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. 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 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.

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)

On-demand Workshops - 2026 (most recent at the top) Get Gold or Platinum m'ship for access Limbs neck and spine The breath in motion 20th June 2026 Shoulders spine and heart A simple exercise to give you what you need 13th June 2026 A practice to repair strengthen and release the entire body Learn to do this and explore within it, and you will have all you need 6th June 2026 'Looking after the baby' - an analogy for the way to use your practice to redress any discomfort your body - ower back ,hips, sciatica 30th May 2026 Ribs move happy knees with relaxed hips...... .... arms move a happy face with a relaxed neck 23rd may 2026 Starting with a sore thumb ! An unusual start - but see what happens! 16th May 2026 Everything can be worked out from making one part of you happy ... wrists 2nd May 2026 'Breathe what you are doing" .... the final piece of the puzzle, that can lead to 'receiving' the yoga experience. 25th April 2026 Creating space by putting yourself back together You exist in the space within your body 18th April 2026 A natural practice Self discovery and Self care 11th April 2026 Unifying the body in action Bringing together how each key part of you 'likes to move' into a unified, collaborative and confluent movement.... 4th April 2026 The Pleasure Principle ... the body's way of telling you that you havve 'got it right' 28th March 2026 Giving some love to the shoulders ... by bringing the source of movement back to the spine behind the heart. 21st March 2-26 The head that relaxes you into the experience The final piece of the the puzzle of 'Awakening the spine' 14 th March 2026 The 'purring breath' a more accurate description of the best kind of breath to involve yourself in during physical practice 7th March 2026 Loving your neck part 2 .... this will show how the arms and shoulders become free and strong enough to help. 28th February 2026 Giving the neck some love ...the rest of you will transform in the task 21st February 2026 How the face breathes... ... to honour the spine and awaken its movement from the heart. 7th February 2026 It's your body that does the imagining... .... so that you can let go and receive the experience 31st January 2026 Subtle relationships .... ... to the space you occupy 24th January 2026 Space in the middle.... ... And space between the throat & heart 17th January 2026 Some practices to directly enliven the spine ....explorations of how the ribs and core can give you both the space to breathe and support you through your interactions with the world 10th January 2025 Sorting the post christmas slump ...A specific breathing practice to awaken the spine 3rd Jan 2026 Click here for the list Previous Workshops Workshops before Jan 2026

Pranayama a comprehensive 10- part course Get any Premium membership for access (most recent at the top) 1 The 'Laughing breath'- The practice for natural strength and freedom Bhastrika Bhastrika (or 'bellows breath') is a very important and fundamental pranayama practice that can add immense power to anything you are doing, cure neck stiffness and shoulder problems ( if practiced with appropriate intent). It happens naturally when you have an uncontrollable fit of giggles. If you want to invoke its power, either practice this or spend the best part of the day laughing :-) 5 June 2024 2 'The thow-away breath' - The practice that anchors you from low down so you can fly ... Kapalabhati Kapalabhati (or 'Shining Skull'), should calm the mind, soften the face and free up the hips (by giving the inside of the sacro-lumbar joint support when you release the breath). It goes with 'flying from the heart' because it means you can be properly supported along the front of the spine without having to hold yourself together. It should naturally occur when you cough or sneeze, and when your find something slightly funny. 12 June 2024 3 The Belly laugh ... A practice for your lower back, organ healing & self-nourishment 'Fire Breath' Fire Breath (I don't know the Sanskrit name) is something I recently discovered as a pranayama in its own right (I used to think it was simply an aspect of Bhastrika). If done with a relaxed pelvic floor and spine it can shake you free of lower back problems, and revive the organs of digestion so we can self-nourish properly. 19 June 2024 4 The 'breath of love'... A practice that supports you in opening your heart and relationship to the world. SitKari SitKari is a retention breath practice, and its name is an onomatopoeic description of the sounds you might make whilst practicing it. (I only have the group recording for this one) 26 June 2024 5 Retention Breath fundamentals - the secret practice Kumbhaka 'Holding the breath' is considered almost illegal in most yoga circles, but 'kumbakha' is considered and advanced pranayama. The purpose of retention breath in yoga practice is to learn how the arriving breath can support you in what you are doing. This class takes you though that exploration, and introduces Viloma ('ladder breath') 3 July 2024 6 A complete practice for strength and energy Bhastrika p2 + completion retention breath This was a revisit of the first Kriya (cleansing) breath of this series, delving into some of the nuances and purposes of its practice. And it was progressed by completing the practice with the retention breath that goes with the bhastrika internal 'attitude' - the part that gives you central support for whatever you are doing externally. 