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
I’m a yoga teacher and academic, teaching 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 teach fun, inclusive yoga and am 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 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
16th August, 13th September, 18th October, 15th November, 13th December 2024.
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Yoga & Women's Circle
Come, let us gather
A monthly circle of yoga, sharing, and relaxation in Heptonstall, Calderdale.
Thursdays, 6-8pm
Next 2024 date TBC.
Women in Yoga: an exploration
This course illuminates the roles women have played in yoga, from the pre-modern to today. Full details here.
Join me for live online over 4 consecutive Wednesdays, 7-9pm (UK time).
Next dates TBC.
Bursaries available - see the course page for details.
Yoga Learning and Development
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Women in Yoga
Learn about the role women have played in the history of yoga in this live, online course - 4 x 2 hour sessions on consecutive weeks.
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Spiritual Abuse in Modern Yoga
Study at your own pace with 3 recorded lectures and resources.
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Mentoring for Yoga Teachers
Coming soon.
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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