Grounding the Practice: Ashtanga for Beginners with Rey Fernandez, Mar 22

River Valley
Saturday, March 22, 2025
11.30am - 12.45pm

Ashtanga is a dynamic and traditional style of yoga that follows a structured sequence of postures, combined with specific breathing techniques and a focus on internal energy (known as prana).

Join this beginner-friendly class, where we’ll break down the Ashtanga practice into manageable sections with strong focus on three main principles:

• Breath
• Drishti (focused gaze)
• Bandhas (energy locks)
  

Discover how these principles make the practice more intentional and accessible. We will maintain the traditional pace and counting, with pauses to explore key poses and refine details.

We will cover half of the Primary Series:

• Surya Namaskar (sun salutations)
• Standing and seated sequences
• Finishing sequence
  

Whether you're a complete beginner or looking to refine your technique, this class will provide you with the tools to build strength, flexibility, and mindfulness. Step onto the mat and unlock your potential — one breath at a time.

This class is part of our Beginner Series Special Classes.

Price

$40

An active package or membership can be used for this special class. Email to sign up.

Cancellation Policy

Please note that this event is non-refundable.

ABOUT REY FERNANDEZ



Rey’s yoga practice has spanned over the course of several years but she believes her journey only truly began upon meeting her teacher and guide, Sita Chia, in 2020. Through the practice and studies with her teacher, she understands yoga as an exploration of one's own alignment. Alignment, being different from one person to the next depending on an individual's physical structure, is the point where flexibility meets strength. It is an exploration both of the vastness and variety of the human state, and also the sameness of the essential core of our beings. 

In Rey’s classes, she believes in providing a space for practitioners to shift away from the confines of dogma and explore their individuality, whilst emphasising the uniting factor in all of her classes, the breath. Breath is ever-present no matter the shape or form. If, therefore, bodies are never the same from one person to the next, then Rey believes in placing prominence on how to use breath intentionally as we move in whatever state we are in, physically or mentally.

Rey loves a dynamic practice where there is no time for judgment and doubt but only enough space to move based on perfect trust in one's own intuitive sense.