Yoga is for spiritual people, for flexible people, for those recovering from injuries. It's for stressed out people and laid-back people, teenagers, children, and meditators. Regardless of your level of yoga expertise, if you’re practicing regularly, you can feel better
Kundalini and other Yoga styles we use offers both physical and mental health benefits for all age groups. Including people going through an illness, or living with a chronic condition. Yoga can become an integral part of your treatment program, lifestyle and can potentially hasten the healing process.
Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini Yoga is the most comprehensive of yoga traditions and unlike other popular forms of yoga, such as Hatha or Vinyasa, Kundalini yoga places more emphasis on breathwork and chanting Instead and is more of a spiritual discipline that combines many different components. These components include:
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Asanas, aka poses or postures.
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Pranayama, or breathing techniques like deep breathing and alternate nostril breathing.
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Mantras or chants -sacred sounds
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Meditation
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Kriya, or specific sequences of postures, chants, and breathing techniques.
Benefit
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balances the glandular system,
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strengthens the 72,000 nerves in the body,
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expands the lung capacity, strengthens immunity,
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detoxes, purifies the bloodstream, anti-aging.
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and brings balance to the body, mind, and soul.
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It teaches positive, self-empowering attitudes of thinking and gives you the vitality and health that is your birth right.
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It makes you radiant, peaceful and strong so that you can meet life's challenges and win.
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improved cognition, mood, and flexibility.
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Strengthens digestive, hormonal and nervous system.
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Increases energy and muscular strength.
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Relief from stress, depression, back pain and insomnia
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Balances hormones, Metabolism and supports Weight Control
Common kundalini yoga poses include cobra, ego eradicator, and seated cat-cow.
The intention behind practicing Kundalini yoga is to re-align one's chakras to release dormant energy to become more conscious, aware, and intuitive human beings.
Kundalini yoga is for all levels, ages, and abilities, such as beginners, new or advanced. Everybody can get some benefit from this practice due to its high level of adaptability.
Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga is slow-paced style of yoga as exercise, incorporating principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine with asanas (postures) that are held for longer periods of time than in other styles. A person can stay in one asana for three to five minutes or more. The sequences of postures are meant to stimulate the channels of the subtle body known as meridians in Chines medicine and as Nadis in Hatha yoga.
Yin Yoga poses apply moderate stress to the connective tissue of the body—the tendons fasciae, and ligaments with the aim of increasing circulation in the joints and improving flexibility. A more meditative approach to yoga, its goals are awareness of inner silence, and bringing to light a universal, interconnecting quality.
Research indicates that yin yoga may help develop mindfulness while reducing stress, anxiety, and depression.
Other benefits include:
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Improves flexibility and lengthens muscles.
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Lubricates joints, reduces adhesions and strengthens ligaments.
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Increases joint mobility and reduces tissues degeneration.
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Detoxifies, hydrates skin, tissues and muscles.
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Grounds us, slow paced, teaches Mindfulness and is Meditative.
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Keeps Facia (tissue which surrounds organs, nerves, lymph, muscle) hydrated healthy.
Breathwalk
Breathwalk is the science of combining specific patterns of breathing synchronized with your walking steps and enhanced with the art of directed, meditative attention. Breathwalk exercises are aimed at producing specific effects to revitalize body, mind, and spirit.
The effects of breathwalking exercises include:
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Increased energy levels
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Mood control
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Refined mental clarity
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Feelings of connectedness
Breathwalking draws on breathing techniques from yoga and adds exercises and walking cadences to create the desired effect. The effects are backed by research that showed the techniques actually produce the desired effects more than when a person is just plain walking.
The mental and physical benefits of breathwalking are a perfect match for today's workplaces that combine high stress and low physical activity.
Restorative Yoga
Restorative yoga is suitable for people of all levels. By definition, restorative yoga is a restful practice that holds yoga poses (asanas) for a longer duration using props like yoga blocks, blankets, and bolsters. It is a practice of deep relaxation that emphasizes the meditative aspect of yoga—the union of body and mind. Through the use of props for support, many of the postures are held almost effortlessly.
When the body enters a state of relaxation the mind can also consciously relax as tension is released from both body and mind. The only work that's required on your part during a restorative yoga practice is to pay attention to your breath and become aware of any sensations or thoughts that may arise.
While these Western energetic styles of yoga focus on muscular engagement, restorative yoga relaxes the muscles by using props to support the body. In some restorative postures, you will also receive a gentle stretch. Restorative yoga poses are held anywhere from 5–20 minutes.
Benefits
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Increased relaxation: Deep breathing calms the nervous system to promote relaxation.
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Better sleep: The more relaxed you are, the better your chances are of getting a good night's rest.
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Improved well-being: Yoga practices, in general, are commonly associated with improved physical and mental well-being in the general population.
