After many years of attending Yoga classes on and off, I felt drawn to taking my practice deeper and enrolled on a Scaravelli Yoga Teacher Training course. This experience has challenged everything I thought about what Yoga was about! It has deepened my practice beyond measure and has changed my relationship with my body, really harnessing my mind-body awareness which I draw on in my Counselling and Coaching work.

What is Scaravelli Yoga?

Scaravelli-influenced Yoga is a form of Yoga that focuses on the breath, the spine and gravity. It’s about allowing the body to find itself in ways that don’t compromise it in any way; instead, it honours and works with the body to give it an opportunity to reveal its own intelligence. It challenges us to repattern our expectations of how to ‘do’ Yoga and teaches us to let go of habitual physical patterns so that our body can express itself without constraints and self-imposed conditions of how it should move.

This mindful and restorative Yoga is also about expansion and connection; we train the body to work together as one whole unit – a team, so that we engage all of it to create harmony, fluidity and alignment. We let go of the typically primary associations of ‘doing’ Yoga, letting go of attachment to the pose, instead using poses to help inform our self-discovery on many levels.

This way of working sits beautifully alongside my Coaching and Counselling practices as well as with my spiritual practice and personal growth. It is an inspiring and rich way of working with what we have without making impossible demands upon our bodies.  At the same time, it demands that we challenge ourselves to meet who we really are by harnessing body, mind and soul as well as exploring our unique and beautifully imperfect bodies.