Yoga

Yoga here is slower than you may expect and more precise. The teachers trained in traditions that care about alignment and breath, the classes are small enough for them to see you, and nothing is choreographed to music. If you want to sweat there is a strong class; if you want to stop, there is yin.

Hatha (gentle and open) is the backbone of the week: standing poses held long enough to understand them, a floor sequence, breathing, and the stillness at the end. Slow flow (open) links the poses with the breath at a walking pace. Strong flow (strong) is for people who have practised a while and want to be worked, with inversions offered and never required. Yin (gentle) holds floor poses for three to five minutes with props, and restorative (gentle) is forty-five minutes of lying on bolsters under a blanket, which is the class people cry in, in a good way.

Every class is capped at fourteen so the teacher can walk the room, and the teacher will ask before touching you; a coin on the corner of your mat means not today. Props are everywhere and offered freely. The early class at 6:45 on Tuesday and Thursday is a short open flow for the desk-bound, out by 7:35 with a cup of tea. If you are new, start with a gentle or open hatha and read the first-visit page; the teacher will tell you honestly which class to try next.

What is included

• Hatha, slow flow, strong flow, yin, restorative
• Three levels, defined and kept to
• Fourteen to a class, every class
• Teachers who ask before adjusting
• Mats, blocks, straps, bolsters and blankets provided
• Five minutes of stillness at the end, never cut

What it costs

£8 for your first class, then £15 drop-in, £65 for five, £120 for ten, or £89 a month unlimited. Mats and props are provided. The schedule page has every class, the levels explained, every pass and every price. Mats and props are provided.