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Study and Practice yoga beyond asana
An opportunity to evolve your relationship with yoga
Through these modules we explore the deeper layers of yoga, a practice which has evolved over many centuries. Influenced by the spiritual traditions of South Asia as well as more current philosophies of the body and mind.
These series are designed to stimulate a deeper understanding of yoga including, and extending beyond, the physical postures.
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Cultivating Loving Kindness: A Yoga Series with Amber Scott
Explore a transformative journey through a dedicated yoga series designed to develop loving kindness — a practice that nourishes the heart, calms the mind, and strengthens the spirit. This series unfolds step-by-step, inviting you to deepen your connection to yourself and others with gentle movement, mindful breathwork, and guided meditation.
What to Expect in the Series:
Making friends with the ground
Making friends with the bones
Making friends with sensations
Making friends with the breath
Making friends with yoga
Friendliness in meditation
Friendliness “off the mat”
Who This Series Is For:
Whether you are new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, this series offers a welcoming space to cultivate a more loving and compassionate mindset. Suitable for all levels and adaptable to your pace.Join Amber Scott in this nourishing path to embody kindness, transforming your practice and your life with intention and heart.
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Connecting with the Lotus Heart: A Yoga Series with Amber Scott
Explore a transformative journey through a dedicated yoga series designed to develop compassion — a practice that nourishes the heart, calms the mind, and strengthens the spirit. This series unfolds step-by-step, inviting you to deepen your connection to yourself and others with gentle movement, mindful breathwork, and guided meditation.
What to Expect in the Series:
The study of verses from the yoga tradition, postural sequences, breath practices, sacred song and mudras, or sacred gestures.
An introduction to Karuna in the yoga tradition
Introducing Karuna and her Song
The heart as Bridge
Nourishing the Heart through Breath
Touching Heart Pain
The Heart Mantra
The Heart Mudra
The Unstruck Sound: Heart Meditation
Dwelling in Heart
Who This Series Is For:
Whether you are new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, this series offers a welcoming space to cultivate a more loving and compassionate mindset. Suitable for all levels and adaptable to your pace.Join Amber Scott in this nourishing path to embody kindness, transforming your practice and your life with intention and heart.
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Promoting Joyfulness: A Yoga Series with Amber Scott
Explore a transformative journey through a dedicated yoga series designed to develop joyfulness —Through the repetition of an uplifting sequence of movements woven with breath, we promote circulation and brightness. This will be paired with the study of traditional passages that bring inspiration through the ages.
What to Expect in the Series:
1. Good news! Introduction to mudita
2. Buddha Belly: Letting go
3. From lethargy to brightness: Embodied Prayer
4. Inner Decluttering: Antidotes to Obstacles
5. The Bliss Body: Anandamaya kośa
6. Māha mudra: The great delight
7. A foundation of Joy
Who This Series Is For:
Whether you are new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, this series offers a welcoming space to cultivate a more loving and compassionate mindset. Suitable for all levels and adaptable to your pace.Join Amber Scott in this nourishing path to embody kindness, transforming your practice and your life with intention and heart.
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Cultivating Balance and Equanimity
A Yoga Series of Study and Practice
This carefully designed yoga series invites you to explore balance not only through physical postures but also through mindful study and reflection.
The most basic goal of yoga practice is a return to balance. In this aspect it is unlike many other modalities which seek to boost, increase and enhance. Most states of 'bliss' are transient, but the bliss of yoga is everlasting, it is the bliss of sattva, total alignment with the flow of life.
Series Structure:
1. Centering: An introduction to Upeksha.
2. Beyond duality: What is vice?
3. Radical Acceptance: Being with what is.
4. Cultivating Intimacy: The Perils of Dissociation:
5. sthiramsukhamasanam : Embodiment of balance.
6. The dance of opposites.
7. Tasting sattva.
8. Presence & Equanimity.
Who This Series Is For:
Whether you are new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, this series offers a welcoming space to cultivate a more balanced mindset. Suitable for all levels and adaptable to your pace.Join Amber Scott in this nourishing path to embody equanimity, transforming your practice and your life with intention and heart.
