Therapeutic Yoga

Therapeutic Yoga is the slowest, most carefully held class on the schedule. It draws on the same postures and breath work as Hatha Yoga but slows everything down and builds the practice outward from what your body can actually do that day. If lying on the floor is uncomfortable, I’ll bring in a chair. If standing is fatiguing, we use the wall. If a full pose isn’t accessible, I’ll find a version that gives you most of the benefit with none of the strain.

I use props generously, cushions, straps, chairs, the wall, so a supported pose can work gently with what’s tight or tender, easing tension without putting weight on what hurts. This isn’t a gentler class for the sake of being gentle; it’s a careful, thoughtful approach for bodies with specific things to work with.

Ania’s background in craniosacral therapy and bodywork shapes this class directly. Classes are deliberately small, eight to twelve students, so she can watch closely, adjust carefully, and often offer different variations to different students in the same pose. Over weeks, students notice very tangible changes: a frozen shoulder begins to move, sleep deepens, a persistent back pain fades to a whisper.

The class is particularly well suited to women managing menopausal symptoms, to people rebuilding after surgery or long illness, to those with hypermobility learning to stabilise, and to anyone whose standard yoga class has begun to feel like too much. You do not need a diagnosis to join; the practice adapts to what you bring.