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A hammered brass bowl holding a little still water, on a cork block on a timber floor, a felt-headed striker beside it.

Yoga in Walkerville. Every class ends lying down.

A small yoga studio for adults: slow flow, alignment, restorative evenings, and four weeks for complete beginners.

Come to a first class

Circle the rim to make it sing. Tap it to strike.

Stand at the front of your mat

An hour, or an hour and a quarter. Shoes off at the door. Everything you need is laid out at the head of your mat.

You set up a mat with two cork blocks, a strap, a bolster and a blanket; the props are part of the class, not a way round it.

You start standing. The teacher talks you through your feet and your hands, then walks the room. If they’d like to offer a hand to a wrist or a shoulder, they ask first, every time, and “no thanks” is a good answer.

The last ten minutes, you lie down while the teacher plays the bowl. When it stops, class is over.

A teacher’s hands squaring a student’s wrists over a charcoal mat, the student’s palms flat and fingers spread, both in loose long sleeves.
Mats laid one after another along the timber floor before a class, each with a bolster, a folded blanket, cork blocks and a strap at its head, low sun across them.

Classes at their own pace

Each line is one class, drawn to its length: the pace of the class, then the bowl ringing out while you lie still.

Slow flow 75 minutes

Standing shapes joined one to the next, slowly enough to feel which side works harder. For anyone who has done a few classes, or finished the four weeks.

Alignment An hour

Fewer poses, held longer, with time to look at where your feet and hands are. More props, and more explanation.

Restorative evenings 75 minutes

Almost all of it lying or sitting, held up by bolsters and blankets. You do very little, on purpose.

Four weeks from the mat up An hour

For complete beginners: the same evening each week. How the four weeks go

What to wear, what to bring

  • Wear loose, long clothes you can move in and lie still in.
  • Bring socks for the end, when your feet get cold, and water if you like.
  • That’s all. We have the mats, and we wash the blankets.
  • Come ten minutes early the first time, so we can set you up.
  • Phones stay in your bag.
  • Anything to work around? Tell your teacher quietly before class.
The studio before a class: mats in two rows on a timber floor, each with blocks, a strap, a bolster and a folded blanket, tall windows onto trees.

One room, one floor, a prop for everyone

No mirror wall and no music. The only sound is the bowl, at the end.

One room with a timber floor and two tall windows onto the trees.

Before each class we lay out the mats, with blocks, a strap, a bolster and a wool blanket at the head of every one, so nobody has to ask. It’s warm in winter, and in summer the windows are open.

Four weeks from the mat up

For complete beginners. The same evening each week, an hour each time. This is how a teacher tells it on the first night.

The first week, we only stand. Feet, knees, the back of the neck. You’ll feel we’re going slowly. We are. By the second, we fold: forward over your legs, with a block under your hands. You don’t need to reach your toes; the block brings the floor up to you. In the third, we turn. Small twists, sitting and lying, and how to come out of one as carefully as you went in. And in the fourth, we lie down properly, and stay there. A bolster under your knees, a blanket over you, ten minutes of nothing, and then the bowl.

After that, come to any slow flow class in the week, and we’ll know you by name. Wear something loose and long; we have everything else.

Early sun through one tall window laying a long slant of light across the timber floor and the end of a mat, the rest of the room in warm shade.

A week in the room

An illustrative week; we send the current times when you ask. Each class is drawn to its length, and rings out the way the bowl does at the end of it.

  1. Monday

    • 6.45 am Slow flow
    • 6 pm Alignment

  2. Tuesday

    • 7 am Alignment
    • 7.30 pm Restorative evening

  3. Wednesday

    • 9.30 am Slow flow
    • 6 pm Four weeks from the mat up

  4. Thursday

    • 6.45 am Slow flow
    • 6 pm Alignment

  5. Friday

    • 9.30 am Slow flow
    • 7 pm Restorative evening

  6. Saturday

    • 8 am Slow flow
    • 9.30 am Alignment

  7. Sunday

    • 5 pm Restorative evening

Then everyone lies down

You lie on your back with a bolster under your knees and a blanket over you, and for the last few minutes a teacher plays the bowl: a plain hammered brass bowl, rubbed round the rim with a wooden striker until it sings. It’s a good sound to lie still to. When it stops, class is over, and you roll to one side and sit up in your own time.

The end of a class: two people lying under blankets with bolsters under their knees, a teacher and the bowl at the far end of the room.

Come to a first class

Tell us which class you have in mind and the part of the week that suits, and we’ll reply with times. New to yoga? Start with Four weeks from the mat up.

Part of the week that suits

A question about what to bring, or which evening. Please keep health details for your teacher, in person.

Rimsong. Yoga for adults in Walkerville.

The week on this page is illustrative.