WORKSHOPS

POWER OF SHAKTI: A YOGINI GATHERING

With Ella Young

Saturday 4th April 2020 | 2pm – 4pm A LIVE STREAM ONLINE

“Even if you can be aware of your awareness for only a moment, in that moment you will touch the primal awareness/bliss at the core of yourself.”
― Sally Kempton, Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga

Join Ella Young to connect to the Divine Feminine (Shakti) through sacred circles, meditative embodiment and free-flowing yogic movement. Prepare for the enchantment and awakening of the senses through smell, touch, taste, sight and sound. This multisensory experience will guide us back to the realisation that the Mother resides deep within us – she, and therefore we, are sacred.

Women have gathered in circles since the dawn of time. Circles were made for counsel, birth, cooking, inspiration, learning, connecting, creating and so much more. We will connect to Shakti while in a circle, unified by all facing inward to the centre point: the bindu.

Surrounded by the divine scents of aromatic oils; we explore touch through our own sensitive skin; awaken and enliven through the taste of naturally stimulating cacao; practice dharana (single pointed focus) to see the Mother’s light and we sense the sound of Shakti calling us back to our tribal roots.

Shakti is diverse and beautiful in all of her forms, she is not constrained by expectations or social pressures. She is wild and fierce, peaceful and gentle, caring and kind; you are free to be your own unique expression of the goddess at any time you choose.

Sometimes we forget or are unable to tap into our instinct because we are so unknowingly restricted in modern times. Discover your divine femininity and awaken the force within!

£20 Women Only-Some yoga experience is recommended.

A SPRING FLOW 

With Debs Grossman

Saturday 11th April 2020 | 2pm – 4pm A LIVE STREAM ONLINE

Please join Debs to welcome Spring with her Seasonal Flow workshop.Spring is time of growth, when our energy levels start to increase after our winter hibernation. It is the season for inspiring change and refreshing your practice and lifestyle, for spring cleaning your diet, mind and home.

As the days get longer and there is more demand to get things started it’s a time to be more flexible, spontaneous, creative, thoughtful, patient, sensitive and humorous. Anticipation of great things hang in this new air making you want to plan ahead, start new projects. After the long winter months, you can now see the way ahead for a great new year.

It’s a time for goal setting, forward planning, motivating, organising, devising action plans, being creative and having a clear vision of how things will look.

Our spring practice reflects this lifting energy; the focus is on your foundation, encouraging strong stable roots to anchor you in your practice.
Cleansing postures are used to prepare for summer; side bending and twists increase flexibility.

Pranayama, an energising and cleansing practice followed by seasonal yoga nidra and meditation awaits.

We look forward to you joining us.

£20

FAMILY YOGA: BEAR HUNT

With Kelly Ann

Sunday 19th April 2020 | 3pm – 4pm  A LIVE STREAM ONLINE

This Family Yoga workshop is a great way to spend some quality time together, reconnect with each other and have fun through Yoga.
During this session we will be going on a bear hunt. if your children like this story, they will love to do it to yoga 🙂

Open to all ages of children and family members, we will go on a yoga journey together with yoga teacher Kelly Ann.

You’ll experience plenty of laughter & joy, enjoy learning together & spending time in each other’s company, practice energetic and exciting yoga activities to challenge everyone, discover partner yoga to encourage bonding & being a team. This will help to build on strength, flexibility, enhancing focus & mindfulness, and finding inner calm & quietness.This Family Yoga workshop is a great way to reconnect with each other and smile from the inside out. We will go on a yoga journey together with some music, yoga games, story telling, partner poses, and practice some breathing exercises.

We recommend that this workshop is suitable for years 4+ but if you would like enquire about bringing someone younger in your family then please get in touch so that we can let you know more about what is involved. info@heatheryoga.co.uk

£10 adult and one child, £2 for additional children/ adults. Maximum 4 children per family.

