Individual yoga tuition and therapeutic yoga

In addition to our group yoga classes, we also offer individual yoga tuition. Individual tuition isn’t simply us running a ‘group class for one person’, it’s much more significant than that and requires the teacher to have been specifically trained to work therapeutically with individuals.

It’s an opportunity for the practitioner to develop a regular home practice, tailored to their particular objectives and supported by regular meetings with the teacher.

On another level, it’s an opportunity to use regular, supervised yoga practice as a therapeutic application to address physical, emotional, mental or energetic health issues. What many people today refer to as ‘yoga therapy’.

Long before group classes became so popular, one-to-one tuition was how yoga was traditionally taught and we believe that it’s still the most effective way for the serious practitioner to deepen their practice or to use yoga to restore good health.

What to expect

Typically, at an initial consultation, we would meet to discuss your health, objectives, how often, when and where you could realistically practice. We would also work through a few simple āsana (postures) to establish your strength, flexibility, abilities and limitations.

After time (for us both) to consider the outcome of the consultation, we would meet a second time, at which point you would be guided through various āsana and other Viniyoga techniques, making sure that you can fully understand them and work with them. This would form the basis of your first home yoga practice, which would be presented as an easy to follow practice plan using ‘stick-men’ diagrams (see the fella to the right), supported with simple guidance notes.

Before you leave this second session, we would arrange a third appointment a few weeks hence, so that you’d have adequate time to work with the practice however many times we’d agreed. At this third session we would discuss how things went and review the practice accordingly, with a view to scheduling further meetings to develop it.

How much, where and how

For costs and to book an initial consultation, please contact us. All individual tuition takes place by appointment at our venue in central Cheltenham.