Vinyasa Flow Yoga
Vinyasa yoga is a playful and physical form of yoga that will lift your spirits and energy levels while increasing flexibility, focus, strength and balance. The breath is the key element in the flowing sequence of postures, allowing you to connect with your body, mind and soul in a way that is nourishing, detoxifying and strengthening. Vinyasa Flow is a rhythm, like a dance, finding your edge between challenge and acceptance, while creating more focus and presence in our daily lives.
Yin Yoga
Yin yoga stands for “stillness, tranquility, introspection, surrendering ”. Yin yoga is a combination of yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Buddhism and Mindfulness, wherein the Chi or life force energy gets stimulated and balanced through long-held postures. A conscious breath and gravity are opening the major energy channels (meridians) in our body and releasing physical tensions and blockages (the precursors of all illness) while enhancing the flow of chi.
Yin yoga is more than just a stretching of connective tissue, we are also softening and calming the mind. When we stay for a longer period of time in a simple pose and draw the mind inward, emotions often start to arise. Yin yoga uses the Buddhist principles of mindfulness and a non defensive attitude to welcome and embrace every experience, emotion or story as it comes and to stay focused on this present moment.
Restorative
Yoga
We are living in a high speed, fast forward society who requires us daily to deal with varying demands, competition, time pressure and an overload on stimuli and information. We tend to be always busy, and it becomes more and more difficult to build in moments of rest, silence and non-doing. Becoming stressed has become normal, and many are even addicted to the taste of stress hormones. This always being on the run depletes our vital energy and many suffer from headaches, insomnia, digestive disorders, anxiety, depression,...
Restorative postures, which are often supported by blocks, blankets, bolsters, and other props, are designed to maximize comfort and allow practitioners to fully relax and let go, which is why they are typically held longer—about 5 to 20 minutes.
A restorative practice allows you to recover fully from all the stresses and strains of life. When the body can totally relax and release, the body starts to heal itself, the mind quiets down and we experience more openness, calmness, and resilience to deal with daily challenges.
Womb yoga
Womb yoga is a feminine way of yoga to nourish every aspect of our lives as women. To connect with the Source of Life, Shakti, in the temple or our womb.
To practice Womb Yoga is to honour and embrace the original blood wisdom of your womb, or womb space energies, as the source of feminine intuition, connection, creativity and sensuality.
Womb Yoga is an evolving therapeutic approach to yoga specially developed to support women’s health and healing over the past fifteen years by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, with whom I studied Womb Yoga & Womb Therapy. Womb Yoga is a simple, subtle and delightful route to access feminine spiritual authority, a powerful set of techniques and attitudes for all women to use on their journeys toward spiritual empowerment, self acceptance and contentment.
Earth Qi Qong Yoga
Yoga was traditionally practiced in forest or temples, without any mat or fancy studio.
I love to take my yoga out into nature and teach in the mountains, next the glacier streams, in a garden, forest, meditate under trees, in ancient caves, next to a little river… I believe that nature is our greatest teacher and healer, bringing us back into connection with our own rhythms, wisdom and source of inner joy and happiness. Nowadays our spiritual journeys often take too much place in our heads, and that’s why so many people feel unable to ‘belong and ground’
Earth Qi Qong Yoga is a blend of slower Qi Qong forms and yoga postures, providing grounding to anchor ourselves back in the rhythms and cycles of nature. As much as we are disconnected from our own bodies, we are disconnected we from our planet.
Yoga Nidra
Kids yoga
The Practice of Yoga Nidra is the ancient Yogic science of deep relaxation and altered consciousness.
Nidra, “the sleep of the Yogi” is a profound state of relaxation, experienced as a completely effortless state of peace and pure bliss. This is a transformational state between wakefulness and deep sleep that enhances physical, mental, and emotional sense of well-being by releasing tensions accumulated in the deepest layers of our body.
Yoga Nidra practice is a powerful tool for deep rest and renewal, allowing brain waves to slow down, and entering a state of deep relaxation and bliss. By resting us in this expanded state of awareness, Yoga Nidra helps us awaken to unconscious barriers such as self-limiting thoughts, unhelpful habits, long-held fears, and negative emotions – and empowers us to release these deep obstacles and energy blockages that can prevent us from living the life we desire and deserve.
What is kids yoga? It’s fun, it’s active and it’s calming – while subtly infusing a sense of self-worth. Through the physical practice, yoga nurtures flexibility and freedom of movement and grows corresponding self-confidence. Yoga gives kids healthy bodies and minds and develops their radiant little selves.
Unfortunately, kids are not immune to stress – and they’re surrounded by it once they merge into society – whether going to school or playing sports. They are just like us adults, often over stimulated. In nurturing contrast, yoga provides a safe, secure, non-competitive environment; a joyful space to be; and a chance for much needed relaxation. It teaches children the value of quietly breathing and to focus on what is going on with them versus what the world asks them to focus on. Believe it or not – kids, even super-active ones, love this! Plus, it gives them valuable tools they can use now and in the future.
Roll and release is a form of self-massage and introduction into the fascinating world of fascia. A deep healing journey of unwinding your physical and emotional body and release stress related patterns.
You will learn how to use ‘props’ like tennis balls, rollers and blocks to release the myofascial tissue or fascia. Roll & Release is a way of pressing a "Reset' button in your body.
Through gentle rolling movements and deep tissue pressure points, we open the energy channels of the body and can let go of stress and overcharged energy. Combined with conscious breathing you will experience a deep relaxed state in the mind, as the nervous system will start to unwind completely and generate healing and wellbeing.
Pranayama & Meditation
Pranayama is part of the yoga philosophy as well as the Ayurvedic medicine. By expanding the breath, the respiratory, digestive, hormonal, circulatory, nervous, lymphatic, endocrine, reproductive systems… are getting cleansed, imbalances are restored and health gets improved. At the same time, the mind draws more inward and quiets, opening a connection with your true essence and higher consciousness.
Breathwork is very healing and calming, and recommended in case of insomnia, stress, digestive problems, anxiety, hyperventilation, fatigue, burn-out, ...
Corporate Yoga
5 reasons to introduce yoga in your corporate environment:
team building
prevention burn-out, depression and lower back pain
more open communication and stronger relationships
enhanced focus and productivity
more stress resilience and overall wellbeing
Corporate Yoga is a very preventive, effective, low-cost and holistic stress management. There is conclusive evidence supporting the fact that offering even one Yoga session in a week brings about noted changes in employee behaviour by helping them manage stress better, enhance clarity and creative thinking.
Ayurvedic Yoga Massage is a massage technique developed by Master Kusum Modak of Pune, India, who has tirelessly dedicated her life to create and spread this wonderful Ayurvedic Yoga Massage technique. Kusum combined her knowledge of Ayurveda and Traditional Ayurvedic Massage with Yoga, learned directly from BKS Iyengar, to create her own unique approach to Ayurvedic massage.
Ayurvedic Yoga Massage is a unique style of massage that combines deep tissue massage with coordinated breath work and yoga stretching. The session is performed on a mat for free movement and flow. The deep tissue massage helps to remove knots and adhesions in the muscles, releases tension and prepares the body of the receiver for assisted yoga stretching.