YOGA UNPLUGGED-RESTORATIVE YOGA: RELAX, REJUVENATE AND REBALANCE

With Jen Nevin

Friday 24th April 2020 | 7.45pm – 9.15pm A LIVE STREAM ONLINE

Relax, Rejuvenate & Rebalance

This restorative yoga class is a perfect way to unwind and close out your working week so you’re fully recharged & ready for the weekend ahead. In restorative yoga, otherwise known as the art of relaxation, the body is fully supported by props in passive yoga poses to gently stretch, relax and open the body, adjusting the nervous system and resting the adrenal glands to melt away physical and mental tensions and promoting deep release, rest & relaxation in the mind and body. They also assist the body’s processes of healing injuries and recovering from illness by releasing tension that would otherwise impede recovery. Taking place in a calming setting of low light and candles – this yoga class is the ideal opportunity to take your mind off your busy life & indulge yourself.
Open to all ages & abilities – No experience necessary.

If have any form of injury or serious illness, or if you are pregnant or have recently had a baby please do inform us before booking.

£15

BATHING IN STILLNESS: YIN YOGA & YOGA NIDRA

With Heather Gregg

Sunday 26th April 2020 | 5.45pm – 7.15pm

£15

THE ARCHITECTURE OF ARM BALANCES AND INVERSIONS

With Adam Husler and Holly Husler

Saturday 9th May 2020 | 4.45pm – 7.30pm

London’s most in-demand yoga teacher Adam Husler, is back in Yorkshire with his third visit to Heather Yoga. This time Adam will be bringing his wife Holly, and together The Huslers will be offering an unmissable weekend of workshops, sound baths and CPD training as part of their International tour dates.

The Architecture of Arm Balances and Inversions
Saturday 9th May-4.45pm-7.30pm with Adam Husler and Holly Husler

Those ‘cool’ looking inversions and arm balances that you spot people popping out in the studio and social media, they don’t just magically happen one day. Flailing and throwing
yourself around won’t necessarily get the result you want; unless what you want 1 second video of you upside down and a little bit of sweaty cardio.

Through this workshop you will:
– Learn the journey you may need to take and building blocks you may require as you work towards various arm balances and inversions.
– Develop understanding in how flexibility, strength and technique have equal importance
– Build a toolkit of drills that will assist progress in this direction of travel.
– Practice and explore chaturanga, bakasana, koundinyasana b, forearm balance, handstand and maybe more
– Discover that executing ‘easy’ asanas with integrity, can significantly improve you ability to explore more challenging poses.
– Learn the common errors taken in these poses, some of which are potentially injurious.

This workshop it suitable for anyone with a regular practice, though it will be a strong practice!

As the asana practice end, Holly, will guide you through a journey of sound, where healing vibrations and sensations from beautiful instruments such as crystal bowls, chimes and voice, will weave their magic over and through you. Expect a unique, sensory experience

About Adam

Drawing from a variety of lives lived off the mat, Adam Husler brings a unique perspective to those who seek more from yoga than making pretty shapes. He offers creative, effective and clearly-sequenced teachings that focus on balancing flexibility and strength; physically and mentally. Educated by globally renown teachers, including Jason Crandell and Michael Stone, Adam specialises in a signature style of Alignment-Based Vinyasa— fuelled by a fascination with anatomy and a desire to ask ‘why?’

About Holly

From belting out original pop tunes at the London O2 stage to 20,000 people, whilst supporting Westlife, to singing healing mantras and playing magical instruments, to seas of sleeping yogis, at events and studios across the globe; Holly’s journey has led to a deep desire to help people find conscious connection and their own inner peace

£35 full price. Early Bird offer of £30 until 4th April

VINYASA DECONSTRUCTION: SEQUENCING STRATEGY + ADVANCED ASANA

With Adam Husler 

Sunday 10th May 2020 | 9am – 5pm

London’s most in-demand yoga teacher Adam Husler, is back in Yorkshire with his third visit to Heather Yoga.This time Adam will be bringing his wife Holly, and together The Huslers will be offering an unmissable weekend of workshops, sound baths and CPD training as part of their International tour dates.

