Emma Ryan Yoga
Power, flexibility, balance. Learn how to improve all three
Yoga and Running
Yoga has been a slow blossoming practice for me. It was my love of running that brought me to yoga, as I discovered that my yoga practice was a way to sustain my running.
Running has always been my moving meditation. Helping me clear my head, stop the racing thoughts, and shake off the stresses from work. Whether with a group of friends, or on my own, I’ve never returned from a run feeling worse than when I left.
My trail running became 10km races, which became half, and then full, marathons. London. New York. Mentally, the running was keeping me balanced. But physically, something was happening.
Balance was precisely what I was missing — and it showed.
It started small, with niggling aches and pains that kept coming back. My regular yoga practice became indispensable if I wanted to avoid that discomfort during my runs. The connection was obvious: missing a yoga class meant more aching joints and sore muscles.
The more yoga classes I took, the more I wanted to learn about this ancient practice, and I realised other people could benefit from my perspective on yoga and sport.
We moved to Asia in 2014 and I made the decision to learn to teach yoga - with athletes being my primary focus.
However, since returning to the UK, my own practice and my teaching style has evolved. My ‘ideal’ student is no longer an athlete - it’s you!
Emma Ryan Yoga, for every body
I completed my Advanced Vinyasa Yoga 300-hour Teacher Training with Jason Crandell in October 2022. I am now qualified as an ‘Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 500-hours’. Which means that I am at the highest qualification possible in this field, and am now able to teach the teachers.
My yoga journey took off, when we were living in Singapore in 2016, and I completed my 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga. I immediately started coaching my local running club. Word spread about doing yoga with Emma Ryan, and soon athletes of all stripes were coming to me for help. All of them looking for a way to keep their bodies healthy and reduce injuries, so they could keep doing what they love.
I learned that yoga, when approached from an anatomical perspective, can give something to everyone, regardless of their lifestyle, and that yoga is for every body.
Since then my yoga has evolved into the strong and focused practice it is today. My teaching style is now an alignment based ‘flow’ yoga (flowing connected yoga poses), where I ensure that the connection of breath, movement and relaxation all take equal importance.
My yoga teacher journey
Qualifications
Advanced Vinyasa Yoga 300-hour Teacher Training with Jason Crandell, qualified in October 2022. I am now qualified as an ‘Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 500-hours’. (Which means that I am at the highest qualification possible in this field, and am now able to teach the teachers.)
Hatha/Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training 200-hour with Tirisula Vedanta Training Academy, Singapore. (Certified by Yoga Alliance USA). Qualified in 2016.
Rainbow Kids Yoga - Yoga for kids and families teacher training. (RCYS: Registered Children’s Yoga School Training Program with Yoga Alliance US/Canada/Australia/UK).
Training Courses
Sarah Ramsden, Yoga and Sports: Perform Better, Injure Less, Recover Faster (Course 1: Yoga and Running, Course 2: Yoga and Cycling.)
Carlos Pomeda – Meditation, Karma and the Journey of the Soul.
Noah Maze – Vinyasa Krama.
Eddie Modestini - Vinyasa 101.
Ross Rayburn – Yoga Therapeutics.
Christina Sell – Passion for Practice: Precision and play with props 2017 / ‘Set up for Success’ Advanced Teacher Training 2018.
Tiffany Cruikshank - Shoulder Immersion: Anatomy, disfunction and applications.
Functional Fitness Institute Singapore - Myofascial release using therapy balls.