Living Yoga

12/12/2025

As we come to the close of another beautiful year at Living Yoga, our hearts are full ✨

Thank you to every student, teacher, friend, and soul who stepped onto their mat with us in 2025. Your presence, your breath, and your commitment to practice have shaped our community into the loving, grounding space it is.

We will be closing for the holidays from 23 December and reopening on 4 January, taking time to rest, restore, and return refreshed for a new year of growth and connection.

But before we wrap up the year…
Join us for a special Christmas practice with Jo 🎄

🗓 Saturday, 20 December
⏰ 9:00–10:30am

A joyful, heart-centred class to celebrate community, gratitude, and the spirit of giving 🩷

Think about giving the gift of yoga this year to a friend or family member. The link to our e-gift cards are in our bio or find them in hard form at the studio, just ask your teacher when you pop in.

Thank you for moving, breathing and growing with us.
Here’s to a peaceful, spacious, love-filled holiday season — and a bright new year ahead.

With love,
The Living Yoga Team 🕊✨

25/11/2025

🌿✨ Meet Sue ✨🌿

Sue rolled out her first yoga mat in 2016, hoping to find some balance amidst the beautiful chaos of Jozi life. It was love at first om, and by 2020 she took the leap into her 200-hour teacher training at Living Yoga, expanding both her yoga brain and her yoga heart.

Her classes are friendly, grounding and gently energising, like a warm cup of rooibos for your nervous system. Expect a little fun, a lot of breath, and a safe space to simply come home to yourself.

All levels welcome, especially the “I’m-not-sure-if-this-is-right-but-here-it-goes” types. 😅

📅 Thursday 27 November
⏰ 5:30–6:30pm
📍 Living Yoga
💛 Payment by donation:
👕 Clothing or 🥦 food for MJ
🐦 Birdseed
🌱 Plants for our garden
💸 Cash for the Earthchild Yoga Project

04/11/2025

Lower Body Love 💗
Feeling tight in your hips, glutes, or legs? Too much sitting, training, or simply in need of some TLC?

This 2-hour MYO-YIN workshop with Baiju Dharmalingam is designed to melt away tension, ease stiffness, and leave you feeling grounded, mobile, and deeply relaxed.

🗓 Saturday, 16 November
🕚 11:00 – 13:00
📍 Yoga
💰 R300
🎟 Open to all levels - everyone welcome!

Bring:
💫 2 trigger point or tennis balls
💫 1 knee-length stocking

MYO-YIN combines Myofascial Release and Yin Yoga — targeting deep fascial layers to improve flexibility, mobility, and circulation, while also calming the mind.
Perfect for runners, golfers, yogis, and anyone ready to feel lighter in body and mind.

💗 Give your lower body some love. You deserve it.

14/10/2025

We are so excited to have visiting us from Cape Town for a week next week.
She is holding one of her legendary Jivamukti Chakra Tuning classes on Friday 24th October from 6-8pm.
If you haven’t been to one of these before you can expect a beautiful woven combination of movement, intention and vibration through asana, pranayama and chanting.
The aim of this practice is to harmonise the natural rhythms of the body and the mind and leave you feeling reset, clear headed and awakened.
If you have experienced one of these before you’ll know you don’t want to miss it!

Sarah will also be holding 5 Masterclasses over the week she is here before heading off to Oaklands to hold a retreat there. These will be recorded as well and sent to each person who has signed up. So if you can’t make the mid mornings sign up anyway.

07/10/2025

🌿✨ Meet Baiju ✨🌿

With over seven years of teaching experience, Baiju is a passionate and dedicated yoga instructor trained in Hatha, Vinyasa, and Yin Yoga. Her yoga journey began with a 500-hour ISHTA Yoga training in 2015, and she has since deepened her knowledge with trainings in Yin (2017), Yoga Nidra (2020), and Myo Fascial Yin (2021).

For her, yoga is a work-in rather than a workout — a lifelong journey that builds strength, calmness, and connection both on and off the mat 🌸

Through carefully sequenced classes, she encourages students to feel the full body–mind–soul connection, guiding them with a supportive and hands-on approach. Her teaching style is gentle yet challenging, inspiring students to explore deeper layers of themselves through asana, pranayama, and meditation.