7hr CPD – Vinyasa Deconstruction: Sequencing Strategy + Advanced Asana

When we receive new teachings, one of the most useful things we can do to deepen our understanding is take that teaching apart and put it back together with the tools of curiosity, logic, reason and lots of ‘why?’. In the context of this workshop, our targets are models of effective sequencing and safe, intelligent pathways towards more physically demanding asana.
Through this workshop we will:

– Discover long and short-term sequencing strategies that can be applied to various teaching or practice scenarios, along with the diverse range of things you might consider when sequencing.

– Explore how the careful selection of cues, asana variations and use of language can give opportunity for a greater development of skill and learning for students

– Take apart complex poses and work out what needs to be opened, strengthened or stabilised in your journey towards that poses and learn sequencing strategies that might take students there.

– End the day with a 30-minute sound journey from Holly Husler featuring voice, crystal bowls and a selection of soothing instruments.

Attendance at this daylong workshop is accredited for 7 hours CPD for Yoga Alliance International.

This workshop is targeted towards teachers and trainees, though regular practitioners wishing for deeper understanding will receive great benefit too.

About Adam

Actions speak louder than words, and Adam Husler (E-500 RYT) uses both to understand universal balance in the practice of yoga. Drawing experience from a variety of lives lived off the mat— be it the law school, the boxing ring, the ultramarathon path or the non-profit sector— he brings a unique perspective to those who seek more from yoga than making pretty shapes. He offers creative, effective and clearly-sequenced teachings that focus on balancing flexibility and strength; physically and mentally

Inspired by a fascination with anatomy, Adam specialises in Alignment-Based Vinyasa Yoga as informed from years of study with, and assistance to, Jason Crandell, who Adam is teaching alongside on a 200hr TT in 2020. In combination with the spiritual wisdom of renowned meditation teacher Michael Stone and teaching from others, including Cameron Shayne, Tom Myers and Richard Rosen, Adam consistently refines his teaching method both as instructor and student. Adam believes that yoga is a personally subjective practice of self enquiry, where only one thing is for certain: whether a long-time listener, first time caller, or anywhere in between… yoga offers us all plenty of options to challenge and reward. Start small, go slow, practise, and all is coming.

Based in London, Adam teaches a robust schedule in one of the world’s top yoga studios, Triyoga, and world leading gym, Equinox. On top of this, Adam leads workshops, trainings and teaches
festivals continuously around the world, leaving him with thousands of teaching hours under his belt and plenty of appearances in national and international media.

£85 Full Price. Early Bird offer of £75 until 4th April

SUNDAY SAVASANA: A SOUND JOURNEY

With Holly Husler

Sunday 10th May 2020 | 2pm – 3.30pm

As part of The Hulsers weekend at Heather Yoga, Sound Healer, Holly, will be sharing with us a journey of sound, where healing
vibrations and sensations from beautiful instruments such as crystal bowls, chimes and voice, will weave their magic over and through you. Expect a unique, sensory experience.

Sunday Savasana: A Sound Journey (90mins)-Sunday 10th May 2pm-3.30pm

What to expect? A relaxing, sensory experience; designed to nourish your soul and shift you into a state of balance and harmony. We’ll begin with some meditation to calm the mind, followed by some gentle stretches to open and prepare the body, before settling in for your ultimate Sunday Savasana.
You’ll be invited to lie down and get cosy under a blanket, where Holly will guide you through an immersive journey of healing sounds and vibrations from beautiful global instruments, including Alchemy crystal bowls and Holly’s singing voice.

This session will afford you the chance to slow down, relax and reset. You may experience potential shifting of blockages, clarity, insights, visions, answered questions, a connection to intuition… Or you may experience none of those things, but simply enjoy the chance to switch off and be still!