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Theory & Practice of Posture: A Yoga Series with Amber Scott
From looking at the history of postural practice to feeling in our own physicality its effect, this series will give you a really good grounding in the embodied aspect of yoga.
What to Expect in the Series:
1. The Body Mind: the movement from the gross to the subtle
2. The outer layer: Vitality & Functionality
3. The Sacred Staff of the Spine
4. Animals, Plants, Gods… Accessing the Core
5. Adapting to the body's needs: Therapeutic Application of āsana
6. The value of Inversions
7. Sitting: Meditation is a physical practice
Who This Series Is For:
Whether you are new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, this series offers a welcoming space to enquire into the deeper dimensions of yoga. Suitable for all levels and adaptable to your pace.Join Amber Scott on this fascinating journey, transforming your practice and your life with intention and heart.
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Drinking the Breath: A Yoga Series with Amber Scott
Pranayama, the ancient yogic practice of breath control, plays a vital role in balancing the body, calming the mind, and deepening meditation. This series introduces essential pranayama techniques for practitioners of all levels, providing clear instructions and benefits to integrate into your yoga practice or daily routine.
Course structure:
1. Introduction to Pranayama: what is Prana?
2. Three Part breath: the Compartments
3. Getting activated: Kapalabhati
4. Getting quiet: Nadi Shodana
5. Inhalation: Viloma pranayama
6. Exhalation: Viloma pranayama cont.
7. Deep relaxation: Brahmari pranayama
8. Integrating Pranayama into practice
Who This Series Is For:
Whether you are new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, this series offers a welcoming space to cultivate a more loving and compassionate mindset. Suitable for all levels and adaptable to your pace.Join Amber Scott in this nourishing path to embody kindness, transforming your practice and your life with intention and heart.
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Going Inside: A Yoga Series with Amber Scott
Explore a transformative journey through a dedicated yoga series designed to develop interoception — the capacity to feel inwardly. This series unfolds step-by-step, inviting you to deepen your connection to yourself and others with gentle movement, mindful breathwork, and guided meditation.
Course Structure:
1. Introduction to Pratyahara
2. Listening to the Bones: the musculoskeletal structure
3. Digesting change: the digestive system
4. The Divine breath: the respiratory system
5. The subtle systems 1: fascia
6. The subtle systems 2: nerve
7. Our deepest vitality
8. Suffusion & presence
Who This Series Is For:
Whether you are new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, this series offers a welcoming space to explore the feeling realm. Suitable for all levels and adaptable to your pace.Join Amber Scott in this nourishing path to greater sensitivity and intimacy with life.
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A series of Guided Meditations to focus the turning mind
Receptive Listening
Embodied awareness
Breath awareness
Heart awareness
Thought awareness
The Decision Point
Choosing freedom
Deepening Modules
Recordings are available and will be sent to your inbox automatically on booking.
Friendliness : Maitri
This the first module of your 'Deepening' journey, begins by exploring the quality of maitri: friendliness or loving kindness.
In times of discord and violence we can adopt a counterpose within ourselves. The practice of maitri (or metta) has been valued throughout time in Buddhist, yogic and other traditions. It develops the heart and increases resilience, as we become steadfast friends both to ourselves and others.
A series of 7 x 1 hour practices.
Compassion: Karuna
The recognition that we are not separate is at the heart of the yogic spiritual path. To touch into the collective feeling realm and experience greater connectivity to all life is what Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh referred to as “interbeing”.
Through the development of karuna (compassion) we become more sensitive to the suffering of the world in a way that empowers us to transform as well as to be of service. In Mahayana Buddhism this awakening is referred to as bodhicitta, which, like an alchemical substance, brings about real change in our lives.
This series includes the study of verses from the yoga tradition, postural sequences, breath practices, sacred song and mudras, to connect with the lotus heart of compassion.
A series of 8 x 1 hour practices.
Joy: Mudita
Joy serves as an antidote to lacklustre states. However it has been observed that “it is our very idea of happiness that prevents us from being happy” (Thich Nhat Hanh). In this series we shall tap into our innate joy, beyond ideas.
