Pure Body Balance
Yoga Teacher in Longhope, Gloucestershire
Karen is a 500 hour advanced yoga teacher with a interest in fusing the western practices of correct alignment to support rehabilitation and injury prevention, with the eastern philosophies of breath and subtle body awareness to increase mental stillness and physical ease. In her active classes you can expect to move your body in creative and dynamic ways that keep the mind busy so that you can be fully present in your body. In her gentle classes you can expect to be given the time to focus on mindfulness and breath practises that gently encourage stillness and restoration for mind and body.
Therapeutic Flow Yoga
A truly therapeutic approach to your yoga practise. Working with the seasons, the Indian Chakra system and Chinese meridians these classes are designed to stimulate or nourish your organs, glands and hormones depending on the seasons. These classes are suitable for all abilities as your teacher will skilfully adjust the poses and depth of poses to suit each student.
Yoga for Mountain Bikers
These classes are designed to enhance optimal physical and mental performance on the bike, reduce repetitive MTB injury, balance over used muscle groups that become tight and inhibited through regular riding and improve recovery time post ride. Ideal for riders suffering with back, neck and shoulder pain, tight hips, quads and hamstrings, weak core muscles.
Restorative Yoga
Restorative yoga is a restful way of practising yoga with props. This nourishing candlelight class focuses on gently stretching releasing and opening the mindbody through supported poses using blankets cushions and bolsters. As the body resets in the restorative postures the nervous system switches to calmness and a deep inner healing mode. It is a yoga of being rather than doing.
Aerial Yoga
Discover a true appreciation of what your body can do when supported, released from the confines of gravity. In this class you will enjoy therapeutic flowing poses with a soft fabric hammock, suspended a few feet off ground. With the weight of the body partially or fully supported along with the help of gravity, you can explore and create space in your body without compression of the joints and spine achieving correct alignment through relaxation rather than effort.
Stand-Up Paddle Board Yoga – held on the River Wye
Standup Paddleboard (SUP) Yoga brings fun and freedom into an otherwise earth bound, studio based yoga practise. Being out in the elements brings you in perfect alignment with the calming, meditative qualities of nature. SUP yoga is ideal for those looking to deepen and develop their yoga practise. From beginners to advanced teachers it offers fun, challenge and peace in equal measures.