Aasita

On Monday the 17th of June 2019, Aasita attended a GwoGa Master Class held in Croydon at the Archbishop Lanfranc Academy held by Yogaworthit in partnership with Essence of Good Health Free Yoga and Caribbean musician Christian-Joseph Maturin.

This collaboration effort aimed at bringing two disciplines from two continents-Asia and North America- together: GwoKa Dance and music from the French Caribbean island Guadeloupe and Yoga from India.

It aimed at starting off the celebration of both Yoga International Day and Windrush Day taking place in the weekend and promote diversity as well as unity.

During this 2-hour session, partakers sang, breathed, moved, danced and relaxed to the live sound of KA-African drum. Participants explored the space and their bodies in various way including a human mandala formation where they experienced the benefits of supporting and being supported by one another in a safe nurturing environment, which enabled everyone to achieve elaborate complex poses otherwise challenging.

Aasita took the time to message me to share her views on her experience that day:

“Hi Elodie, just wanted to say thank you for putting on a fun filled…high energy yoga programme today.I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to future ones like this. Regards Aasita”

Mandala formation-Backward Bend

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My name is Elodie Ancel. I have been working with children and young people for over 27 years now in France, Germany and the UK in various settings ranging from schools, summer camps, museums, theatres, royal palaces, libraries, housing associations, charities, festivals, GP surgery and dentist. (If you want to find out more about the projects I work on go to my LinkedIn page.) I have done some outreach work, created immersive environments for children and their families, taught French, delivered arts and craft workshops, performed, lead speech and language booster group, taught and assisted in year 1 and 2. All these experiences have been invaluable leading me inevitably towards Yoga and Mindfulness, which now trickle in everything I do and deliver. I have just completed my 95-hour Yogabeez Children's Yoga Teacher Training Programme, MISP.begin course last April 2019 and will be completing my 300-hour Adult Yoga Teacher training programme in a French-based Ashram this August. I am also planning to continue my training with MISP to explore teaching children and young people mindfulness more in depth. I am currently teaching in a South-East London primary school Yoga and Mindfulness to year 1 and 2 on a weekly basis and otherwise punctually across the school too. Furthermore, I am running a weekly Saturday class in Croydon in partnership with Essence of Good Health Free Yoga for children aged 3-13 and their parent or carer. Children and teens are so responsive that I am totally dedicated, committed and inspired to continue delivering more classes to give a platform for children to express themselves freely in a safe environment, gain confidence self esteem, respect in themselves and therefore respect of others making our world a better place.