I'm Tanya Love, I teach Yoga and am a practitioner and teacher of Hakomi
I have not yet returned to teaching in person classes since having my baby
but I am working online so do get in touch if you'd like to work with me.
To book into an online Yoga class, clinic or workshop please use the online booking page
To book a Hakomi session or a Yoga one-to-one please email me
Hakomi sessions are £60 per hour and Yoga one-to-ones start from £80 per hour
(concessions for both are available upon request)
I will be hosting another Yoga Holiday in Andalusia this October 19th-26th
I offer a short course called "Holding Space" to support movement teachers, bodyworkers and therapists of all kinds.
These workshops use the principles of Hakomi to explore how we can support others in ways that are richly nourishing for both client and practitioner, for more information head here
The next time it will be in the form of a two day online weekend workshop 7th&8th October use the online booking page to reserve a place if you'd like to, or email me
Yoga is an expansive word that encompasses a multitude of beliefs, philosophies and practices, and it may already have a myriad of meanings for you. To try to be as clear as possible about what I offer I've written something below about what Yoga means to me
I sometimes teach free online Meditation classes
If you'd like to listen to one here are some recordings
Classes - all paused for Maternity Leave
Yoga
I fell in love with Yoga in India, I was 23 or 24, captivated by the country, addicted to its intensity, and Yoga was essential to that. I felt I was immersed in something intrinsically spiritual that would help me to make sense of who I was - even if I couldn't explain exactly how. That question has been a constant friend and tormentor throughout my years of practice. What is my relationship to myself, and to the world, and how does yoga help?
Over the years my answer would have varied and it will change as I age and evolve, so what I say here is just today's understanding, but, for now, the first ideas that come to mind are about being a body, and how that springboards into sensing, thinking and being conscious. I am fascinated by how I feel into the experience of being me. How my body senses where I am in space, how I'm moving and breathing, where I'm tense, where I feel free. I marvel at how multitudinous my experience can be, at once focused in on a tiny detail but aware of other textures and qualities, and all the time maintaining some sense of the whole. How all of this informs (and is informed by) what I'm thinking, where my attention is, and what's happening emotionally.
Hakomi is a form of body psychotherapy and has been such a gratifying find for me, fuelling my fascination with how we might become more self aware. It is described as "mindfulness based assisted self discovery" and I think of my yoga practice as mindful, somatic self discovery. I like to hope that the Yoga teaching/facilitating I offer could be described as assisting other people's self discovery.
When I'm facilitating Yoga my approach is to invite an interplay of awareness together with movement or action or stillness. I use poses or breathwork (sometimes challenging and intense, sometimes minutely subtle and quiet) to cultivate deep attention. To notice how we move; how much we can feel; observing our tendencies and habits; tuning in to where is difficult to feel and where's easy; and how what we find might be affecting our whole sense of self.
Several of the classes I teach are described as Scaravelli Inspired Yoga, Vanda Scaravelli championed yoga as self discovery. She worked with Krishnamurti and her approach is infused with his philosophy. He said "There is no guru, there is no follower, there are only human beings, trying to discover a life without conflict, with an abundance of love". His advice was to question everything, to discover our own truth, to be our own teacher. But how do we find this, how can we tune in to ourselves, to listen to the deep biological wisdom within us all, that grew us from tiny embryos to the complex beings we are today. My answer (for today) is Yoga.
I owe love and thanks to my teachers Catherine Annis, Kate Ellis and Jane Kersel (who led the teacher training I undertook at triyoga) Gary Carter, John Stirk, Sarah Litton, Aki Omori, Olof Kujit and BNS Iyengar (Mysore).
