Category: Classes

BOOKING NOW: Yoga, meditation and wild art journalling workshop to nurture women journeying through peri and menopause.

January 14 2024, 2-6pm, at Beechwood Hall, Cooksbridge.

In this nourishing workshop, we will explore meditation, breath, self massage and gentle movement practises to invite a more introspective, self-nurturing energy of this time of life. We will also explore wild art journaling as a way of creatively playing with self expression and identity as it shifts with throughout this transformational stage.

We welcome anyone who is moving through peri-menopause or menopause, or who is moving towards this stage, and would like to do so from a place of deep connection, acceptance and compassion. We aim to offer a supportive, non-judgemental expansive space where you will feel held and free to explore beyond the patriarchal notions of what this time of life entails. We welcome you to Maga.

When I first came across the term ‘Maga’, it felt like home. A place, or archetype, which follows the Mother (the stage of literal mothering a woman’s life or the bearing of other fruit, the productive ‘summer’ of life). While I’m all about reclaiming Crone as a positive and powerful time of life from the patriarchal downgrading of crone to wicked stepmother, witch (as a negative), or invisible and useless beyond reproductive years; with longer life spans, but at 50, it just doesn’t quite fit yet for me and so many women I talk to. Jane Hardwicke-Collins talks about Maga as:

‘the feminine version of Magus – the wise man, magician… a time of “integration and pulling through and pulling together the biggest pieces of my life work, my offering to the world.”

Where Mother is the Summer phase, Maga is the Autumn, and we can look to the seasons for guidance. It is a time of drawing in, regrouping, bringing in what we need for nourishment at a transitional time of life.

Book workshop, £50 for the afternoon.
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Moyra Scott runs classes and art retreats. She developed her own processes, style of painting and a way of (WILD) Art Journaling. Moyra has her own painting studio and exhibits and sells her paintings. She also has a coaching practice with 1-2-1 clients and small group programmes (creative business owners, artists, designers, healers, photographers etc) and continues to coach and run workshops in the corporate setting (Reuters, UNV, UCL, Bristol Council, Kings College London, Cambridge University, Roche, Bayer among others).

Leonie Taylor is a senior yoga teacher and therapeutic Thai massage practitioner, teaching online (at Charlotte Watts Whole Health and Heart + Bones Yoga and in person. Leonie runs a weekly menopause yoga class.

Leonie is also a published author, having collaborated on Yoga Therapy for Digestive Health and co-authored Yoga and Somatics for Immune and Respiratory Health. She is currently writing her first solo project for Thames & Hudson, to be published in 2024.

All yoga classes running as usual throughout the summer holidays apart from Bank Holiday Monday, 29 August 2022.
Massage appointments are available throughout the summer holidays.

Throughout time, women have come together, from prehistoric times around the fire to raising consciousness in the 1960s, or in online groups on the internet… the congregation of women sharing, healing, caring, grieving, connecting in community has always been powerful.

From teenagers transitioning through puberty to women transforming through conception and childbearing, to the wise women moving through and beyond menopause; creating space for women of all ages to connect and hold space for themselves and each other can be incredibly enriching and enlightening.

In women’s yoga classes, we will explore the uniqueness of our own bodies, creating space to listen, respond and respectfully move with consciousness, encouraging self care and self-acceptance. Asanas will be facilitated in an entirely adaptive way, empowering each woman in the class, whatever her experience or physical abilities. We will use props and support where appropriate to allow unfolding of deep held tensions as they arise, noticing habits – physical and emotional – and allowing space to be curious, open and compassionate. Meditation, mantra, pranayama and nidra techniques will further allow quietening, to improve a sense of wellbeing and connectivity to our intuitive wisdom.

Women’s yoga classes will begin in the new year:
Tuesdays 1-2pm from January 3 2017 at Unity Studios, Lewes Road
Fridays 1-2pm from January 13 2017 at the Phoenix Community Centre, Phoenix Place.
Classes are drop in.
£10 per session/8 concessions, £90/70 for 10 sessions

REST, nourishing yoga day retreat for Mamas are also booking now, January 28 and February 18 2017. Read more…