“Mudra – the power is in your fingertips”
Saturday 4th May, 2pm -5.30pm, at Yoga Bodhi, central Bath! (Book through Yoga Bodhi website £35/£30 early bird)
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‘Restorative Yoga Workshop…Moving into Darkness with a Ready Brek Glow’
Sunday 11th November 10.30 – 4pm £50 (£45 conc) (including shared pot luck lunch)
A morning of warming, uplifting Hatha yoga-flow sequences to spark the creative spirit, and keep the bones jigging through winter….followed by an afternoon of deep Restorative yoga; let go and fall apart safely, gathering yourself up with freshness and resolve.
Venue: The Beautiful Yurt Space now located at Woolley Grange Hotel and Spa,
Bradford on Avon, BA15 1TX
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‘Contact Yoga/partners yoga workshop’ 10.30am – 2pm Sunday 16th September 2018 £35 including refreshments
Hatha Yoga is a conversation between body, energy, breath, and gravity…
In contact yoga/partners yoga, another being comes into the conversation, requiring enhanced listening, sensitivity and trust.
We find increased challenge with balance, when to push, when to yield, and poses are experienced in fresh perspective.
There is the energetic motivation to move beyond our habitual limits, the mutual grounding/support providing the possibility of deeper release….and while there is a playfulness in connection and exploration, there is also a greater depth in meditation and breath work.
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‘Yoga and Shiatsu massage’ 10.30am – 3.30pm Sunday 10th June 2018
Venue: The Practice Rooms, 26, Upper Borough Walls, CENTRAL BATH, BA11RH
Yoga and Shiatsu (Highlighting meridian stretches in Asana, and learning a basic Shiatsu massage routine!)
Over the years I have found that bodywork and yoga complement and deepen each other.
This day will involve a basic introduction to the concept of meridians as used in Shiatsu and Acupuncture, and then applying this in Yogasana.
In the afternoon workshop, working in pairs you will learn a hands on simple Shiatsu massage routine, which is profoundly relaxing, and a wonderful gift to take away and spread the bodywork love amongst friends and family.
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“Winter Yoga Flow Morning” 10am -1pm Saturday 9th December 2017
This is not a time for exuberant accomplishments, but a time to withdraw, conserve, and nurture. In these darker months, the subconscious realms become stronger, more energy is available for visioning, remembering, and dreaming…. It is a time for incubating seeds of long-term plans as we connect with our deeper selves.. 
An extended session of Hatha yoga flow yoga infused with breath and presence.
With the season of Winter as our guide, we will weave the threads of our intention into the fibres of our bodies…
Warming, strengthening, slow and steady flows, drawing fire into the belly and nourishing the heart.
Meditations on the wintering process.
Extended Yoga Nidra. Deep rest.
£30 (concession £20)
“Partners Yoga and Massage Pamper Day” Sunday 10th December, at the beautiful Southstoke House
Southstoke, BA27DS
10.30am -3.30pm
A morning of energizing, playful, and deeply relaxing contact yoga, with Sophie Shenstone – connect with your breath, play with balance and weight transfer, grounding and stretching, mutual support and trust. The meditative aspects as well as the toning and stretching aspects are heightened when yoga involves two beings.
Shared lunch in the tranquil, leafy grounds. Everyone brings a dish to share.
Afternoon workshop learning a hands-on Integrative oil massage routine, from Leonie Watson (Leonie Watson.com). Bring your partner to this day for a lovely pre Christmas treat, and take your massage skills with you to cosy up in the winter months. Take a laminated crib sheet away with you for reference.
Samhain Yoga Day
Sunday 29th October 10.15am -2.30pm £48 (£35 concession)
venue Monkton Farleigh Village Hall, (between Bradford-on-Avon and Bath ) BA15 2QD
When we recognise the turning of the wheel, we acknowledge the flow of energies around us, and are supported by this flow rather than struggling against the current….
Morning Yoga Session: Stoke your inner fire with Pranayama and Bandha, as the energies of Nature start to withdraw…Warming, strengthening vinyasa combined with Mudra and breath, to harness the flow of intention, feel grounded and steady amidst the seasonal shifts, and boost immunity.
Lunch/tea break – shared pot-luck lunch in the peaceful countryside environment
Afternoon workshop: Restorative Yoga – learn the art of total relaxation.
