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Yoga is an awareness, breath and energy practice. It helps you feel better in body and mind, move with greater ease, release tension and create an enhanced sense of well being. Yoga can help you refine your inner senses, cultivate harmony and clarity, and lead to transformation.
My approach blends gentle floor based somatic movement to help you experience greater body awareness, classical hatha yoga postures - always modified to suit your body- to enhance, strength, flexibility, balance, and co-ordination, and mindfulness meditation to leave you feeling more aware and more alive. |
I harness 30 years of teaching movement, 6 years of training and a lifetime's exploration of mind and body to bring you an slow, peaceful and attentive approach to yoga to which all are welcome.
I am a practising Buddhist and this philosophy underpins my teaching. Mindfulness of body, feelings, mind and approaching our practice with compassion are inherent in my approach. I teach regular classes near in Hacheston equidistant from Woodbridge and Framlingham, and Debenham and workshops at Ipswich Buddhist centre. |
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Historically and philosophically, Buddhism and Yoga have common roots stretching back thousands of years to ancient India. Each lineage evolved its own path but retain many commonalities including meditation and ethics. Yoga offers a way to develop a sense of embodiment, harmonise mind and body, to cultivate awareness, create balance and harmony. Buddhism provides us with the tools to explore the the mind and nature of being.
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These traditions meet in my teaching and practice which emphasises the experience of breath, energy and awareness: experiencing the body/mind from the inside out.
My approach offers a medium to understand the subtle energies of the body and cultivate qualities of calmness, ease, joy, and stillness. In effect our yoga practice becomes meditation in motion. |
Her warm and encouraging manner creates a nurturing and inclusive envrionment - Elaine Fletcher, British Wheel of Yoga Diploma Tutor.
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'Yoga is relevant to our age because, far from being mystical or otherworldly, it is a teaching firmly grounded in physiological reality and can be understood in contemporary terms. We know that our experience of the world depends entirely on our nervous system ... The techniques of yoga are methods of purifying the nervous system so that it can reflect a greater degree of consciousness and our lives can become an increasingly positive force in the world'.
Alistair Shearer, foreword from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali |
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