Hatha focuses on balancing our physical, mental and emotional well-being. A more traditional way of practicing yoga. You are led through a well-rounded and breath-centred sequence at a comfortable and mindful pace. These classes always follow a flowing and consistent pattern: often beginning with sun salutations, followed by standing postures, onwards to some useful seated postures. We then reduce the pace and intensity with more passive positions and guided relaxation.

This is a flowing style of yoga where we connect to the breath and synchronise this with movement to foster a greater sense of focus and calm. The movement element of the class is warming, providing an opportunity to build a healthy balance of strength and mobility. The beauty of this style is the variety, as there is no set sequence – hence the breath, movements, pace and intensity will vary, helping you to grow and explore different elements of the practice.
We also offer a more gentle, easeful version of this class, called “Gentle Flow”.

Our weekly beginners class is a great way to kick off your yoga journey. Expect an encouraging and supportive class aimed to help you establish a firm grounding in yoga asana and awareness of your breath. Movements are slower paced so they are easier to learn and assimilate and you’ll be offered plenty of options to adapt the practice to suit your needs.

With some of our yoga teachers also being experienced climbers, we are pleased to be able to offer two weekly classes designed with the needs of climbers in mind. Utilising some simple yet powerful concepts, each session is a targeted exploration of an aspect that is of particular benefit to the climber. Whether it is seeking to find more muscular balance, to assist in recovery, or to improve functional mobility, this class will help improve your climbing.

Uprising Yoga’s Your Pace classes are like having a one-on-one session but within a group setting. It is a superb environment for going about a practice you are familiar with—following your own natural breath and tempo—or to focus on other aspects of yoga you may be less familiar with. We are very happy to work with you to create a personalised practice that best suits your interests and needs—whether postural, pranayama-based or meditation.
Of particular interest, our teachers have extensive training and experience in the Ashtanga Vinyasa method, which fits in very well to this type of class. So, if you have been practising in the ‘Mysore’ style previously, or have been wanting to learn more about this distinct approach, these Your Pace classes are ideal.

Kirtan is a fun and powerful form of meditation, it includes the hearing and chanting of transcendental sounds or mantras. By meditating on these beautiful transcendental sounds we can free the heart and mind of the stress and anxieties of daily life and begin to taste the inner happiness that we are always searching for.

This class is provided by Uprising for free, we ask that any attendees make a koha to Conservation Volunteers NZ. You can donate on their website at conservationvolunteers.co.nz/donate.

Come and join us on a Friday evening to decompress from the week; to give yourself a chance to rest, recover and restore. Here we quietly guide you through practices that activate the inbuilt relaxation response. Practices such as gentle movement, breath practices, restorative postures, guided relaxation (yoga nidra) and meditation. Giving you ample time to connect with the subtle qualities of the body, breath and mind.

A perfectly relaxing way to finish the day, priming you for a deeply restorative sleep so you continue your week fresh and centred. Using props for full support we explore shapes either seated or lying on the floor with longer holds to give access to fascia~ the interconnective tissue that encases our muscles, ligaments and bones. This creates more space in the body and is beautifully correlated with deep focused breathwork to give more space in the mind.

An Ashtanga Vinyasa based class cultivating strength and ease in body, clarity in mind and fullness in breath. Each class will follow a consistent pattern: starting with some warming sun salutations and standing postures moving into some grounding seated postures and enlivening back bends then coming back to centre with a calming finishing sequence. Each week we’ll shine a light on a meditation or pranayama technique allowing you to dive a little deeper into these subtler practices of yoga, leaving you balanced and bright.

These monthly expanded Ashtanga classes give you the opportunity to explore more of the Primary Series, as well as the more subtle and supportive practices of pranayama and meditation. They’re best suited to those with some experience in Ashtanga as they can be quite dynamic. Although many modifications will be offered, familiarity with the sequence helps. Try out our Tuesday Ashtanga or Thursday Your Pace classes to best prepare.

Pranayama is a guided class dedicated wholly to the inward-looking, energising and balancing breathing techniques of yoga.
A little guidance and encouragement usually makes all the difference with these practices—and this is what these sessions are all about; giving it a go with useful pointers provided along the way.
Come along and learn the basics so you too can add this beautiful and potent set of practices to your yoga tool box.

Satsang is another way of saying, ‘let’s get together to talk about the good stuff of yoga’. You’ll sit together and chat about a broad range of yoga topics, big and small. Put forward questions or listen; ponder or share; it’s up to you.
Then comes a conversation. We might start with a particular area of interest or yogic idea, but where this leads depends very much on the particular interests and responses of the group. Typically, the conversation would have a philosophical leaning, but all topics are definitely welcome. Yoga can be a very interesting lens with which to view many things.

Every Saturday morning the Uprising studio is made available for anyone who wishes to self practise. We simply have a supervisor there to open and close up whilst you do your thing—whether that be asana, pranayama or meditation practices. A warm distraction free space for you to enjoy your personal practice.