Yoga, Pilates, Kick-Boxing at MiraSpa
Say “ohm!” and stretch your body under the professional guidance of our trusted and experienced trainers! No matter what your level of physical fitness or level of commitment to regular exercise is, with the new suite of yoga classes at The Mira’s urban spa you may try different types of yoga that best suit your needs, from simple relaxation, to balancing yin yang, gentle Hatha or dynamic pilates session that will make you feel the muscles you never knew your body had!
- YOGA WITH BEAGLE KO
- YOGA WITH LOTTY LO
- YOGA WITH PEPSI CHOI
- YOGA WITH RINGO WONG
- YOGA WITH JEN TSANG
- YOGA & SOUND ALCHEMY WITH KAMAN YIP
- PILATES / KICK-BOXING WITH KIT TAM
Booking Enquiries: +852 2315 5500 or miraspa@themirahotel.com
All yoga & pilates classes (except Private Kickboxing Class):
Price: HK$400 per person
Member/Hotel Guest: HK$298 per person
with:
– Complimentary use of spa facilities including sauna, steam and Jacuzzi
– Complimentary healthy juice
Coach Name: Beagle Ko
Beagle used to be an organic farmer, work in an organic shop and raw food cafe, hotel health club. He has always been interested in health and wellness, he loves hiking, swimming and cycling but he felt these forms of exercise are limited by ever-changing weather. Until he encountered yoga in 2012.
After taking his first yoga class, he immediately felt the healing power of yoga. Not only was he energized physically but also grounded mentally. After practicing yoga for a few years, he decided to make a change in his life so he registered as a RYT-200 yoga teacher with Samrat Dasgupta in 2015. After that, he continued studying mindfulness yin yoga with Chris Su.
He likes to share the details learnt from the past in the class and mainly guide students to let the breath and asana connect, and gradually open the body, focusing on body, mind & spiritual balance!
Class: Yoga Wheel
Duration: 60mins
The yoga wheel is a unique prop that can help you work more deeply and safely in a variety of postures. The class can help open the front of the body (the hip flexors, abdomen, chest and shoulders) as you roll on the wheel, massaging the spine and releasing tension in the upper back.
Benefits:
- Helps you nail those difficult stretches safely
- Helps prevent Injury
- Helps to improve flexibility
- Helps relieve aches pains
- Makes you stronger
- Stops you from hunching
- Helps you wind down
Class: Yin Yoga
Duration: 60mins
Yin yoga is a stilling practice that cultivates a deep sense of awareness through the release of mind and body stresses. An antidote to urban life, Yin focuses on releasing the connective tissue of the body (tendons, ligaments and fascia). Poses are held for long periods, allowing the student to relax as they express patience and quietude.
Benefits:
- Calms and balances the mind and body
- Reduces stress and anxiety
- Increases circulation
- Improves flexibility
- Helps release fascia and improves joint mobility
- Balances the internal organs and improves the flow of chi or prana
Class: Restorative Yoga
Duration: 60mins
Restorative yoga is simply that – restorative. It is all about slowing down and opening your body through passive stretching, centering of your breath and body, and aligning the physical and mental by practising stillness or gentle movement for extended periods of time. The props assist in helping you to hold poses longer. During the long holds of restorative yoga your muscles are allowed to relax deeply. It’s a unique feeling because props, rather than your muscles, are used to support your body. Restorative classes are very mellow, making them a good complement to more active practices and an excellent antidote to stress.
Benefits:
- Deeply relaxes the body
- Still a busy mind
- Releases muscular tension, improving mobility and flexibility
- Improves capacity for healing and balancing
- Balances the nervous system
- Boosts the immune system
- Develops qualities of compassion and understanding toward others and self
Class: Alignment Yoga
Duration: 60mins
Alignment Yoga focuses on restoring the natural alignment of the body. Optimal alignment means that the body moves freely without tension. To do so, we need to find the body’s neutral. Taking neutral as the starting point, Alignment Yoga aims at resolving physical tension through movement with the aid of various tools. It recognizes and explains various movement chains and works with corrective exercise and specific stretching to restore free movement.
