Diana Shipp
Sivananda
Yoga with Diana Shipp
Diana Shipp has over eleven years experience and specialises in the Sivananda style of yoga.
She is the owner of the extremely popular Kailasam Yoga Retreat in Kerala (pictures below), where she teaches the yoga classes from November through to March each year.
Diana teaches integrated breath and posture work, with spiritual awareness, based on classical Sivananda yoga and other traditions. She holds teaching diplomas from the British Wheel of Yoga and the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram in India.
Diana
is an experienced teacher who has been teaching for the past 15 years. She
has taught in the UK, Turkey, Bali, Crete, Spain and India.
On this holiday you will experience asana, pranayama, meditation, visualisation and relaxation in two classes daily. The yoga will improve your strength and flexibility and guide you to the calm centre of Being within.
This yoga will be suitable for beginners as well as more experienced students. Diana's approach is both joyful and imaginative, with emphasis on raising of consciousness through breath and body awareness, to bring you a feeling of well-being.
right: yoga class at Kailasam
Roanna Harstad
Roanna
trained in Sivananda Yoga in India and is registered as an advanced
Instructor level 3 with the Register of Exercise Professionals. She has
spent many years in sports rehabilitation, hydrotherapy, and fitness clubs
and through her therapies leading clients into a more empowered, healthy and
enjoyable way of life.
Roanna has been in the health, well being and fitness industry for nearly
ten years. As a qualified Therapist in Reiki, Massage, Reflexology and
LastStone Therapy, Roanna brings a Holistic and dynamic approach to her
classes and workshops.
Roanna is a Master Sundoor Firewalking Instructor and Spiritual Leader. She
brings many different tools into her sessions to enhance every thought and
life experience that we have. With her gentle, informative but deeply
encouraging and motivating approach, you will find you release barriers and
move into a new, stronger, more aware sense of your body and self.
“Perhaps what we treasure the most in life is peace of mind. Yet few have
found the key to this simple and necessary ingredient in life. Yoga offers
the opportunity to find stability and harmony. Yoga enables us to experience
an increased awareness and strengthened moral, ethical and personal
evaluation. Yoga enhances our life in ways we could never have dreamed of.“
Ken Eyerman
Flowing Yoga with Ken Eyerman
Ken Eyerman has 30 years experience with Yoga & Bodywork, and is a
trained practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method. He will bring his wealth
of learning to this weeks' unique blend of dynamic flowing yoga with
gentle inner sensing Feldenkrais movement awareness lessons. Ken's
intuitive and spontaneous, hands-on approach places an emphasis on using
the breath, an awareness of your inner process and how to use your body
efficiently. This combination of approaches will ease you into the
postures. The workshop is suitable for all levels and consists of two
classes a day. The morning class will be dynamic and flowing, based
around the Astanga form, with the afternoons improvised, developmental
and restorative, bringing in the vast body of knowledge of the
Feldenkrais Method.
Ken Eyerman is an American based in London since 1980. His
main Yoga influences are Derek Ireland, an inspiring astanga teacher,
and Angela Farmer, an early student of Iyengar. He attended his first
London Feldenkrais training in 1987 after the publication of his book
'Massage'.
Since
this time Ken has developed his own style of teaching, bridging the
space between the dynamic power of Astanga and the gentle understated,
spiralling Feldenkrais movements. Ken teaches his unique Yoga with
Awareness Holidays internationally.
right: on the roof of the yoga hotel in Dahab!
Feldenkrais
The developmental movement technique, The Feldenkrais Method, has been
Ken's lifelong study, especially in how it relates and is complementary
to yoga, through the awareness of movement and being attentive to
detail. For Ken, The Feldenkrais Method forms the bridge between
hands-on healing, touch and the spontaneity of life as a dance. The
Feldenkrais Method named after its originator, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, is
an educational system that uses gentle movement and directed attention
to improve posture and human functioning. One can increase the ease and
range of motion, improve flexibility and rediscover the natural capacity
for efficient movement.
"I can help people to think about their body, how it breathes and
moves, how the structure connects, to develop a level of awareness.....
so they are not only powering away at stretching but also learning to
feel and think their way to a stronger more supple body. A goal being to
get into the imagination, to find a more subtle approach, to excite the
feelings as well as to power the muscles" Ken Eyerman (c)
Neville Cregan
Neville
has studied Yoga and related arts
for 15 years and been teaching for 10.
In recent years his primary inspiration has been with the teaching and
work of Dona Holleman and Donna Farhi whose approaches offer
intelligent, modern and realistic approaches to Yoga without losing the
rich timeless wisdom of the tradition.
His other Yoga related interests have been in Structural Fitness,
Holistic Health and the History, Philosophy and Literature of Yoga which
he teaches on Yoga Teacher Training courses.
He
has taught in a wide range of settings including Yoga Centres, Health
Clubs, Retreat Centres and the more specialised contexts of Mental
Health institutions and Day Centres for learning disabled adults. He is
also a practitioner of Thai Massage and Reflexology.
His Asana (Yoga Postures) teaching style encourages a slow build up
towards a dynamic flowing practice; it is slower than some of the
dynamic forms, however, and there is plenty of time to find your way
within each pose during the flow. His belief is that Yoga practice needs
to fit into the practitioner, and wherever they are at, rather than the
other way round.
During this holiday we will practice a wide range of poses and explore
our personal limitations in a safe and enjoyable way with adaptations
for individuals as required; there will be some exploration of Pranayama
(breathing Practices) and simple Meditation.
The course is suitable for beginners and more experienced practitioners
alike as the core principles are the same for everyone; all being well
we will deepen our experience of Yoga on many levels and have fun!
