Yoga Connection - Brooklyn, Pretoria

04/09/2025

Mobility Yoga 🌿

With mindful, controlled sequences, we explore how the joints, muscles, and fascia can move with ease while staying strong and supported. Mobility Yoga is fantastic in supporting rehabilitation after injuries while enhancing your strength and flexibility.🌱
This practice creates a deeper awareness of how you move.🏃‍♂

- Move with presence.
- Strengthen with stability.
- Strengthen mind-body connectivity.

✨ Come join us in studio on Fridays from the 12th of September, 9:00 am - 10:30 am with our instructor Annelize. Experience the difference mobility brings to your practice and your life. ✨

🗓 CLASS SCHEDULE and added information available on yogaconnection.co.za

02/09/2025

As we soften and warm into Spring, our practice reminds us that growth takes time. Through mindful breath and grounding movement, we can allow ourselves to unfold into our fullest - and highest self. 🌿

✨ “Breathe, root, bloom through it all.” ✨

28/08/2025

Flexibility is about being open.

“The art and ability to bend without breaking”🌾🍃

Yoga practice teaches us to soften our resistance, and to find our innate strength. So often when we think about “flexibility,” the image that comes to mind is touching our toes or twisting ourselves into shapes. But in yoga, flexibility has a deeper meaning. It’s not about how far you can stretch, but about how gently you can meet yourself where you are. Some days the body opens with ease, other days it feels tight and resistant. Both are perfect teachers.

Measure it by how present you are with yourself. That’s where the real freedom begins. 🌄

We encourage everyone to grow at their own pace, and to rediscover their freedom on their own terms. ✨

26/08/2025

🪷 “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu 🪷

Ready to start your yoga journey? ✨

Visit www.yogaconnection.co.za and follow the 'HOW TO JOIN' section for simple steps on free registration, class schedules, and fees. 🧘‍♀

Join our community today and move with ease! 🌿

22/08/2025

✨ Guidance for Well-being ✨
Well-being is a way of returning to balance again and again. An opportunity to nurture body, mind, and spirit.

- REST helps us slow down and soften so that our energy can return. 🌑

- Time in NATURE holds the medicine of presence. ⛰

- SELF-REFLECTION opens the doorway to understanding. 💕

- BREATHWORK anchors us in the present and settles the nervous system with every conscious inhale and exhale. 🌬

- MEDITATION is our practice of returning home through stillness and silence. 🧘

- MINDFULNESS allows us to enjoy the present moment more freely if we give it our full attention. 🌸

- YOGA & MOVEMENT brings energy to the body and frees what is stagnant. 📿

- MANTRA/ AFFRIMATIONS. A simple phrase repeated with intention can help guide our inner truth through our voice. 🕉

Visit www.yogaconnection.co.za to learn more about how you can benefit from yoga 🧘‍♂

13/08/2025

You are enough. Just bring yourself 🌱
At our studio, we’ve got everything covered.

Your space is waiting. 🧘‍♀🧘‍♂

🌐 Visit www.yogaconnection.co.za to register today, explore our class schedule, fees, and the beautiful variety of yoga styles we offer.

09/08/2025

🪷 Happy Women’s Day!

For more information about us, navigate to -
www.yogaconnection.co.za 🌙

07/08/2025

Pause. Breathe. Realign.

Mindfulness and Wellness is a daily practice, a return to yourself in the midst of life’s noise. In every conscious breath, in every small act of self-care, you create space to heal.🌱 Let this be your reminder to slow down and honour your personal journey inward. 🌿

04/08/2025

✨ A gentle reminder that your mat is waiting... ✨

As we move into a new month, we invite you to pause, to breathe, and to return to yourself. Our weekly schedule offers a variety of classes for all levels with openness to everyone (just as you are). Our studio is here to hold space for you and your growth 🌳

▪ Navigate to our website for more information on our offered styles, schedule times, and their fees.

www.yogaconnection.co.za

30/07/2025

👍👍💜💙💚

You have a second heart – and it lives in your calves.

Your body has a hidden circulatory booster, and it’s located in your lower legs. It’s called the soleus muscle, and it acts like a “second heart,” pumping blood from your legs back up toward your chest. This helps your actual heart overcome gravity and keep circulation flowing.

But here’s the important part: this second heart only works when you move.

If you sit or stand still for too long, blood can start to pool in your legs. Over time, this can lead to swelling, varicose veins, or even serious blood clots, according to experts at the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic.

The solution is simple: keep moving. A short walk every hour is enough to activate your calf pump. Even small actions like standing up, stretching, or doing toe raises can help. If you’re dealing with chronic swelling, elevating your legs or using compression socks can provide relief – but consistent movement is the real key.

Even more interesting? Some scientists are exploring how soleus-focused movements (like seated heel raises) can help regulate blood sugar and improve metabolism – meaning this second heart might have benefits beyond circulation.

So whether you’re pacing the room or just lifting your heels at your desk, remember: you’re not just moving your legs – you’re keeping your second heart beating strong.

17/07/2025

Allow yourself to grow despite the cold 🌱

Our studio features underfloor heating to keep you warm in practice during our wintery season. Whether you're deepening your practice or just getting started, there's no better time to join our welcoming community in warmth.☀✨

➡Navigate to our class schedule on the website for more information on our various styles, classes and instructors!
https://www.yogaconnection.co.za/class-schedule

15/07/2025

Find your calm, embrace the stillness 🧘‍
Join us at our studio and start your journey to a more peaceful, balanced life.