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Namaste!
Welcome to Moving Prayer, the website of
Ali Glenny
offering
astanga vinyasa yoga
yin yoga
and
Phoenix
Rising Yoga Therapy
in south-east London and beyond
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BIOGRAPHY
For as long as I can remember, putting my body into
motion has been a fundamental way for me to know myself
and discover what it means to be alive. I have had a
long involvement not just with yoga but also with dance,
moving from ballet and contemporary dance techniques
to meditative and somatic approaches. I have been practising
Gabrielle Roths 5Rhythms® dance since 2001,
and am a co-founder and co-director of Greenwich
Rhythms, a Community Interest Company set up to
create opportunities to dance the 5Rhythms®
in south-east London.
I
did my first yoga class in 1981, initially practising
with Iyengar teachers; later I explored Sivananda and
other hatha yoga styles. In 2001, I came across astanga
vinyasa and became a dedicated practitioner, finding
in this intensely physical, moving form of yoga a deep
sense of spirit immanent in the body. I
have been fortunate enough to study with many wonderful
teachers over the years, both the sung and the unsung;
however, my main teacher currently is my body on the
mat.
I trained to teach astanga vinyasa with Abby Daniel
in 2002, and completed a second astanga teacher training
with Tim Miller in 2003. I am registered as a yoga teacher
with The Yoga Register at 1,000-hour (advanced) level. In
2003, I also undertook the Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
training in the USA and am now one of a small number
of certified Phoenix Rising practitioners in the UK.
For me, however dynamic
its form, yoga is
first and foremost a meditation. Its particular strength
and beauty as a tool of awareness is that it works through
(rather than around or in spite of) the body and therefore
has the potential to move us directly into states of
consciousness that exist beneath the level of the cognitive
mind. Central to this process is the ongoing enquiry
into what it means to be
on the edge, perhaps best described as a
situation in which we can expand our understanding and
gain greater insight into the nature of our being.
I teach all sorts of people with all sorts of bodies, but I have a particular interest in working with dancers and people with hypermobility. (My
own relationship with yoga has been deeply challenged and
enriched by Ehlers Danlos – hypermobility – syndrome.)
I
have refuge with the Karma Kagyü school
of Tibetan Buddhism and am currently completing the
ngöndro
(a three-year Tibetan Buddhist practice). I am 46 years
old and live with my ten-year-old son in south-east
London.
I feel privileged to be able to pass on the little I
have learnt of these wonderful transformative practices
and hope that you will be as blessed by them as I continue
to be. Om shanti.
(Ali's
practice blog is at http://practiceblog.blogware.com/blog.)

Last
updated 22/01/10
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my wanderings I have visited shrines and many other places of
pilgrimage, but I have not seen a shrine as blissful as my own
body.”Saraha |

NEWS
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Sunday
workshop: astanga intensive
Take
your practice deeper and receive individual feedback and
guidance in this Mysore-style astanga workshop. Takes place
Sunday 21 March.
March course: yin yoga
now booking
Relax, meditate, stretch deeply and spend some time with
yourself. All welcome, from complete beginners to experienced
yogis. Takes place Thursday evenings from 11 March.
March
course: improvers astanga vinyasa
now booking
Sweat,
stretch, strengthen and explore your edge with this dynamic,
challenging form of yoga. Suitable for those with astanga
experience, as well as beginners with a good basic level
of fitness. Takes place Thursday evenings from 11 March.
For
more information about all these events see the Classes
and Workshops page.
Winter Fundraiser for Project Air
Our fundraiser astanga class made £370.45 for Project
Air. This project uses astanga vinyasa to help women
and children who are survivors of genocidal rape in Rwanda,
many of whom are also HIV positive. The Director of Project
Air writes: Thank you so very much for this lovely
gift and please do thank all your students from me.
The women and children we work with will benefit enormously
from your donation.
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