yoga with rebecca
I was introduced to Yoga & Meditation as a teenager in the 1970s, have been
teaching since 2014. Recognising the different qualities yoga can bring, I offer
a range of physical styles, some very gentle and others more strenuous, along
with meditation and relaxation. While I love the sense of strength, openness,
and resilience, that a strong physical practice can offer, I’m increasingly
astonished by the transformative power of more gentle and subtle approaches to
bodywork, allowing a more intimate sensing of the body, the breath, and emotions
and bringing an ease into being in the world. I embrace the variety and seek to
share this in my classes as I draw on the influences of a range of body-mind
practices – some thousands of years old, some contemporary – including Hatha
Yoga, Yin-Restorative Yoga, Somatics, Feldenkrais & Yoga Nidra. I love to teach
people of all ages and levels of experience in a way that encourages a deep
inner listening with a sense of ease, pleasure, and fun. Someone said to me
once, Yoga is too sacred to be taken over seriously! A typical class will start
with a gentle enquiry into the body and breath, slowly adding movement
(influenced by the Feldenkrais method), and gradually build into synchronizing
breath and stronger movement (the meaning of Vinyasa), to then work with static
posture alignment and/or melting into the meditative, less dynamic postures of
Yin. Focus upon the breath is a vital part of all my classes, whether simply
tuning in to the simplicity of a natural breath or more subtle breathing control
and Pranayama. I sometimes include meditation as part of a regular class and
also offer separate Meditation/Yoga Nidra courses. I love language, literature
and philosophy and read and write as much as a I can – often weaving ancient
Yogic texts and contemporary poetry or prose into the experience of my classes.
I am Certified as a Yoga Teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga and as an iRest
Yoga Nidra Teacher with the iRest Institute and am currently undergoing training
in the Feldenkrais Method.
