LETTING GO – AN AUTUMN SEASONAL YOGA WORKSHOP
With Sharon Waterson
Friday 18TH October, 7pm – 9:30pm
INVESTMENT: Book online and pay before the day to receive the early bird discount of £20, or drop in and pay £25 on the day as long as there’s space.
Through our technological advances we have created a world where, particularly in developed countries, we live busier and busier lives as the daylight hours and communication barriers no longer restrict us. Despite this, we have begun to feel completely disconnected from ourselves and the world around us. As a result the stress hormones within our bodies remain elevated and our physical and mental health begins to suffer in ways that they never did 100 years ago.
Join Sharon for an immersion into Seasonal Yoga and learn how our daily habits, priorities, dietary intake and behaviours can be altered during the Season of Autumn so that we may become more attuned to the natural world around us. Practice the ancient practices of Hatha yoga, Tai Chi & Qigong to align your energy with that of Autumn.
During the workshop you will discover, in an experiential way, how changing the focus of your meditation, pranayama and asana practice each season can bring about a greater sense of balance and harmony for the whole being.
This workshop will focus on working with the energy channels (meridians) of the Lungs and the Large Intestines, our organs of elimination. Take this opportunity to work with the energy of the metal element this season, consolidating and gathering energy inwards. As the leaves fall more readily from the trees in nature we too must focus on letting go of that which no longer serves us. In doing this we allow the mind and body the time to reflect, cleanse and repair during this more Yin time of year.
The workshop will close with a seasonally inspired Yoga Nidra to leave you feeling relaxed and grounded. With Seasonal treats and factsheets to take home, you will have the tools to begin living more seasonally from the moment you leave the session.
The workshop is suitable for all abilities and open to those from age 12 years upwards. Please note that any persons under 16 years of age should be accompanied by a paying adult.
ONLINE BOOKING LINK: https://bookwhen.com/truselfyoga
CANCELLATION POLICY: 72 hours notice for a full refund or transfer to another Seasonal workshop. If less than 72 hours notice a refund is only possible if your place can be filled by another participant.
QUESTIONS? Please do not hesitate to contact Sharon at sharonwaterson@truselfyoga.co.uk or 07732 042 918
SATURDAY MORNING YOGA CLUB
With Libby Pinkess
Saturday 19th October. 11am – 1pm. (next one Saturday 23rd November)
Cost: £20
Come and join Libby for a fun Hatha Flow workshop. A strong, dynamic, energising class where you have the opportunity to develop and experiment with your yoga practice.
This is the perfect time to ask questions and receive personal assistance. Is there’s a posture you’ve been keen to crack? Please let me know before the workshop and we’ll work on your specific requests.
To book email libbypinkess@gmail.com
Cost: £20
Enjoy a rejuvenating Yin and restorative Yoga practice. We will gently release tension from our bodies as we move through restorative Yoga postures. We will use Yin Yoga postures to release deeper into the fascia and myofascia (the body’s connective tissues). This event is perfect for anyone feeling the physical and mental effects of stress. We will finish with Yoga Nidra, a guided deep relaxation. Yoga Nidra helps us to relax and can help those who struggle with their sleep.
For more information and to book, click here:
This event is perfect for those who spend lots of time driving or sitting at a desk, along with those who have an active lifestyle. Runners, cyclists, gym goers, hikers, rock climbers, we all need to look after our hips! When our hips are too tight it limits our range of movement and increases the load on our lower backs, often resulting in injuries. Equally when our hips are too flexible, injuries are caused from instability.
Together we will explore how we can release the physical tension around the hips to increase movement, create stability as needed, reduce lower back pain and prevent injury. We will explore how these postures can help us to release blocked energy and emotions and cause an energetic shift that can help us tune into our own creativity and self-expression.
