15 March 2014

Thai Yoga Massage

Sharon brought us David Hoyle today, a lovely Thai Yoga Massage Therapist.. loved it 



12 March 2014

21 February 2014

one love.. one heart.. London

yin yoga triyoga primrose hill


4 day Jivamukti Immersion with Yogaswari


also had a great day Poetry of the Koshas with Liz Lark in Rugby 8th Feb

1 February 2014

31 January 2014

We started the year's workshops with lovely Monique Fryer.. then across to Shrewsbury to work with Zoe Knott on handstands/headstands, the following week we went to Kent for a couple of days to work with Zoe again (& Hugh) Zoe's friday night class was a complete killer, i have never isolated & used muscles in such a way before & so very safe too, after class we went home with them for soup, tea & lovely conversation.. Saturday was King Pigeon half taught by Zoe & then Hugh, again really strong day but loved it

Never been under the Thames before.. Blackwall Tunnel

i am on my 4th week of teaching Yoga.. this is relaxation in my class, the room we have is so lovely, clean, spacious & underfloor heated... the first class i taught i thought was awful, the 2nd/3rd were great, last night i had a lady in her 60's who had 'asthma' though turns out she has COPD & smokes, i'm finding teaching difficult, its in my nature to nuture & I should be a therapist really, i can't just mass teach & go through the motions especially when i have been through so much.. i really have to work on this 

2 January 2014

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.. 

3 December 2013

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


3 November 2013

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




1 November 2013

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






21 October 2013

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