Creating inside: Creating outside.

Pregnancy Yoga Day retreat.

Next Date TBA

A day to retreat into your Yoga Practice, Meditation, Deep Relaxation and Making Meditations to empower you in this time of change and waiting.

Escape with me for the day to immerse yourself in yoga, meditation, deep relaxation and creativity.  Birth itself is a powerful meditation where you loose sense of time and become consumed with the energy of birthing your baby.  It is the ultimate climax to a period of creativity in your body.  Pregnancy shifts things emotionally as well as physically and we call for courage as we approach birth and mothering.  On this retreat we will deepen our self awareness through yoga, ayurveda, and through creative experiences inspired by our practice. Pieces of creativity that can become art for your birth.  Working together, playing together; finding support as a group of women  as you move into motherhood.

No artistic skills are needed, very simple creative exercises to create stillness, opening, play and connection.

Cost £75 Including all materials and delicious Ayurvedic drinks, snacks, lunch and afternoon tea.

Limited to 5 people. Email to book your space!

Day Retreat Summer 2018

'Conversations in Self Care'

9th June 2018 11.30-4.30 p.m.

All Saints Junior School Hall, August House, Brownlow Road, Reading RG1 6NP. 

£60 including tea snacks, lunch and afternoon tea and cake.

Join me and our yoga community for a day exploring a beautiful and supported journey into self care.   The day itself will be a mixture of practical action and exploration through yoga, meditation, creative exercise, Ayurvedic practices and writing.   In community; making an individual manifesto and map for your self care Journey.  My aim is to create a starting point of relationship that becomes mandatory in your life. 

Yoga philosophy and Ayurveda explore in texts and practices, self care.  They hold great respect for rhythm and rituals; normalising practices that care for body and mind.  In the same way we brush our teeth, practices are embodied as essential and valuable.  There is an increasing realisation that our experience of health and disturbed health can not sustain the call for increased efficiency, productivity and even the expectation of living a 'full and meaningful life'.   We will look away from thoughts of time management and the expectation that if we could just find the right rountine or job/relationship we will feel better.  We will look at how to care for ourselves despite the challenge of modern life.  Heralding a call to do less, achieve less, and be bored more! Culturally we resist boredom to our downfall.  Stillness is an essential part of our biology.   We will look at nudges and interventions to begin a change in conversation to normalising a revolution of relationship to self care or Dinacharya.  Dinacharya practices should be held within solid yoga philosophy, which we will explore, otherwise they become vulnerable to becoming another area of our lives we feel we are failing at.  Let self care be a wobbly, heart felt but a continuing Journey together. 

I'd love you to walk this path with me.

Women's Day Retreat

                                                                                    Seasons in our Practice
Saturday January 27th 2018 11.30-4.30 p.m.

All Saints Junior School Hall, August House, Brownlow Road, Reading RG1 6NP

Escape for a day with other women who share your love of yoga and are looking for support to balance their well-being.  Through asana, pranayama and meditation practice we will look at how we can theme our practice to meet our changing needs; physically, energetically and emotionally.   In between practices I will share some principles of Yoga and Ayurveda.  Through discussion, eating, drinking and self-massage we will explore and deepen our knowledge of yoga and our relationship of self-care as women.
I will be using the model of our menstrual cycle and the changing rhythms of a lunar month to explore this theme, but it can be applied to any rhythm of your life for example the energy rise and fall within the working week or the fluctuations of the climate and weather and how it affects us seasonally.   We will look at Ayurveda and how diet and lifestyle practices in line with our dosha type can promote well-being and help to balance out fluctuating energy levels and moods.

 £55 including ayurvedic themed lunch and refreshments in breaks.

Courage and Creativity In Yoga
Embodying Yoga on and off the mat.

Saturday 8th July 2017 11.30 a.m.-4.30 p.m.

All Saints Junior School Hall, August House, Brownlow Road, Reading RG1 6NP

£55 including all materials and Ayurvedic Vegetarian/Vegan lunch and Afternoon Tea.

There are many ways to reach a state of yoga, connection and stillness.  A feeling of authenticity and being whole.  In this summer retreat we will be using asana practice to connect us to the five elements.  Using our relationship with the 5 Bhutas or elements; space, air, fire, water and earth,  we will explore asana practices that respond to these qualities in all of us and in turn connect us to nature.  We will form and breath the elements exploring a knowledge of ayurveda and how this can help us to balance our dosha type.  Perhaps you need grounding to develop your earthed relationship?  Or to cultivate a liberating sense of space in the body and mind.  Are you stuck and need to fire into transformation?  Are you rigid and would like to feel more creative and fluid?  Would you like to move through the air to find stillness at the deepest level?

From each practice we will in turn use this energy; translating it and inspiring creative exercises off the mat, helping us to distil and our love of being on the Mat and Yoga off the mat and into our lives. Through creative exercises, we will evolve mediations of making,  finding pathways to courage and a movement to living a life that feels true.

What is instinct as children; exploration, creativity, courage and a self knowing  sureness can become lost and distorted with how our experiences shapes us.  This workshop will be for ALL irrespective of perceived ability.  Take support from this yoga community, coming together, stepping for some of us, outside our comfort zone to explore mark making, clay and colour we will deepen a relationship of playfulness, creativity and courage to ourselves and nature and create a meditation to manifest off the mat.   No artist skills needed!! 

Around our work and play during the retreat we will be nourished by food that restores us through balancing our dosha and feeding our senses. Feasting body and mind and Soul!

Spaces are limited and fill quickly. To book on please email me and secure you place with £20 deposit.  Balance due (£35) beginning of June.