"When you are kind to the body it will respond in an incredible way" ~ Vanda Scaravelli
Barbara views her role of yoga teacher as a facilitator "our bodies are our teachers, my role is simply to facilitate the learning process and offer tools and techniques for self management and wellbeing".
What is Yoga? Yoga is self enquiry and integration, an opportunity to explore that which is within and discover your true self. Yoga helps you focus your awareness on your body. You are invited to sense and feel things, yoga is undoing as opposed to doing. So, when you make movements and assume positions, you will not be trying to make your body conform to an external shape or impose anything on the body. Instead, you explore your body from the inside, to find out where the tensions are. Gradually and patiently with time you will be able to release them.
Yoga can give you a sense of being grounded, balanced and centred. It can help you to relax and tackle life’s problems creatively. As tension is released, you will feel more energetic. It can assist you in finding a sense of wellbeing and optimism, improving your self-esteem and bringing greater enjoyment of your body, as it becomes more supple, strong and fluid in its movements. You will learn to be present with your attention and feel both relaxed and revitalised.
The very act of listening to your body and breathing, of bringing body and mind together, is deeply relaxing and energising. While creating more space in the body, you also create space inside the mind. The normal, constant flow of thoughts is interrupted. A few minutes of changing your attention level can give you a feeling of rest and renewal.
The yoga postures (asanas) and breathing (pranayama), exercises every part of the body (muscles, joints, spine, organs, glands and nerves). Practising yoga and meditation can help to release tension and liberate energy, revitalise and bring clarity, calmness and improved concentration of the mind.
Working with the fundamental elements, that are the heart of Yoga: gravity, breathing and movement, allows us to cultivate our ability to work from a deeper place within ourselves.
The techniques that we learn from yoga allows us to manage the pressures in our lives, maintain balance and equlibrium.Because we are all unique and have our own idiosyncrasies Barbara offers an eclectic approach to yoga and adapts her teaching to suit her students.
The classes Barbara teaches are bespoke and range from gentle relaxing yoga to a more powerful dynamic yoga flow. Through regular practice, challenging the mind and body we can begin to make the changes we want to see.
For further information on classes,workshops and one-to-one tuition contact Barbara.
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"And now the teaching on yoga begins"
"Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence"
"When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded consciousness"
"The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali"
