Hatha Yoga Andrea St.Clair

Sharing again my student, Jenny's delightful seasonal video to send warmest wishes to you all 💖🌟✨

Christmas Yoga My Christmas animated greeting is inspired by Andrea St Clair's Yoga classes in Edinburgh. We ( her pupils) have been fortunate enough to be able to attend…

Wonderful opportunity to bring meditation into your day with Roberta Giovedi who says about it ☺" So, I am starting a lunch time meditation session on line, I have just graduated from a Guided Meditation Teacher Training at the Planetary Healing Centre in Balerno, and I am looking forward to trying out these new skills and inspirations 🙂. I am thinking of a 30 or 40 minute session, at about 1pm on Wednesdays or Fridays, on zoom and free, as part as my case studies.
If it's something that resonates please get in touch, pm on here or text 07508858482 and we will start as soon as a group is formed ❤" ☺️❤️

Today ~ Yoga in aid of Ukraine ❤️🇺🇦 https://www.fierce-calm.com/so/8dO1Quqpv?languageTag=en&fbclid=IwAR2AiaLVlg1_Osu8KdzdoT3G8qR-2zj9woZOpxWeXy_5vvDuJetf5Cf-ddc #/main

Online & in Person Fundraiser Today with Zephyr Wildman & Manizeh Rimer in aid of Fierce Calm Ukraine & UK program Please join us TODAY online or in person in support of Fierce Calm - & help support our emergency fundraising appeal in aid o at Love Supreme Project West London for a fundraiser supporting our yoga, therapy and aid program in Ukraine and our regular refugee and marginalised outreach yoga program in...

Has the situation of the last 2 years subtly - or otherwise - impacted your sleep? Would you like to learn ways through undercurrents of anxiety, sleep more soundly and face your days refreshed? This course takes you on a journey, step by step, to build your resilience and find your own path to better sleep and rest.
To ease Zoom fatigue, the group for this course will be very small (max 5-6) and the main part of each week is on practical learning of yoga practices. We include some background information and ideas as well, so that by the end, you have both an understanding and a toolkit that you have already started to use in your life.
Come join us and learn to nourish yourself with better sleep 😴

We have spaces in our Yoga with Babies (for over five months) which runs on Tuesdays at 11am. We are lovely and welcoming, and our sessions include tea and biscuits. Andrea, our fab facilitator, has worked with parents and babies for many years. You tell she loves her work from the pic below 😍
£55 for a six week block, but we have concessions too, so please do ask if this would help you attend.
DM us, or email at: [email protected]

Upcoming teacher training for Lisa Sanfilippo’s innovative approach to sleep recovery! ☺😴
Starts this Thursday, 15th April & runs over the next Thursdays til 20th May, mirroring the week by week structure of offering the Sleep Recovery™ course to your students, in your community and beyond.
From Lisa: “We've been honing and refining the course online and have some new features that we're really proud of, attention to inclusivity in new ways, more refined homework, online resources, and more.
Join us, and be eligible to join the Sleep Recovery network when you graduate for ongoing peer support, mentoring and opportunities to teach SR in various contexts.”
For more information/booking, see https://www.facebook.com/events/172894461272335/
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Upcoming teacher training for Lisa Sanfilippo’s innovative approach to sleep recovery! ☺😴
Starts this *Thursday, 15th April* & runs over the next Thursdays til 20th May, mirroring the week by week structure of offering the Sleep Recovery™ course to your students, in your community and beyond.
From Lisa: “We've been honing and refining the course online and have some new features that we're really proud of, attention to inclusivity in new ways, more refined homework, online resources, and more.
Join us, and be eligible to join the Sleep Recovery network when you graduate for ongoing peer support, mentoring and opportunities to teach SR in various contexts.”
For more information/booking, see https://www.facebook.com/events/172894461272335/
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For a nourishing Sunday! 😊🙏

Still time to sign up to the Yoga Scotland fundraiser in Sunday for just £10. Six senior teachers offering their time to support the charity; each teaching a session for all to enjoy.
10am - 4pm
Extra donations gratefully received

https://yogascotland.org.uk/yoga-day-fundraiser/

Over the past year, Yoga Scotland has been severely impacted financially by the ongoing pandemic, so to help safeguard the organisation, which is a charity, we're having an online yoga day fundraiser....details below.

Huge thanks and gratitude to:

Rona Main Yoga
Patricia Hamilton
Trudy Morrison Berwick & Borders Yoga
Yvonne Davies Yoga Warrior
Carol Godridge
Jackielebrocqyoga

Yoga: Love & Unity with Judy Cameron, Cathy Swan & Yvonne Austen - 14th Feb '21 Judy Cameron, Cathy Swan & Yvonne Austen, Yoga Scotland lead tutors on their Teacher Training Courses, invite you to celebrate Hope, Health & Harmony in a morning online workshop in support...

