Yoga in Somerset

Yoga class schedule - week commencing 4th Nov 24

Yoga and spiritual study days in Italy
Date: November 12 – 19, 2024
Venue: Near Lake Garda

The yoga and spiritual study days in Italy are suitable for those who are already familiar with the teaching of Heinz Grill or Rudolf Steiner.

Take a look at what you will learn, the spiritual content, soul exercises, creative activity, location, accommodation, food and travel information and meeting Heinz Grill himself.


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If you are interested and would like to discuss this or future trips further please email me [email protected]

🆕Alternating tension and relaxation, 30min yoga class

A short pause to really relax before we begin a movement helps us to tense the muscles more efficiently. Likewise, a strong, focused muscular contraction can help us to relax better afterwards. In this cycle we work at building up a rhythm of alternate tension and relaxation. Poses include: The sun prayer - surya namaskar, the locust - salabhasana, the cobra - bhujangasana and the bow-dhanurasana.

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Pose in focus – The triangle, trikonasana
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In its soul meaning, the triangle expresses the quality of expansiveness. This quality can come to expression when the person practising is able to think an appropriate thought while practising. In the before photo, Vicky is focusing on stretching a far as she can, In the after photo, taken 4 weeks later, she is thinking about combining physical activity with infinity. The body seems to be streaming out into infinite space and the mental focus is clearly visible in her face.

🧘‍♀️The next two-year yoga teacher training course will begin on 11th January 2025.

Our yoga teacher training programme is based on the ‘New Yoga Will’ founded by Heinz Grill. In this new approach we explore the inner meanings of the yoga poses and develop our own individual feeling for the wisdom and harmony that lies at their heart. We learn to give creative expression to our experiences through an active and aesthetic practice.

The course enables you to develop a real and deep understanding of the yoga poses and chakras in their inner meanings. You will learn how to shape the poses in a thorough and detailed way, out of a clear, creative consciousness giving them more depth and expression.

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Yoga class schedule - week commencing 28th Oct 24

Pose in focus – The triangle, trikonasana
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When the asanas are practised with a clear thought they acquire a clear form. Ellie is naturally very flexible. However, in these before and after photos, taken 4 weeks apart, you can see how, through learning what to think about while doing the pose, she has become able to bring a clear form into the movement. A calm concentration is also visible.

Yoga for beginners - 5 week course begins
Wednesdays 7.45 – 9.15 pm
Starting 20th November 2024
£40

Week-by-week you will gain confidence in your practice as you learn and repeat the movements, and understand their principles more fully.

To book a place please email Karen ([email protected])



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Pose in focus – The triangle, trikonasana
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The triangle is a pose which, if done correctly, can encourage expansive and free breath. However, if the body is not well articulated into different parts the breath can easily become constricted. In these before and after photos, taken 4 weeks apart, you can see how Anna at first was holding tension in her shoulders. It is easy to imagine that it would be hard to breath freely. In the second picture she has widened the legs a little to give more stability and she has allowed space around the shoulders and neck. We can imagine how the breath is now given space.

A spiritual book will hold a deep meaning that is not usually noticed at a first glance. With Heinz Grill’s books this applies not only to the words but also to the pictures. On the new yoga intensive course, which has just recently started, we practised ‘really looking’. This is the picture we looked at; it is in the book “A New Yoga Will - A cycle of exercises to Promote Individual Strength”, in the chapter on the triangle, trikonasana.

I chose this picture because at a first glance the position looks so straightforward that one might wonder why we need a picture of it at all. So we spent about 5 minutes in all, looking carefully at the feet, then the legs, the pelvis, the abdomen, chest, shoulders, arms and hands, then the neck, face and head. The course participants were astonished at how much they then saw. I won’t tell you what – but you can try it out for yourself. Then practice the position afterwards, putting into place exactly what you have seen.

Any comments as to your experiences would be welcomed!

Right at the end of the show - finally my class! Entitled "Energy and growth from manipura chakra"
My aim was that participants should learn how to grow from the solar plexus centre and at the same time remain light and free in the upper parts of the body. It certainly appeared to me that great progress was achieved in this regard during the brief half hour class.

We have had some lovely chats with interested visitors during the show, some have bought books, attended my class, and I do hope to see some of the people we met at my retreat in January.

Thank you to everyone who came to say hello! It has been a very full experience - both attending other classes, trying some exotic foods and teas, and meeting some very friendly and interesting people!

Yoga class schedule - week commencing 21st Oct 24

The first picture shows the huge hall at this morning before the crowds had arrived. You can see our stand in the front row.

The other pictures show some on the different yoga classes that have been happening through the day.

There have been many different styles of yoga from highly active to very relaxing.

Spot me in the grey woolly jumper dress!

A few pictures of us arriving and setting up the stand at the OM Yoga Show yesterday. Very excited to be here!

Pose in focus – The triangle, trikonasana
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These before and after pictures, taken four weeks apart, show how the articulation has improved in the pose. Hazel does not yet come vary far over with her body, but in the after photo you can see that she is more active in her middle, while her head and top hand are much more relaxed. The triangle is a pose in which the body should be clearly ‘articulated’. That means that different parts of the body display different qualities. In Hazel’s pictures we can see how this clear articulation has helped her to come farther into the pose.

Lizzie Williams from Swathed has been busy building our stand out of cedar wood for the OM Yoga Show.

These pictures, show her initial design, followed by stages of construction in her workshop. But seeing it in real life is something else.

Walking under the blue arches gives the feeling of being inside and yet looking out into space at the same time. I can't wait to see it up and erected in Ali Pali Alexandra Palace and set up with a whole display of books.

Only 4 days away now. We will be posting live from the show. But do come and see us if you are there! Stand Y13.

Pose in focus – The triangle, trikonasana
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For the last month we have been working on the triangle, understanding how to practice it correctly, and also, in particular to express the inner meaning of this pose in our practice. There will now follow a series of “before and after” photos in which some astonishingly clear differences can be seen. The after photos were taken 4 weeks after the before photos.

This first set shows Clare. She could already come quite far into the pose. However in the after photo she comes significantly farther. She has become more active in her middle, yet at the same time she appears calmer and freer in her arms and head. The triangle should combine firmness in the legs, activity in the middle and freedom around the head.

Yoga class schedule - week commencing 14th October 2024