Welcome to Help Yourself Yoga

Thank you so much for visiting my website. It is a new thing for me and a work in progress.

As you might have already noticed, I'm not a classic yoga shape. Solid rather than lithe and short rather than statuesque, I don't fit into the stereotypical image of a yoga teacher. But then, most of the population do not fit into this stereotypical image either and there are millions of people doing yoga every day.

It does bug me that most of the literature and images of yoga today are of highly flexible people performing incredible feats of contortion that are, lets face it, out of reach to most of us. But, I'll let you into a secret - most of the yoga models are people who have hypermobility, a condition that occurs when a person has extra long ligaments which allow movement in joints not seen in most of the population.

Think ballet dancers, gymnasts, yoga models!

What I want to say here is that the yoga I teach is for every body - every body type, size, shape, colour and creed, there are no barriers to everybody engaging with yoga at their own level.

Yoga is a practice and everybody has to start somewhere. Please remember this very important fact: no two bodies on this planet are exactly the same! We all (if we are lucky) have the same building blocks but there are subtle differences (or even large ones) between all of us.

So, no two bodies will feel a yoga pose in the same way! That is why, in my classes, I ask you to only do what is right for you, and we focus on HOW IT FEELS ON THE INSIDE rather than how it looks on the outside. With this internal exploration comes an increase of self knowledge, which is what true yoga is all about - learning about our selves.

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