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12 Days of Recovery & Rejuvenation – coming 23rd Dec 22 to 3rd Jan 23 from Charlotte Watts on Vimeo.
Would you like a month of yoga, somatic movement, meditations, yoga nidra, self massage classes, webinars on nutrition and health, including daily practises to support you through the festive season?
Check out our video intro above for a taster of what’s to come, then head to charlottewattshealth.com and use code CWH100 at checkout.
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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Look around.
All that clutter used to be money.
All that money used to be time.
With the onslaught of sales and push to consume, it’s easy to get caught up, reactive, knee jerk. Marketing works on the premise of creating a problem you didn’t know you had (from hairy legs to ageing bodies to vegetables that could be chopped differently) and then offering you the miracle cure/fix/balm. All of which is available, on this one day only (unless you subscribe for early access, special, lucky you!) at such an amazing deal. So you didn’t know you had a problem, now you can fix it and quick… just don’t think about the mindless consumption, the landfill, the production values, worldwide shipping, waste, or even if you/ the recipient of your gift actually needs more stuff?
Time for a new way of giving. More thoughtful. More meaningful. More sustainable. The gift of time and space, compassion, deep care and attention.
I have vouchers for Black Friday, Christmas or any special occasion.
They are not discounted because they are of real value, and offer therapeutic space for deep healing, physically and emotionally.
Choose from vouchers for:
• Therapeutic Thai Massage
• Partner massage session – learn techniques to share with a family member or friend
• 1-2-1 Yoga
• Group / family yoga session – in person or on Zoom
All are £50 for 60 mins/ £70 for 90 mins or or £90 2 hours and I will email you a personalised voucher. Call/text Leo on 0780 907 5602 or email to book or discuss your requirements.
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.
Ayurveda is a vast and ancient science that provides a solid foundation to live well in all phases of life. In alignment with the seasons, elements and your unique makeup, we can find balance wherever we are.
Menopause is one of many changes that make up the female reproductive system across a lifetime. By looking at the history of your cycle, we can start to see what menopause may look like and adjust accordingly. This time is all about soothing symptoms and nourishing the body to help this transition flow more smoothly through nutrition, lifestyle, herbs and therapies.
On November 16, Indie Foolheea (she/her), will be joining our regular Yoga for Menopause session to talk about how Ayurveda can help you on your transformational journey through this life change.
Indie is a Yoga and meditation guide, Ayurvedic Lifestyle consultant and Therapist. Her work is informed by sharing from the roots of Yoga and Ayurveda to our lives now. She also creates spaces for people of the global majority to be seen, heard and to rest. She believes that self care and collective care are inherently linked and shares with this in mind.
Indie shares a variety of practices beyond asana including Pranayama, mantra, meditation, marmas and mudras. Whilst also starting her own Ayurvedic practice supporting people through nutrition, herbs, lifestyle and bodywork.
If you would like to join this or our regular sessions, every Wednesday, 7.30-9pm upstairs at the Hanover Community Centre, email.
You can preorder my new book, Yoga and Somatis for Immune and Respiratory Health, co-authored with incredible yoga teacher and nutritionist, Charlotte Watts, and receive 25% discount using code LEONIE25PRE at checkout when you order from Singing Dragon
A fascinating deep dive into research from the worlds of neuroscience, epigenetics, psycho-neuro-immunology, polyvagal theory and more, through the lens of yoga and Ayurveda. Rich in game-changing information on our respiratory and immune systems – how they work, interrelate, and how we can improve whole-being function through movement, breath and meditative practises.
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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