Upcoming events
Asana Lab
Is there just one correct way to do an asana?
I believe it’s more useful to ask what dynamics are happening in the shape, and how that relates to our own anatomy, and where we find ourselves in space.
Living In The World - The Bhagavad Gita
The beautiful yoga text, the Bhagavad Gita, is a guide to finding ourselves amongst the messiness of the world. In the face of good and bad, apathy, violence, and disconnection, there is a path and a practice that helps us to see clearly, to know ourselves and how we fit into it all.
Vinyasa Skillz! 2024
Vinyasa classes are all about flow, and so we often move through common shapes without exploring the detail. The essential, most foundational moves hold the key to the grace and power we’re seeking to find in a dynamic practice. More than that, when we repeat these moves without finding how they work best in our own body, they can end up being frustrating, and at worst injurious.
This course demystifies vinyasa’s hit moves - gives you the skill and insight into what’s really going on so you can feel confident in your practice and build on strong foundations.
Into The Dark - Winter Solstice Yin-Vin
For one night only, we transform our usual vinyasa and yin practices into the dreamiest and most languorous experience of movement, breath, and meditation to illuminate the sparks of our inner light and let them shine.
Take Flight ii - EPK
An Arm Balance workshop exploring skills, technique and practices for expansive, leg-driven arm balances (aka Eka Pada Koundinyasana I & II)
Yama Niyama - a 6hr course
A 6hr yoga philosophy course on the Yama Niyama - the most practical and yet deep and inspiring set of practices, the first and most tangible set of tools that Patañjali offers us in the sūtras.
Vinyasa Skillz 2022
booking coming soon
This course is designed to address all the questions about vinyasa yoga that come up when you go to regular classes, in a forum conducive to detailed exploration, discussion, and troubleshooting.
Like:
“what do I do if my wrists hurt in downward facing dog?”
“how do I move from chaturanga to updog?”
“how can I use vinyasas to generate more energy and not make me more tired?”
“what is bandha??”
This is the nitty gritty of physical yoga practice, which deals with muscles and alignment, but also with the breath and moving energy around the body - the subtle and elusive yoga skill that often goes between the lines and more often than not isn’t explained at all.
Skill In Action - Practical teachings for living well from the Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita is a uniquely practical yoga text. Unlike the Sutras or the Upanisads, the Gita assumes that we live in society, and that life is complicated! We are torn between our duties, our desires, our responsibilities to others, and what we feel is Right. This beautiful and rich text acknowledges the tribulations of embodied life, and offers us advice and practices to make sense of it all, to find peace, and to work out the right thing to do, even in the most bamboozling situations.
Join me over three Sunday afternoons to explore the text - with practical exercises, discussion, play, and takeaway homework booklet with ideas for exploration - to continue your contemplation in your own time.
Session one: The War Within
We meet on the Kurukṣetra, the field of action, this very body, and explore the secrets and struggles of the human heart.
Session two: How does a Yogi speak, sit, walk?
On karma, skilful action, and getting out of your own way.
Session three: The wheel of Dharma and Lokasaṅgraha
The path of the spiritual warrior, balancing acceptance with fighting against injustice.
Late Summer Yin-Vin
The end of the summer is a return home after all the delights of the warmer months, and a time for gratitude, contentment, and the sweet flavour of completeness.
A seasonal practice has the deep power to ground us in nature and to bring us into harmony with the turning of the year's wheel - which makes all the changes make so much more sense.
Parkasana! Upside Down
PARKASANA! The yoga picnic, est. 2018
Every year (except 2020, ahem) we’ve gathered in the glorious greenery of Queen’s Park for a yoga picnic - it’s Parkasana!
This year we have a special guest teacher, the handstand master of Glasgow, Matt Evans.
Join us for a picnic platter of yoga goodies - vinyasa with Ema, handstand play with Matt, yin with Ema, and then a potluck picnic!
all levels are welcome! you do not have to have any handstand experience to enjoy some upside down play.
Bring your mat, a playful spirit, and something tasty!
2.30pm in Queens Park Rose Garden.
The yoga segment will last about 2 hours, with picnic afterwards.
Book your spot here! >>>
Take Flight! arm balancing workshop
Whether you’re new to arm balancing or would like to find more stability and lift, this two hour workshop will give you the techniques, tips and secrets to taking flight.
We’ll look at bandha, core engagement, drishti, wrist strength, and building confidence to get you up into the air!
