Components & Principles of Dru Yoga

Based upon soft, flowing movements, controlled breathing and visualisation, Dru Yoga is both a graceful form of exercise and a potent means of self-transformation. With its foundations set firmly in ancient yogic tradition, Dru Yoga is a style that has been passed down through the generations. It works on the body and the mind, strengthening core stability and building a heightened feeling of positivity and empowerment.

Dru Yoga is based around the following components:

ACTIVATION OF THE BODY SYSTEM
Systematic activation of the body from head to foot:

• frees tension and dispels tiredness
• enhances the circulation
• allows our energy to flow outwards so that we vibrate more fully and more actively with life around us
• increases our physical awareness.

ENERGY BLOCK RELEASE SEQUENCES
These EBR sequences are easy and pleasant to do and yet have incredibly potent effects on our health at every level of our being. Performed correctly they can dissolve physical, energetic, emotional and mental blockages.

FLOWING POSTURES AND MOVEMENT SEQUENCES
This branch of Dru Yoga builds on your foundation of knowledge about the body, how it moves and how Dru Yoga can be applied in a remedial way. Each of the many sequences has specific effects and outcomes, but what they all have in common is that they help us to relate to the rhythm and flow of life.

THERAPEUTIC POSTURE WORK
This understanding enables you to create specific programmes to help with different health conditions.

PRANAYAMA
By control of the breath we can free more of our ‘life force‘. The ancient yogis knew that the length of life is not determined by the number of years, but by the number of breaths that we breathe.

MUDRAS
Mudras are energetic seals. They act on the body’s subtle energy systems and have been used for centuries to balance emotions, hormones, nerve impulses and energy flows. Learn how to direct your energy for optimum efficiency by selecting appropriate mudras to suit your mood and situation.

THE ART OF DEEP RELAXATION
This is a very important part of any yoga session. You need to ensure that the energy which has been stimulated has an opportunity to anchor and settle in the right way in order to create internal balance.

Deep relaxation can be used to heal disease, transform painful thoughts and emotions into positive patterns and attain important life goals.

CONCENTRATION
An essential prelude to meditation, concentration exercises help you to discipline your mind, sharpen your observation and memory and become more focused, still and silent.

MEDITATION
Unfold your personal power through the art of sitting in stillness and silence.

Energetic Principles of Dru Yoga

The concept of ‘energy’ and its application forms one of the pillars of Dru Yoga. It is important to understand the following four principles since they lay the foundation for the safe and correct practice of all Dru posture and sequence work.

• Principle 1
  Energy becomes blocked in the spine and in all the joints of the body. From the joints the blockage can go deeper into the muscles and, eventually, into the internal organs. Energy Block Release sequences can reverse this process and play a major role in detoxifying the body.
  
• Principle 2
  Energy gets blocked when the joints are locked, therefore we recommend you keep all joints slightly flexed when doing Dru Yoga. In order to resonate openly and freely with people and situations it is important to avoid rigidity on any level. When you hold any posture with soft rather than locked joints, you will discover that you recruit more of your postural muscles.
  
• Principle 3
  The spine can be viewed as a dynamic, living being. All movements in Dru Yoga originate from the spine. Stiffness in the spine is the main cause of energy blocks and therefore each part should be encouraged to move.
  
• Principle 4
  Every posture and movement comes from somewhere and goes somewhere. Consider every posture as a sequence.