Power Yoga - Personal Training - Nutrition and Weight Management
MY POWER YOGA DVD NOW ON SALE!
| I have just completed a Power Yoga DVD giving a one hour workout that will appeal to all fitness levels and abilities. I recommend doing the DVD 2-3 times a week. This will have amazing results on your body, arms, abs, glutes and thighs. You will become more toned and defined, giving the body greater strength, stamina, flexibility and balance. It is an amazing all over body workout targetting every muscle within the body. |
SPECIAL OFFER!
Have you enetered for a 10k or Half Marathon this year? If so I can offer a
BEGINNER'S 10K 8 WEEK TRAINING PROGRAM
(you need to be able to run 1-2 miles comfortably before starting this program)
and an
INTERMEDIATES 10K AND HALF MARATHON 12 WEEK TRAINING PROGRAM (includes a 10k run at Week 4)
at very special prices. These programs will give you all the help, training and advice that you will need to get you in tiptop condition in readiness for the big day. I have designed both program cards using four different training approaches and they include:
ENDURANCE: To increase stamina, endurance and the body's ability to metabolise fats
FARTLEK/TEMPO: To increase power and speed
HILL/STRENGTH TRAINING: To increase strength and power
MSE PHASE: To break up the training and can be performed on rest days and has the following benefits - to increase stamina, flexibility, muscle tone, muscle strength and muscle balance
also available ~
PERSONAL TRAINING PROGRAM FOR A MARATHON
(you must be able to run 12 miles comfortably or have completed my 10k and/or Half Marathon program)
All programs include nutritional advice and motivation tips
Cost £12.99 per Program, £25 for any two, plus p&p
About Me - Lucy Cawdron
I am a qualified Power Yoga Teacher, Gym Instructor, Personal Trainer and Nutrition and Weight Management Specialist. I have been teaching for six years in both the UK and Dubai. I teach private clients as well as holding group classes. My group classes are held at the Ballet Centre, the World Trade Centre, the Zen Beauty Lounge (Dubai's first and only eco friendly beauty lounge) and I have also covered classes at the Core Studio in Dubai as well as visiting private clients in their own home environment. I have also held group seminars in Dubai.When I am in the UK I hold group classes at a Fitness Centre in Newmarket as well as holding one-to-one classes at my home and again, teaching clients in their own home environment. The people I teach are of all ages, levels and abilities. I work on clients specific needs to suit them, whether it be to help get them in shape, weight loss, become stronger and more positive in both body and mind or to help with the many health concerns that Power Yoga can help with, such as stress, IBS, digestive problems, asthma, fatigue, etc (see Yoga For Healing for a full list of health concerns that Power Yoga can help with).
My Journey
All my life I have had a passion for exercise, everything from horse riding to running and dance. For me exercise makes me feel good on the inside and the outside. I had never tried yoga before until about six years ago. I had suffered for many years with back problems and so my Mum encouraged me to take up yoga.
Since then my love for yoga has increased and I began to see how much it had helped me, both physically and mentally as a person. I was stronger, healthier, more flexible and balanced and as a person I became more confident and happier so I began to think how much I would like to show others how yoga can help them to.
I began to practise many different styles of yoga, everything from power yoga, full body blast/power yoga ultra through to bikram-ashtanga yoga to gain lots of experience and gain inspiration. I then qualified as a Power Yoga teacher and have been teaching ever since. My main aim is to help others, to heal both body and mind. A healthy body equals a healthy mind.
My Mission
My mission is to help people get fit and healthy both on the inside and the outside. There is no point being super fit and toned on the outside if we are not healthy on the inside. Through yoga and exercise our health can improve so much.
When our physical, mental, spiritual and emotional bodies are in alignment then we are healthy. If there are energy blockages in any of these areas it causes illness, so when everything is in balance we have full health and energy. Yoga teaches us to go beyond our limits.
Yoga and exercise should be a way of life. So this is the journey I have set for myself and I wish to invite you to take it with me.
In November 2010 I took part in a 5Rhythms Dance Workshop and in January 2011 I took part in a Max Strom Workshop. I learnt alot from both Workshops, both were very enlightening. I have gained great knowledge through attending and participating in these Workshops and they have inspired me so much that I have written a small piece about what each Workshop entails:
5Rhythms Dance Workshop
The 5Thythms comprise a simple movement practice designed to release the dancer that lives in every body, no matter what its shape, size, age, limitations and experience. To find your dance is to find yourself at your most fluid and creative level. While the practice itself is the essence of simplicity, it has the power to catalyze deep healing and creative expression. The primary teaching of this work is: If you put the psyche in motion, it will heal itself.
