BODY BREATH YOGA

LEARN THE ART OF YOGA

with Emma Baudey
Yoga Practice, Lifestyle & Therapy Consultant

Offering Yoga as an Art, individually designed for Body, Breath, Mind or Mood, and exclusively developed according to your Personal Needs and Current Lifestyle.

One Yoga. One Teacher. One Learner. One-to-One Meetings: Live and Online.

Yoga as an Art can be transformative,  whether functioning as a personal medicine or positive psychology or contemplative philosophy. Its effects are wide-ranging, whether physical, energetic, mental or emotional.

For many of us, learning Yoga one-to-one can provide a systematic, sustained and reliable framework within which to explore and encompass our personal limitations and influence our personal potentials, whether body, breath, mind or mood.

Regardless of whether you are seeking Stability, Vitality or Clarity through postures, breathing, meditation, or lifestyle, exploring the Art of Yoga within a one-to-one learning relationship, offers a personal space in which to receive and benefit from individualised attention.

Working from the Stroud Valleys, I offer Yoga Clinic Consultations and Tuition Meetings, both live and online within the UK. Fully online options are also available, including those from overseas, where working with English, French, Italian or Spanish as the primary language.

WHY LEARN THE ART OF YOGA ONE-TO-ONE?
We are all different, we are all unique. As so with Yoga, what works for one person at one point in time, won’t necessarily work for another in the same way.

This view respects the origins of Yoga as it was historically taught to adults, via a personally relevant transmission. It is also the meaning of the word Viniyoga, such as in the phrase the Viniyoga of Yoga, as in the specialised placement of Yoga linked to the needs of the individual at any given time or stage in life.

Here, this means that there are no ‘styles’ of Yoga. There is just Yoga as it applies to you. Relevant to your life, as it is now and as it can be. In other words, Yoga for you becomes your Yoga.

As an ageless ally, a personal Yoga practice and lifestyle guidance can nourish, support and inspire you, both during the day-to-day and for the longer journey.

Key benefits to this unique process include:

Suggested frameworks for Live or Online Meetings are:

From here, options to take Yoga further, either as a Deepening Practice, a Profound Psychology, or a Lifestyle Guide can be explored …

WITHIN THIS MODERN ERA,
there increasingly appears to be more and more confusion around what Yoga is, or even what it isn’t.

Within this plethora of ancient and modern approaches, an authentic Yoga Practice and Yoga Study can be seen as embracing three interwoven threads:

1. Yoga as a means for Self-Empowerment

For example, Yoga can be seen as a means of Self-Empowerment. Here, Yoga can be used to empower the body and the mind. It is the ability to achieve something through physical and mental effort. For instance, to cultivate and maintain a state of attention, or to develop the body and the breath through the refinement of specific Yoga postures and breathing techniques. The consequences are power over and within the body, mind and mood.

2. Yoga as a means for Self-Inquiry

Though, traditionally this aspect of Self-Enpowerment is only a means towards a more important goal. Namely, that of Yoga as a means of Self-Inquiry. Here, Yoga can be utilised as a meditative tool to cultivate a deeper understanding of ourselves by inquiring both into and beyond what we view as the everyday self, its actions and its motives.

With a more sensitive and consistent attention we can lessen the effects of our social conditionings. As a consequence, we can experience a deeper sense of being and from it, a potential for action with greater awareness within our life, work and relationships.

3. Yoga as a means for Self-Healing

Yet, we all experience problems, poor health or illness from time to time. Here, Yoga can be utilised  as a means of restorative recovery and preventative healthcare, it can be a tool in a therapeutic process to help us both change and even anticipate the effects of personal problems and illness in our lives.

Here, the approach must be different for each person as our potential to practice Yoga will be affected by the problem, or the problem by our attitude towards working with it. Practising Yoga as a means of therapeutic healthcare also presumes that we are willing to accept responsibility for making changes within our own situation.

“True liberty is what relationship you have with your habits.”
– T Krishnamacharya

These three aspects of Yoga Practice and Yoga Study, as self-empowerment, self-inquiry, or self-healing, are mutually supportive in helping to sustain physiological vitality, enhance psychological clarity and support spiritual purpose within the commitment and challenges of our life, work and relationships.

However, our Starting Point is as important as our Goal

Whether your needs are at the level of Body, Breath, Energy, Mind or Mood, the specific application of Yoga as in Viniyoga, enables you to define your unique starting point or personal square one.

From your unique starting point we determine both the map for your journey and the direction of travel. This then influences the choice of appropriate means and developmental tools with which we gradually build your personalised full spectrum Yoga practice.

So, Viniyoga begins:
by asking a question rather than offering a ready-made answer.

