Styles Of Yoga in Temple Bar Yoga

What do the different names mean?

ALIGN

ALIGN is an alignment-based class. Poses are held rather than flowed through, and the instruction is precise — you’ll be told where a limb should be and why it belongs there. Classes usually build from simple standing work towards more demanding poses, finishing with relaxation and often some breathing work.

Props are used throughout. They let someone with less flexibility work correctly rather than approximately, and they let a strong practitioner go further than they could unsupported. Reaching for a block is not a concession.

ALIGN suits anyone who wants to know what they are doing and why.

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BALANCE

BALANCE is a Hatha class. Postures are held with attention to alignment and breath is coordinated with movement, with less linking between poses than in FLOW.

Classes tend to start strong and settle towards something quieter by the end.

Good if you want to build stamina and concentration in static work.

FLOW

FLOW is a vinyasa class — breath and movement linked, poses sequenced into a continuous practice. There’s no fixed sequence. Each class has a theme, and some poses are held longer to build strength and stamina.

A typical class opens with a warm-up, moves through standing work into something more demanding, then winds back down towards relaxation.

Alignment is taught here as it is everywhere at the studio. The pace is quicker, so you’ll be working with the sequence rather than pausing in each pose.

For people who like to keep moving.

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STILLNESS

STILLNESS is a yin class. Poses are held on the floor for several minutes at a time, working into connective tissue and fascia rather than muscle.

Long holds and very little movement leave room for the mind to settle, and most people find it quieting in a way an active practice isn’t.

Flexibility is not required. The props do the work.

STRENGTH

STRENGTH is a yoga class with weights. Light to moderate ankle and wrist weights and dumbbells are used through a sequence built on the same alignment principles as the rest of what we teach.

Movement is deliberate and paired with the breath rather than rushed, so the load is controlled throughout.

Classes open with something energising, move into targeted strength work, and finish with grounding stretches and relaxation.

Most people come for muscle tone and bone density.

THRIVE

THRIVE is our chair yoga class. The whole class can be done sitting down — there’s no floor work, and nobody will ask you to get up and down off a mat. It suits people over sixty, anyone working around an injury or a joint replacement, and anyone coming back to movement after illness. If you can sit in a chair and breathe, you can do this class.

Each class begins with breath and body awareness, moves through gentle warm-ups into classical asana adapted to what you can do, and includes some pranayama. Alignment is taught as carefully here as in any other class at the studio, so you’ll be told what your body is doing and what to change. Classes finish with a long relaxation.

Most people come for balance and strength, which is where the evidence for yoga in later life is strongest.

See our timetable of yoga classes here: