Exploration of balance in the week's classes was planned around the foot as a stable foundation for movement but what evolved was a somewhat "preachy" investigation of our collective understanding of yoga and what inspires us to attend yoga classes. Thus, to some extent it was a week of looking at the basics tenets of [...]
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Practising yoga with chronic pain
Chronic pain is often defined as any pain lasting more than 12 weeks. Following a musculoskeletal injury, our bodies do heal, unless we return to an activity/movement that caused the injury - something that is quite common in the fitness world and also in the yoga world. Pete Blackaby, Intelligent Movement points out that the [...]
Can yoga can provide positive results for asthma sufferers?
In 2013, Sheffield University produced a report for the British Wheel of Yoga on the therapeutic effects of yoga for health and well-being. The research showed that yoga can "improve some subjective symptoms in asthma sufferers". Reducing tension through a sensory, approach to yoga, rather than striving to achieve certain shape, helps us to balance [...]
Breathing lessons
How do we achieve a balance between steadiness and openess in āsana? Adapting the posture appropriately and noticing how the body responds to movement is the key. The breath is an important indicator . If it becomes short and laboured, we know that we are holding tension. Our practice with uddiyana bandha this week [...]
Strength and what is enough?
I have had a number of comments about Scaravelli-inspired yoga classes and classes focusing upon slow, careful, functional movement as being "not strong enough". There is a yoga class for everyone and the important thing is that people practice yoga when they can, but as feelings seem to run so high I have been considering [...]
Knees – the “Middlemen”
Knees are complex. They are the "middlemen" between the strong hip movers and the more mobile foot and ankle. In our yoga practice we practice functional movements that help to stabilize, strengthen and mobilize the knee. The knee acts like a hinge but there is also a degree of adduction, abduction and rotation. Thus small [...]
Your Body Speaks its Mind – Stanley Keleman
Stanley Keleman teaches programs in Somatic Education and Formative Psychology at the Center For Energetic Studies in Berkeley, California. His books Your Body Speaks its Mind (1981) and Emotional Anatomy (1985) highlight the interconnection between emotional and biologial reality. Life is a process of individual experiences manifest in the body.
Intelligent Movement
Peter Blackaby's book Intelligent Yoga, presents a reconstructed, grounded approach to yoga - with postures based upon how our bodies have evolved to function. http://www.peteblackaby.co.uk/intelligentyoga.php Share
Inside Yoga – Explore the sensation, not the shape.
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Inside Yoga 