Yoga

Yoga is a spiritual practice and non-competitive in approach.

All it asks of you is to turn up exactly as you are and practice, practice, practice!

Scaravelli-inspired approach

Emma is a Scaravelli-inspired yoga teacher with direct lineage to Vanda Scaravelli through her teacher Louise Simmons and her teacher Diane Long who was Vanda’s principal student.

Emma is motivated to helping her students reap the many benefits that this approach to practice offers, which is truly magical. 

Read about Emma’s discovery of Scaravelli here

  • Scaravelli-inspired yoga is suitable for everybody from those new to yoga to those who are in their eighties and beyond. This radical practice works deeply with gravity, breath and awareness to re-awaken the potential of our spine and allow a new harmony, freedom, and fluidity in our body, mind and life generally.

    In time our body reveals a whole new language of movement, born from the spine, and expressing itself in a whole-body approach, healing and releasing deep tension and allowing us to truly bein each moment as it arises. 

    Everyone can benefit, from those who experience physical discomfort and ailments, to those who wish to increase vitality and wellbeing, to those who need to heal, to those who wish to deepen their existing practices and experience of yoga. 

    Emma’s sessions are hands-on. She works intuitively and compassionately to support and guide your body in discovering new ways of being, relating and connecting, working from the inside out

Group offerings

General class schedule

Browse weekly classes with Emma or Grace, as well as courses to deepen your practice. Suitable for every body, all ages, of all abilities!

Intimate group sessions

Intimate group sessions for The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, Vedic Chanting, Pranayama & Meditation as well as intimate āsana classes.

One-to-one

Private yoga session

Private sessions offer intimacy as they are tailored to your body and your needs. The sessions are hands on, Emma gives Reiki where she can. There is no set structure and we will generally only focus on a couple of postures. Thus it is a not a class where you might establish a set routine to copy at home, it is more so a therapeutic approach to practice, where we can seek to establish new movement patterns which you can start to integrate into your yoga practice and in daily life.

Yoga sutras lesson

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, widely regarded as the authoritative text on yoga, is a collection of aphorisms outlining the eight limbs of yoga, offering threads of wisdom through guidelines for living a meaningful and purposeful life.

You will explore and discuss with Emma the first two/three chapters of the Yoga Sutras.

While Emma certainly doesn’t claim to be a yoga philosophy teacher, she knows from her own experience how helpful this study can be.

“Is it possible to have a different attitude in which a new intelligence, not imposed by authority but born from interest, attentions and sensitivity, will emerge and in which body and mind, fused in one single action, are collaborating together? It is just this revolutionary attitude that we are going to discover through a new discipline in the practice of yoga”, 

Vanda Scaravelli

Class info & FAQs

  • General classes are held upstairs in St Martin’s Community Centre, with the intimate yoga sessions held at Cobo Community Centre. Please turn off mobile telephones and remove shoes before entering the space - thank you!

    All weekly yoga classes are drop-in - no booking required. The intimate classes require booking.

    As is traditionally recommended, you may like to refrain from eating two hours prior to class. If you do need to eat then fruit is OK.

  • £13 drop-in for adults and £8 per student, or 5 tokens can be purchased in advance for £60 and used in any of our classes.

    Payment can be made in cash or by bank transfer - please ask Emma for bank details. Sorry, no payment by card.

  • We recommend wearing comfortable tightly fitting clothes such as t-shirts or vest-tops with leggings or shorts, bringing a jumper and socks for relaxation.

    Classes are practiced barefoot.

    Please bring your own mat if you can, for hygiene reasons, but we do have ones you can borrow if needed.

    Bolsters, blankets, eye pillows etc. can also be borrowed.

  • With injuries or loss of physical wellness, yoga offers an opportunity to help you get to the root cause and will offer the opportunity for healing and understanding yourself on a deeper level.

    We have various tools available to us and a myriad of postures, to make the practice accessible.

    You will feel undoubtably better from practising yoga, and whatever your problem is, it will not overtake you; yoga will help you to take care of your body, your mind and your breath and you will likely have more energy.

  • Beinspired only accepts pregnant women with an existing yoga practice into our weekly classes. It is essential that you let Emma know, in confidence, that you are pregnant, regardless of the stage of pregnancy.

    We know what it’s like when you’re keen to get to a yoga class to support the postnatal period but on-demand breastfeeding or bottle feeding dictates otherwise. For this reason, at Beinspired we are keen that postnatal women are given the opportunity to bring their babes in arms (babies who pretty much stay in one place, so not crawling or toddling) to our classes so that they can be fed as needed.

Online practices

Over the years we have filmed an extensive collection of videos for you to practice yoga from the comfort of your own home.

Meditation & relaxation audios

Emma has recorded many free relaxation and guided meditation audios to help quieten the mind and nourish your spirit.