Emmy Lopes Yoga

A new collaboration with the wonderful .glow we will be co-facilitaing weekly Sensual Embodiment classes.

We have created a class, holistically blending breathwork, meditation, yoga and sensual embodiment for female upliftment and motherhood support. Here, you’ll experience intuitive body movement, creating a space of softness and empowerment for personal growth. You’ll also learn practices to tune into your own body-wisdom whenever you need. Join us for a journey of self-knowing, self-love, relaxation and a conscious connection to your body, intuition and sensuality. Our next class is tomorrow at La Point, Ericeira!

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Wow, I've really let myself slow down. Hello there 👋, I just saw my last post on here was 6 months ago. It's taken some time to find a new rhythm and pace for my teaching since becoming a mum, since moving countries, since COVID, then moving house again. So many changes, I've really had to make space for the settling before jumping in from a sense of urgency or scarcity. It's been liberating to remove all pressure, it's allowed a real softness around my teacher-self. For the past couple of years I've been planting seeds, building relationships and allowing all that is so important to me in this changing world percolate within 🌱
Now is the time to very slowly come back to it. For now just in Portugal in my local community which feels just perfect for now 💚

For me sketching has always been another form of meditation ✏️ Particularly in nature 🌱 It's both the focus & the observation. Even taking your gaze to a point to a point in the distance puts your eyes into divergence helping you into the parasympathetic "rest & repair state" 💆‍♀️

I've always loved practicing handstands... Long before I practiced yoga ... I think since I was about 8 🤸🏼‍♀️ I like to play & there's just nothing better to perk you up! Why is it more socially acceptable to grab a coffee than a quick inversion but hey 🤷🏼‍♀️, imagine an office full of people upside down on their break 🙃☕😆

There was I time I could handstand unsupported, now I need a wall. I wobble & have so much to work on & it's still just as good. When it comes to yoga poses it's so much more important to consider WHY we do them rather than whether they are the ultimate physical manifestation of the practice. I remember how important it used to be to me that I could DO a pose, from an unsupported handstand to a perfect pincha not to mention marichyasana D 🙈 - that feeling of glee when I got there one sweaty morning in Mysore without my teacher pulling my limbs into the bind (more than a decade ago now) but that internal "yippee" was my ego doing a little dance. That's what egos do. I sincerely doubt I'll ever put my body in that shape again & no longer feel the need 😅. It so good to explore ways that our body can move & be outside the usual daily ranges of motion (especially as, in turn, your way of thinking follows) but we don't need to ACHIEVE or attain a GOAL. The exploration & the presence is where the magic happens 🌠







@ Aljezur, Algarve, Portugal

Jagdish Temple, Udaipur 🐪
A mounted, limited edition giclée print of this is one of the items in my art sale right now (link in bio)
It has now been nearly 9 years since my last trip to India, but I was lucky enough to consider this beautiful place home for several months of each year when I was younger. I still get emotional when I think about it. As a place of study & being immersed in yoga, as a place of love & great friendship, as a place of stillness & quiet, a place of colour, noise thronging with life (sometimes same place only a few hours later), a place of nature, architecture, stories, music, culture & so much more. Also, artistically still one of the most inspiring places I've ever been. India you always have a piece of my heart 🧡


I'm so happy you have the original of this, fellow lover of India! Xx

Happy New Year & lots of love 💜
Feliz Ano Novo e muito amor 💜
Have loved seeing through the New Year with & & seeing the (no longer really) babies interact ✨ @ Curbar Edge

More of the things I love...

Whether you see an oil-stained, grubby pavement or beauty in the leaf shadows is all just a matter of perspective.

This book has been on my to read listI've been thinking a lot about this since seeing the exhibition on illness at in August.

Mindfulness And Meditation To Become Part Of The Curriculum In 370 Schools In England The mindfulness program is being conducted under a mental health study that the British government is running until 2021.