Bringing the World of Yoga to Your Feet
Down Under’s breadth of programming allows beginners and seasoned practitioners to experience all styles and levels.
Bringing the World of Yoga to Your Feet
Down Under’s breadth of programming allows beginners and seasoned practitioners to experience all styles and levels.
THE FLOW
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Powerful, sweaty and ablaze with tempo, explore your edge in 90+ degree heat and humidity. Opening out of the gates with sun salutes and all the major standing poses, expect a full array of asana including backbends, twists, core, at a vigorous pace.
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Creative, vigorous, and fluid sequences, curated with an intentional anatomical or philosophical focus, explore the rhythm of body and breath. Perfect for those who like to move, expect a moderate to fast pace with the potential for more challenging asanas, backbends, arm balances, or inversions.
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Foundations teaches the basics of yoga poses and breathing techniques. The class is moderately paced to cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance within a gentle, continuous sequence of postures. Foundations is designed for beginning and intermediate students eager to deepen your understanding and experience of yoga.
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Carrying the best qualities from several historic asana traditions, and shedding the worst, Down Under's version of Hot 26 offers a dynamic empowering sequence without sun salutations or weight-bearing on the wrists. This sequence is designed to mobilize every joint, tone your digestive system, quieten anxiety and remove toxins through sweat.
Vinyasa
Delight in fluid, dynamic sequences flowing from one pose to the next, curated intentionally to master challenging poses that rinse you from inside out.
THE RITUAL
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Mysore is different from a standard 'led' yoga class (where students are instructed in unison together). The Mysore room is quiet: it's filled with breath and uses demonstration, concise one-on-one instruction, minimal talk, and adjustments to convey knowledge. You'll see practitioners doing the Ashtanga series at their own pace, beginning with sun salutations and adding poses when the teacher sees that they are ready to progress. The teacher circulates through the room, offering assists, modifications, and individualized recommendations for each student's practice in their own time.
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Led Primary Series is an intermediate class taught together with the sanskrit count for the vinyasa. This class is for those who have practiced the primary series before or are new to the Mysore practice.
Students will be guided through the practice, but are responsible for knowing how to modify postures if necessary. The flow is vigorous and energizing and includes seated forward bends, backbends, and inversions. This class is part of the Mysore series, but open to drop-ins.
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The original vinyasa, Ashtanga Flow is a joyful, energizing practice that builds strength and flexibility while bringing quiet to the mind. You will see many of the poses and transitions we practice in our Ashtanga primary series/Mysore classes, remixed in a playful, more free-form setting.
The practice is relatively fast-paced, linking breath and movement in a vigorous sequence of yoga asana designed to bring awareness of the subtle energetic and spiritual realms of existence through physical opening.
Ashtanga
Commit to the challenge of Ashtanga’s set sequence designed to cleanse and purify the body by creating internal heat. Mysore teachers give individualized instructions adding new poses to your practice as you gain stamina, flexibility, and focus.
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Perfect for beginners and those wanting to refresh their understanding of fundamental poses. Students will learn basic standing, seated, twisted, back bending and beginner inverted poses, including shoulder stand, at a modest pace, learning how to use the props as needed.
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A transitional class for those with regular Level 1 experience. Students should be comfortable with setting up and getting into shoulder stand.
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For seasoned students comfortable with inversions. Students develop strength and refinement in all asanas including inversions, back-bends, and arm balances. Regular yoga practice is assumed.
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Using the resistance and gravity-defying assistance of wall ropes lengthens and deepens your asana practice. Yoga Kurunta (‘yoga puppet’) is open to all levels, but not for those brand new to any yoga.
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The Iyengar methodology has a longstanding tradition of seasonal registration series classes. Students experience the depth that comes from learning under a teacher year-round, cultivating a shared language, experience, and consistent class environment.
THE FOCUS
Iyengar
Explore the precision and alignment of one pose at a time in this classical methodology that employs props to make all poses accessible.
Delight in fluid, dynamic sequences flowing from one pose to the next, curated intentionally to master challenging poses that rinse you from inside out. Learn More.
Vinyasa
THE FLOW
-
Powerful, sweaty and ablaze with tempo, explore your edge in 90+ degree heat and humidity. Opening out of the gates with sun salutes and all the major standing poses, expect a full array of asana including backbends, twists, core, at a vigorous pace.
-
Creative, vigorous, and fluid sequences, curated with an intentional anatomical or philosophical focus, explore the rhythm of body and breath. Perfect for those who like to move, expect a moderate to fast pace with the potential for more challenging asanas, backbends, arm balances, or inversions.
