Yoga Classes in Harrogate

For those new to Yoga. A slower paced class paying close attention to alignment and breathing forming the foundation of your yoga practise.

 A class encompassing all elements of Hatha yoga with some flow specifically with the sun salutation. It has many benefits including improvement of strength, flexibility, relaxation and the stillness of mind. It is suitable for all levels.          

On a Wednesday night James teaches a Vinyasa Flow class. This class is more challenging including Vinyasa and Astanga yoga elements with more hands on adjustments. Suitable for those with yoga experience and for those who are looking to develop their practise.

Based on Hatha Flow Yoga where the chakras (subtle energy centres) are brought to the students attention. The class is a flow class with some strong pranayama and other music and mantra meditations. It is suitable for all levels and for those looking to go deeper into their yoga practise.

The SSLY brings spirituality back to the heart of Yoga. Classes cover a wide range of techniques and approaches, including Pranayama – breathing exercises, strength, flexibility and balance postures and meditation techniques.  Anne-Marie is trained by the Chopra Centre for Wellbeing founded by Deepak Chopra. The Chopra Centre are world leaders in mind body medicine and for teaching the daily practices of yoga, meditation and Ayurveda

A slower paced hatha yoga class, suitable for all but especially beginners 

A deeply relaxing, meditative class that restores the body and through the deep relaxation paradoxically it helps energise and heal the body and is followed with Yoga Nidra.        

Nidra means sleep this is the state we enter between wakefulness and sleep, when profound relaxation, release of chronic stress and deep transformation can occur. It has been used by the yogis for 1,000’s of years and is now being used by psychotherapists and clinical hypnotherapists for a range of illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, and other conditions such as PTSD, stress, depression, chronic pain, pregnancy. 

 The only other time we can reach this state is during non dreaming sleep, and it is in this state we are able to create profound transformation as the mind is at its most receptive.

Anne-Marie is an experienced yoga Nidra teacher and now teaches the practice intuitively dependent on the needs of the students.

Please note as this is a form of Yoga hypnosis it is important that you practice with a well qualified teacher in a safe and supportive environment.

see www.yoganidranetwork.org

For more details about the benefits and power of yoga Nidra please see the article http://www.yogajournal.com/article/practice-section/reflections-of-peace/

Anne-Marie has developed this unique, bespoke practice, having taught hundreds of people meditation and finding that students very often struggle to sit to meditate.

However if the medtiation begins with the Face yoga exercises and yoga eye exercises , breathing techniques, crystals and essential oils to enhance and deepen the practice then we find its easier to transition into meditation
Face yoga is not only an extremely effective natural face lift, but it is also very helpful for issues such as migraines, eye strain, dental or facial surgery, depression and an anxious mind. 

The Sudarshan Kriya is a breathing practice devised by Sri Sri Ravi Sankara the head of the Art of Living Foundation in India, Anne-Marie, James and Chris have been trained in this practice by the Art of Living Foundation

Different breathing practices are followed using the mantra of So Hum, this is the mantra Anne-Marie has been trained to use this mantra by the Chopra Centre founded by Deepak Chopra you can read more about the Sudarshan Kriya as it is recommended above all other breathing practices by James Nestor, the science journalist in his renowned book book “Breath”, see the video below

A relaxing stretch class where poses are held for 3minutes or more allowing us to move beyond purely muscular stretching but into connective tissue and into tendons and ligaments which also have some ability to release

Flow Yoga is an eclectic mix of three styles of yoga: Dynamic Hatha for Alignment, Sivananda Yoga for Subtle Mind and Breath work and Astanga Vinyasa for Heat, flexibility and stamina. It is an excellent class suitable for all levels