Claire Ferry Yoga

13/10/2025

Love that Anne has found so much benefit for her knees after Iyengar yoga with myself and Rachel Overton Yoga at Maitri Studio Belfast ! Read the post for more and click through.

09/10/2025

*Autumn retreat 🍂🌊7-9 November at Carlingford Yoga

Take some time out for yoga, walks, reading by the fire, sleeping and being nourished with healthy vegan food (always enjoyed by the non-vegans too).

✨It starts on Friday evening (arrival from 4pm) with tea/soup ahead of a gentle introductory yoga practice before dinner and bed.

👣Saturday starts with meditation and yoga before a brunch (don't worry, fruit and coffee available if you're ravenous beforehand), then time to digest and have a walk over the hills into Carlingford (weather permitting) and maybe a sauna, and then back to an evening yoga class before dinner

‍🤸🏿‍♂️More meditation and yoga on Sunday morning, brunch, a closing circle and finish with tea & cake before heading home from about 2pm, so you've time to get home and unpack without being in a rush

I've run this several times in November and we've always had a good time, whatever the weather! Maybe a little windswept to get the cobwebs blown away, combined with some quiet cosy time in front of the fire - it's just what you need before we enter the Christmas fray. Book directly with Carlingford Yoga - click on the link for more details and booking information. €430 all in (except for anything you choose to buy / do / eat in Carlingford on the Saturday)

https://www.carlingfordyoga.ie/product/yoga-weekend-with-claire-ferry/

* The eagle-eyed will spot this is not a picture from Carlingford! But I was recently in Donegal and the colours of the fuschia, and the sea and the far hills were so reminiscent of the views across Carlingford Lough and over to the Mournes I hoped you wouldn't mind!

Iyengar Yoga Ireland

07/10/2025

Yoga after retirement. It's with Belfast City Council in October, so we've been asking some of the yogis at Maitri Studio Belfast about how yoga has been helping them with mental and physical health and making friends! Meet June who's told us her story.

⭐I’ve been coming to the Maitri Studio since retiring in May 2021. I was introduced to the class by Valerie McCrory, a much loved and now retired yoga teacher* whose classes I attended before Covid.

⭐Maitri Studio is very friendly and welcoming with lovely facilities and a great range of activities. As someone in their sixties I really enjoy the lyengar yoga classes on Tuesday and Friday mornings which allow for all abilities and go at a pace to accommodate everyone. The teachers are excellent and take time to understand and accommodate all our various ‘foibles’ from bad knees and replaced hips to dodgy backs, aches and pains. For me taking my yoga class together with others of a similar age is fun and fulfilling and we do have a laugh. Our yoga class can be as physically challenging as you choose to make it, but the calm focus as you move through the various range of postures (asanas) gives you a wonderful sense of wellbeing and achievement really setting you up for the day.

⭐Over the past four years my regular yoga practice has strengthened my core, improved my knee issues and flexibility but most of all I’ve made lovely friends and really enjoy attending the classes.

You can read this and other stories on our website https://maitristudio.net/features and find out about suitable classes for you.

East Belfast Community Development Agency

07/10/2025

Delighted that June benefits so much from her yoga practice with me at Maitri Studio Belfast !

06/10/2025

Classes on this week! I'm hopefully retaining the relaxed Donegal holiday vibe but I have washed the sand out from between my toes 😊👣🌊

It's legs, standing poses, grounding & earthing this week. One of my students was telling me just how much those standing poses help her knees and that is one of the many reasons we do them of course. So join me on the mat this week:
Tuesday 10am Level 1 slower
Tuesday 11.30am chair-based
Tuesday 6pm Level 1 active
Tuesday 7.30pm Level 2/3
Wednesday 9.30am-12.30pm in depth workshop with Aisling (I'll be a student at this one)
Friday 10am Level 1 slower

All Maitri Studio Belfast as usual.
Claire x

25/09/2025

TIME OFF 😊I'm taking a week off from Sat 27th Sept with Geoff and intend to properly switch off - no social media, no checking whatsapps and texts, no reading emails on my phone, not even thinking about switching on the laptop. Instead some autumn wandering / wondering, maybe foraging, or cooking, or reading, or swimming, or just being quiet and having naps as the season turns. Classes are covered (except Friday 3rd Oct) so just turn up at Maitri Studio Belfast as normal and Overton Yoga will be there for you.

Yoga practice is not just asana - also breath, self-study, meditation and treading gently on the earth and through life, fulfilling responsibilities and having time to care for family, friends and community too. I am grateful I am lucky enough to be able to set aside time like this.

See you on the other side! Back at teaching from Sunday Oct 5th 9-10.30am class.
Cx

19/09/2025

Backbend weekend so we'll do something yummy for the spine and let the mind turn in to the heart. Conscious to subconscious. Active to passive. Front brain to back brain. External to internal. Outside noise to inside quiet. See you there? Sunday 9am.

17/09/2025

This is what I feel yoga has brought me - reminding me always of the capacity to love 😊

"we taste a quiet spaciousness: a felt sense that there is room for everything. This spaciousness is not an escape from life, but a widening of identity. It invites us to rest back from our tight grip on “me” and “mine,” and to discover a vaster, kinder awareness in which body, breath, and thought rise and pass like clouds in an open sky."

And for the world: "When we are not crowded by fear, a natural responsiveness appears. We recognize our kinship with all beings who long for happiness and stumble into suffering."

Spiritual practice not about self-improvement, but letting go into our true nature. As we learn to let go, there comes a sense of grace, compassion, ease, and love.

13/09/2025

September mornings 💞 Sunday 9-10.30am yoga. I'm aiming to fit a swim in before and you'd be welcome to join me at the beach as well! Otherwise enjoy your bed and I'll see you at Maitri Studio on the mat 😊

04/09/2025

🍁 Autumn timetable updates with Claire Ferry Yoga - note a number of changes to the timetable in September and early October - and more workshops in other venues as well as the autumn retreat at Carlingford Yoga ~ https://mailchi.mp/74e06f4fc2b3/embrace-autumn-with-claire-ferry-yoga

01/09/2025

Wending my way home with bike, train, ferry and feet 😁 This was the cable ferry across Windermere. Back in the yoga saddle tomorrow with classes at as usual! It'll be poses and practices good for cyclists I expect 😊

23/08/2025

Next workshop in Derry 11th October, book with William YOGA MAN