Online courses during Coronavirus lockdown

Updated 11/04/2020

Hello everyone

I hope this finds you all well, given this very particular turn of events. Just when all the yoga studios close seems to be the time when people need it the most! So …

As many of you know, I have been offering online classes for the last couple of years, from tomorrow, and until the end of the lockdown, ALL OF MY WEEKLY OPEN GROUP CLASSES will be online via the highly accessible platform Zoom (for thorough instructions see below). One of these classes is in English (Mondays at 12.30pm CET). The other classes are given in French. All classes are noted below in Paris time (CET). If you would like a recording of the class in which you participate, let me know during class.

In these coming months, I will be offering a programme of classes focused on moving and energizing the body (being confined to the house with limited movement in springtime is potentially stagnating for the body) , and grounding and nourishing  to reassure our anxious minds 😁, always with a deep relaxation in the last part of class. My classes always follow seasonal change, and at this time of the year they focus on balancing liver and gall bladder energies, the wood element.

Class times are

Monday 12H30 – 14H (in English) 

Monday 19h-20h 

Wednesday 9h30-10h30 

 Thursday 18h30-19h45 

Friday 9H 10H15  

Email redearthcentre@gmail.com to register for class (up until 10m before class start) and receive Zoom link.

Call me 0610897604 if you have a problem connecting.

Cost : €12/class payable by PayPal or bank transfer (request RIB)

Individual classes at other times by appointment.

If you have never worked online before , here’s how it works :

Approx 10 minutes before class start time, make a space for your practice in your house or apartment, where you will be least likely to be interrupted. Position your screen (smartphone, iPad, laptop) so that it shows your mat and the space around your mat.

Click on the link that has been sent to you following registration (to register send me an email redearthcentre@gmail.com up to 10 m before class start), and a window will open on your screen inviting you to the meeting. And that’s it! During the class, you can choose to be muted, also to be invisible if you prefer to practice without me seeing you.

As you know, I work mostly via verbal instruction (this is a part of the somatic methodology, the idea being that the instructions are directly processed by your body without passing through the visual filter of watching someone else do the movement, which is alway an -if unconscious- invitation to imitation). My instructions are informed by how I see you moving, so mostly I will be watching you on my screen but if I see that the instructions are poorly understood, I will demonstrate. So I kind of go between watching you and moving.

I love teaching online because it often helps people who don’t have a home practice, to realise that it’s possible ! And it helps them to begin to make that association between home and yoga.. rather than externalising it.

So, I do hope to see you, at least on my screen!

Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions

Louisa

(image Salim Karami Fondation Cartier “Nous Les Arbres”)