Yoga Creation Studio

The word ‘Yoga’ is a Sanskrit term derived from the root ‘Yuj’, which means to yoke, join or unite. As traditionally described in The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the main purpose of yoga is to calm the thought streams of the mind.“However beautifully we carry out an asana (posture), however flexible our body may be, if we do not achieve the integration of body, breath, and mind we can hardly claim that what we are doing is yoga. What is yoga after all? It is something that we experience within our being. Yoga is not an external experience. In yoga we try in every action to be as attentive as possible to everything we do. Yoga is different from dance or theatre. In yoga we are not creating something for others to look at.

As we perform the various asansa we observe what we are doing and how we are doing it. We do it only for ourselves. We are both observer and what is observed at the same time. If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga. In its truest sense Yoga is about much more than the physical postures and breathing exercises. Whilst very important, and also capable of bringing great benefits to practitioners, these are actually just preparatory techniques that will eventually settle the mind into silence and are just two parts of the eight limbs of classical yoga.

This class are sequences of postures, with elements fused and integrated from various traditions in Yoga including Iyengar and Ashtanga.The class is fun, experimental and playful and gives students the opportunity to try out new postures. Different series of postures will be practised in different classes and may focus on areas such as standing postures, backbends, arm balances, forward bends or inversions.

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

Ashtanga Yoga is a dynamic, physically demanding, flowing practice. Students are led through some or all of a set series of postures, practised in a particular order, known as the Primary series.

This practice aims to build heat in the body to help it to open, become more flexible and to release toxins. Through repeated practice students become familiar with the series of postures and eventually the focus moves away from the postures to following the breath and the gaze points for each posture, allowing the whole practice to be become more like a moving meditation.