Hatha Yoga Flow with Lorna Chapman

Lorna has been teaching yoga in and around Winchester since 2003.

She trained with The British Wheel of Yoga in London, as well as with Kevala Complementary Health Education in Devon. She has also worked with inspirational teachers such as Aadil Palkivala, Gary Carter, John Scott, Zoe Knott and many more.

Lorna draws her inspiration from many styles of yoga, including Ashtanga, Iyengar, Vini and Kundalini, which has led her to develop her own style of Hatha Yoga Flow. In 2016, she trained as a SUP Yoga Teacher and now teaches stand up paddle board yoga on her local rivers in the summer; a perfect blend of her two passions water and yoga.

 During her teaching, Lorna offers alternative poses and exercises, making her classes accessible to a wide range of abilities.

Lorna is also interested in how yoga can benefit sports people and offers workshops for runners and cyclists.

Lorna loves to cycle herself and has enjoyed providing yoga sessions and writing articles for Cycling Plus Magazine.

She is also trained as a translator and speaks several  languages, but now teaches yoga full time.  
 

On Lorna's yoga holidays, alongside the opportunity to relax and unwind, you will get the chance to deepen your practice, study postures in more detail and maybe even master that pose you thought you would never achieve!
 

The morning class will include dynamic vinyasa flow, some held poses, pranayama, chanting..

The evening class will be a more yin-based flow, followed by holding poses for longer to allow the mind and body to relax and release.

Lorna emphasises that it is important to work at your own level and will adapt postures according to your individual needs where necessary.
Both classes end with a lying relaxation.

Lorna has a light-hearted approach to life and to yoga and intends her holidays to be fun, energising and refreshing.

For more information about Lorna visit her website www.lunayogawinchester.co.uk

In 2023 I went on my first yoga holiday to Calabria.Italy. Lorna took the classes , two 1.5 hour classes twice a day. I was pretty new to yoga. I was also several stone overweight.  A week with Lorna changed my life and showed me that Yoga would be beneficial to me at whatever level I could manage. It was quite daunting because there were some very flexible yoga students on the course . By the end of the week I was moving so much better, my body felt completely different.I did not feel out of my comfort zone at all.  I cannot recommend Lorna’s classes more highly, so much so that I attended a second yoga holiday back in Calabria again this year.Again, Lorna helped me improve my practice and to spend time working on beneficial breathing techniques.  Yoga holidays are great- they put ‘you' at the centre for the week you are away. You get chance to experience top notch yoga tuition, spend time swimming and enjoying the sunshine , sampling delicious food and making new friends. x

Just got back from a wonderful holiday with Lorna. Loved loved loved the yoga, Lorna created a warm friendly and nurturing environment. A wonderful varied practice that kept me challenged in a positive way. The venue, source of light, is in a beautiful setting and the food is also amazing, made with love. Thank you Lorna

Returned last weekend from a fabulous week at Casa Benedetto in Ischia. I confess I have had serious post holiday blues since then. Ischia is so so beautiful and there is more to do and see there than we could fit into one week. The venue is simple and perfectly lovely - rooms are basic but comfortable and clean, and the hosts are friendly and keen to help with anything they can. Food was fresh, local (often Home grown by the hosts) and absolutely delicious.  All in all you do feel like you are experiencing proper Italy.  Lorna Chapman is a lovely, patient and brilliant yoga teacher who adapted the classes to be suitable for all levels at once. She is so encouraging and supportive (literally supportive when helping me do my first ever headstand!).  The whole group were lovely and all bonded and got on brilliantly and we've come away sun kissed and relaxed with new friends, a love of Ischia and a desire to go back.  Thank you. Annabel