
25/09/2023
Sometimes you just need a rest after so much cleaning…
Stress-relieving yoga classes in beautiful garden studio with luxurious underfloor heating. Booking
2 St Mary's Road
Leamington Spa
CV311DB
9:30am - 11am |
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I’ve been a massage therapist for 12 years, specialising in Thai yoga massage and remedial work – helping others to deal with chronic pain and physical stress. Over the years, I’ve developed a strong, practical understanding of how the body works, and the connection between health, body and mind. I’m also a yoga and massage teacher (for 10 years), and I help others to make the connection of their movement and breath with their physical and mental health.
I’ve practised yoga for 25 years and was introduced to yoga by a singing teacher. He believed that the connection between body, breath, movement and voice could be taught through vocalisation techniques using simple yoga postures to develop the physicality of singing. From him, I learnt how to use my whole body to sing – that it wasn’t just something that happened in the throat.
I studied music at university, majoring in flute, and was fortunate to have learnt how to control the breath fully from an early age. Through my massage practice, I realised that most people have no idea how to breathe properly and how to control their breath to affect how they feel (physically and mentally). I decided then that I would focus my yoga teaching on sharing with students how they could learn to breathe better, how to make the physical connection with their breath, and how to find the mental connection between their breath and how their body feels.
I’ve practised a wide variety of yoga disciplines – from the physically demanding Ashtanga Vinyasa and Iyengar, to the more introspective Restorative, Somatic and Yin yoga. I feel passionately that yoga should be accessible to all and so my classes focus on how you feel in a yoga posture rather than how you look. I centre the classes around the slow discipline of yin yoga (where we might stay in a posture for 2-5 minutes, using plenty of props to make it less painful) and somatic yoga (challenging old habits of physical movement by approaching the movement in an alternative way). Throughout, we use the breath to keep ourselves in the moment helping us to develop physical mindfulness.