Kali Yoga

Neither is relevant. Flexibility is an outcome some people get and not a prerequisite for anyone. Postures are adapted to you — that’s the whole method, not a concession made for beginners.

Group classes are good at some things and structurally incapable of others. They teach one sequence to twelve different nervous systems and hope for the best. Traditionally this practice was transmitted one to one, adapted to the person in front of the teacher, and most of what makes it work — pacing, adaptation, the parts that aren’t postures — needs that. If group practice is serving you, keep going. If you’ve been going for years and something’s plateaued, this is usually why.

Roughly, the means: the thing you do repeatedly that accomplishes what wanting alone cannot. It’s less about spiritual seriousness than about return. A twelve-minute practice done daily beats a ninety-minute class attended when inspired.

Yes, for individual work especially. I can see your movement on a screen better than I sometimes can from across a studio, and the practice happens in the room where you’ll actually be practising afterwards — which turns out to matter more than atmosphere. Because you will make it your practice.

No. But I can help guide you towards a lineage that does, if that’s what’s calling you.

A practice done by hand, in real time, that produces no data and can’t be optimised. Ink on paper. A candle lit at the same hour. Breath counted on the fingers. Tea made from leaves because the making is part of it. Small, slow, repeated, unmeasured — which is exactly why it works.

Individual sessions can be moved with notice. Missing a week is not a failure of the practice; it’s the ordinary shape of one. That said, I encourage discipline.

No. The breath techniques work whether or not you have a metaphysics. The philosophy to back it up is available and I’ll teach it if you want it. Nothing here requires belief, and I won’t ask you to adopt one. No dogmas required.