Most yoga studios pick a lane. You go to a hot studio for hot, a Vinyasa studio for Vinyasa, and when you want something slow on a Sunday afternoon you go somewhere else entirely. We took the other approach: one studio in Shoreditch, one membership, and a timetable that runs nine different styles of yoga across fourteen classes a week — because most people's bodies want different things on different days, and paying three studios to find that out is a waste of money.
This is every style we currently teach, who teaches it, and how to work out which one you actually want. And because the studio shares a building with a 40-person Aufguss sauna and six plunge tubs, there is a section at the end on the thing almost nobody else in London can offer: what happens when you walk straight from a yoga class into a sauna.
The heat is infrared, and that changes things
Start here, because it is the thing that makes our hot classes different, and it is the reason some people who think they hate hot yoga get on fine with ours.
Most hot yoga rooms are heated the way any room is heated: warm the air, and the air warms you. Our studio uses infrared, which warms your body directly rather than heating the air first.
The practical difference is that the room feels lighter. Conventional hot rooms can get thick and stuffy in a way people find claustrophobic rather than releasing. Infrared feels closer to sun on skin. You will still sweat, properly. You will just be less likely to spend the class watching the door.
If you tried hot yoga once, hated it, and concluded hot yoga is not for you, it is worth trying an infrared class before you settle on that. A fair number of people who bounced off one get on perfectly well with the other.
Four of our classes run in the infrared studio: Hot Yoga Vinyasa, Hot Yoga Power, Hot Yoga Power Hatha, and Jordan's Infrared Vinyasa Flow.
Vinyasa, three ways
Vinyasa is what most people mean when they say "a yoga class": postures linked to breath, one flowing into the next, continuous movement rather than a series of held shapes. It is the most taught style in the building, and we run three distinctly different versions of it.
Yoga: 4BEAT Vinyasa, with Qayyah Moynihan Abbasi
The most unusual class on our timetable. 4BEAT comes out of the Rocket Yoga system, and its whole premise is that the breath is aligned to a slow, regular musical beat. You count to four, you move on the count, and the effect is a kind of enforced concentration — there is no room in your head for anything except the next beat.
People describe it as a moving meditation, and that is not marketing language, it is what happens when you hold a four-count for an hour. Open to all levels, though "adventurous beginner" is the right frame. Mondays 8:15am and Sundays 12:15pm, sixty minutes.
Hot Yoga: Vinyasa, with Solene
A breath-led flow in the infrared studio. Steady sun salutations, fluid transitions, and sequencing built to open the body gradually rather than force it. The warmth does real work here: it supports joint mobility and lets you find range you would have to fight for in a cold room.
Recommended if you already know the foundational shapes and are comfortable moving through sun salutations continuously. Wednesdays 7:15am (45 minutes) and Sundays 9:30am (60 minutes).
Infrared Yoga: Vinyasa Flow, with Jordan Mae Antoinette
Also infrared, also Vinyasa, but a noticeably different room. Jordan's classes are built around an explicitly no-pressure approach — fluid, breath-led, building gradually, with as much attention on regulating the nervous system as on the shapes. If the words "power" and "challenge" put you off, this is the flow class to start with. Fridays 1:15pm, sixty minutes.
Power, hot and not hot
Here is something we do that we have never explained properly.
Yoga: Power runs Thursdays at 7:15am with Solene Fautrier. Hot Yoga: Power runs Fridays at 7:15am with Jess Owen. Same length, same time of day, same style: dynamic strength-building sequences, traditional postures strung into continuous movement, building heat, mobility, balance and control. Uplifting and physically demanding, with options offered throughout so you can take it at your own pace.
The only difference is the room. One is heated, one is not.
If you have ever wanted to know whether it is the yoga or the heat you actually respond to, book both in the same week. Very few studios can offer that comparison, and nobody is going to charge you extra for running the experiment.
Hot Yoga: Power Hatha, with Anthony Selwyn
Hatha is the slower, more architectural end of yoga — fewer transitions, longer holds, more attention on alignment and control than on flow. Put it in a heated room and it becomes something quite demanding.
Expect purposeful sequences and postures held long enough that you have to negotiate with them, with the heat encouraging deeper movement and sharper focus. Strong and grounded rather than fast. Saturdays 9:30am, sixty minutes.
Yoga: Yin, with Anthony Selwyn
The other end of the building's range entirely, and the class we run most often — three times a week.
Yin is few postures held for a long time, several minutes each, mostly seated or lying down, supported by props, working into connective tissue rather than muscle. Ours weaves in restorative elements, so you are properly propped rather than gritting your teeth, with gentle breathwork guiding you inward and an extended savasana at the end.
It is not a stretch class and it is not a nap. It is closer to a slow negotiation with your own hips.
Book it if you train hard and never stop, you sit at a desk all day, or you have worked out that the thing limiting you is not strength but range.
Be warned: Yin is the class people find hardest, and almost never for physical reasons. Holding one shape for four minutes with nothing to distract you is a very different proposition from a flow that keeps you busy. The first one can be genuinely uncomfortable in a way that has nothing to do with your hamstrings.
Tuesdays 7:30pm (75 minutes), Thursdays 7:15pm, Sundays 1:30pm.
Yoga: Kundalini & Gong
The most distinctive practice we run, and the one most likely to be unfamiliar.
Kundalini weaves breathwork, mantra, movement and meditation into a structured sequence. Each class follows the same arc — tuning in, gentle warm-ups, a selected kriya (a set sequence of postures, breath patterns and focused techniques), deep relaxation, meditation. There are hundreds of kriyas, so each session carries its own intention and no two feel alike.
