Six mats. One teacher. No mirrors.

What a first month looks like

Week one is short: twenty minutes of breathing and the first five standing postures, and you are sent home while your legs still work. Week two adds the seated sequence. By week four most people are practising forty-five minutes, five mornings a week, and have stopped asking how long it takes.

Practice, and all is coming. — Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

What to bring

• A mat if you own one — we lend clean cotton mats otherwise, at no charge.
• Clothes you can fold forward in. No socks on the boards.
• An empty stomach — three hours after a meal is the rule.

We are closed on new-moon and full-moon days, and for ten days in October. Those dates go up on the noticeboard by the shoe rack a month ahead.