Scarivelli Inspired Yoga Teaching
I trained to be a yoga teacher with the Inner Yoga Trust.
I provide a structure and guide and instruct in a way that enables the creativity of the individual space to discover for themselves their own connections in their minds and bodies through their yoga. I specialise in working one to one.
I have practiced yoga for many years. I first came across yoga inspired by Vanda Scaravelli when I went to Marc Woolford’s classes and retreats. Through him I was introduced to Diane Long and Sophie Hoare who were both students of Vanda Scaravelli. I am now going to classes with Gary Carter, Dot Bowen, and Peter Blackaby on a regular basis.
Yoga is a way for me to become deeply connected to myself without the usual deafening chatter of a distracted mind. Through attending to my body I quieten my mind, emotional disturbance is lessened and tension released.
Yoga creates the conditions that allow people to be open to themselves, to examine patterns and habits of belief and being, physically and emotionally, and intellectually. People will be able to begin to learn new ways of being with themselves.
'we can understand the whole practice of yoga as a process of examining out habitual attitudes and behaviours and their consequences' (p47 'The Heart of Yoga' T.K.V. Desikachar Inner Traditions International 1995)
Yoga is a continual process of discovery and insight, an unfolding of life in a rich, insightful way. It has a very subtle and very profound affect on the whole self on many different levels.
Sophie Hoare puts it well:
'Vanda had the ability to cut through my usual habits, to bring me right to 'the heart of the matter', so that I felt my spine come alive and my body respond with a wholeness I had never before consciously experienced............... each time I practice, no further change is possible unless I am prepared to forget what I think I have learned and move into the unknown - to have the famous 'beginner's mind' of the Zen teachers. Such phrases are not difficult to understand intellectually, but they are mere abstractions until we experience the reality that gives rise to them - the reality of our nerves and joints, of our sense of lightness and weight, of the unexpected movement of the breath, of our connection with the ground and the space around us, of the quality of our minute attention from moment to moment'. Sophie Hoare A Revolution.
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