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Better mood: Research shows that yoga can help those with stress, anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders manage their symptoms.
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Reduced pain: Studies show that different styles of yoga including restorative yoga are helpful interventions for the management of musculoskeletal pain.
Gentle on the body: Restorative yoga practices are gentle on the joints, and consistent practice can strengthen the connective tissues that surround the bones and joints.
Additionally, clinical research into restorative yoga has found that the practice can be a good resource for those with cancer, noting improvements to psychological well-being. Research shows that restorative yoga can decrease depression in cancer survivors; improve symptoms of anxiety, depression, and pain symptoms in cancer patients; and help patients manage the toxicity of cancer treatments.
BreathwORk
Breathing techniques or Pranayama is controlling the breathing process in a therapeutic way.
Traditionally, breathwork has been used in Psychotherapy for chronic pain, anxiety, PTSD, grief and depression.
More recently, research has documented the benefits of breathing techniques for Covid 19 and coronaphbia - a related panic based psychosis.
Breathwork plays a pivotal role in ridding our bodies of harmful toxins by clearing the lungs, improving lung capacity and respiration.
It oxygenates the blood, thereby energizing and healing the body's cells which boosts our immune system.
Other benefits include:
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Releases toxins and deposits from the lungs, mucous linings, blood vessels, and other cells.
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Expands the lung capacity and increases vital strength.
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Strengthens the nervous system to resist stress.
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Repairs the balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
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Reduces addictive impulses for drugs, smoking, and bad foods.
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Increases oxygen delivery to the brain.
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Boosts the immune system and may help prevent many diseases.
Total body conditioning Class
Body conditioning is a broad term that refers to a wide range of physical activities and exercises that train the whole body and includes full-body workout exercises that activate the entire body and exercises that simultaneously use multiple major muscle groups.
Our Body conditioning exercise includes different types of exercises to train the whole body such as:
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Strength training
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Body work exercise
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Pilates
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Aerobic exercise
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Flexibility exercise
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Stretching exercise
These exercises build your power, speed, coordination and improve your overall fitness. It is perfect to compliment your Yoga practice and target overall toning with a focus on the abdominals, spine and pelvic floor. Conditioning exercise didn’t require any equipment so you can do it anytime and anywhere.
This is a low impact session which is suitable for all fitness levels and not longer than 40-50 mins in duration
Performing our total body conditioning exercises can achieve the following:
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It helps in boosting cardiovascular health and the respiratory system, lowers the risk of heart disease and diabetes and improves bone density
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It helps in burning calories, strengthens muscles, improves metabolism and prevents aging.
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It prevents cognitive decline, releases stress and anxiety, improves confidence and emotional well-being.
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It builds muscle and strength and increases flexibility and stamina so you remain active throughout the day.
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Conditioning exercise can improve your body shape and can tone your muscles, especially around your waist.
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Improves the pelvic floor and tones the stomach and strengthens the back and spine.
Workshops
Why attend a Green Yoga Workshop?
Put simply, you will learn something new, either intentionally or by accident. For example, you could learn something physical, spiritual, abstract or philosophical, to get fit, have fun, balance, relax, rejuvenate, meet new people, laugh, or cry. Similar to a yoga class, a yoga workshop is for everyone and not intimidating or competitive. They are designed to allow you to spend more time practicing yoga or learning more about, breathing, self regulation, postures or discovering things about your body and how to integrate it in your life.
The Green Yoga will deliver a number of targeted in person workshops which will also be online which are ideal or can accompany a Yoga course, Program or Retreat. Our team, which consists of Teachers, Psychologists, Nutrition and medically trained professionals mean you will have access to information and research that will help you grow or address a particular health condition or to meet the team to ask questions and learn more about our yoga courses and programs. Enjoy the practice, ask questions, make mistakes, fall over, pick yourself back up, face your fears become stronger and embrace new faces and maybe new friends in our community. The workshops will help you understand how to cultivate balance in your life, both on and off the mat.
Multi-level classes equal multi-tasking—teachers who can’t always personalise instructions and modifications as much as they’d like to. In a workshop, you can ask questions and benefit from targeted assists and advice. Particularly, If you’re working with a particular issue, such as back pain, a therapeutic-based workshop can give you valuable tools and techniques to modify poses and stay pain-free.
Our Workshops can last anywhere from 90 minutes to 5 hours and sometimes longer depending on how intensive the material is. Thereafter, people will then have the option to attend our Yoga courses and then programs. Whether you are a beginner, first timer, lifetime practitioner, seasoned or new teacher, there is something for everyone.
We will learn and share!
Courses
The Green Yoga (TGY) yoga courses take all of the benefits from the Yoga workshops to give participants a focus on a particular issue or health condition. This takes place over a specific length of time with the added benefits of more personalised monitoring and measuring progress through meaningful feedback.
