Dear Friends,

The theme I would like to share with you over the next few weeks is:
"How your practice can be your purpose"

We will dive into our long holding, quiet practices to reflect on, and embody in, what it means to feel into having purpose, and how we hold ourselves back with emotional addiction.

Something that we are often confronted with in life and work is doubt.
"Doubt isn't a sign that you're doing something wrong or failing in your practice (or life). There is no such thing as failure; it's all information. Doubt comes up for all of us..." Joe Dispenza

Let's dive into these practices and take the time and space, to observe with compassion and gentleness, our habits of behaviour in thoughts, feelings, emotions and body posture...inviting transformation through the tissues.
Being still plays a huge role in this process of unravelling, redefining and empowering.

I look forward to sharing these practices with you.

These sessions will take place online and in-person (18:30 - 19:45)

To join online, register HERE
To join in-person, please email me.

Our Themes for the next 8 weeks:

22.08 - MOVING & BREATHING WITH EASE

This session aims to:

• offer a nourishing, balancing yin sequence for the body meridians, allowing the connective tissue to rejuvenate.
• shift awareness from thinking-centred in the head, to belly-centered in the lower abdomen.

29.08 - BUILDING STRENGTH & SUPPORT

This session will focus on:

• feeling into the neutral spinal curvatures and how to position the spine for easeful breathing and moving
• a clear relationship to gravity and being grounded.
• how can this practice support you to calm your own stress response?
• finding ease and pleasure in doing less on the mat so the breath and body can be fluid.

Your spine is not only the backbone of your body, but also of the way you move through life. Come and explore how to build strength and support from the backline, from as place of inner stability, strength and support.

NO YOGA on 5th September

12.09 - ALIGNING THE SPINE

Observing the stress response stored in the spine and primary nerve pathways. How can we feel into our spines in a soft, slow way to release stored holding patterns through yielding?

"Yielding" is a beautiful term used to describe what happens when "we allow the surfaces on the body that are in contact with the earth to give their weight to the earth. At the same time we maintain enough integrity through our structure that we receive the rebound of gravity up through our bodies." We will explore and experience our spines in lying, standing, sitting and slow moving asanas.

19.09 - MOVING FROM CENTRE

This session will offer you an experience of your deep navel centre or hara through naval radiation.

We will explore together:

• how to access a felt sense of inner core support and stabiltiy
• how movement is organised from the deep naval centre or hara
• how alignment can be an intuitive process
• how to allow yourself to be guided by your breath

26.09 - MAKING FRIENDS WITH SOFT BACKBENDS

Building up backbends from a safe "place" within your feeling tone, and from the perspective of deep long holdings and aware breathing.

We will explore together:

• how to find ease and integrity in your spine in simple backbends
• how to warm, hydrate and release areas of the body that need to be open for ease in backbends
• how to integrate strengthening poses that restore rounded posture and move the spine away from gravity.

NO YOGA on 3rd October

10.10 - UNWINDING WITH TWISTS & SPIRALS

We will dive in to somatic based-movements to feel into twisting from your centre, with a focus on the innate spirals within our bodies.

We will explore together:

• how to find balance and integrity in twisting asanas
• focusing on stability before mobility
• enjoying seeing and observing the natural spiral pathways in your body

31.10 - CREATING SPACE WITH SIDE BENDS

We will explore together:

• the value of side bending through interoception (awareness of your internal state)
• how to increase spinal fluidity though side bending
• how to move towards more balance in an "unbalanced" back, activating the gall bladder meridian

07.11 - COMING HOME TO YOURSELF; EMBODIED STILLNESS

This practice offers you a conscious experience of the breath, ground, gravity, and space, as you are invited to:

• gently release tension in the hips and pelvis
• lengthen into the lumbar and thoracic spine
• explore how your breath moves your body

See you on the mat!

Love Fiona

To join online, register HERE
To join in-person, please email me.