Studying with Emma
Yoga is a spiritual practice
All it asks of you is to turn up exactly as you are and practice, practice, practice!
Emma teaches intuitively, inspired by the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli, as shared with her through her teacher Louise Simmons, who studies with Diane Long, one of Vanda’s principle students.
Intuitive yoga
Emma is inspired to share the Tantric path she treads guided by her teacher Louise Simmons and her teacher Diane Long who was Vanda Scaravelli’s principal student.
She especially delights in sharing this magical, empowering, unifying, grounding, heart deepening and conscious practice with students, supporting healing and transformation, easing distraction, opening to the greater truth of who we are, tapping into the energetic matrix of the planet and feeling an intimate connection to all life -bringing a greater sense of meaning to our life in the process.
Working deeply with gravity, breath and awareness (consciousness) this radical practice helps to re-awaken the potential of our spine and allows a new harmony, freedom, aliveness and fluidity in our body, mind and life generally.
Emma’s sessions are hands-on. She works intuitively and compassionately to support and guide your body in discovering new ways of being, relating and connecting, working from the inside out.
"You cannot fail to discover who you really are if you trust." Dr Christopher Wallis
Community classes
Emma teaches a weekly class at St Martin’s Community Centre on a Friday from 9.30-10.45am. Please email her at emma@beinspiredby.co.uk to join this friendly and joyful class.
Grace teaches a weekly class at St Martin’s Community Centre on a Monday from 6-7pm. This is a drop-in class so simply turn up.
Click below for upcoming classes, workshops and events
Yoga offerings
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Intimate yoga classes
To support greater intimacy with the practice, these classes are limited to six students.
Grounding, uplifting, and joyful, the sessions are interactive, asking students to go deeper still to truly experience the benefits of yoga, as a path to greater consciousness and interconnectedness of all life, allowing greater freedom in body/mind/soul.
Please book online.
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Private yoga sessions
Tailored to individual needs, these sessions are hands on, helping to release unhelpful movement patterns in body/mind.
Healing and transformative in approach, Emma weaves Reiki into the sessions, to support self-awareness, and the magic of the practice in freeing us from our limitations and positively shifting consciousness.
Sessions can be held online, please email Emma.
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Yogic Philosophy
Grounding and transformative in nature, Yogic philosophy takes us beyond the asana, supporting mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, and fostering a more holistic approach to life.
Inspired by her teachers Helen Macpherson and Andy Curtis-Payne and the work of Dr Christopher Wallis, Emma is keen to share the teachings to help students cultivate deeper self-awareness and create a supportive community for the benefit of all life.
Please contact Emma to express an interest in joining one of her upcoming study groups.
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Vedic chanting
Vedic chanting involves, chanting the Vedas, which are a vast collection of texts in the form of chants, that were believed to be heard by ancient Indian sages when they were in deep meditation. They contain profound and timeless teaching on an enormous variety of subjects and by chanting in this way today, we connect directly to that ancient wisdom.
Vedic chanting is an empowering, grounding and healing practice, that raises our vibration, helps us to find our voice and connects us increasingly to all life.
Emma teaches an intimate monthly class, please email her to register interest.
Online practices
Explore our range of practices available to watch for free on Youtube.
“Is it possible to have a different attitude in which a new intelligence, not imposed by authority but born from interest, attentions and sensitivity, will emerge and in which body and mind, fused in one single action, are collaborating together? It is just this revolutionary attitude that we are going to discover through a new discipline in the practice of yoga”,
Vanda Scaravelli
Class info & FAQs
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General classes are held upstairs in St Martin’s Community Centre, with the intimate yoga sessions held at Cobo Community Centre. Please turn off mobile telephones and remove shoes before entering the space - thank you!
All weekly yoga classes are drop-in - no booking required. The intimate classes require booking.
As is traditionally recommended, you may like to refrain from eating two hours prior to class. If you do need to eat then fruit is OK.
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£15 drop-in for adults and £8 per student, or 5 tokens can be purchased in advance for £60 and used in any of our classes.
Payment can be made in cash or by bank transfer - please ask Emma for bank details. Sorry, no payment by card.
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We recommend wearing comfortable tightly fitting clothes such as t-shirts or vest-tops with leggings or shorts, bringing a jumper and socks for relaxation.
Classes are practiced barefoot.
Please bring your own mat if you can, for hygiene reasons, but we do have ones you can borrow if needed.
Bolsters, blankets, eye pillows etc. can also be borrowed.
Please be conscious of wearing strong perfume, as this can disrupt the class for those more sensitive to smell.
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With injuries or loss of physical wellness, yoga offers an opportunity to help you get to the root cause and will offer the opportunity for healing and understanding yourself on a deeper level.
We have various tools available to us and a myriad of postures, to make the practice accessible.
You will feel undoubtably better from practising yoga, and whatever your problem is, it will not overtake you; yoga will help you to take care of your body, your mind and your breath and you will likely have more energy.
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Beinspired only accepts pregnant women with an existing yoga practice into our weekly classes. It is essential that you let Emma know, in confidence, that you are pregnant, regardless of the stage of pregnancy.
We know what it’s like when you’re keen to get to a yoga class to support the postnatal period but on-demand breastfeeding or bottle feeding dictates otherwise. For this reason, at Beinspired we are keen that postnatal women are given the opportunity to bring their babes in arms (babies who pretty much stay in one place, so not crawling or toddling) to our classes so that they can be fed as needed.