Teachers

Jude Murray -  Yoga Teacher and partner at Mahashakti Yoga and In The Moment
Owner/manager of In The Moment
Yoga Teacher and partner at Mahashakti Yoga since 2004

“I’ve tried several yoga teachers in the last few years but none have shown the special gift for teaching and healing that you share in your classes.” – Louise

Contact Jude: 07721 468039  or mahashaktiyoga@gmail.com

Jude meditating

Teaching is a gift and a joy that I share gladly with an open heart and all the love I can muster. In teaching I choose to share my heart song.

I am a Healer, Body Worker and Celtic Reiki Master with some twenty years’  professional experience as a teacher, trainer and group work facilitator. In my classes we work mindfully with the wisdom of the body and the support of the breath. I can be an expert guide for you but my wish is that you awaken your inner guide and begin to discover yourself the transformational and healing power of the practice, and to find that wholeness, balance and joy that is your true state of being.

I emphasise that asana is only one small part of Yoga.  Yoga  also offers deep emotional and spiritual connection that I find deepens the longer I teach and practise. I have a strong personal spiritual practice which includes regular meditation and mindfulness and this informs every part of my teaching and therapy work. I think this is the most important element of teaching Yoga – that the teacher has experienced what she is teaching from her own personal practice.

I also believe that anyone can practice yoga. In my work with people living with cancer, I have seen time and time again the pure power of the breath to transform and heal.

You can read my yoga “CV” here if you really want to know all about my credentials and qualifications

Mahashakti is my spiritual name, given during Mantra Initiation whilst living in the Sivananda Ashram in South India. It is a Sanskrit word. Maha= great; Shakti= Goddess/Power/Energy. It is the name of the Universal Mother.

I also blog under the Celtic  name of Ceibhfhion – the Goddess of knowledge and inspiration.

Wishing you  love, light and bliss, x Jude

Graeme Murray – Yoga Teacher and partner at Mahashakti Yoga and In The Moment

Graeme in ParsvakonasanaHaving had a long-standing, but unfulfilled, inquisitiveness about yoga, I was finally able to find time in my life to begin my hatha yoga practice after selling my successful aquaculture business in 1996.  My first introduction to yoga was on a wintry evening in a drafty village hall but the experience of my first yoga class was immediate and profound and I have continued, from the start, to pursue my practice with self-effort and self-examination.
In 2002 I studied the Astanga Primary Series with David Williams and began daily personal practice in this form.  I continued to study with various teachers in the UK and at The Sivananda Dhanwanthari Ashram at Neyyar Dam, Kerala, India until deciding to take the Yoga Alliance UK 200 hour Teacher Training Course in 2007.  I now continue with my own personal practice and teach regular general and beginners’ level hatha yoga classes, and also assist my wife, Judith Murray (Mahashakti), with workshops and retreats in Glasgow and Argyll.  I continue to learn and broaden and deepen my journey in yoga, studying in the UK and in India.
My strong personal yoga practice is influenced by the flow and precision of Astanga vinyasa yoga moderated by strong attention to physical discernment; breath awareness and meditative focus, and I guide my students safely and expertly through a flowing, dynamic hatha yoga practice built on the framework of deep focus, physical awareness and the use of the breath.
I have studied with and learned from the following teachers:- Ellen Pierce, David Williams, Yogacharya Venkatesh, Paul Dallaghan, David Swenson, Brian Cooper, Nawajyoti, Michael Gannon, Paul Grilley and Mukunda Stiles.