Wednesday Hatha Yoga for Beginners Class, Elgar Centre, Northampton

20/10/2025

Whenever I come to my gym for a swim and visiting sauna, and pass the gym floor, I happen to see people working out with a noticeable force; red-faced, straining, heaving weights around, as if trying to wrestle their bodies into submission. Every single rep looked like a small act of war.
There's an Osteopathic saying that the body is “the primary machinery of life” the tool through which we engage with the world. Every gesture of kindness, every act of service, every word of love is expressed through this extraordinary machinery. If it breaks down or is mistreated, our capacity to live fully, to love deeply and to serve meaningfully, becomes limited.
To care for the body, then, is to honour life itself and yoga is a way to care and to learn. Yoga allows you to get to such a level of body awareness when you know what nourishes and what harms you. Whenever you feel or choose to work hard, you will know how to care hard.
To start learning abut your body, please find your local yoga class or come to one of mine. The link is below.

18/09/2025

Would you want to know why you feel tired most of the time, starting in the morning and continuing through the day?

Stress response is always our bodily reaction. It comes through our head but what we feel and the reason we feel it is our bodily reaction! And long after the reason has gone, it is still sitting in the body, in our contracted muscles.
As it’s involuntary body response, we don’t have voluntary control over this tension. And with time the tonicity of our muscles tends to increase, leading chronic muscular tension. Which means the muscles will always feel tired and firm.
People with chronically high tonicity often feel that their muscles are ‘weak’ because they can’t move freely. Sometimes physicians will tell them that the muscles have become weak. On the contrary, their muscles are quite strong, but they are tired and overworked form contracting all the time. The chronically contracted muscle is like a motor that one can’t turn off. It continues to run and to burn up energy. The only way out to work on releasing this tension.
If you want to give it a go, then feel free to book for my class.

Face to Face Hatha Yoga Classes for Intermediate and Beginning levels in a friendly environment. Willen pavilion, Milton Keynes and Elgar Centre, Upton, Northampton.

28/08/2025

You will be shocked to know that 10-year study of 268 people over the age of 60, Palmore reported that degree and frequency of illness was related more directly to physical inactivity! Those who were physically inactive were two-and-half times more likely to spend at least 14 days a year bed-ridden as were those who were physically active!
To continue the above, I happen to have come accross people who live their lives completely unaware of the role of physical exercise, waiting for the moment when they can't ignore the calls from their bodies, and only then coming for a quick fix!
Please don't wait till that moment, because the quick fix is not a sustainable miricle.
Join my yoga classes Yoga Classes for Beginners and Mixed Ability, Milton Keynes & Northampton

For more info please go to my website

Face to Face Hatha Yoga Classes for Intermediate and Beginning levels in a friendly environment. Willen pavilion, Milton Keynes and Elgar Centre, Upton, Northampton.

10/12/2024

Persistent stress can lead to tension patterns that limit awareness of certain body parts. For example, people under stress often hold tension in their shoulders, neck, or jaw, leading to desensitization and disconnection over time. Contracted muscles might never get full release and tension keeps accumulating with time. That's the major reason why we need yoga, as it allows us to mend and lengthen where we get short and stiff!
Join Wednesday Yoga Class, at Elgar, Upton, Northampton tomorrow, 18th December, 2024, at 6.30pm

To book or more info please look at my website

Face to Face Hatha Yoga Classes for Intermediate and Beginning levels in a friendly environment. Willen pavilion, Milton Keynes and Elgar Centre, Upton, Northampton.

08/11/2024

Because our heart is connected to diaphragm, the quality of our breath can have profound influence on the heart health. In essence, the heart lies right on the top of diaphragm and even is attached to diaphragm. So, each time we breathe, the heart follows the diaphragm movement and is massaged. But this only happens when we have a full breath, and our lower ribs move to the side widening our rib cage and pulling on the sides of diaphragm.
And now think and even better notice how you breath when you have to talk for a long time or working on a deadline and your brain is racing. We can add to this picture our hunched backs and tight closed chests. A number of significant studies have shown a correlation between upper chest breathing and heart disease.
In my classes we address this issue and through the exercise we learn the connection between the core and wide and open chest. It’s not only allow you to bring more oxygen in your blood but helps to look after your heart!

Face to Face Hatha Yoga Classes for Intermediate and Beginning levels in a friendly environment. Willen pavilion, Milton Keynes and Elgar Centre, Upton, Northampton.

20/08/2024

A lot of people don’t understand that stretching has to happen on a regular basis. It should be daily,” says David Nolan, a physical therapist at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.

Why it’s important

Stretching keeps the muscles flexible, strong, and healthy, and we need that flexibility to maintain a range of motion in the joints. Without it, the muscles shorten and become tight. Then, when you call on the muscles for activity, they are weak and unable to extend all the way. That puts you at risk for joint pain, strains, and muscle damage.

You may think of stretching as something performed only by runners or gymnasts. But we all need to stretch in order to protect our mobility and independence. “A lot of people don’t understand that stretching has to happen on a regular basis. It should be daily,” says David Nolan, a physical th...

13/12/2022

26/08/2022

Join me in Hatha Yoga for Beginners Class, on 31st August, at Elgar Centre, Upton, at 6.30pm!
It is a slower-paced class and geared towards those new to yoga or preferring a slightly gentler class. We will use yoga props and modified postures to get tightness out of the body which as result will calm your mind.
Students claim to have better night sleep and sense of better ‘awareness in the body’ for few days after the class.
The class is £8.00 per a session
For more information about the class and book your space please go to
https://www.joyyogatherapy.co.uk/

12/07/2022

Join me in Wednesday Hatha Yoga for Beginners Class on 20th July 2022, at The Elgar Centre, Upton, Northampton!

This class will make your body toned and flexible. We will stay in asanas for a while, using the breath to see the tightness easing in the body. In the end of the class you will feel lighter and more at one with the world!

The class takes place inside Elgar Centre, from 6.15 till 7.30pm

It is £8.00 per a session.
For more information and to book your space please go to my website
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Face to Face Hatha Yoga Classes for Intermediate and Beginning levels in a friendly environment. Willen pavilion, Milton Keynes and Elgar Centre, Upton, Northampton.

13/06/2022

Join me in Wednesday Hatha Yoga for Beginners Class on 16th June 2022, at The Elgar Centre, Upton, Northampton!

This class will make your body toned and flexible. We will stay in asanas for a while, using the breath to see the tightness easing in the body. In the end of the class you will feel lighter and more at one with the world!

The class takes place inside Elgar Centre, from 6.15 till 7.30pm

It is £8.00 per a session.
Please book your space at my website
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Face to Face Hatha Yoga Classes for Intermediate and Beginning levels in a friendly environment. Willen pavilion, Milton Keynes and Elgar Centre, Upton, Northampton.