I have nearly 30 years of experience of helping people find real solutions to long-held common issues: from specific diagnosed conditions such as pain or stiffness in a particular part of your spine or a joint , fibromyalgia, sciatica and the like, to systematic dysfunctions such as chronic fatigue... Hands-on, I can manipulate and massage you back together in a way that will relieve your symptoms, and if you choose, I can give you some tips on how to prevent the issue from ever returning... Yoga teachers and other body workers that already have good somatic awareness but are looking for deeper understanding of how the human body can heal itself will also find great value and relevance from hands-on sessions with me. If you would like to book a series of 1:1s you can get good discounts by buying a 1:1 package (look under "Members' Resources - Membership Options" - then scroll down to the 1:1 packages)

These sessions are online via the Zoom app (you will receive the zoom link in your confirmation email). Marc has 29 years of experience with helping people find real solutions to many of the common place conditions that arise in all kinds of body work and has been doing this online for over a decade now. It doesn't matter whether what you like to do is Yoga, Tai qigong or any body-mind practice (including sports and all forms of exercise) - If he can see how you move and breathe, he can help you unravel any complications that arise. If you would like to book a series of 1:1s you can get good discounts by buying a 1:1 package (look under "Members' Resources - Membership Options" - then scroll down to the 1:1 packages) Marc can then give you things that are specific to you to work with - in other words, with expert guidance, you get to have the empowering experience of working it out for yourself. Yoga teachers and other body workers looking for deeper understanding of how the human body can heal itself will also find great value and relevance from online sessions with Marc.

If you have a particular area of interest, and you are not sure whether Marc would be able to help, you can book an initial FREE 15 minute consultation with him online (via Zoom - you get the address in your confirmation email). If you want to go ahead and book your first 1-on-1 (either online, in Hove or in London), you can also book your first free consultation add-on here. Marc has 29 years of experience with helping people find real solutions to many of the common place conditions that arise in all kinds of body work. It doesn't matter whether what you like to do is Yoga, Tai qigong or any body-mind practice (including sports and all forms of exercise) - If he can see how you move and breathe, he can help you unravel any complications that arise. If you have a full session with him, he ca give you things that are specific to you to work with - in other words, with expert guidance, you get to have the empowering experience of working it out for yourself. Yoga teachers and other body workers looking for deeper understanding of how the human body can heal itself will also find great value and relevance from online sessions with Marc. Free consultations are limited to once per new customer. Silver members can book one of these every month to help support their practice development.

I am Marc J Acquaviva, Scaravelli Yoga Practitioner for over 40 yrs. I specialise in helping people find solutions for longterm physical limitations, including old and more recent injuries. I also offer a Yoga Teacher Mentoring service & 1:1 guidance for anyone on the Yoga path. Online & in Hove UK. top Are you looking for something more from your Yoga ? Are you open to a fresh perspective ? Do you want to heal your body? Welcome to a very different way of understanding your body ... it is a way that your body will recognise. And with time & practice, it will be your body that teaches you everything you need to know, for a pleasurable life that is life well-led. - A 10 minute explanation of the way I work and why - About Marc I have been passionate about yoga since early childhood (since 1968), and from 1991 I studied and practiced exclusively with people that have worked directly with Vanda Scaravelli, such as Diane Long and Sophy Hoare, as well as with the highly respected osteopaths that have been called to further understanding of her work, such as Pete Blackaby and John Stirk. During my earlier intensive yoga study years, in the spirit of following Vanda Scaravelli's own influences, I also explored and have drawn great value from other wellbeing practices, such as Feldenkrais Qi Gong, Thai yoga massage, Tantra and various different meditative practices. Unable to imagine doing anything else with my life, I eventually decided to teach, and qualified in 2000 with Natural Bodies of Brighton, doing Gary Carter's anatomy for yoga course. I actually began to develop my own take on the work after suffering from a prolapsed disc whilst doing the training. The prolapse meant I wasn't able to walk, but I found that it was possible, through my own innate somatic sense of the structural relationships involved, to relieve the symptoms and restore function... I 'healed' the prolapse for myself within a few weeks, and I have been developing and using my unique approach (based on 'what actually works) to help others ever since. More recently (2019/2020), in realising that my work involves an entirely different understanding of how a natural body actually works, I coined the term 'Enviro-Somatic' as a description of the methodology. It refers to the fact that someone's experience of themselves through the body, is a direct reflection of the way they physically respond to the environment they find themselves in, which in turn is influenced by how they feel, what they think and believe about what they are doing and why, and many other 'subtle' aspects of who they are as a person... more...

36. Everything you do... 6 December 2025 Download... main video group video ... should be in service to the awakening spine This workshop directly explores what and 'awakened spine' both means and feels like. And then we take note of how every other part of the body can engage in ways that suppport this freedom. The double bonus of this is that the rest of the body benefits from this union as much as the spine does. < Previous Back to list Next >

Meditation is a key practice that is mostly skipped over, simply because of how difficult it is to both still the mind and remain upright. Here I offer a practical way of introducing a daily chakra meditation to your life, together with practices that will not only cause the mind to centre and become still, but it will also set you up physically for a new way of being in the world...

If the hips or lower back feel stiff, tight or painful in postures, the chances are that you habitually support yourself with a holding pattern of the psoas and/or illiopsoas muscles, and if you do that in an unbalanced way (if you are right- or left-footed), it leads to scoliotic holding patterns to compensate. Knowing this does nothing to help you, because trying to 'open' or 'stretch' these muscles will simply cause them to resist your efforts. The problem is that they are being given the job of supporting you whatever you are doing (including trying to stretch them). The solution is simple - take the job of support away from them by giving yourself other ways of supporting yourself. This will lead to an intense strengthening of muscles you probably don't even know you have (because they are currently not needed), but the good news is that this 'other way' can become effortless, because the muscles I am talking about are naturally take part in both support and breathing (IF you are not holding yourself up with the hips and spine). The first part will give you the direct experience of what it actually feels like to let go of the Psoas family of muscles, and what follows will develop the support you need to replace it - support that relates to the breath and the ground beneath you.... Enjoy! Tap the like button for me and share it wherever you like. The full version with deeper exploration and appliction to standing is available for all premium members on the the 'Yoga Solutions' pages (linked in the members area)

There are two very unusual vertebrae in the neck that are related to expression and thought - and moreover whether you are free in these vertebrae or not is dependent on how you are interacting with the world! On this short Yoga solutions podcast, I explain what I mean by this as well as give you a direct physical exploration of how you can liberate natural movement between head and neck, and awaken the thoracic spine so that neck and shoulders no longer need to suffer from the job of holding you up all day... Enjoy! and click the like button if you find some benefit. The full hour-long class exploring this topic will be available for all premium members later on today on the 'Yoga Solutions' page. (You can browse memberships and their benefits on the side-tab on the member's area here)