WORKSHOPS
& CLASSES
Current Classes
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@ Beach Road Studio, Sandy Bay
Wednesday 9:30-10:30, Thursday 5:45-6:45
Alexander Yoga brings the principles of the Alexander Technique to the yoga practice, combining resilience, balance and awareness of movement. This combination allows practitioners to explore minimum effort in the asanas to find maximum efficiency in the whole practice.
In this session, we practice simple yoga asanas to discover how movement habits affect life. This practice will provide clear guidance to develop better movement, breathing and posture.
This session invites participants to practice simple asanas like in a Hatha or Slow Flow session.
Alexander Yoga helps you understand how to find ease in motion and avoid strain in your practice, so you can apply that learning to your daily activities.
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@ Totum Movement
Monday 6:40-7:40
Develop a deeper awareness and coordination in movement to upgrade your physical practice.
Students will explore fundamental human movement patterns with mindfulness to cultivate an efficient relationship between stability and flexibility. Learn to identify, modify and release habitual patterns of tension to improve the quality of your underlying movement and address the root causes of pain and restriction.
This all-level class investigates movement patterns like rolling, crawling, squatting, and jumping in a way that will help students elevate their approach to skill acquisition and feel fantastic throughout the process.
Learn to identify, modify and release patterns of tension that contribute to pain.
Cultivate body awareness and explore movement with mindfulness.
Past Events
Position of Mechanical Advantage. Hominin. The Ape
This midway stage is a kind of freestanding 'power' position. It is characterised by not holding onto anything for support and being freely balanced on two feet. For adults to develop back strength and good coordination it is often a good policy to practice adopting this mid position for numerous activities.
R.J. Simmons
Tortoise (reptile)
This action of folding the body backwards over a knee seems to be a simple and most economical way of getting the knees underneath the pelvis, which will be a key requirement in order to progress upwards off the ground.
R.J. Simmons
Lizard (amphibian). Patterning
Combining leg and arm movements produces patterns that prefigure creeping and crawling. It is one of the benefits of Dart work that if you have trouble with an action to be done in normal upright mode you can try to perform it on the ground where gravity operates differently.
R.J. Simmons
The practice of lying down in Semi-Supine or Constructive Rest certainly can assist in restoring body symmetrical balance especially if accompanied by the application of the conscious directions recommended by Alexander.
