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FREE Outdoor Family Yoga and storytelling sessions

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The WILDER WEEKEND is your chance to have some fun in nature!
 
As you probably know yoga and nature are my two favourite things in life. And now I can offer them both, for FREE! ? Before I share with the wider public I wanted you to know first.
 
I am happy to announce as part of Cheshire Wildlife Trust activities in Crewe, I will be providing FREE Family Yoga and storytelling sessions on Sunday 25th of Sep:
 
Suitable for children ages 4-9.
 
Yogi Superhero Adventures in Nature – Family Yoga session and storytelling prepared by the author. A fun Family yoga activity designed around the Forest and woodland animals

Tree Full of wonder – Family Yoga Session based on the book Tree Full of Wonder. Tree Full of Wonder is a vibrant, rhyming, educational and unique picture book showing the unbreakable bond between people and trees. For children ages 3-8. Kids will fall in love with nature and will become Protectors of the Trees.
Mindful stories for kids create a brighter and calmer future, one child at a time.

Through included, simple information, breathtaking illustrations and worksheets at the end, children will discover:
– Why trees are important and useful to us
– What can we do to protect them
– How to recognise common trees
 
There will be also a Tree Hunt available for children/families,  and a few paperback copies of my book hidden somewhere in the trees, and you will have to find them…
 
Limited spaces are available. Book yours NOW! ?
 
1 space = 1 mat for the parent and child or two parents and a child, or a parent and two children
Once you booked your space, the health questionnaire will be emailed to you.
 
 
Location: Bandstand, Queens Park 25th of Sep 2022
 
Outdoor Family Yoga – Yogi Superhero Adventures in Nature – Forest 2 pm – 2.30 pm
 
          https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/406874601887

Outdoor Family Yoga – Tree Full of Wonder  2.45 pm – 3.15 pm
 
       https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/406885815427
 
 
The benefits of Family Yoga in nature:
– discover more about the well-being benefits of nature 
– have fun as a family
– learn more about trees and forest
– combining calming effects of Yoga and Nature
 
For more information visit: cheshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/wilder-weekend-2022   
 
Hope to see you soon

New Class!

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There’s a new gentle Hatha Yoga class starting this week @ St. Peter’s church hall near Leighton. Every Thursday 8pm. All levels welcome.
The space is clean and very warm in winter. ? It’s a small community of really nice people, so if you would like to join us drop me a message!

Yoga is Life

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I hope you are well and you are enjoying the beautiful summer we have. I was thinking about what to share this month and it came to me that many people see yoga as practice on the mat, whatever the practice is. But for me, yoga is so much more. Life is my practice. And this summer I am working very hard with my fear of water. I learned how to swim when I was 38. It’s still new and I have a lot of negative associations with water, especially deep water because I was drowning three times as a child. For the last few years, I was practising befriending my fear in a deep swimming pool. And it was tough. I had panic attacks each time I couldn’t touch the bottom, but lifeguards were there, so I didn’t worry too much and kept going. And after a few months, my mind got used to it and I felt safe. So I moved to a deeper one. The same process happened. So I dared to swim in the lake. With no one watching. But I had my little buoy with me so each time fear paralysed my body I was resting on it. And I still keep going. The fear is still here, but I think we have an understanding. It knows I won’t give up. I am stubborn, and each time it gets smaller and smaller.
My friend asked me–why am I doing this to myself? The answer is so easy – life is so much bigger than our minds, our fears. Fear is limiting my perception of the world and I want to see life as it is and not what’s comfortable to see. Hence, I face my fear. That’s the only way, safe and small steps, but hopefully one day I will get there. And each time I conquer fear, the feeling of freedom is expanding and I float… I feel weightless… I feel like I come closer to something, closer to life, closer to the truth. Everything in our life is a practice, and how we react to it is up to us.
 
 

Yoga Evening classes – Brine Leas College starting Sep 22

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So that’s what we did last Friday at the Brine Leas Showcase!
I’ve been teaching the Brine Leas Yoga evening classes for a year now and I really enjoyed it. And we start again in September!
There will be additional advance yoga and meditation class and my husband will teach Yoga for Men! All on Wednesday night!
And my stand was next to the one and only Mel who is also a German teacher (and a very good one too! I took her class) and she will also start some soap and bath bombs workshops too!
The programme will be ready for you by the end of next week. Email our fabulous Ann at evening.classes@brineleas.co.uk to get one straight into your inbox!
or have a look at the link below:
http://brineleas.co.uk/information/evening-classes/
 
See you there!

Clearing the mind…

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When I was in the Ashram, I was part of the gardening team as my Karma yoga, and after two years of Covid, you can imagine there was a lot of weed to deal with in the gardens. Somehow I became an expert, especially on dock leaves. As the internet is informing us, “The leaves are used to soothe nettle stings and often grow nearby the offending plant. The cooling properties were also used to soothe insect bites and stings, as well as scalds, blisters, and sprains. They were a popular remedy for staunching bleeding or for purifying the blood.” It worked with nettle stings!
 
It’s a strange little plant which spreads quickly, but the most fascinating is the roots. It had very strong roots. Reminded me of parsnip but much thinner and more flexible. Some roots are deep down in the soil and to remove them, you have to come up with a system of loosening the ground around it and digging under before pulling it out. Sometimes a lot of force is required, I even lost my balance and landed flat on my back. Sometimes I didn’t remove the root and only the leaves stayed in my hands. And the next year new leaves will come up, maybe weaker but still there.
 
Some roots were wrapped around another plant, living almost in a symbiotic relationship. It was almost difficult to recognise which root belong to which plant.
 
And it’s the same with our mind, isn’t it? Our mind is built on unique patterns of behaviour and emotional responses. And sometimes they are rooted so deeply in our minds that we think they are part of our DNA. We identify with our thoughts and we think that’s who we are. But we are not. We can change any behaviours because the real You is under all those layers of patterns, and we need to uncover it again.