We are introducing two new classes to our timetable starting next week. Our first addition to our new timetable is a new and an exciting Hot Yoga style called Hot Power Yoga. This new class will be taught by Hot Power Yoga specialist Zita Chen and will be taught every Monday from 6.15-7.30pm in our Hot Studio in Central Cambridge. If you are looking for an effective way of loosing some weight then you should give a Hot Power Yoga a go. It is claimed that those who do one class of Hot Power Yoga burn around 600 calories in that one single session. In addition to that, Hot Power Yoga helps to build flexible strength and will clean your body inside out - not to mentioned that you get to warms yourself up in this cold Cambridge weather.

Hot Power Yoga

Mondays 6.15-7.30PM with Zita Chen Book here

Our second new class is Family Yoga which will be hold every firs Saturday of each month from 11.30am to 12.45pm. Regular prices and memberships apply to adults. Kids under age of 15 are charged £6 or £10 if there are two kids in the family.

Family Yoga

First Saturday of the Month 11.30-12.45PM Book here

(Photo by Michelle Gardella)

Don't miss a chance to enjoy your regular Open class in calming and soothing environment of candlelights and experience deeper connection to yourself and your body. Available every Thursday at 6.30pm during this festive season.

Come indulge in this special treat.

Candlelight classes timetable:

20th December, 6.30pm with Nikki Davies

27th December, 6.30 pm with Camilla Leyland

3rd January, 6.30pm with Janine Tandy

Book online or give us a call on 01223 847930

First out of our 'Yoga Teachers Interviews' series. In this interview you will learn more about teaching background of Janine Tandy - our Yoga Flow and Yin Yoga teacher. She talks about how she came across yoga, in what way it influenced her life and more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw_Mg3R1NuI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y6UsWcUyfQ Our very own Louise Palmer-Masterton was interviewed by Star Radio last week and we’re bringing the visual view of the radio interview! In the interview Louise talks about our corporate wellness program and how it's not just about postures!

Our corporate wellness program is aiming at creating a positive change in your workplace by reducing stress, improving the way people thing, creating harmonious relationships between coworkers and much more.

Check our website for more information.

Janine shared this video with us and we decided that we have to pass it onto you!

Janine's video

Just as the video suggests using your phone is a disturbing element to any yoga practice and for this reason we would like to ask you all to be considerate of others and to kindly switch your phones off before your class :). If you already do so, please, ignore this message and just enjoy Janine's video!

Thank you,

The Camyoga Team

Bikram Yoga has certainly become popular in the past few years within the UK. It’s popularity can be put down to the fact that one class of 90 mins combines the benefits of an intense body detoxication, increase in vitality and the ability to reduce stress. But be prepared - you will sweat through all layers of your clothing (including your underwear), thus bringing a change of clothes with you is a must! :)

The Hot Yoga offered at our centre is, as well as Bikram Choudhury’s practice, performed in a hot room of 35-38 degrees Celsius and has exactly the same effects and benefits. Unlike Bikram’s practice, Hot Yoga is not limited to the strict style of 26 postures but can include more flowing, vinyasa based practices or integrate challenging pilates postures.

Our Hot Yoga timetable brings you all of the mentioned styles and we’re even looking into introducing more types of Hot Yoga in the future.

See you soon,

The Camyoga team

If you are one of ours hot yogis then you already noticed there are some changes happening to our Hot Yoga classes. We offer more classes throughout a week and we also introduced two new classes - Hot Pilates and Hot Flow. On top of that, we are in middle of preparing our very own special Hot Studio!

The final changes to Hot Studio will be happening at the weekend of 29th/30th September which unfortunately means that our studio will be closed for these two days, for which we apologise. But after that you all will be able to experience the power of the new system installed.

We will now have a trendy, green and more efficient Hot Studio thanks to a new state of the art infrared panel system and a new ventilation/extraction system. This means there will be no humidity in the classes but you will still feel the full benefits of the heat for Hot Yoga!

It is our intention to bring even more Hot Yoga and other Hot styles in the future!

We would like to add that we really appreciate your understanding and patience whilst we are implementing these changes and that we are thankful for all the feedbacks we received so far.

See you soon,

Camyoga team

Have you been thinking about taking your practice to the next level and becoming a yoga teacher? You will be pleased to know that our Yoga teacher training and Foundation courses still have a couple of places left.

 

Louise Lloyd, whom we are sure we don't have to introduce, is excited to meet you and your fellow yogis during training sessions:

 

"I am really looking forward to starting this year's TT and FC - always fun to see inspired students working and learning together. It is so great to watch the FC students delve deeper into their yogic experience and also seeing the next generation of teachers evolving throughout the TT course."

 

Those hesitant because they feel they are not quite "there" yet may be relieved to know that Yoga training, like yoga is about more than just flexibility and strength.

 

We caught Berverley Nolan in the cafe during her two day Pregnancy Yoga teacher training course, who made it clear that its not all about those very impressive poses you see in magazines:

 

"it is not about your ability to do crazy asana, but about your commitment to your practice and being part of a supportive student group. It is an holistic learning experience which prepares you to guide others."

 

So do you have the passion to take it to the next level and share the experience and joy of yoga with the world?

 

Talk to us about signing up !

 

See you soon

 

Camyoga

Yoga Stops Traffic Videos

Did you miss the global event, Yoga Stops Traffic?  Take a peak at the Camyoga students doing their part in 108 sun salutations.  We raised money for the charity, Odanadi Seva Trust in an effort to stop human trafficking in India.  Thank you to all who donated money, time, and sweat.

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Salute the sun ashtanga style.  Howard demos this key piece of many yoga practices. Having a hard time taking flight?  Look back at some past videos on jumping with Howard. Looking for modifications and conditioning for the salutations?  Check out Louise Lloyd's 4 part video series in the videos section of our blog.  Happy practicing! http://youtu.be/dg4MFHcGLDU

In previous posts and videos, Louise Lloyd has shown us some modifications to safely transition through parts of the sun salutation.  You were warned about the dreaded cobra dog and how it is to be avoided.  You were shown exercises to condition and strengthen the body by lowering slowly to floor. Now, as you can tell from the title of this post, we go the distance.

In part of 4 of Louise's Sun Salutation video series we take a closer look at lowering into chaturanga, inhaling into upward facing dog, and exhaling into downward facing dog.  Since we haven't covered jumping back, the video starts by lowering from a plank position.  When jumping back, it is advisable to land in chaturanga (rather than plank) to keep your shoulders safe and injury free.

The strength required to safely transition through your sun salutation requires regular yoga practice.  Be sure to look back at the previous videos in this series for tips on modifying and building strength.

Happy practicing!

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