-
Foundations teaches the basics of yoga poses and breathing techniques. The class is moderately paced to cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance within a gentle, continuous sequence of postures. Foundations is designed for beginning and intermediate students eager to deepen your understanding and experience of yoga.
-
Carrying the best qualities from several historic asana traditions, and shedding the worst, Down Under's version of Hot 26 offers a dynamic empowering sequence without sun salutations or weight-bearing on the wrists. This sequence is designed to mobilize every joint, tone your digestive system, quieten anxiety and remove toxins through sweat.
Commit to the challenge of Ashtanga’s set sequence designed to cleanse and purify the body by creating internal heat. Mysore teachers give individualized instructions adding new poses to your practice as you gain stamina, flexibility, and focus. Learn More.
Ashtanga
THE RITUAL
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Mysore is different from a standard 'led' yoga class (where students are instructed in unison together). The Mysore room is quiet: it's filled with breath and uses demonstration, concise one-on-one instruction, minimal talk, and adjustments to convey knowledge. You'll see practitioners doing the Ashtanga series at their own pace, beginning with sun salutations and adding poses when the teacher sees that they are ready to progress. The teacher circulates through the room, offering assists, modifications, and individualized recommendations for each student's practice in their own time.
-
An intermediate class taught together with the Sanskrit count for the vinyasa. This class is for those who have practiced the Primary Series before or are new to the Mysore practice.
Students will be guided through the practice, but are responsible for knowing how to modify postures if necessary. The flow is vigorous and energizing and includes seated forward bends, backbends, and inversions. This class is part of the Mysore series, but open to drop-ins.
-
The original vinyasa, Ashtanga Flow is a joyful, energizing practice that builds strength and flexibility while bringing quiet to the mind. You will see many of the poses and transitions we practice in our Ashtanga primary series/Mysore classes, remixed in a playful, more free-form setting.
The practice is relatively fast-paced, linking breath and movement in a vigorous sequence of yoga asana designed to bring awareness of the subtle energetic and spiritual realms of existence through physical opening.
Explore the precision and alignment of one pose at a time in this classical methodology that employs props to make all poses accessible. Learn More.
Iyengar
THE FOCUS
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Perfect for beginners and those wanting to refresh their understanding of fundamental poses. Students will learn basic standing, seated, twisted, back bending and beginner inverted poses, including shoulder stand, at a modest pace, learning how to use the props as needed.
-
A transitional class for those with regular Level 1 experience. Students should be comfortable with setting up and getting into shoulder stand.
-
These classes are for seasoned students comfortable with inversions. Students develop strength and refinement in all asanas including inversions, back-bends, and arm balances. Regular yoga practice is assumed.
-
Using the resistance and gravity-defying assistance of wall ropes lengthens and deepens your asana practice. Yoga Kurunta (‘yoga puppet’) is open to all levels, but not for those brand new to any yoga.
-
The Iyengar methodology has a longstanding tradition of seasonal registration series classes. Students experience the depth that comes from learning under a teacher year-round, cultivating a shared language, experience, and consistent class environment.
THE SANCTUARY
Restorative
Unwind tension in seriously sublime restorative poses that prioritize purpose over pace, feeling over accomplishment. Luxuriate in the potency of slowing down as you savor the power of stillness and meditation.
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Gentle stretching with long holds and a quiet breath, these classes cultivate a sense of intuitive movement and feature soft music with a lengthened savasana.
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A style of yoga which focuses primarily on the connective tissues – the joints, ligaments, bones, fascia- and uses longer-held, more passive poses to help restore the body through joint mobility, nourishing the body at the cellular level, and increasing energy flow within the body.
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A challenging uplifting flow practice coupled with a luxurious, restorative sequence to close.
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Creatively explore postures that balance physical challenge with quiet calm. Deep, mindful sequence that focus the mind, calm the nervous system, and free the body.
THE PULSE
Rise to the challenge of a doctor’s complete fitness routine, designed and delivered by some of the best fitness trainers in the country. Tone your core, increase your cardio, and experience total body conditioning as you complete the trilogy of yoga, meditation and fitness.
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Vinyasa yoga with resistance training and cardio moves in 90 degree heat. Set to upbeat music and incorporating the use of light weights and resistance bands, this class will work your total body from inside out.
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Precise, powerful low-impact movements improve the strength and stability of the core, honing well-balanced muscular development and full-body integration.
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Incorporating elements of dance, ballet, and strength training, this total body workout is a fusion of low-impact cardio, sustained holds, and micro-movements. If you join is livestream, have a set of light weights, chair or barre and a resistance band.
