Saturday 5 July 2025
WORKSHOP 1 | Three Anatomical Points to an Effortless Practice Workshop
10am-12.30pm
WORKSHOP 2 | Ashtanga Yoga Technique Workshop
2-4.30pm
Your anatomy is complicated, learning anatomy doesn’t have to be!
David is unparalleled when it comes to making anatomy understandable, practical and relevant to your own body and yoga practice. He teaches like no-one else we know, educating and inspiring you as you explore your yoga anatomy.
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WORKSHOP 1 | Three Anatomical Points to an Effortless Practice Workshop
Saturday 5 July 2025 (10am-12.30pm)
After teaching anatomy and yoga for nearly twenty years, the core of movement in practice can be brought back to three anatomical points that direct you toward the core of the body. This workshop is about simplifying the complexity of where to practice from anatomically.
By focusing on these three anatomical points, you will develop safe and effective movement that becomes expansive and effortless. It sounds too good to be true, but this really is the basis of understanding the physical component of bandhas in your yoga practice.
There are many ways to approach the practice of yoga. Anatomy is simply another perspective that can be used to understand how to approach practice.
Topics Covered:
Explanation of the three anatomical points
Techniques to access these key points
Understand their relationship to bandha
Apply the techniques to sun salutations
Utilize the three anatomical points for focus
Come along and experience a truly new way to move in your body and take your practice to the next level.
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WORKSHOP 2 | Ashtanga Yoga Technique Workshop
Saturday 5 July 2025 (2-4.30pm)
Everyone has postures that challenge them. Many students have difficulties in certain sections of practice, particularly with postures such as marichyasana D, supta kurmasana, lotus, and backbending.
Awareness of the structure of the anatomy, as well as knowledge of the meaning of these postures, can help us move forward in a safe and intelligent way. When we’re informed in this way, we keep the poses in context. We understand why we need to do them, what they represent to us personally, and what purpose they have within the system. This helps us avoid injuries and stay motivated to work on challenging postures.
Students are encouraged to bring their own areas for discussion. By default, we’ll discuss hips, knees, back, and spine and the difficult postures that go along with them.
Topics Covered:
Understand the anatomy and context of the most difficult asanas
Learn techniques to safely progress in the most challenging asanas
Break down marichyasana D
Break down backbending
Break down supta kurmasana
Break down lotus and related postures
This workshop will have some theoretical components as well as many practical techniques and exercises to work on the more difficult parts of practice.
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WORKSHOP COSTS
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Workshops 1 & 2 £85
Individual Workshop £49
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About David Keil
David Keil was introduced to yoga in 1989 by his Tai Chi Chuan teacher. Both the Tai Chi and Yoga practice at the age of 17 began his research into his own mind-body connections. His search continued through massage therapy where he discovered many insights and affirmations of what he had been exploring and finding on his own through his practices. One of the most important elements was the specific understanding of the musculoskeletal system and how fascinating, beautiful and amazing the body is on the scientific level and how that directly played into and off of his own understanding of the human body. He was given names and explanations for some of things he had been experiencing and feeling.
As an instructor of Kinesiology (the study of movement and musculoskelatal anatomy) at Miami’s Educating Hands School of Massage from 1999-2003, David developed a fun, informal and informative style of teaching. By repeatedly teaching incoming students who had no prior understanding of anatomy, David was confronted with the problem of making such a complex and beautiful system accessible and understandable to the average person.
David brings his unique style and ability to make things simple to the yoga world. Because of his passion and desire to share the human body with everyone, he delivers this complex and sometimes frustrating topic in a way that is very accessible and understandable to yoga practitioners.
Over the years David has used his skills as a Neuromuscular Therapist to help people reduce their chronic pain patterns. He often brings this information into his workshops where students are regularly uncovering painful patterns or injuries in their bodies.
David was introduced to Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in 1999, but it was in 2001 that he met John Scott in Penzance, Cornwall, presenting his anatomy workshops for the first time oversees. Two weeks practicing with John was transformational and he realised that he had found his teacher. This began a relationship of both teacher/student as well as a collaborative colleague relationship that continues today.
It was also John who told David to go to Mysore in India the following year, which he did. David arrived in Mysore in 2002 where he studied with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in the “old” shala. In fact, it was the last year that the old old shala was used for practice. David was authorised in 2004 and returned yearly for extended visits to Mysore with his wife Gretchen Suarez. They are both Authorised Level 2 and grateful for their time in Mysore, meeting Patabhi Jois and studying with R. Sharath, his grandson, over the years.