Scaravelli Inspired Yoga Events in July
Treat yourself to yoga - you're worth it!
This Scaravelli inspired yoga approach is gentle, yet demanding. We work deeply, but with intelligence, so that the practice raises our awareness, helping us to make sustainable, healthy and nourishing choices, which will affect us and those closest to us, at all levels – physical, psychological and emotional.
Scaravelli inspired yoga, is particularly helpful for those who are working with postural issues, lower back pain, stiff necks and shoulders and for those who are stressed, and need some space to learn how to deeply relax.
Scaravelli Inspired Yoga Classes
Wednesday .... 6:30 - 7:15pm .... (Minehead, Somerset)
Sunday …. 10:00 - 11:00 am .... (online)
Breathing and Pranayama
Would you like to explore your breathing in more depth?
We all know that breathing is a central element of yoga practice, but did you also know it’s key to regulation of your nervous system? Following Covid, there’s more scientific research than ever showing how regular breathing practices can help lower resting blood pressure, reduce stress and anxiety.
In this weekly Breathing and Pranayama class, we’ll spend 30 mins exploring our breathing and how it affects us. We’ll look at simple breath awareness, as well as more structured forms of pranayama and introduce contemporary approaches to supporting those working with Chronic Fatigue, Long Covid and other conditions.
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Regular breathing practice improves our relaxation response leading to:
• lowered blood pressure and heart rate
• reduced levels of stress hormones in the blood
• reduced lactic acid build-up in muscle tissue
• balanced levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood
• improved immune system functioning
• increased physical energy
• increased feelings of calm and wellbeing
Sunday Monring
9:00 – 9:45 am
£6
Breathing and Pranayama + Yoga Class
2 Class Pack
Sunday Mornings
9:15 - 11:00
£15
Strength and Resistance
This weekly class draws on the latest sports science to build strength and stamina and improve joint health. We’ll explore the use of resistance and weights to help increase bone density and improve our mental health, sleep, confidence and resilience. Especially important as we age, it’s recommended you bring some resistance bands and small hand weights (if you have them).
Why Strength Resistance?
Is it for YOU?
There are so many reasons why it's beneficial to work more strongly, including:
• Maintain muscle mass and bone density
• Maintain and improve cardiovascular health
• Develop more joint support
• Maintain flexibility and balance
• Help improve strength and stamina
• Improved posture
• Improved sense of wellbeing
• Improved sleep and avoidance of insomnia
• Increased self-esteem
• Get up and down from the floor safely and with ease
• Balance the effects of fluctuating hormones during menopause / andropause
• Fulfil your physical potential and maintain your strength, stability and resilience for the long term
Do you need any equipment?
We will use the following equipment:
• A pack of 5 ‘resistance loop bands’
• A 7" Pilates ball
• Hand weights 1kg or 2kg (can substitute cans of veg in bags)
Monday Morning
9:30 - 10:30 am
£12
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Friday Morning
9:30 - 10:30 am
£12
Scaravelli Inspired Yoga Workshop
Pelvic Balance
July 6
Saturday
9:00 - 11:00am
online via Zoom
£35
Bookings via Movement for Modern Life (MFML)
Do you wonder how to settle down grumpy sacro-iliac joints?
Have you had a hip replacement?
Experienced sciatica or wonder what a labral tear is and how to work with it?
If you’d like to look at common hip issues and explore practical ways that yoga can help, join us for Part Two of Pelvic Balance. In this, the second part of our workshop exploring pelvic balance, we take a deep dive into the links between physical issues and our emotions and explore how our pelvis is affected by our nervous system.
During this workshop we’ll take a closer look at some common issues which you or those you share practice with may be experiencing or working with in yoga and look at some practical ways to help.
