The Wisdom of the Body | 3 Days of Ashtanga Yoga with Lucy Crawford
Lucy Crawford has been teaching Ashtanga yoga since 1995. Before that, she spent five years as a massage therapist, and that grounding in hands-on bodywork has shaped everything about the way she teaches - attentive, precise and deeply attuned to the individual in front of her.
This is Lucy's fourth visit to Merchant City Yoga, and this year we're doing things differently. We're offering just one Mysore style practice group and keeping it to a maximum of ten people - just like a semi-private - which means more time with Lucy, more personal attention and a genuinely different quality of experience.
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Assisted Self Practice
Saturday 31 October 9am-12pm & Sunday 1 November 9am-12pm
◇ Maximum 10 participants ◇
Each morning begins with a focused hour working on specific areas of the body – refining movement patterns, exploring particular asanas and building the groundwork for what follows including some positional release and self fascial release techniques. You'll then move into self practice, with Lucy there to observe, assist and offer you individual guidance.
This is where the small group size really matters. In a room of ten, Lucy can give the kind of hands-on attention and personal input that simply isn't possible in a larger setting. And that quality of skilled, experienced assistance is something you rarely get access to.
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Workshops
Lucy’s opening her workshops up to a larger group and offering a more traditional counted format where everyone in the room moves through the sequence together, in the established Ashtanga style.
Workshop 1 | Ashtanga Counted Primary Series
Friday 30 October 2026 6.30-8.30pm
Workshop 2 | Ashtanga Counted Intermediate Series
Saturday 31 October 2026 2-4pm
Lucy will offer variations and alternative poses throughout so that you can stay with the flow of the practice no matter what stage you’re at.
Practising a counted series with a teacher of Lucy's experience is its own kind of rare opportunity. The counted method is central to how Ashtanga has traditionally been taught, and having it led by Lucy brings a depth and authenticity that's hard to find.
By opening these sessions to a larger group, Lucy's making it possible for more of you to share that experience with her across the weekend.
**For Saturday’s Counted Intermediate session: this workshop is open to everyone as an introduction to, and taster of, the intermediate series from a fascial balancing point of view. Many of the asana in the intermediate series are not ‘more difficult’ but simply focus on strengthening the back of the body and stretching the front of the body. Lucy will include lots of variations and alternatives to help you explore the asana in practice - with curiosity and enjoyment as opposed to ‘achievement’.
Two days. Limited places. A teacher whose experience is genuinely rare.
If you've been practising Ashtanga for a while and want to go deeper - in your practice, in your understanding of your own body and in the quality of attention you bring to both - this is a special opportunity.
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Price for 2 Days of Ashtanga Yoga Mysore PLUS Workshops 1 & 2 £199
(To book with this discount please email [email protected])
2 Days of Ashtanga Yoga Mysore (3 hours per day) £119
Workshop Costs
Workshops 1 & 2 £99
Individual Workshop £59
This is Lucy's fourth visit to Merchant City Yoga, and this year we're doing things differently. We're offering just one Mysore style practice group and keeping it to a maximum of ten people - just like a semi-private - which means more time with Lucy, more personal attention and a genuinely different quality of experience.
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Assisted Self Practice
Saturday 31 October 9am-12pm & Sunday 1 November 9am-12pm
◇ Maximum 10 participants ◇
Each morning begins with a focused hour working on specific areas of the body – refining movement patterns, exploring particular asanas and building the groundwork for what follows including some positional release and self fascial release techniques. You'll then move into self practice, with Lucy there to observe, assist and offer you individual guidance.
This is where the small group size really matters. In a room of ten, Lucy can give the kind of hands-on attention and personal input that simply isn't possible in a larger setting. And that quality of skilled, experienced assistance is something you rarely get access to.
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Workshops
Lucy’s opening her workshops up to a larger group and offering a more traditional counted format where everyone in the room moves through the sequence together, in the established Ashtanga style.
Workshop 1 | Ashtanga Counted Primary Series
Friday 30 October 2026 6.30-8.30pm
Workshop 2 | Ashtanga Counted Intermediate Series
Saturday 31 October 2026 2-4pm
Lucy will offer variations and alternative poses throughout so that you can stay with the flow of the practice no matter what stage you’re at.
Practising a counted series with a teacher of Lucy's experience is its own kind of rare opportunity. The counted method is central to how Ashtanga has traditionally been taught, and having it led by Lucy brings a depth and authenticity that's hard to find.
By opening these sessions to a larger group, Lucy's making it possible for more of you to share that experience with her across the weekend.
**For Saturday’s Counted Intermediate session: this workshop is open to everyone as an introduction to, and taster of, the intermediate series from a fascial balancing point of view. Many of the asana in the intermediate series are not ‘more difficult’ but simply focus on strengthening the back of the body and stretching the front of the body. Lucy will include lots of variations and alternatives to help you explore the asana in practice - with curiosity and enjoyment as opposed to ‘achievement’.
Two days. Limited places. A teacher whose experience is genuinely rare.
If you've been practising Ashtanga for a while and want to go deeper - in your practice, in your understanding of your own body and in the quality of attention you bring to both - this is a special opportunity.
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Price for 2 Days of Ashtanga Yoga Mysore PLUS Workshops 1 & 2 £199
(To book with this discount please email [email protected])
2 Days of Ashtanga Yoga Mysore (3 hours per day) £119
Workshop Costs
Workshops 1 & 2 £99
Individual Workshop £59
Where is it happening?
Merchant City Yoga, 69 Wilson Street, Glasgow, G1 1, United Kingdom
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