The five rhythms are: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness. They come together to create the Wave, a movement meditation practice. Rather than having steps to follow, each rhythm is a different energy field in which you find your own expression and choreography, thereby stretching your imagination as well as your body. Each rhythm is a teacher and you can expect to meet different and sometimes unknown aspects of yourself as your dance unfolds and your practice of the rhythms deepens over time.
�Movement is my medicine: it�s my meditation, my practice. It is what I do no matter how I feel. We were all born to move, to surrender to the beat. Your soul is a dancer. No effort. No judgement. Pure energy in the moment� - Gabrielle Roth
Exhale - Max Strom Workshop
Strom�s system includes a philosophy of living, self-enquiry, breathing exercise, yoga postures and meditation, guiding his students to becoming happier, healthier and empowered human beings. He has taught tens of thousands of students and trained several hundred teachers. He has been teaching since 1995 and is recognised by the Yoga Alliance at their Advanced Teacher Level (ERYT)
The Workshop was split into three parts:
Part 1
A Life Worth Breathing. This workshop focused on lifting us up from burn-out and re-igniting the inner fire, transforming depression into inspiration and anger into courage. It is renowned for its healing, penetrating affect, leaving students feeling renewed and open. It starts with a talk by Max Strom followed by the integration of breathing exercise and vinyasa flow, finishing with a focus on simple chants unfolding into a transformational meditation.
Part 2
Strength, Grace & Expansion. The intent of power yoga is not only to increase our strength and flexibility, but also to promote health and vitality. The next layer is to transform our behaviour from coarse to gracious, and to transform even our very thoughts, from chaos to beauty. Strom�s unique prana-flow class emphasises emotional transformation using vinyasa-flow, non-dogmatic philosophy, breathing and meditation.
Part 3
The Healing Power of Forgiveness. Forgiveness is perhaps the most powerful tool we have for healing ourselves. To forgive another heals oneself just as anger toward another poisons oneself. Anger and resentment can destroy our lives. For the body to heal, often what is most vital is to heal the broken heart or spirit. Failure to forgive affects our stress level, power to heal the body, discernment and all our relationships. The first part of this seminar is a powerful lecture on forgiving others, the second part will address forgiving oneself and the third part includes gentle yoga movement, breathing exercises and guided meditation with emphasis on emotional transformation.
�When we are in pain we become self-centred and myopic. When we heal we become more empathetic, selfless and sympathetic to the pain and welfare of others. It is our gift to others to heal ourselves� � Max Strom'
Welcome to my Website!
I invite you to take this path of enlightenment with me! I have so much to say where do I start? The journey I have been on to make my website has been amazing and has now become real. I have come to learn so much, I've come to realise yoga, and helping others through yoga, is where my true passion lies. Everyone strives to find what their true purpose in life is, I have forever always wanted to know what mine was and I believe I have now found it. It has not been an easy road but I have had the most amazing help and support from my family and friends.
Firstly, I have to thank my Mum, not just for encouraging me to take up yoga in the first place many years ago but also for all the unbelievable hard work she has put in to making this website become real. I also have to thank my loyal, lovely and amazing yogi clients! Through them I have learnt so much about my teaching, to me they are not just clients they have become special friends that share the same passion as I do. When someone tells me that through our classes they have become not only healthier, less stressed, more grounded and are living a more positive way of thinking and living it is an amazing gift to me. Seeing a yogi client improve week by week and seeing them master a pose that they once found difficult gives me a great sense of happiness.
So many of my friends have helped me along my journey. Andrew Watkins provided the most amazing photo's for this website along with the help of my lovely friend Vicki Costa, we had a great time during the photoshoot and Andrew was so patient with me whilst waiting for me to get into all sorts of positions! My good friend Chris Coogan has been a great friend to me and also an amazing source of inspiration, helping me to come up with some fabulous ideas including finding a name for the website in the first place! I can't not mention my friend Kes who has provided me with so much support and encouragement and also provided the artwork for the chakra that is included in the website.
Before I began practising yoga I was a very shy person with no confidence. I strongly believe that if you find the correct yoga teacher it can help change your life and I was very lucky to find one. Alisa not only taught me yoga but became a great friend also, she taught me how to practise with passion and she gave me the encouragement and confidence to go on to teach others. I believe I learnt from the best and my aim to give to others what she gave to me.