Align & Flow
Our signature class: A yoga class with an emphasis on finding proper alignment for your body and using breath to find a perfect balance. This is an intelligent and well-sequenced practice that will encourage good movement patterns both in and out of the yoga room.
I-Align
Iyengar Yoga is a form of yoga that emphasises the precision and detail of alignment. Expect to use the wall, lots of props and move slowly and deliberately. A great practice to deepen your understanding of the postures and create a strong awareness of your own body. Taught by Cathy Taylor, a certified Iyengar teacher.
Vitality GOLD
Expertly crafted especially for our ageless seniors population, this class involves safe movement practices, correct alignment, breathing techniques and wonderful company. Work on safely moving your spine, combined with mobility and stability for shoulders and hips. Expect to move slowly and deliberately with precise alignment, and ease into a relaxing, nourishing rest.
Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini means energy. Kundalini yoga is a technology using a recipe of specific movement, combined with breath and meditation that is used to work on the chakras. It is yoga for the householder, it can be enjoyed by everyone, no matter what your experience, age or flexibility. It is the yoga of awareness, it has been designed so that you can surrender your ego and allow yourself to journey through your own experience. It teaches us to harness the energy of our mind and emotions so that we can be in control of ourselves, rather than being controlled by our thoughts and emotions.
A typical class will begin by ‘tuning in’ and a breathing practice to centre ourselves and bring us into the present moment. We move into a series of postures to stretch, relax, strengthen or energise us, which assists in moving any energy blocks and focusing the mind. A deep relaxation will then prepare us for a meditation. Tea is served at the end of the class and conversation is warmly welcomed.
Yin & Restorative Yoga
Yin yoga is a slow-paced, passive type of yoga that incorporates long holds and deep breaths for a stretch that gets right into the muscle fibres. Yin yoga involves a series of seated and laying down postures, typically held for 3-5 minutes at a time. During these prolonged periods of stillness, the yogi experiences the melting away of residual tension and stress. Long Yin yoga holds leave the yogi feeling lighter, clearer and completely relaxed.
We will explore a variety of yin & restorative yoga poses, breath work and meditations to put the day away, tap into the deepest, steadiest parts of you, and encourage and remind your body how to unwind and relax. You may even practice with the BackMitra® tool in Alexandra’s classes, which will help ease and relieve any back stiffness. By practicing consistently, we afford ourselves the opportunity to process the daily wear and tear on our mind, body and hearts before we fall asleep. Over time, with regular practice our mind-body system can lean into nourishing, quality sleep more quickly, and we can develop healthy sleep hygiene and evening rituals that support us in sweet sleep and daily life. When we relax, restore and sleep well, everything and everyone we care about including ourselves benefits immensely.
Pilates RX & Pilates Flow & Mat Pilates
Pilates RX: Designed to target your body’s deep stabilisers, this class targets your ‘core’ (including your hips, shoulders and even feet!) through creative, challenging movement. We’ll use contemporary Pilates and exercise science to strengthen, stabilise and re-balance, and finish with mobility and myofascial release. All levels welcome.
Pilates Flow: This dynamic class fuses classical and contemporary Pilates in a challenging flow to engage your deep core while connecting with your breath.
Mat Pilates: We offer a 45 min early morning session and a 60 min evening session with the addition of gentle stretch. Mat Pilates will strengthen and lengthen your body through working on specific muscle groups. Be prepared to break into a sweat! You might even be a little (good) sore after.
Guided Meditation and Sound Healing
This unique session is expertly guided by June, a highly-trained Sound Healing therapist. You are in for a treat with this 45 minute session which meets every fortnight (check app for up to date timetable). You will start with a guided meditation and the sound of sacred sound healing instruments will flow into the space. Expect to feel yourself fall into a trance-like, deeply relaxing state to conclude your evening.
Smart Strength & Mobility
It’s no longer enough just to move. We need to upgrade how we move and live in our own bodies.
