Scaravelli Yoga Events in January
Treat yourself to yoga - you're worth it!
This Scaravelli 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 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
Demystifying the Psoas
New Years Day Special : January 1
Wednesday Morning
11:00am - 1:00pm
Online via Zoom
£30 attend
£30 pre-order the edited video
The psoas muscles are the deepest muscles in our body. They are the link between our spine, diaphragm and legs and act as messengers between our inner selves and the outer world. They are involved in almost every movement we make - walking, running and sitting and provide important pathways for neural messages.
Whilst they are extraordinarily sensitive and responsive, we often find it difficult to consciously feel them, or even know where they are within our bodies. When we’re tired, over-worked or emotional, they may become unbalanced and tense, potentially causing a wide range of symptoms including lower back pain, stress, postural imbalances and contributing to exhaustion and poor digestion.
Join this workshop to:
• understand more about these most emotional of muscles, and
• Improve your understanding of the structure and role of the psoas in the body
• Discover the connection between the psoas and the breath
• Learn why you should never stretch your psoas and why it doesn’t need strengthening
• Find out how to soothe and release your psoas safely
• Let go of long held tensions which may help relieve lower back pain and improve your psychological well-being
Video Option
This yoga workshop will be recorded. All attendees will receive a link to the unedited copy which will be available to view online for 7 days after the event.
For those who cannot attend the live event, we will produce an edited video (mp4 format) a couple of days after the completed workshop. This can be pre-ordered / purchased from our web site’s Products Page.
Continued Professional Development
Each yoga event provides 1 CPD point per hour of practice, depending on your awarding body.
Scaravelli Yoga Classes
Wednesday .... 6:30 - 7:15pm .... (Yoga : Minehead, Somerset)
Friday …. 9:30 - 10:30 am .... (Strength & Resistance)
Sunday …. 10:00 - 11:00 am .... (Yoga)
£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
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 & Resistance
Yoga Class
Monday Morning
9:30 - 10:30 am
£12
Friday Morning
9:30 - 10:30 am
£12
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)
Somatic Yoga + Yoga Nidra
January 31
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.
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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