Yoga Prema School of Yoga

20/05/2024

It's playtime 💗💫💗

11/04/2024

Vrindavan ❤️ The home of Bhakti Yoga... where every step is a dance 💃 and every word is a song 🎵

09/04/2024

Ever wish you had more than one pair of hands? 💫

Rishikesh Street art showing the manifestation of Krishna in His cosmic form 💫

As described in the Bhagavad Gita,
Krishna reveals this cosmic form to His disciple, Arjuna, giving a glimpse of His glorious & incredible power.

💫 Being incharge of this cosmic creation is quite a job.
Many hands necessary! 🙂 💫

Love ❤️

07/04/2024

I dont "do yoga"

I've always struggled with how to answer when people say " Oh you DO yoga"....

I guess it's like saying Oh you "do life"

When the floodgates opened over 24 years ago, I really gave up everything... job, home, money, friends to fully live, study and embrace the fullness of yoga In all areas of my daily life....

Of course you don't need to renounce the world to practice yoga.

Yoga is truly a state of being... it is connection.

We p r a c t I c e yoga

Until we attain the highest perfection of being, the union of yoga, we are practitioners, yoga sadhakas on the path of perfection...

There are so many threads that make up the great tapestry of yoga life and living.... asana is one thread....maybe your yoga sadhana is service, mantra chanting, study of sacred texts and so on...

We can't just "do" that state of yoga.... in fact we need to loose the doer-ship of our practice and simply surrender...

Through surrender and Grace the state of Yoga dawns and the veil is lifted to reveal our natural pure state of being..

So let go of "doing"

Surrender....

Practice.... all is coming 🙌

Is it easy to surrender? What do you think?

💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗

06/04/2024

Namaste 🙏 Bit homesick today... India I love you! ❤️

See you again in January! Are you joining me in Kerala for our Yoga & Ayurveda Retreat? 💫 Link in bio 💫 or message for info 💫

27/03/2024

Cow cuddles 🐄❤️🐄❤️🐄❤️

14/03/2024

The sacred pyre.... 💫 ready for Holi 💫🔥🔥🔥

The bonfire festival, Chhoti Holi, is celebrated the night before Holi.

It's a celebration of good over not good... the burning of negativities and purification...

There are beautiful legends of how Sri Vishnus greatest devotee Prahlada chanted the name of Vishnu and he was unaffected by the fire, whereas the demonness Holika was incinerated! A great example of how chanting mantras and holy names give protection from negativities!

It's also another celebration of the end of winter...

It really does feel like time to celebrate when we've made it through the darkness of winter right?

Are you ready to dance & celebrate the joyous arrival of Spring??!!

Whoop! 💫 🍃🌷🌳💫 I definitely am!

P.s. I'm really excited to offer new gifts for Spring... are you ready to deep dive into the rich tapestry of yoga? announcement coming soon x

10/03/2024

L❤️ve is all you need ❤️

04/02/2024

I nearly died in 1989, when I was 20!

While living on the island of Crete, Greece, I was driving the company car around the heavy bends of the pitch black coastal roads and fell asleep at the wheel… seriously it can happen!  I woke up to a loud bang and being flung around the car as it rolled and rolled in the olive grove, finally landing on the roof.  I managed to climb out of the window in complete shock, I was still alive (sadly the car didn’t make it though!), I suffered a fractured skull and deep shock following a near death experience.  

In that moment, as the car rolled I sat back, completely surrendered in the realisation that nothing was in my control… the car was rolling and there was nothing I could do to stop it… I waited to die.

I saw my family, my life in those few seconds… 

For 2 weeks afterwards, I was in a daze, still waiting to die, convinced I was on my way.  I felt I was half in another world and half in this one and couldn’t quite come back from that place.

💫 My life changed after that accident.  It was a huge trauma but a truly great blessing too 💫

Instantly my diet changed from being pescatarian to pure vegetarian (in 1989 England, vegetarians were rare and unheard of in an Irish family!). I can still remember looking at the fish on the plate with a new heightened sense of awareness and knowing that this was a beautiful sentient being, there was no way I could eat it.

At a young age, I was a traveller, a seeker and now, having looked death in the eye, questions arose within me….

💫 What is the purpose of this life…. 💫 Why am I here?  💫💫 What happens when we die?  💫 Who am I?

Then came Yoga.  My life became Yoga, my life jacket.

I’m so Grateful for Blessings that come in all forms!

❤️🙏❤️

purpose

02/02/2024

Room with a view 🌅

Stillness
Softness
Sadhana

Is my essential and high priority right now... sometimes life knocks us out of balance and we need to draw deeply from our tool kit to restore harmony...

✨️nurturing the field of this body with delicious Ayurvedic treatments and massage

✨️nature quietening the waves of the mind

✨️ the field is being ploughed right now.... the seeds are ready and soon to be sprinkled.... when the time is right

✨️creativity & inspiration is bursting, alive and flowing... so much is cooking as I sit on my balcony looking at this view!

I've been quiet for a while with yoga offerings... thank you for still being here 💗

💫💫💫 are you ready? 💫💫💫

I can't wait to share what I've been busily preparing for you!

New offerings... coming soon.

