Scaravelli Inspired Yoga Events in September
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.
Yoga Workshop
Release Tension in your Neck & Shoulders
September 30
Tuesday
7:00 - 8:30pm
from £15
Movement for Modern Life (MFML) Event
Online via Zoom
Do you have tight shoulders or suffer from neck tension?
Stiff upper back?
Tension headaches?
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The shoulders and neck are often a source of discomfort, tightness and misunderstanding. Modern office jobs and our addiction to our phones mean we’re sitting, working at keyboards and holding our arms in fixed positions for long periods of the day. All this creates unnecessary tension potentially leading to long term tightness and dysfunctional movement patterns that affect our ability to move easily.
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Join Catherine Annis for this practical workshop, to learn more about the anatomy of this area, particularly the complex structure and function of the shoulder joint.
Explore the intimate relationship between the upper spine, shoulders and breath and give your shoulders and upper back a sensory treat. Learn to let go of deep seated tensions and discover some gentle, deliberate and focused techniques to help you change movement habits and release unnecessary tension.
Join us for this practical workshop where we’ll learn how to:
• To understand the complex structure and function of the shoulder joint
• To incorporate learning and knowledge into yoga practice, exploring simple and more complex postures
• Discover the intimate relationship between the upper spine, shoulders and the breath
• Learn more about the rotator cuff
• To understand personal habitual movement patterns and consider ways of changing this to bring more ease and simplicity to movement
• Practice some gentle, deliberate and focused techniques to help you change movement habits and release tensions which may restrict you in everyday life
Can't make it live?
MFML will be offering an on-demand playback of the workshop for 14 days afterwards, so you don’t have to miss out! Just book as normal and MFML will send you the link to the workshop recording as soon as it's downloaded onto their system.
Cost
We know that some of you are facing some real cost-dilemmas and we know that sometimes our wellbeing practices are the first to suffer when life gets hard.
We want you to know that we are there for you.
Therefore, all MFML workshops and live events are offered on a ‘Pay As You Can’ basis.
There is a suggested price, which MFML ask you to pay, if you have the means. The suggested price is the ‘true cost’ of running the workshop, and this is £30.
If finances might get in the way of you joining, you can pay what you can afford, and therefore you are still able to join. The minimum that MFML can accept is £15.
Continued Professional Development
Each yoga event provides 1 CPD point per hour of practice, depending on your awarding body.
Scaravelli Inspired Yoga Classes
Wednesday .... 6:30 - 7:15pm .... (Minehead, Somerset)
Sunday …. 10:00 - 11:00 am .... (online)
£12 drop in
£44 for 4 classes : valid for 5 weeks from date of purchase
£100 for 10 classes : valid for 12 weeks from date of purchase
If you’d like to pay for a block of classes, please email us direct and we will set this up for you
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Venue in Minehead
Quaker Meeting House
9 Bancks Street,
Minehead, TA24 5DJ
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Yoga may be particularly helpful for those working with long term joint issues, cranky backs, or regular aches and pains and good for stress and sleep issues.
I teach yoga which offers a fresh and truly accessible approach to yoga. Each class will follow a theme which evolves from my personal research and explorations, so each class builds and develops from the material we covered in the previous week.
Although I’d love to see you each week and there are definite benefits from regular practice, I always take time to carefully explain the focus and what we’re doing in each pose, so you won’t miss out if you can’t make it.
Classes generally follow a similar structure – we begin lying on the floor, to breathe and settle, before gradually building into stronger or more challenging practices and then dropping back down into Savasana to rest at the end.
When I speak of “challenging practices” I’m not referring to pretzel-style poses – my approach to yoga focuses on building depth and awareness in simple positions. We may place our attention on one phase of the breath, or a specific body part or element of our physiology.
