The Om Yoga Show Manchester 2017 Event City
There's just no stopping the Om Yoga Show ... growing year on year, always offering something new!
Its
heartwarming to see the popularity of Yoga increasing year on year and
it's great to see Om Yoga offer such diversity all under one
roof…
2017 saw lots of free Yoga sessions for children, aerial yoga workshops (sold out well in advance), fully attended CPD workshops and a variety of free yoga sessions that were often spilling outside their designated area with people taking part in the surrounding aisles.
If you missed Om Yoga Show; Glasgow and Manchester you can still catch this October, (remember its best to pre-book workshops via the website) www.omyogashow.com
2017 saw lots of free Yoga sessions for children, aerial yoga workshops (sold out well in advance), fully attended CPD workshops and a variety of free yoga sessions that were often spilling outside their designated area with people taking part in the surrounding aisles.
If you missed Om Yoga Show; Glasgow and Manchester you can still catch this October, (remember its best to pre-book workshops via the website) www.omyogashow.com
Whats Not To Love...?
Expand your knowledge, network and attain CPD points all under one roof!
With a range of paid and free open yoga sessions on offer, opportunities to converse with a wealth of different teachers, the chance to experience different ways of practicing and teaching yoga all set among whats new in the ever expanding and diverse world of Yoga.Yoga teachers, aspiring Yoga teachers, Yogis, Yoginis, whatever your background or point of interest there are plenty of opportunities to experience Yoga with for everyone... Here are just a few examples of the yogic delights to dive in to....
A Glimpse into a range of CPD workshops...
(all workshops are suitable for teachers, aspiring teachers and non teachers)
Empower Flow: Detox your body & mind! - Pradeep Teotia
www.pradeepyoga.com
From the moment
Pradeep enters the workshop he is captivating exuding energy, excitement
and calmness in equal measure. Participants are
gifted with his unique and uplifting teaching style whilst being guided
through a sequence of poses to actively detox the body accompanied with
plenty of smiles from Pradeep that soon spread throughout the room.
Pradeep encourages participants to be; honest, open, kind and authentic
in their practice astutely pointing out that if we lie to ourselves we
indeed lie to everyone else.
Pradeep explains how time speeds up when we are happy and grinds to a halt when we are sad he highlights that we must learn to face our sadness as this enables us to let it go, he points out the importance of doing so to avoid ignored sadness continually resurfacing and keeping a hold on us, it is far better to deal with your emotions to clean them away and unburden yourself. He recommends taking your troubles to your Yoga mat to work them through developing trust within yourself by learning to dissolve your hurts through your practice. He encourages awareness and gratitude for our invaluable breath and so beautifully demonstrates with a smile on his face and hand on his heart; with each breath - say to yourself "welcome home"
Pradeep explains how time speeds up when we are happy and grinds to a halt when we are sad he highlights that we must learn to face our sadness as this enables us to let it go, he points out the importance of doing so to avoid ignored sadness continually resurfacing and keeping a hold on us, it is far better to deal with your emotions to clean them away and unburden yourself. He recommends taking your troubles to your Yoga mat to work them through developing trust within yourself by learning to dissolve your hurts through your practice. He encourages awareness and gratitude for our invaluable breath and so beautifully demonstrates with a smile on his face and hand on his heart; with each breath - say to yourself "welcome home"
Pradeeps sense of humour is welcomed along with his relaxed attitude towards practicing. This doesn't mean to say it is an easy workshop but it does mean there is truly something for everyone. You are not guided into poses that are taking you further than you would expect yourself to go, there are no pressures here as you are gently encouraged to release self expectation, to be comfortable with where you are and indeed able to try to do more with a sense of ease given this lighter approach. It brings rewarding results where people are letting go into poses without pressure or worry, reaping the benefits as smiles and giggles spread through the room, a wonderful class. Everyone left lighter than when they had arrived.
Mick
Timpson guides participants through some mindful meditation and explains
the importance of bringing the mind into balance highlighting how we
all have a positive and a negative default thinking pattern in our brain
and science has revealed how regular meditation can bring the positive
default into the foreground.
