Therapist Jane Collison

Jane Collison photoHi, I’m Jane Collison and I’m really excited to join the team of therapists at DYTC.

I offer Systematic Kinesiology, Meridian Aromatherapy Massage and Nutritional Therapy.

I work with high-quality, food-state nutritional supplements, essential oils, Bach flower remedies, herbal extracts and other natural remedies to create balance where it’s needed so your body and mind can return to great health.

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July 2017 newsletter

Welcome to our July newsletter.

We hope that those of you who attended our International Yoga Day on the 21st June enjoyed your class. Phew that was a hot day!

The centre will quieten down as we approach the summer, a time to be outdoors doing your yoga! Plenty of weekly classes but not so many weekend workshops. Please do send us any photos of your yoga practice in unusual places to share in our September newsletter.

This newsletter will cover July and August and so the next newsletter will be for September.

Please check the calendar for teachers’ holidays, and maybe try a different class if your teacher is away. You can drop in to any class.

Have a fabulous summer from all the teachers and therapists at DYTC

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Yoga Sutra of Patanjali – Pranayama

The fourth step is Pranayama.

The word is composed from two Sanskrit words:

  • Prana: meaning life force (noted particularly as the breath), and
  • either ayama: to restrain or control the prana (implying a set of breathing techniques where the breath is intentionally altered in order to produce specific results)
  • or ayāma: meaning to extend or draw out (as in extension of the life force)

Generally translated as breath control, Prana is the life force or energy that exists everywhere and flows through each of us through the breath.

The basic movements of Pranayama are:

  • inhalation
  • retention of breath
  • exhalation

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June 2017 newsletter

In this month’s newsletter I introduce the third of the 8 limbs of yoga described by Patanjali.

As ever, please check out the studio calendar and classes pages on the website for more details, and June’s classes, workshops and courses are below.

With best wishes from Sharon and all the yoga teachers and therapists.


Asana: more commonly translated as posture, is derived from the Sanskrit root “to stay” “to be” or ”to sit”.

Last month we looked at the first two limbs of yoga, yamas and niyamas, would it not be enough to be compassionate, truthful and content? Surely we should work at these? Why do we need to stretch our bodies?

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