Yoga class descriptions by teacher:
At the Yoga Room you will find yoga instructors that teach different styles and at various levels from beginner to the more advanced. It is important to find a teacher that you feel comfortable working with. Choose the classes and teachers that match your requirements.
Judy Krupp: The style of yoga taught by Judy Krupp incorporates work from the Iyengar principles of alignment and the therapeutic potential of asanas, combined with vinyasa flow work from the ashtanga practice and the viniyoga philosophy of T.K.V. Desikachar.
Sally Lockley: Her style of teaching and practice are greatly influenced by using the “breath” as a guide to finding one’s own pace allowing the release of tension and stress and at the same time being able to re-energise. These classes are gentle Hatha Yoga, encouraging movement within the asanas.
Pam Sherwin: Her teaching favours a Vinyasa style, moving at all times with a conscious awareness of the breath. In her prenatal classes she aims to assist students to find a physical and mental balance in their ever changing bodies. Her prenatal class is suitable for students who are more than 12 weeks pregnant or women looking for a gentle, nurturing yoga style.
Karen Willey: Karen teaches Pilates Matwork. Pilates is precise, flowing movement which focuses on breath, core stability and correct postural alignment. It helps to strengthen the body, improve flexibility and restore muscular balance by recruiting safer, more efficient patterns of movement. Pilates is practiced at a client's own pace, and as such is an ideal method for injury rehabilitation.
Erika Remnant: Teaches a blend of all the yoga styles to suit the student. She is particularly keen on the therapeutic aspects of yoga, and teaches back to basics in her beginners classes.
Conny Pulvermacher: Conny’s gentle movement class combines basic yoga postures with gentle and supportive movement and breath flow sequences to improve flexibility, release restriction and tension in the joints, stimulate circulation and gradually build stability and strength. No previous experience necessary.
Marita Dortins: Marita enjoys challenging her students, but also likes to remind them that while yoga is important, it doesn’t always need to be serious.
Marguerite Wetton: Marguerite uses dynamic flow sequences drawn from traditional hatha yoga, with exploration through developmental movements and organ awareness. The emphasis is on meridian flow and body-mind integration.
Kira Varejes: This is a Pilates mat classe. The method trains the entire body in order to promote strength, flexibility, alignment, coordination, balance and control. In pilates the core muscles or deep stabilizers of the torso are a central focus. Each exercise in the session focuses on using the correct recruitment of muscles to perform an action as well as strengthening the weaker muscles and stretching the tighter muscles.
Peter Mackie: Provides generally stronger classes that promote strength and flexibility enabling the release of accumulated tension. On the first Sunday of the month he leads a meditation group before the yoga class. Participants can come just for meditation or stay on for the yoga class.
Sophie Hamley: This General yoga class is suitable for beginners as well as offering challenges to more experienced practitioners. The format of the class is loosely the same every week – asana, pranayama, meditation and relaxation – but different postures will be explored each week, offering students a broad spectrum of the practice as well as opportunites for creativity and individual expression.
Please Note:
Yoga is non-competitive, so you don't need to try to work 'the hardest' or be 'the best'! Every single student is at a different level of practice, no matter how long they have been practising. Thus, whatever the person alongside you is doing may not be right for you, so don't feel you have to match them - find the position that is most comfortable for you within each posture. If you are tired or in discomfort at any point in the class you can rest.
