Some Information about Jane

Jane Kersel is recognised as one of the most distinguished consciousness educators and embodied movement teachers in the UK. These days she is more involved in her psychotherapeutic and Jungian Shadow work but her love to embodied movement teaching remains on her retreats and informally on zoom.

10 years' ago she stepped out of the 'politics' of yoga studios and teaching large classes of some 50+ students and created her own more intimate yoga studio of some 6-8 students, 'The Ishy Shala', with a rose quartz crystal heated healing underfloor and infrared panels above. Here she brought not only her physical embodied movement but her more integrated health model to the forefront which is steeped in neuroscience, jungian psychoanalysis, creative dreamwork and hypnotherapy.

She is a teacher’s teacher and was a much loved teacher at The Life Centre, Yoga Campus, The Bio-medical Trust + Triyoga (where she trail-blazed and invented their Hot yoga offering and the design of their studios).

She was also instrumental in the development of the above studios' teacher training departments and taught several hundred people to become yoga teacher themselves.

Over her 30 years of teaching she has inspired hundreds of beginners to take up a regular yoga + meditation practice. Jane is highly sought out by companies and organisations for her communication skills and ability to impart and inspire the real 'point' of yoga and holding deep, meditative spaces where alchemy happens. As she says: 'We become stronger by being softer, fitter by being lighter, juicer by being freer'.10 years' ago she stepped out of the 'politics' of yoga studios and teaching large classes of some 50+ students and created her own more intimate yoga studio of some 6-8 students, 'The Ishy Shala', with a rose quartz crystal heated healing underfloor and infrared panels above. Here she brought not only her physical embodied movement but her more integrated health model to the forefront which is steeped in neuroscience, jungian psychoanalysis, creative dreamwork and hypnotherapy.

“If you just set people in motion they’ll heal themselves.” Gabrielle Roth

Exercise wants to work powerfully, integrated through all the layers (mentally, physically, emotionally, energetically) yet not have us armour-up and harden the outer shell: we want to be strong in our muscles; to integrate joints and fractured minds and hearts; to give the heart muscle a cleansing workout; to powerfully learn to draw energy and intuition from our cores; to focus and exercise the mind to think higher more elegant thoughts; to feel all the feelings; to know when to move strongly at times and yield at others; to be balanced not wrung out; and to ultimately rebalance exhausted nervous systems.

Jane is an awakener, an enlightener, a healer, highly attuned to vibrational states, someone who sees beyond the physical into clients' emotional and mental centres helping to excavate and free the essence that lies within - the diamond soul.

She moved to a farm in 2020 to create a tranquil eco and sustainable homestead and now teaches and works on zoom with her new studio 'The Ethereal Gym'. At times in her classes we use: our voices; powerful breathing sequences, and move with the beat of a drum that connects us deeply to our heart's rhythm whilst Jane’s hypno-therapeutic trainings seal in all the goodness in a deep trance relaxation at the end - you float out - literally like you downloaded a whole new software.

“This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.” - Marion Woodman

Journal

KING MAKING AND THE INNER PATRIARCH

We are at any one time a mostly unconscious ecosystem of variable energetics and changing internal climates. My consultation room gives space for the expression, sometimes incarnation, often letting go with kindness and thanks to those energetics that have previously been driving us or are waiting to be birthed. Hindu spirituality talks of the true self or the higher self but to be honest there is no hierarchy - we are all colonies of self, selves and disparate forgotten parts that need re-membering literally back to our greater wholeness.

LET YOUR DESERT BLOOM

Happy Summer Solstice to all you beauties! A time of the planet tilting those of us in the North...

Time to rewire and rev up your inner witch

Women who dream of flying are connecting back to their innate desire to be free and connected to their birthright of the numinous. Supernatural flying women date back from prehistoric times when people postulated the radical divide between earth and sky. We created myths and rituals to bridge this separation, incense and fire to create smoke to connect the earth to the heavens and evoke spirit. Women have always flown to take refuge from the concretised captivity of earth's gravity and the mental plane that, when overly lived in, constrains and constricts.

The Ethereal News: CULTIVATING EROS - 'IT FEELS RIGHT TO ME'

“Beyond the superficial, the considered phrase, "It feels right to me," acknowledges the strengt...

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against Reality - Lewis Caroll

Did you know that In our heavens we mostly have to relate to masculine archetypes? Think of...

Governments and institutions need to come together to find common ground, to collaborate, to understand and empathise with, whether that's the government departments of your body, mind, heart, spirit and soul or external governments in the world right now....we need a new song for March....crank up some Sister Sledge and get kitchen dancing with your tribe....love of your inner world will save the day:

Learn + enjoy the process of becoming

'Please hold me during this time. My transition, my awakening is precious and sacred. Please move me slowly and lovingly into newness and allow me to stretch my wings and feel into new spaces within me without judgment or fear.'

The Good, the Bad, and the Wild

A client came to me saying she had a dream where her best friend was flirting with her boyfriend in a very provocative way and as she watched the scene unfold she felt strangely voyeuristic to it and turned on. And the more her man was turned on the greater she felt it amplified in her too. We talked about her own sex life, what she liked/didn't, whether she initiated, role played etc.

Couples Work

But the discord is where the magic is, it’s where the friction is saying ‘notice this’, ‘deal with this’ ‘bring it to the forefront for your combined and individual growth.

The importance of dreaming

Here's a beautiful rounded example of what we mean in this world of 'working on ourselves' or doi...

Helping women to help themselves

Opening to Pandora's box

The spinning Wheel of Life and how to navigate it's highs and lows

useful stuff we don't learn at school We often think we are on a straight line trajectory - birth...

My Philosophy and intention for all who study with me

to see life as a spiritual investment as much a material one - invest in love, harmony, inspiration, creativity, beauty
to commit to our own happiness - not waiting for someone else to sort things for us
to create rapture - channeling venus energy - to live as the dream of the lover and mystic
to let go of the patriarchal model and ask for the dream

Aphrodite

At that moment, the door to my studio opened as if a gust of wind had gotten behind it (this so often happens when working with spirit).

We both smiled, it was as if her lover had walked into the room there and then, his energy had arrived.

Move

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions.....

The way to do is to be

There is no need to run outside.......

Being Mothered

But what if you, being a swan, had to pretend you were a mouse?...

Creating space

It’s important in our work together that we never over-ride these ‘primary’ parts - the parts of us that are out there in the world functioning and getting things done. However, without the understanding and integration of both of these polarities - the doing with the being, the feeling with the thinking etc

A useful perspective

360 degree health - mental, physical, emotional, physiological, spiritual, energetic To discove...

creating inner space

To observe and do shadow work, we need the experience of being centered in a higher self. That is why our spiritual practice is so pivotal. Without space inside our minds to observe forbidden feelings and behaviors, they take over. When they do, we feel controlled and overshadowed by them.