“Spring Power Yoga day…spring clean and re align”
Sunday 14th May 10.30 – 3pm (pot luck lunch, bring a dish to share)
All yoga practice helps deal with internal negative reaction and STRESS.
We can really make a difference to the potency of our practice by working strongly with intention,
engaging the rampant mental energy rather than wondering what to do with it!
Winter is partly about hibernating, cogitating, dreaming, pulling in the tentacles, gathering inward, being kind to ourselves when we have less energy or feel run down….
…all these things, plus allowing the questions, letting them be…
As we come out of Winter, there is that new surge of hope and verdancy, new shoots pushing up, raucous birdsong, the untarnished emerald of tender new leaves….
Nature is being reborn, we are actually here to see and feel another Spring…How can we not respond to this with a stirring of hope and renewed engagement?
With our yoga practice we can harness this Spring Power…
First we focus on cleansing;
Sweeping out dusty, sticky, grimy energy, with Pranayama and Asana that aid the ‘detoxing’. (Kriya Yoga)
Yogic detoxing that is kind and holistic, gentle on the spirit – not a dramatic purging that betrays a harshness towards the body, and leaves us empty only wanting to refill with more grime…
Then the intention to align with the promise of Spring...
aligning Willpower and Direction, with Surrender.
Ultimately the Universe holds us, we can only flow with the immensity of that current…(if we flow against, we can feel it in every pore…)
But within this Surrender, the promise of Spring is that we have our own path, our potential for wise evolution, our own dreams to manifest…and we have renewed energy to use wisely.
Just as the Horse Chestnut Buds burst slowly and surely and more and more proudly, out of their sticky sheaths…..their leafy hands reaching out into their destiny…so we have our own path to co create.
venue North Wraxhall Village Hall, A420, Chippenham SN14 7AQ
“Return to Earth, Bones, Roots…Yoga flows, Meditations and Imaginings for the Wintering Process” 16th Oct 10.30am -1.30pm £35
As we recognise the turning of the wheel, we sense the flow of energies around us, and are supported by this flow rather than struggling against the current….Stoke your inner fire with Pranayama and Bandha, as the prana in Nature starts to withdraw…A warming, strengthening, yet releasing Hatha Yoga flow, aligning with earth, roots, gravity, bones ……acknowledging our sense of ancestors/roots/creature-ness….stepping into our place in the cycle…..yet finding that deep space of unconditional Presence, where the Question is no longer a Question…beyond the Bones!
“Winter Yoga Flow Morning” (visiting artist Ruth Wheeler )
13th Nov 10.30am -1.30pm £35
“This is not a time for exuberant accomplishments, but a time to withdraw, conserve, and nurture. In these darker months, the subconscious realms become stronger, more energy is available for visioning, remembering, and dreaming…. It is a time for incubating seeds of long-term plans as we connect with our deeper selves.. “
A morning of Hatha Yoga Breath Flow and Meditation with Sophie Shenstone, and after tea break a Nature Art taster with Ruth Wheeler.
Yoga Retreat Sunday 24th April 2016 10.30am -4.30pm
“Meditation Practice?….it’s a no brainer!”
“Hush now mind, it’s time to relax and be quiet. There’s nothing important to talk about right now. You’ll have plenty of time to talk later…”
A retreat day of strong but flowing, creative, meditative Hatha Yoga with Sophie Shenstone
afternoon workshop exploring meditation with humorous, insightful, and experienced Kamala Mann – quote…”meditation practice..?? no brainer!!”
VENUE – the aesthetically WOW, earthy, spacious, natural, warm chapel in Marshfield!! £48 (£35 low wage )
Finding Your Flow – Sunday 24th Jan 11am -4pm
For a day devoted to Yoga
Poetry, Flow, Breath, Creativity, Strength, Space, Reflection, Challenge and Release.
Release toxins that are blocking your flow, with an energizing Hatha Yoga breath-led practice, cleansing Pranayama practices
Meditations to de-clutter the mind and gently ease off out grown skins
Allowing you to sink into an intuitive, creative Awareness space
Beautiful converted chapel space in Marshfield, near Colerne, Wiltshire
£48, or low income £38, or concessions £30 (contact me for concessions) BOOK NOW (choose ‘Retreat Day’ from drop down menu below) Advance bookings only.
