Seminars
Mastery in Adjustment
Learn to adjust your students in the best possible way.
Human beings learn yoga practice through creating internal sensory maps and then recreating that experience. Internal sensory maps are difficult to make from verbal instruction alone. Internal sensory maps are hard to make from visual demonstrations. One of the most important teaching tools as a yoga teacher you have is your hands.
Kind, sensitive and intelligent adjustment that respects physical differences, is understanding of individual development and the steps of development, secures safe and strong practice.
The teacher who use their hands with intelligence heals students. All teaching is an engagement in the cultivation of compassion and wisdom.
You will learn:
- To use your hands with maximum intelligence and awareness, and thus guide your students into a deeper yet safer and more satisfying practice.
- To use your hands in ways that guarantee your students find what they need to experience.
- To help students understand their own bodies and practice.
- The language of touch and how to use your verbal language to support your ‘hands on’ teaching.
- The kinesiology of asana, how bodies move and work in practice. This teaching is rooted in western anatomy and physiotherapy whilst also utilizing and honoring eastern Yogic models of body-mind function.
- The meridians of flow through the body and how to use these in your teaching.
- About different body types, how to read different anatomies, what they need and what is possible for them.
- To intelligently guide students safely open into advanced practices.
- The correct preparations (kramas) for advanced practices.
Love Beyond Belief
Love Beyond Belief is an invitation to thoroughly appreciate your life through this radikal approach to yoga. From affirmation of your life as it is now, open into richer awareness and allow the flow of natural transformation.
Find your path to awakening through being more and more present in your life.
Presence as awareness is the subtle gateway to the wisdom of Radikal Freedom. Discover ways to open into and celebrate this moment as deep natural perfection and learn to play with this remembrance.
Christopher draws freely from the deep wells of the traditions of yoga to facilitate your expansion into presence. He offers an inspirational weaving of movement practices with cutting edge consciousness, breath and awareness techniques as tools of freedom.
Love Beyond Belief invites you to root deep in this earth of tradition and welcomes your flight into the celestial spaciousness of evolutionary possibility.
Please bring with you an object that holds special or sacred meaning for you.
Free your body, free your mind, free your spirit. Experience expertise, excellence and exquisite release as freedom.
CKCome and try this: Christopher will challenge your beliefs, your motivation, your practice and your ego! Don’t let that put you off, this is awesome work.
Exciting New Events in 2012
Following the fantastic workshop with Gillian Hurst on Feb 11th we have more events lined up with RF. First Gill is back in June so we will have another date for you soon, when she and Christopher will do their double act again. On March 10th at Yogasara, Christopher is offering a day of exploration [...]
Posted on 15 February 2012
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Workshop Feb 11th
At Yogasara, Bristol, UK. February 11th 2012. Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Workshop. A workshop with Christopher Gladwell and Gillian Hurst. Gillian is just back from India after working with Rolf and Marcie. Gill and Christopher will be offering a deep look at the primary series. There will be a session exploring the asanas you find sticky, [...]
Posted on 25 January 2012
The Yoga Makaranda
Namaskaram the online publication of the Independent Yoga Network kindly asked me to review Sri T. Krishnamacharyam’s 1934 publication that has been recently translated. Anyone who knows of Krishnamacharya will know him as one of the most influential contemporary Yoga masters. Along with Swami Sivananda, Paramahamsa Satyananda, Muktananda, Satchidananda, Yogi Bhajan and others he has [...]
Posted on 7 December 2011
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Christopher Gladwell
Christopher is a contemporary Yogi who has deeply explored the physical, philosophical, devotional, mental and spiritual realms of yoga for over thirty years.
Having practiced extensively in Ashtanga Vinyasa, Satyananda, Vinyasa Flow, Tantric Yoga, Meditation and deep inquiry, Christopher teaches:
- Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
- Integral Vinyasa Yoga
- Engaged Yoga
- Yogasaram, (literally meaning the ‘Essence of Yoga’)
- Tantra Yoga
- Tantramani Mandala
- Raja Yoga
- Direct Awakening into Presence
Grounded in contemporary physiological and psychological science and dharma, Christopher offers this work as a devotional synergy for the benefit and Radikal Freedom of all beings everywhere.
Christopher teaches yoga internationally and has had many articles published in the international press some of which are freely available on this site. Christopher’s books are also available to buy online.
Please get in touch to find out more.