On the mat

Yoga


Ways into the practice, from a strong morning flow to holds long enough to forget you're in them. Levels are marked on each.

Embodied Vinyasa

Embodied Vinyasa

90 min · All levels

Less about how the shape looks. More about how it feels to be inside it.

A breath-led Vinyasa practice with a deeper focus on sensation, awareness and the relationship between movement and the body.

We explore familiar yoga shapes through a more embodied lens — noticing weight, rhythm, breath, tension, ease and the subtle impulses that arise when we give ourselves space to feel. The practice is fluid, but never rushed.

We begin with grounding and breath, move through an embodied sequence, and close with time for integration and Savasana.

Come if you want to move with more awareness, listen more deeply and feel more at home in your body.

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Vinyasa Flow

Vinyasa Flow

90 min · All levels

Breath becomes movement. Movement becomes presence.

A dynamic, breath-led practice where postures and transitions weave together into a continuous flow. Each class has its own rhythm, sequence and focus, inviting strength, mobility, balance and concentration while keeping the practice fluid and alive.

We begin by grounding and connecting to the breath, build gradually into movement, and finish with time to soften, integrate and rest in Savasana.

Come if you want to move, breathe and feel fully here.

Slow Flow

Slow Flow

75–90 min · All levels

Everything a flow class is, taken at half the speed, with time to actually arrive in each shape.

The same breath-led movement as vinyasa, but unhurried. Fewer postures, held longer, with space between them. Good for a body that's tired from travel or surf, and good for anyone who finds faster classes rush past the part that matters.

Hatha Yoga

Hatha Yoga

75 min · Beginner friendly

Classical postures held with care and clear alignment, an unhurried way into the practice.

A grounded, traditional class built around held postures, steady breathing and simple sequencing. We take time to explain the shape of each posture and why it's there. If you're new to yoga, or returning after time away, start here.

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Yang to Yin

Yang to Yin

75 min · All levels

Warmth first, then surrender: an active opening that melts into long, supported holds.

The class begins yang: moving, building heat, working the muscles. Then it turns. The second half is yin: passive holds of three to five minutes with generous props, working into the deeper connective tissue. Doing both in one session leaves the body worked and the nervous system settled.

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Yin Yoga

Yin Yoga

75 min · All levels

Long, supported holds that let the body soften and the nervous system settle.

Postures held for three to five minutes with generous props, working into the deeper connective tissue rather than the muscles. The pace is unhurried and the light is low. This is the class to come to after a long travel day, a hard surf, or a week that asked too much of you.

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Yin Yoga & Sound Healing

Yin Yoga & Sound Healing

90 min · All levels

Yin's long holds, carried by singing bowls and chimes as the light goes.

The stillness of yin with sound healing woven through it. As the body settles into each long hold, bowls and chimes fill the shala, giving the mind something to rest on rather than something to fight. Many people describe it as the deepest rest they've had in months.

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Vinyasa & Sound Healing

Vinyasa & Sound Healing

90 min · All levels

A morning flow that dissolves into sound healing: movement first, then complete stillness.

We flow through the first hour, building warmth and working the body properly. Then everything stops: mats become beds, bolsters come out, and the closing half hour is given entirely to sound healing. Starting the day this way tends to change the whole shape of it.

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Arm Balance & Inversions

Arm Balance & Inversions

90 min · Some experience helpful

A playful, technical workshop for getting upside down, safely and without ego.

Taught as a workshop rather than a flow, with time to break down the mechanics of crow, headstand, forearm balance and handstand. Walls, blocks and spotting are all used freely. You don't need to already have these shapes; you need to be willing to fall over a few times and laugh about it.

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Breathwork & Sound Healing

Breathwork & Sound Healing

90 min · All levels

Guided conscious breathing, then bowls and voice: simple in form, often profound in effect.

Structured breathing practices held in a safe, unhurried container, followed by a sound healing journey while you rest. Breathwork can move a great deal, physically and emotionally, and you are guided closely throughout with full freedom to slow down or stop at any point. No experience or flexibility needed, since the whole session is spent lying down or seated.

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Sound Bath

Sound Bath

75 min · All levels

A practice of sound, presence and deep rest.

You lie supported by bolsters while Tibetan bowls are played around you, some at a distance, some resting close enough that you feel the sound as much as hear it. The bowls' overtones don't resolve the way music does, and the mind eventually gives up trying to follow them. That giving up is the point. Nothing is asked of you for the whole hour but to lie still and let it happen.

Together

Community


The shala isn't only for the people passing through. These are the afternoons that root it here.

A teacher playing with children from the village at the shala
Cooking Workshop

Cooking Workshop

90 min · Everyone welcome

Sri Lankan home cooking, taught by hand, and eaten together afterwards.

A hands-on afternoon learning the dishes that actually get cooked in homes along this coast: rice and curry, sambols, coconut everything. You'll cook it yourself and then sit down and eat what you made. Taught by the women of this land, and the profits go to them.

Kids Workshop

Kids Workshop

Varies · Children

Movement, play and stillness for the children of the village, held every week.

A safe space is built not with walls, but with attention. Each week the shala opens for the children of the village to move, play, breathe and rest. It's free, it's noisy in the best way, and it's one of the reasons this place exists.

Not on this week's schedule.

Not sure where to begin?

Start with what's on the mat


Not everything here runs every week. Anything without a day beside it isn't on this week's schedule, and you're welcome to ask when it comes back. If you'd rather talk it through first, message us and we'll point you somewhere that fits.