Hatha: Ha meaning sun and Tha meaning moon.
This class aims to balance the body and mind by practicing asana (yoga postures), along with subtle practices relating to both sun (energetic) and moon (quiet) energies. Asana practice will stretch, strengthen and mobilise the physical body. Breath awareness anchors the class. We practice grounding movement in joint freeing and stretching, along with energising standing poses. Classes include flowing on the breath dynamically between poses, as well as longer more challenging holds. Pranayama is practiced to bring awareness and control of breathing, and focus to the mind. You’ll leave this class feeling both peaceful and energetic.

Join Helena Back to Basics Yoga. You will be guided through breath awareness, breath practices, fundamental postures, alignment, the use of props and putting it all together. The course will cover floor based postures, standing postures, balancing postures and linking postures in sequences. Suitable for anyone new to yoga, or anyone wanting to simplify and take time to experience slowing down and focusing on the beauty of the foundations of yoga practice.

Hatha: Ha meaning sun and Tha meaning moon.
This class aims to balance the body and mind by practicing asana (yoga postures), along with subtle practices relating to both sun (energetic) and moon (quiet) energies. Asana practice will stretch, strengthen and mobilise the physical body. Breath awareness anchors the class. We practice grounding movement in joint freeing and stretching, along with energising standing poses. Classes include flowing on the breath dynamically between poses, as well as longer more challenging holds. Pranayama is practiced to bring awareness and control of breathing, and focus to the mind. You’ll leave this class feeling both peaceful and energetic.

Every Friday at 10am Jo Fellows Hatha class at 6 Ways Yoga includes asana practice, pranayama and optional meditation for a healthy body, harmonious mind and enriched emotions.
Yoga asanas (postures) work with the body, making it supple and healthy, promoting maximum blood circulation to organs, glands and tissues. It also tones the endocrine glands, which benefits you both physically and psychologically.
At the end of the 60 minute practice, included will be an optional 15 mins meditation class. Meditation can help to reduce stress, pain and anxiety. Here you'll learn various techniques to focus the mind and reach a state of calm.

Vinyasa or Flow Yoga is characterised by stringing postures together using the seamless connection to the breath. Using the combination of movement and breath cultivates deep awareness. Vinyasa classes include grounding and easing into the body to start, and breath practices to foster connection of mind and body. Once the class gets going it can be a dynamic practice. Vinyasa moves at the pace of the inhale and exhale, and can also includes postures held for a few breaths. Classes finish in a luxurious relaxation, where we release all effort and allow the body and mind to rest.

Sounds Of Sanskrit with Lucy Crisfield
8th February, 2020
£50

Sounds of Sanskrit
The Language of Yoga

A workshop for anyone wanting to deepen their yoga practice; bringing the philosophy of yoga viscerally alive into our own experience. Lucy Crisfield, speaker at the World Yoga Festival and plenary speaker at the British Wheel of Yoga London festival, will be bringing the ‘Sounds of Sanskrit ~ the language of yoga' to Cheltenham.

Experience the Yoga Sūtras, the śiva sūtras and the 16 divine mothers. How do you pronounce the bīja mantraḥ, and what is the true significance of the mystical sound oṁ?

Sound is the most profound medium through which to effect spiritual transformation; it cannot be separated from the path of yoga. Experience the connection between the Sanskrit letters and the elements and open ourselves up to the profound depths of the mantraḥ tradition.

Deepen our connection to yoga by immersing ourselves in the sounds in which the tradition was created.