Meditation
builds Meta thinking where we learn to notice our Ego mind at work and
respond mindfully rather than hastily losing our mind to a thought
pattern built on the chaos of chain reactions that all to often lead to a
whirlpool in the mind creating a shaken snow globe effect of thoughts
in the mind. Meditation can settle this blizzard revealing clarity with
meditation we can learn to develop our interior self through regular
practice changing our interpretation of the world as we heighten our
awareness and are able to experience the world as a far more satisfying
place, remember your surroundings are not you so be mindful not to
become them... your surroundings are observed by you as your awareness.
Mick offers
achievable tips on how to take a mindful approach into daily life and
emphasises the key point of focusing on the breath to bring the mind
into balance... why use the breath? Because it is such a reliable
anchor, it is always with us...
Positive Pranayama - Suthesh of Simpli Yoga
www.simpliyoga.com/suthesh/
Suthesh
overflows with vitality, his energy is infectious, his delivery bounces
happily all around the room, his diction is powerful. The passion
Sutesh has for Yoga is visibly unmistakable as he lights up when holding
the session. His depth of knowledge in Pranayama is evident.
Participants are guided to experience a range of Pranayama techniques and sequences in order to
invigorate and then calm your system.
Prana = Breath (life force/vital energy)
Ayama = Control (expansion/control of life force)
Pranayama
is breath control, rhythmic breathing and there are many techniques to
benefit well being as well as to target specific areas of the body and
mind. In this workshop the breathing changes pace throughout the session
and everyone leaves invigorated...
Journey to the Core - Rosalind Southward
www.anjalienergy.com
Rosalind
holds a welcoming authentic graceful presence in this Forrest Yoga
workshop as she skillfully guides participants through a range of
postures to light up the core and prepare the shoulders to take flight
into Crow. Alternatives are offered throughout for different levels,
conditions and injuries present in the workshop, this is clearly a
practice that actively involves everyone. Hands on adjustments are
gently and expertly gifted to participants as Rosalind carefully works
her way around the packed out workshop.
We are encouraged to be mindful of our breath as Rosalind rightly says; "No breath, No Yoga"
We are encouraged to be mindful of our breath as Rosalind rightly says; "No breath, No Yoga"
In
a Forrest Yoga class verbal information is stripped back to provide you
with the key instructions you need to know for example; 'take left ear
towards left shoulder' this enables you to free your mind of figuring
out or remembering long sentences and leaves you to focus on carrying
out the clear instructions given without doubt in your mind about what
you should be doing next, creating maximum enjoyment in each pose...
everyone is well looked after in this session.
Slow Down and Soften - Norman Blair of Yogacampus
www.yogawithnorman.co.uk
Norman
brings a sense of reality and grounding into this workshop. He calmly,
creatively and openly delivers guidance for both posture and mind set
offering witty metaphors and life observations as part of the mix.
Norman humorously explains how the deeper your Yoga pose becomes doesn't
automatically mean that you suddenly deepen your very existence or that
in anyway this new sense of achievement will make your life perfect.
Norman
explains how Yin Yoga; learning the value and benefits of how to soften
into stand alone
poses for longer periods to work into deeper tissues and issues combined
with
mindful meditation techniques is where the juice of life is. This is
where our development evolves from nestled in the place where we meet
and greet our fears and judgements, the place where we learn to work
with, and accept our edge learning to be with it rather than flowing
through vinyasa merely pausing for a fleeting breath or two before
moving into the next pose, and the next and the next... Yin
teaches us a different way, a patient tolerant way to learn to 'be'
with our 'stuff' bringing self acceptance which ultimately nurtures a
peaceful state of being...
Norman shares a beautiful quote with us;
"I wish I could show you when we are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being" - Hafiz of Shiraz
He also shares a humorous poem that highlights the act of non judgement and human nature;
"If you can sit quietly after difficult news
if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm
if you can see your neighbours travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy
if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate
if you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill
if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog"
- Jack Kornfield
A selection of free workshops on offer to name but a few...
Hero Open Class Spinal Revolution - Nisha Srivastava
Yoga Studio Open Class Intro to Forrest Yoga - Finlay Wilson
Hero Open Class Yoga for Emotional Detox - Annie Jones & Lalita Doerstel
Hero Open Class ChiBall Equilibrium - Dave Green
Hero Open Class Resilient Shoulders - Finlay Wilson
- Yoga Studio Open Class Reconnect to Source Power and Recharge your Energies - Gillian Shippey of The Yoga Nidra Network
