rest • community • devotion
AUTUMN ’25
☽ Women’s Yoga classes ☾
nidrā • slow and conscious movement • breathwork • co-listening • circle sharing • heart-womb connection • circle singing • poetry/tales
ONLINE
AUTUMNAL CALENDAR
the themes for the classes are inspired by the season
• October 12th, 5-7pm: softness
• October 26th, 5-7pm: letting go
• November 9th, 5-7pm: life+death
• November 23rd, 5-7pm: creating space
• December 7th, 5-7pm: Mother’s womb
• December 21st, 5-7pm: solstice
Price: 25€/class, or 132€ for the 6-class package
Classes will be recorded and the recording will be available for two weeks.
To know more or to join, fill the form below or write to info@eleonoracosner.com.
Yoga
Yoga is an ancient science, born from study and observation of the outer world and of humans’ inner world, from experiencing a life lived in touch with spirit and body, and from devotion to that something-that-is-bigger-than-us – that you can call Goddess, God, Universe, Life, Love… as you prefer and feel more comfortable with.
With time, yoga has become a discipline rich in techniques and practices. Thanks to those who wrote about it, today we are granted access to the path of yoga, with all the benefits and the gifts it brings.
Yoga means union: of body, mind and soul, and with the whole.
Nontheless, history teaches us that this discipline was divisive for a long time, as it was reserved to me and particularly to brahmins, that is the members of the highest caste in the Indian society. Yogic texts were all written by men for men, and few are the yoginis we know of going back just a century or so (with the exception of the all-female traditions, such as the Shakta Tantra one).
Thanks to some indian teachers, a little over a century ago yoga came to the Western world, and during the past few decades some efforts have been made to adapt the discipline to the female body and mind, by modifying the practices so that they can be an optimal support to women’s physical and mental wellbeing.
A teacher, whose robust and revolutionary work has been a beacon of light in this field, is Uma Dinsmore-Tuli.
I too have chosen to contribute to this research led by the desire of sharing a kind of yoga that is more suitable for women and more aligned to (our) nature.
This is how my Cyclical Yoga project was born
it puts together integral yoga, Yoni Shakti Well Woman Yoga Therapy,
Cyclical Interconnection and a little rewilding.
The name I’ve chosen is not a very original one, but it leads back to my work on cyclicality – a research that I conduct thanks to different tools and through varied lenses, one of them being yoga.
Usually, “cyclical yoga” refers to a practice that honours and supports all the phases of our menstrual cycle. My version of Cyclical Yoga does this, but it also brings into the practice outer natural cycles (particularly, lunar and seasonal), and a care for the different phases in a woman’s life. This is why my classes are open to all women, whether they have a menstrual cycle or not.
You are always welcome.
What will you find in a Cyclical Yoga class?
Each class is inspired by the energies of nature present at the time of the practice: the season, the lunar phase, the time of the day and, when present, the menstrual phase of each student.
Whereas 1:1 classes are mostly tailored around the student’s menstrual cycle and/or phase of life as a woman (fertile years, pregnancy, post-partum, perimenopause, menopause, post-menopause), in a group setting I invite each student to honour their cyclical experience and I offer variations for asanas (poses) and vinyasas (dynamic sequences) when useful.
Each class is designed to allow access to the benefits both of women’s yoga and of cyclical living.
In my teaching approach, I mostly focus on the energetic and spiritual levels of the practice – which does not mean an absence of movement, but a different intention when entering it.
Yoga practice can thus become an act of Bhakti, devotion, to the Shakti, to the Goddess, within and without.
In such a practice, it is partly the shape of it that changes, but it is mostly the intention, the feeling that drives it.
Whether in the practice there is asanas only, or in addition pranayama (breathwork to manage the life force), meditation, and relaxation too, each gesture can become devotional and be a testament of the devotion to the Divine Mother (and to ourselves, through Her) that is too often only found in the practice of sacred chanting (kirtan and bhajan), which is typical of Bhakti Yoga (yoga of devotion).
Each movement, each breath and each thought can become rituals of love: for the Mother and her form as the Earth, for the power of our wombs, for the wisdom of our hearts.
This way every moment in the practice and in life can become sacred.
The non-negotiables in every Cyclical Yoga class are:
☽ breath, to become present and connected with ourselves
☽ movement, to land in the body, to release tension and find strength, to support hormonal balanca, to re-discover our animal nature
☽ relaxation and rest, to integrate the practice, to nourish body and mind, to pause stress, and to regain wellbeing
☽ devotion, with mudra, chants and meditation, to get back our connection to spirit and Shakti
Would you like to experience a yoga practice specifically tailored for you and your needs?
In 1:1 online programmes, we meet weekly.
Price
☽ 1 lunar cycle (4 classes): 200€
☽ 1 season (12 classes): 580€
{always renewable}
If you first want a taster of the work we can do together, you can book a single class – price: 60€.
Fill the form below or write to info@eleonoracosner.com to book your package or request further info.
In person private classes
1:1, or for groups • Valdichiana Senese, Valdorcia, Trasimeno
Would you like a yoga class to add a relaxing and nourishing touch to your holiday?
Would you like to make your ceremony day special (have you ever heard of Wedding Day yoga)?
Would you like to make a unique birthday gift?
Write to info@eleonoracosner.com or fill the form below to ask for further info.
My yogic path
After practising Hatha and Kundalini Yoga for a while, I was sure teaching yoga was what I wanted to do, to share the beauty and the benefits of the practice.
I first became an Integral Yoga teacher (2014), then a Pregnancy and Post-Partum Yoga teacher (2015).
In the following years I deepend my knowledge of guided relaxation with the training in Rilassamento Psico-Motivazionale.
At some point, I got to a yogic crisis: I realised that yoga as I knew it, with its foundational philosophy that felt too classist and patriarchal, didn’t align at all with most of my values.
Yet I didn’t stop researching and somewhere along the way I met Uma Dinsmore Tuli’s teachings.
That encounter, first indirectly through her books and then directly, offered me a different view on yoga and its origins, and it allowed me to make peace with the practice and its background (the one I wasn’t taught about) and to find a renewed joy in practising.
This is why in 2021 I chose Uma’s training in Well Woman Yoga Therapy (also known as Womb Yoga or Yoni Shakti Yoga).
In 2024 I followed Lauren Tober’s workshop How to Teach Yoga for Nervous System Regulation to deepen my knowledge on nervous system regulation.