About us

A Physiotherapist and a Yoga Teacher in a Warm Pool

The studio was started by a physiotherapist who worked in hydrotherapy and a yoga teacher whose classes were increasingly full of people who could no longer manage the floor. Both were sending clients to the same municipal pool and watching them give up because the water was twenty-six degrees, the lane next door was a swimming club and nobody was there to help someone with a stiff hip get out at the end. So they built two small warm pools and designed the classes around the people who had been failing elsewhere.

The water temperature is the foundation. At thirty-three degrees muscles relax rather than brace, joints move further, blood flow to the periphery increases and a person can stay still for twenty minutes without cooling — which is what makes floating meditation possible at all. It costs a great deal to heat and it is the reason we cannot simply hire lanes in an ordinary pool. Both pools are shallow enough to stand in throughout, with steps, a hoist and a handrail on every side.

Teaching is deliberately unhurried and non-performative. Nobody is asked to hold a posture they cannot breathe in, nothing is demonstrated as an ideal shape, and progress is measured in what a person can do getting out of a car rather than in the water. Classes are capped at twelve, teachers are in the water rather than pacing the side, and every new participant has a short conversation about their body before their first session so that adaptations are ready rather than improvised.