📅 This Thursday
⏰ 5:30–6:30pm
📍 Living Yoga

💛 Instead of payment, we welcome donations of:
👕 Clothing or 🥦 food for MJ
🐦 Birdseed
🌱 Plants for our garden
💸 Cash for the Earthchild Yoga Project

Come and experience the magic of practice with Baiju — a space to connect, explore, and begin (or continue) your own yoga journey ✨

01/10/2025

🌿✨ Meet Sue ✨🌿

Sue’s yoga journey began in 2005, when a friend suggested it might help calm her busy mind. What started as curiosity soon grew into a deep love for both the practice and the community at Living Yoga. Her journey blossomed further when she completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, strengthening her connection to yoga in every way 💫

This week, Sue is honoured to give back through our Karma Yoga Community Class, sharing a gentle Yoga 101 practice. Whether you’re completely new and have felt too intimidated to step into a class, or you’ve been practising for years, this class is for you — a chance to come together and enjoy an hour of creating peace 🩵🌈

📅 This Thursday
⏰ 5:30–6:30pm
📍 Living Yoga

💛 Payment by donation:
👕 Clothing or 🥦 food for MJ
🐦 Birdseed
🌱 Plants for our garden
💸 Cash for the Earthchild Yoga Project

Come flow with Sue and experience yoga in its simplest, most welcoming form ✨

28/09/2025

Join Sarah Bentz for a transformative five-part masterclass series designed to deepen your practice from the ground up. Rooted in intelligent alignment and enriched with yoga philosophy, mantra, breathwork, and hands-on assists, this immersive experience invites practitioners to explore the physical and energetic depth of five key movements in yoga: Standing, Forward Bending, Twisting, Backbending, and Inversions.
Each session will weave together anatomical awareness, subtle body understanding, and spiritual intention—helping you not only move with more freedom and precision, but also reconnect with the deeper purpose behind the practice.

This masterclass series is open to dedicated practitioners and teachers alike who are ready to deepen their physical, philosophical, and energetic understanding of yoga.

Join one 2 hour session or commit to the full series set over 5 days.

Dates: 24th Oct - 30th Oct
Time: 9:30-11:30
Where: Living Yoga Johannesburg
🔗 in the bio

16/09/2025

🌿✨ Meet Jenny ✨🌿

Jenny’s yoga journey began unexpectedly when she joined a yoga retreat with friends — despite never having practised before. Guided by her son Jamie through preparation classes, she quickly fell in love with the practice. 🧘‍♀️

What started with the physical postures soon grew into a deep passion for yoga’s rich history, philosophy, chanting, and the sense of community that kept her returning to the mat 🌸

In 2019, Jenny took a leap and completed her first yoga teacher training with Sarah Bentz — an experience that changed her life profoundly. Since then, she has continued learning with Sarah and other inspiring teachers, each one enriching her journey in unique ways.

Jenny is already part of our regular schedule, but this week she joins our Karma Yoga Community Class as an act of seva — giving back to the community she loves 💛

📅 This Thursday
⏰ 5:30–6:30pm
📍 Living Yoga

💛 Instead of payment, we welcome donations of:
👕 Clothing or 🥦 food for MJ
🐦 Birdseed
🌱 Plants for our garden
💸 Cash for the Earthchild Yoga Project

Come experience Jenny’s warmth, kindness, and love for yoga — both on and off the mat. 🙏

16/09/2025

09/09/2025

🌿✨ Meet Ismail ✨🌿

Ismail began his yoga journey in 2017, initially to stay physically active — but he quickly discovered the mental peace that yoga offers: a space where no one can call, message, or email you. 📵🧘

Through moving slowly and intentionally, with deep focus on the transitions between asanas, Ismail found that yoga not only strengthens the body but also gently slows the mind. 🌸

Now a 200-hour yoga teacher, his goal is to share the sense of freedom and levity that yoga brings into his own life, so that others can experience it too.

📅 Join Ismail this Thursday, 5:30–6:30pm for our free Karma Yoga Community Class.

Instead of payment, we welcome donations of:
👕 Clothing or 🥦 food for MJ
🐦 Birdseed
🌱 Plants for our garden
💸 Cash for the Earthchild Yoga Project

01/09/2025

🌿✨ Meet Alexia ✨🌿

With many years of experience teaching Kundalini and Forrest Yoga, Alexia brings a wealth of therapeutic knowledge to her classes. She is also in the final stages of completing her 800-hour Yoga Therapy training through Sat Sangat Yoga Therapy — a programme rooted in Ta**ra, Hatha, Kundalini, Yogic philosophy, and Western science.

As part of her training and the Thursday seva program at Living Yoga, Alexia will be offering Group Yoga Therapy sessions — a powerful space for healing and transformation.

Her first class will be a general practice with a special focus on techniques to support the management of anxiety and depression. 🌸

Join us this Thursday, from 5:30–6:30pm for this beautiful free community class.

Instead of payment, we welcome donations of:
👕 Clothing or food for MJ
🐦 Birdseed
🌱 Plants for our garden
💸 Cash for the Earthchild Yoga Project

27/08/2025

🌿✨ The September Move Challenge is here! ✨🌿
Move with us for 20 days in September and stand a chance to win:
💛 6 months of yoga OR
🧘 A brand new yoga mat

Plus, when you RSVP to join, you’ll get 20% off any package!

This is your month to build consistency, community, and flow. Are you in?
📍 RSVP now via the link in our bio