WORKSHOPS
In my workshops you experience first hand how stimulation of the fascial and deep tissues of your body opens an energetic flow that leads a way and informs creative healing movement that suits your unique constitution.
From here we flow through somatic movement exploration or smooth yoga sequences that regulate our nervous system and open a wider door for body and mind integration and repair.
Besides, as we all know we feel great after our 60 or 90 minute yoga class don’t we? But usually, just as we are feeling more relaxed, the class is over and we are left feeling like we wanted more. In a full day yoga workshop you have the chance to stay and enjoy deeper, longer lasting benefits. Attending these workshops will help you to crystallise steady, new, healthy patterns in order to cultivate strength in that newly discovered reality. Through a longer immersion you incorporate this knowledge to a degree that is not possible in regular yoga classes.
You will experience stretching and opening of the connective tissues (miofascia), and safe exploration of the contours of your joints that will facilitate healthier, more sustainable movement patterns and a long term more effective Meditation practice.
You will experience more freedom in the most dense structure of your body: the skeleton. If the skeleton is freed, then the breath is freed and the physical and energetic bodies are closer to harmony. It’s a wonderful and more lasting feeling.
Who can attend?
All my workshops are suitable for all levels of practice. That is because my focus is on what the posture is meant to produce in your body and how it feels, rather than focusing on how the posture looks. We call this a ‘functional’ approach to yoga and it naturally evolves to a mindful somatic flowing experience that is balancing and healing. The practice is based on your unique skeletal structure. In this way I teach you how to maximise the benefits of each asana and the result is that one is able to bring more presence to the body-mind unity which elicits a possibility of an optimal nervous system repair.
Yin Yoga Immersion & Inuyoga Mandala (TM)
Merging with the healing light
Come and experience deep healing and insight with a Functional Approach to Yoga. Discover a heart centred yoga sequence that will really work for you allowing you to feel and merge with the flow of energy and the tantalising force of healing light.
Dates 2025: TBC
Teas, coffee included
Limited spaces available, booking in advance is essential
This workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced practitioners alike.
In this immersive workshop we will explore yin yoga practices that target the miofascial tissues and joints of the pelvis, spine and upper body. We will move gradually into a flowing Inuyoga Mandala (TM) sequence.
Inuyoga Mandala sequence is a unique somatic movement exploration composed of yoga postures that seemingly flow into one another balancing our body energy and regulating our nervous system. This opens a wider door for body and mind integration and repair.
Practicing in this way promotes compassion, mindfulness and deep healing. In simple terms yin yoga, in the way I teach it involves postures that are held for 3 or more minutes, without muscular tension, whilst encouraging adaptations to suit your uniquely shaped skeleton. In our Inuyoga Mandala sequence we target the muscles, balancing and strengthening the muscles of the whole body through flowing movement.
I am delighted to have the opportunity to share with you the amazing healing benefits of a functional approach to practicing yoga. We will focus on the Pelvis, Spine and Upper body, opening an energetic door that leads to our unique Inuyoga Mandala (TM) flow yoga sequence. Practicing Yoga with the focus on function instead of form allows your practice to be more powerful and effective and therefore facilitating a subsequent practice of Meditation.
Venue: TBC
Teacher
Taught by Gabriela Maass, Senior Teacher Yoga Alliance with more than 1000 hours of Yoga Studies and Training, Paul Grilley 500hrs. Assisted by Matt France (200hr Yoga Alliance, In U Yoga Teacher and 100hr Yin Yoga with Paul Grilley certified).
Gabriela Maass
Gabriela is a Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. She has over twenty five years of practice and study of hatha yoga, pranayama and meditation with many of the world’s leading yoga teachers. She has been teaching yoga for more than 20 years and has more than a 1000 hours of Yoga Training and study.
Her teaching qualifications include certification in Iyengar Yoga and Yoga Therapy with Arun H.S. (direct disciple of B.K.S. Iyengar), Vinyasa Flow Teaching Certificate with Shiva Rea, and 500 hr Yin Yoga, Chakra Meditation and Meridian Theory Teaching Certificate with Paul and Suzie Grilley. She is also a trained Meditation teacher and continues to enrich her teaching through attending seminars and classes; allowing this external knowledge to blend with her own insights and intuition gained from personal practice and years of teaching experience. Lately she has attended CPD Immersive courses on Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga, A Guided Journey of Self-Discovery, Embodied Healing, and Meaningful Change which has infused her yoga experience with further appreciation and understanding of the links between neuroscience and ancient yoga wisdom.
General booking information
Costs
One day workshop £85 (5-6 hours tuition)
Half day workshop £50 (3-3.5 hours tuition)
(We do not not accept half day bookings for full day workshops)
Refunds
Refunds cannot be made if you give notice of your inability to attend less than 30 days before the workshop. Places are non transferable.