Benefits:
- Deepen your body awareness
- Ensure safety
- Encourage connection with body
- Improve concentration
- Restore crucial mobility
- Refine your yoga practice
- Enhance a sense of freedom
Class: Hatha Yoga
Duration: 60mins
The traditional yoga practice class for all the beginners. It covers stretching, muscle strengthening, breathing and yoga postures for build up the body. Usually covers with backbends, core training, arm balancing, hip, chest and shoulder opening. It is all-rounded classes come with Savasana, a 5min relaxation and meditation session to rejuvenate the body, mind and spirit.
Benefits:
- Strong body muscles
- Tones Muscles around the spine
- Elevated mood levels
- Improves balance and posture
- Awakening the Kundalini
- Harmonious body-mind
- Positive outlook
- Heart Health
- Wholesome wellness
Coach Name: Jen Tsang
An enthusiastic yoga practitioner for 8 years, Jen worked in marketing & PR field for years, similar to those typical busy office ladies who sit for almost 9 hours per day. Long hours sitting and bad postures created stiffness and aches in the upper body, also bad blood circulation causes serious edema in the lower body. Practising yoga healed those physical problems and it also brought her a peaceful and calmness mind.
Driven by her passion for growth, she eventually registered as a RYT-200 yoga teacher with Samrat Dasgupta in 2016 to seek the true knowledge, after that she continued to study the RYT-300, Aerial Yoga, Singing Bowl etc, to share the benefits and happiness though yoga practice to others.
Jen’s classes are dynamic, engaging and breath oriented, encouraging students to explore the possibility within a safe and supportive environment, yet to cultivate mindfulness of body and mind.
Class: Vitality Yoga
Duration: 60mins
Vitality Yoga will incorporate breathing exercises to allow for fuller lung capacity, combined with gentle asana stretching to increase flexibility in the hips, spine, and shoulders. With an increase of circulation, it enhances the body to a better movement of energy. Balancing asanas followed up with some relaxing twists will leave you feeling energized, empowered and alive.
Benefits:
- Helps to build better posture
- Helps to prevent injury
- Helps to improve flexibility
- Helps aches relief
- Helps body tuning
- Helps to build a stronger connection with mind and body
Coach Name: Lotty Lo
Lotty mainly teaches Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga and Yin Yoga. She has the greatest passion to build her image, promote her class and also having some cooperation with some organization to host workshops.
During her teaching training course, she learnt to be a humble yoga teacher to appreciate the world, the environment, the students, everything that she has around her. Moreover, she understands more herself physically and also psychologically. She applies this attitude to her yoga class to spread the message to her students. Teaching how to appreciate what they have, and also not comparing with each other. The positive attitude penetrates to their mind and her class builds with good word of mouth during a very short period of time.
Lotty believes Yoga is not just physical body training, but also mind building, sprit training for daily life, and an attitude to respect life, love, nature, environment and also people. She keeps learning continually by following master Kishore, and even completed the Aerial Yoga Teacher Training Course in Jan 2020. She plans to finally visit India to complete her 500 hours Teacher Training after the outbreak of COVID-19.
Class: Stretching & Balancing
Duration: 60mins
Stretching and Balancing class provides us deep stretching which helps to make our body more graceful and upper and can also help our digestion. Through balancing postures, we make our body, mind and posture more stable.
Benefits:
- Improve posture
- Increases flexibility
- Improve range of motion and prevents loss of range of motion
- Help to heal and prevent back pain
- Help prevent injury
- Decrease muscle soreness
Coach Name: Pepsi Choi
Pepsi stepped on the yoga mat for the first time in 2010 and has since experienced remarkable transformations in her life. Teaching yoga since 2016, originally trained under Samrat Dasgupta in HK and completed a 300 hours Mixed Movement Arts Teaching Training with Cameron Shayne and Melayne Shayne in Miami. She happily inspires others to improve wellness and commit to long-term health and fitness goals, energetic and outgoing with a collaborative spirit. Join Pepsi in her authentic and fun yoga classes, with a clear focus on postural alignment, Pepsi’s classes are safe and accessible to everyone!
Class: Yin Yang Yoga
Duration: 60mins
Yin Yang Yoga blends two styles of yoga into one practise – bringing together the benefits of passively holding yoga poses with more dynamic sequences similar to a Vinyasa class. Yin is more internal, passive, cooling and downward. While Yang is more external, dynamic, warming and upward. The class will start with yang yoga-more dynamic heat and strength building sequences then followed by yin yoga postures, ending with a beautiful relaxation. All levels are welcome.
