THE ROOFTOP "GODS OWN VILLA', Beach Road, Kovalam, India.

  

YOGA DATES:        
 
Monday 20th - 25th January 2025  (Yoga Morning Practice dates for week 1).

and

Monday 28th - 31st January 2025 (Yoga Morning Practice dates for week 2).

 
START TIME : 8.30am - 11.30am

 

VENUE: GODS OWN VILLA

Address: Beach Rd, Kovalam, Kerala 695521, India

Phone: +91 70285 72012

 

 
THIS 2 WEEK YOGA PRACTICE INTENSIVE IS OPEN TO ALL LEVELS OF PRACTITIONER 

Yoga with Lucy -  January 20th - 31st 2025 - Gods Own Villa, Kovalam Beach, Kerala, India 

A relaxed and creative Yoga Practice environment.

We will begin the morning with a short led explorative piece, to bring a specific focus to the body.  “Body Listening”… 

Lucy will work with you individually, and assist the development of your personal Yoga Practice.  

My intention is to explore the relationship between ground, and space - practising with awareness and deep focus, whilst having fun.  There will be room to explore new Asana and how they feel in our bodies.  It is not just the doing, but the listening while we do that brings change and new awareness.

I will aim to meet the individual and unique needs of the individuals attending this Workshop, observing each persons use of the body and individual movement patterns, and offer other possibilites, informing the body of a more supportive positioning during Asana Practice, to bring a more balanced state to the joints and other tissues of the body. I aim to educate and inform!

I offer an intelligent, sensitive and receptive approach to this demanding method of Yoga, Ashtanga Vinyasa, and modifications  where approriate.

I will proffer additional Asana, and or targetied work to areas of the body that need that focus, whilst paying attention to balancing the bones (Postural alignment) with attention to the joints, and muscles for correct and supported Yoga Asana Practice.

  
ACCOMMODATION

Rooms at Gods Own Villa - Please book via me, email or text me to arrange. 

The Price for this in Indian Rupees for 14 nights,  is 2600/-  per night.   14 nights is a Total of 36400/-  

In UK Pounds this is approximately  £336.00

 

Arrival - 18th  - (14 nights)  means your last night would be the 31st, and Departure on the 1st February 2025  

If you arrive early, or leave later - you will need to arrange this for yourselves. 
If interested in booking a room at GOV - drop me an email: info@lucycrawfordyoga.co.uk

The staff at Gods own Villa can also organise a taxi collection for people staying there, from Trivandrum Airport, to the Hotel.  

NOTE

There are many other options. Do make sure that you book an A/C room – if being too hot at night will interfere with your ability to sleep!  I personally feel that it can be a good thing to book only a couple of nights somewhere, and then go off and find your perfect place to stay. Hotels vary from luxuary to Basic, and it can be better to be there and choose what you are comfortable with before commiting to 2 weeks there.

Go to: www.booking.com to search the myriad of options nearby.

Do check that whatever you book is a reasonable walking distance from Gods Own Villa. Obviously if you don’t mind a 30 minute walk from The Leila 5 star Hotel on the hill:) you can 🙂

TRAVEL

Flights to Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) and then an airport taxi to Kovalam.

It is preferable to ask your accommodation to send a driver, to collect you from the airport.  There will then be a driver holding a sign with your name on it. This helps to avoid over inflated taxi fares!

VISA

ENTRY INTO INDIA: You need to get a VISA to enter the Country. 

You can do this online. 

ARRIVAL FORMS

You need to provide the address of the place you have booked to stay at, on the customs arrival forms, when entering India.  An address is also useful to give an airport taxi driver if you have not booked a pick up with your Hotel / accommodation.

Please use this address:

Gods Own Villa

Address: Beach Rd, Kovalam, Kerala 695521, India

Phone: +91 70285 72012
 
COST

£650 the 2 - 5 day Yoga Practice Weeks.

Saturday and Sunday are days off, to explore and go on trips etc.

If you require further information -please email Lucy directly via the contacts page or at
info@lucycrawfordyoga.com
 
LUCY CRAWFORD SCOTT has 30years of Yoga teaching experience, having taught Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga since 1994. Lucy runs small practice development weeks at the Chapel in Gweek, Cornwall, Teacher Trainings and Workshops in the UK and overseas. Lucy’s teaching focuses on the body, and a deeper connection into the tissues using anatomical knowledge to inform the body of the movements required in Asana.  Lucy pays attention to balancing the bones, working with the joints and muscles for correctly supported Asana for balanced and safe practice.

Lucy offers her experience and expertise with verbal cues, Hands on Asana adjustment, and additional stretches and strength work where helpful.

Once you arrive, enjoy the SUN, SAND and SEA and Yoga will await you!

 

Morning Assisted Yoga Practice 

8.30AM - 11.30AM

ASSISTED AND FACILITATED YOGA SELF PRACTICE WEEK - small groups 

Indulge in your practice, with Lucy's guidance and assistance.

An orientation to specifics, with verbal and hands on assistance. 

Attention to Asana alignment and breath, understanding what each Asana requires in terms of actions, how to work specific components of an Asana separately, and which muscles and actions to engage. 

Each Asana requires our full attention, we need to take time to listen in - using all our senses, and not going beyond where the body feels most comfortable and at ease.  The ground, and the way we meet the ground, mirrors our foundations, and supports the Asana and our correct foundation and internal orientation brings the expansion and space, into the shape.   

Working with the body, breath, heart and mind.

I work with the Primary and intermediate Series, and have over 30 years of practice and teaching experience.  

 

 

From the ground up - The feet, lower leg, knee and hip

  

Anatomy Study:

The 26 bones of the foot, how they connect to the talus, subtalar joint, and to the Calcaneus (heel bone).  The relationship of the outer foot, 4th & 5th toe to the fibula and the big toe, 2nd and 3rd toe to the tibia.  The Knee joint, its alignment through the patella, movement possibilities at the knee, and compensations. Supporting the knee joint with attention to the correct alignment of foot, lower leg, and to the femur and hip joint. The relevance of all of this to adjusting and correcting in Yoga Asana.

 

Practice:

Led Practice: Each day we will have a  complete Practice of sequenced Asana - led by Lucy.

 

Hands on:

Moving the bones of the feet, plantar fascia and its effect on the fascia of the whole leg.   Agonists and Antagonists, origins insertions, and actions of the major muscles in the feet, lower leg, upper leg and hip. Palpation skills.

 

Experiential Anatomy 

Explorations of the foot, ankle, lower leg upper leg and hip.  Anatomical explorations involving sensing, feeling and Action, connecting to the movement possibilities of the feet, knees and hips.  Development of Body listening skills.

 

Muscle Energy Techniques For the Hamstrings, quadriceps, psoas and piriformis

Muscle energy techniques help to balance the muscles, and provide more space in the joints, engaging muscles in contraction and then engaging the natural stretch reflex, to reset muscle spindle length. How to apply this to Asana involving the legs.  A focus on  standing poses.

 

Asana study & Adjustments:

(Asana studied on each Module are listed in the Course Manual)

Hands on Adjustments, in both 'Standing and Seated Asana’.  Analysing through observation, looking at alignment issues in the legs. Adjustment from the pelvis / hip down, or from the foot / ground up.  Basic Adjustments, and more refined adjustments for the standing poses, and seated poses.   Correct alignment of the joints. Adjustments that provide more connection to ‘ground’, and the resultant space in the hips and pelvis.