Pawel Steigl Yoga

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MONDAY 04/05 @ 8:15 pm

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MONDAY 27/04 @ 8:15pm

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Yoga practice · Not fitness

Mondays 8:15pm

All levels welcome

4-week course £5 per class

Drop-in £7

Start on 20/04

Anglesey House,
Anglesey Rd,
Burton-on-Trent
DE14 3NT

Free parking

Message me for more info!

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Asana practice coming soon

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What most yoga studios teach today is not yoga in the classical sense. It’s a derivative, a fragment, and often a rebranding.

Let’s name it cleanly.

What yoga actually is (classically)
If we go back to the primary sources — not Instagram, not studios, not teacher trainings — yoga is defined as a system of liberation, not a movement class.

In Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, yoga is defined in one line:
Yogaḥ citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ
Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

No mention of:
- handstands
- playlists
- flexibility
- core work
- aesthetics

Asana is one limb out of eight, and originally meant a seat — something stable enough to sit and practice meditation.

What most studios teach today:
- postural yoga
- fitness-based movement
- nervous-system-soothing-without-context
- sometimes trauma-informed, sometimes not
often commodified
- almost always de-spiritualised

This form largely comes from:
19th–20th century physical culture
colonial influence
- gymnastics + calisthenics
later blended with bits of Hatha yoga

Texts like Hatha Yoga Pradipika do describe postures, but always as preparatory tools, not the goal.

Asana was meant to:
- purify the body
- stabilise energy
- make the body forgettable so consciousness could turn inward

Not to:
- perform
- optimise
- brand
- “achieve” poses

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PS. Nothing for attention. Not a single pic.

Dear all,

Due to low attendance over recent weeks, I’ve decided to suspend yoga classes for February.

This pause will give me time to reflect, reset, and rethink the structure of the classes so they can work better for everyone — including myself.

Yoga is something I truly love sharing, and this is not a goodbye, just a temporary pause. I’m very grateful to everyone who has been attending and supporting the classes, and I hope you can understand this decision.

Updates about future classes will be shared here in due course.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support!

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‼️‼️‼️ ACHTUNG ‼️‼️‼️

Asana practice tomorrow @ 6:00pm

Message me if you’d like to join 🤍

All levels welcome

Small group, intimate setting

Love love love

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Pic isn’t yoga, it’s just for attention 😆

Child’s Pose — one of my favourites.
It can be practiced anywhere, anytime, and for as long as you need.
In this pose, you can allow yourself to let go completely — to soften, to surrender, to return to your physical body.

With every breath 🌬️, feel the tension slowly melting away, exhale by exhale.
Come back to yourself. Let the mind quiet down.

Child’s Pose is beautiful because it strips everything away — you become totally open, totally vulnerable… gently held, cuddled by existence. 💫

Love
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