Monday, October 10
Grace of Vinyasa
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road, Green Grove Room
Grace of Vinyasa
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Foundations + Fundamentals
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
Foundations + Fundamentals
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How to Relax Your Body in 30 Minutes...
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road, Green Grove Room
How to Relax Your Body in 30 Minutes...
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Evening Flow-down
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
Evening Flow-down
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Expect some balance patterning, gentle repetitions and deep twists, as well as proprioceptive prompts to increase mind-body connection. Including mindful movement and Feldenkris-inspired transitions as well as qi-gong-inspired energy-work to help get your energy flowing freely.
Finishing with a guided body scan meditation for internal awareness and radiant health.
Tuesday, October 11
Quiet Hours
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road, Green Grove Room
Quiet Hours
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Unity
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
Unity
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FUNDED 15 min Awareness
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
FUNDED 15 min Awareness
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Science has shown that even just a brief moment of mindfulness practice induces gray matter in the brain, which is associated with self-awareness, emotion, cognition, and ageing. With just 3 minutes of practice, by allowing your system to reset, it's been shown to decrease stress, enhance emotional regulation, and improve sleep.
For more benefits on deep rest, where all the real magic happens, check out our Yoga Nidra sessions, typically offered in combination with a form of movement.
Unity
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
Unity
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Wednesday, October 12
Sacred Morning
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road, Green Grove Room
Sacred Morning
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Grace of Vinyasa
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road, Green Grove Room
Grace of Vinyasa
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Primal Movement Flow
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
Primal Movement Flow
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During this session we ask ourselves "what would I be like if I had never sat in a chair or been able to get my food from walking around a busy supermarket. What would my body feel like if I had to run, climb and move just to survive".
This session is a discovery session, with yoga as the key vehicle. Balance, strength in posture and finding new movement patterns.
Special Notes: Set around vinyasa, expect some workshop moments and non-yogic movements.
You may sweat.
FUNDED 15 min Awareness
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
FUNDED 15 min Awareness
Description
Science has shown that even just a brief moment of mindfulness practice induces gray matter in the brain, which is associated with self-awareness, emotion, cognition, and ageing. With just 3 minutes of practice, by allowing your system to reset, it's been shown to decrease stress, enhance emotional regulation, and improve sleep.
For more benefits on deep rest, where all the real magic happens, check out our Yoga Nidra sessions, typically offered in combination with a form of movement.
Grace of Vinyasa
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road, Green Grove Room
Grace of Vinyasa
Description
Thursday, October 13
Unity
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
Unity
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Foundations + Fundamentals
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road, Green Grove Room
Foundations + Fundamentals
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Intro to Living Yoga - The 8 Limbs / FREE National Lottery Community Funded
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road, green Grove Room
Intro to Living Yoga - The 8 Limbs / FREE National Lottery Community Funded
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In the West, Yoga is commonly mainly focused on the physical aspect; what we are able to do with our bodies and what kind of poses we can get into, which results in validating unhealthy personal internalised belief systems or cultivating an unsustainable practice for our body temples. Often the depth of yogic teachings hardly reflects and translates into our day-to-day living. Flexibility has little to do with practising yoga and nobody has ever been enlightened doing chaturanga. Yoga is accessible to all who feel called, to embrace as a study or embed it into existence as a discipline.
With "Intro to Living Yoga" you are invited to open yourself to a deeper breadth of the aspects of Yoga and develop an understanding of how to create more harmony within yourself, quieting the fluctuations of the mind.
In this ‘Satsung Lite’ We will have discussions from the most familiar physical side towards the most subtle and the most important part which is about our being and the relationship we have with ourselves and our bodies, how we are able to handle unexpected situations and react accordingly, and our whole mental well-being and mindfulness to everything we do and mainly how we do. In this Yoga Social, “Intro to Living Yoga,” we aim to bring illuminate the tenets of Yoga based on the 8 Limbs as a stepping stone to cultivate a deeper relationship with integrating yoga off the mat.
You will have a chance to be part of the open talks or just simply be a listener. Everyone is welcome. This is will be an opportunity for us to grow together as a community, as one.
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YOGA / COMMUNITY / MOVEMENT / DISCOVERY
Yoga in the Stars is a project by The Metahealth Movement, a not-for-profit working towards elevated health.
We are thrilled to announce that £9,943 has been donated to Yoga in the Stars by The National Lottery Community Fund for a special new project The Yoga-Social!
The project is to create a space for people to come together around health and well-being. A free space to practice yoga, breathwork, movement, dance, tai chi and talk about health, food and lifestyle. Use the studio equipment and space in an open, inclusive and fun way. Expect spontaneous workshops and sessions, as well as a dedicated self-practice space, and we hope to invite other local yoga teachers to host sessions and workshops throughout the year to help grow and enrich the community.
Reach out to us with ideas.
Yoga really is for everyone, it’s a personal thing, and is a lifestyle choice that goes way beyond the mat and into every aspect of life, and we hope that this grant helps you to explore what this can mean for you as we discover together.
#NationalLottery and the National Lottery players, thank you!
Friday, October 14
Quiet Hours
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
Quiet Hours
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Unity
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
Unity
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Grace of Vinyasa
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road, Green Grove Room
Grace of Vinyasa
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Candle Lit Yang & Yindalini with Yoga Nidra
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
Candle Lit Yang & Yindalini with Yoga Nidra
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Yoga Nidra is a pure tantric experience. This can be described as a guided meditation leading into a liminal altered state of consciousness. Yoga Nidra means conscious yogic sleep that promotes extreme relaxation and healing through traversing altered states of consciousness from our waking beta-wave brain state through to delta. This practice helps to minimize tension, inspire creativity, relax the body and mind, promote physical and emotional recovery as well as instil a feeling of deep harmony and peace within. In Yoga Nidra lucid sleeping is among the deepest possible states of relaxation while still maintaining full consciousness, whilst planting seeds of your heartfelt desires into the brain's most fertile state. Scientific research states that a 30-minute practice of Yoga Nidra can equal 4 hours of deep sleep in its restorative effect on the nervous system. It is also an excellent tool to speed up recovery and is very helpful in coping with stress. It has been scientifically proven to have a significant effect on improving the health of regular practitioners as well as subjects prone to cardiovascular diseases, tumours, stress-related disorders and burnout. Yoga Nidra is a method of inducing complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation.