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Kelly (Amba) Howes
BA (Hons), completed her basic Integral Yoga training in 2005, children's yoga training in 2007, and intermediate training in 2009. To further her own knowledge and skills, Amba took 3 further trainings during 2009 in Yoga for the Special Child (The Sonia Sumar method), Yoga for Fatigue related conditions with Fiona Agombar and Lifeforce Yoga (to help anxiety and depression), with Amy Weintraub. Amba regularly attends workshops and short trainings and is committed to ongoing training and life long learning.
Amba has a background in the health, social care and voluntary sector and enjoys adapting yoga to various community settings such as addictions and recovery, stress and relaxation for carers and in the field of disabilities and special needs. Amba loves Integral Yoga for its holistic and unified approach to finding the truth within. Amba loves being an active member of the IY Dorset sangha/community and enjoys arranging social events and being the Ed for the monthly newsletter ‘Namaste’.
Favourite Yoga Pose: My practice adjusts
to what is needed intuitively at the time. I may need to wake up and work
on strength and vitality, or more on gentle rest and restoration. Both in
my personal practice and the yoga sequences I guide to students is led from
the heart and that quiet space from which all knowledge springs based on
observation of what is needed. From that a creative sequence flows based
the fundamentals of an IY class an always bringing in a good balance of
sound work, centering and opening, flexibility, gentle strength, pranayama
and relaxation with a meditative listening focus.
Life Inspirations/teachings: To stay open in times of conflict,
to honour the truth, to learn to love in each situation and accept what
is, as it is (one I am continuously in the process of learning). For these
teachings I am eternally grateful to Integral yoga and Sri Gurudev, along
with some other amazing life changing teachers I have been Graced by who
continue to help me gain greater clarity and understanding to integrate
all aspects of myself and therefore life. I am continually blessed and inspired
by the students in the areas of teach, who help me to become the best teacher
I can be.
