Workshop with Barbara Queirolo 'GROUNDING'

Costs: 7 credits | membership €19,25 | €38,50 single ticket

The ground under our feet is another fundamental requisite in our existence. Yet, like the breath we take it for granted and by doing so, miss the many benefits it has to offer to our health and our understanding of who we are. Grounding is to consciously connect with the Earth, opening up the sensory channels that allow us to feel our base and experience how that base gives us not only physical support, but also energetic nourishment and mental stability.

In this workshop the focus is on awakening our sensitivity and connection to the ground and yogasanas are perfect tools for this, as they challenge us to ground down on different parts of the body: not only on the feet but on hands, lower arms, shins, shoulders, head, abdomen, sacrum, middle back.

Towards the end of the session and after a short break, we will see what grounding means in a subtler, more passive way, in seated positions and in the final Savasana.

NB: Less experienced practitioners should not worry: there will be alternatives for more challenging postures that anyone can safely do!

Barbara Queirolo is a senior Iyengar Yoga teacher living and teaching in Amsterdam. Her Iyengar Yoga training is on-going and has led her to spend various intensive study-periods with the Iyengars in Pune, India. She studied yoga therapy with Stefanie Quirk in Amsterdam and Yoga Philosophy with Gitte Bechsgaard in UK. She is currently manager and teacher at the Iyengar Yoga Centrum Amsterdam where she also mentors Iyengar Yoga teachers in training.

‘During my teacher training I had the chance to assist Barbara in her beginner’s class at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Amsterdam. I learned so much from Barbara: her creativity and ability to dissect asanas into single actions made me feel and understand yoga poses in a whole new way. Everything suddenly made sense and fell into place’. (Franziska)

Who can participate?
The workshop is suitable for anyone with basic Iyengar Yoga experience. There is a 15 minute break half way through.

The event can be booked using your Eversports credit-card or subscription, as usual. People from outside Yoga Coolhaven can book the workshop through our Eversports schedule (click SCHEDULE above).

Questions? Send e-mail to info@yogacoolhaven.nl