Melbourne Yoga Sports Classes

What is Yoga Sports?

The Yoga Sports class is a drill based progression class designed to increase your understanding of yoga asanas. The class is 90 minutes, in a warm room, featuring a warm-up sequence and some mobility exercises followed by a series of posture development drills. There are many yoga postures across a great many styles of yoga but can generally place most yoga postures into one of the six major categories. These categories are forward compressions, backbends, tractions, twists, lifts, and inversions.

In each class, your coach will choose one posture from each category and teach you a drill to show you how to get into and out of the posture safely. While simultaneously teaching you how to get the maximum mental and physical benefit from the drill, improving your ability to do each posture. Each drill scales with the individual participant's ability, strength, and flexibility, meaning everyone can participate in every drill, regardless of age or physical ability.

Every Yoga Sports class is suitable for all ability levels, from the very beginner who has never done yoga before to advanced practitioners with many years of experience.

For beginners...

Have you ever gone to a class and felt overwhelmed or thought, "How am I supposed to do this posture?", "What am I even doing here?" or "I'll never be able to bend my body in that way..."? It's a feeling many of us have had from time to time when practising yoga. With over 8 million yoga postures across all different types and styles of yoga, It's no wonder we can feel this way from time to time. All of these postures have varying degrees of difficulty in strength, balance and flexibility, making some postures feel daunting and unattainable. Every Yoga Sports class will help you gradually build the required strength, balance and flexibility for each posture in a fun and safe environment. The coach will also help you develop the necessary skills and techniques to help you achieve your goals in each posture. Approaching your practice from this point of view makes each step of the posture achievable with your body's current ability.

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What is Progressive Hatha Yoga?

Step up your hatha yoga practice with the intermediate level Progressive Hatha Yoga class, 55 amazing postures, over 90 minutes in a warm room. The class includes 26 classic hatha yoga postures, and incorporates 29 more postures designed to work the whole body and take your practice to the next level.

Whilst this class is aimed at those with an intermediate level of practice or higher, the class is open to all, don't be shy come and try it out. Add the Progressive Hatha Yoga class to your weekly yoga schedule and you will see the constant all round improvement for yourself. You won't be disappointed.

Arrive at the studio 10 minutes before class with an empty stomach, wearing comfortable, light clothing. Remember, the room will be quite warm and you will sweat, wearing tighter-fitting clothes will be better than loose-fitting clothes. Feel free to bring your own yoga mat, a towel to put on your mat and a water bottle. If you forget, that's ok; you can always hire or buy these items at the studio.

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What is Arm Balance?

Our Arm balance class focuses on developing the strength and conditioning needed to progress your lifts and inversions to the next stage. Each class features a warm up, core strengthening exercises and posture development drills. Typically each class will features two lift asanas as well as drills for shoulderstand, headstand, forearm stand and handstands.

This 60 minute class has been tailored to help you develop not only your core, but also your shoulder and arm strength and your often overlooked hand strength. All things need to do great arm balances and inversions.

Suitable for all who would like to learn and improve their lifts, inversions and strength.

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What is Wall Stretch?

The Wall Stretch class has been tailored to be the perfect self-care activity. In this class, the wall is utilised as resistance to stretch into tight and tired muscles, reinvigorating the body, clearing the mind and alleviating stress.

Suitable for all ability levels and all bodies; fit and flexible to unbendable and broken.

Wall Stretch features a breathing exercise and several postures held in stillness to develop flexibility and balance. Each class is different, where the coach will guide you through postures at your ability level.

30-minute lunchtime class to target certain areas and get the most out of your day or the 60-minute varition to stretch the whole body. Join online or in studio.

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What is Bikram Yoga?

Bikram's Hot Yoga is a therapeutic hatha yoga sequence of 26 postures and two breathing exercises conducted in a room heated to 38ºC and 40% humidity over 90 minutes. Combining the heated room and the 90-minute class duration is essential to help improve flexibility to avoid the risk of overstretching.

The 26 postures and two breathing exercises will expand your lung capacity during each class, leading to greater vitality. By the end of class, you will have worked every muscle, tendon, joint, ligament, internal organ and gland while systematically moving fresh, oxygenated blood to 100% of the body. You will strengthen your bones and muscles whilst at the same time opening your joints and becoming more flexible. A regular Bikram Yoga practise can heal injuries and illnesses, cause weight loss, and greater peace of mind.

The original 90 minute Bikram Yoga class is suitable for complete beginners who have never practised yoga before. There is no need to book for our classes; just arrive at the studio 10 minutes before class with an empty stomach, wearing comfortable, light clothing. Remember, the room will be quite warm, and once you start to sweat, tighter-fitting clothes will be better than loose-fitting clothes. Feel free to bring your own yoga mat, a towel to put on your mat and a water bottle. If you forget, that's ok; you can always hire or buy these items at the studio.

First time doing Bikram Yoga?

• Please arrive at least 10 minutes early
• Wear comfortable, light clothing
• Arrive with an empty stomach
• Bring your mat, towel and water bottle
• No need to book for class; just drop in!

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