About Steve Avian
I fell in love with yoga over thirty years ago and she has been a constant throughout my life-changes and life-styles . She is a challenging mistress - yielding and withholding her secrets, melting and remaking me along the way.
Throughout the years I have studied yoga deeply, often with masters and teachers from various styles - Classical Hatha, Taoist, Iyengar, Sivananda. I have also practiced spiritual disciplines from many traditions. I learned a lot from my teachers and, at the same time, I learned a lot by myself . The greatest Guru is the One Spirit within us all.
My pursuits have taken me to four continents. So many amazing people have crossed my path and still do. Teaching was something i was naturally drawn too - even as a teenager I would teach yoga to friends and later, in my 30s, I qualified to teach it with one of the oldest yoga organisations based in the U.K - the Friends of Yoga Society - as my main teacher at the time, Enid Culf, was a member.
In 1997 I started offering classes and workshops in and around the Sheffield area and in 2005 I set up a yoga school to train students to teach, which is now accredited to the Yoga Alliance.
The word "internal" in yoga refers to a kind of knowledge that is inner and subtle. I think of the internal arts as an exploration, an invitation to play and to gain an experiential understanding of our potentials. The natural principles of the inner arts can translate into almost any activity. We can put our discoveries to good use in the world.
Good luck. Play on
Enquiries
Tel: 01142 670314
Email: steveavian@yahoo.co.uk