Rocket Yoga

Puerto de la Cruz | La Palma

A dynamic, energising and challenging practice that invites us to explore our limits through enjoyment, curiosity and play.

Practising Bakasana pose.

Rocket Yoga was created by Larry Schultz in San Francisco during the 1980s. After years of studying the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga method in India with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Larry began to develop a form of practice inspired by the series he had learned, but adapted to his own vision of yoga and to the needs of his students.

That is how Rocket was born: a practice that combines elements from the different Ashtanga series into dynamic and accessible sequences, keeping the link between breath and movement and making room to explore postures that can feel challenging.

Its name reflects exactly the sensation the practice can produce: energy, movement and a feeling of expansion. But Rocket is not about going further or doing more. It is about discovering, through the practice, that we are often capable of much more than our mind leads us to believe.

At Tushala, Rocket is an invitation to practise from a place of enjoyment and play. We explore hand balances, inversions, chest openings and other postures that require strength, mobility, concentration and confidence. It is not about performing each posture perfectly, but about experimenting, trying, falling, trying again and learning to enjoy the process too.

One of the particularities of Rocket is that we work with sequences that keep a similar structure from one practice to the next. This familiarity allows us to observe our own progress: with consistency, patience and effort, we can gradually build strength, mobility, stability and confidence, and discover how something that once seemed impossible little by little starts to feel different.

The practice combines dynamic movement, conscious breathing and moments of concentration, creating an experience that can be both physically stimulating and mentally transformative. We learn to hold ourselves when effort appears, to breathe when something challenges us, and to approach our limits without needing to fight against them.

Rocket Yoga is for those who enjoy an active, creative and challenging practice, and who want to explore their body and their capabilities from a place of curiosity and enjoyment.

You do not need to be able to do all the postures to practise Rocket. You come to practise to discover what you are capable of.