Monthly Yoga Workshops

We now have two monthly yoga workshops at the Bristol Yoga Centre. These extended sessions are a great way to deepen your practice and spend a little longer exploring new techniques. Our next Scaravelli Yoga and Mindful Yin Yoga workshops are:

Mindful Yin Yoga with Emilia on Saturday 23rd March from 3:00 - 5:30pm

This workshop uses Yin Yoga and Mindfulness (MBSR) with elements of Restorative Yoga to create a space of allowing a deep letting go at all levels. We will also practice Pranayama (breathing practice) to bring profound sense of internal balance and harmony. 

Scaravelli Yoga with Katy on Sunday 24th March from 11:30 - 1:30pm

The workshop explore a free-form, intuitive approach to practice, with a focus on how to move in a more connected, harmonious way. Inspired by the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli, you will learn to move sensitively, avoiding imposing on the body and helping you to move with ease towards each Asana.

Please check our yoga workshop page for more information.

New Sunday Evening Yin Yoga class

We are starting a new Sunday evening Yin yoga class from 17th March from 6:30 - 7:30pm with Tash.

Yin is the passive, cooler, reflective and relaxed. The yin way is a gentle and surprisingly powerful method to invoke change in both body and mind. This class offers a unique way of practicing that seeks to embrace stillness and relaxation. Rather than moving dynamically, postures are mostly rooted in the ground, removing all physical effort for the student. The removal of effort allows us to unpin our connective tissue (fascia) that holds our body in place and defines our physical shape. 

It’s accessible to all ages, body types and levels of experience. Tash also teaches more dynamic Yin and Yang class on Sunday from 5:00 - 6:15pm every week.

Senior Yoga Teacher: Leonora Zotti

Leonora Zotti has been practicing for over 30 years and teaching yoga for 20 years. She has taught in many different contexts including: group classes, corporate Yoga, festivals, retreats, workshops, one to one, as well as mentoring and teaching on 200 hour recognised teacher training courses.

Leonora teaches at the Bristol Yoga Centre on the following day and time:

• Monday 5:00 - 6:00 pm - Pregnancy Pilates & Yoga (cover for Celia during her maternity leave)

• Monday 7:30 - 8:45pm - Mindful Flow Yoga (intermediate and advanced students)

• Tuesday 10:00 - 11:00am - Therapeutic Yoga for everyone

• Tuesday 12:30 - 1:30pm - Hatha Yoga for all levels of students including beginners

Leonora can cater for all levels and abilities and if your looking for a small friendly classes with expert guidance, try coming along!

Prenatal Yoga and Pilates Class

Celia is now on a maternity leave but our prenatal Yoga and Pilates class will resume again from next term, Monday 25th February 5:00 -6:00 pm with Leonora. She has covered for Celia many times and is very familiar with the class.

Leonora has been teaching yoga for 20 years and she has taught in many different contexts including: group classes, corporate Yoga, festivals, retreats, workshops, one to one, as well as mentoring and teaching on 200 hour recognised teacher training courses.

Her teaching style is deeply influenced by mindful movement practices and has a strong focus on embodied awareness and personal inquiry. This class will focus on building strength and control in the pelvic floor muscles to prevent incontinence and prepare for birth. It will also include breathing techniques to reduce stress and promote relaxation. If your looking for a small friendly pregnancy class with expert guidance, this will be perfect for you!

Happy New Year & New Yoga Teachers

Happy New Year!

Bristol Yoga Centre is re-opening from Wednesday 2nd January but please check our timetable carefully as some classes are starting later. We are really happy to announce that Jemitra and Shuna are joining us from 2019.

Jemitra is a senior yoga teacher who’s been practicing yoga for over 20 years and recently assisted in creating an excellent yoga teacher training course. She’s great at helping you to deepen your practice but can also accommodate beginners. Jemitra’s class is on every Wednesday at 7:30 - 8:45pm.

Shuna completed 200 hour yoga alliance accredited teacher training with Dylan Ayaloo in London and specialised in a strengthening vinyasa yoga. She has subsequently completed further CPD trainings in Forrest Yoga and Mindfulness based meditation techniques.  Shuna will be teaching on Wednesday at 7:45 - 8:45am and on Thursday at 4:45 - 5:45pm.

You can join our classes as a drop in, term bookings or purchase our 5 class pack. See here for more information on our prices. We are also available on MoveGB and ClassPass.

See you soon!!

New Donation Based Community Classes

At Bristol Yoga Centre, we believe that classes should be accessible to everyone so we have introduced donation based community yoga classes to our timetable.  Suggested donation is £5 but you can pay what you can afford. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. 

