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Inspiration from Pina Bausch and revisiting ‘Saggy Cat’

I was doing some work in my front garden a few days ago, when one of my students walked by and then stopped to tell me about the film she’d just seen. The film was Pina. My student said ‘Now I have some understanding of what you’ve been trying to teach us in class!’ Having read about
May 16, 2011
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‘Organic’ Yoga

‘Can yoga make you more creative?’ one of my students asked a few years ago. I replied that it seemed to help my own creative process and also my tenacity to see projects through. I asked a few students whose work involved being creative, what they thought? One person said she believe
April 02, 2011
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Support from the Earth

Last week I wrote about the Yield and Push developmental movement pattern. Thoughts about yielding continued to travel through my mind since I watched and heard with horror the news of the earthquake and aftermath, in Japan. We gain so much reassurance from our relationship with the g
March 19, 2011
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Acorns to Oak Trees

A regular theme in my classes is ‘Yield and Push’. Through exploring this developmental movement pattern we are aiming for an embodied sense of good alignment in yoga asana that leads to a clear sense of good alignment from within, rather than lots of rules about ‘th
March 14, 2011
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Soft Spine, Fluid Spine

In class last week we did the ‘Saggy Cat’ experiment. We investigated how to bring a more fluid connection between body/spine and head/neck in back bends and certain standing poses – and in our daily lives. From ‘all fours’ position – on hands and knees – we im
March 07, 2011
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Spirals

As an artist I’ve always loved to draw curved shapes – the curves of the human form and curves from nature. Straight lines have never had much appeal. I say I can’t draw a straight line but I think the truth is that I’m just not very interested in them. Give me a human body, flowers a
February 25, 2011
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How to Balance Better

..........Having thoroughly polished the studio floor at the Academy, from all the sliding around on blankets, we then paid attention to our feet. We located the Talus bone and noted what a lot of bones there are in the foot - 26. We looked at a brilliant picture
February 12, 2011
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Fluidity in Movement – why we need it and how to find it

  In some of last week’s classes we re-visited the theme of fluidity and how to bring a more fluid quality  into our movement. Why do we need it, some might ask? There are lots of good reasons. Yoga practitioners can have a tendency to be quite static in their approach to asana a
February 06, 2011
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Cellular Breathing

CELLULAR BREATHING In some of the classes this week we began with a cellular breathing visualisation. Everyone began lying prone on their mats (being face down supports the Parasympathetic Nervous System). I began talking them through the visualisation – first with awareness of
January 28, 2011
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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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