Yoga for the dedicated and curious practitioner
Fun, creative classes and courses dusting off and exploring the practice and history of yoga
Hi, I’m Amelia, a yoga teacher and academic.
I teach fun, inclusive classes in my local community, and online.
My yoga classes are community-centred. We practice mindful movement, breath awareness and relaxation to promote a sense of wellbeing. I’m a trauma-aware teacher.
I bring my research and experience to yoga teachers through online and in person courses on the history of yoga, the role of women in yoga and trauma sensitivity in yoga.
I train yoga teachers and guest teach on 200 and 300 hour courses.
Yoga Classes
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Yin Yoga
Moving towards stillness
A monthly class of embodied movement and stillness at the Calderdale Yoga Centre.
Fridays, 6-7.15pm
10th January, 7th February, 7th March, 4th April 2025
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Yoga & Women's Circle
Come, let us gather
A monthly circle of yoga, sharing, and relaxation in Heptonstall, Calderdale.
Next 2025 date TBC.
Yoga Learning and Development
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Spiritual Abuse in Modern Yoga
Study at your own pace with 3 recorded lectures and resources.
This course was written and designed by me and is based on my original doctoral research and hosted by the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies Online platform.
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The Yoga Teacher's Survival Guide
Are you a yoga teacher and have you read the survival guide yet? In part 4 you can find my essay ‘Yoga, Trauma, and Spiritual Abuse’. I write about the rise of trauma-informed care, it’s impact on the yoga industry and bring together my experience as a yoga teacher and yoga therapist, and research work on abuse in yoga. (Link below is an affiliate link.)
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Call Out For Participants
I’m currently doing doctoral research on harm and abuse in yoga contexts. If you have experience of this and are interested in knowing more and/or taking part click on the link. This will take you to my Substack post where you can find the full details and how to contact me.
Blog
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Four Women who Influenced Modern Yoga
Yogini Sunita, Geeta Iyengar, Madame Blavatsky and Indra Devi all helped shape modern yoga. Have you heard of them? This International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate and find out more.
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What Bikram Choudhury is up to (and why you should be mad about it)
Yoga is often talked about as being good for one’s well being but should we defend it, or its teachers, over the practitioners who have been traumatised by it? This is a rhetorical question but for anyone who’s not clear, the answer is: no, we should not. Read more here.
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Are We Women who do Yoga, or Yoginis?
How can we, as women who practice yoga, honour the roots of yoga? Can we call ourselves yoginis, even though they’re abstract, divine beings rarely defined outside of how male adepts control and use them in rituals? I look at three textual sources for the answer. Read more here.
In my classes, you, the student, are the priority. I encourage the practice of mindful movement, breath-awareness and relaxation to promote physical and mental wellbeing. Accessibility and inclusivity are central.
Let’s stay in touch!
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