About Holly
From performing original pop tunes at the London O2 stage to 20,000 people, to singing healing mantras and playing magical instruments to seas of sleeping yogis at events and studios across the globe, Holly’s journey has taken some unexpected turns! Holly’s yoga practice over the years eventually drew to the surface a deep desire to help people find conscious connection and their own inner peace, leading her to train first as a yoga teacher then a sound healer with industry leaders, Nestor Kornblum & Michelle Averard, and crystal bowl specialists Carly Grace & Yantara Jiro. Her significant yoga teachers have included Jamie Clarke, Dulce Aguilar, Adam Husler & Mia Togo.

£25 Full Price. Early Bird Offer £20 until 4th April

INTRODUCTION TO AERIAL YOGA

With Paddy Gallagher

Sunday 17th May 2020 | 11.15pm – 1.15pm

This Aerial Yoga workshop is a 2-hour introductory session. You will be seated in the hammock at the beginning, folded over the hammock for a downward dog, resting back into the hammock during sun salutations and suspended in the hammock for inversions, as well as flipping in and out! At the end of the workshop you will also get the chance to fully unwind and rejuvenate by lying down in the hammock during Savasana.
Suitable for all levels of fitness and no previous experience of yoga or aerial work is needed, just bring an open mind with a sense of fun.

If you have any form of injury or serious illness, or if you are pregnant or have recently had a baby please do inform Paddy before booking: 
paddyaerialyoga@gmail.com

Only one ticket person/ per account name. If you have booked 2 tickets under the same account name please contact 07960330183 as this won’t show 2 places on the roster and spaces are very limited. Thank you

Booking is essential to guarantee your place as places are limited.

£30

LOVE YOUR CORE AND PELVIC FLOOR

With Kelly Ann

Friday 22nd May 2020 | 10.30am – 12 noon

This workshop at Heather Yoga will focus on practical experience lead practices and techniques to build strength and confidence in the core. We will learn to support from within and encourage muscles to come back online and perform their given function. You will learn exercises to help improve your posture, access deep core muscles and develop your awareness of your pelvic floor. Everyone is welcome to join this workshop. Feel free to bring your children with you so you can still attend this workshop for you!

THE BODY TEMPLE: A SOULFUL JOURNEY

With Amanda Teal

Saturday 23rd May 2020 | 2pm – 4pm

Ignite magic in your body, mind and heart with a soulful vinyasa flow celebrating and cultivating the vessel that is YOU: Your Body Temple!
This celebration of the self will begin by chanting the Gayatri Mantra: A prayer of the Heart: It sings of gratitude for the sun’s energy and illumination. If you are a nature lover, this chant will sing to you.

Gāyatrī Mantra
ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः
तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं ।
भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि
धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥

Om bhūr bhuvah svaha
Tat savitur varēņyam
Bhargo devasya dhīmahi
Dhiyo yo nah prachodayāt

“The eternal, earth, air, heaven
That glory, that resplendence of the sun
May we contemplate the brilliance of that light
May the sun inspire our minds.”

Translation by Douglas Brooks

The Body Temple: A Soulful Journey will help you to explore your yoga practice through sound, through meditation and mudra and through asana with namaskara (Sun salutation) variations and with a focus on opening the heart with progressive backbends leading to Natarajasana. The sequence cultivates an authentic Earth / Sky connection in the body and is a celebration of the grace within you.

Come… join the cosmic party and flow in the beauty of you!

YOGA UNPLUGGED-RESTORATIVE YOGA: RELAX, REJUVENATE AND REBALANCE

With Ella Young

Friday 29nd May 2020 | 7.45pm – 9.15pm 

FAMILY YOGA: SUMMER SOLSTICE

With Kelly Ann

Saturday 20th June 2020 | 3pm – 4pm

Celebrate the longest day of the year and join us for Summer Solstice at Heather Yoga

Bring the family for a dynamic yoga session where we honour the sun, the sense of freedom (and playfulness) and take time out from this high-energy time of year to reconnect to each other.
You’ll experience plenty of laughter & joy, enjoy learning together & spending time in each other’s company. Practice energetic and exciting yoga activities to challenge everyone, discover partner yoga to encourage bonding & being a team. This will help to build on strength, flexibility, enhancing focus & mindfulness, and finding inner calm & quietness.This Family Yoga workshop is a great way to reconnect with each other and smile from the inside out. We will go on a yoga journey together with some music, yoga games, story telling, partner poses, and practice some breathing exercises.

