Yoga offers wonderful tools to help recover and support our health and well-being.
The hallmarks of this approach to Yoga involve teaching and therapy based on authentic, ancient Yoga wisdom that is adapted to meet the needs of today.
It involves breathing practices and meditation integrated with Yoga postures for an holistic approach to well-being that helps develop mental clarity as well as improve health and vitality.
Yoga is the perfect way to help deal with the stresses and strains of modern living. Through practice, the reduction of physical stress and the removal of mental tension also lead to a greater sense of self awareness and relationship with our inner essence.

It is also about cultivating a quality of attention, inherent in all human beings yet one which is difficult to access due to the stresses and strains of modern life.
The approach adopted by Serenity Yoga can be summed up in the phrase 'the viniyoga of Yoga', used by one of today's Yoga Masters TKV Desikachar when describing his own teacher and father T Krishnamacharya's view of Yoga.
     
It means the intelligent application of Yoga to the person and their current situation. Krishnamacharya is today being recognised as one of the main sources of Western Yoga teaching, this can be seen through the work of his students such as Pattabhi Jois, BKS Iyengar and TKV Desikachar. My own Teacher, Paul Harvey, was a student of TKV Desikachar for almost 25 years. Paul is based in Bristol and in 1985 founded the Centre for Yoga Studies and still continues to teach and train whilst his students develop their own community and teaching links through aYs (Association of Yoga Studies).

Serenity Yoga is inspired by these teachings and aims to offer an approach to Yoga that takes as its starting point the present state of the person and links it through intelligent steps towards their personal goals. It will not tie your body in knots trying to adapt you to postures that are not appropriate to your body at this time, nor will it ask you to practice arcane rituals. Instead it will adapt postures, breathing techniques and sequence practices that are appropriate physically and energetically and relevant to you today.