Monday, 15 June 2015

Healthy Choices: one on one yoga lesson

I cannot recommend the one on one yoga lesson from healthy Choices Sinead Daly highly enough.

http://www.healthychoices.nl/ 
 
60 per hour and you can go with as many a three (or four I think!)

 The class, was long enough, helpful, incisive, challenging. Sinead is very calm, her voice is soft yet carries perfectly. Her demonstrations are easy to follow. She is supportive, encouraging and very softly pushes a little for that extra bit of effort. The instructions are clear, the reminders to breathe come exactly when needed, also how to focus to create space to be able to relax.

There is no one else so everything goes at ones own pace. It really is about the conversation one has with your own body. The session was like the difference between having a one to one with a friend or finding that you are competing for their attention in a group.

I had done some yoga classes in the past but usually found the atmosphere in most impossible to bear. Being a fuller figure I felt I got dirty looks in a busy class 'taking up room for 2'!

Then I found Therapeutic Stretching with Lilith Turk, it is brilliant.

An accident, a move, a virulent (on going) case of chalk toenails and somehow I haven't been to a class in years. Again it's getting over the barrier of the group. Arriving early enough to get a good spot, being able to get changed and out quickly and unable to avoid the social aspect.

At Sinéad's beautiful 1st floor apartment and studio I had the option of a massage - next time maybe (could also have had psychotherapy or hypnomassage!) But I am so happy that I chose the yoga. I couldn't have made a better decision for my head/mind/spirit or my body.