LIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP
Date: Sunday 9th June 2024
Time:  3.30pm – 6pm
Cost: £25.00

This afternoon is an opportunity to slow down, take care of yourself and explore practices that really soothe the mind, body and whole nervous system.

We are living in stressful, challenging and very busy times, and in order to stay calm and balanced we need to regularly carve out time to slow down, take care of ourselves and move away from all of the stimulation of the outside world.

This workshop will allow us to turn inwards, to rest and connect deeply to our body, breath, and present moment sensations.

In doing so, our mind can begin to quieten, our body can release deeply held tension and tightness and find more ease and our nervous system can begin to calm down and help us to feel safe, soothed and relaxed again.

We’ll begin the afternoon with a series of gentle, grounding, mindful and somatic movements to release stress and tension, allowing energy to flow freely but calmly through the body again.

We will also explore a number of soothing and calming practices, including breath work, mudras and mantra, before eventually settling into some longer-held restorative poses to soak up some deep rest, and connect to a place of inner calm and stillness.

The afternoon will finish with a grounding and calming yoga nidra (deep yoga sleep) practice. Yoga nidra has been described as “an effortless state of restfulness in the form on a horizontal meditation that takes place just on the threshold of sleep.” (Uma Dinsmore Tuli)

By the end you will feel deeply rested, refreshed and recharged – ready to move forwards from a place of inner calm to navigate these ever busy and changing times.

 “If we look at our lives, we will see clearly how many unimportant tasks, so called ‘responsibilities’ accumulate to fill them up. We tell ourselves we want to spend more time on the important things in life but there never seems to be enough time. There are things which have to be done and we feel we have no choice about. By the time we are finished doing everything that has to be done, we’re too tired to do anything else”. 

Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Lama

Please contact me if you have any questions or would like to book a place.

Next Dates:  
Thursdays 16th May – 13th June 2024 – booking now open – just a few spaces left
Thursdays 20th June – 18th July 2024
Thursdays 25th July – 22nd August 2024
Time: 10:15 – 11:15
Cost: £70.00
Location: FieldWorks Dance, 274 Richmond Road, London E8 3QW
Pre-booking required for the 5 weeks – spaces are limited to ensure everyone feels comfortable and has enough space

A fun, engaging and relaxing class for mums & babies and a great way to get moving safely again after your pregnancy and birth

This 5 week course is specially designed to help with new mothers’ postnatal recovery whilst also allowing time for engaging, bonding and relaxing with baby.

The course is suitable for all news mums from 6+ weeks postnatal (8 weeks after a Caesarean birth) up until babies are fully crawling.

Each week the focus will be on helping new mothers to regain strength in their body, to open and release areas of tightness and tension in the back, neck and shoulders, and to find space for relaxation. We will also include some gentle yoga stretches and movements for babies.

The course will include movements and breath work to safely and gently tone the abdominal muscles from deep within, allowing them to ‘knit back’ together, and to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles in conjunction with the breath: a ‘closing of the body’ after pregnancy and labour.

The classes also focus on the re-alignment of the spine and pelvis, and encourage an awareness of posture in all movements, including the care and handling of babies.

An emphasis on the breath throughout the classes will help to develop a sense of wellbeing, and we build in time for relaxation so both mothers and babies feel nurtured.

We explore postures and practices mums can do with and without their babies so they can easily continue their yoga at home.

The classes will be informal, fun and relaxed, and mums are free to feed, change, comfort or soothe babies to sleep whenever necessary.

The benefits of regularly attending postnatal classes in the form of a course include:

• the course allows us to build on practices and progress each week
• regular attendance allows you to really feel the benefits of the practice
• it also allows babies to feel more comfortable and at ease in the class, and with other babies
• a regular group builds a greater sense of support and community amongst new mums and babies

The course is a great opportunity to reconnect with familiar faces from pregnancy yoga classes and to get to know other new mums in the local area. 

Please contact me if you have any questions regarding the course or would like to book a place.

T&Cs: please note that the course is non-refundable, and in the unlikely event that another lockdown occurs then the remainder of the course will transfer online live via Zoom.

Date: Saturday 6th July 2024
Time: 15:00 – 17:30
Price: £28.00 early bird if booked by 2nd June/ £35.00 thereafter
Venue: The Canvas, 27 Old Ford Rd, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PJ

Summer is often a time of increased physical activity as we make the most of the warmer and longer days and our inner fire element is at its peak. It’s a wonderful time to honour the sun in all of its glory and acknowledge the infinite source of light within ourselves.

However, all of the excitement, warmth, and outward flowing energy that comes with the summer can also lead to us feeling ‘overheated’ in our body and mind, resulting in anxiety, agitation, or disturbed sleep, and we can often burn out by Summer’s end.

We need to balance all of the activity, stimulation and social interaction of summer with some quiet time and deep rest, and this afternoon’s workshop is an invitation to slow down and turn inwards, to rest, and to cool, calm and rebalance our body and mind.

Starting with some gentle and mindful movement, we’ll move into the stillness of longer held yin poses, followed by a long and delicious yoga nidra, to leave you fully rested and relaxed by the end of the practice.

We’ll also explore some cooling breathing practices, soothing self-massage and mudras, to help restore balance to our system during the hot days of summer.

You’ll finish the workshop feeling balanced, calm, re-focussed and ready to mindfully embrace all the joys that summer has to offer.

The workshop is open to yoga practitioners of all levels, including beginners and those new to yin yoga.

“I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields….”

Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

To book a place, or if you have any questions, please contact me