Why coming to Mindful Sundays for a Gentle Yoga and a Soundbath is good for your mental health
Mindful Sundays for Gentle Yoga and a Soundbath can be beneficial for your mental health by reducing stress and anxiety, increasing mindfulness, improving sleep, and boosting mood.
Sound Baths for wellbeing
The sound of the gong is said to be one of the most powerful healing sounds in the world. It has been used for centuries to help people relax, reduce stress, and improve their overall wellbeing.
Going to a sound bath can be beneficial as it can reduce stress and promote good physical, mental, and emotional health
Building in healthy habits
It is a continual journey not a one time fix or project, but a healthy pause where time can become spacious, our minds more spacious, so we enable ourselves to have more clarity and acuity. Our physical and emotional stress can be released, our awareness to what our soul, body needs for healing and boosting and rebalancing our immune system, resilience, chemical and hormonal balances and overall well-being.
Maybe try some of these, see what resonates, start small and build on it.
Remember repetition creates habits, be mindful of your choices.
Resolutions, are they just more pressure or supportive?
Are you choosing to make any resolutions?
Are they realistic, supportive and gentle?
Here are some helpful practices for you to try
Christmas, fun or dread, take a breath
Christmas and holidays seems to escalate the emotions and be a reminder of what is missing, It is hard not to feel all the various comparisons that arise, when we are inundated with images and “ideal, perfect “fake” lives on every social media field.
2 types of breath practice to restore calm and balance
2 breath practices to help restore calm and balance.
For calming and for releasing fiery energy!
Stress Free Festive Holidays
Whilst some people thrive on the idea of the gatherings, the preparing of wrapping presents, shopping, parties, what you are going to wear to the parties, family lunches, office lunches and drinks etc others will feel totally overwhelmed and exhausted and wish the month away.
8 ways to help you get through the holidays
Benefits of practicing breath work
Benefits of breath work plus a short practice for you to try.
Opinions, how much to you let others hurt you?
Everyone is allowed to have their opinion, it is only that, THEIR opinion, not yours, not truth, just their opinion.
So, when we truly understand this, we can then choose to not allow others’ opinions to hurt us, affect us, or even make it our opinion.
Which wolf do you feed?
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy……..
Can you spot the wolf you feed most?
How can you use this to help you?
Being mindful to catch yourself and shifting the narrative and feeding patterns.
Using a Yoga class to shift how you feel.
It is how we approach a class that is key to the outcome. We are responsible for this; in the way we can recognise where we are in our internal landscape. And then managing what we do with this information, feed it, suppress it, or disperse it.
I invite you to be present to what arises as it arises, notice what the physical body is doing.
How it feels, where it holds tension or laxity.
Yoga: 8 limbs
Yoga is not all about postures- asana. Yoga means to yolk together,
Yoga is to bring us to notice our physical body and move through our various sheaths of existence. Our mind, intelligence right through to our soul so we can find peace.
For us to feel whole we need all our sheaths and then we can find flow and bliss
When we aren’t aligned, we feel fragmented and disconnected. Therefor we search for balance, and homeostasis, we need integration and communication between the subtle bodies and the physical bodies, so we are whole.
Yin versus Restorative Yoga
Let the bodies- physical, emotional and mental bodies, unwind, unravel, surrender and move toward peace.
Moving away from the busy lives we lead, the rushing, demands and pressures and DOING Yang energy, and inviting in the restoring and nurturing, moving back to balance through the Yin energy of just being.
Practice: Breath awareness for stress
Breath techniques to try to calm and balance your emotions
Reflective practice:Your body is a reflection of your thoughts and emotions
Have you ever paused to think, that your body may reflect what you think on a subconscious level?
Try these 2 practices
Yin Yoga & Crystal Bowls
Crystal bowls have a very ethereal pure sound, each bowl sound will influence specific chakras and related organs and emotions. Using sound psychology and playing certain bowls together can influence thoughts and feelings and physical discomfort. Combine this with Yin Yoga and…