Past Events

Bigger Backbends for Everybody: Techniques for Physical and Emotional Expansion  10:00 AM - 12:30 PM Does advanced mean inaccessible? Do backbends really 'open the heart?' In this workshop, learn how to make vrishikasana (scorpion pose), natarajasana (dancer pose), and Eka Pada raja Kapotasana (full king pigeon pose) and others work for you. Develop the strength and awareness to maintain the integrity of your centre and learn modifications and propping strategies to happily enjoy these tough postures and explore their emotional…

Is core strength necessary for yoga practice or is it just another way we beat ourselves up? This workshop will lead you to some surprising and new discoveries. Instead of endless crunches and planks, we will learn the magic access points to core integration and use them to uplift and improve your execution of sun salutations, standing postures, and the preparations for arm balances and inversions. Beyond the development of holistic strength, we will learn how to stretch, release, and…

Can we always go it alone in yoga class? What if there were postures we could only do with the help of props or someone else? In this workshop, you will learn to trust, give, and receive support for poses including upward-facing bow, handstand, scorpion, and group drop-backs. We will address the social awkwardness and find ways of best communicating with each other. Guidance will be given on how to properly assist these postures and safely work in groups of…

Mindful Vinyasa Flow For Self-Compassion With Adam Hocke.   Revolutionise your practice!   In this workshop, you will learn how to integrate embodied mindfulness and intentions of self-care and self-compassion into the yoga you love to practise, no matter what the style is. You will explore new ways to check-in, set intentions and act on them, and make choices that suit your individual needs while in a mixed-levels class. You will expand your yoga toolkit to include new techniques of…

Where do you begin with these complicated postures that make strong demands on strength and flexibility? Is the effort worth it? This workshop will help you find your entry point into these most demanding of yoga shapes in a way that is accessible to all levels. We will explore the effects arm balances and inversions have on your nervous system and find your unique path to getting up, staying up, and getting down in one piece. Together we will embrace…

Find your flow: rhythmic vinyasa for mental well-being What are the techniques and requirements to ensure your vinyasa flow practice is pain-free, enjoyable, and improves your well-being? To answer, this workshop will have two goals. First: develop, refine, and advance your practice of the primary components of vinyasa, which include sun salutations, chaturangas, and transitional hops and steps. Second: ensure that you enlist these rhythmic movements and breath towards an aim of balancing your nervous system; in other words, feeling…