Seminars

Seminars

Invite Christopher to come and teach these seminars:

1) 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.

2) The fundamentals of Integral Vinyasa Yoga

Integral Vinyasa Yoga is an approach to practice that is bio-mechanically intelligent, develops practice through incremental steps (kramas in Sanskrit) and cultivates awareness. The practices of IVY start with the breath and the physical body. Through practice a great degree of strength, flexibility and vibrant well-being is cultivated. Bio-mechanically sound, breath oriented practice has been proven to transform stress responses, create physical and mental well-being and facilitate a juicy, joyful life.
Explore the essential practices of Yoga through the methods of Integral Vinyasa Yoga. Therapeutic and transformative, this approach to practice is accessible to all from absolute beginners to advanced practitioners.

3) The Authentic Heart of Tantra

Explore the physical practices of yoga through the lens of the myo-fascial meridians and muscular action. From switching on the intelligence of the body in this way we will explore the relationship between physical body and energetic body. We will work with asana, breath, mantra, the elements and understanding the body as sacred geometry to facilitate this experience of authentic non-dual Tantra.
Therapeutic and transformative, this joyful and juicy approach to life, love and freedom is accessible to all practitioners.

 

4) Mind training

Discover the effectiveness and potency of the Mind Training of Radikal Freedom. Building out of the foundation of Integral Vinyasa Yoga, this work includes cultivation of witness consciousness and understanding the mechanics of the self-construct. These essential understandings are an integral part of the realisation of inseparability. As a part of this seminar we will also learn the Four Fields and the Practice of Presence.

Yogic Trancework and the vibrational practices of Radikal Freedom will support this work.

 

5) 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. This seminar explores the dance of Freedom.

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.

 

Whoaw, that was amazing.

The links Chris established between the mind and the body are so clear and simple. I think it was Socrates who said what is well-conceived can be expressed clearly. Ever so true in Chris’ case.

What I found really funny is to see that, with yoga, like everything else in fact, the more advanced you are, the more you become aware of what you don’t know.

I don’t know who arranged for Chris’ visit here, but if it was you guys, well thank you very very much.

Isabelle
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Greetings all of you. It is a privilege to share this precious human life with you all. It has been a privilege to work with each one of you and I totally look forward to the next opportunity to work together. The only problem I have in my life is that I utterly believe everything [...]

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Posted on 6 May 2012

Firewalk with Me!

Mid Wales, UK. Firewalk! 19th and 20th of May 2012 Challenge yourself, refocus and transform your life with Christopher Gladwell and Ian Ashworth on this full  7metre firewalk. This weekend is replete with preparation, transformational work, elemental meditation, yoga, the full firewalk and more. This is happening on the new moon, which itself is auspicious, [...]

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Posted on 30 April 2012

Roots and Wings

Dancing Life Energy, the Yoga of Dance and the Dance of Yoga. 10am till 5pm on the 29th of April 2012 Keef Miles trained in Anusara and with the School of Movement Medicine is joining us on Sunday the 29th as a guest teacher to work with Christopher and to offer this fantastic joint event. [...]

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Posted on 18 April 2012

Christopher Gladwell
Christopher Gladwell

Christopher has explored the physical, philosophical, psychological, devotional, mental and spiritual realms through Yoga for over thirty years.

Having practiced extensively within the traditions of Ashtanga, Satyananda, Vinyasa Flow and Tantric Yoga along with Meditation and Deep Inquiry.

Christopher teaches:

  • Integral Vinyasa Yoga (yoga for body, mind and integration) in weekly classes in Bristol
Christopher also teaches the Yoga of Radikal Freedom at workshops and retreats internationally. This work includes:
  • Co-creation
  • Engaged Yoga (yoga for the world)
  • Freedom Dance (yoga of freedom)
  • The Jewel of Tantra (yoga of relationship)
  • Meditation (yoga of presence)
  • Yogic bodywork
Find out more about the  Yoga of Radikal Freedom

Rooted in contemporary physiological and psychological science and the Yoga tradition, Christopher offers this work as a devotional synergy for the benefit 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 at Siddha Publishing.

Please get in touch to find out more.