Our Mysore-style Ashtanga class is a guided self-practice. That means you're moving through the Ashtanga sequence at your own pace, with your own breath – and the support of an experienced teacher who offers guidance, adjustments and encouragement tailored just for you.

Monthly Saturday Mysore style Ashtanga class with Kat Doyle is an assisted self practice class. What that means is you’re working your way through the Ashtanga sequence at your own pace with your own breath but with the assistance and guidance of a teacher.

As the days draw in and autumn takes hold, our bodies too yearn to submit to the whims of the season. The urge to coorie-in, slow down and let go of anything that may be weighing us down is reflected all around us.

Cocoon is an invitation for you to do the same.This day retreat is designed to nurture your body, soothe your nervous system and guide you into a state of deep rest and reflection.

Our Mysore-style Ashtanga class is a guided self-practice. That means you're moving through the Ashtanga sequence at your own pace, with your own breath – and the support of an experienced teacher who offers guidance, adjustments and encouragement tailored just for you.

Pranayama is a yoga technique to enhance, deepen and control the breath through simple preparations and exercises. This class will provide the foundations for a breathing practice that is applied to other aspects of your yoga practice (postures, meditation, chanting) as well as your life.

Join Lucie for a nurturing evening session marking the seasonal shift into autumn – a time to slow down, soften and restore. As the nights grow longer, it becomes ever more vital to pause, tune inward and embrace the deep rest our bodies, minds and hearts need.

In these monthly sessions, we will work as a group on various preps and drills aimed at helping you safely achieve a freestanding handstand. You will then be given an opportunity to work on your personal handstand practice, and receive personalised feedback on your progress and advice on how to move forward. Together, we will encourage and support each other on our explorations of the inverted world.

In this 4hr CPD workshop you'll explore:

• How philosophical teachings can show up in the patterns of our physical practice

• Ways to make your teaching personal, relevant and engaging to each individual

• Practicalities of sharing philosophy in an appropriate, non-dogmatic way 

For discussion, questions, sharing, unpacking and demystifying yoga, that is open, accessible, friendly, inspiring, moving and profound.

Our Mysore-style Ashtanga class is a guided self-practice. That means you're moving through the Ashtanga sequence at your own pace, with your own breath – and the support of an experienced teacher who offers guidance, adjustments and encouragement tailored just for you.

Take a deep breath, slow down and give yourself space to reset.

In this extended class, senior teacher Siobhan Fitzgerald will guide you through a steady, accessible journey of traditional breath practices, mantra and Yoga Nidra – designed to bring you clarity, calm and renewed energy.

Monthly Saturday Mysore style Ashtanga class with Kat Doyle is an assisted self practice class. What that means is you’re working your way through the Ashtanga sequence at your own pace with your own breath but with the assistance and guidance of a teacher.

Our Mysore-style Ashtanga class is a guided self-practice. That means you're moving through the Ashtanga sequence at your own pace, with your own breath – and the support of an experienced teacher who offers guidance, adjustments and encouragement tailored just for you.

This workshop is designed to empower you to take self-care into your own hands with simple, take-home practices aimed at leaving you feeling calm, relaxed and recharged.

Pranayama is a yoga technique to enhance, deepen and control the breath through simple preparations and exercises. This class will provide the foundations for a breathing practice that is applied to other aspects of your yoga practice (postures, meditation, chanting) as well as your life.

In these monthly sessions, we will work as a group on various preps and drills aimed at helping you safely achieve a freestanding handstand. You will then be given an opportunity to work on your personal handstand practice, and receive personalised feedback on your progress and advice on how to move forward. Together, we will encourage and support each other on our explorations of the inverted world.

For discussion, questions, sharing, unpacking and demystifying yoga, that is open, accessible, friendly, inspiring, moving and profound.

Teachers of all styles and experienced practitioners are warmly welcomed. This workshop will enhance your teaching and transform your practice.

In this session, you will explore the Maha Mrtyunjaya mantra – a Vedic mantra dedicated to Lord Shiva, specifically to his manifestation as Tryambaka, the three-eyed one. It’s chanted for protection, healing and to overcome the fear of death and is particularly auspicious to chant towards the Winter Solstice.

This one day immersion offers the opportunity to be expertly guided through key lineages and approaches within the field of yoga nidra so you gain clear and comprehensive understanding of nidra through direct experience.

Our Mysore-style Ashtanga class is a guided self-practice. That means you're moving through the Ashtanga sequence at your own pace, with your own breath – and the support of an experienced teacher who offers guidance, adjustments and encouragement tailored just for you.

Pranayama is a yoga technique to enhance, deepen and control the breath through simple preparations and exercises. This class will provide the foundations for a breathing practice that is applied to other aspects of your yoga practice (postures, meditation, chanting) as well as your life.

Monthly Saturday Mysore style Ashtanga class with Kat Doyle is an assisted self practice class. What that means is you’re working your way through the Ashtanga sequence at your own pace with your own breath but with the assistance and guidance of a teacher.

In these monthly sessions, we will work as a group on various preps and drills aimed at helping you safely achieve a freestanding handstand. You will then be given an opportunity to work on your personal handstand practice, and receive personalised feedback on your progress and advice on how to move forward. Together, we will encourage and support each other on our explorations of the inverted world.

For fourteen years, this candlelit gathering has been at the very heart of Christmas at Merchant City Yoga. It’s our way of pressing pause on the busyness of December – coming together in stillness, kindness and community. We’d love you to join us!

Join us for a relaxing journey through sound that will balance and restore, taking you on a journey to an inner world… Using Gongs, Tibetan Bowls, Quartz Chakra Bowls, Flutes, Drums, Voice and Keyboard, Tony will lead you on a sonic journey through various soundscapes.

Christmas at Merchant City Yoga just wouldn’t be the same without our 108 Sun Salutations challenge – now in its 13th year! It’s a tradition that brings our community together to move, breathe, laugh and raise vital funds for Yogability, the Glasgow charity that offers free yoga to children with special needs and their families and carers.

As we approach the winter solstice, Ema’s usual Monday night offerings merge into a special yin-vin seasonal practice to dive into the luminous darkness of the longest winter nights. 

This 2.5h session will bring together a unique combination of yin yoga, Thai yoga massage, meditation and yoga nidra. You will be guided through a series of supported yin postures while receiving deeply grounding and nourishing hands-on Thai yoga massage which will release tensions and stress, and promote deep rest.

Join experienced Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga teacher and educator Scott Johnson for a comprehensive one-day workshop designed to build your confidence and expertise as a yoga teacher.

Explore traditional and modern approaches to yin yoga through inclusive and accessible postural practice grounded in biomechanics and subtle anatomy, meditative somatic awareness and subtle approaches to breath and energy. Learn how to guide practice by holding space for personal experience and support varied human bodies and minds through adaptations, assists, and ‘yin language’.