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Improve flexibility, control and sense of calm with Rocket Yoga at Richmond Hill Health Club. Flow through inversions, back bends, and hip openers as you flow through transitions. This class is very customisable, and even if it looks challenging, you are encouraged to take it at your own pace and poses are adjusted to your body and ability.
Experienced Practitioners
Our yoga teachers are determined to ensure a safe and supportive environment where the focus is on each member’s progress and spiritual journey.
Breathe in their experience and dont hesitate to ask questions or for guidance throughout your yoga journey. Yoga is about finding a healthy balance both physically and mentally, and our teachers are here to walk you through that process.
Our Yoga Studio
Our Rocket Yoga classes provide a welcoming space within our yoga studio, equipped with yoga mats, blocks and bands to assist your yogi journey. We host these classes weekly and have all the equipment necessary for this powerful, tension-relieving workout.
After the class, take a moment to soak in the relaxing and grounding impact of yoga by steaming in our Finnish sauna, located within our changing rooms.
WHAT TO EXPECT
When joining your first Rocket Yoga class, make sure you arrive with a can-do attitude with a hint of playfulness.
Rocket Yoga is all about taking traditional Ashtanga yoga and loosening the structure so that the practitioner can flow between movements for a greater sense of empowerment and freedom.
Improve flexibility, control and sense of calm with Rocket Yoga at Richmond Hill Health Club. Flow through inversions, back bends, and hip openers as you flow through transitions. This class is very customisable, and even if it looks challenging, you are encouraged to take it at your own pace and poses are adjusted to your body and ability.
Experienced Practitioners
Our yoga teachers are determined to ensure a safe and supportive environment where the focus is on each member’s progress and spiritual journey.
Breathe in their experience and dont hesitate to ask questions or for guidance throughout your yoga journey. Yoga is about finding a healthy balance both physically and mentally, and our teachers are here to walk you through that process.
Our Yoga Studio
Our Rocket Yoga classes provide a welcoming space within our yoga studio, equipped with yoga mats, blocks and bands to assist your yogi journey. We host these classes weekly and have all the equipment necessary for this powerful, tension-relieving workout.
After the class, take a moment to soak in the relaxing and grounding impact of yoga by steaming in our Finnish sauna, located within our changing rooms.
WHAT TO EXPECT
When joining your first Rocket Yoga class, make sure you arrive with a can-do attitude with a hint of playfulness.
Rocket Yoga is all about taking traditional Ashtanga yoga and loosening the structure so that the practitioner can flow between movements for a greater sense of empowerment and freedom.
MEET THE ROCKET YOGA TEAM
Marcia
MEET THE ROCKET YOGA TEAM
Marcia
What is Rocket Yoga?
Rocket Yoga at Richmond Hill Health Club is an energetic and invigorating style of yoga that encourages playfulness and creativity within your practice. Rocket Yoga may present as a more challenging practice, but it is highly customisable and can be adapted at your own pace and body limits. It incorporates arm balances and inversions into traditional asanas (poses) to create flowing, powerful sequences that focus on progress rather than perfection.
What are the benefits of Rocket Yoga Classes?
PHYSICAL
- Physical strength in the entire body is built through arm balances and inversions, targeting important muscle groups like the core.
- Finding proper alignment through poses and inversions helps develop strong, healthy posture.
- Due to its energetic nature, Rocket Yoga stimulates heart rate and blood flow for better cardiovascular health.
- Through raised heart rates and warming sequences, it is a gentle way to burn calories for weight loss and toning.
- Through consistent practice, achieve increased flexibility and joint mobility from deep stretches.
- Once you begin holding poses and inversions, you will build strength and stability, resulting in better coordination and balance.
Mental
- Like other forms of yoga, Rocket Yoga links movement and breath, which reduces anxiety by calming the nervous system.
- Learn deep relaxation techniques and breath work to promote inner calm and release tension.
- Learning the sequences and focusing on your body and mind to move through inversions and poses, hone your concentration and body awareness.
- You will build confidence through progressing to new and more challenging poses like the inversions. Developing trust in yourself and feeling more capable.
- Similar to other invigorating forms of yoga and exercise, you will feel an uplift in spirit and well-being from the happy hormones, endorphins.
