Utopian Yoga

Utopian Yoga has evolved after years of dedicated practice to provide classes that benefit the whole body. Bring your yoga into balance.

If you’re local and wish to participate in person, you are welcome to join us. Spaces are limited so please register your interest. These classes are also available via Zoom.

Utopian Yoga Foundation Principles is where we begin our journey. These are introductory classes where you learn the 9 principles to give you the best start or to build onto your yoga practice. 

Choose what works for you. Can’t attend our live classes, then get access to our library of Utopian Yoga, starting with our Utopian Foundation Principles. 

It has been developed by well-known Dunedin yoga teacher, Jane Gillespie, after a lifetime of learning and teaching and researching the connection between the mind and body.

It combines aspects of mindfulness, movement, breathing, balance, strengthening, focus and relaxation to facilitate reprogramming and realignment. Its edge is an efficient and achievable synthesis of these elements. As that synthesis evolves movement becomes increasingly graceful, attractive and connected and problems diminish. 

By practicing Utopian Yoga you can expect a higher quality of life through improved mobility balance and strength. You will begin to move with more awareness, feel calmer and have improved motor coordination.

Yoga practice is useful in changing our predominant modus from the sympathetic nervous nervous system which stimulates action and the fight/flight response to the parasympathetic …

In more recent years the sanskrit names for poses have been translated into english. Sometimes this is adapted from the original sanskrit names and sometimes the names are more descriptive in the case of poses like ‘Intense Chest Stretch – Parsvottanasana”.