Zen Ki Yoga

A powerful, healing yoga derived from Indian, Japanese and other eastern practices.

Zen Ki Yoga is a culmination of several different styles of Japanese yoga, Indian yoga, two different styles of shiatsu and 28 years of founder Janie Larmour's experience of working with clients in yoga, personal fitness training and shiatsu.

The practice is heavily steeped in the knowledge of western anatomy combined with ancient energy healing work using the Zen Shiatsu meridians and the principles of yin and yang. While there may be the occasional up dog and down dog, you might end up doing an entire class lying on your back deeply working the core and strengthening the structure around your spine or the individual organs in your digestive, reproductive and circulatory systems.

The practice is heavily steeped in the knowledge of western anatomy combined with ancient energy healing work using the Zen Shiatsu meridians and the principles of yin and yang.

While there may be the occasional up dog and down dog, you might end up doing an entire class lying on your back deeply working the core and strengthening the structure around your spine or the individual organs in your digestive, reproductive and circulatory systems.

It’s great for those looking for a practice with self-care, self-love and healing at its heart. “Zen Ki Yoga gives you the power to heal, strengthen and release your body, mind and energy all by yourself. There are 12 meridians and each meridian has anywhere between 10 to 40-plus moves for each, making every single class meaningful, different and rewarding. It can also be used to realign the structure of the body, particularly the spine, posture, hips and neck helping you to get rid of long or short-term aches and pains.”

She adds: “Every season, the yoga changes to focus on the meridians that are mostly to bring your body into balance with the changes of the season to keep you in optimum health. Zen Ki Yoga also addresses specific health issues utilising its ability to heal with yoga poses and diet specific to organs and meridians creating the initial imbalance which causes the disease.”

As well as general health and wellbeing, she says that the practice has delivered lots of success for students suffering with back pain, knee, hip, shoulder and neck pain, and many other conditions.

People attend Zen Ki Yoga classes for all kinds of reasons: preparation for pregnancy; optimal health during pregnancy; post natal and putting the body back together after birth; sports-specific injuries and rehabilitation; weight loss and metabolism.

Larmour, who also runs teacher trainings in Zen Ki Yoga, says her students have likewise seen improvements in anxiety, panic attacks and stress; chronic fatigue; high blood pressure and heart-related issues; asthma and breathing issues, as well as many other conditions and health concerns.