YIN, RESTORATIVE AND YOGA NIDRA
With The Yoga Family
Sunday 17th February 10-12pm
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/
OPEN HEART MASTERCLASS
With The Yoga Family
Sunday 17th February 2019 1.30-4pm
In our Open Heart Yoga Master Class we will be learning how to explore backbends safely, with correct alignment and with ease. Each Master Class is designed to push you out of your comfort zone while giving you a greater understanding of yoga philosophy, enabling you to deepen your practice. Backbends are a powerful element of the yoga practice as they help us to release tension from the front of our bodies. Regular backbends ensure we have the vital flexibility and movement of the spine. Together we will explore how these postures stimulate the heart chakra. We will use these postures to connect deeper with ourselves and to release blocked emotions. Open your heart and embrace the love within.
For more information and to book, click here:
https://www.theyogafamily.com/workshops-events/
FAMILY YIN & RESTORATIVE YOGA
With Sofie Swindlehurst
Friday 1st March. 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 & TONIC: YIN YOGA WORKSHOP WITH TIBETAN SINGING BOWLS RELAXATION
With Kate Kearns
Saturday 2nd March. 2:30 – 4:30pm
Join me on Saturday afternoon for Yin and Tonic!! A Yin Yoga and Relaxation Workshop, to Unwind, Release and Let Go!!! A refreshing and releasing deliciously yummy, letting go to create space, mindful Yin Yoga practice ending with the perfect tonic, a long refreshing, soothing Shavasana with Tibetan Singing Bowl Sound Healing.
“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 that normally 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.
• The perfect complement to dynamic (Yang) forms of yoga.
• Yin aims to unblock energy channels known as the meridians and offers a deep release and sense of letting go. Cultivating harmony and peace, a deeper sense of balance and feelings of calmness.
• Yin is a quiet and simple yoga practice but that does not mean that it is easy. Yin can be challenging owing to holding the postures for long periods. We can use props like blocks, bolsters, blankets and cushions help us to remain at our appropriate edge and support us in the pose.
• Mindful yin Yoga is a path, a journey that we embark on in our practice where our intention is not to get somewhere else in our practice, but to be just where we are. To be in the moment, with our breath, just being aware of our intention of staying mindful.
• Mindful Yin Yoga is non-judging and is about being fully present and with kindness to ourselves and self-compassion in our hearts.
• Mindful yin yoga taps in to our innate potential for healing and it cultivates our ability to embody wisdom and self-compassion and can help us to free whatever arises in our lives with integrity, with clarity and with an open-hearted presence. Suitable for all levels including beginners.
Investment: £15 Early bird price paying by the paypal link http://paypal.me/YogaAuraWorkshops or bacs secures your place.
£20 if paying on the day. Book your place now by email to Kate via info@yoga-aura.co.uk or call or text 07795 418266 or use the Paypal link. Cancellation policy – up to 72 hours before the event I can offer a space on another workshop. If I can get someone to take your place then I can offer a refund.
TWEEN YOGA & ART WORKSHOP
With The Sea Within
Saturday 9th March. 10:30am – 12pm
Cost: £12
Come and join The Sea Within for a monthly tween art and yoga workshop!
The workshop will offer 8-11 year olds the chance to gain confidence and self-awareness, through gentle yoga postures and creative activities.
This age group is an important bridge between childhood and adulthood and yoga can help children to step back from the every day and understand their bodies and emotions better.
Children will take part in yoga movement, meditations and art activities. With a strong focus on building children’s confidence, calm and resilience.
To book your child’s space, please contact Jessica: jessica@the-sea-within.com
MINDFUL YIN, RESTORATIVE & YOGA NIDRA MEDITATION WORKSHOP
With Kate Kearns
Saturday 9th March 2:30pm – 5pm
Cost: £20 Early bird price in advance of the workshop and this will secure your place or £25 on the day if places are available
Please join Kate for a delicious deep releasing Mindful Yinspiring Yin, Restorative and Yoga Nidra Workshop – Mindfully Release, Relax and Let Go.
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 energy channels and offers a deep release and sense of letting go. Cultivating harmony and peace, a deeper sense of balance and feelings of calmness and a sense of well-being.
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 you practice will unfold.
To finish, a long yoga Nidra, one of the deepest of all meditations. 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.
Book your place now by email to Kate via info@yoga-aura.co.uk or text 07795 418266. or via paypal https://www.paypal.me/YogaAuraWorkshops
YIN & RESTORATIVE YOGA
With Sofie Swindlehurst
Friday 15th March. 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
QUIET EARTH: A WARMING & DEEPLY RELAXING YOGA ‘REST’- SHOP
WITH JOANNA NAJDUCH
Saturday 16th March. 1:30pm – 4:30pm
Cost: £30
Restorative Yin Yoga combined with essential oils by Neal’s Yard is sure to transport you to the deep peace of a quiet earth.
The comfort of these superb essential oils will allow you to feel balance, grounding and ultimately steadiness in your entire being – body, mind and spirit.
A Reiki Master, Meditation and Yoga Teacher – Joanna has been teaching Yin Yoga for 15 years!
Come join Joanna for a journey on the mat…exploring the physical body and its meridians with gentle yin yoga, powerful essential oils, affirmations, mudras and mantras as well as deep and restorative meditation and yoga nidra.
If you are feeling fragmented, disconnected, stressed, anxious or simply would love to feel even more peaceful and relaxed – let me guide you! You will feel re-vitalised and re-nourished in a relaxed way!
“Deep peace of the quiet earth to you….’
Please reserve your place early as numbers are limited to just 20 spaces for this popular workshop!
For bookings please contact: joanna_naj@hotmail.comJust 20 places available – NO REFUNDS.
GONG YOGA WORKSHOP
With The Yoga Family & Martyn Cawthorne
Friday 22nd March. 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. No yoga Experience is required.
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.
To book, email: hello@theyogafamily.com
MINDFUL YIN, RESTORATIVE & YOGA NIDRA MEDITATION WORKSHOP
With Kate Kearns
Saturday 23rd March 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Cost: £20 Early bird price in advance of the workshop and this will secure your place or £25 on the day if places are available
Please join Kate for a delicious deep releasing Mindful Yinspiring Yin, Restorative and Yoga Nidra Workshop – Mindfully Release, Relax and Let Go.
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 energy channels and offers a deep release and sense of letting go. Cultivating harmony and peace, a deeper sense of balance and feelings of calmness and a sense of well-being.
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 you practice will unfold.
To finish, a long yoga Nidra, one of the deepest of all meditations. 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.
Book your place now by email to Kate via info@yoga-aura.co.uk or text 07795 418266. or via paypal https://www.paypal.me/YogaAuraWorkshops
YIN, RESTORATIVE & YOGA NIDRA
With The Yoga Family
Sunday 24th March. 10am – 12pm
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:
HIP HIP HURRAY YOGA WORKSHOP
With The Yoga Family
Sunday 24th March 1:30pm – 4pm
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.
For more information and to book, click here:
BREATH OF LIFE
With Vicki Shields (SYT)
Saturday 11th May 10:30- 12:00pm and 1pm 3:00pm
Sunday 12th May 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 july 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 11TH MAY
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 12TH MAY
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