What Brenda can offer to individuals:
One remedial class is already up and running at Upper Caldecote Church Hall, near Biggleswade in Bedfordshire on Wednesdays between 10.30 a.m. and 12.00 noon. Fees are based on a 12-week term and if you pay in advance you get two weeks free. If you join mid-term, your first class will be free.
One-to-one classes are available in St Neots.
Brenda welcomes new students of either gender, any age and of differing abilities and fitness levels.
Please Contact Brenda for more details.
...groups:
If you live within a 12 mile radius of St. Neots, and you, and perhaps one or two friends would like to have a Heartfelt Yoga class started by Brenda, please contact her to talk about it. Brenda does day-time classes only.
...and organizations:
Why not let Brenda bring her skills and enthusiasm to your members or employees and host a 1-day workshop or weekend course?
Brenda can offer two one-day workshops, either to explore Yoga and Sound or The Language of the Body.
Weekend courses (which run from Friday evening until Sunday lunchtime) give the student more time to consider either Yoga and Healthy Living or Yoga and Drama for Healing.
A great way for friends and colleagues to discover in more depth the healing properties of Heartfelt Yoga!
Contact Brenda and she will be pleased to discuss any of these options.
Glossary
A brief explanation of some of the Sanskrit terminology often used in Yoga:
Asana : a steady and comfortable meditative pose according to Patanjali. A specific position of the body which channels prana, opens the chakras and removes energy blocks.
Bandha : meaning "binding" or "bondage", a posture in which organs and muscles are contracted and controlled creating a psychomuscular energy lock which redirects the flow of energy or prana in the body and locks it into a specific area.
Chakra : a Sanskrit word meaning "wheel" or "circle"; usually refers to the centres or points of spiritual energy that reside in or compose the human astral/subtle body. They are considered to have correspondences with the physical body and function as psychic portals to the world at large.
Hatha yoga : the science of yoga which purifies the whole physical body by means of asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha, concentration; a prelude to raja yoga and samadhi.
Mantra : a sacred verbal formula repeated in prayer, meditation or incantation, such as an invocation to God or a syllable or portion of scripture containing mystical potentialities.
Mudra : literally means "gesture", the physical, mental and psychic attitude which expresses and chanels cosmic energy within mind and body.
Namaste : an Indian greeting simply translated "I bow to the divine in you"; from the root words: Namas - bow, reverential salutation (from "Nam" - humbly submitting) Te - to you, acknowledging the divine presence in another. Traditionally said while bringing the palms together at the heart in prayer position and lightly bowing the head and shoulders.
Om or Aum : cosmic vibration of the universe; universal mantra; represents the four states of consciousness: conscious, subconscious, unconscious, supraconscious.
Prana : vital energy force sustaining life and creation, permeating the whole of creation and existing in both the macrocosms and microcosms.
Pranayama : technique of breathing and breath retention which increases the pranic capacity.
Raja yoga : the supreme yoga: union through concentration of mind.
Samadhi : a state of unutterable joy and peace, in which the Yogi is at one with the Supreme Spirit pervading the Universe.
Sanskrit : the ancient sacred language of the Aryans. The Sanskrit language possesses voluminous and valuable works in prose and in verse, some of which, like the Vedas, date back, in the opinion of certain scholars, to the year 30,000 BC or even far beyond. Almost every phrase of philosophic thought expressed and studied in the West, is represented in one form or another in ancient Hindu literature. Besides this, these old Sanskrit writings are replete with recondite subjects dealing with the wondrous.
Savasana : the word sava/shava means "corpse" or "dead body". A resting posture in which the senses are drawn inward and the physical body is at complete ease.
Vinyasa : a sequence of movements and postures connected with inhalations and exhalation.