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Class Timetable

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Thursday

Bersted Jubilee Hall - Meeting Room
Chalcraft Lane
North Bersted
Bognor Regis
​PO21 5TU

3.30pm - 5.00pm
Gentle Yoga (suitable for all)
* * RESTORATIVE YOGA * *  followed by Yoga Nidra on 1st Wednesday of every month
What is  Restorative Yoga? - see below
 What is Yoga Nidra? - see below

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Thursday

Pagham Village Hall - Large Hall
​Pagham Road
Pagham
​PO21 4NJ

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Dynamic Yoga  
​(previous yoga experience required)

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Saturday

Willowhale Community Centre
​Pryors Lane
Rose Green
​PO21 4JF

8:00am - 9:30am
Ashtanga Yoga (led Primary Series
​- previous yoga experience required)
​ What is Ashtanga Yoga? - see below

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Saturday
enquire for 2025 dates

venue to be confirmed

11.15am - 12.30pm
Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs 
​(suitable for all)
​ For details, see YHLB page

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Prices

Pay as you go:  Single classes - £9 per class.
Pay for 4 weeks in advance:  £32 for 4 classes (£8 per class)
Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs 12-week course - see YHLB page

All classes to be booked and paid for in advance - please contact me for details

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​Benefits of Yoga

​My classes draw on my experience of practising Ashtanga and Scaravelli-inspired yoga.  I emphasise building core muscle strength and learning safe alignment of the joints in order to achieve the shape that’s appropriate for your own individual body.  I encourage students to become curious observers of their bodies while exploring the postures.

When you’re practising yoga, you have the opportunity to ‘tune in’ to your body … you learn to ‘feel’ a shape ... how comfortable it is and how to adapt it to make it right for you – to make it enjoyable and sustainable. Practising Yoga helps us set up new processes and habits on and off the mat and helps us view ourselves and others with compassion.
So yoga starts as something physical you do with your body, but then transforms into a mind practice.

​Focusing on the breath and moving the body with awareness and concentration brings about deep relaxation in the mind and the potential for meditation.

Connecting with your body helps you enrich your connection with the outside world - every experience in yoga can be a powerful journey of self-enquiry and personal discovery.

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Restorative Yoga

​ This is a very passive style of yoga where you arrange your body over/with props - bolsters, pillows, cushions, blocks, belts, blankets - and these help you to feel supported and held while you allow your breath, gravity and time to open and stretch your body, either opening the front or back of the spine or rotating into a yoga twist. 

​All familiar yoga shapes, but done with no effort and plenty of time.  An ideal opportunity to re-set, restore and re-energise a tired body and busy mind.

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Yoga Nidra

​Literally translated Yoga Nidra means 'yogic sleep'.  Your body 'sleeps' in a state of deep rest and relaxation - usually reclined on a mat with blankets and props where needed.  However your mind remains alert and awake while listening to the voice of the teacher.

The practice includes instructions on how to settle the body, rotate the awareness around the body, breathing techniques and visualisations, with the opportunity to set a goal or intention for the practice.

Yoga Nidra can be practised for various aims - relaxation, a meditative experience, to aid healing, enhance creativity and productivity, improve sleep and well-being, help in the fulfilment of life goals and support a spiritual practice.

On the first Wednesday of the month, the class starts with a short breathing practice followed by a Restorative yoga sequence and ends with 20 minutes of Yoga Nidra.  

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Ashtanga Yoga 

​A continuous set sequence of poses (from the Primary Series), using the breath as a guide and to create heat; using internal body valves (bandhas) for support and balance.

The practice starts with a series of sun salutations to warm the body, followed by a standing sequence and then seated postures, interspersed with vinyasa (movements which link the poses). The practice ends with a soothing relaxation.

This style of yoga is a compelling rhythmic flow which settles and soothes the mind. Ultimately this strong dynamic practice leads us to a soft, quiet stillness, the perfect preparation for meditation.

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