Hello, thank you for dropping by, my name is Deborah Hadfield and I am fascinated by the way things work. Two things that have been a constant fascination to me, one is the anatomy and how it works and the other is yoga (and how it works!).
I was first introduced to Iyengar Yoga many decades ago at a local village hall. My time with ‘figuring out’ yoga (I say, smiling) has taken me to a variety of classes in the UK and also in India. I have practiced many forms from Iyengar to Ashtanga, Vinyasa to Restorative, from workshops on Meridian Yin Yoga with Acupressure to finally settling on both Yin and Hatha asana, long holds, certainly enough time to be able to sense our inner energy network, our anatomy, physiology, and our emotional and mental states. To observe these from the view of the witness is one of the great skills developed through the practice of Yoga.
It wasn't until covid hit however, that I was drawn to my calling to teach. I invested in a Functional Yin Yoga 200 Hr teacher trainer programme with Dhugal Meachem to learn the science of variable anatomy, Daoist philosophy and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). This led me to further my interest and training with 100 Hrs in The Dao of Yin Yoga and Neijing Tu Meditation.
I began teaching Yoga in 2020, on Zoom to colleagues during lock down, I then continued to teach on Zoom, launching Yoga Clubs for both Yin and Yang yoga. I rented spaces to teach classes and hosted a number of workshops. I am a registered Indian Head Massage Therapist and registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.
The 4 paths of Yoga, Daoist philosophy, Science of Acupuncture and Acupressure, Qi Channel Theory and Iyengar Yoga principles and techniques have been a great source of inspiration and wisdom and they are the foundations from where I teach and continue to study. There is an enormous amount of enquiry to process within these comprehensive and informative universes. I teach functionally with open spirit and kindness.
Where I currently teach:
Weekly classes at The Tytherington Club in Tytherington, The Village in Cheadle, EveryBody Gyms in Wilmslow, Alderley Park and Poynton. New class starting on Mondays at Langley Village Hall in Macclesfield. And occasionally I teach at Yoga on The Edge in Alderley Edge and Mottram Hall in Mottram,
Please get in touch for more information: info@openyoga.uk
Yin is allowing gravity
Yang is working with gravity
What is Yin Yang?
~ Most people are familiar with the black and white Taijitu (Tai-Ti-Chu) symbol.
~ Opposites complete the whole; as in one half cannot exist without the other.
A classic example would be Light & Shadow Without light, there can be no shadow. Shadow only exists because light reveals it.
~ Yin & Yang is everything and everywhere.
~ Yin & Yang inside the body – Yin is the hard tissues like bones, ligaments, tendons, fascia!!, and these organs: Kidneys, Liver, Heart, Lungs and Spleen. Yang is the soft tissues, blood, muscles, and the Bladder, Gallbladder, Small Intestine, Large Intestine and Stomach.
~ Qi is the ‘current’ between the two opposites, the Yin side and Yang side.
~ In Yin and Yang Yoga we ‘enable’ the Qi to reach both Yin and Yang tissue. We also turn our focus in a Yin way and a Yang way too!
~ You could say that Yoga is a way of uniting both the Yin and the Yang.
