Yoga - mixed ability

Please complete the attached " Health and Fitness Questionnaire" and inform your tutor verbally if you have any health concerns.  Please bring the completed questionnaire to your first class. You are asked to complete this questionnaire once a year.

Understand and adapt your movements to your breathing to achieve different results and develop the knowledge of Pranayama in Asana (Breathing in postures).

Learner & Entry Requirements: 

No special experience.  This is a mixed ability group.  All levels welcome.

General & First Session: 

Please wear loose clothing and bring a Yoga mat if you have one.  Please do not purchase any items specifically for the course.  KAE is unable to offer refunds for any materials, equipment or books if the course is subsequently closed.

Course Aim & Objective: 

To enable you to prepare your bodies in order to work with maximum comfort in Yoga and to improve your ability to develop a relaxed approach to Yoga practice.

Ability to practice and experience limbering techniques, to make use of co-ordination of health and movement, to modify and develop postures according to your own ability.

Assessment: 

Discussion, Question and Answer, ongoing observation and feedback by tutor.  You are encouraged to practice limbering techniques often.  Learners in any Yoga class are at different starting points determined by various factors like age, health, experience etc.  Yoga is not competitive.  It can, in most cases, be adapted to suit the individual.

Course Syllabus:

• Prepare your bodies in order to work with maximum comfort in yoga.
• Improve your ability to develop a relaxed approach to yoga practice.
• Practise experience limbering techniques to prepare and warm the muscle of the lower and upper body
• Understand the importance of repetitive practice.
• Make use of co-ordination of health movement in a wide range of movements like forward, back and side bending, twist and balance.
• Modify/develop some postures according to your own ability
• Understand the reasons for modifications and progression to deeper moves.
• Experience relaxation techniques.