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Arches low, arches high – how to have happy healthy feet

“My daughter has flat feet” a trainee said on a recent Yogacampus training module on the feet and legs. I urged him to find another way to describe his little girl’s feet – especially to her. When people talk about flat feet, they probably mean collapsed arches
February 23, 2022
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bioenergetics, Body-Mind Centering®, flat feet, lumbricals, pronation of the foot, somatics, supination of the foot, Yogacampus

The Inchworm Story – movement antics at Harrogate Yoga

The Inchworm Story – movement antics at Harrogate Yoga Is that an apple stalk on my kitchen floor I wondered? Or could it be ….ALIVE? I slid some kitchen paper under the ‘apple stalk’ and placed it on my kitchen table for a closer inspection. I gave it a little poke – this
March 22, 2017
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Body-Mind Centering®, caterpillars, developmental movement patterns, harrogate yoga classes, healthy spine, Inchworm, looper, Melanie Bastier, RHS Harlow Carr, somatics, spinal push pattern, Spine

Moving Body – Quiet Mind

“Lie down on your mat and begin to check in with your breathing…” is a common instruction at the start of a yoga class but does this work for everyone? Many years ago I had a private student who would invariably arrive for class in a hyperactive, agitated state. I soon learned t
October 29, 2015
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Ashtanga Yoga, Body-Mind Centering®, Embody-Move, mental health, movement, Peter Levine, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, stress, trauma, Yin Yoga, yoga classes in Harrogate, yoga therapy

How to find support from the core for a healthy spine

  ‘Build core strength’, ‘tone your abs’, or as my son would say ‘get a God Bod’! These exhortations are usually aimed at strengthening the superficial abdominal muscles – the ‘six pack’. A common way to achieve these objectiv
August 18, 2014
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back bending, Bhujangasana, Body-Mind Centering®, breath, Breathing, Cobra, core strength, core support, developmental movement patterns, health, healthy back, healthy spine, somatics, well-being, wellbeing

Getting the Dragon to Fly!

Finding optimal ways of taking weight into our hands, was a theme on a morning workshop here at Harrogate Yoga a few days ago. Ultimately our aim was to have integrity of alignment in poses such as Ardha Vasisthasana, Vasisthasana and ‘Belly of the Dragon.’ The morning beg
August 31, 2013
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alignment of hands in yoga, Arm balances in yoga, Body-Mind Centering®, Flying Dragon Sequence, somatics, Vasisthasana, wellbeing

How to do Trikonasana – the fluid way

Back in 1991, I had my first experience of Body-Mind Centering® on the beautiful Greek island of Skyros. ‘Sense millions of cells in your body….. expanding and condensing in a breathing rhythm all of their own’, said our teacher, Jens Johannsen. Then we basked in the
January 29, 2013
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Body-Mind Centering®, breath, developmental movement patterns, How to do Trikonasana, Navel Radiation, Skyros, somatics, Trikonasana, well-being, yielding

Touch is a touchy subject

The English Language has many metaphors for behaviour and feeling using skin and touch. ‘Thick-skinned’ folk lack sensitivity or ‘tact’. Tact – from the Latin ‘tactus’ meaning touch – is to delicately touch another. If someone ‘get
July 20, 2012
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Amanda Latchmore Art, Body-Mind Centering®, breath, Contact Improvisation, Happiness, somatics, Steve Paxton, touch, Touchdown Dance, well-being, wellbeing

timeless.. weightless…spacious

‘Soft Spine, Bony Spine, Fluid Movement and Structural Integrity’ – is the title of a workshop I’m running in Suffolk this weekend. In preparation, I explored some of these themes with my classes during the week. We began with a look at a picture of the vertebral col
July 09, 2011
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Body-Mind Centering®, breath, Breathing, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Fluid Movement, Fluidity, Sandra Sabatini, somatics, Vasisthasana, well-being, wellbeing, Yoga classes Harrogate

Learning from Beautiful Bonnie

A couple of weeks ago I had my first opportunity to learn from Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen* – on a workshop entitled ‘Exploring the Embodiment of our Organs from a Developmental Perspective.’  During those three wonderful days in Liverpool, I caught up with many special and mu
June 18, 2011
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BMCA, Body-Mind Centering®, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, breath, Breathing, Currents, health, Heart, Lungs, mesonephros, metanephros, Parsvakonasana, pronephros, somatics

Bright Lights and Energy Centres

A few years ago I’d become exhausted through working very intensively. I was due to make a presentation on the Endocrine System and its relationship with the chakras and I wondered how I would find the energy to prepare yet another piece of work. I began experimenting in my own yoga p
June 02, 2011
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Ajna Chakra, Anahata Chakra, Body-Mind Centering®, Chakras, developmental movement patterns, Endocrine Glands, handstand, harrogate yoga, headstand, Linda Hartley, Manipura Chakra, meditation, mental health, Muladhara Chakra, Sahasrara Chakra, somatics, Svadishthana Chakra, upward bow, upward facing dog, Vishuddha Chakra, Wisdom of the Body Moving
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About Amanda

“I began practising yoga in 1972 and I loved the effect it had on me – of gradually becoming stronger in mind and body, more resilient to life’s ups and downs, more connected to my feelings, more joyful and more creative. Both my yoga journey and my creativity gained momentum in the early nineties, it was at this time that I was privileged to begin learning Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga………….”

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