Want Male Yoga Classes Near You?
Darwin Man Yoga For Beginners.
Yoga for male reproductive system, testosterone issues, & much more.
Male yoga instructor. Woolner NT 7.15-8pm Tuesdays. Plus other online options.
Want male yoga classes near you? Try Darwin Man Yoga by Flametree’s male yoga teacher. You’ll get an experienced yoga instructor teaching a male yoga class for the inflexible male, including yoga for male reproductive system, and much more. Below, also see “is it ok to do yoga as a male?”. Plus, if you’re asking “what to wear to yoga, male”, then see further down.
Every Tuesday evening, Stuart teaches Male Yoga (just to males). It’s in-the-studio, at 19B Bishop Street, Woolner NT.
But, if you want an online yoga class for males and females, then check out other options on Flametree’s Beginner Yoga Timetable. Beginner classes for both males and females, include Monday and Wednesday at 7pm, and Saturdays at 4pm.
(By the way, there are many other male yoga classes, along with females, in Flametree’s NON-Beginner yoga timetable. They’re both in-studio and online.).
All beginner classes are very doable, introductory yoga, with sufficient challenge to be useful, interesting, and dynamic.
In particular, Tuesday’s Male Yoga class is also designed to be uplifting, energising, and de-stressing.
As a result, the Darwin men in the class, will also feel calmer, or more “chilled out”.
Meanwhile, many of the men who come to Flametree yoga classes tell us that this is exactly how they feel as they walk out of the various other beginner or non-beginner classes they attend. So, it confirms the feelings and benefits that Male Yoga delivers.
So, depending on whether you need a sequence of yoga poses that work well as yoga for the inflexible male, and / or you’re after yoga for male reproductive system issues, or whatever else, Flametree’s male yoga classes will deliver what you need.
Given we’re talking about reproductive systems, let’s first answer a common question we get.
Is it ok to do yoga as a male?
Yes, yoga was first developed by males, for males. Now, nearly a third of classes are men. Yoga gives both men & women similar, powerful, physical & mental benefits. It obviously works differently, but very effectively, for the health of their unique reproductive systems.
Scroll further down to see our answer to “what to wear to yoga, male“.
From their 40s, men can get these symptoms from declining testosterone.
Male yoga, together with other wellness practices, can reduce or significantly prevent these andropause symptoms of declining testosterone. Yoga for the inflexible male, or any other situation you’re concerned about, will also work for your reproductive system health and hormones.
Testosterone controversies!
So, these men are already using yoga to manage the challenging male testosterone and health issues that I’ll say more about below.
(I’m going to speak very directly about them, because I think not enough is known about them).
Meanwhile, some women have also told me that they wish men had less testosterone. As you probably know, it’s associated with aggression, road rage, and other undesirable behaviour.
But, I think testosterone has had a bad rap. In fact, it’s critically necessary for both men and women.
Instead, bad behaviour can be helped enormously by yogic practices that lead to calmer mind states.
I’ve talked about how that happens in a separate presentation on the so-called sattvic mind, and using yoga to access the “rest and relax” part of the nervous system.
Testosterone decline in men by age, by percentage
The decline in testosterone in men has a wide range of impacts. But the impact can be reduced dramatically by yoga and other wellness focussed living. If you just want to get on with a free first yoga class at Flametree, and you’re wondering about what to wear to yoga male classes, the quick answer is any shorts and T-shirt.
Testosterone and intimacy
As you can see in the graph above, Testosterone declines for men, starting in the early 30s.
As a result, from their 40s, men can have some mix of the so-called Andropause symptoms shown in the diagram above.
So, it becomes especially important to have natural, mind-body ways to help deal with the impact. That’s where male yoga for the reproductive system, and more, can help enormously.
From the symptoms in the first diagram, and as you’ll see when you read on, women will also recognise health issues for men that also heavily impact women’s lives, including their intimate lives.
So, for a wide range of reasons, women also have a high self-interest in encouraging men to get the mind body solutions that flow from even the very doable male yoga for the inflexible male, or whoever, that Flametree teaches.
To take just one example… better erections, (including arousal for both men and women), require accessing the “rest and relax” (parasympathetic) nervous system.
For those that know yoga even a little, greater access to the rest and relax nervous system, is easily done. Plus, see more on this below.