We speak to the person first, by asking:
– What is it that you want from learning or using Yoga…?
– Is it to recover from illness or a difficult period in your life?
– Or to support yourself so that you can sustain a sense of vitality as you move from one day to the next?
– Or even to rediscover a self purpose, clarity and power?

As a comprehensive full-spectrum toolkit:
Viniyoga is both a healing and a learning process that evolves from an inquiry into our limitations towards one that extends our potentials.

Via:
A simple, regular, practice initially lasting around 25 minutes that you can attend to, care for and nurture. One that both serves and sustains you, whilst accommodating the inevitable obstacles that you may encounter along the way…

Utilising:
– Āsana or Bodywork as Movement or Stillness
– Prāṇāyāma or Breathing as Relaxation or Attention
– Dhyāna or Meditation as Mental Focus or Transcendence
– Yoga Studies or Psychology as Reflection or Discovery
– Āyurveda or Lifestyle as Self Care or Self Support

The Power in Yoga becomes Your Power:
 For many who chose this Simple yet Subtle, Pared down yet Precise, Accumulative yet Accessible approach, it can feel personally liberating. Plus, you are increasingly freed from needing to rely on led Yoga classes, or specific Yoga styles, or generalised Yoga routines, whether in speciality studios, gyms, community centres or online.

“Emma, I had an amazing practice today.
I read your notes and with the practice today everything seemed to fall into place.  My breaths were consistently 6 seconds in and 8 out.  I focused on my whole body being connected as one.  You know, I would never go back to doing yoga in group classes at my local gym…
I finally have the confidence and skills to practice on my own.
I am just so very appreciative and cannot express how important it is to have your teaching as part of my life.”
Allen, U.S.A.

WHO IS EMMA?
How I came to work with People and Yoga.

Starting from my twenties I left Cambridge University with a BAHons in Modern Languages, which included a year living and teaching for the British Council in Chile, followed by an MA from UCL in History of Art. From these foundations, I enjoyed a twenty-year career in the Visual Arts. Initially as a Specialist for a premier London Auction House, then as a Manager for a central London Art gallery and subsequently, over a span of eight years, as a Curator for a Global Corporate Art Collection.

The work was stimulating and diverse, involving extensive international travel. I was able to draw on my bilingual French-English roots, my facility for other languages and my ease for adapting to, and connecting with, people from different cultural backgrounds.

And yet my working world was changing. To one that was increasingly target-driven and geared to delivery rather than content, more about product than process. This seemed necessary on the one hand, and yet didn’t dovetail so well with my interest in working with Art and people on a more intimate level.

Within this, Yoga had already been a long-term personal pursuit and interest since my student days. It too, seemed to tap into something that felt more personal and more connective. So it seemed logical that I take the step of exploring professional training as a Yoga teacher as a means of engaging more directly with people.

Here, I completed a two year 300hr Accredited Yoga Training and in 2017 started offering group classes and individual lessons for a range of people in a variety of situations: Womens’ Refuges, Special Needs, Inner City Housing Developments, Elderly and Retirees, Gyms, etc.

I greatly enjoyed the process but I felt my skillset was still somewhat limited, and I continued to look for some deeper way to personalise and specialise my work with individuals.

It was early in 2019, that I came across the Viniyoga approach to practicing and teaching Yoga. Here was a method that both inspired and supported individuals within their stories. For the past seven years I have immersed myself in this approach, practicing and  studying one-to-one with a personal mentor Paul Harvey, who himself undertook over two decades of individual Yoga lessons in India with the influential TKV Desikachar.

It became apparent to me that the Viniyoga approach is especially appropriate in this modern age, where people are coming to Yoga within a wider range of social and cultural backgrounds and diverse needs, often requiring a more individualised approach. People need to feel personally met, wherever and at whatever point in life they find themselves.

In 2023,  as part of my commitment to Continuing Professional Development, I completed two years’ of trainings focused on person-centered counselling skills. This experience enhances and supports my primary work with Yoga with individuals to help identify personal needs and develop appropriate lifestyle strategies. Aside from continuing these personal and professional studies, I receive ongoing personal supervision for all my clients and students.

I now find myself learning and teaching Yoga solely in the way I was privileged to learn, through the exclusivity and uniqueness of one-to-one lessons, within all aspects of my practice, studies and teaching skills.

Within each personal meeting, whether with a new, prospective learner or an existing, well-established practitioner, I continue to be inspired by the breadth and depth of this nuanced and meticulous approach to Yoga.

The one-to-one Yoga relationship is a powerful container and a vehicle, and it’s a privilege to be able to work with people in this way. 

Coming to this day in 2026, I am currently based in the Cotswolds, near Stroud. Though, thanks to online developments, my work with Yoga in one-to-one situations has extended beyond the physical limitations of location, distance and timezones. Now I find myself outreaching to individuals as far afield as America and Europe, whether working in English, French, Spanish or Italian.

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