Whatever material we cover in class you can expect to:
• Move with more ease and clarity
• Learn approaches to downregulate your nervous system
• Undo and dissolve unnecessary tension
• Enhance your understanding of your body
• Explore your relationship with yourself, and others
• Relax and unwind with restorative breathwork and simple, meditative movement
• Leave feeling refreshed, calm and with a sense of quiet peace
Strength for Yoga
Monday Morning
9:30 - 10:30 am
£12
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Friday Morning
9:30 - 10:30 am
£12
These weekly classes draw 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
Somatic Yoga + Yoga Nidra
September 26
Friday
6:30 - 7:15 pm
£15
Online via Zoom
• Are you ready to unwind and relax?
• Would you like to access the amazing creativity and inspiration of your subconscious mind?
• Would you like to explore some gentle, somatic movement followed by a deep dive into a long-guided meditation?
If you’re feeling tired or overwhelmed or are looking for some serious chill time, please join us for an evening of spacious yoga and breathing followed by a long luxurious session of yoga nidra.
The class is an hour and fifteen minutes and we spend the first half exploring subtle somatic yoga inspired movements, which enhances our awareness, calms our body and mind and draws our attention inward, in preparation for the yoga nidra element.
Video Option
If you can’t join the class but would like a recording, simply ask for the video during your booking (all recordings are available to view for one week).
Yoga Nidra
Yoga nidra translates as “yogic sleep”. It’s a form of guided meditation, which, as the name suggests is practiced lying down. We’ll share some breathwork and movement first, before making ourselves comfortable and diving into the main event.
Yoga nidra helps allow our subconscious thought to rise to the surface and was practiced by artists and scientists such as Salvador Dali, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein. They discovered its ability to reveal their full creative potential, thereby helping to solve complex artistic and scientific questions.
During yoga nidra, we rest and float between sleeping and waking, aware of everything, yet remaining blissfully detached. As our waking consciousness wanes and we drop towards sleep, we enter a hypnogogic state where we can access the limitless creativity of our subconscious, allowing us to explore our full potential.
Whether you’re looking for a deep rest or seeking inspiration, yoga nidra provides unexpected insights, revealing your our previously hidden capacity for growth and expansion.
Expect to leave feeling as if you’ve taken a big deep breath of cool, fresh air - calm, revitalised, with more inspiration and the added bonus that you may sleep really well that night.
200hr Yoga Teacher Training Course
September 2025 - September 2026
• London & Online
• 5 modules over 12 months
• fully accredited and certified
Is 2025 the year you become a Yoga Teacher?
We’re thrilled to announce that our 2025 Teacher Training Course will be in partnership with Movement for Modern Life
– voted Favourite Online Yoga Platform 2024 (Om Yoga Awards) -
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Our comprehensive, fully live Yoga Teacher Training will be delivered by an elite group of yoga teachers with over 100 years of combined experience.
Perhaps 2025 is the year you take the plunge and deepen your knowledge of yoga to train with the very best and learn to become a yoga teacher – mostly from the comfort of your own home, with attendance at just two in-person weekends required.
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A fresh approach to yoga – IYTT is the future of yoga teacher training
The Future of Yoga Teacher Training
Throughout this yoga teacher training, we’ll investigate how our bodies move, how we respond to stimuli and how we can cultivate an atmosphere of authentic enquiry and exploration. You’ll be encouraged to gain a clear understanding of how you move and how you can share that knowledge with all those who practice with you, to create new, healthier approaches to living and moving.
What makes our Course Special
• Intelligent Yoga Teacher Training is designed to fit into your busy life
• All sessions are held at weekends, so you can complete your training alongside your existing work and family commitments
• All sessions are live, providing you with a dynamic real-time connection. Ask questions in real time and receive immediate, personalised feedback
• We record all the online sessions, so you can revisit the material whenever you need a refresher
• Learn from the UK's most experienced and respected yoga teachers, with regular feedback, support and mentoring
• It’s modern, thoughtful and intelligent. You’ll learn how to unpick what we’re doing in asana and how to apply and adapt yoga for each individual
• The in-person weekends are held at the Light Centre, London, Victoria; Online weekends are delivered via Zoom
• We emphasise the importance of curiosity, to create a collaborative and supportive learning environment
• At IYTT, we stay in touch and continue to work with you well beyond your time on the course
• Our comprehensive mentoring program includes structured 1:1 mentor meetings and group supervision meetings
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Yoga teacher training is a priceless investment in yourself, your well-being, and your future
This Yoga Teacher Training is for You if:
• You want to gain the necessary skills and certification to become a qualified yoga teacher
• You are an existing yoga teacher looking to further develop your skills
• You are a wellness professional and want to learn more about yoga
Meet the Team
Our teachers have over 100 years of combined yoga experience – with a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds, Catherine Annis, Gary Carter, Neville Cregan, Jody Barber and Mariann Rand-Weaver will lead you through your yoga teacher training experience with a practical and accessible approach.