PHYSICAL
- Physical strength in the entire body is built through arm balances and inversions, targeting important muscle groups like the core.
- Finding proper alignment through poses and inversions helps develop strong, healthy posture.
- Due to its energetic nature, Rocket Yoga stimulates heart rate and blood flow for better cardiovascular health.
- Through raised heart rates and warming sequences, it is a gentle way to burn calories for weight loss and toning.
- Through consistent practice, achieve increased flexibility and joint mobility from deep stretches.
- Once you begin holding poses and inversions, you will build strength and stability, resulting in better coordination and balance.
Mental
- Like other forms of yoga, Rocket Yoga links movement and breath, which reduces anxiety by calming the nervous system.
- Learn deep relaxation techniques and breath work to promote inner calm and release tension.
- Learning the sequences and focusing on your body and mind to move through inversions and poses, hone your concentration and body awareness.
- You will build confidence through progressing to new and more challenging poses like the inversions. Developing trust in yourself and feeling more capable.
- Similar to other invigorating forms of yoga and exercise, you will feel an uplift in spirit and well-being from the happy hormones, endorphins.
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FAQS
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It can be, but it is also accessible at a beginner level. Since it is designed to be adaptable to all yoga abilities, you can explore more advanced poses and transitions with guidance from your yoga instructor.
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Rocket Yoga can be taught in 3 different sequences, namely Rocket 1, Rocket 2 and Rocket 3. Here are the differences.
Rocket 1: Trains foundational strength with additional focus on flexibility.
Rocket 2: Focus on backbends and hip-opening sequences.
Rocket 3: Combines the previous 2 sequences with emphasis on transitions and flow.
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Absolutely. Rocket yoga is more freeing and adaptable than other, more rigid yoga structures. With its diverse range of arm balances, inversion and trickier transitions, it can be modified to encourage practising at your own level.
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No you dont. Rocket Yoga can help you improve flexibility throughout the classes. If you are already flexible, then the classes can help to maintain this flexibility and provide support on stability and forming new or more challenging poses.
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Yes, Rocket Yoga, while stimulating and invigorating, is still a gentle exercise on joints and muscles. Rocket Yoga sessions incorporate the types of poses and flow of Vinyasa yoga with the strength training and balance of pilates, but with a creative twist of interchanging postures, mindfulness and a focus on personal progress from one pose to the next.
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10% off for members 65 and over!
ONGOING OFFERS
Discover offers that support all fitness journeys, wellbeing goals, and build a stronger commitment to healthier, happier lifestyles.
CHECK OUR OFFERS
No Joining Fee
Kickstart your fitness journey and sign up for any membership package with no joining fee.
A personal training session on us with all annual memberships.
Refer a Friend and get a free personal training session.
10% off for members 65 and over!
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LOW IMPACT
A gentle, low-impact class designed to improve mobility, balance, and strength in a safe and supportive environment. Perfect for older adults looking to stay active, reduce stiffness, and boost overall wellbeing.
Foundation Yoga Class
Foundation Yoga is one of four yoga classes available at Richmond Hill Health Club. Our centre is just a 10-minute walk from Richmond Station, and we have a car park open to members. This class is a great way to begin your yoga journey, designed to break down the essential elements of yoga step by step.
PILATES
Exercises are performed standing, seated and lying down with emphasis on alignment and posterior lateral breathing whilst executing the moves. These will initially be performed with the instructor on a timed sequence to create the flow and then at your own pace under guidance.
Find More classes
LOW IMPACT
A gentle, low-impact class designed to improve mobility, balance, and strength in a safe and supportive environment. Perfect for older adults looking to stay active, reduce stiffness, and boost overall wellbeing.
Foundation Yoga Class
Foundation Yoga is one of four yoga classes available at Richmond Hill Health Club. Our centre is just a 10-minute walk from Richmond Station, and we have a car park open to members. This class is a great way to begin your yoga journey, designed to break down the essential elements of yoga step by step.
PILATES
Exercises are performed standing, seated and lying down with emphasis on alignment and posterior lateral breathing whilst executing the moves. These will initially be performed with the instructor on a timed sequence to create the flow and then at your own pace under guidance.