£25
MY SACRED SPACE – WOMEN’S CIRCLE
With Orietta Lorenzini
Friday 25th October. 8:15pm – 9:45pm
Cost: £18 or £64 for 4 sessions (advance bookings only)
Replenish – Rest – Restore
An energising, inspiring, restful and nurturing micro-retreat awaits like-minded ‘sisters’ each month on a journey of self-care. Enjoy Yoga Nidra, Crystal & Himalayan Bowl Sound Healing, intuitive movement, Oracle Cards, journalling & self-development, seasonal alignment, supportive talking circle, healing chants and mantras, creative craft, the ‘Divine Feminine’ wisdom, Holistic Life Coaching themes, healthy snacks & tea ritual.
Let your inner cup be replenished in mind, body & spirit.
Orietta is a qualified Sound Healing Practitioner with the College of Sound Healing, a Yoga Nidra Facilitator with the Total Yoga Nidra Network and a qualified Holistic Life Coach.
For more information and to book, contact: orietta.coach@gmail.com
BREATH OF LIFE
With Vicki Shields (SYT)
Saturday 26th October 10:30- 12:00pm and 1pm 3:00pm
Sunday 27th October 10:30- 12:00pm and 1pm 3:00pm
Don’t underestimate the power of your breath when you learn how to switch your breathing from shallow to deep diaphragmatic breathing, it has immense benefits for body and mind. This workshop is aimed at complete beginners but also it is perfect for teachers wanting to deepen their knowledge. Pranayama reduces anxiety, depression insomnia, production of stress hormones and increases a sense of peacefulness towards yourself and others.
This workshop will give you all the tools you need to begin everyday with some simply breathwork, progressing onto simple Pranayama.
The practice of Pranayama; the ability to prolong and control the physical act of breathing, it is deeply therapeutic, and can be considered a tool to help you bring about physical health, increased awareness, calmness and clarity over one’s mind. It is the 4th limb of Patanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga and therefore stands at the very heart of Yoga, and yet it is little understood and rarely taught in any depth in regular weekly classes. Asana alone is rarely enough to achieve the state of “Yoga”.
Those who joined in August will get an opportunity to deepen & further their practice. It offers 10 CPD hours, (eventually building up to 30 CPD). Cultivating enough understanding to eventually pass on into a class situation.
The practice of asana, pranayama and meditation should be integrated , they should inform and complement one another.
PART ONE ( 10 CPD HOURS)
SATURDAY 26TH OCTOBER
10:30-12:30 Understanding the importance of deep breathing and the preparatory exercises that address tension built up in the diaphragm, abdomen and jaw, helping to liberate the breath and the life force energy. Introduction of simple pranayama practice £25
1:00PM-3PM Science & Philosophy and Mantra Recitation £25
Booked together £40
SUNDAY 27TH OCTOBER
10:30-12:30 Building on the understanding of day one with further pranayama techniques £25
1:00pm-3pm Integrating into Asana practice & meditative techniques £25
Booked together £40
Space limited to 12 students booking of both days will take priority at a cost of £75
Those looking to gain 10 CPD will be required to also fulfil 2 hours of home study which includes reading and additional evening practice.
To book, contact Vicki Shields: v.shields@btinternet.com
FAMILY YIN & RESTORATIVE YOGA
With Sofie Swindlehurst
Friday 1st November. 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Cost: £9 / £6 concessions
Come share your chilled Fridays
This family class runs alongside our usual monthly Yin & Restorative (second Friday). It remains an adult class but is geared more toward those who want to bring teens and older juniors – or indeed toward they who want to bring their elders! – for shared space and serenity.
Yin is calm and peaceful. Yang is active and dynamic. Of course we need both but our swift-paced world tends to find life a little too heavy in yang! So here we bring balance and practice the transition back to peace.
Yin Yoga targets the fascia (connective body tissue), opening up tight, dense areas that can build up over time. Blending yin with restorative yoga – where the body is entirely supported for the deepest rest – allows us to ease out, realign and thoroughly restore.
Feel free to drop in or contact Sofie: 07967 820260
YIN & RESTORATIVE YOGA
With Sofie Swindlehurst
Friday 8th November. 6:30pm – 8pm
Cost: £9
Yin is the calm, receptive opposite to dynamic yang. Of course we need both but our swift-paced world tends to find life a little too heavy in yang!
