In-Person Scaravelli Yoga Class

A small group class of three students at my home yoga studio. This is the only in-person yoga class I teach, currently.

Yoga with Erling

My approach to Yoga practice is about developing awareness of your self in movement and stillness. An embodied awareness. Natural and accessible, regardless of your Yoga orientation. Erling is a 500-hour dip. 2 IYN qualified Scaravelli inspired Yoga teacher with 22 years experience.

Blended Zoom and In-Person Yoga Class.

I will connect the class and broadcast live on Zoom to my online students. Mixing the offering to those who can’t be there in person. We will all benefit from being connected and practising yoga together.

Blended Zoom and In-Person Yoga Class.

Zoom has become a new word in our lexicon since lockdown throughout the world. No more so than in the world of yoga teaching. Coronavirus COVID-19 has caused uncertainty surrounding the safety of re-opening yoga studios in our community. Zoom enables us to connect and work in all areas of our lives. I am teaching online yoga using Zoom for a number of my classes. 

Booking your place is secure, easy and safe. Once you select; Add To Basket, and pay, you’ll receive a notification email with the class link. You’ll also receive a zoom invitation (see how to join a zoom meeting). Save the date and be ready 10 minutes before the 10 am start time. That’s it, simple. I’ll look forward to seeing you in our online yoga class once a month to give space to our practice, and all that unfolds. 

Online Yoga Class

Once a month, I am running an online yoga workshop class on Saturday mornings. A spine centric extended yoga class covering the four significant movement patterns humans have. By design, these online yoga workshop classes complement my current 3- week teaching plans.

Social distancing yoga 

On Zoom

Zoom has become a new word in our lexicon since lockdown throughout the world. No more so than in the world of yoga teaching. Coronavirus COVID-19  and its variants are a highly contagious virus, and there is much uncertainty surrounding the safety of re-opening yoga studios in our community. Zoom enables us to connect and work in all areas of our lives. I am exclusively teaching online yoga using Zoom for all my classes. 

Join my Saturday online yoga 

Booking your place is secure, easy and safe. Once you select; Add To Basket, and pay, you’ll receive a notification email with the class link. You’ll also receive a zoom invitation (see how to join a zoom meeting). Save the date and be ready 10 minutes before the 10 am start time. That’s it, simple. I’ll look forward to seeing you in our online yoga class once a month, to give space to our practice and all that unfolds. 

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.

Scaravelli Yoga classes with Erling offer a unique and intuitive approach to practising yoga. In these classes, the focus is on individual movement patterns and the release of tension through breath. This modern yoga style encourages students to listen to their bodies and move naturally and comfortably.

Erling is a 500-hour dip 2 IYN-certified, Scaravelli inspired yoga instructor.

Scaravelli Yoga

Erling’s classes provide a framework for addressing and improving movement patterns, which can become restricted and lead to stiffness and other complications if practised only occasionally. By focusing on how the body feels during movement and listening to the sensations provided by the central nervous system, students can learn to move more fluidly and with greater freedom.

Yoga for life

Scaravelli-inspired yoga is a revolutionary approach to practising yoga that respects the unique body map of each individual. Instead of forcing students into predetermined poses, this method encourages them to let the posture fit the practitioner rather than the other way around. As a result, students can experience yoga’s true meaning and feeling – freedom and fluidity.

As a Scaravelli yoga teacher, I aim to help my students practice and re-habituate movements that complement our everyday lives. These seemingly simple tasks, such as getting down and up from the floor without assistance, bending to pick things up, and reaching above our heads, are often overlooked but integral for a healthy lifestyle.

Erling McCracken

Through yoga, I also want to help my students notice themselves and create a better life to live into old age. In my beginner yoga classes, I emphasise the importance of feeling the movements rather than performing and achieving significant stretches. There is no pressure to be flexible in my classes, as it is not necessary to be a yogi, beginner or advanced. 

Yoga

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. 

Scaravelli Yoga

In a small group setting at my home yoga studio, you will be guided through a well-structured and intelligent practice that respects the revolutionary understanding of yoga shared by Vanda Scaravelli.

Scaravelli Yoga is known for its emphasis on intuitive movement and the sensations felt in the body. By listening to your body’s sensory input and working with the natural lines of support offered by your skeletal bones, you can minimise effort and tension in the external muscles. This allows for greater freedom of movement and a more fluid, relaxed spine.

Vanda Scaravelli

Vanda Scaravelli (1908 – 1999) is known for contributing to yoga in the West.

As a young girl, Vanda met the philosopher Jiddhu Krishnamurti, who became a family friend. He would stay at their home in Florence each year. Another family friend, Krishnamurti and the violinist Yehudi Menuhin invited Tirumalai Krishnamacharya to come to Scaravelli’s home in Gstaad, Switzerland, to teach them yoga. Krishnamacharya sent two of his students, B. K. S. Iyengar and T. K. V. Desikachar, to teach them. In this way, she took up the practice of yoga in her 50s. When they left Europe, she no longer had a teacher and had to develop her practice. As this progressed, she developed a focus on breath, gravity and the spine.

So why not try something different and join Erling for a Scaravelli-inspired Yoga class? Let the posture fit the practitioner, not the other way around, and experience yoga’s freedom and fluidity.

Book your lesson today and discover the benefits of Scaravelli Yoga for yourself.

Summer 2023: Course Dates