The opportunity to unwind and restore using restorative yoga and guided meditation.

This is your you-time, where you focus on letting go physically and mentally.

Each session will have a different theme for you to follow and take away with you. From mantras to kriyas, ideas to exercises. Every session will be relaxing and rejuvenating.

This class is a wonderful addition to your other yoga classes as it helps you to travel inward. The other classes that I offer are more physical and dynamic so this class will be a way for you to exercise your well being and mental health, too. It will also be a chance to work solely on flexibility, no strength training or sweaty flows. Purely breath work and slow movements.

If you book all 4 sessions you will receive a lavender eye bag at your first one.

Learn to tune in and help balance you chakra (energy) system. You will go through each chakra, meditating and practising asana to connect, understand, let go and balance your energetical centres. This be a personal exploration of learning what is going on for you, and how you can bring more balance into your life.

Exploring asanas (yoga postures) to help tune and balance the 7 main energy centres, called chakras. Each chakra is associated with particular functions within the body and with specific life issues and the way we handle them, both inside ourselves and in our interactions with the world. Chakras become blocked by stress and holding on to negative emotions.

Practising yoga poses that correspond to each chakra can release these blockages and clear the path to feeling whole, becoming your true self and connecting to your higher consciousness. Learn to come into balance physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Taking place on Summer Solstice big shifts can take place and each of you will receive an Aura spray at the start of the session.

This also falls on world yoga day and each year I ask my yogis if they might spare a donation to Folly Wildlife Rescue. If you would like to I'll have a collection tin at the front.

It is said that we store emotion in our hips, specifically trauma, and while we can't scientifically pin down a correlation between tightness in the hips and our emotions, we do know that when we are in stressful situations (“fight or flight” occurrences), we engage our emotional muscles, and we tighten our hips.

The tighter our hips, the tighter the lower back; with tension amassing in these regions, the Psoas is prone to shortening, making it harder to walk, sit, stand, and practice yoga. Our lifestyle choices of office work, sitting too much, attending the gym without stretching prior all result in hip flexor compression and shortening leading to hip, knee and lower back pain and problems. Running and cycling can also have similar impacts on the hips. Learning to open your hips safely is the prime goal of this workshop – we will use seated, supine and standing postures to increase range of movement, muscle, joint and ligament strength and flexibility.

This workshop will contain yoga asana that will help open and release your hips, through slow yoga and yin yoga we will slowly but surely delve into the connective tissue and safely increase flexibility.

In yoga we celebrate the moon as a feminine source of energy (receptive, cool and embracing), we will embrace this and channel it into our yoga. To start we will warm up with some slowed down Moon Salutations then begin with our restorative practice. Slow and gentle in cardiovascular terms yet productive with flexibility and holds, the slow flow will embrace feminine pose such as Goddess and Wild Thing - poses with a focus on letting go. Restorative targets the connective tissues, such as the ligaments, bones, and joint capsules of the hips, pelvis and lower spine, this slow but effective style includes longer asana holds to allow the body to deepen into poses and stretches but in a truly relaxing and mindful way with the overall intention again of letting go, releasing and surrendering. Ending with a guided yoga Nidra practice to fully release any tension or cares. You will be presented with a full moon ritual card to take home with you to fully embrace the 'Snow' moon.

Guided meditation is exactly what is says on the tin! Meditation that I lead you through. You will be in Savasana (lying down) the entire time, comfy and cosy, wrapped in blankets and cushions.

Some benefits:

Guided Meditation will have an effect on your overall cognitive abilities, helping you to focus more, have more concentration, develop skills quicker, and increase your memory powers.

Give you an amazing, magical experience by taking you on a journey into the unknown doorways in your mind.

It will help you to think clearer, and clear your mind of cluttering thoughts, that clog the mind.

It will help to increase mental well-being and can help with depression and anxiety.

It will help to lower blood pressure, and reduce stress.

Has been shown to help with treatment of many illnesses, and improve overall quality of life.

Improves your visualisation skills, which will help to improve right brain thinking.

Strengthens the connection between the right and left hemisphere of your brain.

Improves physical health, by slowing down your heart rate.

Deepens the connection to your subconscious mind.

Helps you to relax at a very deep level.

Yin yoga will prepare you physically and mentally for the later stage of meditation, slowing the body and the mind as you explore the body from deep within. Once the Yin has worked it's magic, we welcome Savasana with warm blankets and cushions to cocoon you as you are guided through your Yoga Nidra practice. You can of course bring your own blankets and pillows if you wish.

The workshop is suitable for anyone of any yoga experience, regardless of age, fitness level, health or knowledge. All are welcome - any queries let me know.

Challenging and trusting yourself as you learn to prepare your mind for all inversions and arm balances, in this session you will learn Crow, Eight Angle and Handstand drills as well as preparation and warm down techniques, breath work and drills/poses to help you build strength to achieve your goals. No arm balance experience necessary, just a desire to expand your current yoga/fitness abilities. 
Your strong, balanced practice starts now. 
1.5 hours long with coconut water and hands on tuition. 
Suitable for beginner and intermediate yogis, some fitness/yoga experience is necessary.

If you run you have more than likely suffered the down side - twinged muscles, ankles that give way, Sciatica, dodgy knees, tight hamstrings and thighs. But you love the up side, and that's why you plod on! You enjoy the cardiovascular benefits, the strength, freedom and stamina. Or perhaps you find it therapeutic. Whether you wish to improve your running or nurse/prevent an injury this workshop is sure to help you out.

Exploring poses which will help ease out any injuries caused by running and work into tight areas such as ankles, hamstrings, hip flexors, calves and thighs before moving on to a more dynamic 'flow' to develop a more efficient breathing style to incorporate into your runs. Slowing down again we will look into lengthening the spine, often compressed by running, and twisting it also as runners often only exercise in the sagittal plane (vertical) and opening the chest again to expand the breaths.

The workshop is suitable for anyone who does not have any serious injuries, broken bones and the like, and runs regularly or has just got into running.

Workshops:

Partner Yoga

Acro Yoga

Yoga for Women

Desk Yoga

Yoga for Cyclists

Native American Healing

Sound Bath

Backbends and Drop backs

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Classes:

Senior Yoga

Post Natal Yoga

Pregnancy Yoga

Yoga for you and your baby

Yoga Fitness for Men

Mindfulness 

Yoga for Teens