Yin Yoga focuses on the connective tissues of the body using longer-held, more supported asana to open up tight, dense areas that can build up over time. It’s great for those of us with slow-creep postural habits, those of us with specific sports goals and those of us who just want to take better care of our joint health. By coupling with restorative, this practice brings generous relaxation and renewal.
Come revel in spacious stillness.
Feel free to drop in or contact Sofie: 07967 820260
MINDFUL YIN, RESTORATIVE YOGA & YOGA NIDRA MEDITATION WORKSHOP
With Kate Kearns
Saturday 9th November. 2:30pm – 5pm
Cost: £20 Early bird price in advance and this will secure your place or £25 on the day if places are available.
Join Kate for another Yin Season of workshops. Welcoming you to this delicious deep releasing Mindful Yinspiring Yin, Nourishing Restorative and Yoga Nidra Meditation 2.5 hour Workshop.
Yin Yoga offers a slow-paced, meditative style of yoga with postures held for longer periods of time for 3 to 5 minutes in order to improve flexibility by releasing the connective tissues of the body including the tendons, fascia, and ligaments, even joints of the bones generally in the hips, pelvis and lower spine. At the same time there is an emphasis on relaxing the muscular tissue.
Yin can be challenging owing to holding the postures for long periods. The perfect complement to dynamic (Yang) forms of yoga.
Yin aims to unblock meridian channels to encourage energy/chi/prana to flow cultivating harmony and peace, a deeper sense of balance and feelings of calmness and a sense of well-being.as well as organ health. Yin offers a deep release and sense of letting go and brings us into balance when we are out of balance, restoring our Yin and Yang.
Restorative Poses (different to Yin poses) offer nourishment, healing and support and we use the bolsters, blocks, blankets and belts to provide the support we need to provide complete relaxation.
We mix the two styles and I offer options and choices so that you can decide how your practice will unfold and make your own choices that Yinspire and support you.
To finish, a long Yoga Nidra, one of the deepest of all mediations. An effortless relaxation. Yoga Nidra is the prefect end to this Yin Yoga deep releasing and letting go sequence relaxation, bringing incredible calmness, quietness, clarity and deep relaxation.
“Relaxation does not mean sleep. Relaxation means to be blissfully happy; it has no end. I call bliss absolute relaxation; sleep is a different matter. Sleep gives only mind and sense relaxation. Bliss relaxes the ātma, the inner self; that is why, in tantra, Yoga Nidra is the doorway to Samādhi.”
– Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Yoga Nidra, pub. Bihar School of Yoga, 1976.
Suitable for all levels including beginners. Places are limited
To book: online website www.yoga-aura.co.uk . Go to Book Classes Online and register via the booking calendar and choose the workshop you wish attend or purchase the 3 x Workshop package for £45. Or via paypal https://www.paypal.me/YogaAuraWorkshops
or you can message Kate to book your place now. Or book your place now by email to Kate via info@yoga-aura.co.uk or call or text 07795 418266
YIN & YANG YOGA WORKSHOP **
With Amanda Riley
Sunday 10th November 2019. 10am-1pm
Cost: £30 per person (To be paid in full, no refunds available. Full payment to secure booking.)
This workshop will lead you through a strong and rounded vinyasa style Power Yoga flow (attainable for all levels) that will cover forward folds, back bends, hip openers, balance and twists. Warming the body from within, finding movement and flexibility in the spine, opening the hips and detoxing with cleansing twists.
Following this the session will move towards a more gentle and still Yin practice working across the meridians and balancing the body leading to a still and more restorative practice.
We will finish with a deeply relaxing Yoga Nidra.
Includes refreshments.
The ideal full body, balancing workshop to set you up for the winter months.
** A sound meditation may also be included in the event – tbc …
To book email hello@amandarileyyoga.co.uk
YIN YOGA FOR DEEP REST
With Maria Kelly
Friday 15th November. 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Cost: £20 session includes tea and healthy treat to finish.
Yin Yoga for Deep Rest – upon arrival you will be greeted with a relaxing herbal tea. We will then begin the practice with a seated meditation to find stillness preparing us for a grounding Yin Yoga flow. This is then followed by Restorative Yoga using bolsters and props for extra support where we can feel safe to deeply let go of unwanted physical and emotional tension. We end the session with an aromatherapy infused Savasana and Yoga Nidra (guided Relaxation).
