Yoga classes in Nottingham. Hatha Yoga and Yoga Flow sessions for all. Yoga for adults, Yoga for young people, Group Yoga classes, private Yoga sessions, Yoga workshops and Yoga retreats. From Yoga at work, Meditation to Restorative Yoga, relaxing Yoga Nidra, and Yoga sequenced with the breath (Vinyasa), including Pregnancy Yoga to Family Yoga.

Bahia Yoga fuses a body and mind fitness approach to modern living, with contemporary and traditional systems of Yoga and therapy.

Perhaps you are new to Yoga and would like to see what all the hype is about? Have a quick look at the type of classes on offer:

• Group classes practice Yoga with others, plus an ideal way to meet like-minded people.
• Yoga one to one plan an individual Yoga practice wherever you are in your Yoga journey.
• Yoga at work create energy and focus during your workday.
• Pregnancy Yoga providing grounding and nurturing for pregnancy and beyond.
• Fluid Restorative Yoga is a gentler, fluid and mindful class. Suitable for older people, or if you have an injury, are recovering from birth, or suffering with stress or anxiety. Recuperative and soothing Yoga, providing you with strength, energy and calmness.
• Yoga Workshops are open to all levels of ability. Yoga Workshops are held in Nottingham, East Midlands, and London, providing energy and uplifting sequences with seasonal themes. Yoga Workshops vary from Partner and Family Yoga, to Yoga for women, Yoga for stress, Cleansing Yoga and Yoga for Energy and Stress Management. Please check the Yoga Workshops page for regular updates.
• Yoga Retreats weekend and week long retreats available within the UK, Europe and Worldwide. Please go onto the link and check for up to date retreat information.

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What type of Yoga? About your Instructor

Jasminder Bahia is a Yoga Instructor, Psychologist and student of Zen. She is the principal Yoga teacher with Bahia Yoga and has devoted many years to physical and mental fitness.

She qualified as an aerobics instructor in 1996, and, whilst a committed student to Hun Gar Kung Fu, she discovered the path of Yoga. Immediately she became hooked on the peace, energy and focus that Yoga offers. She undertook intensive Yoga training in India, expanding on the traditional eight branches of Yoga with Swami Govindananda. Jasminder continues to develop her training within the Hatha Yoga renaissance and is qualified to teach Hatha Yoga, Pregnancy Yoga and Yoga Nidra. Jasminder is certified with Yoga Alliance, British Wheel of Yoga, Sitaram, Sivananda Yoga, and is a REPs level 3 instructor.

Jasminder encourages students to practice a posture according to their own individual needs and capacity (via a sequential process, known as vinyasa krama), incorporating mindful awareness and integration of the breath, mind and body.

Bahia Yoga offers sessions that are dynamic, yet restorative, with flowing and static asana (posture) sequences. Yoga that infuses classical and contemporary poses, along with philosophical and practical insights. All sessions combine synchronised breath work, with Vinyasa sequences, and conclude with a Yogic rest (Yoga Nidra).

In addition to running weekly group sessions and regular workshops, Jasmin Bahia also teaches community Yoga via Sweaty Betty (Nottingham Boutique) and is the Sweaty Betty ambassador for the East Midlands Region.

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What are the benefits of Yoga?

Yoga can help you feel re-energised and re-gain a gentle focus on your life, it can aid you in reducing your stress levels, and if you’re looking to reduce weight it can also give a helping hand towards a more toned and supple body. The benefits of Yoga are limitless; it works on many levels emotionally, psychologically, physically, mentally and spiritually. Yoga can help give a boost to your immune system. It can also help to reduce blood pressure, relieve insomnia and regular practice can even slow the appearance of signs of ageing.

Who can attend Yoga?

Yoga classes are available to every person, whatever your faith, gender, age, culture, beliefs, ability, or fitness levels. Yoga can be practiced by any person, and comes in the form of asanas (postures/ exercise) which focuses on pranayama (breathing) to combine a gentle or vigorous routine, along with relaxation to help you maintain overall fitness, resulting in a leaner, calmer, balanced, happier and flexible you!

Yoga is non-competitive; the ultimate aim is to work at your own pace and focus. The Yoga journey begins with the physical body, gaining an understanding of the body results in a deeper connection with the breath. Managing the breath helps to focus and clear the mind. By calming the mind you begin to feel more peaceful and can let go of the usual tensions and stresses life may bring. By letting go you begin to let go of the self and are more relaxed and radiant with life.

Yoga means union?

Even though many people think Yoga refers solely to union between the body and mind or body, mind and spirit, the traditional recognition is union between one’s individual consciousness and the universal consciousness. Yoga therefore refers to a certain state of consciousness and the methods, which help one, reach that goal or state of union.

Capital Y

Capital Y for Yoga. Throughout the main part of the Bahia Yoga website you will find the letter Y in Yoga is capitalised. Mainly to refer to the system of Yoga as a complete method in itself, rather like Zen. This is a preference and of course a choice, as in Yoga we are mindful there is no right or wrong way, either way its meaning and practise are the same. Shanti.