Tuesday evening intimate yoga
A nourishing and introspective practice with awareness of evening energy and a deeper need to rest.
Booking required | Max 7 people
When? Tuesday evening
Time? 6pm - 7:30pm
Where? St Martin’s Community Centre (upstairs)
Who? All levels of ability, age and fitness welcome
Teacher? Emma Després
Cost? £30
Please note classes are non-refundable and non-transferrable
Have a question?
Why intimate āsana?
With no more than 7 students to allow intimacy, connection & laughter, these sessions help you to delve deeper, receiving hands on guidance and personalised suggestions from Emma.
Over time, it is hoped that these classes help to bring greater ease into the body, release habitual movement patterns, free your energy, encourage healing, raise consciousness and allow a more rested state of mind.
Please remember there is no such thing as ‘advanced’ in yoga, which means these classes are accessible to all of you, regardless of your age or how long you have been practising - you simply turn up and go within.
Style of teaching
Emma teaches intuitive yoga, encouraging us to let go of what we think we know and to find a new way of moving that brings us back to our beginning: the spine.
Inspired by Vanda Scaravelli, this progressive practice is about quality of movement, not quantity, where less is more. When we do less, we learn to feel more and our body delights in the softness and the opportunity to let go and release as we tune into its relationship with earth and gravity.
We cannot force this release, only create the conditions for it, inviting us to move deeper, tuning into our body and unfolding until the movement is stable, light and easeful. Refining our awareness in this way, expands our vision to greater wholeness and harmony - guided by this intention. Thus a new way of being is revealed, both on and off our mat, a form of meditation, which allows for new embodied experience and sensation and a different approach to asana.
Emma’s teacher, Louise Simmons, is one of the principal students of Diane Long, who was a principal student of Vanda. Emma is deeply committed to sharing these teachings so that others may be positively transformed by this attentive, freeing and, at times, challenging approach to yoga.
“Yoga practice is like music and the song of the body wants to sing. We just have to create the right conditions”
“You have to learn how to listen to your body, going with it and not against it, avoiding all effort or strain. You will be amazed to discover that, if you are kind to your body, it will respond in an incredible way”