Next session Friday 20th December (Festive Yin) 630pm – 830pm
Booking essential as spaces are limited – clink link to book:
http://www.mariayoga.co.uk/2019/08/yin-yoga-for-deep-rest/
MY SACRED SPACE – WOMEN’S CIRCLE
With Orietta Lorenzini
Friday 22nd November. 8:15pm – 9:45pm
Cost: £18 or £64 for 4 sessions (advance bookings only)
Replenish – Rest – Restore
An energising, inspiring, restful and nurturing micro-retreat awaits like-minded ‘sisters’ each month on a journey of self-care. Enjoy Yoga Nidra, Crystal & Himalayan Bowl Sound Healing, intuitive movement, Oracle Cards, journalling & self-development, seasonal alignment, supportive talking circle, healing chants and mantras, creative craft, the ‘Divine Feminine’ wisdom, Holistic Life Coaching themes, healthy snacks & tea ritual.
Let your inner cup be replenished in mind, body & spirit.
Orietta is a qualified Sound Healing Practitioner with the College of Sound Healing, a Yoga Nidra Facilitator with the Total Yoga Nidra Network and a qualified Holistic Life Coach.
For more information and to book, contact: orietta.coach@gmail.com
SATURDAY MORNING YOGA CLUB
With Libby Pinkess
Saturday 23rd November. 11am – 1pm.
Cost: £20
Come and join Libby for a fun Hatha Flow workshop. A strong, dynamic, energising class where you have the opportunity to develop and experiment with your yoga practice.
This is the perfect time to ask questions and receive personal assistance. Is there’s a posture you’ve been keen to crack? Please let me know before the workshop and we’ll work on your specific requests.
To book email libbypinkess@gmail.com
YIN, RESTORATIVE AND YOGA NIDRA WORKSHOP
With The Yoga Family
Sunday 24th November. 10am – 12pm
Cost: £20
Enjoy a rejuvenating Yin and restorative Yoga practice. We will gently release tension from our bodies as we move through restorative Yoga postures. We will use Yin Yoga postures to release deeper into the fascia and myofascia (the body’s connective tissues). This event is perfect for anyone feeling the physical and mental effects of stress. We will finish with Yoga Nidra, a guided deep relaxation. Yoga Nidra helps us to relax and can help those who struggle with their sleep.
For more information and to book, click here:
https://www.theyogafamily.com/workshops-events/
YOGA FOR STRESS WORKSHOP
With The Yoga Family
Sunday 24th November. 1:30 – 4pm
Cost: £25
We are excited to host our first Yoga for Stress workshop. The event is open to all, no previous yoga experience is necessary. Throughout this workshop we will be discussing how our nervous system responds to stress and how we can use various techniques from the yoga practice to find balance during and after times of stress. This event is perfect for those looking for healing tools after periods of depression, anxiety, stress and for post trauma recovery. Our intention is to share with you our knowledge and experience and to leave you with lots of tools to help you through daily life. We hope you can join us for this exciting new workshop!
For more information and to book, click here:
https://www.theyogafamily.com/workshops-events/
GONG YOGA
With The Yoga Family & Martyn Cawthorne
Friday 29th November. 7pm – 9pm
Cost: £30
Join us for two hours of healing vibrations from Gong Spa expert, Martyn Cawthorne whilst moving through energising and restorative yoga postures. This event is open to all. We will move through dynamic postures, find stillness in yin yoga postures and finally drop into a deeper state of relaxation to aid healing and bring about transformation.
For more information and to book, click here:
FAMILY YIN & RESTORATIVE YOGA
With Sofie Swindlehurst
Friday 6th December. 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Cost: £9 / £6 concessions
Come share your chilled Fridays
This family class runs alongside our usual monthly Yin & Restorative (second Friday). It remains an adult class but is geared more toward those who want to bring teens and older juniors – or indeed toward they who want to bring their elders! – for shared space and serenity.
