What is Dru Yoga?
DRU YOGA – A HEART REVOLUTION
Origins
Dru Yoga has been tailored for the 21st Century, yet rooted in ancient yoga tradition, Dru Yoga works with unique flowing sequences, breathing, mudras (hand gestures), affirmations, meditation and relaxation techniques.
From its emergence in India to the West, its heart in the UK is in Wolverhampton where local classes are practiced by dedicated Dru yoga tutors.
It has grown worldwide with teacher training schools in Europe, Canada and Australia, with a retreat and purpose built yoga centre in Snowdonia.
The Eye of the Hurricane
Dru Yoga, which traces its origins to the stories contained in the great Indian Classic, the Srimad Bhagavatam, teaches how to balance body, heart and mind by using the heart as the pivotal point around which all else revolves.
It is characterised by flowing movements that channel and transform the body’s subtle energy through the heart to create healing and unity.
Dru comes from the Sanskrit word Druvam, which means fixed, immovable, in one place. Just as the eye of the hurricane remains still and quiet, whilst there is movement all around, so Druvam is a state of stillness within the mind and heart, so that you are unassailable, untouchable by the world.
One of the keystones of Dru Yoga is in a process called energy block release. Every day we have emotional energy thrown at us. Sometimes we can handle it, and sometimes we can't. Emotional energy enters the body via the joints, enters the muscles structures, and ends up in the internal organs, whence disease begins.
Very often the question is asked how Dru Yoga is different to Hatha Yoga, or any other branch of yoga. Like layers of the onion, we are composed of composite parts that make up the different levels of being.
In Dru Yoga, these different levels of being are utilised to facilitate the release of misplaced energy, and to transform awareness & consciousness to a point of harmony.
