Whole Health

About the Classes

Charlotte weaves Somatic practices - more fluid, explorative, primal motions - with postures and movements more commonly associated with a physical yoga practice. She is most interested in how these gestures bring us into embodied awareness and a compassionate relation with self though. Exploring the movement within stillness and the stillness within movement, whether there is more containment or fluidity, there is ample time and space to listen in to your deeper needs. In this way these mindful, meditative practices can help us drop beneath striving and 'getting it right', towards liberation and releasing stress, trauma and tension from body tissues.

Charlotte is joined within the Whole Health offerings by similarly experienced teachers Leonie Taylor and Leah Barnett; both of whom she has worked with for many years and who bring their own voices and specialisms along. This creates a timetable over each week that offers a complementary rhythm of differing ways of tuning into and caring for our whole being; body and mind.

Each class is appropriate for all levels. Whether it involves floorwork, standing, dynamic, restorative or meditative practices, there is the space and kind attention for each person to move in ways that feel supportive and opening - and pause whenever they need. In this way we can ease open muscles, fascia and posture in a safe and body intelligent way, with an emphasis on the breath and kind, mindful attention.

We can all benefit from this emphasis on grounding, awareness and attunement into our inner landscape; a guide to navigating the often choppy waters of life with ease and equanimity.

These practices that cultivate embodied awareness are also great accompaniments to a more dynamic practice or to bring deeper awareness for the more experienced, as well as initial opening for the beginner.

Charlotte also specialises in therapeutic yoga for digestive, immune and respiratory health, as well as relief from stress, burnout, fatigue and anxiety. Leonie and Leah are involved with Charlotte's teaching and writing within these subjects too. All of the classes are appropriate for these and other health needs.

December 2024 Overview

Meet Our Guest Teachers

Leah

Leah Barnett has been teaching yoga for over 15 years, since qualifying with the ‘Inner Yoga Trust’ in 2002. Leah works mainly with adults affected by chronic illness including ME/chronic & post viral fatigue, fibromyalgia, cancer etc. Her teaching style is very student-centred, focussing on breath and feeling into the sensory experience of movement and stillness. She has an interest in somatics, authentic movement and feldenkrais weaving these approaches into her teaching. Leah's classes are very inclusive and deeply restorative. Leah and Charlotte have co-taught the Teaching Yoga for Stress, Burnout and Fatigue course for Yogacampus since 2016.

Leonie

Leonie Taylor is a senior Vajrasati yoga teacher (training at the same time as Charlotte back in 2006) and an accredited therapeutic Thai massage practitioner. Leonie regularly combines these, her twin passions, in workshops and classes to create accessible sessions that are meditative, grounding and inspiring: offering everyday practises to add to your self-nurturing toolbox. http://www.centredspace.net, @centredspace