Physicality

Yoga Anatomy

Discover anatomy as a source of wonder, inspiration and awe. Find out how your body works, the magic of movement and the fundamental processes of life, mediated by the different structures of your body. Understand your body in practice.

Yoga Physiology

Be fascinated as you discover your internal systems and how they work.

Focus on aspects of physiology; such as blood pressure, the role of oxygen and carbon dioxide, digestion and the maintenance of inner balance and flow.

Use this physiological awareness to create a deeper understanding of your Yoga practice and why you do what you do.

The Kriyas

Learn the Hatha Yoga cleansing practices and find comfort and ease in their use.

Hip Opening Practice

Open your hips to the extent that your individual anatomy will allow. Understand why to open your hips. Explore the three dimensions of opening and create a practice to facilitate your development.

Back Bending Development

Your anatomy offers different challenges and blessings. This course will take you as far as your anatomy and practice will allow you to go. Open and extend your spine into the heart opening back bends, whilst understanding the integrity of structure.

Inversions

Play with a range of techniques to facilitate the practice and understanding of inversion. Here we will explore shoulder-stands, forearm balance, headstands and handstands.

Balancing

Cultivate your practice and awareness of balance. This course includes working with standing balances, arm and hand balances.

Balance in life is an essential key.

Twisting

Understanding the function of the spine and the basic principles and reasoning of twists we will explore how to deepen our experience of twisting and fully nourish the spine and nervous system.

The Nine Gates of Opening

Cultivating an understanding of the essential simplicity of asana practice. Explore the fundamental nine openings and strengths allowed in the body. Explore these nine gates in relationship to the field of gravity-levity in which we live and understand how build a practice to facilitate your personal practice development.

Roots into Lift

Develop and experientially understand your centre of gravity as a function of your existence within the earth element. Manifest deeper foundation, mutual relationship with earth, and from these roots open into the possibilities of expansion.

Bandhas

Deep exploration of the three core bandhas, the American neo-bandhas, and their relationship to incarnation and freedom.

Core Strength and Flight

Understanding the role of the Bandhas on the physical level of experience as manifesting the power to move around the centre of gravity.
Using exercises to explore grounding, centring and lift from the base we use our current experience, possibilities, potential and limitations of our individual anatomies to play with this aspect of incarnate being.

Krama, the Steps of Practice

Vinyasa krama is a deeply intelligent method of working with the principles of anatomy, alignment, flow, foundation and individual developmental process to cultivate a profound and effective personal practice or class. Through this workshop you will develop the understanding of krama and how to make it work for you.

Cultivating Intelligent Self-Practice

In this course Christopher will use his analytical, assessment and renowned adjustment skills to assist you step deeper into the exploration of your own personal practice. Guaranteed to help you develop and more fully understand your practice. This course is delivered to a maximum of 12 participants.

Preventing and Healing Injury

Anatomy of Knees, Muscles, Shoulders, Spine, Muscles and Connective tissue; understanding these, no injury is necessary. Injury usually arises from pushing, being pushed and not listening deeply and intelligently enough to body-mind.

Working with existing conditions, the principles of flow medicine and krama we can use the practice as therapy, to heal.

The Art of Adjustment 1

A weekend workshop looking at the basic skills of adjustment and how to begin to understand the workings of our own or others bodies and minds and how adjustment can facilitate a deeper experience of practice.

The psycho-neurological rational behind hands on and verbal adjustment in conjunction with demonstration.

This session will get you to begin or deepen your comfort and awareness with the different aspects of adjusting.

The Art of Adjustment 2

Six days of diving, deep into the art and skills of adjusting.

The psycho-neurological basis of adjustment and how using the understanding of anatomy, kinesiology and mental-emotional states cultivated during the course, you will gain access to very real skills in working with students in both verbal and hands on techniques.

At the end of this training you will be confident and competent at adjusting all of the postures contained within the primary and second series of the Ashtanga Vinyasa system and more.

The Neurology of Somatic Intelligence

This workshop will help you understand the neurological, structural and emotive condition of pattern. We will explore the freedoms and limitations of physical existence. Somatic intelligence is an aspect of kosmic intelligence, and thus assists the movement into deeper and more unobstructed wisdom and lovingness.

Ethics and Interdependence

Satsang on the nature of connection.

The foundation of practice and the completion of practice.

Being ethical is the realisation of interdependence. Interdependence is the beginning and the culmination of independence. Awakening as responsibility, awakening as the balance of being and doing. Transcendence through immanence rests on the lived awareness of ethics.