Practice Notes · Spring
Move with the breath, like a tide.
Tide Aura is a flowing studio — vinyasa sequences that rise and fall with the breath. Strong when it needs to be, soft where it can afford to.
On the Schedule
The classes we keep
We hold a small, considered schedule rather than a wall of options. Each class earns its place by doing one thing well. What follows is the shape of a typical week at Tide Aura — vinyasa flow and breath-linked movement, taught slowly.
Vinyasa flow
Breath-linked sequences that build heat gradually. One inhale, one movement, until the room finds a shared rhythm.
Yin & long holds
Passive floor postures held three to five minutes, working the connective tissue the faster styles never reach.
Restorative rest
Fully supported shapes with bolsters and blankets. The nervous system does the work; you simply stop resisting it.
Pranayama
Simple breathing practice — ujjayi, extended exhale, alternate-nostril — the least visible and most useful part of a class.
Seated meditation
A short, guided attention practice. Nothing mystical: notice the breath, wander off, come back, repeat, be kinder about it.
Joint mobility
The practical maintenance work — hips, shoulders, ankles, and a spine that spends its days folded into a chair.
The Vocabulary
A small vocabulary of shapes
A yoga practice is, at heart, a vocabulary of shapes and breaths the body learns to speak. These are the ones we return to most — not for how they look, but for what they quietly ask of the person doing them.
- Ujjayi Breath — the ocean sound of steady breathing
- Nadi Shodhana — the balancing alternate-nostril breath
- Half Moon — balance turned onto its side
- Camel — the open-hearted backbend
- Gentle Twist — wringing out a long day
- Sun Salutation — the warming morning sequence
- Downward Dog — the resting shape of the whole practice
- Warrior II — the long, grounded standing pose
- Tree Pose — balance as patient attention
- Triangle — the wide diagonal opening
- Pigeon — the deep and honest hip release
- Child's Pose — the return, always available
You do not rise to the level of your ambition; you fall to the level of your breath.— overheard, and kept
The Studio
A slow room in a fast city
Tide Aura is a single warm room with wooden floors, a rack of bolsters and blocks, and light that arrives slowly in the morning. We teach in small groups so the practice stays personal — hands-on where welcome, spoken and unhurried where not.
This is not a chain or a challenge. It is one practice, taught by Diego Marín, built on a steady belief that yoga is best when it is slow, repeatable, and kind to the body in the room. Most of what we do is breathe, notice, and move a little more honestly than before.
If you have wandered here looking for a place to practise, welcome. The journal grows quietly; the schedule changes rarely; the breath keeps teaching.