Four easy steps to set up for online yoga classes at Flametree.
Below are 4 easy steps to set up for online yoga classes Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, & anywhere else you’re located. Use it for the beginner or non-beginner deals below, or for Special options like online yoga classes for back pain, Restorative yoga, and many others. See below for Flametree’s 2 weeks free beginner yoga trial.
Online yoga classes give you a wide range range of classes and yoga class times. In these challenging times, many student also like the safety, privacy, and convenience of yoga online. You can also take your favourite yoga classes with you when you travel for work or play. If you wish, check out the other benefits of yoga.Â
Kim, a Flametree Yoga Teacher. She teaches Gentle Yoga online, along with many other beginner & non beginner classes.
Four easy steps to set up online yoga at home
The set up steps below only needed to be done once. It just takes a couple of minutes.
The first step is to download the ZOOM Client app on your phone, iPad or PC. (This only needs to be done once).
Second, for each class, as you go, reserve the online version of your Flametree class. Use the links at https://flametreeroom1.punchpass.com/ (for most non-beginner classes), OR use https://flametreeroom1.punchpass.com/ (for most beginner classes). At this Flametree class reservation app, open a new free account, or sign-in to any existing account. You’ll see the timetable of classes. Find your class and click to reserve it. (If you have any trouble reserving a class, just contact us and we can do it for you).
Once you reserve a class, a link to join that online class is sent to you, Around 10 to 15 minutes before the class, follow the link to join the online class. The reservation app will send you the Zoom link as soon as you reserve a class. A reminder, with the link, will also be sent to you about half an hour before the class starts.
Last, point your camera on your phone or PC so that the yoga teacher can see you. Also, if you want, you can also just turn off your camera off. But you’ll get more value from the class if the teacher can provide feedback, based on what you are doing. It’s also safer for you if the teacher can see you, and check that you are not doing anything that could possibly cause injury. (The teacher can see you clearly. But nobody else in the studio can see you).
A forward bend with support lengthens the back of the legs.
Get feedback by giving your teacher a clear view
The picture below shows one type of tripod clip for a mobile phone. But there are many others, so as to allow you to see the teacher, and the teacher to see you.
Some sort of camera tripod is also often useful.
Of course, you can just flip the lid of your PC open, and position the PC.
If you want to get techy, you can use your phone as an external camera of your PC, using apps like Camo.
However you do it, have an effective set up for online yoga classes Perth, or wherever you are.
Set up your camera so you can see the teacher, and the teacher can see you, via the front facing camera (unless for some reason you need to turn your camera off). If the teacher can see you, then you’ll get some useful, anonymous discrete tips via comments the teacher makes. The comments are directed to everyone, but you’ll hear things in them that are useful to you (as well as to others).Â
Light the room so your teacher can see you
If your teacher can see you, you get corrections as well as instructions. Chris felt like a performing seal in her first online class. She was so nervous that she forgot to use the two-way side of teaching. Now she teaches with a very large screen in front of her, so she can see each student closely and help. Wherever you are, from Perth to Darwin, you can make that easy from your side.
Light. Chris suggests three lights, of any kind, set out in a triangle around where you practise. That cuts down shadows and lights you from any angle, so the teacher sees your arms and legs and not a dark shape.
Camera position. Put your phone or camera on a shelf or a tripod, looking down on where you practise. A phone clip on a mini tripod with flexible legs works well. Sit it on a bed, chair, table or shelf unit, or bend the legs round the back of a chair. Tilt it so the teacher can see your whole body and your props.
Phone as a webcam. If you use a PC or Mac, a webcam app can turn your phone into the computer’s camera. Phone cameras are usually better than laptop ones. The Camo app mentioned above is one example.
Reach long through both arms in triangle pose.
When you join the class
Open the class link we email you. You wait in the Zoom waiting room until the teacher admits you.
Check that the camera icon has no cross through it, so your video is on.
Once you are in, keep background noise down and lie in a quiet, relaxing pose. Your teacher will mute everyone when the class starts.
If you cannot get into the class, contact us and we will help.
A chair lets the body fold forward with a long spine.
Why online yoga works as a two-way class
Stuart learnt his first lessons at primary school by two-way radio, on School of the Air, so he knows how well good audio instruction works. Good instruction, even without pictures, takes you further into a pose than doing it alone. He also says an online class makes it easier to do the poses you should do but don’t, and to get past an “I don’t wanna today” day. His full story is on Stuart’s page on going from School of the Air to online yoga. More notes for new students are in our Beginners notes.
Practise this at Flametree
Your first class is free if you’re new to Flametree (for the studio, you need to be an NT resident of three months or more; online, anyone new). New students, and anyone who has been away three months or more, can also get a half price 10 class pass with 2 extra classes free, to use online, in the studio, or both.
Class times, including online classes: see the timetable.
Can’t make a class? Practise at home with our video courses.
Best setups for online yoga classes Perth, or wherever
Of course, if you are only on a 4G connection, we understand if you have to turn off your video to conserve band width.
When you turn off the video (via the buttons at the bottom of the Zoom screen), the audio connection will still be fine.
Ideally, use a laptop that gives you a bigger screen to see the teacher. Some students even connect their phone or PC to their TV, so they get a big picture of the teacher.
If you wish, check out how M., a Flametree student, connects her TV and PC, for doing her online yoga.
Online yoga also works best if you have some yoga props. At this link, there is more about what props are best, how to get them, or how to improvise props.
Use the above 4 easy steps to set up for online yoga classes Perth, online yoga classes Sydney, or online yoga classes Melbourne, & anywhere else you’re located. Try it for the beginner or non-beginner deals above, or for Special Focus class options like online yoga classes for back pain, Restorative yoga, and many others.
