Helen Noakes

Helen teaches Scaravelli-inspired yoga. She is passionate about spontaneous, intuitive movement in the form of waves and spirals and includes her love of ecstatic dance into her teaching.

Scaravelli inspired

Helen is a nomadic yoga teacher inspired by the teachings and students of Vanda Scaravelli with Elizabeth Pauncz (one of Vanda’s students) as her mentor and guide. Helen also offers trainings in Chavutti Thirumal (massage by foot pressure), which has a strong influence on her teaching style.

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Goa has been Helen’s second home for many years, as well as enjoying leading yoga seminars, teacher trainings and intensives in Europe, India, USA and Scandinavia. She is passionate about spontaneous, intuitive movement in the form of waves and spirals and includes her love of ecstatic dance into her teaching.

Helen’s aim is to invite a lightness of being and joy to our movement practice and to encourage others to listen and respond to their intuition with safety and awareness. Scaravelli-inspired yoga has no methods or set sequences. This approach encourages the practitioner to create a strong relationship to the ground, the breath and to awakening the spine.

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Latest classes by Helen Noakes

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Wings to fly
37:23
Wings to fly
Helen Noakes
Somatics, Scaravelli inspired
'Our bodies float in an ocean of elastic tissue'. The focus of this class is biotensegrity – exploring the functional and structural interconnections within ourselves and movement. We will be playing with a wing dance, allowing the shoulders and arms to feel free and expansive. The kidneys will be making a special guest appearance along with another hand mudra to get us in the mood! Let me know how you feel after this session.Props: (optional) 2 tennis balls in a sock, a couple of blocks, chair*This is a follow on from Helen's previous class 'Roots to Wings' (but it’s not necessary to do that class beforehand).
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Roots to wings
01:11
Roots to wings
Helen Noakes
Scaravelli inspired, Therapeutic
In this session we will become trees! We will inquire into the feeling of tensegrity – a word meaning 'tension with integrity' – which exists within our body and holds us together in a network of crystalline webbing. We will explore feeling our spring-like, resilient responses to gravity and tune into some dynamic superpower standing postures! Enjoy feeling delicious, energised and connected to your core. Of course, we use'll use another hand mudra will to focus our intention too.  
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The listening body
46:22
The listening body
Helen Noakes
Somatics, Scaravelli inspired
We are shape shifters and yoga gives us an opportunity to follow the space and shapes given to us. This class will help you drop into our bones as they float in our inner space. You will be encouraged to feel, sense and respond to images and invitations, and to move with your internal spaciousness into the outer space. Stability is the focus of this session; we are all floating in equilibrium. Enjoy, relax and release...

Latest articles by Helen Noakes

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Somatic explorations of the spine to transform your movement practice

Somatic explorations of the spine to transform your movement practice

The role of our hands and feet in movement

The role of our hands and feet in movement

What is Scaravelli-inspired yoga?

What is Scaravelli-inspired yoga?