Classes Styles

All classes are traditional Mysore Style ie the tuition is individual within a group setting. Students practice at their own pace through the basic series, modifications and ajustments being given as appropriate such that even beginners will develop a whole practice with beginning middle and end within around one month's instruction.

Ian combines elements of his training in NLP along with his background as a civil structural engineer and software engineer into the insturction.

Ian views body as a structural mechanism and the series as a program in which each asana acts as a subroutine with both esotric and corporal functions. Thus with intelegence and experience he is able to tailor the practice in order to empower students to give their best within the current limitations of the session working towards their trancendence.

Ian offers three types of class

  • Introdructory

    Introductory classes are suitable for those with no prior experience of yoga. Classes are limited to 6 students, philosophical and theoretical background to the practice are given.
  • Mysore Ashtanga

    Mysore Classes are suitable for those with an existing practice of primary and or intermediate asana, or those who have completed a set of 24 introductory classes. Class starts with a sanskrit prayer students work through the series at their own pace
  • Synergy Ashtanga

    Synergy classes have the same suitability as Mysore classes. In a synnergy class background music with strong repetitive beats and or empowering lyrics is played in order to aid the formation of the kinasthetic trance state giving energy to the practice and ambient trance aiding the acceptance positive sugestions which are made in the guided shavasana at the end of the practice period.
Private classes and corporate classes are also undertaken please phone to arrange

Further Reading

The Art of Survival A guide to yoga therapy The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice A very usefull book covering yoga from a humanistic perspective, with practical info far beyond asana The Serpent Power A guide to laya yoga kundalini techniques through translations of ancient texts and notes by Sir John Woodroffe (aka Arthur Avalon ) an early 20th centuary theosophical classic. The Structure of Magic The founding book on NLP all else seems to repeat the same stories and outlook
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