Hi I am Claudette, born in the Netherlands, with my husband we lived in Antwerp for 7 years, this is where our oldest two beautiful daughters were born, after those years we moved to Torquay in the UK where our beautiful youngest daughter was born, here we lived for 15 years.
Recently we have moved to the sunny Algarve, this part of the world has got a special place in my heart, as I have been coming here since a little girl in the 80’s. Now feeling very blessed to call this our home.
Throughout my life I always enjoyed being there for people, hoping to help and make positive changes in their life, enabling them to always thrive in becoming a better version of yourself.
During my 50 years being on this planet I learned loads, predominately that the highest obstacles in life can give you the greatest opportunity to learn the most about yourself.
These experiences I love to take with me during my yoga journey. Having practiced yoga now for many years taught me that the people I am fortunate enough to teach are my teachers, to me yoga is definitely not about the shape of your body, but all about the shape of your mind.
A happy mind is a happy body.
Please always feel very welcome to contact me if you wish to explore more about how you can make your life more meaningful, enabling to be more kind to yourself, always.
With love,
Claudette
Vinyasa Flow helps build and maintain strong bones, muscles and connective tissue to maintain a high metabolism, healthy posture, and an active and alive body.
The physical work of Vinyasa Flow yoga ensures that we will have the strength, balance and function to maintain health lives into our senior years.
“Breathe
It is our beautiful reminder to do what comes naturally.
It is the first thing we do when we enter this world and the last thing we do when we leave”
The science behind yoga:
The central nervous system is made up of two parts: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for our fight or flight mode, which most of us tend to function in on a daily basis due to the tumult around us. The parasympathetic nervous system supports our autonomic functions such as breathing, heart and metabolic rates, and restores balance. When this part of our central nervous system turns on, blood is directed to our digestive organs, endocrine glands and lymphatic circulation, while blood pressure and heart rate are lowered.
How to balance the nervous system:
Yoga can effectively reduce the body's stress response by decreasing the production of cortisol, which happens when the sympathetic nervous system is overworked.
Since many of us function in the sympathetic nervous system, think answering emails at any hour, being blasted by ever-changing imagery on social media, and dealing with the stress of our jobs and busy lives, our bodies are producing high amounts of the hormone cortisol. This hormone can actually start to wreak havoc on our brains by dampening our reflexes, our ability to focus and our memory, thus affecting our entire lives. So naturally, the aim is to restore balance and reduce cortisol levels by intentionally activating the parasympathetic nervous system. A strong central nervous system is a balanced one.The practice effectively does this by increasing the coordination between our minds and our bodies through the physical postures, breathing techniques, and conscious relaxation methods that help stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system.
Conscious breathing and conscious execution of yoga postures actually strengthens nerve transmissions from the body to the brain, decreasing our stress and muscular tension. Fully supported, restorative yoga poses activate the parasympathetic nervous system, allowing anxiety, fear and anger to leave our minds. Allow yourself to experience that life is better lived when you don’t centre it on what’s happening around you and enter it on what’s happening inside you instead.
Let’s work on yourself and your inner peace.
Claudette x
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Namaste
Claudette x