9 July 2026 and YM is 15 Today! FIFTEEN!!!!!!!!!!
YM is and always will be for EVERYone and it doesn’t offer illusory shortcuts.
In your Bikram Yoga class there is a 90 minute dialogue happening between you and the instructor except one part of the conversation (your part) doesn’t use words i.e. it isn’t a fully verbal conversation; your articulation (response) is physical. And the conversation is beautifully coherent. The instructor confronts you with an idea of how you might be and then you respond immediately with how you are. And the instructor sees you and listens to you. You must listen to the instructor. In a Bikram Yoga class you hear so much.
Language belongs to the neocortex (the rational, analytical brain). To protect the student’s experience we are very careful not to let our instruction language become cluttered or too descriptive, or imprecise, otherwise the practitioner will become trapped in analysis; they never experience the ‘full experience’. The Bikram method of instruction is designed to guide the neocortex but not to activate it unnecessarily. It is very direct and precise (not symbolic) and done correctly the instructions allows the student to step beyond analysis into pure experience and arrive at their truth.
MOUNTAINS WE WILL DIE ON AS YOGA INSTRUCTORS…
We guess it is how you like the ‘delivery, you either like how we deliver or you don’t. You prefer it to be ‘dressed up’ OR the fact that we don’t ‘dress it up’; you could say WE TEACH NAKED YOGA! 
OUR 15 PROMISES TO YOU:
1. We will teach Bikram Yoga, pure and simple
2. We will have seamless Yoga schedule on Momoyoga, showing you real time availability… so Monday is full? Book Tuesday
3. We won’t ‘weasel word’ you
4. We will be political and take a side (not sit on the fence, not run with the hare and hunt with the hound!) nor will we grandiose and give ourselves titles other than ‘Yoga Instructor’
5. We won’t permit smart tech in our Yoga school… just like we didn’t 2011 to 2026
6. We won’t participate in the sterilisation of Yoga or become ‘sterile’ representative of what Yoga is by glossing and presenting an image of what we think you should think Yoga is
7. We won’t attempt to blend the ancient with ‘latest trend/modern must have’ by repackaging what we do already and trying to tell you its that ‘latest trend/must have’; we will leave our Yoga alone to represent itself, nor will we try to tell you you are coming to a Yoga spa where simply being there somehow does the work for you; we are a Yoga school, you come and YOU DO the work, you get the reward
8. We won’t label our Yoga classes ‘mind-body integration class’ ‘mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing class’ ‘Functional movement’ ‘athletic performance/stamina’ Yoga ‘Yoga for Tums and Bums’, etc etc class, isolating elements of what we do, separating them and selling each on its own, charge you a fortune to boot! (conscious breathing, mindfulness, meditation, conscious posturing will remain all wrapped up in one YM BY package)
9. We won’t take a photo of you in class unknown to you especially if you are in Savasana; your personal practice in our/your safe space; it is not our personal photo shoot and insta content
10. We won’t take our classes online, nor will we constantly ‘promote’ how progressive we are, ‘cos Yoga simply doesn’t change
11. We won’t use psychology to hack your brain to make you ‘buy’
12. We won’t ever sell our ‘merch’! All the bags, bottles, stuff with our branding always was and always will be a ‘gift’ to you
13. We won’t go down the novelty route; GinYoga, GoatYoga, and absolutely no NakedYoga…
14. We will absolutely continue to bombard you with ancient adages
15. We will continue to hold safe space for you so we can help you to remember who you are…
15 TIPS FOR YOU:
1. There are no shortcuts
2. You have to come to yoga, that is the first step…
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THIS is what you get EVERY class at 3a Rue De Funchal
Thank You, we hope you like our little goody bag ‘Thanks’ to You too…
Love, Darren & Trisha
19/7/26