Restorative · Yin · Candlelit slow flow
Come as you are, at the end of the day
Small evening classes in East Austin for people who spend all day being useful to everyone else. No mirrors, no music you have to shout over, no one watching to see whether you can touch your toes.
A practice for the hours when you finally stop
Most yoga is sold as something to achieve. This isn't that. These are slow, warm, deliberately unambitious classes built around the nervous system you actually have at seven in the evening, not the one you wish you had at six in the morning.
What I teach
Three ways in. None of them require flexibility, equipment, or any previous experience.
Restorative
75 minutesFour or five shapes in an hour and a quarter, each one held for long enough that your body stops bracing. Fully propped with bolsters and blankets. You will probably fall asleep. That's allowed.
Anyone exhausted, recovering, pregnant, or grieving.
Yin
75 minutesFloor-based, long holds, working into connective tissue rather than muscle. Quieter than it sounds and harder than it looks. We work at the edge of sensation, never past it.
Desk bodies, runners, and anyone who sits for a living.
Candlelit slow flow
60 minutesMovement linked to breath, at about half the pace of a studio vinyasa. Warm enough to feel like exercise, slow enough to feel like rest. Lit by candles, so there is nothing to compare yourself to.
People who want to move but not be shouted at.
This week
Classes run Monday through Thursday evenings and Sunday at dusk. Twelve mats, booked in advance, because a full room changes the practice.
Monday
6:30 pm
Restorative
75 min · 12 mats
8:00 pm
Yin
75 min · 12 mats
Tuesday
7:00 pm
Candlelit slow flow
60 min · 12 mats
Wednesday
6:30 pm
Restorative
75 min · 12 mats
Thursday
7:00 pm
Candlelit slow flow
60 min · 12 mats
8:15 pm
Yin
75 min · 8 mats
Sunday
6:00 pm
Restorative
75 min · 12 mats
Doors open fifteen minutes early. If you're running late, come anyway — slipping in quietly during the first few minutes is completely fine.
If you've never done this before
Here is everything, so you can decide without having to ask.
- What do I bring?
- Yourself. Mats, bolsters, blankets and blocks are all here. Wear whatever you can lie down comfortably in.
- Do I need to be flexible?
- No. Flexibility is a result of practice, not a requirement for it. Everything has a version that works for your body tonight.
- Will I be the only beginner?
- No. Roughly a third of any given class is in their first month, and nobody can tell who is who in candlelight anyway.
- What if I need to leave early?
- Then leave early. Roll up your mat and go. No one will mind and I won't take it personally.
- Is there chanting?
- No chanting, no Sanskrit you're expected to know, and no one will touch you without asking first.
Who you'll be practicing with
I came to yoga late and badly, in my thirties, after a decade of treating my body as something that carried my head to meetings. I teach the practice I needed then: unhurried, unglamorous, and genuinely kind about where you're starting from.
“I'd spent years assuming yoga wasn't for people like me. Three months in, Thursday night is the only hour of my week I protect completely.”
Dani R., practicing since spring
What it costs
No membership, no contract, no auto-renewal to cancel.
- First classFreeGenuinely. Come and see.
- Drop in$22One class, whenever.
- Five classes$95No expiry date.
- Monthly$120Unlimited. Cancel any time.
If money is the reason you're not coming, say so and we'll work it out. That offer is real and nobody has ever abused it.
The hardest part is the first time
You don't need to be ready. You need to pick a night and put it in your calendar.