Expansive, leg-driven arm balances (aka Eka Pada Koundinyasana i & ii)

At first it can seem that big shapes like eka pada koundinyasana (EPK) are all about strength and power. While strength in the right places is very helpful, what’s more useful in putting together these postures is technique, balance, openness, weight distribution and focus.

“EPK is one of my favourite playful shapes” says Ema “and one I have been developing in my own practice and teaching to my regular students for several years. I’ve thought a lot about what we need in a shape like this, what we don’t, and how to cultivate the skills and patterns to make it all come together.”

Working with Ema in this workshop you’ll break down, understand and practise: 

• bent-arm strength and making chaturanga work for you

• a responsive, lively core for integration and lightness

• mobility, openness, and reach

• weight distribution and the centre of gravity

• momentum and balance

You’ll explore these themes through drills and vinyasa sequences, giving you both an understanding of how the body is working but even more importantly the ability to feel into what’s going on even when you are throwing strange shapes.

This workshop is for vinyasa and ashtanga practitioners or those with a little experience in any style of yoga. Confidence and stability in arm balances is NOT a prerequisite - that’s exactly what we’ll work on in this workshop!

Join Ema this July for a workshop to build strength, skill, confidence and FUN as you play with these expansive and expressive shapes. 

Workshop Cost £30

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About Ema

Ema came to yoga seeking emotional balance and found the route to that through the body. Although Ema is inspired most of all by the spiritual and philosophical aspects of yoga, her practice and classes are concrete and physical, informed by a solid grounding in anatomy. She says:

“We explore our physical form - the ‘field of action’ where our lives play out - to create harmony and health, and through the shapes we make, find freedom and new ways of inhabiting the world.”