Teachers at Urban Grace Yoga
Jane Robinson
I have been practicing yoga for a long time and I am often reminded of the many ways it brings happiness and encouragement to my life. I am qualified to teach in Iyengar and Anusara styles and have trained with the best teachers in India, USA and United Kingdom.
I started Iyengar yoga to help restore movement in my neck after a whiplash injury and yoga practice restored full movement in my neck. 15 years into my yoga practice saw me with a full teaching load and running Reiby Hall Yoga Studio in Newtown, regular visits to RIMYI in Pune, India to study with the Iyengars and ongoing lower back pain. I started Anusara yoga when I changed my meditation practice and I was delighted to discover that the alignments taught in Anusara yoga, combined with regular studio pilates practice, enabled me to manage the congenital back problem so that I am now strong and usually pain free. Learning how to conquer my own physical difficulties has been invaluable for teaching yoga students how to explore ways of healing. I am often surprised when students expect me to be perfect because I am a yoga teacher. My response is always that I teach yoga because I love finding ways to live with my imperfections. Practicing yoga opens me to perfect moments, and I wish for students to have those too. Yoga inspires me to teach people to align with their own beauty as well as aligning their physical body, and to practice yoga from that place of beauty. I love to see my students revitalise themselves and restore health, light-heartedness and good will in their busy lives.
I emphasize alignment principles that support students to find their core and practice from that foundation. Physical core? Spiritual core? For me as a teacher and practitioner, those kinds of boundaries continue to dissolve as my yoga practice matures.