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Healthy Feet.
‘Confining footwear can lead to tense and foreshortened feet. Constrictive footwear limits the blood flowing in and out of the foot and cramps the bones of the feet together, resulting in compacted and clenched musculature not just in the foot but also on up through the body’.Tias Little, Yoga Teacher Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Every so often, it's a good idea to make your feet the...
Online Yoga
Online yoga offers the benefits of convenience and flexibility, allowing you to practice anytime and anywhere. When you are unable to practice at the studio and attend your usual classes, I’ve created Wendy Purdon Online yoga to help fill that gap! Class is great – but there is more, much more to yoga. Cultivating a home practice is the core of yoga. Practising on your own i...
Iyengar Vinyasa Flow Sequences
Introducing Iyengar Vinyasa Flow practice. The benefits of practicing in this way; 1. Increase your circulation. This practice is a yoga cardiovascular workout, warming up the whole body. Improving blood circulation to support the immune system. 2. Lengthen and tone your muscles. Sun Salutations include forward bends to lengthen the...
Restorative Yoga
Easing Fatigue and Stress
Wednesday Evenings 5:30PM-6:45PM Contact Wendy for Restoritive Schedule & Booking Info Get in Touch This sequence can help counteract the effects that long term fatigue can have on posture as well as physical and emotional stress. You will find yourself feeling calm, deeply refreshed and feel energy starting to build from within. Restore yoga for Fatigue This deeply restorative sequen...
Sit up straight. Stand up straight!
I know I sound like your mum. But this is not frivolous advise, it is fundamental, it is crucial and vital that you integrate good posture into everything you do. The more I study and learn the more I realise, keep it simple and return to the basics; That hot outfit… cant’ undo poor posture. Digestive aids from the chemist... can�...
Yoga For Sports People
Yoga is a supplementary exercise
Many athletes are turning to yoga as a supplementary exercise routine to fix the imbalances in their body and to improve their performance in their chosen field of sport. Yoga enhances every sport. Most activities are muscle building and shortening, yoga is lengthening the muscles. To build strength requires flexibility, the two are not mutually exclusive, they are symbiotic. ...