Working with people aged 60 and over, Ruth Ann offers fundamentally practical, gentle and respectful movement practices and exercises that restore vitality and help alleviate the discomforts that can accompany ageing.

My Approach:

For over 25 years, as student, teacher and therapist, I have developed a movement practice rooted in inquiry, humility and deep respect for the evolving, maturing beings we are.

As a Yoga Teacher, all my classes and workshops take a therapeutic approach: how can we move so as to reduce pain and improve coordination and control?

As a Yoga Therapist, I meet individual clients who may have a chronic condition that limits their movement, or are recovering from surgery or just feel they want to strengthen their movement patterns.

My approach is not prescriptive. I am not so much in the business of “fixing” but in the business of helping. We explore together; practicing slowly, returning to wholeness, even recovering joy.

 

My Qualifications:

My Offerings:

  • Face-to-face and online Chair Yoga classes
  • Online workshops on Balance, Walking in Winter, Sleep Meditation and Building Strength.
  • One to one Yoga Therapy sessions (5 session minimum commitment)

Find out how Ruth Ann can help you regain your mobility and confidence

Book a complimentary “Discovery Session” with Ruth Ann now.
{Ruth Ann has been my movement teacher for a few years. I look forward to my classes and my private sessions, which are both informative and fun Instructions are always supported by scientific facts and I appreciate this.
Miriam
Chair yoga student
{I used to have sciatica and pain in my legs sitting for many hours with my clients in counselling sessions. Now I don't have any pain anymore. The chairlift classes are so brilliant as they have realigned my hips which were the cause of pain in the first place. Doing movement work while sitting has had many wonderful benefits: it keeps my hips in alignment, it has increased my range of motion, and has created more space in the hip joint and the tightness, which was the cause of the pain in the first place, is gone.
Monique
Movement and yoga student
{Ruth Ann brought her excellent knowledge of anatomy and yoga to the assessment of areas in my body with limited movement as a result of past injuries and conditioning. I have felt confident and involved in the exercise program created to release old patterns and to improve movement. As I continue with our plan, I feel the difference it makes!
Liane
Chair and Mat yoga student
{Ruth Ann Penny is a superb teacher of yoga and therapeutic movement. She knows her subject thoroughly, and as my private tutor of the practice, she has been attentive to my particular needs with her always clear and calm instruction.
Allen
private student