“Within you is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time”
Hermann Hesse.
“Within you is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time”
Hermann Hesse.
Charlotte Wise Wellbeing – Yin Yoga Classes and Workshops
“Habitually turning our attention inwards and returning to our ‘self’ enables us to cultivate a flexible mind state. We surrender.”
Many of us, myself included, acknowledge that our increasingly busy lifestyles can be depleting, draining and unsustainable.
Yin is sustainable – a quietening practice you can safely continue throughout your lifetime; a practice that reminds us that our sustenance is not found in external sources but when we turn within.
HOW I WORK WITH YOU
Yin can only really be understood when seen in context or with yang. These two seemingly opposing forces are two parts of any given whole – the key is finding harmony or balance between them. I teach yin yoga classes that flow smoothly through considered sequences. I hold space for you to cultivate stillness and meet whatever arises.
I work with the influences of the seasons, the cyclical nature within us, and the wisdom within the ancient traditions of Eastern medicine and yogic philosophy.
For classes and workshops CLICK HERE
Many of us, myself included, acknowledge that our increasingly busy lifestyles can be depleting, draining and unsustainable.
Yin is sustainable – a quietening practice you can safely continue throughout your lifetime; a practice that reminds us that our sustenance is not found in external sources but when we turn within.
Yin can only really be understood when seen in context or with yang. These two seemingly opposing forces are two parts of any given whole – the key is finding harmony or balance between them. I teach yin yoga classes that flow smoothly through considered sequences. I hold space for you to cultivate stillness and meet whatever arises.
I work with the influences of the seasons, the cyclical nature within us, and the wisdom within the ancient traditions of Eastern medicine and yogic philosophy.
For Classes and Workshops CLICK HERE
Online and In-Person Schedules for Yin Yoga Classes and Workshops
ONLINE LIVE CLASSES
Monday evenings at 8.30pm
From my home to yours.
Join me for a 60-minute, live-streamed yin yoga class. A collective slowing down, nurturing, deep rest and restoration.
You can access the recording of the class at a time that suits your schedule for up to a week after the live class.
ONLINE MONTHLY WORKSHOP
One Saturday afternoon every month
I dedicate two hours to yin yoga bliss.
We take a deep dive into each workshop and explore a particular aspect of our yin practice.
Typically, we spend 30 minutes on a combination of breathwork, meditation, acupressure points, and the theory relating to each workshop theme, followed by a 90-minute yin yoga practice.
IN-PERSON YIN YOGA CLASSES
Tuesday evenings at 8.15pm
at Foundry Fitness, Teddington, TW118UE
Classes are small and accommodate individual needs. To reserve a space in this friendly and intimate class EMAIL ME please.
My online schedule will continue alongside my in-person teaching sessions.
I am delighted to announce dates for my ‘in-person’ Yoga and Pilates retreats in 2023. These fabulous 5-night retreats in Provence, France combine Yoga, Pilates and so much more.
The hard and stiff will be broken; the soft and supple will prevail.”
Lao Tzu
What yin yoga means to me…
Finding yin yoga and studying with my teacher Paul Grilley, the founder of this practice as it’s now recognised, was for me the greatest gift and a homecoming.
My teaching philosophy is ‘function over aesthetics’ – feeling into intention and sensation, rather than pursuing a perceived notion of how your practice should look.
This message carries across all the disciplines I teach, but it is the very essence of yin yoga. We cultivate stillness in each pose, creating time and space for deeper-felt sensation and connection to Self.
The practice feels innate and intuitive, and it has enriched my life, shaping not only how I teach, but who and how I choose to be. In sharing it with you, I feel that I’ve found my calling.
and let your growing contentment speak of another way.”
William Martin, The Sage’s Tao Te Ching
Yin is a practice that can bring about deep release on many levels and facilitate deep rest. It can change your relationship with yourself and enhance your experience of the world around you. Habitually turning our attention inwards and returning to our self enables us to cultivate an increasingly flexible mind state. We surrender.
Western lifestyles tend to be excessively yang. We are constantly doing, striving, forcing, measuring ourselves against others, and allowing our external environment to influence us. Yin is the counter, the opportunity to create stillness, to appreciate being a ‘human-being’ rather than a ‘human-doing’, to soothe our overwrought nervous system, to learn to turn inwards for the answers we seek.
The Physical Body
Yin works on the physical body. Holding longer static poses and working with subtle physical sensation allow the stressors created by tension and compression to strengthen our deeper tissues. Our fascia, connective tissue, ligaments, tendons, bones and joints – all the tissues in the body – needs to be stressed to remain healthy. Yin helps us do this in the knowledge that we’re nourishing our bodies while minimising the risk of injury. It facilitates a deep release of often long-held tension. This happens not only in the physical realm, but in balancing the blockages and excesses of the meridian pathways and the energy centres of the chakras in our ‘subtle realm’, too.
The Subtle Realm
Yin works on the ‘subtle body’ where we harbour our emotions, thoughts and beliefs. The yogis call these our ‘causal ‘and ‘astral realms’. When we target the deeper fascial network in the body, we are influencing our meridian pathways – the energy conduits within. Yin can harmonise the flow of qi or prana (our life-force energy) in the body, facilitating flow in our meridian system. This is profound within our energetic body – we often release emotions we have embodied, and we have space to reflect on the habitual thought and belief patterns we live by. It offers an opportunity for balance and clarity on an emotional and mental level.
The Fascia
Fascia isn’t new, but our reverence for it is. The excitement behind this current buzzword relates to the (relatively) recent research that has deepened our understanding of the matrix that governs our movement. Everything within is interconnected, and the glue that binds it all is our fascia – our internal architecture. The fascia becomes dehydrated and stiff when we don’t move. It absorbs our emotions and responds accordingly. Have you ever felt rigid with anger or frozen with fear? Understanding how your fascia works and feels in motion, in your body, will be a natural part of your yin practice and your evolving connection with your Self. Put simply, in keeping our fascia healthy on the mat, we are investing in our future Self when off the mat.
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