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Hello & welcome to GRACEINYOGA!
Based in North London, I travel around the districts of Camden and Islington to provide yoga in the comfort of your own home, your personal space and/or your work space.
I help you find time to structure a personalised mind-body health regime that fits in with you and/or with your group. I endeavour to keep you inspired and motivated so that yoga becomes an integral wellness programme that you practice on and off the mat as often as your time allows.
Specialising in Vinyasa Yoga, my teaching experience include Restorative Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Power Yoga and Modified Ashtanga Vinyasa. As required, I incorporate relaxation techniques such as pranayama, yoga nidra and/or short meditations in every practice so that you experience optimum relaxation and feel revitalised after each session.
Tuition Options
GRACEINYOGA offers yoga classes on Calabria Road, London N5. Classes hold a maximum of 3 persons and are available to book online. For drop-ins, please contact me on the day to check space availability.
Venue address: 89 Calabria Road, London N5 1HX
Please message or contact me on:
07932 411 018
mail
to book as well as for timetable or any questions.
Namaste
Moderate to Intermediate classes – maintain and deepen your practice
Max 3 persons/class
These classes aim to take your practice to the next level and emphasize the importance of the mind-body connection. You will learn poses that will gradually challenge your individual edge and hopefully keep you coming back to your mat. It will take dedication and hard work to maintain and deepen your practice but it is through consistency that your practice becomes sweeter and you reap transformative benefits.
The classes will vary in themes (e.g., hips & hamstring, core, energy centres (chakras), etc.) and sequences can be tailored according to specific concerns.
Prices – £17/session or £75/block of 5 sessions or £140/block of 10 sessions
Please bring your own mat if possible. Props (x2 blocks and strap) are provided at the studio but do bring your own if convenient.
CALABRIA ROAD GROUP CLASS for
- GBP17.001 hour
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Discounts available on block-bookings
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Whether you are a complete beginner or with some experience, a taster class is an opportunity to try yoga for the first time or to re-start your practice.
It is the best time to build/rebuild your confidence, learn/relearn the basics of yoga or simply get to know the class vibe.
Schedule
Friday 16th June: 11am-12pm / 6pm-7pm
Monday 19th June: 10am-11am / 1.30pm-2.30pm / 6pm-7pm
Tuesday 20th June: 10am-11am / 1.30pm-2.30pm / 6pm-7pm
Friday 23rd June: 11am-12pm
Paid classes on similar days and times available to book or block-book thereafter.
NB: Please contact me for further upcoming taster sessions.
Your very own yoga class can be whatever YOU want it to be. As studies continue to reveal yoga’s many benefits, this centuries-old Eastern philosophy continue to become the sustainable practice that work on our physical strength and flexibility but also on our mental and emotional wellness so that we can focus our awareness and be willing to open up our hearts.
To get started on your individual yoga quest, it is helpful to begin with an idea of what needs you want to fulfil – are you looking to sweat your way into a toner body or does a more gentler and healing approach sound more appealing? How about a combination of both?
Vinyasa Yoga can be practiced in a vigorous and dynamic manner adding a cardiovascular component and/or as a gentle and restorative practice that induces deep relaxation into a meditative state.
The style of yoga I teach, Vinyasa Yoga (a.k.a. Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Flow Yoga or Dynamic Yoga), combines a series of flowing postures with rhythmic breathing that can be modified depending on what you want to get out of a session.
The private sessions will give you an opportunity to experience a class that is specifically designed to your body, ability, and goal. Whether you are new to yoga or a more experienced practitioner, I can adapt classes that can help you past your individual challenges so that you are able reach your potential.
NB: You are required to provide the practice space (room for 2 mats) and to have your own yoga mat.
ONE-TO-ONE TUITION
- GBP60.001 hour
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Taster session: GBP30.00
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5-session pass (valid for 3 months): GBP255.00
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Whether you are a complete beginner or with some experience, a beginner programme is an opportunity to try yoga for the first time or to re-start your practice.
It’s the best time to build/rebuild your confidence, learn/relearn the basics of yoga or simply to get to know the class vibe.
The programme is specifically designed to access poses safely and mindfully with classes adapted to ability and concerns.
NB: Please contact me for upcoming programme schedule/s.
Beginners 6-session programme – begin your practice
Max 3 persons/class
This programme is for those who feel intimidated to try or just don’t know where to start.
I will guide you through 6 beginner classes that will introduce how to safely access and practice basic sequence flows (asanas) and breathing techniques (pranayama). I will endeavor to impart some of yoga’s ethical precepts (yamas & niyamas); rare gems of wisdom that can pave your way to a well-lived and joyful life.
