Our classes
We have a range of class styles to suit everyone
Whether you’re brand new to yoga or you are a returning yogi, The Yoga Collective Central Coast aims to provide a class suitable for everyone’s needs. We offer a variety of styles of yoga, providing you with choices to meet your unique needs. Each style of yoga offers a different focus point for your health, fitness or wellbeing. See below for a detailed explanation of these different styles of yoga.
Vinyasa
Ashtanga
Yin
Hatha
Prenatal
Yoga Nidra
Vinyasa
Focus: Health / Weight loss / Strength / Flexibility / Mindfulness / Stress Relief
Vinyasa is a slightly faster paced (dynamic) style of Yoga. This style focuses on building strength, general fitness and flexibility class. The class sequences focus on core stability, body strength, and improving your range of motion. The yoga poses are linked with yogic breathing practices to balance your nervous system and leave you feeling energised. This class is fun, energised and you may find yourself learning an arm balance or two … maybe even a handstand!
This class is heated.
Some prior experience required.
Yin
Benefits: Health / Flexibility / Mindfulness / Injury support / Stress Relief
Yin Yoga is a slow paced passive practice, done mainly all on the floor with no standing postures. It is based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The practice is designed to apply moderate pressure on the connective tissue (Fascia) in the body. The Yin Yoga sequences are designed to focus on different major Fascia and Meridian lines and the seasonal set of the body’s organs in focus. The poses are held longer to use gravity to open up the Fascia lines that relate to the same fundamental Meridian lines acupuncture uses.
It can restore flexibility in the body, and can help to repair certain injuries, plus balance the endocrine and nervours system. The bonus of Yin Yoga is it provides you with incredible relaxation and meditation mindfulness tools to help you deal with stress.
It is taught with the use of Yoga props such as Bolster, Blocks, and a strap.
Prenatal
Benefits: Health / Gentle exercise / Flexibility / Mindfulness / Stress Relief
Our Prenatal Yoga courses are a holistic approach to your pregnancy and journey to birth. During this 6wk course, you will learn yoga practices including postures, breathing and relaxation techniques to help increase your awareness, strength and trust in yourself to nourish and birth your baby. Our classes are an opportunity to empower yourself towards an instinctive and calm approach to your pregnancy and birth.
*All prenatal students will recieve a 15% off card at Eunoia Acupunture, our lovley neighbour in The Lifestyle Building.
Beginners yoga foundation Course
Benefits: Health / Gentle exercise / Flexibility / Mindfulness / Stress Relief
Our 6 week Beginners Foundation Course
Dates and Info coming soon!
Ashtanga
Benefits: Health / Weight loss / Strength / Flexibility / Mindfulness / Stress Relief
Ashtanga is taught as a set sequence of asanas (postures), as part of the Primary Ashtanga Series. The asanas are designed in a specific order to open, align and detoxify the body and nervous system. You will learn to build natural internal heat, with the use of specific breathing techniques used throughout the practice. Ashtanga is brilliant for building mental tools for a calm and steady mind, and the breathing technique helps you to regulate your heart rate and natural heat, and it is a set sequence. You will develop greater physical strength, flexibility and mental clarity.
This Ashtanga class is open to all levels of experience.
Hatha
Benefits: Health / Weight loss / Strength / Flexibility / Mindfulness / Stress Relief
Hatha Yoga is a traditional style of yoga practice where the poses are static, not moving or flowing. Hatha builds bone and joint strength, flexibility and mental clarity. This practice is the style that Vinyasa and Ashtanga yoga were formulated from. You will learn Yogic breathing techniques to help you to build mental focus. It is an incredible practice to build your foundations, learn the fundamentals of posture alignment and to take that technique into your faster paced practices.
Mums and Bubs
Benefits: Health / Mindfulness / Stress Relief / Relaxation
As a new mum we spend a lot of our time attending to our baby’s needs and it can be consuming and hard to carve out time for ourselves.
Mums and bubs yoga provides a great way to reconnect, recover from your pregnancy and birth and enhance your physical and mental wellbeing.
Our mums and bubs classes are designed to:
Foster connection with other mums.
Practice gentle yoga poses that work to realign, regain strength, stability and connection with your body and baby.
Focus on gradually regaining strength in the pelvic floor muscles.
Gentle stretching for bub, and special bonding time.
Explore how to bring your yoga off the mat with your little one.
Yoga Nidra
Benefits: Health / Mindfulness / Stress Relief / Relaxation
Yoga Nidra, known as a Yogic sleep, the state between waking and sleeping, like the “going-to-sleep” stage, taught by a guided meditation.
The class is taught where you lie comfortably on the floor you may use Bolster behind your knees, a blanket or eye pillow. It is among the deepest possible states of relaxation while still maintaining full consciousness. There is evidence that yoga nidra helps relieve stress.
It is an ancient technique from India, it has now spread worldwide and is also being applied to assist soldiers to recover from many types of stress.