Happy New Year All Classes start back from 8th January At The Oar Bar Crosshaven Mon 7pm Tues 9.15am Fri 10.30am Teens 15th Jan 5.15-6.15pm Kids Wednesdays from 17th Jan Text or call to book in Deirdre 087 1386757

New 6 week Hatha Yoga Flow and Somatics on pelvis stability and mobility. Mon 7pm Tues 9.15am Fri 10.30am at The upper Deck Oar Bar Crosshaven. Text Deirdre 087 1386757

Adult Yoga Classes start from 4th September Monday 7 - 8.15pm Beginners & Improvers Tuesday 9.15 - 10.45am Intermediate & Improvers Friday 10.30 - 11.45 am Gentle & Beginners All classes at the Upper Deck, Oar Bar Crosshaven Text to book in Deirdre 087 1386757 Classes start with a mindful somatic inquiry and breathing practices, time to explore personal alignment & comfort within a pose, warming and strengthening flow Hatha Yoga and guided relaxation and meditation. Contact me for details on Teens and Kids classes. In Yoga practice you will discover that the practice is itself the reward. Donna Farhi

SUMMER YOGA... Monday 7pm The Oar Bar Crosshaven. Call weekly to book in

Returning again...

Happy Knees.... We’ve been diving back into our bones in Yoga class for the last few weeks, it feels like the time of the year to become grounded and find support from the fertile earth. Our bones help us balance, transfer our weight to the ground, they protect our organs, and they help our immune system by storing calcium and phosphorous and they produce new red and white blood cells. To best use our skeletal structure it is important to find support before we move, to yield and push our feet into the earth allowing the muscle to contract and support our joints before we move before we reach. The focus last week was on our knees, a modified but complicated hinge joint, it can flex, extend and has a small degree of rotation. So for this our flexors (hamstrings) and our extensors (quadriceps) need to be strong, they must be able to contract and relax in opposition to each other. This may mean a micro bend and a smiling knee as you lift your quadriceps. Also as many as seven muscles attach from the hip to the knee it means that any limitation in the hips adversely affects the knees. Any external and internal hip rotation with the knee in flexion needs to be within a person’s comfortable range of movement. Any pain in yoga is the body’s way of saying - find a different path. All our joints need a soft open alignment so that our weight and Prana can find a clear pathway through the centre of each joint. As most of our joints are lubricated and cushioned by synovial fluids then by being playful we can enliven them by jiggling, rocking, shaking even laughing - keeping free and effortless quality to our Yoga and our everyday movements. The inner experience of asana according to the Yoga Sutras is steadiness and comfort, taking care not to overexert and not impose an image of what a pose should look like. When we are curious when we connect to the ground, to gravity, to our breath, when we refine our alignments and relationships within the body then we can begin to stand erect, sit in comfort and walk with ease and grace.

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Teen Yoga starts Monday 27 Feb 5.45-6.45pm at the Oar bar, Upper deck 6 week course €55 We are exploring how we use bones and breath, our connection to the earth and how alignment allows this flow of force to support us. Classes are fun but dynamic with an emphasis on everyone finding their own inner alignment. Each week we explore different strategies for stress and anxiety and always end with a restorative relaxation.

Elemental yoga