Learn how to give hands on adjustments
Join senior teacher Jock Orton on this series of courses and be taught when, and more importantly, when not to physically adjust a student.
The role of a yoga teacher is to keep your students safe, healthy and to help them reach the best of their ability. A great yoga adjustment it will not only keep them safe but help them experience the pose to the fullest. With experience, yoga adjustment’s can help students learn new movement patterns that may in turn help them heal from previous injuries.
To become great at adjusting, it starts with your Observation Skills. Once you know what to look for you can skilfully individualize your adjustments according to your students needs. To do this requires knowledge of how to read body types, anatomy, joint mobility & functional movement.
There are three main reasons why you might offer hands-on physical adjustments. Firstly, to keep your students safe with healthy alignment. Secondly, to make the pose more easeful when they might be struggling. And thirdly to deepen the students experience of the pose, so that they can experience the fullest expression for their ability.
You will be taught when, and more importantly, when not to physically adjust a student, because there are certain situations when not adjusting is the most effective form of helping your students.
Many yoga teachers don’t give physical adjustments because a poor adjustment could injury your student. The role of a yoga teacher is to keep your students safe, healthy and to help them reach the best of their ability. A great adjustment it will not only keep them safe but help them experience the pose to the fullest. With experience, adjustments can help students learn new movement patterns that may in turn help them heal from previous injuries.
Standing
Standing Twists
Seated
Supine
Hip Openers
Inversions
Arm Balances
Back Bends
Yoga Teacher & Trainee Yoga teachers To be able to help your students with a great adjustment can transform their practice, it’s a wonderful gift that you can give to your yoga community.
Join senior teacher Jock Orton on this yoga adjustment clinic and be taught when, and more importantly, when not to physically adjust a student.
The role of a yoga teacher is to keep your students safe, healthy and to help them reach the best of their ability. A great adjustment it will not only keep them safe but help them experience the pose to the fullest. With experience, adjustments can help students learn new movement patterns that may in turn help them heal from previous injuries.
This training exceeded my expectations! Lime House is such a friendly relaxed space, a beautiful building set in the most amazing gardens, makes it a fun space in which to learn.
Foundations Yoga is the perfect class for all levels from beginner up. It is for anyone wanting to build their experience in the foundations of yoga asana practice. It aims to increase your confidence in correct positioning and the specific use of props to help align you more effectively in each posture. It will help you progress safely into more advanced levels of asana practice, vinyasa flow sequences & develop a stronger home practice.
Jock's flowing, slightly slower paced Vinyasa class pays attention to alignment detail. The class will include sun salutations at a gentler pace and some relaxation/pranayama techniques. Confident beginners are also welcome.
Ashtanga Self Practice (Mysore)
Slow Vinyasa Flow class builds strength, flexibility and mobility for all levels with flowing sequences that enable you to move your body in a variety of different ways. Expect a friendly, upbeat atmosphere and expect to smile!
In Aimee's Restorative Yoga class, we explore the passive release of the body from the support of various yoga props and supports. Receive deep rest and rejuvenation from this floor-based practice. An ideal session to relieve tension and stress and a great class for heading into the weekend after a busy week!
The Saturday morning class is a counted led practice. The teacher will count in Sanskrit and give clear instruction on how to perform each of the asanas (poses). Each asana in the series has distinct number of movements to move into and out of the ‘state’ of the asana. ie. Trikonasana (triangle pose) has a count of 5 Vinyasa’s to get you from standing at the front of your mat into the ‘state’ of the asana for both the right and left legs and then back to standing at the front of your mat again. (It may sound complicated but once you experience it in class it will make more sense!)
Our monthly Aerial Yoga class with Nayomi Webb. JUNE: Fire As we reach a fire phase of the year with Summer solstice and honouring the sun, this workshop is based on the fire within being expansive, owning our personal power and courage. Let the fire light up your soul, fire up all that sparks your joy! A combination of traditional yoga poses, pilates and dance with the use of an aerial hammock, aerial yoga defies gravity and allows you to perform various yoga poses that may be difficult on the ground, but easier in mid-air. Guaranteed to leave you with beaming smiles and a spring in your step!