In this series we will deepen in practice through the repetition of an uplifting sequence of movements woven with breath, that promote circulation and brightness. This will be paired with the study of traditional passages that bring inspiration through the ages.
Key to the teachings of yoga is the uncoupling of external “achievement” from the state of internal peace and joyfulness. We will look at how attachment to objects can be an enormous obstacle to our happiness and how through shifting our perspective we can be free of limiting beliefs.
A series of 7 x 1 hour practices.
The most basic goal of yoga practice is a return to balance. In this aspect it is unlike many other modalities which seek to boost, increase and enhance. Most states of 'bliss' are transient, but the bliss of yoga is everlasting, it is the bliss of sattva, total alignment with the flow of life.
True health requires an honest and integrated approach as well as a radical acceptance of self.
In this series we will engage with tools and practices that have served yogis throughout the ages. Meditation, sound, energy awareness, movement and reflection will be our toolbox, as we embark on an exploration of what it means to be in balance in this day and age.
A series of 8 x 1 hour practices.
Equanimity: Upeksha
The Significance of Asana
In this series we will be exploring the place of asana in the history of yoga as well as some of the more up to date technical detail that informs asana practice in the current age.
Climbing the rungs of the ladder to freedom, the modern yogi tends to get snagged on the physical. This is neither surprising nor novel. However, on a path to greater freedom, it is vital that we don't get entrapped in the type of body-cherishing that ends up feeding the ego and creating more attachment.
In this series we enquire into the body in a way that both elucidates and enlivens the somatic pathways, paying particular intention to the fascia as a vibrant and connective webbing 'between realms'.
A series of 7 x 1 hour practices.
Pranayama, the fourth limb of Patanjali's eightfold yoga which deals mostly with breath, is often sidelined in favour of the more extroverted postural practices. But paying attention to the breath is not boring! It is thrilling.
The transformative potential of conscious breath has experienced a surge of popularity but yogis have long recognized that prana, which travels on the breath and in the breath, is godly in its nature. When we come back to the breath we are connecting with the Divine directly: a main line to source.
In this series we will study and practice some of the basic Pranayama techniques. Each class shall include movement to prepare the physical structure as well as contextual study to anchor our learning.
A series of 8 x 1 hour practices.
Drinking the Breath Pranayama
Going Inside: Pratyahara
In this series we develop interoception, the capacity to feel inwardly. This turning inwards of the senses is known as Pratyahara, a gradual and exciting movement from the gross to the subtle . Having a guide is invaluable in moving beyond the habitual and into the multilayered aspects of our being. There are many factors that lead to our becoming disconnected, but what if being with our feelings leads not into a catastrophic black hole of despair but into a whole new experience of life?
Our inner realm contains a rich storehouse of wisdom. We visit the various systems of our bodies with a spirit of curiosity and reverence, engaging in techniques that generate and suffuse them with prana. This involves a primarily energetic focus to the movements and postures.
A series of 8 x 1 hour practices.
Meditations: Dharana
This meditation series is aimed at building focus.
Beginning with a period of settling, you will be guided in these sessions through various focal points, gradually stripping false layers of identity to reveal a place of freedom.
The sixth limb of yoga, dharana, is a form of concentration. With patience and care we can lovingly apply ourselves to the practice, revealing areas where we are contracted or confused and getting curious about different ways of existing. This is the spirit of mindfulness.
A series of 15 x 30min practices.
Prana: Vitality sessions
The importance of strengthening to increase our vitality is at the heart of this series. Through the core structures, valued by yogis as the seat of inner fire, we build dynamic energy gradually.
The first part of each section is dedicated to contextual study: setting out the terrain of the subtle body and finding inspiration within the yogic tradition. A period of physical movement and posture practice follows, with the focus on strengthening and increasing vital energy.
The second stage of the course incorporates repetitive pranayama, building an awareness of the subtle currents that animate us.
Integration is key to true vitality which is why the third part of this series is dedicated to integrative practices such as restorative inversions and meditation.