Nature is fully at rest during this period, and our practice will reflect the beauty of this stillness, I therefore warmly invite you to honour this pause and indulge in a deeply relaxing, nurturing and healing candle lit evening of restorative yoga followed by yoga nidra. Let’s unite in brilliant darkness and celebrate the return to light!

In all of the celebrations revering time, darkness and protection, there is also a simple yet profound observation of the stillness between the end of one cycle and the beginning of the next. This is a time to reflect and assimilate all of the wisdom, thoughts and feelings that have been cultivated in the dark, and bring them into the light.

The Winter Solstice is also a perfect time to realign with our goals and ideals in preparation for the year ahead. Contemplating and refining intentions leads us to our path and illuminates our way along it – from the faded past, through the darkness of winter, toward the bright future.

Restorative Yoga

Restorative yoga has an enormous capacity to heal physical and mental symptoms that are stress related.
When the pace of life is fast, especially in December, our minds can easily become over stimulated — therefore our nervous system takes a beating and our immune system has to work extra hard. We may end up with a busy racing mind, or simply feeling overwhelmed, over worked, and exhausted – the result of which can bring on illness.
The beauty of restorative Yoga is that there is no muscular contraction involved, we can actually achieve more opening in parts of the body that we perceive as tight by literally softening and relaxing.. During a restorative Yoga sequence, you still stretch, but at the same time you relax fully in to the stretch so that tension can be released on a deep cellular level.
As we let go, we become softer and create space for our mind and body to connect with our natural innate qualities of inner calm, peace, love, compassion and understanding of others and self.

Restorative Yoga benefits

• Deeply relaxes the body

• Stills the mind

• Improves capacity for healing and balancing

• Balances the nervous system

• Boosts the immune system

• Develops qualities of compassion toward others and self

• Enhances and balances mood states

In Restorative yoga, each pose is held for 10 – 20 minutes and props such as soft bolsters, straps, sand bags, blankets, chairs and eye bags are used to support the body allowing you to open and release deep tension through passive stretching in a very nurturing way. You simply lie back and relax in position, supported by the props. Afterwards you will feel completely nourished and absolutely heavenly!

Yoga Nidra

The last 30 minutes of the session will be a guided meditation yoga sleep which is an even deeper effortless state of relaxation. You simply lie down comfortably and cool the body and relax whilst my voice guides you. Yoga Nidra brings an incredible calmness, quietness and clarity and is one of the deepest of all meditations, leading awareness through many levels of mental process to a state of supreme stillness and insight.  The state of Yoga Nidra, conscious Deep Sleep, is beyond or subtler than the imagery and mental process of the Waking and Dreaming states. In Yoga Nidra, you leave the Waking state, go through the Dreaming state, and into the Deep Sleep state, yet remain fully awake.

Cost - £30