yoga & therapeutic thai massage
Come and join me 5.50-6.35pm Saturday 23 June at Brighton Yoga Festival, St George’s Church, Kemptown. I’ll be in the Red Zone, sponsored by Infinity Foods and Brighton Natural Health Centre. As usual, I’ll be teaching an intuitive, expansive and joyful practise that empowers you to listen in to your body and breath with respect and kindness. Simply come along on the day, paying what you can, and enjoy a day of fabulously varied yoga classes.
Are you transitioning through perimenopause or menopause or are you emerging into your second spring of post-menopause? Are you curious to know more about this transformational time from a positive perspective (beyond the pathologising of symptoms and media panic)? Perhaps you’re even pre-menopausal and would like to learn about what the future might hold without the fear or mystery historically surrounding ‘the change’.
Would you like to meet a community of supportive, non-judgemental others to share experiences and wisdom within a safe, guided space, and then practise responsive yoga, meditation, breathwork, massage and holistic tools to positively help emotionally and physically with this transitional journey?
The workshop is accessible to and inclusive of all bodies regardless of age or gender identity.
Yoga for Menopause, July 10, 2022, 1-4pm, at Energy for Life (£40).
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Special guest for this week’s Yoga for Menopause (Wednesday 11, 7.30-9pm at Hanover Community Centre) is Moyra Scott, who will be leading a wild art journalling session, in which she will be helping us to unleash our creativity and let go of some stuck energy and the fog that can cloud our judgement.
Moyra Scott is a wild artist, a creative workshop facilitator and a productivity expert – an uncommon combination of creative and productive.
Most people have things they want to do, but don’t have time for. And yet the paradox is, if you make time for these things, you will find your relationship to time changes, and the result is that you are more effective, reducing the need for busyness and increasing your productivity.
Creativity is a way to bring ourselves back home, to our true nature. Creative self expression is a human need. Without it our life becomes more tiring, less vibrant and gets filled up with striving, shoulds, and have tos. With creativity we can step into who we really are, live life in full colour and transform our whole world.
Moyra runs Wild Painting, a weekend retreat where you get to paint wildly on large canvases and discover the creative freedom of process painting. She also runs Wild Art Journaling and Wild Collage workshops which operate on the same principle but on a smaller, more accessible scale.
Like me, Moyra is a Vajrasati trained Yoga teacher and yoga informs her life and creative practice.
Moyra works as a coach for Then Somehow, a local consultancy specialising in culture change. She is a productivity specialist and she runs creative workshops as away day activities or to facilitate idea generation.
Clients include, Breathe HR, Trusted House Sitters, Reuters Events, Channel 4, UCL, Bristol City Council and the UN among many more. She works as a lead coach with Then Somehow and with her own clients in the creative industries. Her ideas and work have been featured by the BBC, The Guardian, Metro, Grazia and The Telegraph.
To book this session or come along to our regular Wednesday group, exploring yoga, meditation and other holistic tools that support this huge life transition with grace,
EmailAnd for more info on Moyra, see www.moyrascott.com
Reconnect: Yoga and Thai Massage, May 18, 2022, 10-10.50am, at Spiegeltent (£7.50-8), part of Brighton Natural Health Centre’s 40th birthday day.
A treat for head, neck and shoulders through yoga and shared Thai massage.
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Yoga & Thai Massage, May 22, 2022, 1-4pm, at Energy for Life (£45 or £80 for 2 booking together).
An afternoon exploring how self and shared massage can be an important part of self-care and awareness that can inform our broader yoga practise. Touch can bring us into our bodies and allow us to encounter from the outside in as well as the inside out what is held and where.
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Starting March 2, 7.30-9pm, Hanover Community Centre.
WORKSHOP March 20, 1-4pm, Energy for Life.
A new space creating non-judgemental, supportive community and sharing nourishing yoga practises and holistic tools to hold women positively through this transformation, from pre-menopause to perimenopause, menopause and early and late post-menopause.
