Peter Blackaby: Intelligent Yoga Weekend

Join the author of Intelligent Yoga for a weekend of deeply nuanced scientifically evidenced yoga theory and practice that will nourish your teaching and give you more confidence to work with different kinds of people in your classes, as well as adding more subtlety to your own practice.

In Pete’s words…

During the forty years I've been teaching yoga, I've watched various ideas about the physical practice come and go — and sometimes come again. Stretching was hugely popular when I started out in the late seventies. This gradually morphed into a more biomechanical way of thinking about the body: stretching tight muscles, strengthening weak ones.

Over time, the limits of this approach became apparent, and a shift towards functional movement began to take hold, as it grew clearer that some exercises serve daily life far better than others. More recently, a more 'somatic', feeling-based approach has spread through parts of the yoga world.

Pete’s current interest lies in how we can affect the way we feel and think through the way we work with the body.

Saturday 10-4pm (1-2pm Lunch)

The Secrete Benefits of Movement

How can movement help the secretion of essential bodily substances?

Explore how the way we engage with the body changes the hormones released into our bloodstream, how this shifts what we feel inside, and how that in turn can change the kind of thinking or rumination we get caught up in.

Sunday 10-4pm (1-2pm Lunch)

Pain Theory in Yoga

Working & Moving with Chronic Pain.

Gain a more nuanced understanding of pain science and how these theories relate to the teaching and practice of yoga. We will look at how secretion affects the pain we feel in our bodies, going a little deeper into the three main ways we experience pain: through tissue damage, chronic inflammation, and the brain's predictive processing.

Pete will help us explore these ideas and more with a mixture of theory and practice throughout the weekend.

COST: £125 for both days - £75 for one day.

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Booking gives you access to the recordings for 3 weeks afterwards.