emphasis on the supremacy of the breath. We begin by settling and relaxing body and mind, then establishing connection to the breath, leading into the asana section of the class which will be breath led, simple therapeutic sequences to improve physical awareness, strength and mobility as well as anchoring the mind, often using simple mantra and sound. We finish with a short meditation facilitated by the focused attention on the breath in asana.

Designed for absolute beginners with a basic level of fitness, those who have completed our six weeks beginners course and those looking for a mindful yoga class in which to improve their technique. The class will focus on the fundamental techniques of yoga practice and give you a firm foundation so that you can be supported on your journey from beginner to participation in the full range of classes on offer at Deansgate Haus.

A dynamic, flowing practice that moves fluidly from pose to pose. With a focus on linking the breath to movement, you can expect creative, energetic sequences set to inspiring music. Classes can be more or less physically challenging depending on the teacher and level. Not suitable for beginners.

A powerful and dynamic style of yoga that follows a set sequence of poses. This style of yoga is physically demanding, but as the sequence and the postures become familiar, the practice can become deep and meditative, yet still dynamic.

In Mandala Flow yoga we move in circles and spirals around the mat, stimulating both sides of the brain and accessing parts of the body and mind that we may not perhaps access when we move in a purely linear way. Each class focuses on an element, a chakra or a particular group of muscles, using rhythmic pulsations and repetition to encourage the body to open and go a little bit further with each rotation.

This class is split into two halves. Starting with the yang, the dynamic flow, to get the body moving and create internal heat. We will then move into the yin part which is the quieter more subtle practice to bring balance to the body and mind.