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25/10/2025

⏰⏱⏲🕰⌛️CHANGE your clocks and sleep tight 🛌see🧡you❤️930am on the morrow for Bikram Yoga 😘
Register and book via Momoyoga: http://momoyoga.com/yoga-matters-jersey/register/
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14/10/2025

🔥YM BIKRAM YOGA CHALLENGE COMING:
🔥~10 DAYS Friday 14/11/25
🔥~7 DAYS Monday 17/11/25
🔥Challenge ends Sunday 23/11/25 🔥
🌞It is often when we least expect it that life sets the challenge against us, at such a moment there is no ignoring it and we cannot say “I am not ready”. The Challenge doesn’t wait!
🌞7-10 days is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny; that we can always meet the Challenge, come through and leave it behind.
🌞Get yourself out of your comfort zone and refine your “I’m up to the Challenge skills” at YM and you will see in the biggest challenge moment who you truly are. 🌟and you will be illuminated.🌟 and you will come back for more🌟 💥💥💥
🌞CHALLENGE PRODUCT now on Momoyoga app now ready for you to choose your Challenge (Note 🙏the 7DAYSFREE yoga product cannot be used by participants in the Challenge for the Challenge🙏)
🔥Remember a YM Challenge means certificates and prizes and CERTIFICATES! what wouldn't you do for a certificate 🤣
Om Om Om You can share 🙂 🙏
Register via Momoyoga: http://momoyoga.com/yoga-matters-jersey/register/
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12/10/2025

YOGA TEACHER = A BEGINNER WITH A CERTIFICATE!
200 hours teacher training = a beginner with a certificate
300 hours teacher training = a beginner with a certificate
500 hours teacher training = a beginner with a certificate
600 hours teacher training = a beginner with a certificate
I did my first Yoga Teacher Training 20 years ago and had been practicing regularly for 6 years before going (in those days it was a standard to have been practicing for at least 3 years before attending any YTT). Back then course ‘hours’ were not a thing. My first Yoga TTC was in LA with Bikram Choudhury, this training was a 9 week immersion/residential course, 6 days a week and sometimes up to 14 hours a day! It equated to 600+ hours but I never once heard anyone mention the counting of hours on that TTC; we were all just focused on the process and the privilege and starting point it would give us. It was the most challenging of all the TTCs I have done so far. When we were handed our certificate we were told “and now the learning begins”. We were in no doubt at all at ‘completion’: we were BEGINNERS WITH A CERTIFICATE!
But you have to start somewhere right. Prior to emersion on that TTC I acquired qualifications in Swedish Massage, Indian Head Massage and Reiki (beginner with a certificate). Over the last 20 years I have completed more Yoga TTCs, (including therapy and Pilates), many many workshops and now have thousands of hours teaching and practicing on my mat. I am conscious I have much more to learn. Always the beginner and looking forward to the next 20 years. Darren :)

11/10/2025

*** Beginners Yoga/Therapy Course ***
The next course starts Saturday 8th November in St Helier near Minden. Includes Conscious Breathing Exercises, Mindful Movement and Accessible Yoga Postures. Course fee £60 for 6 x 1 hour classes. Saturday mornings 9.15 to 10.15.
To sign up please email: greenyogigirl@hotmail.co.uk for a registration form. Read more here: http://yogamattersjersey.uk/omg-yoga-therapy-6-class-course/
Thank-You 🙂
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We are born to live in balance. Harmony is our natural state yet daily we strive to recreate a harmony that is already present at the very core of our ... Read More

