Sheffield Ashtanga Yoga
– Jane Mark Lawson
Jane has been practicing yoga since 1988 and Ashtanga Yoga since 1995. She spends a few months each year on retreat with her teachers in India and in Crete, deepening and developing her own yoga practice and teaching style. The rest of the year she lives and teaches Ashtanga Yoga in Sheffield.
"I follow my teachers and use the traditional approach to Ashtanga Yoga, based on the vinyasa system and developed by Sri K Pattabhi Jois of Mysore and his teacher Sri T Krishnamacharya. I believe that by working slowly through the practice and allowing the body to open in its own time anyone can benefit from this wonderful yoga."
Ashtanga Yoga is a yoga of practice. It requires mental and physical application from which strength, poise and inner wisdom develop. This method of Yoga involves the purification of the system through heat generated from the breath and continual movement. My approach, like that of my teachers, is not one of striving to achieve, rather, allowing the body to unfold in its own time.