Decompression: A New Way to Start The Weekend at Yoga x Life

Friday nights are great.

And the way we enjoy our free time is evolving.

We still love everything that makes up a classic Friday night, but alongside the dinners, the pub and the dancing a different kind of nightlife is growing: one built around movement, music, good spaces, interesting people and experiences that feel as good afterwards as they do at the time.

Run clubs have become social clubs. Alcohol-free nights are the norm and DJs are frequenting yoga studios. People are gathering around, movement, music and shared interests and experiences. Going out is now truly multi-dimensional!

Decompression:

Decompression is Friday nights evolved at Yoga x Life, bringing together yoga, music, movement and stillness in a longer session designed to take us from the working week into the weekend.

We'll begin with a conscious shift. Slow poses. Slow breathwork. Soulful Sounds. Practices that put a punctuation mark at the end of the working week and get us connected to ourselves again. From there the practice will evolve, there'll be some flow, sometimes it’ll be strong and energising, sometimes it’ll be light hearted and playful and then there will always be ample time for a proper savasana to soak it all up in.

Music will be a big part of the experience. Every week there'll be a specially curated playlist built around the arc of the practice, and then, regularly, we'll take things a little further.

For our launch - and at selected Decompression nights throughout each month - we'll bring a live DJ into the studio, allowing the relationship between music, movement and atmosphere to become an even bigger part of the evening.

Low lights. Immersive sound…. And no rush to leave afterwards.

We aren’t turning the studio into a club for the night, but we are creating something you will look forward to each week as the perfect space to decompress.

A genuinely good practice. Great music. A room that feels different with the disco lights on. People to share it with. And space to stay for a drink and a conversation afterwards, or head out into the Ouseburn and it’s amazing offering of quirky and independent night life.

Special, but not a ‘Special Class Credit’

Decompression is a little more elaborate than your average class. It's longer, we'll be curating the music each week, and regularly bringing live DJs and other ideas into the mix. Normally, it would fit the remit for a ‘Special Class’ in our memberships/pricing system. But we are keeping this special session a ‘standard class’.

We think Friday nights like this should be part of everyone's week, rather than something you have to pay extra to experience.

So Decompression is staying firmly on our regular studio schedule. If you're an Align member or above, it's included in your membership just like your other weekly classes. If you're not a member, you can still come along using a Standard Class Drop-In Credit.

Friday already has an energy of its own, and we want Decompression to become part of that.

The point where the week changes gear.

Not recovery from a week that has somehow gone wrong - although sometimes it can be. Not simply an antidote to going out. And absolutely not another piece of wellness homework.

Just a brilliant way to spend a Friday evening.

Come straight from work. Come with friends, or come alone and make them here. Head somewhere afterwards or make Decompression the whole night.

Some editions will be quieter. Some will have a DJ. Some will move more. Others will spend longer on the floor. We'll collaborate, experiment and allow the format to evolve.

But the ingredients will remain simple:

Good movement. Good music. Good people. Enough time.

Friday nights are changing.

We like where they're going.

Welcome to Decompression.