Dynamic yoga

Sudaka has evolved his yoga over many years of practice and teaching. (He started as a teenager in 1986).

The Dynamic yoga style of Sudaka can be described as playful and flowing, with an emphasis on alignment and precision. His yoga has been strongly influenced through his base training in the Iyengar Yoga method, several years of work with Godfrey Devereux and some input from Sarah Powers and more recently studying the therapeutic yoga of Viniyoga through Gary Karftsow's work.

Dynamic yoga is a practice based around the five techniques of:

• Asana (posture)
• Vinyasa (moving with the breath)
• Pranayama (unhindered breathing)
• Bandha (energetic alignment) 
• Drushti (awareness)

These correspond with the five elements: earth to posture; water to 'moving with the breath'; fire to the internal energetic alignment of bandha; air to breathing freely; space/ether to awareness, the overall context in which hatha yoga is practised.

Classes are presented as a sequence of postures woven together upon the breath. Different aspects of yoga method will be emphasised over the course of classes.

All classes end with a period of relaxation in Savasana (posture of relaxation).