Hayley North

This approach to Yoga is grounded in the fundamental principles of the work of Vanda Scaravelli. In this practice, there is a continuous focus on our three ‘friends’ - gravity, breath and the spine. Going with the bodies natural rhythm and­ without force, a different quality to movement can be experienced and the postures (asanas) unfold organically, from the inside out. The emphasis is on creating the conditions to allow tension to be released, for a more natural expression of movement to emerge. Within this framework, Hayley incorporates breath awareness, meditation, creative sequencing, alignment principles and embodied/functional anatomy; in addition to classical yoga asanas. Hayley completed a 3-year teacher training at the Natural Bodies Centre in Brighton, UK, with Gary Carter. Through this course and for many years since, Hayley has studied with other inspiring teachers such as Liz Warrington, Monica Voss, Elizabeth Pauncz, Sophie Hoare, Diane Long­ and most notably with John Stirk, with whom she has been a student for 18 years. She has been teaching regularly since 2004 through group classes, one to ones, intensive workshops and retreats both in the UK and Internationally. The classes are also influenced by Hayley’s background in dance and studies in other movement disciplines such as Feldenkrais, Somatics, Continuum and Qi Gong.