Why Practice Yoga?
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Inner Strength
Cultivate mental and emotional stability amidst lifes ups and downs
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Cultivate Compassion
Live from the heart for greater awareness and connection in relationships
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Authenticity
Enjoy living your authentic self, being comfortable in your own skin.
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Self- Care
Know how to care for yourself so you have the ability and the energy to do what you love
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Healthy Body
Develop strength and stability in the your body whilst increasing flexibility
New to Sarra Yoga? Welcome
Classes are held at Cranleigh Arts & Napper Centre, as well as Online.
These two venues are located opposite each other on Cranleigh High Street.
People of all ages and abilities are welcome. Drop-in - see the Class Timetable
Feel like making a fresh start and becoming a Member?
Enjoy 2 weeks of any classes with the Welcome unlimited pass for £21
Then become a Member from £48 per month - no joining fee, cancel anytime
Class passes & Memberships can be used at all classes, in both venues and online
Iyengar Yoga cultivates strength, vitality & inner stability
Yoga is a profound practice of self-care and personal transformation. Through steady, mindful postures, you build strength, mobility, and support the body’s natural systems—from immunity to hormonal balance.
The practice cultivates a warm openness in the heart, helping you move through life with more ease, presence, and aliveness.
Sarra Whicheloe has been teaching Yoga since 2001 & Devotional Dance since 2003
Currently in Cranleigh, Sarra teaches Iyengar Yoga Classes, Workshops, One to One Yoga & Dance Workshops in Surrey and Online.
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More energy and vitality
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Good posture with a malleable & strong body
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Live from your authentic self
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Meet life’s challenges with more wisdom & compassion
Sarra is a qualified Iyengar Yoga teacher at Level 3
Iyengar yoga teachers are trained to very high standards with a minimum 6 years practice before qualifying as a Level 1 teacher. They are required to continue professional development to maintain their certificate, or train intensively to be certified at further levels.
Iyengar yoga teachers are committed to sharing the method taught by the B.K.S. Iyengar, rooted in the yoga philosophy of Indian wisdom traditions.
Moving Mudra Dance
Conscious Movement awakens and celebrates the sacred in our every day.
Moving Mudra is a based on the hand gestures, mudras, and the dance language of Bharatanatyam. Bharatanatyam is a Classical Dance from Tamil Nadu, India. Its roots are in the devotional and ritual practices of South Indian Temples.
In these workshops you will learn mindful movements which express emotional landscapes and prayer. You will move your imagination guided by rhythm, melody and words.
Inspiration for the dances come from exploring the qualities of Nature, the archtypes of Gods and Goddess in connection to our lived experience.
The powerful ingredients of Yoga for physical, mental and spiritual well-being
& personal transformation
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Āsana
Yoga postures
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Prāņāyāma
Breath awareness & practices
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Śavāsana
Relaxation
Āsana
Sanskrit word meaning ‘comfortable seat’
They are psychophysical positions of the body
In a Yoga class we are doing conscious movement into the posture, staying in the posture and coming out.
Yoga postures develop your strength, flexibility and help to balance the hormonal, immune and nervous systems. The choice of postures and the order that they are practiced in (the sequence) affect how you feel and the benefits.
The Classic Guide to Yoga Asana is ‘Light on Yoga’ written by BKS Iyengar in 1966. It classifies more than 200 postures with over 600 illustrative photographs. This significant resource has informed and inspired many modern approaches to posture work.
The syllabus and methodology of yoga postures taught in an Iyengar yoga class follows the direct guidance of BKS Iyengar, his family and senior teachers.
Prānāyāmā
Prānā is life force energy in all of nature.
Yāma is to restrain, or extend’
Life force energy is present in every breath. It involves Breath awareness and practices that are purifying and interacting with the energy body.
Essentially it is the practice of being aware of different parts of the body breathing and its mental and emotional effect. The volume, velocity, duration, texture and pattern are all aspects of breathing to explore in the body.
Feelings of peace, emotional stability and an open heartedness, even exhilaration, are some of the experiences of Pranayama as well as Savasana.
As a Beginners Yoga Postures , and esepcially Savasana, is where we first learn observation and awarenss of the body breathing.