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Playful, intelligent and powerful hatha yoga on the earth.Taking to the sky in the Aerial Yoga hammock.

Online classes available at Eve's subscription site www.eveyoga.co.za

11/11/2025

Do you want to truly take flight in 2026?

Join me from 17-26 April 2026 to learn a potentially life-changing teaching skill during this 9-day immersion.

What makes this training different?

Unlike shorter trainings, this 50-hour course is designed to provide in-depth explanation and practical instruction to equip each trainee to teach and practice Aerial Yoga safely.

There are many nuances to teaching yoga with a hammock and we will look at how to support and guide beginner students effectively through:

🦋Language – explaining clearly, yet simply and in a way that is engaging for your students.

🦋Demonstration – showing how to set up for and practise poses and movements, step-by-step.

🦋Assistance – giving supportive hands-on assistance when required.

🦋Anatomy – understanding the key anatomy behind the poses – which muscles are involved and whether they are being stretched or strengthened.

🦋Teaching through the lens of yoga, rather than acrobatics. How to incorporate yoga philosophy and traditional practices into your classes.

🦋Accessibility- adapting poses to make Aerial Yoga accessible to various ages and abilities.

Whether you are a teacher looking for new inspiration or a student who wishes to practise Aerial Yoga safely at home, I welcome you to dive into a fun and exciting modality that will make you feel like a kid again!

Book on The Space Between website under Events or contact me for further information.

Early Bird ticket sales close on 7 December. Installment payment option available.

05/11/2025

A flippant comment that recently fell from the lips of a friend, as she sipped her beer, was: "yoga is a luxury."

I pondered for a moment. Her priorities were clearly different to mine. Aside from the fact that I don't drink beer and happen to teach yoga.

A luxury item, according to the Collins online dictionary, is something expensive, which is not necessary but which gives you pleasure.

Some yoga classes are more expensive than others, but I can definitely think of more frivolous and pricey items, like sports cars, single malt whiskey and designer handbags. Somehow, even when dressed up in the coolest gear, yoga just doesn't fit into this category. Nowadays, yoga is freely available on YouTube, with affordable classes held in parks and on beaches. It's hardly exclusively available only to a select few. But then again, maybe it's just having the free time to be able to attend a yoga class that some people view as a luxury.

In my world, and since I learned my first nadi shodhana as a 19-year-old, yoga felt very, very necessary. Over the years, it's been an essential mental health support through all the madness life whirled my way.

It began a gradual journey of reconnecting me to my body at a time when my only exercise was walking pavements or dancing in smokey basement London clubs.

And what it did to my awareness, focus, senses—to my brain as a whole—was totally indispensable.

In pre-yoga fashion days, when we wore whatever was comfortable, yoga was not a luxury. Somehow, I made a weekly yoga class fit into my student budget by cycling there instead of taking the bus.

Yoga hadn't yet been seized by the trendy and fashionable or used as a tool for corporate wellness. Classes were in church halls, not plush studios. Fashion and social media have definitely transformed yoga's reputation. But as something you can practice at home in your pyjamas, is it really a luxury?

The real question is, is yoga a necessity? I don't see anything unnecessary about a discipline that we can choose as an alternative to various other self-destructive modes of stress relief. A practice that may utterly and positively change our lives.

What is yoga to you?

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The Space Between, Tanamoya Farm, Airport Loop Rd, Roodefontein
Plettenberg Bay
6600

Website

http://www.eveyoga.withtank.com/, https://eveyoga.co.za/

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My Yoga Journey

I was drawn to yoga in my teens because I felt it would focus and calm my mind for studying at school. It became a constant that accompanied me through university. At that point I was introduced to Scaravelli-inspired yoga in Brighton. It resonated so deeply with my whole being, like a sigh of relief for my body. This was a practice that embraced our imperfections, allowed creative exploration, but most importantly prioritised what felt right above achieving a perfect shape in space.

After graduation I immediately embarked on a yoga teacher training and have been following this calling ever since. After moving back to South Africa at age 29 I started teaching a weekly class at first in Storms River. I have now been teaching yoga in beautiful Plett since 2008.

In 2009 I went to Thailand and trained in Thai Yoga Massage. This has been a wonderful complement to yoga. I find I understand the body more deeply with touch and through movement. Balancing and working with Sen, Thai energy lines, has added a whole dimension to my practice. This gentle dance of therapist and receiver can give the calm, blissful experience of yoga to those who, for whatever reason, dont go to classes.

Aerial Yoga was a new passion that I discovered in 2015 and have been teaching for a couple of years. How incredible to feel the spine elongate and release through the support of this beautiful fabric. It makes once inaccessible poses very tangible and brings in a new sense of movement and momentum. Students have often exclaimed: “I feel like a kid in a playground!”