Last in-person class Sat 21 December at the Hanover Centre, do drop in for some restive space. All classes resume January 2 2025.
Have a peaceful rest if you can,
Leo x
Gifts of presence
As a small ‘business’, I’m not offering Black Friday deals as it’s symptomatic of overconsumption, excess, waste and reactivity. The very nature of it can breed a heightened state of stress and anxiety, which is the antithesis of my offerings, which are designed to bring calm, spaciousness and a deeper sense of connection to breath, body and community.
But you can gift these offerings, to yourself or others:
Vouchers
* 1 yoga class* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * £12
* 10 yoga class pass at the Hanover Centre* * * £95
* 1 hour therapeutic Thai massage * * * * * * * £55
* 90 minutes therapeutic Thai massage * * * * * £75
* 2 hour therapeutic Thai massage * * * * * * * £95
* Liminal Space workshop, 16 February * * * * * £95
Pay it forward
If you would like to gift someone in the community to receive an hour’s massage or attend a yoga class, you can contribute here Even a little makes a difference. Whenever the contributions add up to the cost of a class or massage, I will randomly select someone from the list. This is specifically for folk who are struggling financially, and cannot otherwise access holistic healthcare.
You can also nominate someone to go on the nomminations list.
Warming winter retreat days
I’m currently booking for the following incredible workshops, all of which feel into seasonal snugness, hunkering in and drawing into more meditative practices:
*This Sunday*, Oct 27, Healing at the Tile House, Preston Park
An afternoon of Shamanic healing, sound bath and body work.
More info & booking
Dec 1, Wintering Meditation and Yoga Retreat, at Barcombe Village Hall, with vegan lunch and nature walk.
More info & booking
Feb 16, The Liminal Space, co-hosting with Ati Balding of Surrey Wellness, Barcombe Village Hall, , with vegetarian lunch, .
More info & booking
March 23, Embracing Paradox: Coming Closer to Who We are, with Kate Codrington Barcombe Village Hall, with vegan lunch.
More info & booking
Summer dates
All in-person classes are paused for the end of August, returning September 7.
See timetable
Pride + Joy
I’m super-excited to be co-hosting a special afternoon retreat as part of Pride month this year, with Lou Thomas. Pride + Joy will be a restive opportunity for the LGBTQIA+ community and their friends and family, to slow down, connect, and rest with yoga and massage.
Venue: Hanover Community Centre
Date: 2-6pm Saturday 9th June 2024
We’re also being supported by the wonderful Bird & Blend teas, who are kindly providing us with delicious Chocolate Digestive tea for the afternoon.
Day retreats & yoga holidays
Barcombe Day Escapes
Gentle, nourishing yoga, walking countryside meditation, shared Thai massage and delicious vegan lunch in tune with the seasons.
Wintering: Dec 1 2024
The Liminal Space, with Ati Balding: 16 February 2025
The Paradoxes of menopause, with Kate Codrington: March 23, 2025
More info and book.
Kissimos, Crete, Greece
7 days of gentle mountain walks, birds of prey, unspoilt beaches and Cretan archeaology, with two sessions of yoga daily.
22-29 April 2025
More info and book
Dalyan, Turkey
7 days of unspoilt beaches, incredible boat excursions, relaxation around beautiful pool with amazing veggie food, with two sessions of yoga daily.
15-22 September 2025, with Charlotte Watts
More info and book
Easter class dates
Slight changes to usual class dates over the April/Easter holidays as follows:
NO CLASSES:
Bank holiday Monday, 10 April, at Hanover Community Centre
Tuesdays 4 & 11 April, at Boulder Brighton
Wednesdays, Yoga for Menopause, 5 & 12 April, at Hanover Community Centre
Bank holiday weekend Saturday 8 April, at Hanover Community Centre
All other classes are as usual, look forward to seeing you after the Easter break if not before.
Join us Wednesday 21 February, 7.30-9pm upstairs at the Hanover Centre, for a very special session of Yoga for Menopause with midlife mentor Alexa De Castilho.
Following our usual explorations in movement, breath and meditation to come home to our bodies, Alexa will lead us in a Journaling and journeying session, both being ways to heal the past, grow your nervous system capacity, move forward a to find safety, regulation and growth.
Journeying is designed to be a mix of exploration and acknowledgement, meditation, visualisation and hypnotherapy based on neuroscience, using our senses as well as imagination and energy alchemy.
We get to transform our inner ecology.
The hypnotic brain wave created in the journeying allows you to bypass your analytical mind and change your subconscious, connecting and forming new neural pathways and experience. As you journey, you’re creating your new reality because the brain does not know the difference between real and imagined. By strengthening this new visual reality you have created in your journeying, your inner ecology starts to transform. Growing new synapses and new pathways makes them new gateways and beliefs.
95% of our life is lived in the subconscious, as though we are on autopilot..
We wake up and the rest of the day is a series of learnt behaviours, decisions and conditionings we learnt from the ages of 0-6. We only live 5% of the time in our conscious mind. So within our journeying we re-imagine and reprogram some of the conditioning we have adopted, stored in our subconscious, so we can begin to move, behave and choose from a place that is deeper aligned to our present truth.
Like gardening, we are pruning what no longer serves and allowing the new to grow and flourish, changing your inner landscape.
We work on the ecology of self, where you are the medicine. The deepest work often doesn’t require us to go as deep as we might think.
A common misconception is that the harder, deeper and faster we do the work the sooner we heal. But the nervous system doesn’t work like that. The incredible thing about our autonomic nervous system is that it speaks a non verbal language. Meaning it communicates with us through sensations, imagery, emotion, movement.
Exploring big experiences to find healing – like intensive retreats, cold plunges, forceful breathwork or even intensive talk therapy – may make you feel like you come back to square one, or you just feel stuck all over again, Our nervous system doesn’t work like that: It craves slowness, gentleness, space and time. We can experience so much depth and transformation with so much less activating work.
Get in touch to book your place if you would like to explore how Alexa journies to change your inner ecology, which inturn transforms your outer reality.
Classes are £12 drop-in for the first class, then £70 for 6 consecutive classes. And please share with others who you feel would benefit from the support, some space to explore and rest within a lovely, inclusive community.
Booking now for weekly sessions, £12 drop-in, £70 for 6 consecutive sessions
book
Festive dates and treats
Christmas class dates:
Last classes Mon 19 Dec, all resume January 4 2023.
NB There is NO yoga for menopause Dec 14 or 21, back Jan 4.
FREE holiday online classes
As a gift, we are are offering you a month of FREE yoga and somatics classes, whole health webinars, and a special festive package of daily meditations and physical practises to support your wellbeing over the festive break. Simply register for a complementary month of Whole Health using code CW100 at checkout.
And don’t forget, I have vouchers for Christmas for yoga and therapeutic Thai massage for you and your loved ones to enjoy a truly memorable, deeply nourishing, extra thoughtful (and not least sustainable) gift.
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No Saturday class November 5
The usual Saturday morning class at Hanover Community Centre will not be on as usual Saturday 9.30-10.30am 5 November, but come along Monday 7 November 7.30-9pm or back as usual Saturday 12 November. See full timetable.