Gracing post
Where: Dynamic Level 2, Sadhaka Yoga Centre, NW1
When: 26 Jan 2014, h 10-11.30
How much: £ 16, but they also do introductory offer (10 days
for £ 20)
It is raining again….After all, this is London and this is
winter. So why do I keep on scheduling on my agenda early morning Sunday
classes?
Anyway, calling out every single Pitta cell in me I manage
to get out of bed & get to the Stables Market in Camden by 9.30am. The
Stables are unexpectedly quiet at that time - accomplice the light rain -
and I easily find my way to the Sadhaka Yoga Centre, up the stairs in the heart
of the market. I quickly sign up as a new student in the reception and head to
the studio area. There is none in yet, which makes my first time there even
more exciting. I had read this is the place where Alchemy, one of the most
popular London yoga outposts, was located before it unexpectedly closed down a
few months ago. Mollie McClelland Morris managed to rescue the place and get it
back on the London yoga map. The space is truly amazing: two great studios, a
great social area (the soul café), spacious changing rooms and a few therapy
rooms. They offer an enticing variety of classes in different styles (Ashtanga,
Dharma Mittra, Vinyasa Flow, Kundalini, Scaravelli and Yin yoga) as well as
meditation and teacher trainings. But I am here for Mollie today, one of my favourite
teachers in London. Her vinyasa classes are truly unique, full of depth and
content, flowy yet grounding, incredibly gracious and well rounded. No class is
equal to the other: Mollie has always a theme or a source of inspiration, from
which she unfolds her creative and heartfelt sequences. We are less than a
dozen in class this morning, all regulars. ‘If you see me wobbling today that’s
because I cut my foot. This reminded me how important our feet are’…here we go,
that’s today’s theme. For the next 90 minutes I enjoyed the most thoughtful
class, rich of subtleties and expressions: I feel safe when I practice with
Mollie, and I always discover something new about a pose, or myself – or both.
Fast forward 90 minutes and you find me in the deepest of savasanas and with
every part of my boasting a big smile. And yes, I feel a bit more gracious, a
little softer – that’s the ‘Mollie effect’. To be honest, I am in bliss and I
do not even care about the background yelling from very keen kick boxers (which
whom I had a quite embarrassing close encounter in the shower room, but that’s
a different story….) in the studios next door.
Will I go back? No doubt, but that I knew from the start.
