What the course covers
Hatha yoga is the branch the school teaches: posture, breath and stillness, worked on together rather than one at a time. The syllabus runs on three things, in the school’s own words. Body alignment. Awareness of the breath. Observing the mind.
Over six months the asana work moves from the standing postures outward: forward bends, back bends, twists, and eventually the inversions that most students arrive wanting and are rarely ready for on day one. Pranayama runs alongside from the start, because a posture held without the breath is only a shape.
Every session closes in savasana. The school treats deep relaxation as part of the practice rather than as the bit at the end, which is why it is taught rather than simply announced.
Who it suits
This is the school’s basic-level course, and it assumes nothing. If you have never held a posture in your life, this is the door. If you practised years ago and stopped, it is also the door: coming back through a beginner syllabus is faster than trying to resume where you left off.
Students work in a group of up to forty. That sounds large, and it is the largest group the school runs, but a hatha class scales in a way a workshop does not: everyone is doing the same posture at the same time, and the correction is made in front of the room.
If you are recovering from an injury or working around a diagnosis, say so when you write. The school will either place you here with modifications or point you at the custom class, which is designed around exactly that.
How a session runs
Arrive, settle, and start with the breath rather than with movement. Warm-ups first, then the asana sequence for that stage of the course, then pranayama, then savasana. The order rarely changes, and that is deliberate: a familiar shape lets you notice what is different in your own body from one day to the next.
Classes are taught at the school on Kovalam Beach Road, and live online for students who are not in Kerala. The online class is the same class, taught at the same time, not a recording.
What to bring
A mat if you own one, clothes you can fold forward in, and an empty stomach. The school asks students not to eat in the two hours before a class, which is the ordinary rule everywhere and matters more than people expect once you reach the twists.