Weekly Yoga Classes in Reading, Berkshire

Both Foundation and Continuers at All Saints Junior School Brownlow Rd Reading RG1 6NP Foundation classes are ideal for complete beginners and those establishing a practice, while continuers offers depth and challenge.  Both are grounded in the viniyoga tradition and taught with respect to your individual  needs.

New Term Registrations. This terms theme…..

Moving Meditations

Vinyasas to explore functional movement in our practice.

Thursdays 6.30 p.m. Foundation

and 8 p.m. Continuers

All Saints Junior School Brownlow Rd RG1 6NP

Thursday June 4th -July 9th  (6 weeks £66)

A few years ago when I was playing with the sequencing of postures I began practising in a layered way.  A repetitive and cyclical way of practicing asana.  I would move into and out of a posture. Then begin again and add a posture, beginning again adding a third and so on. Rather than an a to b vinyasa, instead a vinyasa that circled and cycled.  Creating what I called ‘daisy chains’, like those meditative habits of creating crowns of flowers, consumed by the process and totally in the moments. I began to explore repetition and form as a way of creating a moving meditation. Of somatic experiencing in our yoga practice. Bringing in elements of breath work, bhavana (as if…), and stay to create particular energetic shifts or structural changes within the body and breath.

This term we will be practising these “Daisy chains’ or moving meditations with an emphasis on functional movement, both in stability and range in movement. Foundation class will be supported with plenty of demonstration and explanation whilst, continuers will extend and deepen  their practice with challenge and innovation. (For more thoughts please read blog post)

Extraordinarily Ordinary

Bringing ritual and heart into our practice.

Thursdays 6.30 p.m. Foundation

and 8 p.m. Continuers

All Saints Junior School Brownlow Rd RG1 6NP

Thursday April 16th -May 21st  (6 weeks £66)

This term in our Yoga Practice we will be exploring how rituals can support our practice on the mat, how they can bring a layer of connection and heart felt experience, taking our practice to a deeper sustainable level.

These ritual could be placing a found object before us a we practice and welcoming the bhavana or feeling associated with that object into our practice.  It could be offering an intention through words or mantra to focus our thoughts and feelings.   How we ignite candles or diffuse smells to connect us.  How we can explore signifying a moment before and after the time we carve out, however small, to practice. Using touch and abhyanga (placing hands on our bodies) somewhere significant on our bodies as a reminder of what we are trying to support with our practice.  Writing thoughts that come to our practice with curiosity.  Connecting to dawn and dusk as well as moon cycles. Rituals around nature and seasons but also lifecycles, relationship and community…..finding a little magic beyond our individual selves…….

We will use movement and stay in postures, breathwork and meditation to find ease and strength in our bodies, breath and mind. Foundations class welcomes beginners with plenty of demonstration and teaching to suit all, in turn continuers builds upon this  allowing us to extend our knowledge and practice.

Recent themes

Moving towards

Where your attention goes, so does your energy

Making space for Joy

Wintering through the chakras

Enhancing our energy part two the Sun

Enhancing our energy part one, the moon

Good Space

Spring

Wintering

Touchstones

putting together the jigsaw of good posture.

Pelvis

Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes