Primal Vinyasa is a unique form of yoga. It is not about finding perfect alignment, or getting into the ‘correct’ pose. This yoga is about finding your body’s true and functional strength and range of movement – movement that you need and use in everyday life; movement that, all too often, our bodies have forgotten as we sit in chairs and stare at screens all day. It’s about repatterning the body – discarding the old habits that cause stress and injury through constant repetition.

If that all sounds terribly serious, Primal Vinyasa is also genuinely fun! In this fluid, flowing practice we come back to basic movements that we didn’t think twice about as a child – such as rocking, rolling, balancing and squatting – and we take cues from the animal world, learning to trust the body’s innate wisdom, so we can move in a relaxed and instinctive way – on the mat amd off it.

Through this dynamic and flowing practice you will open up and release old, held patterns and tendencies. You will develop innate strength as well as flexibility – true strength, that comes from an integrated core and an aligned skeletal structure; not superficial strength that resides purely in muscle mass.

These classes will teach you to understand how your body moves and how you can move better. You’ll learn how to let go of constricting movements and gain the capacity for a new range of healthy movements that bring you joy and ease.

Primal Vinyasa is non-prescriptive, allowing for intuitive, authentic physical expression. And as you rediscover the playfulness you once knew as a child, you’ll have lots of fun on the way!

The ins and outs

Primal Vinyasa is organised around five categories of human movement.

‘Fundamentals’ rebuilds the foundation of spine, hips, core and breath, retracing the developmental patterns we all moved through as infants.

‘Contralateral’ trains cross-body, non-linear coordination, breaking the mechanised patterns of modern life and rewiring confidence through the nervous system.

‘Sensory Processing’ calibrates the instrument itself, your proprioception, balance and inner sensing, rewilding the body’s relationship with the world around it.

‘Ground Reaction Force’ works push and pull, compression and rebound, waking up the fascia and the kinetic chains that give you true, springy strength.

‘Migration’ is locomotion and play, crawling, hopping, leaping and getting upside down, turning any space into a place to move.

Together these five give the body back its full vocabulary. Most movement systems train a slice. Primal Vinyasa trains the whole human animal.

Find out about the history of Primal Vinyasa here