10 July 2024 7 'Alernate nostril' - the brain balancing breath. Nadi Sadona 'Alternate nostril breath' is often mis-practiced because the emphasis is on making the breath pass through each nostril. It is meant to be a balancing of the left and right channels of the entire body (ida and pingala). Here I offer a deeply relaxing and truly balancing reclining version of the practice, that gives you the true nature of this pranayama, and which ultimately relies on you engaging through the left and right sides of yourself with the world you occupy... 24 July 2024 8 "Breathing what you do" Pranayama in Practice A brief revision of the kriya breaths followed by a seated practice: To explore how employing choices in breathing (pranayamas) can support you in movements towards and arrival in postures. 31 July 2024 9 Learning how to use pranayama to move and support you (instead of holding your weight up with the spine) Pranayama in Practice part 2 A difficult class unless you can be clear about what you are doing and why: 1: You are intending to become upright and move (into twists in this example), but through the power of various pranayamas ONLY 2: The only way to make this possible is if you are NOT holding your body weight up with your lower back, or holding your head up with your neck... however , you are looking for balanced uprightness through your pranayama efforts (intense!) 3: The exhale can initiate support from the core (kriya breaths) 4: The inhale MUST be an expression of your intended movement (without losing the support of the exhale efforts) ... This is only achievable with a release of your pelvic floor with the inhale (whilst core is supporting you), AND you express the intended movement from your face/heart/wings in space with the arriving breath. 5: If you manage to organise uprightness during the (retention) breath without the need to hold yourself in space, then the straightforward release of the breath will lead to a relaxed experience of releasing into the posture and expansion. ...... Good luck! 7 August 2024 10 An all-purpose, reclining active relaxation/meditation Mahapranayamasana 'The great breath practice' - a more natural way of somatically recognising the purpose and meaning of all pranayama practices 14 August 2024 11 The physical 'junctions' between Chakras The Chakra Course intro An in depth explanation of the physiologically based somatic experience of Chakras, and their relationship to Pranayama. ... together with a reclining practice to tune into and develop the junction between the Throat Chakra (Vishuddi) and Heart (Anahata). 21 August 2024

On-demand Workshops - 2025 Go to Workshops 2026 (most recent at the top) Get Gold or Platinum m'ship for access 13 December 2025 37. Opening the upper lungs and spine The last workshop of the year for my Elite members :-). It was a doozie... enjoy! ... to make this the centre of your movement through space 6 December 2025 36. Everything you do... 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. ... should be in service to the awakening spine 29 November 2025 35. The root of flying The thighs are like your 'pelvic wings'... I continued the previous week's theme with a bit more emphasis on the lower half of things - and how hands and feet need to operate to become the ultimate support for the spine to express itself in movement. Releasing the spine from the root 22 November 2025 34. Finding your wings I had a nice day with Diane Long and brought my interpretation of the experience to my students... Flying from within 8 November 2025 33.Bringing life to the sleepy heart In my intention to simplify, there hasn't been a single occasion when 'moving from the spine behind heart' hasn't ended up as the ultimate answer. Everything else I teach is to help all the parts of you that prevent this movement out of the way. When you move from the heart, and it is genuine and natural, every part of you will be involved in a supportive way. This workshop gave you things that make this experience clear to your own felt sense. What 'Awakening the spine' really is... 1 November 2025 32. All about the head Whatever title or description i come up with for this doesn't do it justice... We hold our heads when we think, talk, look at something, even when we are 'relaxing'. And it is the main thing that prevents us from natural expressive movement from the thoracic spine and heart. This workshop built a step by step guide to awakening the spine through putting in the effort required to no longer require the head to hold itself... the outcome shows you what it feels like to move from the spine naturally. How to be strong enough to not need to hold your head... 25 October 2025 31. Inner space, outer support, and the central experience A workshop on a theme that is developing - included sidebending, twists, leg extensions and approach to wheel How to look after the neck and lower back 11 October 2025 30. How to free your hips and lower back. This very small workshop was like a 2 and a half hour yoga solutions for hips and lower back. We started lying down in various arrangements to explore the space we can create, then employed movement from the ribs to reorganise ourselves into positions where the movements of core and ribs happen simply because we breathe.... Taken into standing and sitting postures and the final relaxation. Learning to find support through and move from - the spine behind the heart. 