Make yoga your nature
Yoga Styles
Here at Yoga Nature the predominate style of yoga that I will teach is flowing Dru Yoga, which is based on Hatha teachings. But to ensure people in the class reap the maximum benefits of yoga I will also use an eclectic mix of other styles, including aspects of Yin Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Dynamic Yoga and Yoga for Meditation. A brief description for each follows:
Dru Yoga
Dru Yoga is yoga for the heart and is founded on yoga teachings that go back thousands of years and is actually based on Hatha teachings. Dru has further developed these teachings into flowing sequences, Energy Block Releases (EBRs) and breath work which enable the energy to flow freely throughout the body. Each posture, EBR or sequence has its own subtle energy/power that goes with it because each one works the body in a slightly different way, therefore impacting on different emotions and thought patterns.
Hatha Yoga
Hatha yoga is the yoga style that people are most familiar with in the West. “Ha” means sun and “tha” means moon so it is the bringing together or yoking of two opposite forces. Hatha is a slow paced and meditative style of yoga where we hold the postures for a few deep breaths.
Yin Yoga
Yin yoga targets the connective tissue of the body such as the bones, ligaments and joints. This is in contrast to the other styles of yoga that I teach at Yoga Nature which are more yang style, with a focus on the belly of the muscles. Yin yoga complements the yang styles of yoga perfectly and vice versa. In Yin yoga we tend to hold a posture from 1 or 2 minutes up to 5 minutes. We allow time, gravity, the weight of the body and the breath to open up the deep connective tissue.
Vinyasa Yoga
Vinyasa is simply the connection of postures and the breath into a steady flowing sequence. The Sun Sequence is an example of Vinyasa yoga that most people have heard of. All the yoga styles I teach during a Yoga Nature class have aspects of Vinyasa, apart from the Yin yoga. The Vinyasa can be either dynamic or meditative. It is a great way of developing a moving meditation!
Dynamic Yoga
Dynamic yoga is a fusion of all the different yoga styles mentioned above. We explore and experiment with different postures and sequences, looking at how lifting a limb, for example, changes the energy of a posture, or at how making the movements slow, deliberate and meditative in a sequence can also cause subtle energy changes. In Dynamic yoga be prepared to get hot and have a strong yoga workout.
Yoga for Meditation
Yoga for meditation is yoga during which you realise that the processing or internal dialogue has stopped (albeit momentarily). It is that moment in time when you feel in harmony with everything. You are flowing, content, happy, have no awareness of time and are fully in the present moment. We all have experienced these moments and yoga’s ultimate aim is to enable us to spend more time in this “zone”, to increase and develop the gaps between the to-do-lists, processing and inner dialogue.
This is achieved by our continued exploration and practice of yoga. Over time our yoga becomes a meditation. It can be a moving (vinyasa) meditation, static meditation (where we hold the postures (asanas) for long periods of time) or it can be what people traditionally think of as meditation (where you sit still). Having learned these techniques in a yoga class the trick is then to transfer them over into our daily lives. I have found that this happens quite naturally and almost magically.
Dru yoga reduces stress and increases wellbeing.
View these outstanding results from research
undertaken by Ned Hartfiel.
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Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are the more you are alive.
Arnaud Desjardins
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