beginning yoga

your first class | specific health issues | hatha yoga

your first class

The following recommendations will make your first yoga class more enjoyable:

Don’t eat two hours before class and wear comfortable clothing. Arrive 10–15 minutes before class, store your shoes and gear in at the back of the space and turn off your mobile phone. Advise your teacher if you have any injuries, health conditions or if you are pregnant. Not all poses are for everyone. If a posture feels painful or not right, come out of it and let the teacher know.

Yoga is not a competitive activity. Don’t worry about what the person next to you is doing. Yoga is a path of self-discovery through inquiry and experience. The process and not the outcome is what is important. Keep it light and keep a sense of humour about yourself and your practice.
All students are asked to fill in a health form. This is confidential information and it allows the teacher to modify your practice so a greater health benefit can be achieved. You may download the form and bring it with you or complete it at your first class.
Download client health form (add link)

what to expect
As an example, a hatha vinyasa class may include:

• Settling and centering
• Open with chanting
• Warm up
• Flowing vinyasa of yoga postures
• Hands on alignment
• Breath awareness (prānāyāma)
• A relaxation such as yoga nidra or meditation
• Close with chanting
• Ideas from ancient texts woven into the class material

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Based on our philosophy of 'practice, knowledge and support' we are able to offer our students and the wider community a range of courses and workshops for specific health issues. These have attracted beginners and more experienced students alike and teachers and practitioners from all traditions.

courses+workshops available: hatha yoga | ayurveda | meditation

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hatha yoga

Learn to give attention to your body, mind and breath as you work through traditional hatha yoga postures (āsanas), breath awareness (prānāyāma) and relaxation techniques. We encourage you to tune into your body and discover what is right for you. This can be profoundly calming, relaxing and meditative. Suitable for beginner and general level students.

hatha mindful
This is a hatha yoga class with a focus on self-inquiry and observation of one’s own practice and bodymind entity. There are fewer postures and more explorations in the postures using insights from the mindfulness traditions. Movement flows into stillness and the class closes with breathing, relaxation, yoga nidra or meditation. Suitable for beginner and general level students.

At Three Realms Yoga hatha yoga classes are offered in four terms per year. Classes are by bookings only. The class sizes are limited to ensure personalised attention and the progression of the student. Missed classes are non-refundable. Make-up classes are available for absences and must be taken during the term of the absence. 

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"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to try and live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection"
- Bhagavad-Gita -

courses+workshops

Hatha Yoga Workshops
+ Pelvic Floor and Core
+ Easy Shoulders
+ Voice, Yoga and your Chakras
+ Establishing a Home Practice
+ Establishing the Self
+ Better Breathing
+ Mindful Movements Series:
Part 1 Yielding and Breath
+ Mindful Movements Series:
Part 2: Opening the Spine
+ Mindful Movements Series
Part 3: The Fluid Body

Ayurveda Courses
and Workshops
+ Ayurvedic and Yogic Living Advanced Certificate Course
+ Ayurveda for Self Healing
+ Cultivating Inner Stillness
with Meditation
+ The Yoga of Cooking
and Nutrition
+ Ayurvedic Psychology
and Spiritual Practice
+ Ayurvedic Rejuvenations and Ageing Well Workshop
+Ayurvedic Detoxing

Meditation Courses
and Workshops
+ Managing the Madness – Mindfulness Meditation Course
See also the ayurveda workshop: + Cultivating Inner Stillness
with Meditation
+ Mindful Yoga and the Mindful Movement Series of hatha yoga workshops

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