Benefits:
- Stimulates the meridians (energy channels) bringing balance to the organs in the body.
- Improves flexibility and joint mobility
- Calms and balances the mind and body
- Reduces stress and anxiety
- Works deeply on the connective tissues (fascia, tendons and ligaments)
Class: Relaxing Stretch
Duration: 60mins
This class focuses on opening the body and soothing the mind through gentle poses and the use of props. Students will experience more seated and supine postures and some longer asana holds. Suitable for anyone looking to stretch their bodies with moderate physical effort.
Benefits:
- Improves posture
- Increases blood circulation
- Decreases muscle soreness
- Reduces anxiety
- Brings up inner peace
Coach Name: Ringo Wong
Ringo had started her first yoga class in 2014, which was an aerial yoga class. She felt it was fun and challenging. After that, she started with mat yoga classes as well, which were way different from aerial yoga classes, she got addicted to both of them. She found yoga could help her train up her body physically, and brought her inner peace from the busy life.
In 2018, Ringo had taken her first teacher training courses of 200hrs Hatha Yoga & 48hrs Aerial Yoga in Abhyass School of Yoga & Wellness. And has started her full-time yoga instructor life, to leave from her 10years office working life since her university graduation.
Ringo loves to be a friend with all who attend her classes, learning from each other’s, whatever as an instructor or student. “Make it happen” is what Ringo aims to achieve every day.
Class: Gentle Stretch Yoga
Duration: 60mins
This beginner’s yoga class is great for people who are just starting out with yoga, seniors, or anyone who is looking for a gentle stretch class. It moves through a series of poses that stretch mainly the upper body – the spine, shoulders, neck and back.
Benefits:
- Relax muscles and tendons
- Increase blood circulation
- Enhance the flexibility to reduce the chance of injury
- Bring up inner peace
Class: Hatha Yoga
Duration: 60mins
The traditional yoga practice class for all the beginners. It covers stretching, muscle strengthening, breathing and yoga postures for build up the body. Usually covers with backbends, core training, arm balancing, hip, chest and shoulder opening. It is all-rounded classes come with Savasana, a 5min relaxation and meditation session to rejuvenate the body, mind and spirit. For students of any age and experience who wish to practice gently and relax deeply. Also recommended for those dealing with an aftermath of any kind of injury. Ideal for beginners.
Benefits:
- Strong body muscles
- Tones Muscles around the spine
- Elevated mood levels
- Improves balance and posture
- Awakening the Kundalini
- Harmonious body-mind
- Positive outlook
- Heart Health
- Wholesome wellness
Coach Name: Kaman Yip
Kaman is a certified 500 HR teacher and a sound alchemist specializing in crystal and Tibetan bowls, gong & other instruments that aid meditation.
She started her yoga journey in 2004 while studying in the UK where she trained as an artist. Linking to her artistic soul, she likes to blend in artful elements in her yoga & sound classes.
She teaches Dharma lineage with her energetic flow class that is fun & active as well as meditative aspects of yoga with pranayama as a holistic practice. She creates a deep sound journey in a meditation class for healing, relaxing and restoring with her sound instruments to help you unwind from the stressful fast-paced city life and re-energise with good vibrations.
She believes practising yoga is a life journey process, nourishing our body temple in aspects of physical health, mental tranquillity, and spiritual enlightenment.
She leads from the heart and guides with her compassion, provides soothing sound in meditation classes, creative flows to energize & rejuvenate your body. “Joie de vivre” is her motto and a goal for you to experience in her class.
Class: Restorative Yoga with Singing Bowl
Duration: 60mins
Suitable for all levels of advancement, restorative yoga is both relaxing and therapeutic. As hips are the body area where our emotional blockage is stored. In this class, postures will be focused on opening hips, holding the positions for a longer time than usual, letting the tension to release slowly, allowing the chi energy flow fluidly through the meridians pathways. This is followed by a guided sound mediation to soothe the mind and open our heart chakra.
