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Anna Blackmore
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Anna has over 30 years of experience in yoga and has been teaching yoga and practising as a bodywork therapist since 1982. She first did a Sivananda teacher training then went on to qualify as an Iyengar teacher in 1986. She has done extensive training in western and oriental bodywork, including osteopathy, various forms of massage, shiatsu and hypnotherapy. Anna is a registered shiatsu practitioner and senior teacher, a hypnotherapist and was a registered osteopath for 11 years until the year 2000.
From 1986 to 1998 Anna taught shiatsu theory and practice, yoga and self development, anatomy, physiology and pathology for the European Shiatsu School, where she was responsible for designing courses and writing course material. She has also written course material for Yogacampus and various articles on yoga and yoga therapy for complementary health websites
Anna has studied a number of styles of yoga, inlcuding Iyengar, Sivananda and Astanga Vinyasa Yoga. She also has a great deal of experience in meditation and mind training techniques and has a particular interest in yoga psychology. The various strands of her training have come together in her work as a yoga therapist and she has also studied yoga therapy with teachers in the UK, India and the USA. Anna teaches yoga at The Life Centre and is also on the faculty of the Yogacampus yoga teacher training and Yoga therapy courses.
Yoga Therapy differs from normal yoga in that a yoga therapist has undergone further training in both the western and yogic view of health and disease and uses specific yoga techniques to help address particular issues. In yoga philosophy the body is viewed as a multilayered organism, 'panchakosa' (five sheaths). These are physical, energetic, mental/emotional, intellectual/intuitive and blissful/spiritual. Dis-ease can originate in one level and permeate through to the others. Thus therapy is most effective when aimed at more than one level and there many different techniques in yoga that operate at different levels. Some of these are physical postures (asanas), energy work (through breath control), mind mastery, guided relaxation, use of intention, cultivation of higher wisdom and various forms of meditation.
Yoga Body Mind Therapy is a method Anna has developed of incorporating yoga, modern hypnotherapy and NLP, hands on bodywork and shiatsu. Thus it combines the pleasantly relaxing physical sensations of touch, pressure and manipulation with some active participation from the client, through yoga techniques, which they can do for themselves. It also includes hypnotic suggestions to help access the unconscious and the intuitive mind, enhance relaxation and reinforce the desired outcome for the session.
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