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20/05/2023

It's a wrap! Our gorgeous yogis are flying home tomorrow. .. we've just had a wonderful yoga holiday on Kefalonia🇬🇷

Gratitude to yoasyogaretreats.com for making it all possible and inviting me to teach.... feeling blessed! 🙏

Bookings for next year 14 - 21 May are opening soon. DM me if you want to join the waiting list for 2024, places sell out fast ✨️

15/02/2023

Discover the secrets to inner peace with our introduction to Bhagavad Gita course. Whether you are a yoga teacher, student of yoga, or a spiritual seeker wishing to live a life of quality and perfection, this course is for you. Online... 6 sessions with recordings... 23 Feb - 30 March with Padmavati.
Full info and booking here:

Thursdays, 7.00 - 8.00pm 23rd February - 30th March, 2023 6 weeks - Live Online (with replay recordings) Teacher - Padmavati

26/01/2023

We are so delighted to announce a new online course and introduction to The Bhagavad Gita with the wonderful Padmavati. Thursdays, starting 23rd Feb, Live online.

This practical, no-nonsense and accessible approach to the deeper layers of yogic wisdom will leave you energised, invigorated—and ready to take on life to the full. The Bhagavad Gita has inspired millions over millennia. Whether teacher or student the Gita’s wisdom is breathtaking in its simplicity and purity. For further info click below: https://www.yogaprema.org/bhagavad-gita-course.html

09/03/2022

The armpits... who'd have thought it...

Freedom comes in many ways when we work with the armpit chest. It is a sensitive tickle area, soft, vulnerable and the home of the lymph.

When we 'open' the chest and armpit area, it not only feels amazing but on a deeper level, we are directly stimulating the meridian / energy line of the heart and lungs.

When the heart / lung meridian is blocked, there is an imbalance, this can be caused by grief, sadness, loss, depression. If we are experiencing these emotions, the imbalance in the energy pathway will eventually cause a physical imbalance such as chest infections, cough, heart problems and so on.

The great yoga master BKS Iyengarji places a lot of importance on the armpits saying how you cannot become depressed when we work with this area and how it removes any dullness in the brain.

Think of the posture of a depressed person... the chest is caved in.... reversing this helps to restore balance.... even trick the mind back to balance and joy.

Bing! Yes... Yin Yoga also stresses the lung / heart meridian runs along the hands, arms and to the chest and how we can balance emotions when we apply pressure and positive stress to these points.

The lungs are the treasure box that contains our precious heart.... our emotional and devotional centre.... the arms are the extension of, and the energy pathway to the heart.

Want to go deeper into the magic of Yin?

Join me Wednesdays 6.00 - 7.15pm Online

OR

A deep Yin Yoga Teacher Training Immersion 8 - 12 April, Online

https://www.yogaprema.org/yin-yoga-teacher-training.html

08/03/2022

Energising Asana & Pranayama - NEW Rise N Shine Practice - Online

THURSDAYS - 7.30 - 8.15am

starts this Thursday, 10th March.

Rise and Shine with a positive start to the day!

I'm really excited to announce a new morning Yoga wake-up practice to energise and inspire your day.

Practice will include Pranayama breathing Exercises, Kriya (cleansing practices) and Yoga asana (postures). Suitable for all levels.

TRY A CLASS - 50% OFF DROP-IN PRICE (valid for 10th or 17th March). Enter the discount code EARLYBIRD50 at check out.

Use your class pass to book in or drop-in for £5 instead of £10 with the discount code. Try a class before buying your class pass.

See you on the mat!
Lila

BOOK HERE: https://www.yogaprema.org/book-a-class.html

04/03/2022

Hello friends

After our winter solstice Yoga Nidra I felt really inspired to hear so many positive comments on how deeply relaxed our yogis felt afterwards plus the best nights sleep in a long time!

If feeling well rested after a deeply relaxing Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) is calling you then please read on

Yoga Nidra takes you from the Waking state to the Deep Sleep state, even though you are awake. The practice brings a calmness, clarity and insight as you enter the deeper layers of consciousness.

Our Spring Yoga Nidra will focus on the change of season as we gently shift into the new energies of Spring coming into blossom

We will gently, softly loosen up the body first (no need for a yoga mat) before lying down for the practice of Yoga Nidra

Sunday, 13th March, 6 - 7 pm.
https://www.yogaprema.org/workshopscourses.html

YOGA WORKSHOPS

26/01/2022

Mother Earth is pregnant!

The seeds of spring are beginning to stir... snow drops are here 🌸

My ancestors are Irish through and through and as a child I remember making St Brigids Cross which was always hanging in the kitchen (and I still have my dad's Brigids cross in my kitchen to protect against fire!)

St Brigid is the Goddess of Spring, Fertility and the Dawn ☀️ She brings inspiration and healing and is celebrated in the first week of February.

IMBOLC IS A TIME OF HOPE, A TIME TO RESET....BECOME ONE WITH THE ELEMENTS.... JOIN ME IN THE WELSH WONDERFUL MONTAINS OF CAMBRIAN MOUNTAINS... 4 - 7 February, 3 magical nights

💫 Y O G A - daily flow, breathe and restore
💫 M E D I T A T I O N - mantra and singing
💫 Pranayama
💫 Wild swimming
💫 Wild walks
💫 Sauna
💫 Bonfire gathering

Message for info or head to yogaonashoestring.com/lila conway

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