Workshop: Mastering Sun Salutations Waitlist
December 6, 2025 •
3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
BLOCKLEY, Jubilee Hall
Kate Duke
I fell in love with yoga in my twenties whilst studying English Literature at university. At the same time, I started to attend Buddhist classes and learned how to meditate.
My love of yoga led me to complete Teacher Training with the wonderful Ian Davis of OrangeYoga. This has been a life changing experience: yoga has taught me how to breathe, has created strength and flexibility in my body and in my mind, and helped me be kinder to myself and others, on and off the mat.
I love teaching and I love learning. As well as being a yoga teacher, I also teach English at a secondary school in Coventry. One of the joys of teaching is being able to connect with people and to create a supportive space for learning and playful exploration. Inspired by Vinyasa, Somatics and Viniyoga - I train weekly with Dave Charlton of Living Yoga - I like to create classes that challenge as well as support students to be kind to themselves. Alongside mindful movement, I incorporate pranayama (breathing) practices and meditation.
I feel so grateful to be able to practise yoga and I can’t wait to share the practice of yoga with you.
200 hour Yoga Alliance
300 hour Advanced Teacher Training Alliance (ongoing)
70 hour Somatics with Charlotte Watts (ongoing)
MISP .b Mindfulness teacher
Description
When? Saturday 6 December 3.00-5.30pm
Where? Jubilee Hall, Blockley
What? Mastering variations of the sun salutation to make your practice safe, sustainable and pleasurable
How much? £25.00
By attending this workshop, you will have the opportunity to learn in more depth and bring this learning back into your weekly practice. We will have time to break down poses, work in pairs, give and receive feedback, ask questions, observe demonstrations and most importantly have fun playing with the poses. With your permission, I will give sensitive hands-on assists to guide re-patterning; the aim of which is to create release, ease and space within body and mind. You will also receive a handout to assist your learning and home practice.
In this first workshop we will be breaking down a foundational yoga sequence: the sun salutation.
What will you learn?
How to let the breath move you into each pose (the focus is on moving from the inside out- not getting caught up with how it looks but concentrating on how it feels)
The importance of springy knees and having options: stepping back into a lunge, plank and down dog and option to play with jumping back
Spotlight on key posture of the plank and playing with variations of chaturanga
Spotlight on key posture of the cobra and playing with variations of cobra
Spotlight on key posture of the down dog
The importance of springy knees and having options: stepping forward, kneeling to stand and option to play with jumping through
Spaces are limited to allow for quality of learning experience
Where? Jubilee Hall, Blockley
What? Mastering variations of the sun salutation to make your practice safe, sustainable and pleasurable
How much? £25.00
By attending this workshop, you will have the opportunity to learn in more depth and bring this learning back into your weekly practice. We will have time to break down poses, work in pairs, give and receive feedback, ask questions, observe demonstrations and most importantly have fun playing with the poses. With your permission, I will give sensitive hands-on assists to guide re-patterning; the aim of which is to create release, ease and space within body and mind. You will also receive a handout to assist your learning and home practice.
In this first workshop we will be breaking down a foundational yoga sequence: the sun salutation.
What will you learn?
How to let the breath move you into each pose (the focus is on moving from the inside out- not getting caught up with how it looks but concentrating on how it feels)
The importance of springy knees and having options: stepping back into a lunge, plank and down dog and option to play with jumping back
Spotlight on key posture of the plank and playing with variations of chaturanga
Spotlight on key posture of the cobra and playing with variations of cobra
Spotlight on key posture of the down dog
The importance of springy knees and having options: stepping forward, kneeling to stand and option to play with jumping through
Spaces are limited to allow for quality of learning experience