Five teachers, and the same five next month.

• TeachingSlow Flow, Grounded
• Practising22 years
• At HalcyonSince 2019

Founder & lead teacher

Inés Halloran

Opened Halcyon after fourteen years of teaching in rooms she did not design.

Inés practised for eight years before she taught a single class, and taught for fourteen more in other people's studios before opening this one. Most of what Halcyon is — the fourteen-mat cap, the unscented room, the rule that class starts on the minute — came out of that stretch, and out of a running list she kept of things she would do differently.

Her teaching is precise without being fussy. She will give you one correction, not four, and she will usually give it to the room rather than to you.

Training — E-RYT 500 · Iyengar Level 2 · Restorative (Lasater)

“I would rather teach fourteen people well than forty people adequately. That is the whole business plan.”

• TeachingMorning Practice, Slow Flow
• Practising17 years
• At HalcyonSince 2019

Senior teacher

Dominic Arya

Teaches the 6am four days a week and has not missed one in three years.

Dominic came to yoga through a running injury that never fully resolved, which is a more common route into a serious practice than people admit. He spent two winters studying pranayama in Chennai and now teaches the breathwork that opens every Morning Practice.

He is the reason the 6am sequence only changes twice a year. His argument, which won, is that you cannot go deep into something that keeps moving.

Training — E-RYT 500 · Ashtanga (authorised Level 1) · Pranayama, KYM Chennai

“The sequence is not the practice. Repeating the sequence long enough to stop noticing it — that is the practice.”

• TeachingGrounded, Morning Practice
• Practising15 years
• At HalcyonSince 2020

Teacher · Anatomy lead

Margit Lund

A physiotherapist first. Runs our teacher anatomy sessions and every injury consult.

Margit spent nine years in musculoskeletal physiotherapy before she taught yoga, and she has never entirely stopped. If you turn up with a shoulder that has been complaining since February, she is the one the front desk will point you toward.

She teaches Grounded with an unusual amount of anatomical detail for a restorative class, on the theory that people take better care of joints they can actually picture.

Training — RYT 500 · MSc Physiotherapy · Yoga for injury & rehabilitation

“Half of what people call a tight hamstring is a nervous system that has decided the position is unsafe. You cannot stretch that. You can only make it feel safe.”

• TeachingSlow Flow, Grounded
• Practising12 years
• At HalcyonSince 2021

Teacher

Farrah Oyelaran

Trained in trauma-informed teaching. Runs the beginners' block every term.

Farrah's training is in trauma-informed practice, which in a room like ours mostly shows up as language: invitational cueing, no hands without asking twice, and never a reason offered for why you should push through something.

She teaches the six-week beginners' block that runs three times a year, and a good number of our members came in through it.

Training — RYT 500 · Trauma-informed practice (David Emerson lineage)

“Nobody has ever relaxed because a stranger told them to. They relax because the room stopped asking anything of them.”

• TeachingMorning Practice
• Practising11 years
• At HalcyonSince 2023

Teacher

Wren Abadi

Covers the Saturday 6am and teaches the philosophy evenings twice a term.

Wren teaches Saturday mornings and the occasional weekday cover, and runs the twice-a-term philosophy evening — an hour of reading and argument in the studio with tea, no mats involved.

They came to us from a Mysore-style room in Lisbon and have kept the habit of learning every regular's name inside two weeks.

Training — RYT 500 · Ashtanga · Sanskrit & philosophy, two-year diploma

“People assume the philosophy evenings are the soft option. They are the only thing here that will genuinely annoy you.”