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Yoga Kind

Iyengar yoga in East Lothian and Edinburgh. A space to explore, challenge and nourish the body and the mind.

Created by Agata Saltonstall, a Junior Intermediate 1 teacher of Iyengar Yoga. The classes combine the fun and energy of exploring the physical poses, challenging our patterns of movement and responses, with a deeper awareness of the breath and the mind through Pranayama, relaxation and meditation. Agata teaches Beginners, General, Intermediate and Post-Natal classes in a variety of locations in E

dinburgh in East Lothian. Classes:
Thu 19:15 – 21:00 Intermediate
Yoga Stable, 3A Montgomery St Lane, EH7 5JT

Fri 10:00 – 11:30 All Levels
Haddington School of Dance and Music
Newton Port Hall, Haddington, EH41 3LX

Sat 09:30 - 11:00 All Levels
East Linton Community Hall, EH40 3BQ

Prices (See the Yoga Stable website for Thu class prices):
Drop-in £9
10 classes £80
5 classes £42.5

Equipment:
Basic equipment provided, so you can bring as much of your own kit as you like, but you’re also welcome to bring nothing but yourself! Levels:
Beginners – Limited experience or less than 2 years regular practice
Intermediate – Min 2 years’ regular practice

05/09/2020

Wonderful class and practice in the sun again today ☀️

The full Padma Sarvangasana sequence we were working towards today, with some Niralamba balancing thrown in first. A bit tricky folding the legs hands-free, ain't easy turning into a pretzel!

11/07/2020

Yoga together at last!
After 3 months of Zoom - the bliss of completely analogue birdsong and sunshine ☀️

10/07/2020

Yoga belt - the lightest, most portable and versatile prop.

Here used to help the middle back engage better in a home practice medley. Where you touch, awareness goes...

06/04/2020

If there was a Pose of the Month Award, it would be going to Niralamba Sarvangasana...

All the physical benefits of a classic shoulderstand (cooling, antiinflammatory, respiratory cleansing) plus the mental clarity and sharpness required to balance. No room for anything but the current breath. A profound, intimate connection with Now.

Yoga gold for uncertain times.

Shot at Yoga Stable Edinburgh in free-er times.

26/03/2020

New frontiers, new ways, new opportunities!
We start this week, so if you'd like to join, please get in touch by the end of tomorrow for sign-up instructions.

Online classes are £8 (£5 concession for those financially affected by the quarantine), your usual class passes are also valid.

Hope to see you in my living room!

20/03/2020

Along with your wishes to continue practice as long as it is sensible, we will have the class tomorrow for those of you who are comfortable being out and about. We will be (even more) stringent with our spacing and we will not use shared equipment at all, so please have your mats and blankets as a minimum, plus any other blocks etc that you normally bring.

The pandemic will have serious financial implications for many of us, so I will not be taking payment/stamps for tomorrow's class. I will donate the space; if you are fortunate to have a cushy salary, please make a donation to a coronavirus response charity instead of payment.

I will figure out in what format we can continue our practice over the next few days!

Lots of love

13/03/2020

Dear yogis!
This week's East Linton class is on Sunday, instead of Saturday.
Same place (community hall), same time (9:30).
Hope to see you there. Please bring your own equipment, particularly mats and blankets.

07/03/2020

Lovely teaching moments...

This pose started awkward and uncomfortable, so we changed the positioning and adjusted the props. I moved on to help the other students to find this state of utter bliss unfolding a few minutes later 😍😍

02/01/2020

Join us for the New Year workshop!

We will focus on centering asanas, pranayama and guided meditation to clear the path of the breath and energy, and make space for what you want to invite into your life this year.

Booking: Please get in touch to book in advance
Cost: £15
Equipment: please bring your own mat, blocks, belt and blankets, there will also be spares to share. Do bring a cosy jumper and socks for the passive part of the class!

26/12/2019

Dear yogis! We are having a break this week and we will have the usual New Year workshop on 04th Jan instead, as families and travel have a lot of you occupied this week! (Workshop details to follow)

Enjoy this week of a gateway into 2020 and I will see you next Saturday, when we kick of the year with clarity and vision!

16/12/2019

Sthira sukham asanam (Yogasutra 2.46)

A state of unconditional calm that is not dependent on any outward circumstances, in which were are ready to meet the unexpected with sensitivity, poise and lightness of heart.

Thank you, yoga.

Shot at Yoga Stable, Edinburgh.

05/12/2019

We are having an early Christmas break this week, so there is no class this Saturday! See you on 14th Dec for a festive boost!

30/11/2019

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”
-Brianna Wiest
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[Illustration: Yaoyao Ma Van As Art ]

16/11/2019

Today's class explored the inner sense of balance and keeping the intensity of extension even around the pivot point, to reach that golden point of "effortless effort"...

28/10/2019

Sloth yoga or playtime?...

Playfulness is part of yoga practice, just like any other facet of our nature. Join our weekly classes to explore more!

28/08/2019

Ardha Matsyendrasana...

Right now I am craving twist physically - to release all the recent core work.
But even more so mentally - with a few moving pieces, some change and uncertainty I find I need softness, pliability, surrender.

Letting the body open, stay and accept - teaching my head to allow things to come and unfold. At their own pace, one breath at a time.

18/08/2019

Savasana bliss.
Teaching surfers at the gorgeous beaches of the Outer Hebrides.

08/07/2019

We are on holiday, next class in East Linton on 27th July. See you then 😊☀️🌊

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