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Well, I have personally
recommended you to several people in the area, as I think you are a very good
teacher, your approach to helping people is fantastic, having had a few classes
in the past where corrections have been shouted from the front of the room, it
made a pleasant change to have you come and gently guide us quietly
into the correct position! The classes were all challenging and relaxing
and with new poses to learn each week it made the time fly by.
Amanda R.
After trying a few different
yoga types and never sticking at it, I have now been attending yoga with
Patricia for over a year, and absolutely love it. It’s both challenging
and fun and the small groups really mean you can develop and improve.
Renee N.
Patricia is a fantastic yoga
teacher. She's relaxing, encouraging and informative and always makes you feel
like you've achieved something by the end f the class. I've come to regard my
time at Yoga Siromani as some of the only 'me' time that I get!"
Julia B.
I have been attending the Yoga
classes for some years now under the same teacher, Patricia. I have benefited so much from the way she
teaches, in her calm, intelligent approach to
each of her students whether the class is a small group or a large group
and I can and will recommend anyone to come and join. I am now more relaxed, calmer and a more
flexible person, so what are you waiting for come and join
us.
Noreen J.
Dear Patricia, Things that have struck me
about your (Beginners 1) classes are:-
- Lovely gentle pace, and desire not to make people
feel inadequate if they find a particular movement difficult
- Weekly introduction to some new exercises but
also a lot of consolidation of what has been covered in earlier weeks
- Lovely smell of incense on arrival - helps to get
you in the mood for yoga after a busy day!
- You have a particularly sweet and melodic voice
which is easy on the ear – and is of itself very calming to listen to
- You provide enough challenge to make one feel as
if progress is being made – but are careful to remove any element of
competitiveness from the situation
- A particularly good class for people who wish to
learn about yoga, and increase their flexibility, but who don’t want to
feel pushed hard into a new learning curve
- Your passion for yoga is infectious!
- You want people to ENJOY yoga and get pleasure
from it
Thank you very much for the
gift of an inspiring introduction to yoga. Learning about it, and the increased
flexibility its given me has been a high point in my year.
Clare M.
Dear Patricia,
Happy news… next day my
waters broke and I gave birth to my beautiful daughter and I did it all on gas
and air and the Golden Thread Breath!! That one private session did wonders, I
can’t rave about it enough and I am going to tell all my friends so you should
be getting loads of calls!
Beth D.
Just to let you know we had a
baby boy born last Wednesday pm weighing 7lb5oz. Unfortunately it wasn’t
the natural birth I had wanted – my waters broke in the middle of the night and
had meconium in so was strapped to a foetal monitor in hospital and was unable
to move for the first few hours! Luckily during that time the breathing
exercises you taught really helped me get through the pain which had started
pretty quickly. Due to a few more complications the hospital thought it was
best to do an emergency c –section so he could be delivered safely!! Anyway, he
is here, I am well and have healed quickly and I am totally in love with him! Hope all is well and thank
you for all the yoga lessons running up to having him – I am sure it helped me
through it all.
Emma G.
Many thanks again for all
your care and concern during our 1-2-1 sessions together. It was great
working with you, you inspire confidence, and make me feel I can improve and
progress. I have also lost over a stone in the time we have been working
together and am really beginning to understand what you said in the first class
about change coming from a place of acceptance and love of who and where we are
now. I intend to keep up my daily practice and will be telling all my
friends about you. Thank you.
Andrea B.
Your class really helped me
when I injured my back in a fall. I had
only done a little yoga but it made a huge difference to me what I had learned
about breathing and relaxing the muscles.
Geraldine R.
I used to love going to yoga
but when my teacher moved out of London I gave up because I just couldn’t find
another teacher near to where I lived with whom I could ‘connect’ in quite the
same way – until I met Patricia. There
are lots of yoga teachers but being able to impart your knowledge takes real
skill and Patricia has that special skill in abundance.
I have just completed my
first 10 week course and I can’t wait for the next 10 week course to
start. Not having practised yoga for many
years I was very nervous about restarting and embarrassing myself in front of
strangers but I had nothing to worry about. Patricia knows instinctively how
far she can push her pupils and never gets them to try anything before they are
ready. Her classes are an oasis of calm in a beautiful environment and her warm
welcoming smile and gentle voice put you immediately at ease and within minutes
the stresses and strains of the day start to flow away. Once again, thanks to
Patricia, I am hooked!
Fiona M.
Patricia runs her group yoga
classes from one of Wandsworth’s secret cathedrals of space and light – the
National Opera rehearsal studios. If you had a magic wand you couldn’t invent a
better place.
As for the classes, Patricia
is the Maggie Thatcher of breathing and movement – you don’t dare do anything
but empty your thoughts and relax as hard as you can. And after 90 minutes you come
away glowing and moving the bits you hadn’t visited more than once or twice
since the turn of the century, which is very good stuff for men who have
reached their aching-bits years. In other words, why be stiff when you can be
bendy? If I was a GP I’d write
prescriptions to Patricia’s classes. Really, I would!
Chris M.
It maybe that Yoga classes
have been out there waiting for you to find - they can relieve your levels of
stress, remove the tensions you might be experiencing, or help reduce physical
or mental strain. Above all it can give you skills so you gain the ability to
control your life when needed. What a way to start the New
Year with such tools!
When I took my first
tentative steps into the delightful Opera school for my first Yoga class I was
concerned I would be far and away the oldest and far to stiff to do the
Beginners Class. Yes I was the oldest (and still am) but from that first lesson
I was hooked. Patricia makes you feel
welcome whatever your age or abilities she is a consummate teacher and knows
when a spot of humour can push our bodies a little bit more. Above all she is
there for each and every one of her pupils. I noted a young man asking her
advice and when we left later he said “Wow Patricia is really great, I thought
I would be the only male here but it’s good to see I’m not and do you know she
has really helped me”
So what is this help called ‘Yoga’
she can give to you? Well in my case I had got
though life by not breathing properly (far too shallowly). So I plucked up
courage and asked for a couple of private lessons. What a difference they made!
Patricia has the ability to tune into people and those lessons where the best
investment I made last year. The Beginners Yoga classes to me are more than
getting my body into shape and fitness.
But this is about you? You only have one body and
one life. Do make the effort to find out more about Patricia and the Yoga
Siromani classes. Why not go one step further
and enrol for a term. If you come to the beginner’s class on Thursday evenings
I will be there with a smile on my face.
Sue RW.
Dear Patricia
Just a quick note to thank
you for your fantastic session last month.
As you know this was my first
experience at Yoga and the fact that nodded off in the final relaxation part of
the session showed how 'relaxed' I became!
I would definitely have
another session and would recommend Yoga and your superb teaching techniques
without a doubt.
Nick B.
I attended Patricia's taster
Yoga session on Sunday, 7th June, 2009 and have to say it was a wonderful way
to spend 90 minutes away from the hustle and bustle of family/work life. Patricia
has a fantastic way of explaining all the moves and made me feel very relaxed
despite the fact that I am totally inflexible and clearly struggled with many
of the moves. I would have no hesitation in recommending her to anyone, young
or old, as a way of relieving the stresses of daily living.
Sarah O.
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