With all this knowledge, wisdom and guidance, you know you’ll be in safe hands.
Practical, accessible yoga based on the latest scientific research
Course Overview
• Discover the latest research on fascia and movement
• Learn the skills of body-reading and understand physical ability so you can confidently offer fully accessible classes, open to everyone
• Understand how to deliver trauma sensitive yoga classes
• Establish a strong self-practice as the foundation for teaching
• Explore practical, functional anatomy and physiology
• Learn how to deliver a well-structured, engaging and balanced class
• Ethics in yoga: the art of adjusting – exploring touch, personal space and boundaries
• Learn to teach safely and with confidence
• Develop your own authentic teaching voice
• Explore breath awareness and learn how to hold space for meditation
• Explore how our movement is affected by gravity
• Learn how to develop workshops, how to hold space on retreats and the art of teaching 1:1
• Learn about the history of yoga and its place in the modern world
• Ethics and responsibilities in modern yoga
• Create a yoga business which sustains you and reflects your values
• Learn how to promote and develop your yoga business
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We invite you to share our knowledge, skills and wisdom to help advance your future career
Benefits of Live Sessions
• You can ask questions and discuss topics in real time
• You'll receive immediate, personalised feedback and suggestions
• Helps build a sense of community, allowing you to build a rapport with the team and your fellow trainees
• Live sessions are more engaging and thought provoking
• Offers an improved learning experience
• All online sessions are recorded, so you can to revisit the material again, at any time
Supportive Mentoring
We believe in supporting all trainees throughout their yoga teacher training and beyond.
At IYTT, you are never just a number, and we will stay in touch and continue to support you well beyond your time on the course. We have created a mentoring program for all trainees which includes structured 1:1 mentor meetings and group supervision meetings facilitated by the leading yoga teachers and there is an active Alumni programme.
Each module is supported by two teaching assistants who are both recent IYTT graduates. Our assistant teachers are available to offer advice and support throughout the course.
At the end of each yoga teacher training programme, there will be opportunities for two graduates to join the teaching team as teaching assistants. This is a valuable chance to review the training from the other side, and to work closely with the teaching team, learning how to hold space and deliver a teacher training programme first hand.
Who can Apply
• We’re looking for serious and committed applicants with a solid foundation in the practice of yoga
• You should have a minimum of 2 years regular and consistent yoga practice, preferably through class attendance
• You will also need a regular yoga teacher whose classes you have been attending, who can provide a reference to support your application
• Some element of self-practice is viewed very favourably.
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We are equally happy to welcome applications from serious yoga practitioners who would like to deepen their knowledge and understanding of yoga, regardless of whether they currently intend to become teachers themselves.
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If you have questions or need help, get in touch by email, phone or book a 30 minute Zoom call with Catherine.
Intelligent Yoga Teacher Training Course
• Elite group of senior teachers: Catherine Annis, Gary Carter, Neville Cregan & Jody Barber
• Personalised mentoring
• All sessions are live providing you with a dynamic real-time connection
• All sessions are held at weekends
• We have created a collaborative and supportive learning environment
• Our course is designed to fit into your busy life
• At IYTT, we stay in touch and continue to work with you well beyond your time on the course
• Certified / Accredited by Yoga Alliance Professionals
• Sept 2025 – Sept 2026
• 5 modules : 12 month course
• Blended training : London & Online
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.
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