Yin is calm and peaceful. Yang is active and dynamic. Of course we need both but our swift-paced world tends to find life a little too heavy in yang! So here we bring balance and practice the transition back to peace.
Yin Yoga targets the fascia (connective body tissue), opening up tight, dense areas that can build up over time. Blending yin with restorative yoga – where the body is entirely supported for the deepest rest – allows us to ease out, realign and thoroughly restore.
Feel free to drop in or contact Sofie: 07967 820260
YIN & RESTORATIVE YOGA
With Sofie Swindlehurst
Friday 13th December. 6:30pm – 8pm
Cost: £9
Yin is the calm, receptive opposite to dynamic yang. Of course we need both but our swift-paced world tends to find life a little too heavy in yang!
Yin Yoga focuses on the connective tissues of the body using longer-held, more supported asana to open up tight, dense areas that can build up over time. It’s great for those of us with slow-creep postural habits, those of us with specific sports goals and those of us who just want to take better care of our joint health. By coupling with restorative, this practice brings generous relaxation and renewal.
Come revel in spacious stillness.
Feel free to drop in or contact Sofie: 07967 820260
YIN YOGA WITH SOUND HEALING
With The Yoga Family
Sunday 15th December. 10am – 12pm
Cost: £30
We are delighted to be hosting a special Yin and Sound Healing event with Jo Ninada at Inhale Yoga . We will guide you through a yin yoga practice, whilst enjoying the healing vibrations of the crystal bowls. Yin yoga is a slow, meditative practice that helps us to release tension and stress from the body and mind. With the combination of the yoga and the frequencies emitted from the bowls, allow yourself to release all that no longer serves you and connect deeply with yourself. This event is friendly and welcoming to all levels, no previous yoga experience is required.
For more information and to book, click here:
https://www.theyogafamily.com/workshops-events/
Enjoy a rejuvenating yin and restorative yoga practice ready for the festive season. We will gently release tension from our bodies as we move through restorative Yoga postures. We will use yin yoga postures to release deeper into the fascia and myofascia (the body’s connective tissues). This event is perfect for anyone feeling the physical and mental effects of stress. We will finish with Yoga Nidra, a guided deep relaxation. Yoga Nidra helps us to relax and can help those who struggle with their sleep.
For more information and to book, click here:
https://www.theyogafamily.com/workshops-events/
YIN YOGA FOR DEEP REST
With Maria Kelly
Friday 20th December. 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Cost: £20 session includes tea and healthy treat to finish.
Yin Yoga for Deep Rest – upon arrival you will be greeted with a relaxing herbal tea. We will then begin the practice with a seated meditation to find stillness preparing us for a grounding Yin Yoga flow. This is then followed by Restorative Yoga using bolsters and props for extra support where we can feel safe to deeply let go of unwanted physical and emotional tension. We end the session with an aromatherapy infused Savasana and Yoga Nidra (guided Relaxation).
Booking essential as spaces are limited – clink link to book:
http://www.mariayoga.co.uk/2019/08/yin-yoga-for-deep-rest/
MINDFUL YIN, RESTORATIVE YOGA & YOGA NIDRA MEDITATION WORKSHOP
With Kate Kearns
Friday 27th December. 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Cost: £20 Early bird price in advance and this will secure your place or £25 on the day if places are available.
Join Kate for another Yin Season of workshops. Welcoming you to this delicious deep releasing Mindful Yinspiring Yin, Nourishing Restorative and Yoga Nidra Meditation 2.5 hour Workshop.
Yin Yoga offers a slow-paced, meditative style of yoga with postures held for longer periods of time for 3 to 5 minutes in order to improve flexibility by releasing the connective tissues of the body including the tendons, fascia, and ligaments, even joints of the bones generally in the hips, pelvis and lower spine. At the same time there is an emphasis on relaxing the muscular tissue.
Yin can be challenging owing to holding the postures for long periods. The perfect complement to dynamic (Yang) forms of yoga.
Yin aims to unblock meridian channels to encourage energy/chi/prana to flow cultivating harmony and peace, a deeper sense of balance and feelings of calmness and a sense of well-being.as well as organ health. Yin offers a deep release and sense of letting go and brings us into balance when we are out of balance, restoring our Yin and Yang.
