Downward Dog or Adho Mukha Svanasana; yoga pose in an easy to follow 5-minute video from Peter Blackaby on how to do this well-known yoga pose.
Yoga with Erling
Yoga with Erling
Erling’s natural yoga approach can enable you to experience yourself during your yoga practice fully. Because we focus on how we feel, the sensations in all our movements, our neurological map is revealed to us. How well we move in yoga postures or asana depends on it. Classical yoga tends to make the asana the final objective because it has an end purpose.
Scaravelli yoga takes a more pragmatic and anatomical approach. Vanda Scaravelli pioneered this way and inspired many yoga teachers to follow her. She thought that gravity played its part and encouraged students to let go and go with it. The feeling is essential in Erling’s natural yoga approach, and the central nervous system provides you with the sensations you can notice. Listening provides a framework for how you respond to sensory input.
My approach to yoga teaching is to encourage students to develop an awareness of their unique body maps. Only then can they work to establish intuitive movements, which feel like freedom.
We want to use muscles efficiently and not overwork them. When we can do this, there is less tension, and when there is less tension, you find more ease in movement and your spine can move more freely. Freedom has always been the goal of yoga.
Autumn Course Dates
Tuesday 6:30 pm Class
- 17th September to 15th October
- 29th October to 3rd December
Seniors Yoga
Seniors Yoga
Seniors yoga classes with Erling McCraken 500 hour IYN yoga teacher.
Erling makes the practice of yoga very accessible to students of all ages. Erling teaches Scaravelli inspired yoga. Students are encouraged to gain full control of their functional movements through a gentle but deep yoga practice. The successful integration of whole-body movement patterns are essential to good health and wellbeing in any stage of life but particularly later life.
Starting now will enable you to fully enjoy many benefits and help keep you moving without pain. You don’t need to be able to touch your toes to do yoga, and you don’t need to be young. Far from it, in fact. Yoga can be practised by anyone regardless of their age, physical abilities and body or health conditions. I draw on all my 20 years teaching yoga to deliver a safe yoga practice. Read what my students say!
It is easy to start, book now.
Autumn Course Dates
- 10th September to 15th October
- 29th October to 3rd December
Lemon Tea
Lemon tea or lemon water is lauded as a healthy drink. As a source of vitamin C lemon water can boost your immune system. There are others that claim its got Alkalising properties and that’s a very good thing! These views are widely debated now, for good reason.
Your body is kept in a minutely fine balance and the real science of how its managed is very very complicated. But if you enjoy the taste of lemon water and feel that its good for you, your doing good.
We’ve served lemon water to our yoga retreat guests for years.
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Yoga on the Isle of Wight is not so far away.
Yoga Isle of Wight
First of all Yoga & Isle of Wight are phrases that link well as you shall find out. Secondly the Isle of Wight is closer than you think.
Chances are you know where the Isle of Wight is, if you’re a UK resident. But do you know how easy it is to get to?. The Island has got great connections to mainland UK and crossing that short stretch of water places you in another world. Just what you need to for a yoga retreat.
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10 Awesome Reasons Why Retreats Are Healing Musts
At Isle of Yoga we firmly believe in the healing power of yoga and giving yourself the gift of time to get away and look after yourself.
In our mind this is far better than a regular old holiday.. We offer various options to get away and learn some yoga. Workshops, retreats & yoga retreat holidays.
We were taken with this article by Chantal Di Donato. Yoga teacher, author and nutrition advisor. Learn more why yoga retreats are a healing must.
