workshops
& EXTENDED OFFERINGS
Yoga to support Women’s Health
A 6 week journey
SATURDAY 08:45
WINDMILL HILL CITY FARM
SEPT 7 - OCT 19*
If your body has been saying no through menstrual cycle or fertility challenges, burn out, insomnia, tension, pain, digestive issues, severe anxiety and or constant illness, she’s trying to communicate to you that something isn’t right. Join this 6 week course to help you release stress and tension, connect back to your body and slowly help you to restore health, balance & harmony.
No handstands, complicated poses or binds. These supportive practices are not focused on what it looks like on the outside, these sessions are working their magic on what's going on inside of you. Through somatic movement, tapping, shaking and some yoga, these classes will support you back to health, encouraging your body to release stress, helping you to rebalance the nervous system.
Each session is 1 hour.
We will spend 45mins moving our bodies, leaving 10-15min to grab a cuppa, share, listen, learn, lie down and/or connect 💛
No experience necessary
*No session Oct 5
Release & Replenish
A monthly offering - First Sunday of every month
10:00-12:00 | Windmill Hill City Farm
A monthly movement practice designed to help release tension held in the body-mind-heart 💛
This monthly treat for your bodyheartmind is a practice of two halves. We begin close to the ground, settling awareness on the body and the breath. The practice will then move into a curious and embodied warm-up (with a focus on how things feel not how they look) and will then build in intensity as we begin to move rhythmically - tapping our heels, jumping and squatting - moving in and out of containers and free movement. After raising our heartbeat and meeting the fire in our bellies, we’ll start our return to the earth. In the final part of the practice we move from yang to yin. I will guide you into restorative shapes where your body will be supported by cushions, blocks and bolsters, encouraging the body to release tension and stress.
🍵Because community and connection is important to me (and to our wellbeing), there will be time at the end of the practice to share a sweet treat and/or grab yourself a cup of tea or coffee before you move out of the studio and back into the outside world.
You do not need any prior experience of yoga to join this class
What to expect
In the first half
Move your body to some tunes🙌
Moving between perpetual movement, rest & release. Release stagnation, sluggishness, stress and tension out of the system. When we move, everything moves. You will meet your resistance. But, you will also meet the release.
In between music tracks we take moments of active recovery. Connecting to the sensations we’ve created. Assessing and Absorbing. We take a couple of those layers that prevent us from moving forward.
In the second half
Marinate in stillness, whilst the body does its thing ✨
Longer held, supported shapes (yin yoga postures), slow breathing exercises and meditation/yoga Nidra! By resting, we reprogram the neurological pathways in the brain and give ourselves permission to stay in the body. We feel the sensations and meet ourselves as we are in relationship to the world around us.
It’s a yummy combination, and so delicious for your body to experience this each month !
the impact of these practices
Part 1 | Somatic Release
Emotional (stress) release
Psychological relief
Letting down your guard
Experiencing authenticity
Recognising that you have a choice
(Re) igniting the inner spark
Strong resilient body
Part 2 | Embodied Yin
Regulation of the nervous system
Feeling the support of the Earth (grounding)
Rearrangement of our whole self
The body comes back to homeostasis
Reprogram the neurological pathways in the brain and give ourselves permission to stay in the body
Self-regulation