20 September 2025 29. All questions answered... This session turned into one of my most comprehensive workshops. I began as always asking what people were interested in, and I was presented with a few questions that inspired answers that seemed to make sense of everything to the participants. (they have all been with me for a long time, so the reason I can say that is that everyone's practice was reflecting the first principles I am always talking about - so I know they were having direct somatic experiences of what I was talking about). There is a superb relaxation at the end that i may add to the 'art of letting go' course.... Bringing clarity and simplicity to practice 13 September 2025 28.The practice -from scratch I had someone new turn up for this one, which is always good because it means I can build up the picture of what we are trying to achieve with our practice from the very beginning. This is essentials. My work relies on people being able to shift all the standard ways of thinking of the body in favour of allowing the body to begin to share its voice with us... This workshop explains the fundamental 'rules; that allow this, mostlly focussing on how actions the breath need to be able to support whatever we are doing (rather than the spine being relied on to carry our weight) The fundamental pucture of things to guide your practice 6 September 2025 27. the spine behind the heart After a summer break, my practice (as always) was centred on simlifying... and yet again my body came to the conclusion that absolutely every solution for every part of the body is a relationship that allows the thoracic spine to be the source of movement, and its centre to be the centre of gravity... This workshop went deep into this principle understanding. the centre of ALL my instructions 19 July 2025 26. A true Yin Yoga class Yin yoga (passive) only works if the organisation of things precisely matches the releases you need. This takes precision of awareness to be able to organise your bones so they can do their job without the effort of holding them up. If you have some time, and a mindset to heal through resting - follow this (to the letter) Healing the body through precisely supported release. 12 July 2025 25. The ideal body map A very small (and just 1hr) workshop that launched into this principle from a question from a participant. IT went on to explore how we use arms, legs, hands feet wrists and and ankles, when movement is sourced in the thoracic spine. (ie. moving from the heart) Moving from the thorax - the solution to all peripheral issues (neck/lower back and all joints of the limbs) 5 July 2025 24. Awakening the yoga from the inside out This starts on our backs and builds to a rhythmic pulsing flow of actions that are confluent with an expressive exhale... The thing we practice is involving each part of ourselves in the same action in the most confluent way we can find.... follow and enjoy. The rhythmic approach to unification all actions into confluence 28 June 2025 23. Your daily pranayama I started this very small workshop by sharing the start of my morning practice (Kapalabhati, first in depth, then as an exercise that turns it into a movement, followed by a retention breath that sets you up for a release into what you are doing). This practice can be done with any of the exhale-based pranayamas. The second part followed an awakening of the chest and ribs (also pranayama in physical practice) applied to bridge and cobra... A sequence that can be the model for your approach to any breath work. 21 June 2025 22. Centering in the throat This workshop explores the natural core responses to being throat-centred... a lot of the 'core-type' instructions that we usually make happen with bhandas or because I instruct you to use your ribs or core - but what is often missed is that these are natural responses to natural expressions of being human. The practice will give you a window into the feeling you get as a human being that centres in the throat... It should lead to a sense of natural strength as well as a psychological shift in relationship to the world. Advanced pranayama for the neck and throat - centres you in Vishuddi Chakra 14 June 2025 21.You are the centre of the universe Like all things, it's relatively easy to adopt concepts like this because it resonates with something deeper, but for me (and I believe for everyone) the reality of such things continues to evade us UNTIL it is directly experienced in physical reality. The breath together with your relationship to the space you occupy (through physical interaction) can give you the direct experience that will reveal the thruth of the matter... A practical breathing experience that can reveal this truth 7 June 2025 20. A practice session Diagonal 'criss-cross' relationships between all parts of yourself, grounding from chakra junctions through releasing your weight, naturalising relationships through the breath and your relationship to the space you occupy ... the list goes on. But it is all part of 'creating the conditions' that will guide you towards the unified experience that can be recognised directly as 'the Yoga'. Applying various angles of the baseline principles to physical practice 31 May 2025 19. the 'Heel' of the base This understanding of things can give you an enlightening approach to all postures and movements. (Reveals the chakras) The natural way to use the resting point of your base to release your spine into elongation. 