Monique
Cornwell
Monique teaches a modernised style of Hatha Yoga with elements of Flow. Formally Trained at the Himalayan Yoga Academy Rishikesh, India A school of Hatha Yoga. Influences come from a range of forms - ashtanga, vinyasa, yin and an intensive period of kundalini yoga in Rotterdam, NL, at Cherdi Kala. She continued her training with various Key teachers since, most prominently the late Michael Stone, Richard Freeman, Mark Stephens, Leslie Kaminoff, Helga Baumgartner, Stephen Thomas.
As a former contemporary dancer and current Voice and Singing teacher, her classes have a strong influence from related somatic practices (eg. Alexander techqniue, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Psychocalisthenics, Kinetic Awareness and Sounding). Central to her studies at Cambridge University were modules in Buddhist and Hindu Philosophies, and since has experienced a very long engagement with modern psychology. She appreciates and teaches a constant engagement with breath, inner awareness (form of drishti) and reassesment of the position of the Mind. Yoga is for Monique a practice to learn methods which prepare us for Life.