09/10/2025

~YOUR BODY IS YOUR SACRED SPACE~ If we become vulnerable we don’t know for sure ‘WHO’ will be tasked with looking after us or ‘HOW’ they will look after us! Think! Will there be standards and resources at all or will there be just ‘cost cutting’ and ‘efficiencies’ and an overworked younger generation trying DESPERATELY to juggle ‘care of the ever increasing numbers of elderly’ population (google says there are more people over age64 than there are under 5 and we know more people are understandably choosing single life or life without kids). I don’t want to be forced to live longer than necessary if my time on earth with a quality of living is done! I will have had my fair chance. OF COURSE I want to live as long as I can but I want it to be quality, healthful, smooth, prescription drug free ‘living’ with actual ‘life’ and choice and spirit in my left years! If I become physically vulnerable maybe I’ll be lucky enough to lose my marbles too and that way it won’t matter! Sometimes I feel like I’ve lost a few already 🙂 . Lately, it was a bit of a shock to be reminded I was on the ‘wrong side’ (as some see it) of 50 but I FEEL GOOD right now (certainly better than I did at 25). This makes me more determined that I want a different kind of older age which means I must take care of my body and mind because it is where my spirit has to live; FOR A VERY LONG TIME YET TO COME. We are in the middle of a big experiment; it could go either way. Much of our future will be what it will be because of choices we make right now. So I invest in my Bikram Yoga practice; 'FUTURE PLANNING' IF YOU LIKE! pics some original Jersey Bikram Yogis circa 1990something
Om Om Om wanna stay strong focussed, STOP shopping 'round for the cure. Just Turn Up! 🍂 You can share 🙂 🙏Register via Momoyoga: http://momoyoga.com/yoga-matters-jersey/register/
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04/10/2025

~ KNOW Your Yoga Origins ~ Standing Bow Pulling Pose (SBPP) and its predecessor ‘Lord of the Dance’ (LOD) are nowhere to be found in premodern Yoga texts. Development of physical postures in hatha yoga were largely seated/lying positions (almost no standing). Early 20th century the number of Yoga Asanas were rapidly expanding but still nothing resembling LOD/SBPP. First example of LOD Dance did not show up in pics until 1960 Vishnudevananda’s ‘THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF YOGA’. Altho’ was word Iyengar had previously demo’d it a picture of him doing it did not show up until 1966 in his now world famous ‘LIGHT ON YOGA’. This new book “full of modernizations in philosophy, language and practice, all couched in the appearance of ancient tradition”* set the tone for the surge in interest in all things Yogasana. This postures next appearance was as Lord Shiva’s Pose in 1969 in the Bihar book ‘ASANA PRANAYAMA MUDRA BANDHA’. Dancer’s Pose was now ubiquitous. I have all these books in my collection all printed before I was born and these are all considered Yoga classics; if you were new to Yoga and acquired these books you would be forgiven for thinking these ‘standards’ were around forever. THIS IS WHERE THE STORY CHANGES. In APMB LOD posture is preceded by a simple version called ‘Saral Natarajasana’. This MAY have been a template for Bikram’s SBBP {altho some very fundamental differences; the long arms seem to be the main connector for the two}. To this point there had been no previous demonstration of SBBP as we know it today even in his own lineage ‘Ghosh’ In the spirit of innovators mentioned hereinbefore Bikram Choudhury’s invention developed and deepened his initial position choice to the point where we happily see its strong Bow form in all our classes today and even in some bodies to the point where the legs are fully split (the deepest expression of the pose for some bodies). In the spirit of all the other innovated postures mid 20th century BIKRAM’S SPBB is a new posture in its own right and VERY MUCH A CLASSIC STANDARD OF OUR BIKRAM SEQUENCE. I give here a nod and a thanks to the Scott & Ida at Ghosh Yoga* who did the essential research/article that forms the basis of this post. Om Om Om Safety Tip: Do Not Do This On a Bent Leg!
LOCK THE KNEE
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03/10/2025

21/09/2025

🔥***FREE*HOT*YOGA*IN*OCTOBER***🔥🍁 🍂
🔥Time to get ready for YOGATOBER @ YM🔥🍁 🍂
🔥YM practitioners get FREE HOT YOGA by ‘bringing a friend’ who has never been to YM before!
Q: How do YOU become ‘YM practitioner’? 😉
A: by REGISTERING on Momoyoga and having attended 1 BIKRAM class (90mins) at YM this year 2025!!!! it is that simple! 🍁 🍂 🍁 🍂Registration link: http://momoyoga.com/yoga-matters-jersey/register/
🔥Come to Hot Yoga ONCE in 2025 and next time you come in October bring along a friend who has NEVER practiced at YM before and we will upload YOU a FREE pass for use another time 🙂 AND!!! the FIRST TIMER uses the 7 days FREE passes offer on Momoyoga!!! win win 🤟🔥 Looking forward to meeting all your lovely friends in October Yogi peeps !!!
🔥LOVE RULES: The ‘friend’ HAS to Register on Momoyoga / YM practitioner MUST ACCOMPANY the friend i.e. one cannot ‘send’ a friend along. 2 friends on one night = 1 free class (so think! you might want to spread it out over the month!). You can do this as OFTEN as you like in October ~ 31 days of opportunity!
🔥HOW many friends do YOU have that could benefit from this amazing LIFE CHANGING Yoga?
Om Om Om LOVE FREE HOT YOGA @ YM! 🔥🍁 🍂
🔥🍁 🍂 You can share 🙂 🙏Register via Momoyoga: http://momoyoga.com/yoga-matters-jersey/register/