Restorative Poses (different to Yin poses) offer nourishment, healing and support and we use the bolsters, blocks, blankets and belts to provide the support we need to provide complete relaxation.
We mix the two styles and I offer options and choices so that you can decide how your practice will unfold and make your own choices that Yinspire and support you.
To finish, a long Yoga Nidra, one of the deepest of all mediations. An effortless relaxation. Yoga Nidra is the prefect end to this Yin Yoga deep releasing and letting go sequence relaxation, bringing incredible calmness, quietness, clarity and deep relaxation.
“Relaxation does not mean sleep. Relaxation means to be blissfully happy; it has no end. I call bliss absolute relaxation; sleep is a different matter. Sleep gives only mind and sense relaxation. Bliss relaxes the ātma, the inner self; that is why, in tantra, Yoga Nidra is the doorway to Samādhi.”
– Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Yoga Nidra, pub. Bihar School of Yoga, 1976.
Suitable for all levels including beginners. Places are limited
To book: online website www.yoga-aura.co.uk . Go to Book Classes Online and register via the booking calendar and choose the workshop you wish attend or purchase the 3 x Workshop package for £45. Or via paypal https://www.paypal.me/YogaAuraWorkshops
or you can message Kate to book your place now. Or book your place now by email to Kate via info@yoga-aura.co.uk or call or text 07795 418266
YIN YOGA & MYOFASCIAL RELEASE WORKSHOP
With Kate Kearns
Saturday 28th December. 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Cost: £20 early bird price/ £25 if paying on the day.
Join Kate for her new Yin and Tonic Workshop that incorporates Myofascial Release techniques with yin yoga poses to help you deeply release tension in the body.
A Yin Yoga and Myofascial Release Workshop, to Unwind, Release and Let Go of tension in the body and to encourage healing and recovery from trauma held in the fascia.
A refreshing and deeply releasing, deliciously yummy and bittersweet practice of letting go of tension we are holding in the body, combining Yin poses with myofascial release techniques placing tennis balls in places of tension, to release and nourish to provide a deeper level of release.
This 2 hour workshop cultivates harmony and balance as we breathe into our yin poses, releasing and letting go of tension, increasing flexibility as our fascia, connective tissues and bones are energised as we soften into edge. Stimulate the meridian channels, releasing blockages and encouraging energy, Chi, Prana, life force to flow through your entire being.
What is self-myofascial release?
The term myofascial refers to the muscles and fascia that surrounds them. Myo- simply means muscle. Therefore, self-myofascial release is a massage technique of applying continued pressure to an area of myofascial tissue that contains restrictions, tightness, inflexibility, adhesions or lacks proper movement.
MFR is very effective for rejuvenating and regenerating muscles and can be used to rehabilitate and restore the health of soft tissue structures increasing movement and aiding recovery.
We will also incorporate these targeting techniques to acupressure points, Back Shu points and Front Mu points, known as “transporting” points because it is said that they transport “Qi” to the inner organs. Using this method also around our ‘belts of tension. Using the tennis balls while we come into and hold our yin poses provides a totally amazing, deep release! Likened to giving yourself a deep tissue massage.
What is Yin Yoga?
“Yin Yoga” Commit to the stillness, observe and allow whatever arises to simply be.
Mindful Yin Yoga is a permissive, nourishing, yielding practice. It works on the deep tissues in the body that need a gentle, longer-held pressure to be stimulated and grow stronger. The asanas in this practice are held for 3 to 7 minutes, while keeping a deep, mindful breathing. The tissue will lengthen, open-up and become stronger, restoring itself and increasing flexibility of the whole body.
Suitable for all levels including beginners
To book: online website www.yoga-aura.co.uk . Go to Book Classes Online and register via the booking calendar and choose the workshop you wish attend or purchase the 3 x Workshop package for £45. Or via paypal https://www.paypal.me/YogaAuraWorkshops
or you can message Kate to book your place now. Or book your place now by email to Kate via info@yoga-aura.co.uk or call or text 07795 418266