Wednesday 10:00 -11:00am - Mindfulness Meditation & Yoga with Naomi

Thursday 19:30 - 20:45pm - Hatha Yoga with Amber

Saturdays 11:30 - 12:45pm - Krama Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Vicky

Everyone’s very welcome but we especially invite people on low or no-income, benefits, refugees and asylum seekers. Classes are suitable for all levels of students including beginners.

For information about the class, please get in touch with the teacher directly. We look forward to having you in class!

Bristol Yoga Centre Gift Vouchers

Bristol Yoga Centre gift vouchers are available to purchase via email or post all year round. They can be sent as an attachment for you to print out, or posted to you with a beautiful gift card. 

The minimum voucher amount is £24 (you will receive 2 x £12 vouchers), or any denomination above that. The voucher can be used to pay for workshops, private lessons, drop-in classes, or towards a term of classes. 

The vouchers can be applied towards the cost of any course, workshop, drop-in classes or multi-class card. 

The class gift voucher enables the gift recipient to go to any class at Bristol Yoga Centre (as long as there is space). Or you can put them towards the cost of a workshop or course.

The workshop gift voucher enables the recipient to book into any Yoga or Pilates workshop at YogaSpace. Or you can use it to attend single classes or apply it towards the cost of a course.

The private class gift voucher provides a personal lesson at a time suitable to the recipient at the studio with one of our well-trained teachers (you can choose the teacher or we will help you decide if helpful). Daytime and weekend classes available.

Gift Vouchers are valid for a year and with a wide range of classes available there is something for everyone. They make a wonderful present for friends and family.
 

How to purchase

Please get in touch for details on how to purchase. We can usually issue vouchers the same day if using direct bank transfer. 

Sustainable Flow Yoga Class: Creating a strong, stable practice.

Tailored Yoga for the hypermobile, the super bendy & the injured.

Monday at 7:30 - 8:45pm with Leonora

This class is open to all, but is especially designed for the hyper mobile, the super bendy and the injured who wish to create or maintain a longevous, sustainable Yoga practice.

As a recovering hypermobile myself, during my 32 year personal practise, I've learnt (the hard way) how to adapt and create a more supportive way of doing Yoga, which incidentally has made me a lot stronger! As a teacher, over the years I've seen a great many people (especially women and fellow Yoga teachers) drawn to Yoga precisely because of their hyper mobility, unaware that a certain way of moving is not only unsustainable but could lead to long term joint instability and/or injury. But we can turn this situation to our advantage, becoming stronger, more self aware, and increasing our movement repertoire and choices. In this way our Yoga can accompany us throughout our whole lives.

Using slow, strong, conscious movement, with attention to detail, this class aims to develop stability and strength, to clarify and improve healthy ranges of motion and joint stability through proprioception, increased movement repertoire and choice through new and different ways of moving, as well including movements to favour the circulation of synovial fluid to help keep joints supple. This could be a stand alone practice or support your current practice, whatever style of Yoga or sport that may be.

Suitable for all levels. Previous experience with Yoga, Pilates, Martial Arts, Dance or Gymnastics is advisable. Please note this is a Flow class. It is not gentle Yoga.

New Community Class from November

Our Yin and Yang class with Tash on Wednesday evening at 7:30 - 8:45pm is turning into community class from 7th November. This is a donation based class and you can pay what you can afford. At Bristol Yoga Centre, we believe that classes should be accessible to everyone. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. 

Our community classes are:

Wednesday 10:00 -11:00am - Mindfulness Meditation with Naomi

Wednesday 19:30 - 20:45pm - Yin & Yang Yoga with Tash (7th November 2018)

Saturdays 11:30 - 12:45pm - Krama Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Vicky

Absolutely everyone’s very welcome but we especially invite people on low or no-income, benefits, refugees & asylum seekers. Classes are suitable for all levels of students including beginners.

For information about the class, please get in touch with the teacher directly. We look forward to having you in class!

Mindful Yin Yoga workshop

Our very popular Mindful Yin Yoga workshop with Emilia is back on Sunday 4th November from 10:45am - 1:30pm. A real treat for the body, mind and spirit as we welcome the dark winter season. 

This workshop uses Mindful Yin Yoga and Mindfulness (MBSR) with elements of Restorative Yoga to create a space of allowing a deep letting go at all levels. We will complete the practice with Pranayama (breathing practice) to bring profound sense of internal balance and harmony.

All levels of experience welcome. Available on MoveGB. Book now with Emilia if you like to come attend the excellent yoga workshop!