In the main, general yoga classes often require students to focus on their own practice and go inward, holding discussion to a minimum. In our workshops and courses students are encouraged to openly discuss the health topic and explore ways to improve their practice and health, both psychologically and physically. Furthermore, specialty courses provide a more relaxed learning atmosphere where students grow together rather than individually.
A yoga course can actually help to build a safe foundation, and if you want to develop a regular practice, this is another way to do. You will understand the fundamentals via a course and it’s a perfect way to either start your yoga journey, or deepen your understanding from a beginners to a more specific subject area. An added bonus is you will learn how to manage and alleviate long standing issues such as stress or other health conditions. This level of engagement and development is a perfect basis for a more enhanced Program where you will gain integration and elevated personal health.
Programs
Our programs allow you to progress from our workshop and courses or as a standalone offering to obtain additional relevant supporting lifestyle modalities that support you on your personal and professional Yoga journey. You can enjoy a structured program developed by our multi talented team to enhance your health and development.
The benefits of attending a Yoga Program is life changing and profound on all levels Mentally, Physically, and Spiritually. It’s a powerful opportunity to immerse yourself in the practice of yoga for an extended period of time that enables you to deepen your understanding whilst integrating other health modalities such as Yoga Nutrition Structural Yoga anatomy and therapeutic massage without the fear of whether you’re good enough or not, or a beginner or experienced.
The extended time for the delivery of a Yoga Program provides space to explore the kriyas/asanas, theory and advanced practice that’s not always available in a regular timetabled class. Our teachers can use the extra time to direct students to pause observe, reflect and synthesise their learning and experience. Apart form the many ‘aha’ moments, students will experience breakthroughs in their understanding of the theory and internalise the practice. Students will also enjoy more rest time and balance available from other Yoga styles such as cooling Restorative and Yin Yoga with an extended Savasana.
The consecutive nature of a program series means students can build on learning and knowing the same students are returning enables us to plan sessions and progress students in a more structured, beneficial manner. This builds a sense of community cohesion as all students progress and learn together. Over the course of the Program the teacher becomes more familiar with the needs of the group and can direct learning to meet those needs.
Finally, committing to a Yoga program has a positive rippling effect, because it becomes a focus for the day. Many students start to prioritise sleep and rest, so they can optimise their experience. For example, they may eat more nourishing foods and seek out peaceful time between the sessions, perhaps walking in nature or taking a soothing bath or having one of our rejuvenating massages. This instills, regularly healthy lifestyle integration and an opportunity to give yourself a mini retreat experience in preparation for one of our real ones. It can also be a time of internal reflection and reconnecting with your true self whilst in the company of like minded others in a supporting non judgement space.
Packages/Memberships
The Recharge, Refocus, Restore, Regenerate and Rejuvenate packages combine Yoga therapy with Holistic health coaching and Spiritual life coaching to get the most targeted holistic benefits that can be fully adapted for you, conveniently working around your schedule, online, in person or a blend of both.
This all about Yoga at your pace and time, with additional support to enhance your goals and gain Mastery over your Health…..
We combine our expertise in advance Yoga practice, knowledge and experience using a variety of healing modalities working with mental, women's and men’s health etc, to ensure you receive the best results driven approach and guidance.
For a more Holistic Body and Face therapy driven package see our other memberships.
Please contact us for a short consultation to design the right package for you.
Personal, Targeted, Professional
Recharge Package
300£Every monthThis is our Yoga Special Class Subscription- Mentally you will be focused, relaxed and happier
- These sessions will change you life and empower you
- Enjoy the powerful integration and benefits of our classes
- Your body will become pain free, youthful and flexible
Refocus Package
300£Every monthThis is our Yoga Empowering Workshop Series- Focus on a specific goal for better self care
- Educate yourself about personal health related subjects
- Enjoy Yoga sessions at your pace, time and environment
- Bring a friend, partner or make it a family program
Restore Package
400£Every monthThis is our Yoga Healing Course- Enjoy a structured personalised health course
- Design preventative health course for personal/family
- Recover from long term health issues mentally/physically
- Utilise deep tools & health modalities for advanced results
- Best Value
Regenerate Package
500£Every monthThis is our Yoga Transformational Program- Access Coaching, remove blocks manifest the life you want
- Transform your life with expert guidance/experience
- Empower yourself achieve optimal health address imbalances
- Alleviate health concerns -hormonal, psychological, physical
Rejuvenate Package
600£Every monthThis is our Yoga All Inclusive Getaway- Personal, relaxing environment, actualise your lifestyle
- Personalised retreat style setting, focus on outdoor healing
- Combine supporting therapies to help reset & rejuvenate you
- Documented progressive feedback that inspires commitment
Subject to terms and conditions.
Our On-Demand CLASSES
Please be patient while we build our On-Demand Classes.
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