The gong is not decoration. It closes the practice and it is a physical experience as much as an auditory one.
Expect something grounding and uplifting at once, aimed at nervous-system resilience and emotional balance rather than at sweat. Mondays 7:00pm, 75 minutes. There is also a Meditation: Kundalini & Gong on Sunday evenings at 7:30pm if you want the breath and the gong without the physical practice.
Yoga Sculpt, with Jess Owen
Traditional yoga asana combined with sculpt-inspired movement: pulse work, mindful holds, a full-body sequence aimed at mobility, balance and posture as much as at tone. Book it if you want yoga's mobility benefits without giving up a training slot to get them. Thursdays 5:15pm, 45 minutes.
The Morning Method: yoga and sauna in sixty minutes
Thirty minutes of yoga, then thirty minutes of sauna and cold plunge, done by 8am. Jess Owen teaches it, Wednesdays at 7:00am.
It exists because the most common reason people give up on a morning practice is that the whole thing takes two hours by the time you have travelled, changed and showered. This is one hour, start to finish, and you leave having done both.
What the sauna actually does after a yoga class
This is the part no other yoga studio in Shoreditch can offer, so it is worth being specific rather than gesturing at it.
Every class includes a sauna session. Not an add-on, not members-only, not a separate spa charge. Every visit. The Sensorium is a 40-person Aufguss amphitheatre, the second largest in London, built with the British Sauna Society, with six plunge tubs stepping down to 4°C.
What to do with it depends on what you have just done. After a hot class, the sauna is not the point — the plunge is. Going from a heated room into cold water is the fastest way to bring your core temperature back down, and most people find it removes the heavy, wrung-out feeling that can follow a hot practice.
After Power, 4BEAT or Sculpt, heat first, then cold. The sauna keeps tissue warm and extends the window in which you are mobile. The plunge is where the recovery happens.
After Yin, honestly, do what you like. Yin already puts most people in the state the sauna is trying to produce. Some go in to hold onto it. Some go straight to Palm Greens.
The practical version: you finish class, you are already in the building, and instead of putting your coat on in a cold corridor you get twenty minutes of heat, a plunge, and a plant-based café that is also in the building. That is the entire argument for this place, and it is why the membership is one price for all of it rather than a class pass with a spa add-on bolted on.
Which class should I book first?
Never done yoga: Hot Yoga Vinyasa, or Jordan's Infrared Vinyasa Flow.
Want to sweat and be challenged: Hot Yoga Power.
Tried hot yoga and hated the air: any infrared class — it is a different sensation.
Want to know if it is the yoga or the heat: Yoga Power on Thursday, Hot Yoga Power on Friday.
Stiff rather than weak: Yoga Yin.
Want alignment over flow: Hot Yoga Power Hatha.
Want something genuinely different: 4BEAT Vinyasa, or Kundalini & Gong.
Do not want to lose a training day: Yoga Sculpt.
Have one hour before work: The Morning Method.
Want the sauna as much as the class: any of them. They all include it.
Practical details
Where: 114-116 Cheshire Street, London E2 6EJ, two minutes off Brick Lane.
Hours: Mon–Fri 7am–10pm, Sat–Sun 9am–10pm.
Class size: up to 25.
Levels: every class states its own experience level when you book. Most are open to all.
Single class: £28, includes a sauna and cold plunge session.
New here: three classes for £49, valid 14 days, sauna every visit, and a drink on the house on your first.
Membership: Unlimited Sanctuary, £149 a month, every class including Reformer Pilates.
Bring: a towel and water. For the infrared classes, bring two towels.
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Frequently asked questions
What styles of yoga can you do in Shoreditch at AndSoul Sanctuary?
Nine: 4BEAT Vinyasa, Power, Yin, Kundalini & Gong, Yoga Sculpt, Hot Yoga Vinyasa, Hot Yoga Power, Hot Yoga Power Hatha and Infrared Vinyasa Flow, plus The Morning Method, which pairs thirty minutes of yoga with thirty minutes of sauna. That is fourteen yoga classes a week, and every one includes a sauna session.
Do you do hot yoga in Shoreditch?
Yes. Four hot classes a week, in an infrared-heated studio rather than a conventionally heated one, which most people find lighter to breathe in.
What is infrared hot yoga and how is it different?
Infrared warms your body directly instead of heating the air around you. The room feels less thick and stuffy than a conventional hot studio at the same intensity, so people who find hot yoga claustrophobic often get on better with it.
Is there Yin yoga in Shoreditch?
Yes, three times a week — Tuesday evening, Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon — taught by Anthony Selwyn, with restorative elements and an extended savasana.
Is there Kundalini yoga in Shoreditch?
Yes, Monday evenings, 75 minutes, closing with a gong. There is also a seated Kundalini and gong meditation on Sunday evenings.
Can you do yoga and use a sauna in the same visit?
Yes. Every class at AndSoul Sanctuary includes a session in the Sensorium, a 40-person Aufguss sauna with plunge tubs down to 4°C. There is no separate spa charge.
How much is a yoga class in Shoreditch?
A single class is £28 and includes sauna and cold plunge. Three classes to start are £49. Unlimited Sanctuary membership is £149 a month.
Are your yoga classes suitable for beginners?
Yes. Most are open to all levels and every class publishes its own experience level when you book. Hot Yoga Vinyasa and the Infrared Vinyasa Flow are the usual starting points.
Read next: our guide to Reformer Pilates in Shoreditch, which makes the same class-plus-sauna argument on the machines, and what actually happens in an Aufguss if the sauna half is the part you are curious about.
