WORKSHOPS

	Core muscle strength workshop	click here for more
	Hip Opening workshop	click here for more
	Hamstrings workshop	click here for more
	Meditation and pranayama workshop	click here for more
	Inversions workshop	click here for more
	Yoga philosophy and asana workshop	click here for more
	Upper back and shoulders workshop	click here for more

Traditionally, asana were used by the yogis to develop a strong physical core which was essential for long periods of meditative sitting. Today, the benefits of a strong core are manifold.

This workshop:

	Develops and strengthens core muscles
	Creates a stable platform for your body to function from
	Uses a specially adapted Vinyasa-flow style practice
	Provides you with specific asanas (poses) that encourage core strength according to your body type and capabilities.
	Includes different pranayama and meditation techniques for stress, weight loss, and insomnia.

This workshop

	Uses asanas(postures) to bring mobility to our hips
	Works on gradually opening the hips and adjoining muscles with yin-style poses
	Provides a specially designed sequenced class focusing on hip-openers
	Teaches you which postures are most beneficial to the hips and how to adapt these postures according to your body type and capabilities.
	Teaches you a sequence of pranayama focusing on calming, working with nervousness, tension and fear.

Do you have tight hamstrings? Chances are that you do if you are working in an office environment and sitting for long periods of the day

This workshop:

	Uses asana that open, warms, and lengthen the hamstrings.
	Prepares the body for beneficial forward bending yoga asana.
	Will prevent current or future back pain and problems, whilst drastically improving your posture.
	Uses a vinyasa-flow class focusing on hamstring-lengtheners and forward bends
	Learn a series of pranayama to wake up and invigorate, and create focus.
	Become aware of any postural problems you may have or be cultivating, and receive personalised attention and help in curing them.

Why practice Pranayama and Meditation?

	It’s easy to confuse happiness, which is always an internal experience, with external things, persons or phenomena.
	Ancient meditative traditions begin by helping one to slow down, simplify and turn your focus inward.
	It enables you to access a calm inner being, and cultivate the qualities of awareness, light, equanimity, happiness, joy and peace, which exist in all of us.

What is Pranayama?

Pranayama is the ancient yogic art of regulating the breath. It's goal is to cease mental fluctuations, and give the yogi fitness of mind for concentration, and later, meditation.

What is Meditation?

Meditation is freeing the mind from all foreign intrusions, calming one’s thoughts, and being entirely at peace within one’s own head.

Recent scientific studies confirm the advantages of Pranayama and Meditation:

1. relaxation
2. concentration
3. altered states of awareness
4. suspension of logical thought processes
5. maintenance of self-observing attitude

This workshop:

Teaches different pranayama and meditation techniques which you may introduce into your daily life for calmer and healthier living.

About inversions

Viparita karani, the concept behind inversion poses, is translated as meaning 'opposite process'. This refers to cultivating a different perspective: inversions, literally and figuratively, turn your views and thoughts on their head.

Ayurveda considers that many of the body's impurities are in the lower abdomen, so raising the feet above the head encourages gravity to move these impurities towards what the Ayurvedic system calls agni ('fire') – this particularly relates to our 'digestive fire', and so is located above our lower abdomen.

A lot of yoga is designed to help you change mental and physical habits. Who you are on the mat represents who you are in your daily life. Therefore, by increasing your ability to adapt to change, you escape old habitual reactions and responses, and further your capacity for growth.

This workshop:

	Includes specific pranayama
	Assists in ridding the body of impurities
	Improves circulation of the entire body
	Dispells fears about doing inversions, by working at your skills level in a supervised environment.
	Proves to you that you are capable of moving beyond your self-imposed physical limitations and so able to make changes in other areas of your life.

This workshop provides:

	An introduction to a brief history and main themes of yoga philosophy. Learning how to take your yoga “beyond the mat”,
	The basic principles and theories behind the asana, pranayama, and meditation.
	Insight into the 5 other limbs of yoga which are often disregarded in the western world of yoga.
	An opportunity to ask questions applicable to your yoga practice, and take the chance to develop your yoga knowledge further than the physical plane.
	Insight into traditional eastern/Yogic perspective from which yoga was developed and the adaptations which yoga has undergone in the western world.

Do you suffer from tension and stress in your shoulders and upper back?

Observe your body's natural tendency to compensate for poor spinal posture and cure mild and severe rigidity in your upper back.

This workshop will:

	Teach you how to care for your thoracic spine while identifying any exaggerated kyphosis and/or lordosis and correct practice to heal and cure it.
	Increase flexibility of the spine.
	Rejuvenate the heart chakra by freeing up energy flow.
	Uses specific asana and Pranayama that focuses on the shoulders and upper back
	Allow you to experience the freedom of not only tension free shoulders and a relaxed upper back.