Together, we will:
• Briefly recap the structure and function of the pelvis
• Look at common sacro-iliac joint issues and see how we can work with them in yoga
• Build strength and stability to support pelvic and joint health
• Look at ways we can work intelligently to avoid developing overuse injuries
• Look at common issues eg labral tears, sciatica, hip replacements, pelvic imbalance
• The effect of changing hormones during menopause
• The delicate relationship between our pelvis and our emotional selves
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This workshop is for you if:
• You’d like to understand more about the anatomy and function of your pelvis
• You’re a teacher and would like to find some new more functional ways of working with the pelvis during class
• You’ve realised that too much hip opening has stopped being helpful and you have a sneaky suspicion that maybe there’s another, more healthy way of working with the pelvis
• You’re on the hypermobile spectrum or working with peri-menopause or menopause and would like to explore a more intelligent approach to your joints, especially the hips
• To discuss how we can adapt and personalise our practice to create healthy, beneficial movement patterns that will support us for life
• You’re working with common hip issues or would like to build more strength and sensitivity around your pelvis
The unique Zoom link for this yoga workshop will be sent out approximately half an hour before the scheduled start.
Continuing Professional Development
Each yoga event provides 1 CPD point per hour of practice, depending on your awarding body.
Weekend Yoga Retreat
July 12-14
Friday - Sunday
Gayles Yoga Retreat
East Sussex, Friston
From £315
If, like many of us, you feel the need to take time out, dive deep into your personal practice and replenish your energy levels, then join us for this year’s in July.
This Sussex yoga retreat is a wonderful chance to relax and unwind. Enjoy extra long yoga classes which give plenty of time for individual attention, in the beautiful surroundings of the Sussex Downs.
• A rural retreat, set deep in the Sussex countryside
• Far from the madding crowd, yet easily accessible from London
This picturesque Sussex yoga retreat centre is situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty on the South Downs, five miles from Eastbourne and fifteen from Brighton. Here rural doesn’t mean hard to reach; there are excellent train services from the nearby towns that provide direct travel to and from London Victoria, Gatwick, Ashford International, Brighton and so on. Gayles is just one-and-a-half hour drive from London and there is a regular bus service that conveniently stops beside the entrance.
Venue
The yoga retreat is held at Gayles Retreat, one of my favourite venues, set in ten acres of land next to the Seven Sisters Country Park (an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), The National Trust Crowlink Estate and Friston Forest.
The surrounding countryside is extraordinarily beautiful, and there are excellent walking opportunities all around.
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Food
Much of the food we eat is grown on site in the vegetable garden and it's all delicious. Derry is our cook for the week and his inspiring recipes are in constant demand. Food is vegetarian and organic, made with much love and a highlight of our stay at Gayles.
If the weather is good, there is the option of eating out in the open on the terrace.
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Explore
Gayles retreat centre is situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty on the South Downs, surrounded by stunning countryside and beautiful coastline.
The Seven Sisters Country Park is on the doorstep. It’s made up of 280 hectares of chalk cliffs, meandering river valley and open chalk grassland.
Friston Forest offers a number of waymarked routes for visitors to explore the beech woods. Its undulating terrain makes it popular with walkers who enjoy being outdoors. Quiet valleys within the forest offer sheltered habitats for many species of wildlife. Glimpses of rare butterflies, such as fritillaries, and elusive deer can reward patient observers.
Scaravelli Inspired Yoga Nidra
July 25
Thursday
6:00 – 7:15 pm
£15
Online via Zoom
Are you ready to unwind and relax? Do you relish the thought of spending an evening just for you, when you can simply let go?
If you’re tired of doing too much and need some serious chill time, please join us for an evening of spacious yoga and breathing followed by a long luxurious session of yoga nidra.
Yoga nidra translates as “yogic sleep” – it’s a form of guided meditation, where you rest and float in the space just before sleep, aware of everything, yet blissfully detached. Leave feeling calm, refreshed and revitalised.
Suitable for all levels and particularly helpful for those working with stress related conditions and those who would like to improve their sleep.
Yoga Workshop
Moving Together
July 27
Saturday
12:30 - 5:00pm
£80
Mission Studios : 7-9 Fashion Street London E1 6PX
Have you ever wondered how movement might meaningfully connect us?
How yoga could possibly expand into the realm of dancing and how dancing might slide beyond choreography into group and self-care?
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Join Yoga teacher Catherine Annis and Choreographer/Director Ben Wright for this one day Moving Together workshop which explores the primal connection we experience when we move together, as a group.
