AYH Invites Lucy Crawford
We are so delighted to be hosting Lucy Crawford for a weekend of Yoga practice and workshops at Ashtanga Yoga Hastings.
Lucy has been very influential in my own development as a Yoga teacher. When I did my teacher training, it was with Lucy and her then husband, John Scott. They were a powerhouse of a teaching team: explorative, insightful, creative, playful and challenging. They often challenged each other in the teaching space, allowing us as students to experience and examine different perspectives on the practice and movement, and inviting us to be playful and not so precious.
When they parted ways, I found myself working more intensively with John, but Lucy’s valuable teaching ideas and perspectives stayed and developed in me, especially when I met and worked with Simon Borg-Olivier. Sometimes ideas need new perspectives and information to click and make sense, and that was certainly the case with what Lucy shared with me.
Lucy is a unique, rare and highly knowledgeable teacher, and we are very much looking forward to this opportunity to study and practice with her this coming weekend!
Andy
Lucy — Danurasana
Lucy Crawford began her body work career in 1990 and her study of Yoga in 1992 with Derek Ireland and Radha Warrell in London. In December 1993 she travelled to India to where she began her studies with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. In 1995 Lucy received Guruji’s blessing to teach and has been sharing the Practice of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga ever since.
She has developed her own unique style of teaching, with attention to anatomical and experiential explorations around movement possibilities informed by her Cranio-Sacral Therapy work, and her study and work with Fascia.
‘The body responds to force, with restriction, protection and defence; conversely the body responds to intelligent touch and listening to the body with attention, with softening and release.’
Yoga is the relationship to ‘self’ – reflected in the body field. How we practice reflects that relationship of self to self. We can practice with kindness and curious inquiry, and the body responds with softening, in the safety that it is no longer being ‘done to’ but rather listened to and responded to with care and love.
Lucy has a background in Aromatherapy, Applied Kinesiology, Holistic Massage, Bodywork, Chavutti Thirimal (Indian Foot Pressure Massage) and is a qualified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist with 20 years experience. She has been a Tutor at the renowned ‘Karuna Institute of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy’ in Devon, and continues her study with Fascia and fascial release techniques and is a qualified FIB practitioner (Fascial Informed Bodywork).
She currently holds Yoga Workshops in the UK and around the world, Yoga holidays, CPD’s (continuing Professional Development for Teachers) and 200 hour Teacher Trainings.
