Our Yoga Classes

Whether you’re a beginner, deciphering the difference between vrksasana (tree) and sirshasana (headstand) or an advanced yogi who can put both feet behind their head, the Jivamukti Open class welcomes you, as it is open to practitioners of all levels.

You work at your own pace, following the teacher’s verbal as well as hands-on guidance. Asana options will be provided for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. A typical Open class incorporates the five tenets of Jivamukti Yoga:

Jivamukti Spiritual Warrior classes are designed for busy people who only have an hour to practice. The class is fast paced and invigorating and is certainly a “get-in-shape” class.

The structure is a fixed set sequence instructed in a vinyasa style. It is a fully balanced class which includes asana warm-up, chanting, setting of intention, surya namaskar, standing poses, backbends, forward bends, twists, inversions, meditation and relaxation.

Each Jivamukti Basic class is part of a four-week fundamentals course that explores a different theme each week:

• week one: standing asanas
• week two: forward bending asanas
• week three: backward bending asanas
• week four: inversions, meditation and “putting it all together.”

Jivamukti Beginner Vinyasa classes are designed to provide the student with the underlying basics of how a vinyasa practice works. Vinyasa is a method of practicing asana (physical poses), where the asanas are presented in a sequence, flowing one to the next. The practice focuses on trying to align one’s breath and spiritual intention with movement

Mysore is named after the south Indian town in which the late K Pattabhi Jois taught from the late 1930s until his death in 2009.

Mysore self-practice is the traditional way of practising ashtanga yoga and offers a highly personalised approach without the price tag attached to one-to-ones, and with all of the group energy of a conventional class. 

“Adjustments” are an important part of mysore self-practice. This is where experienced teachers use their hands to guide your body into the posture to correct alignment.

In a Mysore class, each student moves independently, according to the timing of their own breath, through the sequence of postures as they have learned them from their teacher. The teacher moves through the room, giving assistance, instruction, and guidance as needed on a one on one basis.

In a Led primary series class, the teacher calls out the postures and vinyasas (counted movements linking the postures with the breath) of the Ashtanga Primary Series. The group moves and breathes together in sync. These are focused, highly energetic classes and recommended for experienced students.

As a class based on Sharon Gannon’s personal practice, it contains Asana, Kriya, Pranayama, Meditation and Affirmations. It is suitable for practitioners who seek a complete, yet slower and less athletic Asana practice, while having a stronger focus on Pranayama, Meditation and Relaxation

This class is designed to rest your mind and you body. It involves gentle movements, breathing techniques, meditation, a guided relaxation, Sanskrit chanting and asana that are held for a couple of minutes. You will feel physically and mentally restored after taking this class and it is a wonderful addition to all vinyasa based Jivamukti Yoga classes, such as Open or Spiritual Warrior Classes. Your fascia will be gently but effectively stretched, your breath elongated and your mind calmed.

Yin Yoga sessions with sound healing is an invitation to ground and center yourself. It’s a safe space where you can leave the hustle and worries behind and enter into the sanctuary of the Heart. It’s a meditative practice, accompanied by sound healing within rich silence. It’s a great way to gently open your body: work the fascia, connective tissues of the body, open joints – the work necessary and complementary to active vinyasa practices. 

Meditation is incorporated into every Jivamukti Open and Spiritual Warrior class, and is taught in detail during the Meditation classes. Jivamukti Yoga Meditation Classes instruct meditation as it has been taught by founders Sharon Gannon and David Life.

“Sat” means Truth, sanga – a group of like-minded people, who are interested in Truth. Our donation based Satsang sessions include group chanting, contemplation and meditation. Through chanting mantras you learn how to align yourself by working with sound vibration and to tap into the endless wisdom of mantras. It is a wonderful way to finish the week immersed into healing and restoring vibrations of mantra and meditation.