Ginny has been actively involved with fitness training and bodywork for more than twenty five years. Having first taken up Hatha and Iyengar yoga whilst at college, Ginny returned to yoga in 1992. She has practised Astanga Vinyasa yoga since 1994, originally learning the Primary and Intermediate Series with the late Derek Ireland and Radha, who were largely responsible for introducing this dynamic form of yoga to Europe. She has since studied closely with other senior practitioners particularly Kristina Karitinos Ireland, John Scott and Danny Paradise. She has also spent extended periods of time at the Astanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India, practicing under Pattabhi Jois, the principal teacher who worked with Krishnamacharya to develop the Astanga Vinyasa series from ancient Sanskrit texts. She has widened her learning by attending the Krishnamacharya Yoga Institute in Chennai, founded by TKV Desikachar son of Krishnamacharya, as well as studying independently with A G Mohan and his wife Indra Mohan who, like Pattabhi Jois and Desikachar, was a direct student of Krishnamacharya. Alongside her love of Astanga Vinyasa yoga, Ginny is also a practitioner and teacher of a form of Hatha yoga that concentrates on releasing quietly with the breath into the familiar yoga postures. Her approach to this method of Hatha yoga has developed from her experience of the work of the late Vanda Scaravell, Dona Holleman and Pete Blackaby. She synthesises these teachings into all her classes, bringing an intelligent, thoughtful understanding to both Hatha and Astanga Vinyasa yoga practice Ginny’s Approach Yoga is a practice, through practice we move towards a deeper awareness of ourselves which gives us greater freedom and clarity in our lives. Yoga practice is simply a number of different techniques aimed at allowing the mind to observe what is in the present moment. It nurtures our relationship with ourselves and this process deepens our relationship with everything that exists. Ginny’s approach to yoga reflects this belief in a practical, down-to-earth way. She encourages students to discover ways of keeping their attention focused and present with whatever is occurring. She enables them to explore the connections between breathing, posture and a general feeling of well-being in the body, mind and emotions. Yoga is about feeling. It is experiential and Ginny has orientated all her classes towards giving students an understanding from their own experience of the joyful calm which yoga can bring to their everyday lives. The classes are designed to reveal the full depth of yoga through a gentle cumulative process. Slowly, over time, this step-by-step unfolding of awareness of body, breath and mind helps students move from a basic to a more subtle understanding of their practice and themselves.
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