Help Yourself Yoga
Welcome to Help Yourself Yoga, your gateway to a more positive futureA Thought for Your Day
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be"
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
About
Sam strongly believes that anyone can do yoga. To quote Desikachar, a world-famous yoga teacher, "If you can breathe, you can do yoga"
You don't have to be a certain size or shape or be strong or flexible to join one of Sam's classes. She believes that yoga is not about the shape of the pose that you make but how the pose feels for you on the inside. You can just come along and have a go. Sam's classes are structured to accommodate all levels of yoga ability, from complete beginner to experienced yogi.Sam did her yoga teacher training with the British Wheel of Yoga, a two year course, allowing her to gain the highest recognised yoga teaching award in the country today.
She is passionate about yoga and would love you to experience for yourself all the benefits that yoga can bring to your life.
Classes
Monday Evening 7.00-8.15pm
Radcliffe Market Hall, 11 Market Street, Radcliffe,
M26 1PN
The dining area of the Market Hall is cleared and cleaned every Monday to accommodate our yoga session. With plenty of space, subtle lighting, onsite management and no distractions, this is a safe and relaxing place for you to practice your yoga.£7 per lesson, £28 for 5, £56 for 10*
First lesson fee
Wednesday Evening 7.15-8.45pm
Bury Music Service, 99 The Rock, Bury BL9 0NB
Situated on the top floor of the Bury Music Service building, this is a wonderful room for yoga. Enjoy the fantastic views of the hills before relaxing down on your mat on the fully carpeted floor. With plenty of space, adjustable heating and complete quiet, this is a comfortable space in which to practice.
£9 per lesson, £36 for 5, £72 for 10*
First lesson free
*Please note, if paying for 5 or 10 lessons, the money is deducted each week that the lessons run - the savings offered are an incentive for you to attend regularly.
On Line Classes
Wednesday's classes at Bury Music Service are also live streamed. You can join the class from the comfort and convenience of your own home. Just sign up for the service and you will receive the Zoom meeting link every Wednesday. So, if getting to the live class is just too much of a stretch, don't fret, you can still access your yoga!
Just ask for joining details.
£7.00 per lesson
First lesson free
Class Recordings
All Wednesday classes are recorded and made available for all to use. The only condition is that you have attended one or more classes and have completed the Health Questionnaire - contact Sam for details.
One to One Private Classes
If you would like a bespoke one to one or private group class, these can be arranged directly with Sam.
Please use the contact form below. Prices start from £40/hr
Health Questionnaire
If you have never taken a class with Sam before, she would very much like you to fill out a Health Questionnaire. This allows her to teach you safely, within the limits of what your body is capable of and which validates her insurance, covering you both. How much information you disclose is up to you and you can choose to not fill it in at all - you can still do the class but you would not be insured under Sam's policy. Please read the form for full details.
To download the form, click here
Once completed, email it back to: helpyourselfyoga@gmail.com
Any problems with this, please just get in touch.
Contact
Please get in touch with any questions! You can also email: helpyourselfyoga@gmail.com
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About Sam
Sam started her yoga journey thirty years ago. Instantly hooked, she continued to practice almost continuously through the intervening years. In 2019, she decided it was time to turn round and face the class and become a yoga teacher. She opted for the British Wheel of Yoga Level 4 Diploma. This course comprised 500 hours of training to the highest standards available in yoga teacher training today.After only 6 months of studying, the Covid pandemic hit and Sam and the rest of her cohort completed all their training on-line. Sam has been teaching weekly on-line since November 2020. Now that we are in happier times, Sam is delighted to be be able to add live classes in addition to those she teaches on-line.Sam lives on a small farm in Bury, north Manchester which she shares with her husband and children, numerous cats (all strays who stayed!) and her (very spoilt) chickens. She also works part time for the local authority and when she has spare time, she loves to spend it tending her garden and looking after her chickens.
Blog
#1 Welcome to my websiteThank you so much for visiting my website. It is a new thing for me and a work in progress. Shout out here for my daughter Heather for putting this together for me - I couldn't have done it without her!As you might have already noticed, I'm not a classic yoga shape. Solid rather than lithe and short rather than statuesque, I don't fit into the sterotypical image of a yoga teacher. But then, most of the population do not fit into this stereotypical image either and there are millions of people doing yoga every day.It does bug me that most of the literature and images of yoga today are of highly flexible people performing incredible feats of contortion that are, lets face it, out of reach to most of us. But, I'll let you into a secret - most of the yoga models are people who have hypermobility, a condition that occurs when a person has extra long ligaments which allow movment in joints not seen in most of the population. Think ballet dancers, gymnasts, yoga models!
What I want to say here is that the yoga I teach is for every body - every body type, size, shape, colour and creeed, there are no barriers to everybody engaging with yoga at their own level.Yoga is a practice and everybody has to start somewhere. Please remember this v important fact:
no two bodies on this planet are exactly the same! We all ( if we are lucky) have the same building blocks but there are subtle differences (or even large ones) between all of us. So no two bodies will feel a yoga pose in the same way! That is why, in my classes, I ask you to only do what is right for you, and we focus on HOW IT FEELS ON THE INSIDE rather than how it looks on the outside. With this internal exploration comes an increase of self knowledge, which is what true yoga is all about - learning about our selves.
#2 The Benefits of YogaYoga is good for you! It's official. There have been numerous studies done of the goodness that yoga bestows and it is now well established that it brings so many benefits, it's amazing that it isn't compulsory!
Here are a few of them:
Yoga improves your strength, posture and flexibility;
yoga improves your balance;
yoga improves your muscle definition and tone;
yoga improves the health of your heart;
yoga improves your circulation and lowers blood pressure;
yoga improves your breathing;
yoga improves your sleep;
yoga improves your ability to relax;
yoga improves your energy levels;
yoga improves your immune response;
yoga improves your confidence;
yoga inmproves your self esteem;
yoga reduces stress, anxiety, depression, lonliness and fatigue.With all this goodness going on, you'd be crazy to not try it! So what's stopping you?