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SIR EDWARD CLARK is the artistic director and choreographer of Tripsichore Yoga Theatre, London's acclaimed dance-theatre yoga troupe known for using traditional yoga asanas to create inventive choreography. He was head of the department of movement and dance at the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London for over 20 years.
Edward fuses his keen artistic vision with a deep understanding of the essential pursuit of yoga practice with one foot in dance, one foot in ashtanga, and the other in sivananda yoga (for Edward this is possible; he has been practicing yoga for over 30 years).
The synthesis of breath, asana, choreography, and philosophy clearly comes through in his teaching. His classes are entertaining, demanding and exhilarating! Sir Ed has never received a teacher training certificate & intends to keep it that way ;)

THE TRIPSICHORE VINYASA YOGA STYLE developed by Sir Edward Clark is both challenging and fun.  It encourages the student to explore the furthest range of their physical potential while providing the technical approaches that ensure safety.  The Tripsichore Yoga style has been developed for 30 years and, in investigating yoga, has endeavoured to reconcile the idea of making advanced physical practice enhance the ends of a spiritual quest.  Expect to experiment with unusual inversions and back bends. In a Tripsichore workshop, you'll be sure to learn some new and interesting variations on inverted postures and new ways to achieve back bends.  You'll find out how to be more flexible and how to do things that look like they require considerable strength but, in accord with yogic principles, you'll also discover that these are achieved with grace and ease.

ys: Was ist Tripsichore Yoga? Trip-sic-ho-re (trip-sic-uh-ree, zieht die Vokale in die Länge) ist eine griechische Muse des Tanzes. Wir nannten uns Tripsichore, weil wir eben ein bisschen tänzerischer sind. Tripsichore ist eine darstellende Gruppe, verbindet Choreographie mit Yoga. Wir machen auch Comedy, sehen uns als Choreographen, bezeichnen uns aber als Theater. Es ist kein Tanz, aber es sind choreographierte Bewegungen. Es geht um Geschichten, Erzählungen und Charaktere, und wir machen Sachen, die in einem yogischen Kontext stehen. Wir haben eine Form von Yoga erfunden, die innovativ ist und sich mit gewissen Orthodoxien auseinandersetzt, zum Beispiel, wie man atmet, was Haltungen sind und was mentale Eigenschaften wie Konzentration und Vertiefung sind. Wir haben das in einer neuen Form gekoppelt, mit der man beides ausdrücken und Schönheit erleben kann. (Auszug aus dem Interview mit Edward Clark auf www.yogaservice.de)

THE TRIPSICHORE YOGA THEATER COMPANY began in 1979 as a company devoted to creating full length dance narratives. We explored a variety of stylistic forms includingpunk ballet, conventional modern dance and strict neo-classical technique. We used masks, performed with rock bands and did pop videos.
While yoga was always a part of our training, it wasn't until 1992 that we realised the expressive potential and choreographic viability of yoga postures. Once we began to devise works using yoga asanas, their extraordinary artistic logic became evident.
Surprisingly, it would seem that there has been no orthodox tradition for using yoga technique to create dances in the 5000 year history of the discipline. The postures intrinsically possess a sumptuous beauty and fluidity. They are the ideal vehicle to express the themes of harmony, balance, spirituality, ecstasy, bliss and mysticism because they are exactly about these subjects in and of themselves. We are now many years into this experiment and each day brings new discoveries.

AN OVERVIEW OF THE WORKSHOP WEEKEND: ADVANCING YOUR PRACTICE WITH SIR EDWARD CLARK IN BERLIN  After kicking off his first visit to Berlin with a breathtaking life performance of the Tripsichore theatre followed by a yoga philsophy lecture and talk, the series of four yoga asana workshops with Sir Edward Clark in Berlin is dedicated to strategies for improving your yoga practice - to understanding how to be your own teacher and how to get more out of your regular classes. Each workshop will include a section on Pranayama and Philosophy - not as separate subjects, but as material that is integral to making your practice grow.
What does it take to move your practice forward? How do you start working on and refining challenging material? Usual answers would consider looking at postures that you find challenging and this could be material that you are already good at as well as that which you find difficult. Both can deepen a practice. A deeper practice isn't just about harder postures though. Rather, it is also the quality with which you perform them. For the full experience, it is strongly recommended to book the complete workshop weekend. While the workshops are structured to be taken as a complete workshop weekend intensive, we all know the time restraints of living in a modern city which is why we are opening up the weekend for the booking of indivdual workshops and Edward very much welcomes individual drop-ins and will take their special needs in consideration when teaching.

THE PRESS ON SIR EDWARD CLARK & TRIPSICHORE:   

"For the past 15 years [Tripsichore] has developed its own unique brand of asana...the practices are a joy to watch and, along with the workshops, a treasure trove of intriguing ideas." - Richard Rosen, Yoga Journal---