Archive for the 'Yoga & Meditation' Category
Yin – The ultimate unwind – 3 poses
Yin yoga has to be one of the best ways to unwind years of tension that build up in your body. Imagine the same patterns that your body moves in, day in and day out. In our culture, those patterns often involve sitting at a desk, leaning over and generally are not good for our […]
6 week Qi Gong Course with Gregg Hartnett
“Qi gong is a strategy for freedom from our cage of isolation” – Garri Garripoli Qi gong is a system of energetic and meditative practices that originated in Ancient China. In this class, you will experience a variety of qigong forms to help loosen the body, clear stagnant energy, open energetic pathways and build qi. […]
Beginners Yoga Course – Monday
This beginners yoga course is perfect for those completely new to yoga or haven’t been in a while and would like to refresh. Learn the basic postures, breath work and develop a great yoga foundation. Yoga is one of the original concepts which today would be labelled as holistic. That means that the body is related to […]
Candlelight Yin Yoga & Yoga Nidra
Candlelight Yin Yoga & Yoga Nidra with Anna Olsson Do you need to unwind after a long week? This workshop is the perfect antidote to a build-up of stress and strain. We will begin with a guided meditation to allow ourselves to arrive at this dreamy practice, a combination of Yin yoga and Yoga Nidra. […]
5 Ways to Nurture New Habits: Out With The Old, In With The New
Are you cynical about New Year resolutions but keen to make some positive changes in your life next year? Mindfulness helps to reduce the effort that people experience in making changes, according to Jean Kristeller, psychology professor at Indiana State University. The practice of yoga and meditation helps us to develop the skill of mindfulness. Read […]
Yoga and Nutritional Therapy for Peri-Menopause Workshop
Yoga and Nutritional Therapy for Peri-Menopause with Petra Fulham & Niamh Daly Fluctuations in our hormones can govern much of our emotional, mental and physical health, throughout our lives. In this workshop, we will address the least supported phase of our hormonal life: peri/menopause, which begins for most women in her 40s, even before she […]
Your Spine, Your Health with Bev Porrino
Back pain can be a miserable companion and like any miserable companion, you do not want to encourage it. Many people experience back pain at some point in their life, which is hardly surprising given our current lifestyle and habits. During this 2 hour workshop, you will learn how to use your yoga practice and […]
10 tips for getting the best out of Yin Yoga
People often mistake the “Yin” style of yoga for restorative yoga. Well, it’s far from it. Restorative is all about being comfortable and slowing down your nervous system. Allowing gravity to hold you and gently unwind tension. Yin, on the other hand, puts both our bodies and minds through their paces. Holding the Yin posture […]
What is Yin Yoga?
Would you like to deepen your practice, increase flexibility and increase your meditative abilities? Yin Yoga could be the perfect complementary practice and a welcome antidote to a busy lifestyle. Yin yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga with poses, or asanas, that are held for longer periods of time—five minutes or longer per pose […]
Pilates or Yoga?
Cheese or tulips? Swimming or cycling ? Bruce Lee or Rudolf Nureyev? What’s the difference? On the surface, both disciplines present similarities like breathing, moving and wearing stretchy apparel. When we look closer they are as different as Martial Arts are to Ballet. I’d even go as far as to say that if they were people […]