Yoga
Yoga offerings
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General classes
Browse weekly classes with Emma or Grace, as well as courses and immersions to deepen your practice. Suitable for every body, all ages, of all abilities!
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Private yoga sessions
Private sessions are therapeutic in approach and offer intimacy as they are tailored to your body and your needs. The sessions are hands on, with Emma giving Reiki where she can.
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Lesson on Yoga Sutras
Explore and discuss with Emma the first two/three chapters of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, which is widely regarded as the authoritative text on yoga.
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Vedic chanting & Pranayama
Emma has been leading group practices of Vedic chanting & Pranayama since 2023, both which help to increase our vibration & expand consciousness. Upcoming classes will be on the events page.
Yoga is a spiritual practice and non-competitive in approach.
All it asks of you is to turn up exactly as you are and practice, practice, practice!
Scaravelli-inspired approach
Emma is a Scaravelli-inspired yoga teacher with direct lineage to Vanda Scaravelli through her teacher Louise Simmons and her teacher Diane Long who was Vanda’s principal student.
Emma is motivated to helping her students reap the many benefits that this approach to practice offers, which is truly magical.
Read about Emma’s journey into Scaravelli-inspired yoga here
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Scaravelli-inspired yoga is suitable for everybody from those new to yoga to those who are in their eighties and beyond. This radical practice works deeply with gravity, breath and awareness to re-awaken the potential of our spine and allow a new harmony, freedom, and fluidity in our body, mind and life generally.
In time our body reveals a whole new language of movement, born from the spine, and expressing itself in a whole-body approach, healing and releasing deep tension and allowing us to truly bein each moment as it arises.
Everyone can benefit, from those who experience physical discomfort and ailments, to those who wish to increase vitality and wellbeing, to those who need to heal, to those who wish to deepen their existing practices and experience of yoga.
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
“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.
Online practices
Over the years we have filmed an extensive collection of videos for you to practice yoga from the comfort of your own home.
Meditation & relaxation audios
Emma has recorded many free relaxation and guided meditation audios to help quieten the mind and nourish your spirit.