whYoga

Specialties

Yoga courses for Pregnancy and General Yoga. whYoga offers an individual and experienced approach to teaching. Estabished classes at Balham and Earlsfield Library on Monday and Wednesday evenings respectively.

Pregnancy Yoga:

Vicky has devised an appropriate practice for pregnant women based on her own experience of yoga through three pregnancies and her understanding of the important role that instinct plays in childbirth gleaned from two home water births and one home lotus birth.

General Yoga:

Vicky also offers a blend of dynamic and restorative and fun general yoga courses that embrace and challenge the beginner and advanced student in equal measure. The word ‘yoga’ itself defines ‘unity’. A class of mixed ability practitioners embraces this definition. A feeling of nurtured camaraderie is one of the most important elements of a class, so that the time set aside for this assisted practice is joyful and safe.

SaturdayYoga Workshops:

4 times a year, held at Earlsfield Library.

History

Established in 1999.

whYoga was established in 1999 after Vicky studied to train as a yoga therapist with Sunra. Narayani, a profoundly spiritual teacher was to be her main inspiration. The richness and uniqueness of Vicky’s teaching lies in the way she has united all strands of her knowledge and experience into a coherent philosophy. This philosophy is memorably carried along by her personality and energy. Vicky prefers to take her inspiration for teaching from a broad spectrum of discilplines. Vicky’s classes own an eclectic style of yoga teaching that offers her students the chance to experience variation and exploration of yoga techniques including an application of posture work according to Ayurvedic principles. Her classes are both dynamic and meditative and suitable for those who wish to open their mind to health and self-​realisation. The classes will at times explore sequencing, breathing, chanting, readings, and an innovative approach to asana practice.

Meet the Business Owner

Vicky O.

Business Owner

Vicky first became interested in developing an awareness of the interconnection between the mind and the body as a junior competitive athlete in 1981. Her interest deepened when she sustained two major injuries in 1985 which eventually brought an end to her running career.

Vicky went on to study expressive movement between 1990 and 1991 with Desmond Jones at his physical theatre school. Desmond’s training had a profound effect on Vicky’s approach to teaching. He taught Vicky that a good teacher does not just reproduce what they have been taught. Evolvement comes from rigorous self-​study.

Vicky continued her studies at Goldsmith’s College between 1992 and 1997 where she studied journalism and then chose an academic route to explore her creativity, studying a BA in English. Vicky discovered that efficient living was impossible without emotional control, for Vicky, yoga promoted such mastery.

In 1999 Vicky embarked on a yoga teacher training course, whYoga and Yoga Bananas were born.