This workshop is open to all family members. We recommend that it is most suitable for years 4+ but if you would like enquire about bringing someone younger in your family then please get in touch so that we can let you know more about what is involved. info@heatheryoga.co.uk

£12.50 for on adult and one child, £2 for additional children/ adults. Maximum 4 children per family.

ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY + BIOMECHANICS APPLIED TO YOGA:
A 2-DAY TRAINING/IMMERSION

With Dr Yogi

Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th October 2020 | 10am – 6pm

“The most useful and informative two days that I have spend in years!” Jo W, Yoga Teacher

For yoga teachers, yoga teacher trainees or yoga practitioners with at least a one-year consistent practice

In this two-day immersion we will explore in detail the anatomy and physiology of our incredible human body applied to practising and teaching yoga. Each topic that we delve into will be related directly back to the asana practice. The sessions will be interactive and experiential and will vary between discussion, lecture, small group work, personal reflection and group asana practice. There will be a strong focus on using knowledge of anatomy to make asana practices as inclusive as possible. A detailed manual will be included.

The immersion is ideal for yoga practitioners with an established practice, who want to learn more about the human body, go deeper in their own yoga practice and develop a teaching style that is up to date, empowering and inclusive. We will explore anatomy to a depth that is appropriate for teaching yoga.

By the end of the weekend you will feel inspired and empowered to teach yoga to the best of your ability. You will have the confidence to breakdown any yoga asana with a clear understanding of the key actions and movements and know how to work with your own unique anatomy and that of your student.

An Introduction to Intelligent Movement Principals:
• An introduction to muscle looking at its structure and function and how we can apply the knowledge of stretch reflexes to deepen our practice
• The structure and function of bone and joints looking at both the importance and limitation of alignment and what limits our movement
• How a knowledge of fascia can impact our movement on and off the mat
• The Nocebo Effect and choosing empowering language
• What causes muscle tightness
• Flexibility vs mobility
• Anatomical language and how this can help us to remember the names of some of our muscles

A Detailed Exploration of the Lower Limbs:
• An exploration of our feet and ankles looking at their structure and function and how we can apply this knowledge on and off the mat
• Why our knee joints may be vulnerable to injury and how to support them
• A detailed look at the hip joints focusing on what makes each of us so unique
• Piriformis Syndrome

A Detailed Exploration of the Upper Limbs:
• The importance of shoulder joint and girdle mobility and stability in our yoga practice
• An evidence-based approach to Shoulder Impingement
• Hyperextension of the elbow joint
• Why wrist pain is so common in yoga

A Detailed Exploration of the Spine:
• An exploration of our pelvis and sacro-iliac joints and how to keep this area supported during our asana practice
• An evidence-based approach to back pain and prolapsed discs
• The anatomy of our core musculature
• Increasing thoracic spine mobility
• Supporting our cervical spine during inversions
• An evidence-based approach to releasing neck tension

The Science Behind Why Yoga Makes Us Feel So Good:
• How yoga impacts our nervous system and relieves stress
• Yoga as a breath-led practice and why breath is so important
• Yoga for cardiovascular and lymphatic health

This immersion counts towards CPD requirements for Yoga Alliance members (14 contact hours)

2 Day Immersion Price:
£200 Full Price.

Booking is essential to guarantee your place as places are limited.

About Andrew McGonigle aka Doctor Yogi:
After originally training to become a doctor, Andrew moved away from western medicine to pursue a career as a yoga teacher, massage therapist and anatomy teacher. Andrew has been practising yoga and meditation for over 13 years and teaching strong, grounding and inclusive classes since 2009. Andrew combines all of his skills to teach anatomy and physiology workshops across the globe. For more information visit: www.dr-yogi.com