Synergy Audio Yoga & Meditation for VI & Blind Students (part 1)
A comprehensive Audio Yoga and meditation course designed especially for Visually Impaired & Blind students of all ages.
Synergy Audio Yoga™ for Visually Impaired & Blind students is a fun audio course including a warm- up, main routine and cooldown. Classes are signposted with verbal guidance and clear descriptions. Instructions and speech are clear to enable participation and the scope to develop and build strength and stamina.
Introductions help to inform participants of what is coming next in the absence of visual cues and breathing, postures, positions and stretches are explained. Guidance is also given to the surroundings. This will encourage students of all ages to be active in their exploration of yoga.
Classes encourage participants to share their yoga experience with others and family members or carers may also take part. The teachers are experienced in their field and also deliver for Synergy via their partnership with British Blind Sport.
Course Curriculum
Course Instructors
Rebekah
Rebekah is a qualified Hatha Yoga teacher, a level 3 childcare worker, certified in Core Anatomy Vinyassa and has trained with Dashama in Pranashama Yoga. As a qualified Life Coach & Counsellor, Becky is deeply interested in Spirituality and combines her areas of expertise to offer health and wellness in mind, body and soul. Rebekah works with Synergy on our online programmes, in schools and for weekly classes in Freedom Leisure venues. Her classes deliver to children, teens, adults and the SEN community.
Becky is on a mission to help participants tap into their highest potential: “overcoming self-sabotage, awakening to our truest desires and healing from any past trauma or wounds, which would disable us from our highest potential”.
As a teacher Rebekah enjoys making yoga accessible to all – and often brings in help from her soft toy collection – Prana Parrot, Meditating Max and Yoga Ted.
For adults and teens, each class offers an opportunity to embrace a deeper knowledge of yourself and you will be encouraged to believe in yourself! Rebekah's classes are fun, engaging and encouraging - she has a large following on Synergy. You can get to know Rebekah via our inclusive online yoga and ParaStars Yoga® programmes and she also teaches for Synergy for their British Blind Sport partnership.
Esme
Esme graduated from the Arts University, Bournemouth and is passionate about wellbeing, keeping fit and practicing mindfulness via meditation. Her particular passion is Mental Health and she started with Synergy as a volunteer. We have also collaborated on charity events for Mental Health.
In her daily routines, Esme practices yoga and meditation, in her mission to improve both mental health and body. Esme also loves dancing, whether face to face or virtually! She shares the Synergy dream of reaching everyone!
You can get to know Esme via her inspiring and uplifting audio meditations online - Relax and Enjoy.
Cristina
Cristina always knew that movement was good for her physically and mentally, but when she first started practicing yoga she didn’t realise how much it would transform her life!
Christina's mission is to help people find their own individual expression on the mat, connect with themselves and others, and guide them through a journey of self-discovery and empowerment.
Cristina teaches Power Yoga, Restorative Yoga, ParaStars Yoga(r), Children's Yoga and Meditation. Her classes aim to find the right balance of dynamic and restorative poses, with a focus on mental and physical strength and relaxation. Cristina has also produced our popular Children In Need Meditations.
Cristina will take you on an inspiring yoga journey and encourage you to work within your range and level. Her classes are friendly, engaging and very popular.
Gill
Gill specialises in back pain and discovered yoga through a back injury. She has conducted yoga holidays in Spain, the Canary Islands and Canada, and worked across London’s top gyms and health clubs.
She has a really good understanding of “how any physical limitations need not affect our yoga practice”. She has worked with all abilities from professional athletes and wheelchair bound pupils to stroke victims, blind students and cancer patients.
Gill is attentive to detail within her yoga teaching, emphasizing the importance of deep breathing for us all and teaches live SEND yoga classes for Synergy in leisure centres.
Gill believes that everyone should have the opportunity to learn Yoga and enjoy the benefits it offers both physically and mentally. With twenty years of experience, Gill wants “everyone to enjoy a yoga class that stretches your body and mind, and brings a little calmness, something we definitely need right now”. “Yoga is the producer of the greatest happiness" - Bhagavad Gita....And we all want to be happy.”
You can get to know Gill via our inclusive SEN Yoga and Audio Yoga programmes
Natalie
Natalie is an experienced teacher and “industry pro” who has been working in the fitness industry since 2002 and has been specialising in yoga and functional movement since 2007. Her passion lies in “helping others to achieve better and safer movement within their own bodies”, which is why Natalie was keen to work with ParaStars Yoga®; “to reach out to those who are unable to attend her classes in person so that they too can benefit from her enthusiasm of free movement”.
Natalie has a friendly and relaxed style to put you at ease, as you enrol for her yoga and mobility classes with Synergy.
You can get to know Natalie via our inclusive online ParaStars Yoga® programmes.
