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When teens practice yoga

Yoga provides a context in which teens, living in a sea of peer pressure, performance stress and emotional change, learn restraint and self reflective awareness. This course for teenagers aged between 12 and 15 years of age, will both challenge and nourish them.

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No Jews here.

Facing the Gestapo at his door, the man spoke with confidence and authority, “No Jews here”. The man was of course lying. A family of Jews had been living in the basement for many months. An exploration of why internal clarity and inner authority is necessary to navigate life.

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Memories of my Mother

Due to poor balance I had never consider yoga was for me as the images most often seen in posters and magazines show perfect bodies with amazing balance. October 2014 a few weeks before my 71st birthday I walked into my first yoga class. I have been asked “is it worth all the effort at your age?" My answer is “YES” yoga is even more important as we age. Seniors have experienced a life time of stress, raising a family, paying the mortgage, working at our chosen careers as well as balancing a family household. We have all experience grief, loosing grand parents, parents, aunts and uncles now at age 76 I am loosing cousins and life long friends. Our bodies have endured a life time of wear and tear from injuries, poor posture due to sitting and working at desks and repetitive actions such as housework and gardening.Yoga is ideal for all seniors even those with physical limitations, in our classes it can be quite normal to have several variations of a pose to suit individual needs. Learning to work with your body not against it is the same challenge regardless of age. Nursing several old injuries I do not want to add to them, I am very grateful to have well qualified teachers who are attentive to my needs and dedicated to keeping all students safe whilst practising. Yoga is not a quick fix for all ailments, I still experience some back and ankle discomfort but now rarely need to take pain medication. Today I am sleeping more soundly but occasionally still have a restless night. My time management has improved although at times I still talk to myself and loose focus. The big difference is I feel I am in control of my afflictions they are not controlling me. I am coping better and with my regular yoga practise I hope to prevent my health concerns from becoming chronic. Hopefully I can reach savasana with less suffering and with more dignity than my mother. Joan

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Pricing

Yoga is a state of Being and the journey to awaken into this state is regular practice over a long period of time. Our pricing system supports this understanding.

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method of practice

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Wanting things to change?

Fears and desires are reactions to the past and the future. Moment is the only place you actually live your life. Practise being in the power of your own presence. When we develop a practice of detachment, we learn to watch our desire for change and our fear that things may not change.

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The ocean has a way of showing us what goes on in her depths

Posture ‘adjustments’ in a yoga practice, are actually conversational clarifications.. the elements of heaviness, compression or spaciousness; of flow, or stagnation, are in conversation. The asana is a situation in which conversation must be had to harmonize the forces within the experience. A study of the koshas in a yoga practice requires that we learn asana, we study asana and we practice asana. This means the conversational process is valued – we are open to learning, feeling, being challenged to let go, to embrace, to hold when we want to drop, to surrender when we want to grasp; to experience support and space and to watch the choices we make and the results.. what washes up onto the shore of our lives – what choices, conscious, or in the depths are evident to us as we stand upon the shore of our own existence.

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