Rooted in a dialogue between awareness and action, this unique workshop offers participants a range of experiences to uncover, discover, and invite movement through the complimentary disciplines of mindful yoga and dancing. Together we will play with the idea that moving has the possibility to change thinking.
Throughout the day, we’ll bring sensation to the foreground to sharpen perception and spur kinetic imagination. From the generosity and expansiveness of unstructured, intuitive free-form movement, we’ll transition into more organised and directional movements, leaning into and away from forms we may recognise as yoga asana to intensify a sense of immediacy.
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This Moving Together workshop is suitable for movement practitioners, dance artists and those who are curious about expanding their experiences from a yoga mat into wider expressive intention.
Venue
The yoga and dancing workshop will be held at Mission in the heart of London.
Mission was born in the middle of lockdown out of the desire to reunite communities and create a new, modern framework in which yoga and movement could flourish.
It's the biggest yoga and movement centre in Europe with 14,000 square feet of space housing five studios, three treatment rooms, extensive changing facilities, sauna, and a restaurant.
Continuing Professional Development
Each yoga event provides 1 CPD point per hour of practice, depending on your awarding body.
About Catherine Annis
Catherine Annis is well known for her imaginative and practical approach to yoga.
Originally a professional dancer, she discovered yoga as a teenager, and has been practicing since the mid 1970s. Having studied various styles of yoga including Sivananda, Iyengar, Astanga and various forms of Hatha yoga, she eventually gravitated to the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli.
Catherine’s yoga practice and teaching focuses on strategies for downregulating the nervous system, working with breath and subtle somatic work to soothe the mind and create more physical ease for those working with pain, stress and anxiety. She holds a Masters degree in ballet studies, and is a qualified Thai massage practitioner, and it is this interest in the body which informs and inspires her teaching.
In 2017, she created the Intelligent Yoga Teacher Training Course (iytt), an anatomically focused teacher training course with world-leading guest teachers including Gary Carter.
She teaches retreats, workshops and courses in the UK and internationally.
www.CatherineAnnisYoga.co.uk
www.IntelligentYogaTeacherTraining.co.uk
About Ben Wright
Ben Wright (He/Him) is an independent artist working in dance, theatre, opera and film.
He trained at Ballet Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and worked predominately as a performer between 1991-2006. He was interim artistic lead for National Dance Company Wales in 2021, Artistic co-director for Candoco Dance Company 2017-2020 and Associate Artistic Director/Choreographer for Skånes Dansteater 2014–2017. He joined the faculty at Northern School of Contemporary Dance from 2022 - 2024 where he lectured in improvisation, performance, and choreography.
Recent movement work includes Orlando with Emma Corrin at The Garrick Theatre London, The Lost Thing for The Royal Opera House London and Candoco, A space in the Dark for Black Box Dance Theatre and the feature film of his production The Feeling of Going for Skånes Dansteater and Malmo Opera.
Wright also worked as an intimacy coordinator for the Amazon film My Policeman and Funny Woman for Sky Atlantic in 2021.
As a performer Ben worked for Stan Wont Dance, Adventures in Motion Pictures, Ricochet, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Richard Alston, Amanda Miller and most recently for New Art Club. In 1995 he created the role of the Prince in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake.
@ben_wright_movement
www.benwright.info
Yoga Videos
Over the last few years, we've been busy recording and editing all my yoga workshops and courses to make them available in digital form, so you can download and keep them forever.
We’ve also recorded some of my regular yoga classes to offer you the convenience of practicing whenever and wherever you are.
If you need some extra rest, then maybe Yoga Nidra is more your thing. Make yourself comfy, wrap up in blankets and follow my voice as we travel through magical landscapes, dive deep into ourselves and explore the liminal space between waking and sleeping.
Whether you’d like to practice breathing, or learn more about anatomy and how our bodies are affected by our yoga practice, it’s all here for you. If you’d like to dive in deeper, you’ll find the workshops I taught with Gary Carter and if, like me, you are working with lower back issues, join me live, or connect with the recordings of my Yoga for Back Care Course.
I do hope you find something here that’s helpful and nourishing and look forward to hear about your experience. Oh, and if there’s something you’d like to hear more about, let me know – I’d love to hear from you.
All videos are recorded into the MP4 format, one of the most common file formats used on the internet today.
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