Vinyasa, unhurried
Slow Flow
A vinyasa taken at breath's pace. Fewer poses, more time in each, and no jump-backs.
Stockbridge, Edinburgh · Open seven days
A quiet room, small classes, and a teacher who has been at this a long time.
Fourteen mats to a room. A single-storey building on a side street. No scented candles, no top-40 playlist, no shouted count — just a class that starts on the minute and a teacher who knows your knee.
- Capped at 14
- 500+ training hours, every teacher
- First class free
3 spaces leftMon 6.00am · Morning Practice
- 14 Mats per class, and we mean it
- 10yr Median teacher experience on the mat
- 31 Classes a week, seven days
- 6a–9p Weekday doors, open and staffed
What we teach
Three class types,
each taught the way it should be.
We don't run twelve formats. We run three, and every teacher on the schedule has spent years inside them. Pick the one that fits your morning.
Held and restorative
Grounded
Long shapes with props, a teacher who watches the room, and a genuinely quiet close.
Traditional, 6am
Morning Practice
A 6am asana-and-pranayama sequence in the traditional order. Wake, breathe, move, sit.
Our studio
One room, one door,
one teacher at a time.
Halcyon is a single-room studio in a single-storey building on a quiet street. Wood floors, north light, wool blankets folded on a shelf, and a small kitchen with hot water and honey. There is no second room, no lobby full of merchandise, no video screen.
Reception is a person, not a screen. If you're new, they'll walk you in, show you where the blankets live, and introduce you to the teacher before class begins. It's the studio we wanted, so we built it.
What to expect
The small things we get right on purpose.
Anyone can rent a room and put down mats. These are the details that decide whether you come back next week.
A teacher who watches, not just cues.
Hands-on adjustments only with prior consent, quiet corrections when they help, and the good sense to leave you alone when they don't.
A room that already smells like a room.
No incense, no candles, no diffuser, no oils on the mist. Wood floors, wool, and the window cracked in warmer months.
Music you can hear yourself through.
Soft ambient at low volume, no vocals. Your own breath should be the loudest thing in the room, and usually is.
This week
Book by 9pm the night before.
Thirty-one classes a week across three formats. Members book up to seven days out; drop-ins can grab whatever is left until nine the previous evening.
Monday
4 classes- 6.00am Morning Practice Dominic Arya 60′ 2 left
- 9.30am Slow Flow Inés Halloran 60′ 5 spaces
- 12.15pm Slow Flow Farrah Oyelaran 60′ 9 spaces
- 6.00pm Grounded Margit Lund 75′ Waitlist
Who you'll practise with
Five teachers. No rotating cast of covers.
The same people, week after week, long enough to learn your name and remember which shoulder you mentioned in March.
Inés Halloran
Founder & lead teacher
Opened Halcyon after fourteen years of teaching in rooms she did not design.
Dominic Arya
Senior teacher
Teaches the 6am four days a week and has not missed one in three years.
Margit Lund
Teacher · Anatomy lead
A physiotherapist first. Runs our teacher anatomy sessions and every injury consult.
I've tried every studio within a train ride of my flat. Halcyon is the only one where the room is quiet before class starts and quiet after it ends, and where the teacher actually knows my knee.
From the journal
Writing about the practice,
not about the industry.
Why we cap every class at fourteen mats
The number isn't a marketing device. It's what fits in the room while still leaving a teacher able to see everyone in it — and it costs us about…
Your hamstrings probably aren't tight
Most people who cannot touch their toes have hamstrings of perfectly ordinary length. What they have is a nervous system that has decided the…
In defence of the 6am class
It is the hardest slot to sell, the hardest to staff, and the one with the best attendance record in the studio. Four years of running it has taught…
Before you come
Common questions
I've never done yoga. Is that a problem?
No. Slow Flow and Grounded are both taught for all levels, and roughly a third of the room on any given weekday morning has been practising for under a year.
If you'd rather start with a proper on-ramp, Farrah runs a six-week beginners' block three times a year.
Do I need to bring a mat?
No. Mats, blocks, straps, bolsters and blankets are all here and included. Bring yourself and, if you like, a water bottle.
What if the class is full?
Join the waitlist and you'll be texted the moment a place opens — which happens more often than you'd think, usually the evening before.
Is the first class really free?
Yes, one free class per person, any format on the schedule. No card required to book it.
Start here
Your first class is on us.
Pick anything on the schedule. Turn up fifteen minutes early and someone will show you where everything lives.