We are thrilled to welcome Dena Kingsberg and her husband Jack on their first visit to Cornwall at Lime House Yoga for a 6 day workshop in June 2023. Dena will be starting on Sunday 11th June with a workshop - An Introduction to the Vast Landscape of Perception, including Breath, Asana, Sound Vibration, Chanting and contemplation. An Introduction to the Vast Landscape of Perception PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS will take the following format: Sunday Schedule: 1.30 - 2.00pm - BREATH AND INTENTION: Revision of the essential basics. 2.00 - 4.00pm - ASANA: A led primary series exploring principal of movement to enhance freedom and longevity. 4.00 - 5.00pm - ACTIVE PHILOSOPHY: The integration of seated practices - Breath, Sound Vibration, Chanting and contemplation and an Introduction to the vast landscape of perception. PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS NOTE: Dena is also leading 5 days of self-practise (Mysore) following her Sunday workshop but these days can only be joined if you have taken part in the Sunday workshop. If you would like to join Dena and Jack for all 6 days, please purchase the 6 day workshop option instead as you cannot purchase the Mysore separately to the Sunday workshop. Monday 12th - Friday 16th Schedule: The continuing mornings following the Sunday workshop will begin with quiet reflection and development of the breath, followed by Mysore style classes Monday - Thursday and a conducted class to conclude on Friday.
Join Dena Kingsberg for her opening workshop here at Lime House Yoga. Dena's workshop - An Introduction to the Vast Landscape of Perception PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS will take the following format: 1.30 - 2.00pm - BREATH AND INTENTION: Revision of the essential basics. 2.00 - 4.00pm - ASANA: A led primary series exploring principal of movement to enhance freedom and longevity. 4.00 - 5.00pm - ACTIVE PHILOSOPHY: The integration of seated practices - Breath, Sound Vibration, Chanting and contemplation and an Introduction to the vast landscape of perception. PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS NOTE: Dena is also leading 5 days of self-practise (Mysore) following her Sunday workshop but these days can only be joined if you have taken part in the Sunday workshop. If you would like to join Dena and Jack for all 6 days, please purchase the 6 day workshop option instead as you cannot purchase the Mysore separately to the Sunday workshop.
Join senior teacher Dena Kingsberg on her first visit to Lime House (and Cornwall!) for 5 mornings of self-practise (Mon-Thurs Mysore and Fri led asana)
Dynamic Mat Pilates, every Monday between 9:45-11:00am. The session is suitable for all levels, offering you a full body workout with just a little bit of muscle burn.
In this slower paced flow we will focus on linking the movement of the body with the movement of each breath. Each class will include moments of stillness or meditation along with finding creative and playful ways to move in and out of poses. This Slow Vinyasa offers accessible shapes with variations for all bodies. Making it a perfect progression from beginners yoga.
Ashtanga self Practice
Louise's Vinyasa Flow classes link your breath with your body. They are fun, energetic classes that infuse a mixture of Myth (ancient Hindu stories), Mudra (simple hand gestures), Mantra (sounds, words or phrases as an aid to meditation) and some Yoga philosophy. Suitable for all but some experience of yoga will be helpful.
Mums Yoga is a re-energising and relaxing class especially for mum and baby. Mum of three Louise leads a postnatal class which focuses on strengthening the abdominal, back and pelvic floor muscles. The postures will also help to release tension in the shoulders and neck. The class will incorporate your baby, creating a fun atmosphere and more opportunity to bond. We recommend that you allow your body time to fully recover from birth before starting so you are welcome anytime after your 6 week check or 12 weeks for those who have had a c-section. Babies/toddlers/pre-schoolers all welcome!
Beginner's Yoga is ideal if you are brand new to yoga and don’t know where to start! If you’ve always wanted to come to a class but never quite found the time or the confidence to try, then come to Beginner’s Yoga, where everyone will be learning together. Also ideal for those who have been off the mat for a while who want to re-establish their practice safely and confidently.
