Welcome to HAY Yoga in Guernsey
Hot & Yin
Yoga
"Whatever your age and level of experience may be, HAY Yoga classes have so much to offer." ~ Carol
"I really enjoy Ness’ Friday class - It’s gentle, warm and relaxing..." ~ Delphine
"I feel I’ve made so much progress with my yoga over the last two years. Thanks Vanessa! ." ~ Clare
Formerly
Increase your pulse rate, metabolism, and flexibility while accentuating a series of stretches and balanced postures.
Weekly classes
Join our Yoga classes on Monday evenings (Vazon) & Friday mornings (St Peters).
Book a class →Methodology
Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga is a guided yoga practice, using various props, to help you explore sustainable postures...
Learn more ↗Yang Yoga
Yang tissues stretch much more easily than yin tissues and rebound quickly like rubber bands...
Learn more ↗Hot Yoga
Hot yoga is a heated practice combining flexibility, strength, and detoxification for improved mind-body wellness.
Learn more ↗Breath work Coaching & Ice Therapy Sessions
As part of a wider awareness in the community globally breath work coaching has become a lot more of in the main media focus.
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Yoga for everyone
HAY Yoga is for all levels of experience. Choose to do what suits your needs, work at your own pace and listen to your body.
Book →Challenge your body
Each class focuses on different postures and special movements to get the best out of strengthening the body.
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Challenge your body
Each class focuses on different postures and special movements that will test and strengthen the body.
Calm your mind
Remove the mental fuzz, and drive the focus towards developing and embracing your own level of serenity.
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Vanessa-leigh Willis
Meet your instructor
Coming from a working background in fitness and health promotion, Vanessa previously worked part time as a fitness and spinning instructor whilst also enjoying her primary career as a Registered General Nurse.
She later discovered a passion in Hot Yoga and the buzz it generated holistically alongside the lineage of yoga itself. In addition she then attended a 200-hour Hot Yoga training programme in America, Fort Lauderdale studying the Barkan Hot Yoga Method, which equipped her with the knowledge to understand and fully appreciate all the aspects of this type of practice and the advantages it brings working alongside any other sports or endurance type training where flexibility and stretching are paramount to maintaining performance and recovery.
Vanessa later attended a 100hr Yin Certified Teacher course in Thailand and now integrates that within the Hot Yoga class ethos. The name of the business changed with a new branding to HAY (Hot and Yin Yoga) was relaunched and the classes now embrace the benefits of the heated Yang inspired sequence before embracing the healing, holistic qualities of a Yin practice.
Qualified as Barkan Hot Yoga Teacher Training Level 1, BSY Hatha Yoga Instructor, 100hr Yin Certified and a registered Advanced Yoga Teacher Alliance Member with 10 years teaching experience. She is a registered Adult General Nurse with a diploma in Health Studies (RGN dip h).
She later discovered a passion in Hot Yoga and the buzz it generated holistically alongside the lineage of yoga itself. In addition she then attended a 200-hour Hot Yoga training programme in America, Fort Lauderdale studying the Barkan Hot Yoga Method, which equipped her with the knowledge to understand and fully appreciate all the aspects of this type of practice and the advantages it brings working alongside any other sports or endurance type training where flexibility and stretching are paramount to maintaining performance and recovery.
Vanessa later attended a 100hr Yin Certified Teacher course in Thailand and now integrates that within the Hot Yoga class ethos. The name of the business changed with a new branding to HAY (Hot and Yin Yoga) was relaunched and the classes now embrace the benefits of the heated Yang inspired sequence before embracing the healing, holistic qualities of a Yin practice.
Qualified as Barkan Hot Yoga Teacher Training Level 1, BSY Hatha Yoga Instructor, 100hr Yin Certified and a registered Advanced Yoga Teacher Alliance Member with 10 years teaching experience. She is a registered Adult General Nurse with a diploma in Health Studies (RGN dip h).