Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual discipline for developing strength, awareness, character, and consciousness. Practitioners call Kundalini yoga, the yoga of awareness because they claim it expands sensory sensitivity, enhances intuition, and merges individual consciousness with the infinite consciousness of God. Considered an advanced form of yoga and meditation, its goal is to cultivate and harness the unlimited creative and spiritual potential that exists within every human being.
The practice of Kundalini yoga is a system of techniques including asanas, or postures, expressive movements, chants, meditation and specialized breathing. Kundalini yoga focuses on pranotthana, which is Sanskrit for "intensified, uplifted life energy."
Kundalini is a Sanskrit word meaning "coiled up" and symbolizes energy that without practice lies dormant. Kundalini yoga concentrates on activating this energy through the stimulation of the seven major chakras, or the centres of consciousness, beginning with the chakra at the base of the spine, working up, through dedicated practice eventually reaching the chakra at the cerebral cortex.
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Ash has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and teaching yoga since 2007. He turned to yoga after suffering for many years from back problems and stress related issues. After witnessing the benefits of yoga on both mind and body, Ash decided to pursue yoga full-time leaving his job in the City as an IT professional.
Ash now runs his own classes in London and Eton & Windsor, teaching a variety of different yoga styles including Hatha, Dynamic, Ashtanga and Kundalini Yoga. He uses yoga as a therapy for suffers of stress, depression and addiction.
Ash is a visiting lecturer at City University. He is also a qualified prison yoga teacher for The Phoenix Prison Trust, teaching yoga to long term prisoners who have served their sentence and are currently on probation.
He has taught yoga, relaxation and meditation at the Mental Health Centre in London and for the Drug and Alcohol Action Program Centre. Ash taught Chair Yoga at the Women’s Institute in Datchet, and currently teaches in residential care homes in Eton and Windsor. Ash has also taught at the British Council in Cairo.
Ash qualified as a Yoga teacher from Yogacampus and is accredited by BWY, and REPs Level 3. Ash has completed ‘Safe Integration of Pregnant and Post Natal Students’ with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli.
Ash is also involved in charity work and holds annual fundraising yoga classes, most recently with David Sye for Action Against Hunger.