This dynamic class will explore elements of the Ashtanga series in a playful way. Ashtanga teacher Anna will riff on various Ashtanga sequences by unpacking the steps (krama) of postures and various modifications and adaptations that make them accessible to a wider variety of bodies than the way they were classically taught. This class is not for complete beginners, but accessing it is less about your level (as there will be options for all) and more about whether a dynamic and powerful practice will serve you today. Come as you are!
I did my first two teacher trainings with no intention of ever teaching yoga, I just wanted to further my knowledge for my own practice. It was my first teacher Bridget Woods-Kramer who dropped the bombshell on me that she needed cover for a Saturday class that forced me into teaching my first class. I absolutely loved it, completely terrified………but loved it!
It is said that we all come to healing in our own time and this was true for me when in 2000, I fell down a mountain snowboarding, breaking my back in four places and shattering my collarbone. After numerous unsuccessful operations, I decided to take matters into my own hands so that I might stand a chance of being mobile by the time I hit forty.
I began a regular yoga practice and as the ancient saying goes, ‘When the student is ready the teacher will appear.’ I moved back to Cornwall at the same time as Bridget Woods-Kramer, a world renowned Anusara teacher. I spent six years studying and teaching with Bridget and have developed a style that is physically challenging with attention to posture and alignment and above all, playful. My experience has taught me to cherish the physical practice of yoga, but it is the connection between mind, body and soul that inspires my practice.
In the last few years my personal practice has moved towards Ashtanga and have undertaken Ashtanga teacher trainings with David Swenson, Manju Jois and John Scott.
I have been teaching for 19 years and over this time I feel deeply privileged to have been taught by some of the worlds best teachers from a range of different schools of yoga, including Richard Freeman, David Williams, Sianna Shermann, Rod Stryker, Doug Keller, Bruce Bowditch, John Friend, Nancy Gilgoff, and Doug Swenson. In my classes I call upon the teachings of all of my teachers to best serve my own students, with a blend of the styles, techniques and adjustments I’ve learnt along my yoga journey. I am also co-founder and director of Lime House Yoga with my partner Emma and a Dad to two wonderful daughters who constantly inspire and challenge me to be more present in the world and on my mat.
Join Jock’s classes at Lime House on Monday and Wednesday evenings and Thursday and Saturday mornings.
Fi is a tremendous trio of Yoga Teacher, Chartered Physiotherapist and Specialist Soft Tissue Therapist.
She first started practising as a student of yoga 20 years ago in Australia while travelling.
in 1993, Fi qualified from Bath School of Physiotherapy and after gaining post-graduate experience, spent 12 years living and working in New Zealand. Fi received her training in Soft Tissue, Massage and Sports Therapy in Christchurch in 2006. During her time in NZ she badly injured her back and pretty much had to learn to walk again.
On returning to the UK in 2015, she worked as a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and Sports Massage Therapist and a friend advised her to ‘check out Lime House Yoga’. Three years later Fi managed to make it to studio, knocked on the door, was greeted by Jock and felt like she was meeting an old friend. She practiced as student with Jock for a year, before completing her 300hr Yoga Teacher Training here at Lime House in 2019. Her knowledge of anatomy and physiology now plays a strong part in her yoga teachings.
Fi says, ‘I’ve come a long way in a few years under the guidance of amazing teachers and the nurturing environment which is LHY. My favourite practice is morphing and evolving – my basis/foundation in Iyengar is invaluable for rehab and physio. Starting Ashtanga with Jock built up my strength, so while Iyengar makes you stable, controlled, and aligned, the combination of both gives the best of all worlds.
Yoga is infinite. Physio is the centre of my wheel and now yoga surrounds it, keeping everything oiled, keeping it turning.’
Find Fi at Lime House on Tuesdays for Beginner’s Yoga 6:15-7:30pm and Wednesdays for Foundations Yoga 9:30-11am.
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