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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
