Workshops
If you spend time on a bicycle, whether it’s for road cycling, mountain biking or your commute, this will be a great workshop to help you improve your cycling posture and to learn how to look after your body and balance out the postural tendencies of all that pedal power.
The repetitive nature of cycling biomechanics and the cycling posture itself create physical imbalances, not so dissimilar to sitting. And given that most of us already spend a fair bit of time sitting each day, yoga asana is a wonderful antidote for those shapes, helping you create more ease, comfort and mobility around important areas such as the hips, lower back and shoulders!
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Alongside that, yoga also guides you towards better breathing techniques, as well as more mindful attention and focus, invaluable for your time on the bike, as well as in everyday life.
Our hips do a huge amount for us every day - helping us walk, run, cycle, bend, and move through the world with stability. Yet modern life often leaves them feeling anything but happy. Long hours of sitting, repetitive movement patterns, and muscle imbalances can all create tightness, weakness, or discomfort around this important joint.
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This workshop is designed to help you understand what your hips truly need: balance. For some, that means more mobility. For others, more strength and stability. For many, a bit of both.
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In this session we’ll explore clear, accessible yoga movements that stretch what may be tight, strengthen what may be underused, and bring more harmony to the muscles and tissues surrounding the hip joint. We’ll consider the commonly used term “hip-openers” to understand what that really means, as well as why every body will feel and move differently depending on its unique bone structure.
Inversions can feel like a big, intimidating hurdle in a yoga practice. For some, they’re poses to avoid; for others, they become such a fixed goal that it’s easy to lose sight of the purpose of the practice itself. In this workshop, we’ll take a grounded, balanced approach - treating these shapes just like any other posture: something to explore safely, intelligently, and with patience.
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Headstand and Shoulder stand offer much more than the ‘wow’ factor. Shifting some weight into your arms and upper body can feel empowering, it can also strengthen the mind–body connection, encouraging focus, presence, and trust in your own capacity.
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The workshop will guide you step by step through the building blocks of headstand and shoulderstand: preparations, alignment, strength work, and safe entry and exit. Props and the wall will be used to reduce pressure on the neck and support your journey upside down.
Contact me directly if you have any requests for workshop topics, or any general questions. Simply email me at contact@sarah.yoga.