The classes aim to improve your range of motion, build your strength and bring balance. More specifically it aims to get you started on your lifelong practice.
BEGINNER PROGRAMME
- GBP75.006 sessions
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Maximum 3 participants
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Long hours spent sitting in an office chair or being on our feet doing repetitive tasks for long periods of time can take a toll on our physical health encouraging bad posture and, inevitably, the onset of back, neck and other related aches and pains, in some cases, even injuries. Restlessness, inability to concentrate and the lack of motivation are also some of the mental symptoms associated with work fatigue. Allowing staff and employees the time to practice yoga at work will provide a way to cope with workplace stress and to address work related aches, pains and injuries.
Regular and mindful yoga practice can help relieve physical and mental tensions boosting vitality and can even induce the state of self-congruence. In turn, the ability to focus and concentrate is elevated and energy levels are heightened resulting in more effective performance.
An even more significant benefit perhaps is the general well-being that can be attained from consistent and intelligent practice from which arise positive intentions, decisions and actions. It is a well-researched fact that fostering well-being in the workplace increases productivity, brings teams together and lifts morale. I paraphrase and stand by the statement that no other investment yields as great as the investment in workforce well-being.
It will be a pleasure to help you explore the many advantages of adding a yoga practice program in your workplace and to discuss the different options of how I can deliver this successfully for you.
NB: All that is required is a classroom space (e.g. conference rooms or larger office space) big enough for your group size and for each participant to bring their own yoga mat.
WORKPLACE TUITION
- GBP95.001 hour
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Maximum 10 participants
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5-session pass (valid for 3 months): GBP425.00
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Curious about yoga but not ready to commit? Let’s have an informal chat…
Would you like time to breathe?
The focus is on life force and conscious awareness.
When we breathe, in addition to oxygen, we also take in prana. Prana is the Sanskrit word for “life force” or “energy” and in yoga, pranayama is the breath work used to regulate breathing during practice and is key to uniting mind, body and spirit. Breathing then is not just about taking in oxygen into our lungs and bloodstream but also the process of allowing prana, the life force and food for the spirit, to enter and nourish our physical and mental being. When we are deficient in prana, we often feel irritable, lack concentration and even suffer depression and breakdown. But when we do yoga regularly and practice conscious breathing filling our body with prana, we feel every cell in our body vibrate with life.
Thus, the essence of yoga is conscious breathing. During a yoga practice you are asked to maintain a calm, steady breath while you move through increasing levels of difficulty. Outside the mat when things are difficult, fearful, painful or frustrating, there is a natural tendency to hold the breath. But if you stop breathing you also stop the flow of your life force. When you learn to breathe consciously and freely while attempting difficult postures, you are also practicing the kind of deep relaxation that will help you deal with difficult situations in life. For many, this is the ultimate goal of yoga, to tap into our life energy so we can focus our awareness and enhance our lives – this goes far beyond the desire to have toned arms or for being able to do a headstand!
“If you don’t use it, you lose it”.
Transform your body.
We take for granted the ability to lift, push, pull and even move for the first three to four decades in our lives. As we age we lose elasticity and mobility and if we don’t regularly work on our physical health and on the spiritual connection between the mind and the body, we lose the ability to live actively and independently for the rest of our lives. If we don’t use it, we lose it – the key to being able carry out our daily activities for the rest of our life with ease is to have a consistent and intelligent yoga practice. The reward will be strong, supple muscles that promote your overall health by stimulating blood and vital energy to flow throughout your body and gain the ability to cultivate an expansive calm and peaceful mind.
Strengthen and lengthen muscles
Increase blood circulation
Improve mobility
Cultivate a quiet mind.
What I teach…
About vinyasa flow yoga.
The Sanskrit word vinyasa literally means “to place in a special way”. In the context of yoga posture (asana) practice, it means “linking movement with the breath”. Vinyasa Yoga (a.k.a. Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Flow Yoga or Dynamic Yoga), is the style of yoga derived from Ashtanga Vinyasa, Iyengar and Viniyoga systems.
In a Vinyasa Yoga class, the order of poses is open to change and any series may be offered at any time. There are five main components that make up Vinyasa Yoga, namely: asana (poses), vinyasa (linking or flow) pranayama (breath), bandha (energy locks) and drishti (gaze). In every practice, each of these ingredients must be used together in the correct way in order to develop and fully experience true vinyasa flow. The joy of yoga is the ability stay in a particular pose with balance, ease and effortlessness also called sthira, sukham, asanam, mentioned in the Yoga Sutra by the great sage and guru, Patanjali.