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21/09/2025

More craters than the moon! Surely soon Rue De Funchal will get the care and attention a fairly central St Helier road deserves. Can hardly wait 'til we get that notification of road resurfacing starting and get our access back! UPDATE! apparently resurfacing starts tomorrow!!!! Yay! We Love Change!

14/09/2025

🔥“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living” said Oriah Mountain Dreamer... MAY WE JUST EXPAND ON THIS? 🙏 At YM 🔥we are not tribal and WE DON’T MIND if people don’t want to belong to our club;🤘 we are not empire building, we are just doing what we do.

At YM we don’t KNOW if you are : accountant, actor, batman, beautician, bodybuilder, boxer, catlady, cyclist, daredevil, dj, director, doctor, electrician, entrepreneur, estate agent, farmer, fireman, gardener, hairdresser, ironman, IT technician, labourer, lawyer, office admin, olympian, personal trainer, pilot, police, rower, runner, scaffolder, secretary, singer, supergirl, surfer, physio, phsychiatrist, taxman, teacher, unemployed or a Yoga instructor. NONE OF THAT MATTERS.

WE do not force anyone to walk through our doors but NOR do we run an exclusive club: ALL WHO WANT TO ENGAGE WITH OUR WAY AND LEARN ARE WELCOME to walk through our purple doors. KNOW that we are here to be TRUE to ourselves and to CONNECT with people who want to connect with us and to TRY help them find their connections whilst we maintain the cohesiveness of each group class and keep things on track in the beautiful sequence. Those who engage fully will have the best experience within the parameters of the method as it is designed.

IN OUR YOGA SCHOOL we are all same same: Yogi, Human Being, part of the Universe, ONE and we want to help One “be alone with oneSelf and… truly like the company one keeps in the empty moments.” 🙏 Om Om Om We Are Human BEings
26and2 🔥🙏🤘

12/09/2025

Always Summer at Yoga Matters ☀️
Hold on to the summer heat with our Original Hot Yoga classes this weekend🔥Always Hot and Always 90 minutes🔥
Sat 4pm & Sun 9.30am
New to YM? C'mon down; All Welcome. Get a week of FREE classes! Please remember to arrive a little early and well hydrated for your first class 🙂
Simply register to Book / see Timetable via Momoyoga download here: http://momoyoga.com/yoga-matters-jersey/register/
Love Trisha & Darren x

28/06/2025

Recommended reading for anyone involved in mindful movement therapy practices: Way back at Bikram TTC 2001 Bikram brought in some engrossing teachers from other spheres to do workshops with us including one Jon Burras who as well as covering emotional anatomy was expert in fascia (Darren had same 2005)! Jon's teaching peaked my interest enough to want more training in this extraordinarily interesting field and so my fellow local Bikram Yoga instructor Sharon and I took ourselves off to London in 2002 to attend another workshop with one TOM MYERS, little known at the time but his book 'Anatomy Trains' has identified him as world leading expert in this field today; he definitely created a paradigm shift in the way people think about the inter-connectedness of our body systems. Dusting my Yoga bookshelf today reminds me I really must re-read his book and freshen up on some points but YES! I can say Yoga will work on your bodies’ fascial network ! Fascia forms the largest system in the body touching all other systems. You are working with fascia whether you are aware of it or not. There was a time before 2001 I didn't know there was such a thing as fascia and I didn't go to hell. We don't bang on about it in class either... Fascia release is not what underpins our Hatha Yoga system. BUT. Awareness is good 'tho ;) Om Om Om Register to Free Your Fascia http://momoyoga.com/yoga-matters-jersey/register/
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