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January 2019
New Year Reset
Feeling burnt out after this past year? Need to make some changes and move forward? Start 2019 by immersing yourself in the practice of feel-good yoga for self-care. Fill up your yoga toolkit with simple and effective practices to strengthen your body. In this workshop we will focus your mind as we go through a complete, strong, and well-rounded vinyasa practice, rest in restorative postures, and finish with a group compassion meditation. Practical and to the point, you'll leave with…
Find out more »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 calm, feeling creative, feeling good. All levels welcome.…
Find out more »February 2019
Find Your Core: integrated alignment for uplift
Find your core: integrated alignment for uplift 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,…
Find out more »Yoga Self-Care for Everybody (Yorkshire/Saltaire)
Yoga self-care for everybody: revolutionise your practice Are you using your yoga practice as best as you can to care for yourself, or are you just doing what the teacher tells you to do? In this workshop, you will find out what self-care actually is and how you can practise it in yoga through simple changes of intention and awareness in your flow and standing postures. You will explore new techniques of self-massage, no-fuss restorative postures, and simplified meditation. You…
Find out more »March 2019
Supported Backbends and Inversions
Supported backbends and inversions: going deeper with help 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…
Find out more »Yoga Workshop in Glasgow: Find Your Flow
Yoga Workshop in Glasgow It's my first yoga workshop in Glasgow! 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…
Find out more »Yoga Workshop in Scotland: Arm Balances/Inversions
Yoga Workshop in Glasgow Another yoga workshop in Scotland! Arm balances & inversions for everybody: handstand, forearm-stand, and crow 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 out more »Arm Balances for Everyone – Winchester
Arm balances for everybody: bakasana, eka pada koundinyasana, and side plank variations 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. Learn how to see shapes in all orientations to gravity and re-imagine how arm balances might look in your body. Beginning with…
Find out more »Bigger Backbends for Everyone
Bigger backbends for everybody: techniques for physical and emotional expansion 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 resonance. This workshop is suitable…
Find out more »Weekend in Dublin (Flow, Inversions, and Teacher workshop)
Teacher's Workshop: Confidence in Cueing and Manual Assists Friday 29 March, 6:30pm-8:30pm It is not easy to lead a vinyasa class. Words come fast and furious and potential assists are aimed at moving targets. During this workshop you will learn how to develop clear teaching objectives, maximise the effectiveness of minimal and no-nonsense cues, and explore a method of assists that empower your students to experience the depths of their practices. This workshop will be a combination of discussion…
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