Yoga Workshops with Erling
£50.00
Small-group yoga workshops in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight, with time to practise, explore, discuss and ask questions.
We use yoga to explore functional human movement, not to perfect shapes, but to feel how we move. We notice tension and effort, and what changes when we stop trying to make a pose and allow greater ease to emerge.
Saturday mornings, 10 am–1 pm · maximum 6 people.
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Description
Yoga as an Exploration of Movement
These Saturday yoga workshops give us time to explore yoga and movement more deeply than we can in a regular class. The morning moves between practice, demonstration, discussion and questions, with enough time to repeat something, change it and notice what actually happens.
My teaching is Scaravelli-inspired and informed by functional human movement. We use yoga poses and familiar movements as a framework for enquiry, exploring breath, gravity, the spine and, above all, the felt experience of movement.
We use yoga to explore functional human movement — not to perfect shapes, but to feel how we move. The pose gives us a framework to notice support, breath, tension, effort, and the patterns we bring into movement.
The question is not simply “Can I make this shape?” but “What am I doing to get there?” Where is there tension? How much effort am I using? What is the breath doing? And what changes when I stop trying to impose a form and allow more ease to emerge?
What We Explore
There is no fixed syllabus for every Saturday. These are recurring strands of my teaching, and a workshop may move between several of them depending on the group, the questions that arise and what we discover through practice.
Movement & Awareness
Yoga gives us a useful setting for exploring ordinary human movement. We look at how we stand, sit, turn, reach, balance and organise ourselves in familiar yoga movements, paying attention to what the movement feels like from the inside rather than how it appears from the outside.
Breath & Gravity
Breath and gravity are always present, but it is easy to interfere with both when we try hard to hold a pose. We explore what happens when the breath is allowed to respond naturally and when gravity becomes something we can work with rather than resist.
The Freedom of the Spine
The spine is central to the way the whole body organises movement. We investigate how movement travels through it, where it becomes restricted, and what changes elsewhere when the spine responds with greater freedom.
Tension, Effort & Ease
Not all effort is a problem. The interesting question is whether the effort is useful. We learn to distinguish between the work a movement genuinely needs and the tension we add because we are trying to achieve a particular result.
Questioning the Pose
Yoga poses are not ends in themselves. They give us something to investigate. We can ask whether the pose supports the human being doing it, rather than asking the person to conform to the pose.
What the Morning Looks Like
Arrive from 9:45 am for tea and a chance to settle in.
10 am–12:45 pm: practice, demonstration, exploration and discussion.
12:45–1 pm: questions, conversation and time to bring the morning together.
Mats and equipment are provided. Before your first workshop, please complete the student registration form so I know about any injury, health issue or other information that may be relevant to your practice.
Who Are the Workshops For?
You don’t need to practise a particular style of yoga, and you don’t need to know anything about Scaravelli beforehand.
The workshops suit people who already have some interest in yoga and enjoy asking questions, experimenting and understanding their practice rather than simply following a sequence.
Yoga teachers are welcome, but these are not teacher-training workshops. They are practical sessions for anyone curious about movement and about how these ideas can be integrated into their own yoga.
Completely new to yoga? Start with my Beginners’ Saturday Intro, where there is more time for the basic questions and no assumption that you know any poses.
A Practice That Can Respond to the People in the Room
I don’t want every workshop to become a fixed presentation delivered in the same order. I may arrive with a particular question or area I want to explore, but the teaching also responds to the people there: what they notice, what they ask, and what becomes interesting as we move.
That is part of the value of keeping the group small. The workshop can have a direction without becoming a syllabus, and the ideas remain grounded in direct experience.
Additional information
| Workshop Date | Saturday 14 November 2026, Saturday 9 January 2027, Saturday 13 March 2027, Saturday 8 May 2027, Saturday 10 July 2027 |
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Melanie Griffiths –
Elaine and Erling have extensive knowledge of their field of Yoga with many years experience in practise and teaching. They offer a nurturing approach in their teaching and I thoroughly enjoyed my last workshop with them. As a dancer + fitness instructor I am constantly using my body and this style of Yoga allows me to unwind and relax and make subtle adjustments in the way I move. I shall be back for more workshops in the future! Thanks Elaine & Erling 🙂
Penny Dyer –
Thoroughly enjoyed the full day workshop – Elaine & Erling work seamlessly together to provide an insightful approach to their evolving yoga practice. Highly recommended!
Emma Dubery –
Lovely Scaravelli inspired workshop day with Erling. Erling’s enthusiasm for this style of Yoga shines through – he is very keen to share his knowledge and to inspire his students. Add to this an excellent lunch, good company and lovely yoga – what a great way to spend the day! Thanks Erling.
Sarah Riddick (verified owner) –
Thank you for delivering an inspiring workshop. I throughly enjoyed it and feel that my practice is really developing. Thank you once again for making this possible.
Dayna (verified owner) –
I had a Great Experience at Isle of Yoga learning about Scaravelli Yoga … It was mind opening and has changed the way i think about yoga and how my body works … I particularly took away its not all about them super stretches (Hatha Yoga) there can be lots of work done with small interconnected movements…there was a great bunch of people there to share the experience with and i would like to say a special thank you to our warm hosts Erling McCracken and Elaine McCracken for this wonderful day 🙂
Peter Bulpitt (verified owner) –
Another great workshop, my second, and I will be coming back for the next one as well. It’s great to be able to spend a day immersing oneself in the practice. I love the doing, my favourite part, but it is also good to be able to chat, ask questions and explore it in a workshop environment. I would recommend it to anyone but it has worked for me in giving me space and length in my body, especially my spine. Having space in the spine is a great feeling! Yoga, possibly not as you know it or have experienced it before.
Betty Richmond (verified owner) –
Just been on an amazing Yoga Workshop in the Isle of Wight. Although I have practiced different types of yoga in the past, this is my first experience of Scaravelli yoga. It has taught me to stop striving for the posture and listen to my body.
Thank you Erling and Elaine for your wonderful hospitality in your lovely home.
I shall definitely be attending future workshops with you.
Ann Emery (verified owner) –
A lovely workshop in a warm and gracious environment with lovely hospitality. Like Betty, although I have practiced yoga for years this was my first experience of Scaravelli yoga and I greatly enjoyed it. The focus on inner movement and spaceousness of the body I found particularly helpful. Come with an open mind, be in the moment of the practice and enjoy a lovely relaxing, deepening day. I will definitely be booking some more classes.
TRACEY DARCH (verified owner) –
The recent Scaravelli yoga Workshop helped me to think about the movements and how stretching yourself into a posture might not be the best thing for your body! Rather that smaller more focussed movement is better for you. Thanks Erling for a really interesting and informative day. Who would have thought moving so little could be so tiring!! A fabulous course. x