Males and females have a lot in common with the impact of hormonal changes
Menopause in women, due to decline of estrogen, shares a lot of the symptoms that are also experienced by males from testosterone decline. So, with the knowledge or experience that women have of menopause, including pre and post, can give them a better understanding of what their male partners, relatives, or friends experience.
Building on men’s strengths
Most importantly, Flametree’s Male Yoga class is focussed on working with the strengths of men’s bodies, such as strong upper bodies.
It will then build on that strength further, as part of an appropriate response to testosterone challenges.
But it will also address common physical issues for males, such as increasing stiffness and inflexibility, tighter hips, bad backs, rounded shoulders, poor posture, and overly tight hamstrings.
Apart from being painful and inconvenient, such issues also prevent many men, including very young men, from being able to even walk correctly.
(Of course, every day, I also notice many women with similar issues).
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A major public figure I knew stood like this!
Poor posture example that male yoga can very definitely prevent and solve.
The painful posture of many runners
For example, when I’m out and about, I often observe regular jogger. Their calf muscles are often very tight, due to not sufficiently straightening the legs.
As a result, they often have a back bent in ways that are painful, or will be painful in future.
The contorted posture also collapses the chest to a fraction of its ideal capacity, and rounds the shoulders.
Such people are of course just trying to do everything right.
Sadly, the poor posture, and overly tight muscles, do not lead to a good posture, and lead to unnecessary, ongoing pain.
It can also depress a joggers’ state of mind.
For example, you probably already know that when you stand upright, in the correct manner, you feel more confident and positive about yourself and the world.
That’s part of what is already happening each week for the men walking out of Flametree classes each day who immediately feel uplifted and energised. They are getting a great mix of the yoga benefits shown in the diagram below.
Darwin Man Yoga for the inflexible male, and much more as well
Yoga has a very wide range of benefits. Plus, clinical trials have shown how it helps at least 117 conditions. So, further down this page, check out Flametree’s top deals and “what to wear to yoga, male”.
Testosterone decline at andropause, and earlier
Women know all about the changes in estrogen and progesterone hormones at menopause.
But andropause in men is less well known.
A major medical source describes the symptoms of male andropause like this.
“Some men develop depression, loss of sex drive, erectile dysfunction, and other physical and emotional symptoms when they reach their late 40s to early 50s. Other symptoms common in men this age are mood swings and irritability, loss of muscle mass, reduced ability to exercise, fat redistribution (such as developing a large belly or “man boobs”), a general lack of enthusiasm or energy, difficulty sleeping, or increased tiredness, poor concentration and short-term memory”.
Most men will recognise some mix of these symptoms. The earlier diagrams about them are maybe an understatement.
Plus, the well-known grumpy, older men mind state, is backed by research!
As seen above, testosterone declines steadily from the early 30s.
Plus, the side effects of testosterone replacement pills would definitely make you think twice about that suggestion.
But, at the Male Yoga class, week by week, men will be doing a yoga pose sequence that I (Senior Teacher and Flametree Owner, Chris Lalor), have specially designed to help deal with all the issues I’ve outlined.
By the way, major studies also show men’s testosterone decline has even increased in the last several decades.
In other words, the situation is getting worse, and nobody yet knows why. But, it’s thought that its due to increased stress levels.
Get a male yoga instructor near you, including via online options
Male yoga instructor Stuart McGill from Flametree. Let him be your male yoga teacher of Darwin Man Yoga. (Stuart’s loose short, and t-shirt are one answer to “what to wear to yoga male”. See more about this question below.)
Why Flametree’s yoga also helps men lose weight
Of course, many men also experience weight gain, well before andropause sets in.
But, Dr McCall, a medical doctor and yoga therapist, explains how Flametree’s type of yoga also helps weight loss.
“… yoga … relieves STRESS…by lowering the levels of the stress hormone cortisol. In turn, this lowers your appetite.
Furthermore, when you eat extra calories in a state with a lot of cortisol [from stress] in your bloodstream, then your body is very efficiently going to turn those extra calories into fat.”
Instead, Flametree’s yoga helps you lose weight because it’s very effective at cutting stress, including via restorative yoga. (Our Restorative Yoga class helps even more).
