Journal · Room 3
An avenue of stillness in a loud week.
Still Ave is a restorative studio — bolsters, blankets, and long supported holds. Nothing here is in a hurry, least of all the practice.
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 Still Ave — yin and restorative yoga, taught slowly.
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.
Standing & balance
Tree, warrior, half moon — the standing series that teaches balance as a form of patient, forgiving attention.
Gentle & accessible
Chair-supported and low-to-the-floor options for every body, injury, and age. The practice adapts, never the other way round.
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.
- 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
- Cat–Cow — the spine finding its breath
- Bridge — a gentle backbend, an open chest
- Cobra — the low lift of the sternum
- Seated Forward Fold — the quiet inward bow
- Legs up the Wall — restoration for tired legs
- Bound Angle — the open sit-bones and hips
The stillest water holds the clearest reflection.— an old line, often repeated
The Studio
A slow room in a fast city
Still Ave 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 Priya Sundaram, 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.