24 May 2025 18. All about the core and the limbs The relationships that YOU create from the way you engage with the world from each of your articulating joints - and how eventually that can lead to hands and feet supporting everything we need to happen with the breath and core Discovering unity between inward and outward actions 18 May 2025 17. All about the breath and the spine First principles continued 3 May 2025 16. First Principles in Practice This started with some talk about the natural desire to 'understand' first and practice after. But true understanding only really happens when 'the yoga' happens to you - ie. it is RECOGNISED through the body (so the mind can understand directly through somatic experience). This workshop turned into first principle practices that give the body the conditions it needs for you to understand things directly. Learning to give the body the conditions it needs for yoga (and truth) to reveal itself 26 April 2025 15.Opening the heart from above down This started with a question about 'feeling' tense around the centre of the thoracic spine... this led to a deep investigation into spinal extension, brining awareness to the role of the face's relationship to space as the natural source of 'extension from above down'... and then the rest of yoga followed as a natural consequence The involvement of your face's relationship to space for whole-hearted extension of the spine 19 April 2025 14... title to follow 12 April 2025 13. All about the hips The way to have free hips is to have a body that doesn't rely on the bracing of hip flexors to hold your weight in sitting or standing. To do that, the core needs to be responsive to both the release of your weight and the breath. Awakening the core 5 April 2025 12. All about the neck After a deep experience from practice the evening before, I had to share the outcome. Not a new idea - the solution to any neck/shoulder issue is to activate movement from the spine below the neck/upper ribcage - the difference was the depth of engagement that I took it to... The outcome is enlightening. Awakening the spine behind the heart. 29 March 2025 11.The deep core This was the first one for a while where the recording worked. It was a very small class with just one person on screen, but it led to a great deal of clarity. If you want to understand and experience deep core activation, just follow the instructions. ... how to activate deep inner support, to experience freedom in everything you do. 8 March 2025 10. Natural core support and the Chakras A difficult subject! The simplest of instructions (ie. let go of your weight) leads to the deepest confusions (because we don't know how to let go). Here we spent a good amount of time and persuasion to understand and create the conditions that allows the deeper core responses to arise naturally... unravelling the habits of a lifetime takes a moment or two :-) How to develop the strengths you need by letting go. 1 March 2025 9. The Spine -Detailed exploration of body alignment, focusing on spine movement, head positioning, and relationship to space. - Discussion of scoliosis patterns and how they relate to movement and breathing techniques. -Practical exercises involving head positioning, spine alignment, and breathing techniques ... the central expression of your experience. Liberating the spine with the head. 22 February 2025 8. Standing A few tech problems - sound was a bit rough , but ok when I was teaching. This was an exploration of what we need to stand well .. conditions created whilst lying down (actually hard work) then taken into standing postures (as much work unless gravity helps). ... understanding it by lying down 15 February 2025 7. Feet & Hands .... Following a 1:1 that reminded me of the value of a deep-dive understanding of feet, I ran the workshop on a massage sequence for both hands and feet that shows you how you're supposed to use them, and then applied the action to practice of other things.... and it worked superbly well The surprising strength that arises from engaging appropriately with the world with your hands and feet. 8 February 2025 6. The face, and the spine behind the heart I alway maintain that yoga is meant to develop the most harmonious relationships between all parts of ourselves, and I mostly help people discover what these relationships are so they can heal and integrate .. but when movement, expression and support physically originate from the heart (literally - physically from the spine behind it), all the other relationships I talk about are naturally present... ...the central source of all of the most harmonious body relationships 1 February 2025 5. How to become Whole in practice A very organic workshop, with the tone set on restoring balance of energies, that led to a very integrative practice ... just follow and enjoy! Naturalising our core and breathing responses with the 'right kind' of attention to what we are doing 25 January 2025 4. All you need to know... The wifi was unstable during this workshop, but somehow there was enough content to give you a lifetime of practice.... Several foundational ideas that can form the basis of a life-long practice 18 January 2025 3. Unifying core and ribs in action This one progressed from the foundation of previous workshops (the ribs using the ground for support and purchase),by bringing the 4 quadrants of the abdominal cavity into relating to whatever you are doing in space.... Relating to space from the lower half of the body (whilst grounding from the ribcage) 11 January 2025 2. Moving from the Heart p.2 The 4 quadrants of the ribcage stayed with me insistently following the first workshop of the year. And as usual, with more clarity came deeper explorations. This one was of the quiet freedom and strength that arise when 'heart -centered' movement is sourced in the relationship that the ribs and spine above the heart can have to the support beneath us, and how gravity and breath can cause that relationship. Grounding diagonally (from above the heart) 4 January 2025 1. Awakening movement from the spine of the heart The winter holidays gave me a chance to go deep into my own practice, and the outcome was an even deeper appreciation of the meaning of 'moving and centering from the heart'. This workshop explores how the ribcage can be considered as 4 quadrants that cross-relate to each other (with core support) to cause 'movement from the heart' - or specifically the centre of the thoracic curve. The 4 quadrants of the ribcage Click here for the list Previous Workshops All Workshops before Jan 2025

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)