ending 2013

Jodie ran a full Primary on Sunday 22nd 8.30am.. followed by our usual breakfast & waffle

The following weekend we spent with Esther Ekhart in The Yoga Space Leeds

Esther teaching a full house & below a panoramic took at lunch

New Years Eve we travelled to CamYoga to finish the year with Andrea, i'm always emotional on NYE, it didn't help when Andrea talked about the little lights, i get that so much.. but what about when someone breaks all those lights top down till they all fade & go out

last year was such a learning curve... it took 38 weeks of physio for a major breakthrough... 20 weeks later I'm yet to return

Thursday 9th January we teach our first class to the general public.. 

Jivamukti comes to Matlock 30/11

 

This was such a lovely gathering.. i think we all burnt out after this class.. we pretty much all got ill for a month

love the iphone panoramic shots.. 'lunch' Saturday 2nd Nov.. IST with Paul Fox

YogicArts

arriving for Duncan Wong's first 3 hour class, we were not expecting to be told by reception we'd be with just 14 others.. i did freak out a little on the inside.. you really can't hide in a class that size.. it was such an honour to be part of & i will remember it for a very long time... i'm sure like many other Yogi's these high profile teachers seem so daunting to work with but when you are with them, they really are very inspiring

Michael Gannon.. Sheffield... October 18/19/20

12 hours of yoga with Michael Gannon.. friday we began at 6.30 with 'Ashtanga Meditation' ...half primary followed by a 30 minute chakra meditation

Saturday we started with a 20 minute silent meditation, followed by a Killer Arm Balance session, that finished at 2pm, after lunch we did his Opening Your Lotus, we were free to leave at 5.30pm

Sunday we did a full Primary with the full vinyasa between every pose.. by closing i literally couldn't do another Chaturanga.. though i did the best headstand i've ever done, i was just too tired to think too much at that point.. worked a treat

I don't ache quite so much as i thought i would.. while Michael is a very good example of a superior Ashtanga teacher, he didn't really teach me anything.. it was all very nice though.. he has a wonderful calm presence, i like that a lot, some male teachers are just so ego driven

beyond limits.. always entertaining

after spending a lovely moring in Beeley with Ms Price.. we decided to go to Chatsworth..

cat or rabbit...

sweaty yoga shapes

Yoga S40...

Through that archway... 

& on the 2nd floor is this..

currently a hairdressers.. soon to be our Yoga Room

Embrace the flow

We haven't been back to the Yoga Space Leeds since last Oct for the workshop with Durga.. today we went back to spend some time with the director Nichi & her 'Embodying the Flow' workshop.. based around her working recently with Shiva Rea, we moved in circles.. a very strong class.. loved it

we have a new Ashtanga teacher.. 3 weeks in & i love it, he puts me in positions I assumed i would never get in.. its wonderful, he isn't afraid of seriously assisting people into positions

He has a weekend in the Lakes next June 2 weeks before AK.. i'm suggesting we do both ^^

I left physiotherapy again last Thursday, its been a very long process, June last year I met Peter & October Leslie & I started, the last session i had traditional acupuncture in my right lower leg, needles in 3 places, my leg went cold, then completely numb, after we finished & they were removed, i sat up & just cried.. very bizarre.. last time we finished on a scale of 1-10 we were at a 2, i would say i'm now at 0.5 & seem to have come out the other side, i'm no longer in a place of "this is never going to change" & i have sat in that place of disappointment for too many years.. i long for the day i wake up & its just gone...