This new and innovative class is the first of its kind. In this unique mat-based class, we focus on strengthening movements using external load (such as Y-bells and bands) or your own bodyweight. Technique and form will always trump speed and maximum weight in our carefully programmed sessions. This physiotherapist-endorsed class will focus on good biomechanics & moving deliberately in order to strengthen our “supporting” muscles (for example, think rotator cuff stability, gluteus medius strength, anti-rotation core exercises, foot/ankle stability & grip strength just to name a few) but will also work our bodies as a whole, making us more resilient human beings off of the mat. In this class, we will work with relatively lighter loads and moderately high repetitions.
Our overall goals are to increase bone density, protect us from injury, improve balance, reduce aches and pains, improve performance and to move better in life! No experience needed, as everyone will work at his/her own level. Spaces will be limited in each class, so please book in.
Roll Model® Method: Release & Restore
Empower yourself and take healing into your own hands. Be guided by a certified Roll Model® Method Practitioner. Movement Vitality exclusively uses the premium, high-quality Yoga Tune Up® Balls for self-massage techniques. Relieve muscle aches and pains, improve posture and performance, increase mobility and energy, reduce stress and enhance breathing function. Expect a full-body self-massage in this amazing end of the week class.
Yoga Tune Up®: Friday Hips
Just in time for the weekend... A Restorative Hips Class- Yoga Tune Up® style. Expect to spend an hour on the floor, beginning with a therapeutic stretches for the feet and ankles and then moving on to warming up the hips and core prior to deep, intelligent hip opening. This is a set sequence, and we hold the hip stretches for 90 seconds each. This class is wonderfully nourishing and grounding - magic for the start of the weekend.
Sunrise Yoga
Literally salute the sun and get your blood flowing with gentle, fluid movement through a variety of postures in combination with breath. Begin your day grounded and focussed.
Yoga for Back Care - Featuring the BackMitra®
This class enhances the understanding of spinal health, cultivates functional strength & mobility and enables the release of muscular tension in the back, neck & shoulders as it includes the use of the BackMitra – a simple & ingenious prop that aids in the re-alignment of the natural curves of the spine and helps create more space, grace & ease in the body by targeting the neck, shoulders, upper to mid-back, and lower spine.
The BackMitra is a soft but firm, supportive foam tool that when laying on top of it exerts pressure along the spinal column that provides a soft decompression for the intervertebral discs. The idea behind the BackMitra has its origins in India where yoga teachers began to use different tools to create space in their students’ upper back and shoulder area.
Some key benefits of the BackMitra:
• Aids the realignment of the natural curves of the spine
• Relief from headaches, tensions in scalp, jaw and face
• Expanded breath capacity
• Relaxation of spinal, neck and shoulder muscles
• Improved function of rotator cuff
• Restoring mobility in neck, shoulders, and pelvis
NEW - Functional Mobility
Unlock your body’s full potential! This new class prioritises full-body mobility using some of the best mobility tools available to promote better movement patterns, balance, stability & most importantly, will increase our body’s resilience living LIFE.
Our much loved Stick Mobility class is BACK! We will use the specially-engineered Stick Mobility® training sticks to create leverage, stability and body awareness to safely increase shoulder, hip and spine range of motion.
Additionally, we will work with and incorporate our brand new toy – The “SoleMate” from Brisbane’s own foot health experts The Foot Collective (TFC). This amazing tool along with TFC’s recommended movements promote natural human movement (the way humans are meant to move!) as well as proper alignment for improved foot function. The feet are the gateway to the rest of the body, so alleviating stiffness in the feet and improving foot and ankle mobility may contribute to better overall posture and movement patterns throughout the entire body.
This class a PERFECT mid-week mobility/recovery session. Move better, breathe better & sleep better!
The EXPLORE Series with Kye Cole - April to mid June 2024
Explore to Restore: Music Mondays
Each Monday from 15 April to 10 June. Indulge in a restful, restorative practice at the beginning of your week, accompanied by Kye and his guitar. Not to be missed if you need deep rest and love to be lulled by the soothing sounds of song.
Explore to Find More: Curious Fridays
Each Friday from 19 April to 14 June. Expand your awareness in (and out of) your yoga postures. What can our physical understanding of our yoga practice uncover on and off of the mat? Join Kye for an all levels yoga class.
PRIVATE INSTRUCTION AVAILABLE. CONTACT virginia@movementvitality.com