The Joyful Yoga of Lady Niguma

The Yoga of Lady Niguma is a 1000 year old yoga practice, created by a lady who lived on an island on the sacred River Ganges in India. it is the oldest Hatha Yoga practice of which we have a written record and unusually it is written by a woman. This practice is particularly suited to the stresses of troubled modern times, being specifically designed to work very deeply with your body and mind to let your stress go and your happiness and peace of mind flow.

It is a simple practice which you can do at home even during busy days to keep body and mind in balance. The workshop is suitable for all levels of experience, although it helps if you have done at least a little yoga in the past.

The workshop will include a brief explanation of how yoga works to balance your nervous system and bring peace and harmony to your mind, and to maintain and restore health in the body. This will help you to understand the structure of this yoga sequence and hopefully to have a deeper experience of the practice. For dates and venue please see the schedule page.

Nurture and Replenish: Yoga for Fatigue & Chronic Illness

These classes are for those who are not well enough to do a regular yoga class due to fatigue related to chronic illness. The classes are specifically designed to offer your body and mind the nourishing benefits of yoga without depleting your energy. They will help you to feel an increase in energy, and will ease stiffness and pain in the body, the stress in the mind, and heaviness of spirit that can arise when living with long-term debilitating illness.

The classes will include gentle movements (using a chair or lying down), healing and pain-relieving breathing practices, visualisations and meditations inspired by the teachings of the classical yoga scriptures.

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Yoga, Healing and Mindfulness
During this retreat, participants will be taken on a journey of self-healing and inner enquiry. The retreat combines practices from yoga and yoga therapy, mindfulness techniques and mind-body medicine. There will be a little focus on theory with time for contemplation and much time for practice. Participants will be gently and safely guided to explore the physical, energetic and mental-emotional layers of their being. There will also be a focus on deepening the connection with the inner healer-doctor.
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Deeper Into the Healing and Spiritual Journey: A Time for Practice
This retreat draws from yoga therapy practices, yoga psychology, Buddhist philosophy and mindfulness techniques, and modern day mind-body medicine. It is a retreat in which you will be fully supported to take time out from all the outer distractions of life and to take a journey deep into the inner most core of your being. You will be guided to enquire into the nature and root of that which you would like to heal in your life (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, relationship issues) and to uncover that place within where all the answers to all your questions are waiting to be revealed to you. There will be time spent in silence and alone time for journaling and written “inner enquiry” assignments.
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The Healing Power of Breath
Healing Power of Breath retreats and workshops draw on practices from yoga scriptures, yoga therapy and modern mind-body medicine. Participants will learn to consciously use the breath for healing of body and mind, for pain relief, for relieving fatigue and low spirit, for healing mental-emotional states, for creating greater well-being in body, mind and spirit and for better balance in the body’s systems, including enhanced immunity.
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Yoga for Healing and Pain Relief
This experiential yoga programme teaches healing and pain-relief techniques for the body, mind and spirit. The programme includes gentle breathing and movement practices, healing meditations, guided visualizations and other mind-body techniques.
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Yoga for The Digestive System

The gut is sometimes referred to as the "second brain". It has it's own nervous system which often responds well to specialised yoga practices designed to relieve symptoms and give support to a digestive system which has become out of balance. On this programme, you will learn about the function of the digestive system,  root causes of digestive system disorders and how to apply yoga practices specifically for relief of discomfort in the upper and lower digestive tracts, and to restore digestive function.                                                                                                                   

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Yoga for Depression and Anxiety

Yoga can be very beneficial in easing mental and emotional stresses. These manifest in many in modern society as anxiety and/or depression. Yoga can work very specifically to ease these two states by bringing the nervous system back into balance and by balancing irregularities in the brain and in the glandular system. During this programme, you will learn about depression and anxiety from a modern psycho-physiological and from a yogic perspective. You will practice techniques for easing symptoms of depression, for relieving anxiety and for restoring balance to the body-mind. You will also experience the powerful tools yoga offers us for deeper self-knowledge. This can help us rediscover our own power and come to a place of self-acceptance and deeper inner healing.

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