You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. |
Yoga sets you free
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Living a deep and meaningful life, living a life being true to oneSelf... has always been what has driven me - the desire for Truth, Freedom and Love.
At the end of a Yoga class back in 1995, during the final relaxation in savasana (corpse pose), I experienced a profound sense of Freedom... and knew that I had 'stumbled' upon something very special. During the relaxation, the teacher's voice drifted off into the distance, and I found myself paused before an open doorway... I stepped inside, and was bathed in Peace, Stillness and Silence. I felt absolutely Free. It was a place my Soul knew well, and a place the body and mind had been searching for. As a Yoga teacher, my Yoga teaching style is rooted in my personal experience of Yoga - the numerous teachers I have been blessed to have had; my own journey on and off the mat; the many students who have passed through my classes - all have influenced me and the way I teach.
I teach a blend of all of the above and more, appreciating the various gems found in all Yoga styles, systems and schools. It seems that there is a time and a place for everything. In my own practice on the mat, and in life in general, I remain an ongoing student of Yoga, and as such, my practice and teaching continue to be an organic reflection of the world around and within. My classes are suitable for all levels - I give easier and more advanced options where appropriate. I believes ‘level’ refers more to the awareness and focus one brings to the practice rather than to performance. In a Yoga retreat setting, classes are 'progressive', and on a detox retreat, specific asanas, sequences and kriyas (cleansing exercises) are practised to assist with the cleansing process. Over the years, I have taught a wide range of abilities, levels and speciality groups, including: ante-natal, children's yoga and special needs. I consider Yoga to be a lot more than asana (postures), and my classes incorporate the other magical aspects of Yoga - inviting students to immerse themselves in a Yoga way of living and being. |
A student's synopsis on my teaching style:
'Lauren’s approach to teaching Yoga is unique, and left a profound impression on me. Her main emphasis is about attuning the body to a state of relaxation, employing Yoga and meditation as tools to help people to feel the state of their bodies and tune the body into a state of relaxation. This, to me, is one of the most valuable assets of Lauren’s course - one has the possibility of a whole week of allowing one’s body to exist in a state of relaxation. Although it was a little challenging for me at first, once I stopped pushing and started to simply be with the process unfolding, I came to experience a quality that I’ve never found present in any other Yoga course.
Lauren’s way of teaching feels much more personal than other classes I’ve participated in. She’s not teaching a set of exercises so much as teaching one to listen to one’s body. And when you see her and listen to her, she feels like an embodiment of someone in a state of relaxation herself - a living breathing Yoga in physical manifestation. She appears to live, walk and breath in a Yogic state of balance. Just being in her presence drew me to shift my consciousness, such that instead of going through a prescribed set of exercises, I found myself listening more to my body’s experience as I was practicing the Yoga, and by the end of the week I found that I felt I was living the Yoga for the first time in my life, and feeling it inwardly instead of practising it outwardly.
Lauren’s approach is not about following the technique or regime with a goal in mind, it’s more about living it as if it is an integral state of being. We are no longer seeking something outside ourselves as some distant goal, but actually ‘being it’, and this quality is imbued by relaxing into this state of being. The Yoga and detox appear at the end of the day to be nothing more than instruments for helping us to listen more deeply to the state of our inner bodies and mind.
Feeling Lauren’s state of composed relaxed presence in the Yoga helped me to feel into my own state of integral relaxation and presence. I found myself no longer fighting to maintain a Yoga pose, but simply feeling my body state whilst in a pose. I feel immense gratitude to Lauren for helping me shift my consciousness around the Yoga as I feel I am able to now approach Yoga from an entirely different place in myself.'
'Lauren’s approach to teaching Yoga is unique, and left a profound impression on me. Her main emphasis is about attuning the body to a state of relaxation, employing Yoga and meditation as tools to help people to feel the state of their bodies and tune the body into a state of relaxation. This, to me, is one of the most valuable assets of Lauren’s course - one has the possibility of a whole week of allowing one’s body to exist in a state of relaxation. Although it was a little challenging for me at first, once I stopped pushing and started to simply be with the process unfolding, I came to experience a quality that I’ve never found present in any other Yoga course.
Lauren’s way of teaching feels much more personal than other classes I’ve participated in. She’s not teaching a set of exercises so much as teaching one to listen to one’s body. And when you see her and listen to her, she feels like an embodiment of someone in a state of relaxation herself - a living breathing Yoga in physical manifestation. She appears to live, walk and breath in a Yogic state of balance. Just being in her presence drew me to shift my consciousness, such that instead of going through a prescribed set of exercises, I found myself listening more to my body’s experience as I was practicing the Yoga, and by the end of the week I found that I felt I was living the Yoga for the first time in my life, and feeling it inwardly instead of practising it outwardly.
Lauren’s approach is not about following the technique or regime with a goal in mind, it’s more about living it as if it is an integral state of being. We are no longer seeking something outside ourselves as some distant goal, but actually ‘being it’, and this quality is imbued by relaxing into this state of being. The Yoga and detox appear at the end of the day to be nothing more than instruments for helping us to listen more deeply to the state of our inner bodies and mind.
Feeling Lauren’s state of composed relaxed presence in the Yoga helped me to feel into my own state of integral relaxation and presence. I found myself no longer fighting to maintain a Yoga pose, but simply feeling my body state whilst in a pose. I feel immense gratitude to Lauren for helping me shift my consciousness around the Yoga as I feel I am able to now approach Yoga from an entirely different place in myself.'