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yoga is your awareness

Scaravelli-Inspired Yoga on the Isle of Wight with Erling McCracken

My philosophy
your key to freedom

Yoga for Inner Peace, Wellbeing and Freedom

Scaravelli-inspired yoga invites you to slow down, pay attention and explore how you move — discovering greater ease, awareness and freedom through practice.

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Feel and Observe

Develop awareness of how you move

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Understand Movement

Notice patterns of tension, effort and ease

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Practice with Ease

Find greater freedom in movement

Explore my Yoga
scaravelli inspired Yoga

I’m Erling McCracken. I’ve been teaching yoga for over 25 years, exploring how awareness, movement and attention can help us find greater ease and freedom in our Minds & bodies.

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Vanda Scaravelli’s approach to yoga has long influenced my teaching. Rather than following a fixed idea of how a pose should look, the practice encourages us to pay attention — to gravity, the breath, the spine and our own experience of movement.

Over the years, my teaching has also been informed by an ongoing interest in how we move, sense and learn. I explore functional movement, proprioception and the role of the nervous system, not as separate techniques, but as different ways of questioning and understanding what we experience in practice.

I teach from my studio on the Isle of Wight, working with ordinary movements as well as traditional yoga poses — standing, sitting, walking, reaching, resting and breathing. The aim isn’t to arrive at a perfect form, but to become more aware of what we are doing and discover where less effort can sometimes allow more freedom

More about me
Work with me

Explore Yoga Through Practice and Awareness

You can explore yoga with me through regular practice and individual teaching, or go deeper into the ideas and experience that inform my approach.

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Practise with Me

Join me for yoga classes and one-to-one teaching on the Isle of Wight, with space to explore movement at your own pace.

 Explore Yoga Classes
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Explore My Approach

Discover more about the ideas behind my teaching, awareness, movement, gravity, breath and the freedom of the spine.

Explore My Philosophy
body intelligence

Understanding Movement in a New Way.

Explore some of the ideas at the heart of my approach to yoga, and how paying closer attention can change the way we experience movement.

We begin by noticing how you already move. Rather than immediately trying to change anything, we explore familiar movements and habits with curiosity. What feels easy? Where is there effort or tension? What happens when you simply pay closer attention?

Breath and movement are intimately connected. Rather than imposing a particular breathing technique, we explore how the breath responds to movement — and how allowing it more freedom can change the experience of a pose.

The spine is central to the way we move. Through gentle exploration, we notice how movement travels through it, how it responds to gravity and how unnecessary effort elsewhere in the body can affect its freedom.

Yoga can become an opportunity to question, feel and discover rather than simply follow instructions. As awareness develops, you become better able to recognise what feels appropriate for you and to respond to what you actually experience.

Over time, these explorations become less about individual poses and more about how you practise. You begin to recognise familiar patterns, question unnecessary effort and find your own way towards greater ease and freedom — both in yoga and everyday movement.

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A Mindful Approach

Yoga is not just what happens on the mat. Through practice, we can become more aware of how we move, where we hold tension and how much effort we use — and carry that awareness into everyday life.

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There are several ways to practise with me, whether you’re beginning yoga, returning to it, or interested in exploring your practice more deeply:
Weekly Classes: Small group classes at my Isle of Wight studio, with time and space to explore movement, awareness and ease through regular practice.
Beginners’ Yoga: Extended sessions offering a gentle introduction to yoga and the principles that inform my teaching. No previous experience is needed.
One-to-One Yoga: Individual teaching shaped around you, giving us more time to explore your movement, questions and practice together.
Workshops & Retreats: Longer periods of practice give us the opportunity to explore particular aspects of yoga in greater depth, from Saturday workshops to residential retreats on the Isle of Wight.

Ways to Practise
Yoga in action

Over 25 Years of Teaching, Exploring and Practising Yoga

My approach has developed through more than 25 years of teaching and a lifetime of curiosity about yoga and movement. It continues to evolve through practice, study, and above all, working with the many different people I have had the privilege to teach.

100’s

yoga students

500

hour Dip 2. IYN-accredited teacher

25+

of teaching experience
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Yoga for life

Yoga is your awareness. Yoga in action is how well you discriminate between tension, effort and ease when you move in poses.–

Each moment in practice offers an opportunity to discover something new about ourselves. 

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