Dharma Yoga
Duration: 60mins
Suitable for all levels of experience, Dharma yoga is a type of yoga under classic Hatha – Raja yoga systems taught by Sri Dharma Mittra’s who is based in New York City. A devotional practice that emphasizes good health, a clear mind and a kind heart. In Dharma yoga sequence will introduce Meditation, Chanting (Mantras, Sound), Pranayama (breathing exercises ) followed by Asanas (postures) practice & Yoga Nidra (relaxation, restorative). Throughout all of these sequences in orders leading to a path of self-realization. Perfect for those who wish to gain increased mobility and flexibility in achieving postures. Simple inversion may be introduced for optional beginners.
Coach Name: Kit Tam
Kit started Pilates 10 years ago. The exercise efficiently enhances her overall performance in fitness and sport. She realized the importance of core training. Since 2012 she has been a professional Pilates instructor and became a Personal Trainer soon after. Her training focuses on core, balance and coordination. With a versatile interest in sports, Kit also achieved professional qualifications in Muay Thai, Resistance Training, Mobility Training and Power Plate, adding to her diverse repertoire of training skills.
Class: Pilates
Duration: 60mins
Pilates is a form of exercise which concentrates on strengthening the body with an emphasis on core strength. This helps to improve general fitness and overall well-being. Similar to Yoga, Pilates concentrates on posture, balance and flexibility. In Pilates, the chance of injury is much lower than with other more strenuous forms of exercise. Pilates also focuses on the mind-body connection. While doing the various exercises your mind needs to be constantly aware of your breathing and the way your body moves.
Benefits:
- Maintain good posture
- Toned muscles
- Flat abdominal muscles
- Restore your flexibility
- Improves your balance
- Reduces stress
- Gives you a general sense of well-being
Class: Kickboxing (Private training session for Two )
Duration: 60mins
Kickboxing is a fitness class that combines material arts techniques with fast-paced cardio. This high-energy workout challenges the beginner and elite athlete alike. Build stamina; improve coordination and flexibility, and burn calories as you build lean muscle with this fun and challenging workout.
Benefits:
- Improves balance
- Helps posture
- Strengthens upper – body and core
- Boosts endurance
- May increase alertness
- Enhances mood
- Improves hand-eye coordination
Price: HK$1,600 for Two
Member / Hotel guest: HK$1,500 for Two
Complimentary use of spa facilities including sauna, steam and Jacuzzi
Complimentary healthy Juice for Two
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*Terms & Conditions:
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- All classes/private classes must be prepaid and booking has to be made with MiraSpa directly for the desired class. Slots are subject to availability.
- All purchases of services (classes, private classes) are non-refundable.
- Cancellations must be made 24 hours prior to the start of the reserved class or workshop. If you do not attend or cancel within 24 hours of the start time, you will be fully charged for the class and workshop and will not be able to use the credit for a future class and workshop.
- The complimentary use of spa facilities including steam, sauna, whirlpool and heavenly waterbed lounge and a glass of fresh juice on the day of class. Swimming pool and gym is not included.
- The offer cannot be combined with the promotions
- Please check-in at the MiraSpa reception before each class.
- Please arrive at the studio at least 10 minutes before your class starts.
- The front doors will be locked 10 minutes into every class. For safety reasons, no one 10 or more minutes late for the class is permitted entry and leaving class early is strongly discouraged.
- The MiraSpa reserves the right to refuse entry.
- Classes require 4 or more participants in order to take place. In case there is an insufficient number of participants, MiraSpa will inform the Guests at least 24 hours in advance.
- No shoes are allowed in the yoga studio space.
- No cell phones are allowed in the yoga studio space.
- No food is to be consumed within the yoga studio.
- The minimum age requirement to attend classes is 16.
- The Miraspa is not responsible for the safekeeping of your personal belongings.
- It is the responsibility of the guests to notify teachers of any previous injury, illness, or conditions that may impact their practice.
- Guests are required to follow all instructions given to them by The MiraSpa yoga teachers and they acknowledge that any failure to do so will be at their own risk and may cause injury.
- This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any promotions, discounts, gift certificate, other Spa Packages or Credit Card Promotions.
- Terms, Conditions, and Fees are subject to change without prior notification.
- In case of any dispute, the MiraSpa reserves the right to a final decision.
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