Our Yoga
Citta Flow Yoga is grounded in classical yoga traditions and expressed through steady, breath-led, contemporary teaching. It honours lineage while meeting modern practitioners with care, clarity, and respect for the realities of everyday life.
Our yoga is taught as a living tradition. Knowledge is transmitted through sustained study, embodied practice, and attentive teaching rather than fixed systems or rigid styles. Tradition is honoured through integrity, simplicity, and thoughtful adaptation, allowing yoga to remain relevant, supportive, and grounded in real experience.
Founder Bronika’s teaching is shaped by her training with Ginny Clarke and Greg Clarke (Hanuman Das) Living Peace Yoga, where yoga is understood as something to be lived — not performed — and gradually integrated into daily life through consistent practice and awareness.
Lineage and Transmission
The teaching at Citta Flow draws from the Living Peace Yoga approach, which is rooted in the broader lineage of T. Krishnamacharya. From this foundation, yoga is understood as adaptable, intelligent, and responsive to the individual rather than defined by fixed form.
Within this lineage, Ginny Clarke’s teaching integrates the breadth of yoga practice — including movement, breathwork, meditation, and philosophy — with a strong emphasis on education, self-responsibility, and embodied awareness. Her approach is influenced by studies with teachers such as Ganesh Mohan and Simon Borg-Olivier, supporting a functional, experiential understanding of the body, breath, and nervous system. The emphasis is on helping students develop clarity, mobility, and a more intimate relationship with their own experience.
Greg Clarke (Hanuman Das) brings the meditative and philosophical dimension of the practice. His teaching is shaped by his teacher, Ram Dass, and focuses on self-inquiry, presence, and the integration of spiritual awareness into everyday life. Yoga is approached as a path of remembering — a return to clarity, compassion, and inner steadiness.
Together, these influences shape how yoga is taught at Citta Flow — with an emphasis on simplicity, awareness, and sustainable practice.
What Happens in a Class
Classes at Citta Flow are grounded in Hatha Yoga and guided by the breath.
Teaching is structured and progressive, offering a clear and supportive framework that allows students to build familiarity and confidence over time. Movement is offered with care and attention, supporting strength, mobility, and ease without overwhelm.
A class may include:
• guided movement and postures
• breath awareness and simple pranayama
• sustained or gently progressive postures
• moments of stillness or guided rest
• space for quiet awareness or reflection
Classes vary in pace but consistently prioritise presence, accessibility, and nervous system support. Options are always offered so students can practise in a way that suits their body, energy, and stage of life.
A Balanced and Responsive Practice
Alongside classical Hatha Yoga, Citta Flow offers complementary practices including Hatha Flow (Hatha Vinyasa) and Restorative Yoga.
These practices support both movement and stillness — working with strength, mobility, and breath in Hatha Flow, and deep rest, nervous system regulation, and recovery in Restorative Yoga.
Rather than being treated as separate or unrelated styles, these practices are understood as part of a cohesive approach to yoga — offering different ways to access steadiness, awareness, and balance depending on what the body and mind need.
This breadth reflects an understanding that yoga must remain responsive to the individual, while staying rooted in continuity, simplicity, and care.
The Eight Limbs of Yoga
Yoga at Citta Flow is informed by the classical framework of the Eight Limbs of Yoga, as described in the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali. This framework offers a complete path of practice — one that extends beyond physical movement into how we live, relate, and develop awareness in everyday life.
Rather than being separate steps, the eight limbs are understood as interconnected aspects of a holistic practice that supports steadiness of body, clarity of mind, and depth of attention.
They include:
• Yama (ethical foundations) — principles for how we relate to others, including non-harming, honesty, non-stealing, moderation, and non-attachment
• Niyama (personal observances) — inner practices that support wellbeing, including cleanliness, contentment, discipline, self-study, and surrender
• Asana (posture) — the physical practice of yoga, supporting strength, stability, ease, and presence in the body
• Pranayama (breath regulation) — practices that refine awareness of breath and support balance of energy and the nervous system
• Pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses) — gently turning attention inward, reducing distraction and external stimulation
• Dharana (concentration) — developing steady, one-pointed focus
• Dhyana (meditation) — sustained, continuous awareness without interruption
• Samadhi (integration or absorption) — a state of deep clarity, ease, and unity where the sense of separation softens
In practice, these limbs are not taught as theory alone. They are gradually woven into the experience of class — through breath-led movement, mindful attention, and moments of stillness.
Ethical awareness informs how yoga is shared. Breath guides movement. Focus is developed gently over time. Rest and stillness are approached with care and support.
Yoga is understood as more than physical practice — it is a way of cultivating awareness in the body, clarity in the mind, and steadiness in how we meet life.
Yoga in Relationship with Life and Nature
Practice at Citta Flow is influenced by an awareness of rhythm, environment, and natural cycles.
While not location-dependent, yoga is understood as something that supports reconnection — with the body, with breath, and with a wider sense of belonging within life itself.
Yoga becomes a way of returning to relationship: with self, with others, and with the present moment. This supports balance, resilience, and inner steadiness over time.
Our Teaching Culture
Teaching at Citta Flow is grounded in clarity, consistency, and care.
Bronika’s training informs a teaching approach that is structured, accessible, and steady — creating a space where students can practise safely, progressively, and with confidence.
Yoga is offered as a sustainable and supportive practice — one that meets the demands of modern life, while gently guiding students back to presence, awareness, and inner steadiness.