Yoga
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As a new student, you will be consulted on your specific needs and what you want to achieve through yoga. You can expect me to modify classes to suit your needs and to regularly check in on your progress. I would like to help you learn to help yourself, so in private classes I provide individual guidance and recommendations for exercises to do at home.
For all classes, it is essential that you book in advance to ensure your place. |
An integrated approach to Yoga mainly in the tradition of Swami Satyananda Saraswati, influenced by the teachings of Krishnamacharya, my many teachers, and my own experience over the 35 years of my yoga journey.
Yoga is really a way of life and the changes we want to make will take time. However, unlike many other ways of achieving self improvement, yoga is always enjoyable providing we are non judgmental. This is important because being critical of ourselves or the practice is bringing conditioning from the past into the practice. Then we fail to be present, in the now, and we are missing our opportunity for the changes we want.
It is important to note too that a yoga practice is attempting to provide much more than just exercise. It is providing an opportunity to learn how to live in a comfortable body without being overwhelmed by thoughts, feelings and emotions.
In addition, the practice helps by encouraging a progression into a new default mode of self love and gratitude via having a 'sankalpa' (intention/affirmation) and continually bringing it to mind and re-kindling the associated emotions to provide a direction in life that 'steers us' via the subconscious mind like a GPS setting. Influencing all the decisions we make and enabling us to notice all the opportunities that will take towards whatever we would like to achieve.
The practice is your personal journey of looking within. You will not be judged by your teacher and it is hoped you will learn not to judge yourself. The teacher is there only to help facilitate your personal experience. Nothing is handed to you as a quick fix. What is important is what you learn about yourself through self observation... as if seeing yourself for the first time.
Yoga is really a way of life and the changes we want to make will take time. However, unlike many other ways of achieving self improvement, yoga is always enjoyable providing we are non judgmental. This is important because being critical of ourselves or the practice is bringing conditioning from the past into the practice. Then we fail to be present, in the now, and we are missing our opportunity for the changes we want.
It is important to note too that a yoga practice is attempting to provide much more than just exercise. It is providing an opportunity to learn how to live in a comfortable body without being overwhelmed by thoughts, feelings and emotions.
In addition, the practice helps by encouraging a progression into a new default mode of self love and gratitude via having a 'sankalpa' (intention/affirmation) and continually bringing it to mind and re-kindling the associated emotions to provide a direction in life that 'steers us' via the subconscious mind like a GPS setting. Influencing all the decisions we make and enabling us to notice all the opportunities that will take towards whatever we would like to achieve.
The practice is your personal journey of looking within. You will not be judged by your teacher and it is hoped you will learn not to judge yourself. The teacher is there only to help facilitate your personal experience. Nothing is handed to you as a quick fix. What is important is what you learn about yourself through self observation... as if seeing yourself for the first time.
Studio Stretch Breathe Relax Yoga SessionsThese gentle yoga sessions are suitable for all levels. Our studio at 33 Clarence Street comfortably accommodates up to 5 people. See our schedule for times.
Studio Advanced Yoga Asana, pranayama and practices to help facilitate the state of meditation. Held in our studio at 33 Clarence Street comfortably accommodates up to 5 people. Studio Meditation 2 Courses a school term : Mondays and Wednesdays at 7:15 pm Meditation 1 A systematic approach to relaxation, pranayama (breathing techniques), increased awareness and meditation in the tradition of Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Meditation 2 practise using techniques in association with the nadis and chakras to help you to heighten your clarity, awareness and alertness while being in the absence of thought, and maybe (after a lot of work) to experience what is left (which is perhaps best described as love) and from there to experience joy, gratitude and a oneness with everything. Not that this solves everything, but by continuing to practise finding this connection, it is easier to let go of what is not needed, to focus on what is important and to make better choices. There is a sense of having the ability to regain control over negative thoughts and emotions so they lose their power. |
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