Saturday 22nd November, 10am -12pm
Teaching Better Balance with Yoga - with Kate Knowles
Kate has struggled with balance issues over the years. As a result she has studied balance extensively as a way to improve her own wellbeing. Having experienced first hand the benefits that yoga can bring to people in maintaining and improving their sense of balance, Kate is keen to share this knowledge with other teachers.
Kate has shared this event with the Merseyside Yoga Association, Sussex BWY and Cheshire Yoga Teachers Association.
Sunday 1st March 2026: 11:30 am -1:30 pm
Hypermobility on the Yoga Mat - with Jess Glenny
Hypermobile people are generally over-represented in the yoga world – it’s a rare class that doesn’t have at least a couple of hypermobile participants – but yoga teachers often feel under-equipped to deal with this population. Not surprisingly, for perhaps no group of students contains so much diversity in terms of physical capacity and so much complexity of need. Little about yoga and hypermobility is clear-cut or generalisable to every hypermobile person, and so faced with hypermobile students, yoga teachers can end up feeling confused and incompetent.
In this workshop, we will be looking at some general principles that may help us to understand what’s going on for our hypermobile students and how we can assist them in ways that are helpful and digestible. What we cover will reflect the interests of participants, but may include:
- What hypermobility is and how it affects hypermobile people
- Strength, stability and control inside and outside yoga
- Proprioceptive limitations / dyspraxia
- Hypermobility, neurodivergence and yoga
- Yoga practices and nervous system regulation
- Which teaching settings best serve hypermobile students
- Students with complex needs and teachers' scope of practice
- Postures and practices that are ‘good’ / ‘bad’ for hypermobility
- Dizziness, pranayama struggles and orthostatic issues
Please bring any of your own experiences – positive and negative – of teaching hypermobile students that you might like to share, and if you are also yourself hypermobile, your experiences of being a student are very welcome. Jess is Autistic and welcomes neurodivergent teachers to this workshop.
About Jess
Jess Glenny has been practising yoga in a hypermobile body for over 40 years and teaching hypermobile students for more than 20. She is an IAYT-registered yoga therapist and is the author of Hypermobility on the Yoga Mat: A Guide to Hypermobility-Aware Teaching and Practice. Jess says:
"When I set out my stall in 2003, I had no intention of specialising in hypermobility teaching. Hypermobile people came anyway. At that point, there was little awareness of the joint hypermobility syndromes in the yoga world, and most of us with genetic hypermobility were poorly served by the existing attitudes and approaches to working with what, at the time, was rarely identified as a physiological condition. I had no formal training (none existed), but I did have a little knowledge about hypermobility, and a lot of experience of trying to make yoga work for me. And so it began."
To find out more about Jess, visit https://www.embodyyogadance.co.uk
Calling Elders..
YTT are looking for Yoga Elders who want to showcase their CPD & training offerings in 2 hour online sessions like Judy and Elena are doing above. We still have spaces available in December 2025 & January 2026.
If you would like to deliver a session, contact [email protected] with your YTT membership number and details of what you want to include in your session, or contact us via the link to our contact form below:
