KELLY WHISTON
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Why take a private yoga lesson?
Yoga was traditionally taught by one teacher directly to one student. The great ancient teachers understood the importance of individualising each yoga experience to meet the needs of the individual student. Today’s group classes are fun, energizing and help to create a strong community and affordable yoga, however, in a group class, teachers may not be able to deliver the individualised attention and guidance that we all need at one time or another.
6 Benefits of A Private Yoga Lesson
A private yoga session allows for a more intimate view into YOUR practice. You can start a new practice, deepen your current practice or spend some time working with an injury or specific goal or concern.
∗ Eases or reduces the stress or intimidation experienced by beginners when attending large group yoga classes for the first time. Private yoga lessons will give you a crash course on the basics of yoga, which will give you the foundation necessary to feel comfortable in a group environment.
∗ Private yoga classes are the perfect way to work with special health concerns, injuries, or any other limitations you may experience. If you are concerned about the possibility of a re-injury, working one-on-one with a private yoga instructor you will learn how to adapt certain postures and use modifications as well as find out if there are specific poses to avoid when in class.3.
∗ Private yoga classes can offer a highly viable option if you have set a specific goal – whether it’s mental, emotional, spiritual or physical. With a specific goal in mind, a private yoga instructor can tailor and create a specific practices for you designed to help meet your goals.
∗ private yoga lessons and provide the necessary guidance to better equip you to meet your goals.
∗ With the many types of yoga available, a skilled instructor will be able to provide recommendations on what types of yoga works for you best based on his/her observations in private yoga sessions.
∗ Experienced yoga practitioners can also greatly benefit from private yoga lessons especially for those who want to take their practice to the next level. A private yoga instructor can work closely with you in leading you into more challenging poses in a safe and inspiring environment.
Private yoga classes are an investment for your personal growth and health. They are a great way to start your yoga practice in a more solid footing before you join group yoga sessions or provide intensive training and exclusive attention for advanced practitioners.
Vinyasa Flow Yoga
Vinyasa Flow Yoga is a vigorous, energising yoga practice consisting of a series of linked postures. This is a physically demanding form of yoga in which you will move dynamically and sweat and some power moves included. Vinyasa Flow Yoga offers the opportunity to cultivate awareness of your experience through explorations of strength, stamina and flexibility.
Vinyasa Flow teaching includes some hands-on adjustment of the body.
“Yoga is not a matter of ‘How can I attain this or that final posture?’ It’s a matter of gently pressing into the various edges you encounter within the template structure of each particular posture. Your edges and limits will change as a by-product of this exploration; you will change.”
“The techniques of yoga are merely ways of keeping the attention focused and present with whatever is occurring. They are based on connections between patterns of thought, the emotions, the breathing, the posture and the general physiology of the body. Through yoga we can cultivate these feedback systems between the body, the breath, the senses and the thoughts. The body itself then becomes the ground for enlightenment.”
If you decide on having a one to one Yoga or Pilates practice, working at your level and building with regular practice.
Maybe a one to one or group Personal Fitness Trainer, Fitness Yoga, Pilates combination of power moves to create a body sculpting routine.