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23.01.2022 Too old to start yoga? I used to think when I was 40 that people would laugh at me for starting to teach yoga. As it turned out, it was the perfect time to deepen my practice and to begin to share my love of this with others. And now I sometimes teach a class in which there are people well over 80. People with knees and hips that have been replaced, and shoulders that have lost their mobility come. It takes courage for them to try something new. Even for someone who used to...Continue reading

17.01.2022 Why do yoga every week? Yoga is a practice. Part of the point of doing yoga is to persist with it, and to do it repeatedly over time. It is a mental challenge as well as a physical challenge. As you approach the practice each day or each week, whether it means going to a class or going to your own mat at home, part of the accomplishment of doing the yoga is to overcome the mental laziness and the justifications of why you do not feel like it, or why you don’t need to do it...Continue reading

14.01.2022 The event page is up, hope to see you there :)

12.01.2022 What if I can’t touch my toes? Can I do yoga? Whatever your body’s constraints, your yoga teacher can find a sequence of poses that will have you derive the benefits of a yoga practice. Even people who cannot touch their toes do yoga and get stronger, more flexible and more mentally centred. Many teachers have watched new students begin yoga and after a few weeks or months of weekly classes they notice the students can bend further and hold a pose longer. Many students repo...rt that yoga has given them the ability to lengthen their limbs and spine. All body types can work with yoga postures to increase their strength and flexibility. Whether you are stiff and sixty or weak and 30, the poses are the key to discovering how your body works and what it is capable of, and then building on that to go further gradually. We all have genetic tendencies in our bodies, whether it be short hamstrings or tight calves, or a curved spine or a constricted joint. In practicing yoga, we build awareness of our irregularities and asymmetries. Then we work with those to bring even-ness in to the body, to strengthen the weak areas, to stretch the less flexible zones and to find the balancing point. As we become more aware, we can make subtle adjustments that sometimes cure long-term ailments. Do you actually know your body? What could you discover? If you are willing to face the edge you can learn your body’s capacity. The edge is what we call that place you can reach that provides a sense of challenge and you can stay at without discomfort. This works for examining your strength, your flexibility and your balance. You may surprise yourself once you begin and persist with the practice. By Amrit Kendrick

10.01.2022 Come to Mount Claremont Community Center over the next three weeks.From November 28 to December 16 all proceeds will be donated to The Hunger Project.Join in our 1-hour classes between 7-8 am and between 4-5 pm. Monday thru Friday for 3 weeks.$10 per person per class.

03.01.2022 Now running classes near Claisebrook Train Station in the ABC Studio on Wednesdays from 12 noon til 1 pm.

02.01.2022 Out of your head and into your body with instructions After you begin to come to yoga classes, often you start to wonder what all the different types of yoga are. There’s hot yoga, or Bikram-style; there’s Vinyasa or flow, there’s Ashtanga; and the type which really focuses on the instructions and the details of how to put the body in the pose correctly, the Iyengar Yoga. In an Iyengar Yoga class, there is a deliberate journey into the inner experience of the body. Yo...u may be told to spread your toes, lift your sternum, line your ears up above your shoulders and other movements you have never before considered. Not everyone likes the voice of the teacher directing them to adjust their heels and shoulders and hipbones. However, if you try it for a few weeks, you may discover a new part of your awareness, proprioception, the being aware of your body in space. An example of how we develop proprioception in one pose, the Tree Pose, known in Sanskrit language as Vrksasana, we balance on one leg while the other leg bends with the foot pressing into the top of the standing thigh. The instruction is to be aware of the foot of the standing leg and to spread the toes. And another instruction is to pull the kneecaps up and press the outer standing thigh inwards. As we think about the standing leg, our muscles learn to become firm in the arch of the foot, around the knee, and around the ankle. We build awareness of how those muscles relate to each other and work together. Outside of class, when we walk on an uneven surface, even if we are not looking at the path our feet are taking, we have an increased sense of where our lower leg and foot are in space. This enhanced proprioception prevents injury as all the muscles work in concert as per their design. In Iyengar yoga there is also sometime the use of props. You may lean against the wall in a pose or you may put a brick under your hand, or you may sit on a folded blanket. One reason this is a common practice is that using a prop to arrange your body in a more correct alignment allows your mind to feel the instruction more clearly. When someone has a tight groin and they sit on the floor, their knees stay high and some instructions do not make sense. Once the person sits on a folded blanket, they have a greater awareness of their outer legs. Another benefit over time, as you come to classes where you are told to spread the palms and lengthen the crown of your head away from your tailbone is that when life throws challenges at you, you can put them aside for that 90 minutes while you are in your yoga class. And when you come out of the relaxation pose at the end of the class, you will be able to pick up the challenges with a new perspective. In the moment that you are following an instruction to focus on your rib or your calf muscle, you cannot be focused on worrying that your teenager is rude to you or your parent is ill or your boss is demanding. By Amrit Kendrick