Posts from The Yoga Process
Regular updates, practice news and yoga related events
Your Visit to a Yoga Therapist
Your first visit will focus on your own condition, your state of health and wellbeing, and what you would like to achieve, realistically, from yoga therapy. This first and free consultation will last from 30 minutes to an hour and will assess your physical capabilities and health in relation to yoga practise.
June 2023 yoga classes
The focus for the indoor June classes on the 13th and 20th will use the eight components of yoga recommended by Patanjalis yoga sutras including postures , breath work and meditation to ease muscle tension, cool the body and mind, ideally bringing you closer to a state of yoga.
Autumn yoga 2023
Thursday 21st September to Thursday 19th October at 7.30pm until 8.45pm.
This class is suitable for beginners, more experienced practitioners and anyone who may have a curiosity about the philosophy which underpins the practice of yoga.
The yoga sutras
Patanjalis yoga sutras are sometimes seen as daunting but here I am attemtping to simplify and clarify some of the basic principles in order to convey their ability to enrich, encourage and inform the practice of the tools of yoga.
Summer Yoga 2023
The focus for the Summer classes and retreat will look at postures , breath work and meditation to ease muscle tension, cool the body and mind, ideally bringing you closer to a state of yoga. Also we will take a look at the fundamentals of the experiential guide to yoga practice, the yoga sutras.
Yoga for the busy householder
I remember the overall structure of the four chapters of the yoga sutras being described to me as a horse riding metaphor. The second chapter is for learning how to ride a horse and the first, third and fourth are about what to do when you are up on the horse.
Familiarity with body mind processes as you move towards a state of yoga
Kleshas
The definition of yoga according to the yoga sutras of patanjali is
YS1.2 yoga città vritti nirodha. Yoga is a state of mind that is completely still.
This is hard to achieve unless you become familiar with the fundamental forces that disturb the mind whose natural inclination is to be still and luminous. These forces are the physiological mechanisms underlying the movements of the mind which we are attempting to still.