New Sunday Evening Yoga Class from September

Jo Patrick will be starting weekly Sunday evening yoga class from 17:45 - 19:00 pm on 3rd September at the Bristol Yoga Centre. Her class is called Yoga for Sports and it will help you to build strength, move with greater ease and help prevent injury.

Jo will guide you through a dynamic yoga class, that will flow through various asanas (poses) to improve flexibility, fascial patterning, functional movement, core stability, strength and balance.

Classes work within normal range of motion and are particularly good if you are interested in improving your quality of movement, building your performance in sport and bulletproofing your body for the future. 

6 week Summer Term at Bristol Yoga Centre

6 week term is starting next week at the Bristol Yoga Centre. We have many different classes available from Restorative Yoga to Pregnancy Pilates class and many more. See here for our full timetable. In fact, a brand new Vinyasa Flow yoga with Joey is starting from Thursday 3rd August.

Signing up for the term is cheapest and best way to attend classes as it will encourage you to go regularly. We also offer two class swaps within a term so if you need to miss one or two classes, you can arrange to go to another class. You can also join the term mid way too and pay pro rata.

There are an option to do drop ins or purchase a multi class card at the studio. Click here for more information on fees.

We accept MoveGB on most of our classes too!

August Timetable

Summer holidays is here and some of our yoga and Pilates teachers are also taking a well deserved break :) 

Most of the classes will continue as normal but there is a slightly reduced classes in August so please check our timetable carefully or speak to your teacher. There are no classes on Bank Holiday Monday 28th August 2017.

All the classes will restart as normal in September and we have also organised a new Sunday evening class then too. More information to follow very soon.

There will also be lots of new workshop in September so watch this space!

Meditation, Stress and Life Management Workshop

Brilliant Kay Baxter is doing an all day meditation, stress and life management workshop here at the Bristol Yoga Centre on Sunday 30th July from 10 - 4pm.

Kay has been working in the field of personal growth and development for more than 30 years. She has an honours degree in Psychology and a background in psychology and therapy, as well as leading Meditation and Mindfulness groups and working with individuals since 1994. 

To find out more about her inspirational workshop, click here

New Yoga Teacher: Joey Scherr

We like to welcome Joey Scherr to the Bristol Yoga Centre from August. She will be teaching Vinyasa Flow yoga on Thursday night from 7:30 - 8:45pm.

Joey is a 500hr accredited yoga instructor, Birthlight teacher-in-training and Sacred Feminine Facilitator. Expect fun, invigorating shapes, nourishing flows and deep connections between body and breath. Joey’s classes come straight from a warm, open heart to create safe sacred spaces in which to explore creativity in breath, awareness and movement.

Her class will start from Thursday 3rd August 2017!

Two cats in Tarifa

During Bristol Yoga Centre’s first ever yoga retreat to Tarifa, Spain, we have adopted two lovely cats!

We found them in a horrible run down animal shack 5 minutes away from the villa. They were obviously from a domestic environment as both of them were extremely friendly and tame.

To try and get these cats to be rehomed, we contacted local vets and animal shelters. Most people wanted to help but they were already inundated with abandoned cats and dogs. So, we made the difficult decision to adopt them and bring them back to the UK.

Full story can be found here. We were asked by Soto Cat’s Rescue organisation in Spain to write about our experience to inspire others. They are a non-profit organisation committed to fight against widespread animal abuse and cruelty, such as poisoning, abandonment and ill-treatment of cats.

We are still in the process of organising Mia and Maria to be transported to the UK. It’s been quite challenging but I’m sure we will manage to bring them here soon.

Thank you to Soto Cat Rescue, Spanish Stray Cats, Paws Transport Service and Clinica Veterinaria Europa for all their help and information. Also to Lawal Brown, one of the retreat participants for helping us take them to the vet!

Yoga for Balance Workshop

After the success of yoga for relaxation and stress relief workshop, I have decided to schedule another yoga workshop. The next workshop will be on balance and I will shortly be posting a new blog on this topic too.

The workshop will cover postures, breathing practice, relaxation techniques and meditation. We will take a look at the philosophy of the five points of yoga and explore how to create a balanced yoga practice. This workshop will allow you more time than usual to delve into your yoga practice more deeply.  Everyone is welcome including beginners and more experienced students.

Click here for more information on this workshop. It's recommended to book early as there is limited spaces available.

MoveGB Welcome!

We welcome MoveGB students and most of our classes are available for MoveGB users at the Bristol Yoga Centre. We have lots of different styles of yoga and pilates such as prenatal and postnatal pilates to Ashtanga Yoga and Vinyasa Flow Yoga. Please see our page for more details on which classes are available. 

Simply book through MoveGB and come along to our lovely class. Please bring your booking confirmation with you to the class. 

Welcome Doug to Bristol Yoga Centre!

Bristol Yoga Centre would like to welcome Doug Karson to our team of yoga teachers! He will be teaching Himalayan Hatha Yoga on Tuesday morning at 7:15 - 8:15am and Friday evening at 5:30 - 6:45pm

More about Doug

Doug's mother was his first teacher and she has been guiding him from early on in the ways of breath.  He has very old and precious memories of her calming him down with 3 deep breathes into the belly.

In 2012, Doug met his Guru Yogi Ashokananda.  He taught him how to be compassionate and bequeathed him with his yogic name; Dayananda.  It means the bliss of mercy.  Much of Doug's teaching style, tone, and knowledge come directly from his lineage.

With Prana Kriya, Himalayan Hatha, and meditation techniques, Doug continues the practice of how to be present, past and future.  He has completed 500 specific teacher training hours with Yogi-ji and am a Senior Ashokananda School Teacher.

Yoga is a practice.  Regular and constant.  Like any other practice, the goal is not to become perfect but to have constant improvement.  This sometimes comes in the form of acceptance and recognising our already perfect nature.  Doug's classes are challenging and humorous.  He likes to play and laugh and this comes through my teaching.  He hope to see you in the studio and perhaps we can laugh together :)

7 week term starting next week!

7 week term is starting next week at the Bristol Yoga Centre. We have many different classes available from Prenatal and Postnatal Pilates to Restorative Yoga. In fact, new led Ashtanga class is starting from Thursday. Take a look at our latest timetable for more information.

Signing up for the term is cheapest and best way to attend classes as it will encourage you to go regularly. We also offer two class swaps within a term so if you need to miss one or two classes, you can arrange to go to another class. You can also join the term mid way too and pay pro rata.

There are an option to do drop ins or purchase a multi class card at the studio. Click here for more information on fees.

We accept MoveGB on most of our classes too!