Energy Yoga Studio

Energy Yoga is a yoga school in the City of London, delivering a challenging Sivananda yoga class lunchtimes and after work in the heart of St Paul’s.Energy Yoga was founded by Sarojini McKenna, who also works in corporate finance. She has been practicing Sivananada yoga since 2002, and in 2007 she received her Yoga Siromani (Teacher) diploma in at the well-regarded Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy of the Sivanada Yoga Vedanta Centres, in Kerala.

Our mission is to provide yoga of the highest quality to people working in the City and beyond. We are a welcoming, vibrant group regularly doing yoga and experiencing the benefits it brings. When done regularly, Energy Yoga will dramatically increase your energy, effectively giving you more productive time in your day. Start coming to classes and we think you’ll realise that you’ve unlocked a source of energy, focus, clarity and productivity that will deliver benefits not only for your body and mind, but to your career and family as well. But don’t take our word for it – see what our students say.Saro McKenna is a registered RYT 200 teacher with Yoga Alliance UK. This accreditation demonstrates excellent standards as set by Yoga Alliance UK.If you have any questions please get in touch at [email protected].

Energy Yoga teaches Sivananda yoga classes in London. We teach a challenging yoga class with a traditional sequence of yoga postures very close to what has been practiced in for thousands of years, called Sivananda yoga. We don’t mess around with the order or content too much – they are the product of hundreds of years of evolution.

You can expect a complete, challenging workout for the whole body – hatha yoga of the kind we practice was designed to be a complete exercise system. Through our flowing warm-up sequence, to the inverted postures, forward bends, backward bends, twists and lateral postures, our classes strengthen and lengthen all the muscles of the body. In particular we completely stretch the spinal cord, the central conduit of the nervous system – this may be what is responsible for the dramatic energising and relaxing effects of this style of yoga.

In yoga we believe that deep relaxation is critical to energy and health. But relaxation doesn’t actually occur through rest alone – it occurs through exertion and then intentional, active letting go of tension. To that end, the breathing exercises, warm-up sequences and postures we practice in our yoga classes are a workout that lengthens and strengthens the muscles of the body and sends oxygenated blood along the spine, rejuvenating the nervous system. Then, when we go to relax the body, we find that we’re far more able to instruct the muscles to completely relax.

Thousands of years of yogis developed yoga to increase energy and well-being. But don’t take their word for it – try it for yourself and see if it works for you, too.