Getting to know the Spine…

a brief post, made during the final few sessions of a highly inspiring online Yoga training course; all about spinal health.

Yoga teachers Inner Sanctum…

Welcome to my special place, where all my class planning and thinking come together. Planning practices is actually one of the most challenging aspects of Yoga teaching, for me. Ensuring that the details of ‘how’ I structure a practice, what’s the goals and benefits of the approach, what’s the concept of the practice? These are …

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Spinal Spirals // Yoga Inspiration

This week in my Yoga classes, I have been particularly drawn to explore the spiralling actions in the spine. When thinking about twisting actions in the spine, we might think initially about mobility, perhaps even to think about the question 'how can I loosen my spine to create more ability for twist?' An analogy for …

Postural Yoga | A quest for feeling

Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga Vinyasa, Iyengar Yoga, Power Yoga, Yin Yoga; whatever your choice of style is, I'm sure we'd agree that we could also refer to these as 'Postural Yoga practices'. To work with a study of posture, raises the question; how do we assess posture in our body? A common tendency, in a Yoga …

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Neck & Shoulder Pain from ‘Downward Facing Dog’

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