Yoga with Robin Lipsey

STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF THE CLASSES


Most classes include:

• Warming up exercises and loosening exercises
  
  
• A balanced selection of yoga postures including stretches, strengthening postures and balancing
  
  
• Particular focus on one or two postures or exercises. Working with these to deepen our understanding and improve our practice of them
  
  
• At least one flowing sequence of postures
  
  
• An interlude of stillness to practice a simple meditation or yogic breathing
  
  
• An interlude of deep relaxation

The content of the classes varies each week but there is also repetition. Postures and exercises come round again and again. However, there all sorts of ways in which we can engage ourselves with what we are doing to keep it fresh and interesting. We approach the same postures in subtly different ways.


The atmosphere of the classes is friendly and informal, non-competitive and supportive. I encourage and welcome questions and discussion during the classes.
I'm usually available before or after a class to respond to any individual concerns or questions you may have in relation to the class or your own practice.


PRACTICE CDs

Students who want to practise at home may purchase practice CDs.


MIXED ABILITIES

Most regular yoga classes throughout the UK are made up of students who differ considerably in their suppleness, fitness and experience. Teachers respond to this challenge in their own way.

In my classes all the major postures are introduced in stages. You don't progress to the next stage until you feel ready. If you don't feel ready, you simply repeat the previous stage. The benefits will flow to you at each stage, so it doesn't matter whether you progress quickly or slowly through the stages. Nor does it matter if you never do the completed posture. Our main goal in yoga is to promote health and well being, rather than achieve the completed form of postures.

If you are a beginner, this staged approach allows you to progress, in your own time, towards the completion of a posture. If you are more experienced and perhaps more supple, it allows you come into a posture gradually, giving your body time to relax into it.


YOGA FOR OVER 50's

The pace of these classes is relatively slow and most of the postures and sequences are accessible to less fit people. Each student is encouraged to adapt postures to suit their own needs. Supports are used in a way that helps each student feel comfortable in the postures.




COST AND ENROLMENT

You are welcome to come and try one class before buying a block of classes.
Cost £6

If you decide to join you pay £36 for a block of six classes
(i.e. £6 per class)


A map of how to find the barn will be sent to you when you confirm you are coming to your trial session.

For the schedule of classes please click 'Classes and Times' on the menu bar.