YOGADEVON: Mindful Yoga classes – Current Timetable
All yoga classes cultivate physical strength, flow, balance, flexibility and wellbeing alongside exploring mindfulness, focus, relaxation, intuitive awareness and relaxation. Inclusive and welcoming for all levels from beginners, intermediates to teachers.
Tues morning, 0930-1030, Shirwell village hall, £10 drop in.
Wed evening, 1800 – 1900, Tarka Clinic, Paiges Lane (behind M & S), Barnstaple, EX31 1EF, £9 in a block of classes, £12 drop in.
How much?
Evening classes are brought as a block, which works out as £9 per session. If this doesn’t work for you with other family/work commitments, you can come on a drop-in basis at £12 per class if there is space. Shirwell Tues yoga class is only a drop-in class at £10 per session. Please contact me if you would like to come to a class. You’re are very welcome to try the Wed 6pm class on a drop-in basis before deciding to come to a block of classes. Please contact me to see if there is space available.
Booking a yoga course
If possible, please try to commit to coming to a half-term block of yoga classes. This is usually between 5-7 lessons. It takes time, motivation, and a certain amount of self-discipline to learn anything new. So a short spell of dedication to your yoga practice means you are more likely to witness more progress and tangible benefits. It also means you will show up, rain or shine!
My yoga classes in North Devon tend to fill up quickly, so I give priority to those people who want to come each week. If a class is full, I can put on you on a waiting list until a space becomes available.
One-to-one and small group Sessions
You may want to start, refresh or deepen your practice on an individual basis. Maybe, you have specific health concerns you want to address, or feel it’s time to develop your yoga practice and explore aspects such as mantra, meditation, inversions, backbends, pranayama and so on. I am always happy to teach you at my home studio, or else at your home, either on a one-to-one or two-to-one basis or with a group of between 3 and 6 friends. Please contact me, if you are interested in having individual or small group yoga classes in North Devon around the Barnstaple, Bideford, and Great Torrington area. Private sessions cost £65 for one hour.
What is unique about my yoga classes?
At the heart of my yoga teaching practice is mindfulness. The 60 minutes you spend in a yoga class gives you time and space to stretch and relax your body, honour your feelings, calm the mind, cultivating self-awareness to soften stress, anxiety and tension. In doing so, we experience more happiness, freedom, and ease. Moving mindfully with the breath, our yoga practice starts to reshape stiff, immobile, or tense muscles, enhances self-esteem and body confidence, improves energy levels, emotional balance and mental focus and contentment. The simple, profound tool of mind-body awareness means that each time you practice yoga, it becomes a journey in self-understanding in which we nurture ourselves with more compassion, self-acceptance, and love.
You do not have to try to improve, become or strive to keep up, or aspire to being like somebody else. Instead, you can enjoy contentment and freedom in being you, valuing and knowing this is enough. My yoga classes are friendly, supportive and peaceful spaces, with as much one-to-one guidance as you need and appropriate challenges to develop an authentic yoga practice, whatever your starting point.
Can anyone practice yoga?
Everyone is welcome at my yoga classes; it truly doesn’t matter whether you are old, young, super bendy or not at all, or whether you can touch your toes. We all have different starting points, and have stood on a yoga mat for the first time, not knowing what to expect! Wherever you are at in your yoga practice, there is always something new to discover and explore.
You may be coming to a yoga class now, because of a specific physical or mental health condition – please give me a call or email me before, so so I can make sure that I can help and support you appropriately in class.
What do I need to bring?
I have some spare yoga mats and blocks that I can lend you upon request. There is a supply of spare mats available at the Tarka Clinic, along with blocks and other props. Please bring along a blanket for relaxation, wear loose comfortable clothing and avoid eating a heavy meal for a couple of hours before.
Apart from this, come to each class with a fresh open perspective, as if you were stepping onto a yoga mat for the very first time.