Community Yoga with Kat

Community Yoga

Kat Biggs
Kat Biggs
Vinyasa Yoga Teacher
Level
Class Size
9
Duration
45 min
Price
FREE/Pay What You Want

Light-hearted and fun 45-minute yoga class with Kat.

This class is run specifically for members of Malvern Hill Tribe, which is a local community Facebook group.

Description

All-levels yoga, suitable for beginners.  Poses can be modified and made easier or more difficult as required.  Let’s all just get together and have a good stretch!

Class Structure

All of Kat’s classes start with a meditation, a chance to arrive and bring ourselves into presence.  We always have a comprehensive warm-up before we move on to standing postures and balances, culminating with inversions.  After upside down time we look at backbends, seated postures, finally finishing with a delicious five minutes of savasana.

Entry Requirements

There are no entry requirements, just an open mind and an open heart.

Gentle Flow with Sarah

Gentle Flow with Sarah

Sarah Nicol
Sarah Nicol
Yoga Teacher
Level
Class Size
9
Duration
60 min
Price
£8.00

Light-hearted and fun hour-long flow yoga class with Sarah.

Description

All-levels yoga, suitable for beginners.  Poses can be modified and made easier or more difficult as required.  Let’s all just get together and have a good stretch!

Class Structure

All of Sarah’s classes start with a few minutes of meditation, sometimes followed by pranayama (breathing).  We always have a comprehensive warm-up before we move on to standing postures and balances, culminating with inversions.  After upside down time we look at backbends, seated postures, finally finishing with a delicious five minutes of savasana.

Entry Requirements

There are no entry requirements, just an open mind and an open heart.

You can do ANYTHING!

Welcome to my first blog post on the new incarnation of the Great Malvern Yoga website. I’m so excited! Way back in 2014, my work colleague’s 17-year old son built the first website for me and it has been great for all these years, but I decided it was time for a change so I built a new one. I wanted something a little more modern. I really, really hope you like it! *clapping hands together in glee!*

In actual fact, it was more or less ready to go in January, but then the usual January rush of new enquiries and students ensured that it got firmly moved to the back burner. Then coronavirus happened and everything changed! EVERYTHING! To say that this period has been difficult for everyone would be an understatement. More about this in a subsequent blog post.

Anyway, the whole reason for this blog post was to tell you that you can do ANYTHING you put your mind to! I had a rudimentary knowledge of websites when I started this project, having administered various corporate ones over the years, but I’d not built a website from scratch since about 1999 when I used Dreamweaver (shout me if you remember the original Dreamweaver!) to build a directory of all the websites I liked at the time. Thank goodness it’s not in existence anymore – it was seriously *cringe*!

Is there anything you want to start doing that you’re not currently doing? A project you want to start? What’s holding you back? Where is the fear coming from? Making space for this sort of self-enquiry is a great way of discovering how you really feel. Taking a walk in nature, meditating or writing in a journal are all great ways of working it out. And remember, you can do anything you put your beautiful self to! Energy flows where the attention goes.

Chocolate & Tahini Cookies

I’m still working my way through that bag of buckwheat flour.  My mum is always baking something and there’s always something good happening in my friend Sarah’s kitchen too.  I keep jealously looking at these photos of marvellous creations on Instagram and then suppressing my urge to bake something by telling myself that I don’t […]

Yin Yoga with Sam

Yin Yoga with Sam

Sam Jones
Sam Jones
Yin Yoga Teacher
Class Size
10
Duration
60 min
Price
£8 or £40 for 6 classes

A slow, meditative, morning yoga class, that gently stretches the deeper muscles, joints and fascia in your body and helps quieten the mind.

Description

In Eastern traditions, Yin is a compliment to Yang. Yin yoga compliments a more dynamic yoga practice because it can add new qualities. Softening, letting go, backing off and allowing the breath to still the mind are all gifts of a yin practice. Holding postures is an important aspect of the practice, allowing your body release to gravity and through the use of breath and relaxation.

Class Structure

By switching on the parasympathetic nervous system, this practice helps reverse the effects of stress and cultivates a sense of equanimity and relaxation. The class will take you through a series of poses that are held for a substantial period of time (3–5 mins).

Entry Requirements

All poses have modifications, so this class is suited to all levels and ages. Since poses are mostly floor-based, wear warmer clothes and socks.

Tips for setting up your home yoga space.

    Practising yoga at home doesn’t come naturally to some of us, whether it’s finding a quiet space or having enough ceiling height to get your hands above your head (me), it’s definitely been a learning curve over the last month.  I am so impressed and grateful for everyone’s willingness to adjust and adapt […]

Buckwheat & Chocolate Muffins

Does anyone else always have half a bag of buckwheat flour in the cupboard, or is it just me?!  This recipe is not vegan – but pretty sure you could use flax eggs and non-dairy chocolate – when I make it, this is what I will be doing. INGREDIENTS (makes 12 MUFFINS) 225g buckwheat flour.  […]

Cacao & Orange Power Balls – Recipe

Ingredients (makes about 16 balls). 200 g pitted medjool dates 50g pumpkin seeds (ground) 50g sunflower seeds (ground) 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract 1 tsp. pure orange extract 3 tbsps.  cacao or cocoa powder 2 tbsps. melted coconut oil 20g natural whey or vegan blend protein powder (or just don’t bother with this bit!) Method. […]

At least find out my name!

Dear Prospective Yoga Teachers You are just about to finish your teacher training and you are enthusiastically emailing every yoga studio in the area to find out if you can hold a class there. Here are a few tips that might help you: 1) Find out the name of the person who owns the studio. […]

Kundalini Yoga with Becky

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