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Fitness offerings continue with HIIT, Strength and Conditioning, Inferno Hot Pilates, and more. Explore them all at Down Under School of Yoga.
Fitness
THE CIRCLE
Welcome your baby to the physical world, reconnect with yourself, and nurture the parent-child bond with our postnatal programs. Empower kids and teens with the resilience, self-soothing skills and confidence to navigate the world.
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A parent-centered class with plenty of opportunities to interact with baby, this postpartum yoga class focuses on deep pelvic floor and core strengthening as a return to exercise.
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Dynamic and playful yoga can cultivate self-soothing skills, confidence, and resilience through young adulthood. Led by experienced educators and movement specialists, classes include the full range of yoga poses, breath work, and restorative relaxation.
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Stretching and strengthening muscles through yoga promotes greater comfort in pregnancy, smoother delivery, and faster recovery. Experience greater ease, stability, and energy in your body as expert teachers share essential tools for birth and foster connection among expectant parents.
Postnatal & Kids
Unwind tension in seriously sublime restorative poses that prioritize purpose over pace, feeling over accomplishment. Luxuriate in the potency of slowing down as you savor the power of stillness and meditation. Learn More.
Restorative
THE SANCTUARY
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Gentle stretching with long holds and a quiet breath, these classes cultivate a sense of intuitive movement and feature soft music with a lengthened savasana.
-
A style of yoga which focuses primarily on the connective tissues – the joints, ligaments, bones, fascia- and uses longer-held, more passive poses to help restore the body through joint mobility, nourishing the body at the cellular level, and increasing energy flow within the body.
-
A challenging uplifting flow practice coupled with a luxurious, restorative sequence to close.
-
Creatively explore postures that balance physical challenge with quiet calm. Deep, mindful sequence that focus the mind, calm the nervous system, and free the body.
Rise to the challenge and pace of a doctor’s complete fitness routine, designed and delivered by some of the best fitness trainers in the country. Tone your core, increase your cardio, and experience total body conditioning as you complete the trilogy of yoga, meditation and fitness. Learn More.
Fitness
THE PULSE
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Vinyasa yoga with resistance training and cardio moves in 90 degree heat. Set to upbeat music and incorporating the use of light weights and resistance bands, this class will work your total body from inside out.
-
Precise, powerful low-impact movements improve the strength and stability of the core, honing well-balanced muscular development and full-body integration.
Inferno Hot Pilates is a challenging, full-body, low-impact, high-intensity workout using traditional Pilates movement and principles. The room is heated to 95 degrees and is designed for all fitness levels. It helps tone and strengthen muscles (particularly the core muscles) without the pounding of a high-impact workout.
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Incorporating elements of dance, ballet, and strength training, this total body workout is a fusion of low-impact cardio, sustained holds, and micro-movements. If you join is livestream, have a set of light weights, chair or barre and a resistance band.
-
Fitness offerings continue with HIIT, Strength and Conditioning, Inferno Hot Pilates, and more. Explore them all at Down Under School of Yoga.
Postnatal & Kids
THE CIRCLE
Welcome your baby to the physical world, reconnect with yourself, and nurture the parent-child bond with our postnatal programs. Empower kids and teens with the resilience, self-soothing skills and confidence to navigate the world. Learn More.
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A parent-centered class with plenty of opportunities to interact with baby, this postpartum yoga class focuses on deep pelvic floor and core strengthening as a return to exercise.
-
Dynamic and playful yoga can cultivate self-soothing skills, confidence, and resilience through young adulthood. Led by experienced educators and movement specialists, classes include the full range of yoga poses, breath work, and restorative relaxation.
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Stretching and strengthening muscles through yoga promotes greater comfort in pregnancy, smoother delivery, and faster recovery. Experience greater ease, stability, and energy in your body as expert teachers share essential tools for birth and foster connection among expectant parents.
Ayurveda is the science of nature, largely preventative care, enhancing self-awareness to help us make choices that support well-being. This system encourages us to catch imbalance before it begins and develops into disease.
Ayurveda
THE ROUTINE
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Learn tools for healthy living with our personalized consultations. Experience the warmth and expertise of our Ayurvedic faculty as they analyze your digestive and immune health, explain your constitutional type, or dosha, and give you an individualized toolkit of strategies to incorporate Ayurveda into your everyday life.
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Ancient Ayurvedic texts teach us that application of oil to the body wards off old age, bestows good vision, provides nourishment to the body, increases life span, and improves sleep.
The Iyengar methodology has a longstanding tradition of seasonal registration series classes. Students experience the depth that comes from learning under a teacher year-round, cultivating a shared language, experience, and consistent class environment.
Patricia Walden
MASTERCLASSES