What the course is for

Most people do not fail at yoga. They fail at doing it on a Tuesday in the rain when nobody is watching. Daily Yoga exists for that problem: it is short enough to hold your attention for a full run and dense enough that skipping a day is obvious.

Three months, a group of twenty, and a sequence you will come to know well enough to run on your own. That last part is the point of the course. A student who finishes it should not need the school in order to practise, only to progress.

Who it suits

The school grades this course advanced. That grading describes the syllabus, not a gate: it means the sequence assumes you already know the postures well enough to move through them without being talked through each one. If you have come through Classical Hatha Yoga, or you practised regularly somewhere else, you will be at home.

If you are not sure which side of that line you fall on, write and say what you can currently do. The school would rather place you correctly than have you spend three months in the wrong room.

The rhythm

The group is capped at twenty so that the teacher can see everyone in one sweep of the room. Sessions run between 5.30 am and 7.30 pm, Monday to Saturday, and students generally pick one slot and stay in it. The consistency is doing as much work as the postures.

Early morning fills first. It is also, for what it is worth, the hour the school recommends: the body is stiffer, the mind is quieter, and nothing has happened yet that you need to carry into the room.