Yoga Can be Entered from Many Doorways

 Sometimes we come simply to feel more at ease in our bodies — to move with strength, ease, and a steadier rhythm through the demands of daily life. But when we linger a little longer, when we give ourselves time to listen beneath the surface of movement and breath, something deeper begins to unfold.

In the quiet attention of practice, we start to notice the traces of old habits — the ways we hold ourselves against the world, the patterns once useful that now quietly bind. With a gentle curiosity, rather than judgement, we learn to meet ourselves where we are. And in that meeting, space opens.

Bit by bit, we feel the ground again.

A sense of centring, being grounded returns, not forced but discovered. The stories we carry loosen their grip, and the body, no longer braced by history, finds new possibilities — in movement, in feeling, in the way we live.

About Peter Blackaby

Peter Blackaby has been teaching yoga for more than forty years. He qualified as an osteopath in 1993, and his work sits at the meeting point of anatomy, movement science, and lived human experience. He is the author of Intelligent Yoga and has contributed chapters to Peter Connolly’s A Student’s Guide to the History and Philosophy of Yoga, the upcoming Wildcraft, and Harriet McAtee’s Yoga: A Teacher’s Survival Guide. Peter has taught internationally for many years, and his approach has evolved into a grounded, evidence-informed, humanistic perspective — one that invites curiosity, self-understanding and compassionate change rather than performance or perfection.

 (4.30pm optional early arrival for pre-dinner asana class)