For NHS workers out there, this includes some yoga to help sleep & rest with Sleep Recovery pioneer, Lisa Sanfilippo 🙂

For you, if you are serving our society via the NHS, a gift of love & care from us to you. 🌟 Joined by my colleagues at @triyogauk I’ll be offering free yoga classes for all NHS employees and staff. Weekly @sleep_recovery classes- 30 minutes to help you sleep and rest deeply with tools you can use whatever time your shift requires you to be up. 🌟 Classes also with @jonathansattin @jdelucry @gabriellaespinosa and many other luminous teachers. At least one w day. Safe space with colleagues to nourish yourself. 🌟 Thank you. We see you. We love you.

Dear All, at this time, which for many means special times with family & friends, as well as warmth, nourishment & perhaps some sparkle, I hope you’ve been able to be with some of the people in your lives & sending love to you all especially those more on your own.
I’d like to share with you a delightful video made by my longstanding yoga student, Jenny Newland. It includes Tree Pose, which we do in various forms, including fir tree at this time of year; & also features another seasonal favourite, Skating Minister Pose, inspired by the painting in the National Gallery of Scotland.
I hope it may bring a smile & some sparkle to you as it did to me.😊❤️💕

Christmas Yoga My Christmas animated greeting is inspired by Andrea St Clair's Yoga classes in Edinburgh. We ( her pupils) have been fortunate enough to be able to attend…

Restore Your Sleep Yoga Summit Dreaming of better sleep? Tried all the tricks, but still tossing and turning and waking up exhausted? You're not alone. Experts say that rates of insomnia are soaring around the globe, creating an epidemic of sleep issues on top of everything else. The good news is that yoga can help. You’re invi...

Mental Health Awareness week & here are some words from one of my students about the corona virus situation & mental health. Jess said that she was keeping her anxiety “in check thanks to ‘lounge yoga’ in my pyjamas ;) and also relaxations.” :) ❤️

OCD and anxiety during coronavirus | SAMH SAMH is the Scottish Association for Mental Health.

Facebook Live Session tomorrow on Alternate Nostril Breathing from my Slow Yoga Edinburgh page.

Join me live at 1pm or play the video later - I'll post the video to this page too.. ☺️🙏

Interesting post about Bhramari, the bee breath, for our current times from Heather Mason of The Minded Institute; & I happen to be including it in all my classes this week. 😊It almost always features in my Yoga with Babies classes as it’s very centring & calming for babies to be around as well as for those humming.

Join me on my Slow Yoga Edinburgh page for a Facebook live session on Bee Breath tomorrow, Wednesday 29th at 1pm, where I’ll be saying a bit about this breathing practice & how to do it before we practise it for 3-4 minutes to benefit from its effects; & you can ask questions before or after it or in the comments section below.

Hope to see some of you tomorrow ☺️🙏

One of our students, who is also a GP, shared some really interesting information about breathing that may or may not be useful in staving off Covid-19 and or other respiratory infections.

Someone will need to test it; So here's concept... Nitric Oxide (a gas, that primarily acts as a vasodilator) also acts as an antiviral. We have an abundance of Nitric Oxide (NO) in our sinus cavities, and also nasal region. This helps to neutralize pathogens, which makes a nice case for nostril breathing... but there is more...

Apparently, research has found that levels of NO markedly increase in the sinus cavity when we exhale with a humming sound. As bhramari, the humming bee breath is also beneficial in reducing anxiety (especially when performed at a lower tone) as it elongates the exhalation....it seems a good idea to practice.

It is unclear if doing this breath would offer protection from Covid-19, but the technique is useful nonetheless, so there is no harm in integrating it into your yoga practice.

Pass on this useful theory and maybe someone will research its value!

- Heather

Article; Nitric Oxide Inhibits the Replication Cycle of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus - https://bit.ly/2YcqLaa

Harvard Medical School has “recommended yoga, meditation and controlled breathing to deal with COVID-19 anxiety.” I haven’t posted here for a while, as I’ve been getting classes for all my regular students online; but perhaps you are now attending an online class, whether one of mine or another? If not, do check out what’s around & I’ll aim to post complementary resources here as well. Wishing you the strength, steadiness & flexibility of Yoga❤️🙏

Harvard University urges people to perform Yoga every morning to fight COVID-19 Amid growing coronavirus tensions across the globe, a leading medical school in the US has urged all students to perform Yoga to fight against coronavirus.

Morning Yogis :)Yoga can build internal and external strength and resiliance. This beautiful quote from Iyengar seemed appropriate for this time

Thank you so much everyone for all your support & help. ❤️ Onward we go! ☺️🙏

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. We are so grateful to every one of you who contributed to our Crowdfunder for the move to our new premises.
YOU helped us to reach a whopping £26,750!
YOU helped to pay for the renovations on our new home; the place where many families will benefit from respectful and non-judgemental support and information, and build community and friendships for years to come.

