Erling McCracken

In-person one to one yoga classes are one of my favourite teaching experiences.
They represent a great way to communicate clearly between teacher and student. A session allows the student time, space and the privacy to relate any concerns, particular interests they have or would like to approach through their yoga practice. For the teacher, it’s an opportunity to look closely at how the student is working with their yoga practice.

Social Distanced Yoga

One to one yoga studio

I invite you to come to my home studio for these yoga sessions. I have taught here for 18 years. The fully equipped studio has beautiful energy and feels imbued with a yogic feel. Therefore, we have everything on hand to make your session worthwhile.

For the complete beginner, a one to one yoga class can be an excellent way for you to begin bringing yoga into your life and building the confidence needed to start a home practice. Or as preparation for joining a class, you can then check in periodically if you would like to confirm your practice is developing in the right way.

I have helped several people find the confidence to move freely again and overcome chronic pain. For them, the one to one yoga class was invaluable and worth the money.

We humans come into the world knowing how to breathe. In yoga, we give breath special meaning because of its historical connection to prana (the vital life force). As a result, humans become tense in life. But if we are habitually tight, we don’ get to breathe optimally. During this workshop, I’ll teach techniques to release muscular tension. When there is less tension, your body self-regulates breathing. It is not about you imposing ideas on yourself. It is about you being you.

Social distancing

Social distancing for the foreseeable future means the world of yoga has moved online because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Zoom is the platform of choice yoga teachers use to continue their work. Online Zoom classes is a solution to not being able to attend an in-person workshop.

Welcome Beginners 

Erling’s beginner yoga classes offer a safe, gentle, but thorough introduction to a humanly sustainable yoga practice. In addition, I teach small classes where I can give the proper attention students need to learn a safe approach to hatha yoga. 

Yoga is not just about stretching

My take on a yoga practice is that it should support our normal human functional range of movement. Yoga should not impede our evolutionary ability to move well and with ease. We need to learn how to listen to our bodies through feeling our felt sensations via our nervous system. If we can do that, we have the chance to undo deeply routed habitual patterns that no end of stretching, pushing and pushing will undo. 

Yoga for life & beginners

We want to practice and re-habituate movements that complement our everyday lives. These are the simple and often overlooked tasks like getting down and up from the floor without assistance, bending forward to pick things up, and reaching above our heads. Yoga can help you notice yourself and thus create a better life to live into our old age. 

In my beginner’s yoga classes, there is no pressure to perform, to achieve significant stretches. I encourage students to feel what they are doing. The feeling of movement, of how we notice ourselves is very advanced yoga. You don’t need to be flexible to be a yogi, beginner or advanced. 

Scaravelli inspired yoga for beginners

The power of yoga to benefit the practitioner seems to arise- at least in part from nothing more complicated than the release of physiological and psychological tension and the quieting of the mind.

William J. Broad

William J Broad concluded this in his excellent book The Science of Yoga (Washington Post Review). I completely agree with his findings; yoga should release tension, and my Scaravelli inspired yoga approach to teaching beginners yoga or advanced has the central aim. 

There is no better time to start a beginners yoga class than now. Suppose you want to help yourself improve the quality of life as you gently age. In that case, a sensitive, intelligent approach to yoga practice, informed by a contemporary understanding of how humans work and differ, is the way forward. My beginner’s yoga classes are just this. 

It is easy to start, book now.