Living in a fast paced city can be exciting, but also hectic and challenging, often leaving us feeling stressed and out of balance. Developing mindful awareness helps us to highlight our habitual patterns of thinking and brings more clarity into our life. We learn to step away from the inner critic and life on autopilot, develop a deeper connection with ourselves, and empathy towards others.
In additional to workshops and courses all my yoga retreats explore mindfulness and meditation, too.
Breathing and meditation
a 4 week course, live on Zoom
Thursdays 1 – 22 October 2020
18:00 – 19:00
In this course we will explore breathing practices – particularly coherent breathing – and guided meditation around the breath. And we’ll relate these practices to their effects on the nervous system with particular emphasis on the role of the vagus nerve. There will be time to reflect to deepen our understanding, and share in a small group.
You will receive recordings of lectures and practices to download, and these can become a basis for your own continued home practice.
We will work in a small group of 6 – 10 people to create a safe and inclusive space to explore and practice.
Cost: £55
concessions available: please get in touch
Mindfulness to manage stress
a 4 week course at yogahome, Stoke Newington
Thursdays 5 – 26 November 2020
18:15 – 19:45
In this course we will explore simple and effective tools and techniques to help us live our lives with more openness, kindness, resilience, and less reactivity, frustration, anger and stress. It combines experiential mindfulness practices and short lectures on the science and psychology behind it, with self-inquiry and group discussion.
You will leave with tools to:
- Lower stress and anxiety
- Increase resilience to deal with the unavoidable challenges of life
- Improve focus and concentration
- Integrate mindfulness into daily life
We will work in a small group of 6 – 10 people to create a safe and inclusive space to explore and practice. You will receive recordings of lectures and practices to download, and these can become a basis for your own continued home practice.
Meditation teacher training (100hrs) – co-taught with Graham Burns for Yogacampus
This course offers the chance to train specifically to teach meditation. Covering a range of meditation traditions and approaches, it gives you the tools to develop your own voice as a meditation teacher. The course is offered as a blended learning course, with live online sessions delivered via Zoom and supported by Yogacampus’ state of the art online learning system.
The course will cover
history and psychology of meditation in the yoga traditions and in Buddhism, and their expression in modern mindfulness
different styles and techniques: concentration, awareness, and heart based practices, and a variety of meditation postures
teaching skills including tools to structure a meditation session and course, use of language, self-care and boundaries
obstacles, emotional responses, contra-indications and trauma sensitive teaching – and much more…
Introductory evening session:
Thursday 24 Sep 2020, 18.30 to 20.00
Teaching Weekends:
3 and 4 October 2020
31 October and 1 November 2020
28 and 29 November 2020
Mindfulness at work
Busy work lives often include a lot of challenges and pressure to perform and achieve. Mindfulness can help to reduce stress, anxiety and conflict, and supports better communication. It increase resilience and emotional intelligence. And mindfulness is the best way to not only enhance our well-being but also to improve our efficiency and productivity, supporting increased focus, memory and creativity.
I teach 6 – 8 week courses at your workplace which can be tailored to the needs of the group. I offer FREE taster sessions, so that teams can get an idea of what to expect.