Increased anxiety, headaches, palpitations, dizziness, night sweats, vaginal dryness, loss of libido, weight gain, fatigue, hot flushes, brain fog, mood swings… going through what used to be termed ominously ‘the change’ can induce feelings of fear and panic, isolation and depression (women are often misdiagnosed with depression during perimenopause). But what if we could approach this inevitable transitional phase of life with equanimity, welcome, curiosity, supported by community, with laughter, compassion and practical tools to hold us on the journey?
We will also have weeks in which we will welcome visiting experts who support women through the stages of menopause, specialising in everything from nutrition, psychology and acupuncture to sexuality, exercise and sleep.
Participants will be give access to a safe, closed online community for sharing experiences between groups.
Booking now for weekly sessions £70 for 6 sessions *
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The workshop will be a three-hour special expanding the space to enjoy an afternoon together, where we can extend practises, enjoy a deep relaxation and explore nourishing self-care tools.
1-4pm, March 20 at Energy for Life Studios. £45 or £35 concessions.
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* (ideally sessions will be taken consecutively but life happens and we can roll over)
So welcome to 2022! How are you? Feeling ready and motivated or sluggish and tired? To be honest, it feels like a lot of us (myself included, we all had Covid for Christmas, the joy!) are low on energy. With this in mind, classes will be gentle, expansive and responsive. We’ll be focussing on the breath as key to bringing in new energy and releasing stagnation. We’ll explore self-massage techniques to relieve aches and pains and start from the ground up, moving in ways that restore rather than deplete. Most importantly, however you are, you are welcome. Whether you’re new to yoga, restarting a lapsed practise or continuing, join a warm and joyful community that will lift your spirits and increase your feelings of connection. So look forward to seeing you.
Saturday 9.30-10.30am Vajrasati yoga drop-in, Hanover Community Centre: In-person. £10 drop-in, £80 for 10 classes.
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Monday 9.30-10.30am Vajrasati yoga drop-in, Brighton Natural Health Centre: Online and in-person. Book class
Monday 7.30-9pm Vajrasati yoga drop-in, Hanover Community Centre: Online and in-person. £10 drop-in, £80 for 10 classes.
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Are you thinking of a more sustainable Christmas? Want to ditch the ‘stuff’ and treat someone you love (or yourself) to something really memorable and genuinely enriching? I am offering vouchers for Christmas, which can be redeemed for therapeutic Thai massage (including steamed herbal compresses, pictured), yoga classes at the Hanover Community Centre, or upcoming workshops (next one in February). From £10-, to suit your budget.
Get in touch to book.
No class Monday 25 November at Hanover Community Centre and no Pregnancy Yoga 27 November.
Saturday 23 and 30 ARE ON as usual, see you there X
I’m really excited to be teaching workshops again, and would love you to join me at either/both:
Feel Your Body, Yoga & Self-Massage: October 16 at Brighton Natural Health Centre, 2-5pm. The event will be in person but also streamed live through Zoom so you can either join the community in the studio or from the comfort of your own home.
£30, book at Brighton Natural Health Centre.
Yoga & Massage Sunday Escape, 2pm-5pm, 28 November, Beechwood Hall, Cooksbridge. Pay as you can £25/35/45 Book here
As I write this, it looks as if some summer weather may be coming our way (finally!). I hope that you are staying well and in balance despite the ongoing restrictions, anxiety and confusion with the virus. I will be offering most classes as usual throughout the summer holidays with just a few amendments:
July 15: Last Mama & Baby class at Brighton Natural Health Centre. Mama & Baby classes will not be running online or in person throughout the summer.
July 17: No class at the Hanover Community Centre
Aug 18: No pregnancy yoga at Hanover Community Centre
Aug 19: No Evening yoga on Zoom
Aug 20: No class at the Hanover Community Centre
I am also offering limited therapeutic Thai massages so get in touch for your treatment throughout August of for September.
Leo x