Join us in person in the beautiful MCY studios this summer and FLY!
Summer Yin-Vin
Soak up the warmth and joy of summer in a dreamy yin-vin practice to unfurl your heart, cultivate connection and bask in vibes of pure loveliness!
Inspired by the magic of mother Earth, Ema's yin to vin workshops embrace the gifts of each season, tuning us in to the changes happening in nature, so that we can celebrate our connection with the Earth and live in harmony with its rhythms.
This two-hour workshop will bring together meditation, breathwork, sumptuous yin and sweet vinyasa flow.
This class will be offered in a hybrid format so that you can enjoy this gorgeous practice in person in the beautiful MCY studio, or in the comfort of your own home.
Session Cost £17
Vinyasa Skillz Six Week Course 2022
This specially structured in-person six-week course will explore the shapes and sequences of vinyasa, breaking them down and exploring the principles behind ‘flow’. These will lay the foundations to explore more adventurous postures and sequences as well as simply moving with more strength, grace and ease.
Spring Yin-Vin
Celebrate the turning of the seasons on the vernal equinox itself with my Springtime Yin to Vin special.
Sacred Sound - Festive Community Kirtan
This holiday season I’m holding a special festive Kirtan in between Christmas and New Year.
This is a beautiful practice because it is so simple. You don’t need any physical ability, it’s no problem if you happen to have just consumed 27 mince pies, and you don’t even need any musical ability because honestly the voices all blend together that no one voice sticks out from the crowd.
All you need is breath and an open heart. You don’t need to know any of the mantras because we’ll go through them together - and maybe even sing something a little bit more familiar.
Turning In - Autumn Yin Vin
Inspired by the magic of mother Earth, my yin to vin workshops embrace the gifts of each season, tuning us in to the changes happening in nature, so that we can celebrate our connection with the Earth and live in harmony with its rhythms.
This two-hour workshop will bring together meditation, breathwork, sumptuous yin and sweet vinyasa flow. It's offered in a hybrid format so that you can enjoy this gorgeous practice in person in the beautiful MCY studio or in the comfort of your own home.
Session Cost £17
Kirtan Kids!
Chanting, storytelling, and play - for little yogis and their parents!
If you have kids, you know how much they love music, singing, dancing, and playing instruments. The yoga tradition has even more to offer us than the fun and feel-good effect of postures and movement, it is rich and full of beautiful sound practices and in particular the chanting (singing) of mantras, from the most simple sounds to the more elaborate poetry of Sanskrit verses.
’Kirtan’ means to rejoice and it is the practice of making sound to express joy. Kirtan Kids is a club for babies and toddlers and their parents to enjoy making sound together, playing and rejoicing!
We will make noise, sing simple mantras in English and Sanskrit, hear stories about the myths behind the mantras, move and breathe and celebrate being together!
Thursday 18th November - 2.30 til 3.45pm - Fearless Space Dennistoun
This event is for babies and toddlers from the age of 6months up to 5years and their parents.
Capacity is limited to 8 people to allow for social distancing.
Book your spot below!
Kirtan Kids!
Chanting, storytelling, and play - for parents and their little ones!
If you have kids, you know how much they love music, singing, dancing, and playing instruments. The yoga tradition has even more to offer us than the fun and feel-good effect of postures and movement, it is rich and full of beautiful sound practices and in particular the chanting (singing) of mantras, from the most simple sounds to the more elaborate poetry of Sanskrit verses.
’Kirtan’ means to rejoice and it is the practice of making sound to express joy. Kirtan Kids is a club for babies and toddlers and their parents to enjoy making sound together, playing and rejoicing!
We will make noise, sing simple mantras in English and Sanskrit, hear stories about the myths behind the mantras, move and breathe and celebrate being together!
Monday 18th October - 10.30 til 11.45am - Fearless Space Dennistoun
This event is for babies and toddlers from the age of 6months up to 5years and their parents.
Capacity is limited to 8 people to allow for social distancing.
Book your spot below!
Vinyasa Skillz Six Week Course
This specially structured in-person six-week course will explore the shapes and sequences of vinyasa, breaking them down and exploring the principles behind ‘flow’. These will lay the foundations to explore more adventurous postures and sequences as well as simply moving with more strength, grace and ease.
High Summer Yin to Vin
Soak up the warmth and joy of summer in a dreamy yin-vin practice to unfurl your heart, cultivate connection and bask in vibes of pure loveliness!⠀