RESCHEDULED from 28 December 2025

This winter holiday join Ema and friends for a heartwarming Kīrtan – a joyful celebration of spirit, sound and community in our beautiful resonant space here at MCY. Every single penny raised will be donated directly to MILK Glasgow.

Philosophy Club is a rich, modern, informal space to explore yoga philosophy in a way that is practical, heart driven and community led.

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 Kerry for a nourishing one-day retreat to ease into 2026 with warmth, presence and a sense of renewal. In the quiet stillness of winter, this is your chance to slow down, reflect and gently reawaken body and mind after the festive season.

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. 

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.

Join Tony for an immersive Sound Journey to honour this seasonal shift. Through the deep resonance of gongs, the clear tones of Tibetan and crystal bowls and the gentle thread of voice, Tony will guide you into rest and reflection. The experience invites calm, balance and a quiet sense of release – a chance to let go of the year past and open to what’s ahead.

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!

Butoh is an immersive dance form originating from Japan, dubbed the ‘Dance of Darkness’ (Ankoku Butō) and also a ‘dance of the womb’.

These workshops offer a method of embodied psychological practice, designed for people seeking to explore the memories, dreams and possibilities hidden in their bodies. Dance as considered by Butoh artists is often very different from other dance forms: it is life dancing, the subconscious emerging through the flesh.

Join MCY favourites Matt, Kat and Nicole for their charity fundraiser class in aid of SAMH in December – a joyful, mindful and grounding Festive Flow in support of SAMH (Scottish Action for Mental Health), Scotland’s national mental health charity.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

Butoh is an immersive dance form originating from Japan, dubbed the ‘Dance of Darkness’ (Ankoku Butō) and also a ‘dance of the womb’.

These workshops offer a method of embodied psychological practice, designed for people seeking to explore the memories, dreams and possibilities hidden in their bodies. Dance as considered by Butoh artists is often very different from other dance forms: it is life dancing, the subconscious emerging through the flesh.

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.

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.

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.

Butoh is an immersive dance form originating from Japan, dubbed the ‘Dance of Darkness’ (Ankoku Butō) and also a ‘dance of the womb’.

These workshops offer a method of embodied psychological practice, designed for people seeking to explore the memories, dreams and possibilities hidden in their bodies. Dance as considered by Butoh artists is often very different from other dance forms: it is life dancing, the subconscious emerging through the flesh.

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