Classes
for pregnancy, labour, babies,
toddlers and women.
01223
565348
annayoungs@hotmail.com
Teacher
Profile:
Anna Youngs has been teaching yoga in Cambridge for four years. Since
discovering a love of yoga seven years ago, Anna has developed her knowledge,
training, understanding and practice of yoga so that she can share the
many benefits with others.
Prior
to her first pregnancy, Anna has been studying and practising a range
of Hatha yoga (Iyengar, Ashtanga and Sivananda). Her yoga teacher training
qualifications, in yoga therapy and ashtanga yoga, are from America
and Thailand.
Her first pregnancy gave Anna the opportunity to fully appreciate the
benefits of antenatal yoga. She has not only trained with Birthlight,
but also with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, an exceptional and inspirational yoga
teacher. Her UK qualifications are:
Birthlight antenatal and postnatal yoga diploma
Birthlight baby yoga diploma
Family yoga with Sitaram (Uma)
She is widely read and experienced in the positive benefits that yoga
has in giving birth. Her Birth Preparation Workshops reflect her knowledge
and understanding that birth can be natural and empowering. With her
first child, she had a natural water birth at home and also had a very
calm, focused and positive home birth experience with her second child.
Anna believes that postnatal yoga is essential to nurturing a sense of well being in every new mum, as classes offer time to exercise and tone, relax and to meet other new mums. The benefits of baby yoga are well known in helping baby's to develop in every sense: physically, emotionally and mentally. These benefits for mum and baby continue through her todder yoga and toddlerobics classes.
Prior
to being a yoga teacher, Anna was a mainstream teacher for 9 years and
this experience is reflected in her yoga teaching. Each class has a
general theme, with individual needs and abilities cared for. Drawing
on her own experience, practice and research, Anna teaches that yoga
brings release from stress and a sense of calm and freedom to the body
and mind. In her classes, students work at the poses to stretch, tone,
align, strengthen and relax the body. This focus helps to clear the
mind and bring a fresh perspective. Releasing tension from the body
is developed further with breathing exercises and guided relaxation
at the end of the class. Anna aims for each student to leave feeling
more energised and relaxed.
At present, she specialises in antenatal, postnatal, baby and toddler
yoga so that the benefits of yoga can be felt within the whole family.
If you have any queries, or would like to book, please contact annayoungs@hotmail.com
or ring Anna on 01223 565348 / 07951 718564.