Others, if you would like to join for this session, please let me know IN ADVANCE. The Intermediate group only has room for a couple more folk, so book quick! The 8pm group has spaces, so if you want to drop in to this candle lit session please book here (check with me first if you want the 6.30pm session as it may be full). Drop in price for this session is still only £12 drop in to regulars or £15 anyone chancing in for a one off dose of Strength, Peace, and Ambiance.
Sunday 29th November
Moving into Darkness with a
Ready Brek Glow!
10.30am -4pm
Morning of warming, uplifting yoga-flow sequences to spark the creative spirit, and keep the bones jigging through winter….followed by an afternoon of deep Restorative yoga; let go and fall apart safely, gathering yourself up with freshness and resolve.
Marshfield, near Colerne, Wiltshire
£48, or low income £38, or concessions £30 (contact me for concessions) BOOK NOW (choose ‘Retreat Day’ from drop down menu below) Advance bookings only.
Yoga Retreat Sunday 18th october
10.30am -4.30pm, Marshfield, near Colerne, Wiltshire.
Bring on the beautiful Autumn, the teachings of release to earth, plumbing our depths, as light dims, leaves become radiant- then fall, and energy moves inward.
Everything is in a process of arising and decaying. Just as your lungs breathe in and then breathe out, it is necessary for things to fall away so that life can breathe new again…
£48, or low income £38, or concessions £30 (contact me for concessions)
Yoga Retreat Day Sunday 20th Sept 10.30am -4.30pm – Hatha Yoga, Contact Yoga, and Holistic Massage
Book below with Paypal (or contact me for reduced rates.)
Hatha Yoga can be experienced as a conversation between body, energy, breath, and gravity, as a continuously evolving dance between push and yield, support and release, opening and redefining…
In contact yoga/partners yoga, another being comes into the conversation, enhancing qualities of sensitivity, playfulness, exploration, balance, concentration and grounding. There is the energetic motivation to move beyond ones habitual limits, the mutual grounding/support providing the possibility of deeper release…
10.30am -12.30 – Hatha Yoga (balance of dynamic with restorative), combined with Contact Yoga
lunch time – everyone brings a dish to share for picnic lunch, then time to walk countryside/chill
2pm -4.30pm – Holistic Massage Workshop, (led by Leone Watson)
The workshop works well for couples, but equally well for yoga buddies, so you don’t have to come as a pair.
Advance bookings only, £48, £38 low income, £30 concessions (or if two of you book together, its £45/£35 each)
Yoga Retreat Day – Beautiful Broken Things
Next yoga retreat day in Marshfield is Sunday 8th March.
VENUE – warm, light, spacious, ambient, delightful converted chapel, with wooden floors and underfloor heating.
We can call on the energies of Imbolc which continue through March since the beginning of February, harnessing the power of the returning light, to gestate visions and sow seeds of intent.
We can feel the brokenness and allow it to teach us.
A day of Hatha yoga, shared food, reflection, visioning, and restoring.
Morning Hatha class balancing Restorative postures with Dynamic flowing sequences.
Afternoon workshop including restorative yoga, partners work, meditative techniques to clear the cluttered mind, accept the broken feelings, harness the potential energy of the returning light, and spin it off in the right direction for the coming year!
Let me know soon if you wish to come; advance bookings only. Outgoings –£48, £38 low income, £30 concessions (or if two of you book together, its £45/£35 each)
Sunday 13th July 10.30am -4.30pm
Hatha flow and Contact Yoga
A breath filled 2 hour Hatha Yoga class for a strong and flexible body/mind, bringing in flow, creativity and sensitivity, celebrating the expansive energy of Summer!
Shared picnic lunch, outside in the grounds
Afternoon contact yoga workshop, sociable, uplifting, energizing, but also balancing and healing….the mutual grounding and support of contact yoga helps to take you to a deeper level of release, and invites you to explore your edges, in a sensitive and playful way.
VENUE: Wonderful, ambient, converted chapel, with light, views and space, in the village of Marshfield, S Gloucestershire,
6 miles north of Bath, 3 miles from M4 Junction 18
Advance bookings only, £48, £38 low income, £30 concessions (or if two of you book together, its £45/£35 each)
