I am so glad you have found my website - my name is Elaine Marie Ewens & I teach yoga & Vedic chant from a positive, gentle heart space. 

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Following 13 years of illness, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E), I embody the powerful healing effects that Gentle yoga & Vedic chanting can bring, together with the art of practising a sense of self compassion. 

 

​Now fully recovered and fully qualified, I have returned to my Frome town roots to specialise in teaching yoga and Vedic chanting class groups & 1-to-1, workshops and 1-to-1 yoga therapy, sharing the life affirming tools from which I have benefited.

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Do explore my website to discover more about my classes & 1-to-1 sessions, find links to book them and stay in touch through my newsletters and social media channels or directly contact me through email & mobile.

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yoga 

I teach gentle yoga because it is slow, powerful, kind, mindful and subtle. It works on a deep level and its many benefits are supported by a large body of scientific research.

 

By offering a safe space for students to explore the relationship they have with their physical, respiratory, emotional and mental bodies, I invite each student to nurture a sense of compassion towards themselves.

 

With a background in biological science I weave the yoga with down to earth rationale, plus yoga philosophy, poetic inspiration and wisdom from modern and ancient sources, keeping true to yoga’s potentially spiritual roots.

 

With 26 years experience of personal yoga practice and 16 years teaching yoga classes, I am able to adapt the yoga tools to suit the individual - offering a tailor-made practice.  You don’t have to be super flexible or bionic; if you can breathe and are conscious you can do yoga.

 

I trained for 3 years as a yoga teacher & therapist, completing a 600 hour + teaching training course, incorporating therapy modules in the tradition of Krishnamacharya & Desikachar (aka Viniyoga) and hold a double teaching diploma with the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) & the Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation (KHYF).  

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Vedic chanting 

Vedic chanting and its precise use of sound, helps support the practitioner emotionally, mentally and spiritually, enabling the individual to move into a meditative healing place of calm and stability.

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Following a 2 year teacher trainer course for Vedic Chanting with internationally renowned Radha Sundararajan, I am now a qualified Vedic Chanting teacher, have been teaching Vedic Chanting for 10 years and personally chanting for more than 24 years. 

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Chanting can be emotionally supportive and mentally stabilising - in a group or as an individual, this can be a powerful and uplifting experience. 

As a teacher, I aim to support students on their journey from learning how to pronounce the beautiful resonating words of sanskrit (the language of the Veda(s) at a mind level, to absorbing their effect at the level of the heart.

 

support

I am a member of the BWY and The Society of Yoga Practitioners (TSYP).  The TSYP have living links to the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) in Chennai, India, an organisation founded by TKV Desikachar to promote and develop the teachings of his father T Krishnamacharya. 

 

This membership enables me to directly pass on teachings from the source (KYM) to my students and questions from my students to the KYM:  from students, to myself, my mentors Geoff Farrer & Helen Macpherson, their mentors, the KYM and vice versa - a beautiful web of support & knowledge assisting us all in our journey through life.