My name is Gary. I have been practicing yoga since 1991. I began my teacher training with the British Wheel of Yoga in 2004 and completed in 2008.
I have been influenced by a variety of styles of yoga, especially the Scaravelli Inspired approach. I regularly study with those who work in this intuitive and explorative manner. I also study with those with an in depth knowledge in anatomy and physiology, as well as those interested in neurology and psychology.
I am also influenced by other methods of bodywork including 'somatics' and the Feldenkrais Method and I use self massage techniques along with my yoga practice as another healing system.
Yoga may increase flexibility, mobility, strength, balance, coordination, relaxation, personal growth and understanding, and decrease stress and anxiety. There are many reasons one chooses to practice yoga. Yoga can be as deep and as subtle as we want it to be. Sometimes they are the same thing!
The awareness that comes about by 'paying attention' to sensations (tissue, body, breath, thought) in a consistent and sensitive manner may lead to the quietening of the mind, or the 'patterns of consciousness' expounded by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. This practiced and enhanced attention and sensitivity enables yoga to be available to anyone.
'Innominate' means 'without name or classification'. With so many defined styles of yoga, I chose Innominate Yoga not to differentiate but to emphasize that yoga means 'to yoke, to join together, to unite'. We are a union of practitioners intent on learning. We may go about this learning in different ways but the intention is the same - to grow, to heal, to live well.
Innominate Tarn, in the Lake District, is where the ashes of the guidebook writer, Alfred Wainwright are scattered. I moved to Kendal from Wiltshire in 1994 to walk in the fells. This was the best decision of my life. Practicing and teaching yoga are two others. These fells are where I also pay attention and heal.
Thanks Mum for bringing me here in 1983, yet another spark you lit in me - I am forever grateful.