If you would still like to donate, simply send an email to [email protected] and we'll get you sorted :)

THANK YOU

Anyone out there who had pioneering Yoga support during pregnancy & beyond from Nadine Edwards, the Birth Centre, the BRC (Birth Resource Centre) or what has developed from all this, the PPC (Pregnancy and Parents Centre)?

With very grateful thanks to all who have supported us in whatever ways, whether in the past or more recently, we’re now reaching out to our wider fan base, knowing you have really appreciated our Yoga support & other work with families & would like to see it continue & grow from strength to strength.

***Please could we ask you to share this post or its information as widely as you can to let our fans know the PPC is at a challenging transition point & we need help with this?***

There is a lovely wee video about the work of the PPC on our crowdfunder page which I hope you’ll enjoy watching & sharing.

In case you don’t know our current situation: we need to move because of development of the property that’s been our home these last years. We have found new premises (on the Pleasance) but we need to do some basic work to be able to move in & continue our classes before the bulldozers move in to Lower Gilmore Place!

We are asking for help in practical ways & also have a crowdfunder going to help us cover the costs of some building work, heating, lighting, plumbing & decorating. We’re very grateful to all who have helped us reach £21,054; & with just 7 days to go, we need to raise a further £8,946.

I often meet parents who are enthusiastic about the PPC & what it has been for them & their families & am reaching out now to those who may not know about our situation but would be happy to help.

*Please, please* spread the word about the last days of our crowdfunder & together we’ll take the PPC forward. Thanks so much for this & all your other support. ❤️☺️🙏❤️

Crowdfunder link ~ https://tinyurl.com/smgznob

Pregnancy and Parents Centre Edinburgh 2019 fundraiser The Pregnancy and Parents Centre in Edinburgh, around in various locations since 1985, and started in Nadine Edwards' home, NOW needs the support of its comm...

BBC Radio London - Jo Good, Lisa Sanfilippo, Lauren Bravo and Francesca Specter Yoga teacher Lisa Sanfilippo outlines a yoga plan to restore your rest and sleep.

Some background to the upcoming Yoga for Sleep day workshop at Glasgow's Wee Retreat ☺️🙏

To all who have used the PPC, we'd love your comments, thankyou ❤️🙏
From the PPC:~"If you have used, and loved the Pregnancy and Parents Centre, please take a moment to share your words, with the hashtag to help the PPC as we prepare for our BIG move fundraiser - you can do this on your own/business page, or on twitter
Thanks x"

"The in-depth group discussions with a birth educator at the end of class were very insightful. Discussions and sharing of resources covering all topics of pregnancy, birth and beyond helped immensely to guide me make informed decisions along my birth journey."
Ellie Clark

Holistic Scotland Magazine Summer 2019 This feel-good issue is packed with tips to help you look and feel your best this summer, along with in-depth features on CBD, Bowen, practising gratitude and yoga for sleep. Also, don't miss the chance to win a Seedball bundle or a luxury podicure.

Yoga Nidra recordings 😇☺️🙏

💎 Did you know that we offer hundreds of FREE in 18 different languages to download from our website for your delight ...

https://www.yoganidranetwork.org/downloads

Some nice, doable ideas; & one could start with just one of these ideas & try it for a day or more…. 🙏

Living With Purpose - Deliberate Living - OM Yoga & Lifestyle 7 ways to try living with purpose. By Leo Babauta The nature of the world is chaos, but what if we could find a more deliberate way of moving through the chaos? Here are some ways

Benefits of Yoga covered on Today in Parliament 21st March 2019

Glasgow based folks with sleep issues? Come & find out how yoga can help & learn the Yoga Sleep Sequence at this free, World Sleep Day event :)

Join Andrea this Thursday 7:15pm at the Sweaty Betty Store for a workshop to solve the problems of sleepless nights and groggy days. This simple, effective yoga-based practice targets the underlying issues to restore good quality sleep 😴

This event will consist of a 15 min talk followed onto a simple sleep sequence with questions and answers at the end.

Book via our website https://sweatybetty.instabook.io/

Yoga poses to help prepare the body for sleep - Singing Dragon Blog Expert yoga therapist Lisa Sanfilippo demonstrates yoga poses from a sleep sequence to help you relax and prepare your body for sleep.

World Sleep Day soon! Here are some of the Yoga practices we'll be exploring in this Saturday's workshop on Yoga for Sleep all interwoven with relevant aspects of the science of sleep. See https://tinyurl.com/y7n4ol48

Places are available on Gary Carter's workshop at the end of March. Email Veronica at the website below if you're interested in joining it.

Workshops with International Yoga Teachers Visit the post for more.

I enjoyed this hugely, as in my 50s I do even more yoga to stay fit as well as the other benfits it brings & do yoga with my 84 year old mother to help her stay independent 😄🤣😊

Just a little light relief... but you know it makes sense! ;)

Help is at hand for those of you with sleep issues in this upcoming afternoon workshop in the peaceful Edinburgh Yoga Room :)

Feel free to message or comment for more information & I'll look forward to sharing this valuable resource with whoever joins me there.