As a result, cutting stress, helps cut weight, due to less comfort eating, binge eating, and more.
In addition, cutting stress cuts appetite. Yoga does this by making you more mindful.
In turn, that also leads you towards more weight loss via mindful eating, with more focus on what you eat, and how often you eat.
All yoga is, of course. also exercise. So, that also helps, in the same ways that all movement helps. But, as you may know, yoga’s mind body elements give you dramatically more than just movement.
If you wish, in a popular, newish post, I’ve said more about yoga for weight loss.
Male Yoga Teacher, Stuart, demonstrating a lunge posture
Male Yoga Teacher & also a Darwin man. As a male yoga instructor, he’ll be teaching a sequence of poses that work well as yoga for the inflexible male, and / or yoga for male reproductive system issues, or whatever else will work best for you. Poses are adjusted based on who is in the class on the night.
Wellness Yoga For Men
So, along with the physical issues I’ve mentioned, the new Male Yoga class will also work as a wellness yoga for men class.
For instance, the poses are designed to work for both mind and body.
In terms of the body, the male yoga sequence will also include poses to help with the fact that the prostate gland steadily gets larger throughout a man’s life.
The poses, including their impact on the mind, will also help with other common issues like prevention of blood pressure, systemic inflammation, stress, heart problems, depression, diabetes, cancer of various types, and more.
Plus, there will also be a range of poses to keep the correct tightness in your pelvic floor. See it in the next picture.
So, if you’re a man, please come along.
If you’re a woman, please mention this new class to men that you know.
Another quick summary of some of the various other major benefits of doing Flametree’s male yoga near you.
Male Yoga classes including snippets of useful information
The class will have a similar format to my new Wellness Yoga For Woman class. (But of course, it will instead by taught by Flametree’s male yoga instructor).
There’ll be snippets of useful information on the rationale of various poses.
But, the vast majority of the time will be spent on doing an appropriate sequence of the sort of yoga poses I’ve outlined.
To help make the class as doable as possible, it’s just a dynamic 45 minutes.
It’s also in-the-studio only. So, Stuart will easily be able to walk around and give any help or adjustments that work for people.
In the Woolner studio, it’s also easy to use the ropes.
There’s also more information at our Yoga For Men page.
Darwin Man Yoga classes will also work for your pelvic floor.
Flametree’s Male Yoga Class, taught by a male yoga instructor, will also have a range of poses to keep the correct tightness in your pelvic floor. See it in the diagram, stretched across the base of the pelvis. So, yoga for the inflexible male, and yoga for male reproductive system issues, works on wide range of fronts, to give you a wide range of benefits.
Recipes for wellness living
On a related front, we encourage you to check out, and use, the many healthy, high protein, low sugar recipes that Flametree publishes regularly on it’s Recipes Page.
Remember, wellness is about how you move in terms of your use of mind and body processes, how regularly you move, and what you eat!
Fitness, strength, longevity, good digestion, health, and much more, also comes from consuming the right amount of delicious, healthy food.
See even more options at the Flametree Recipes Page.
What to wear to yoga, male?
Wear comfortable shorts, or longer pants, & a t-shirt or singlet. The shorts or pants can be loose, or tighter but stretchy. Yoga tights are also fine, depending on the climate, & temperature of your yoga room.
See the picture for the summary of the Flametree Darwin Man Yoga class, including its benefits.
If you wish, above for more about what to wear to yoga male classes. (But, the quick answer is any shorts and T-shirt).
Top deals to start Darwin Man Yoga beginner level classes.
Darwin Man Yoga, including yoga for the inflexible male, and yoga for male reproductive system issues, is a beginner yoga class, taught by a male yoga instructor.
If you’re new to Flametree, and an NT resident, the first class is free.
You can just turn up, and pay casually as you go, at $13 a class.
But, the best value prices are either the beginner HALF price 10 class pack, or the pay-by-the-week program.
You can buy the casual classes, or ten class pack, online, or at the studio (by cash or EFTPOS).
If you wish, above for more about what to wear to yoga male classes. (But, the quick answer is any shorts and T-shirt).
To buy via ecommerce, just click on the orange links below.
Darwin Man Yoga Class Deals
Casual beginner yoga class
Newcomer & lapsed HALF price 10 class pack & 2 for FREE
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