Evolve Your Yoga

New Tools to Deepen + Advance Your Practice
About Evolve Your Yoga

Evolve Your Yoga is yoga to evolve both your practice and approach to life. It is an open, all-inclusive system with an emphasis on combining dynamic yoga with therapeutic applications. It aims to empower the individual to evolve their own practice by providing new tools and a repertoire of mini sequences, which prepare the body for more advanced postures. Students are able to experience poses previously not open to them. The style requires trust, humility, playfulness and an openness to change.

Each session will work under a theme of ‘Opposites Attract'. The teacher invite you to experience the constant interplay of opposites to electrify your life force. During the weekend, we will explore the balance between dynamic and therapeutic and between hard and soft. You will leave this workshop with fast results and a greater power to evolve your own practice. Each session begins with body awakening to prepare the body for the dynamic class. This dynamic section will then be broken down into therapeutic applications and mini sequences to help access the poses correctly.

The Warrior Salutation + Stance Structure
Friday 6th November 7.45 - 9.45pm
Begin with a delicious, unfolding body awakening sequence to prepare the body to move into a powerful and invigorating Warrior Salutation, incorporating twists and stance structures. Finish with a careful breakdown of the Warrior Salutation into a series of therapeutic applications and building blocks to deepen the Warrior understanding. This will be a powerful and illuminating session.

Hard Core Soft Core: Handstands + Arm Balances
Saturday 7th November 10.00am - 6.00pm
We will explore the balance of opposites; hard and soft, dynamic and therapeutic, male and female, Shiva and Shakti. We will look at how to make a hard core soft and how to make a soft core strong; building into a crescendo of balanced and integrated core work before breaking for a healthy lunch.

During the afternoon we will explore the power of ‘Universal Press Flex Principles' to create stability in the shoulder girdle and pelvic cortex of the centre body, resulting in true openness of alignment with power. We will work on joint stabilisation and the wrists, shoulders, hips and ankles. Basic body stabilisation will be established and evolve into handstands and arm balances achieved with an exhilarating freedom.

Standing Strong with Hip Openers
Sunday 8th November 10.00am - 5.30pm
On Sunday we go back to basics, focussing on balance and pelvic stability, learning how to stand on one leg properly and achieve balanced movement in our daily lives. The principle of ‘Closing to Open' is used, expanding from a powerful point of singularity and ‘centredness'. This will help us with movement (walking) and postural (stance) awareness. Mastering the universal principles of alignment and balance shows us how to stand steady in balancing poses, focusing on the yogic principle of Sthira Sukham Asanam, which translates as a steady joyous connection.

Being established in the universal principles of alignment and balance, we will then further employ the ‘Closing to Open', which is to suggest that expanding from contraction is the key to the underlying pulsating current of the rhythm of all movement. This universal principle is employed to increase our natural range of movement in deep hip openers, resulting in a dramatic evolution of central stabilisation and a natural, ecstatic experience.