Winter Workshop
Quaker Meeting House, LE2 1WP | Saturday 21st December 2024 | £50
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus
Honour the winter solstice with Zoë Martin & Hayley Bennett. The word “solstice” comes from the Latin solstitium meaning “sun stands still”. This afternoon is an opportunity to pause and mirror the slower, quieter rhythms of midwinter. Slow, meditative yoga practices and shamanic drumming will restore quietness and calmness, naturally increasing a sense of openness, brightness and clarity.
Zoë Martin
Zoë Martin has over 25 years experience of teaching yoga in the UK and Europe. Her passion for mindful movement entwined with a deep awareness of breath, simplicity, intuition and inventiveness supports people to discover, experience, understand and embody the practice of yoga. Zoë continues to explore yoga with her teacher Sandra Sabatini.
Hayley Bennett
Hayley is a tarot reading, energy healer and shamanic practitioner who has been helping people for over 20 years. Her purpose is to awaken the power within, bringing clarity and longed for transformation into people's lives. Using her drum she will lead you safely on a personal shamanic journey where you re-connect with your true self and empower your next steps.
Beyond Asana
An exploration of anāhata cakra or the energy centre of the heart. Using specific meditations on body, breath and sound the heart space relaxes and a profound openness and lightness arises within this region.
This 2hr workshop will blend theory and practice and is aimed to be experiencial rather than prescriptive. The workshop will include posture & breath work, guided meditations, simple sound work and space to rest and absorb the practices.
This workshop is open to all.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 16 Queens Road. LE2 1WP
Home, a Dwelling Place
The gentle undulation that comes while searching for effortless alignments is a valid tool in activating the navel, which clears the excessive noise gathered within it. When time, attentiveness and touch are given to this area, quietness enters and clarity naturally follows. Returning home, a dwelling place.
The Whole Body Breathing - Sandra Sabatini & Michal Havkin
The Workshop - THIS WORKSHOP IS FULLY BOOKED
The workshop will incorporate some Feldenkrais movements facilitating a playful and different experience of yoga positions. The unfolding of the body will go along with the unfolding of the breath supported by a slow and meditative approach
Sandra Sabatini
Sandra Sabatini is a world renowned yoga teacher and was the primary student of Vanda Scaravelli for 18 years. Sandra believes 'Learning no longer comes from wanting to reach a goal or fulfil an aim but from a gradual unfolding, an effortless blossoming'
The key to this unfolding is the breath; and in Sandra's hands, awareness of the breath becomes a radical and intensely powerful tool capable of stripping away tension, tightness and toxins, and restoring the body and mind to balance.
Michal Havkin
Michal Havkin has over three decades of experience dancing professionally in Israel and around the world. These roots, woven in with her long-term study with Sandra, support the discovery of new levels of awareness and minute changes within the body.
Sandra and Michal have been teaching together for the past 18 years and share an interest in exploring movements and breath. Throughout the sessions they will divide the teaching between them, with practices that complement each other.
The Venue
Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, Knighton, Leicester. LE2 3WG
Payment Terms
To register for the workshop a non-refundable deposit of £165.00 is payable. The balance of payment of £160 is due by Friday 10th October 2024.
Cancellation Policy
In the event of a cancellation a refund of £165.00 minus a £12.00 administration fee will be given only if that place can be filled from the waiting list before the workshop begins.
Bookings
Zoë Martin: info@yogaleicester.co.uk
An Introduction to the cakra & subtle energetic body
“The cakra are points of concentration for the mind.”
- TKV Desikachar
A practical and approachable introduction to the cakra (chakra) through yoga theory, awareness, posture work, breathing, sound and meditation practices. Discover how connecting with the subtle energetic body enhances inner harmony and vitality.
“Like a hollow bamboo rest at ease in your body”
- Yoga of The Mahamudra
BEYOND ĀSANA
Every minute, we are bombarded by sensory stimuli that constantly and rapidly changes.
spirals around the spine
"We have to avoid angular movements and adopt circular, spiral ones. As flies and bees do when aiming for a definite spot. The body will accept round movements, born from the spine, and therefore leading to a total action. This kind of spiral gesture penetrates in depth and can bring about unexpected results.”
VANDA SCARAVELLI
The Workshop
The workshop will incorporate some Feldenkrais movements facilitating a playful and different experience of yoga positions. The unfolding of the body will go along with the unfolding of the breath supported by a slow and meditative approach
Sandra Sabatini
Sandra Sabatini is a world renowned yoga teacher and was the primary student of Vanda Scaravelli for 18 years. Sandra believes ' Learning no longer comes from wanting to reach a goal or fulfil an aim but from a gradual unfolding, an effortless blossoming'
The key to this unfolding is the breath; and in Sandra's hands, awareness of the breath becomes a radical and intensely powerful tool capable of stripping away tension, tightness and toxins, and restoring the body and mind to balance.
Michal Havkin
Michal Havkin has over three decades of experience dancing professionally in Israel and around the world. These roots, woven in with her long-term study with Sandra, support the discovery of new levels of awareness and minute changes within the body.
Sandra and Michal have been teaching together for the past 18 years and share an interest in exploring movements and breath. Throughout the sessions they will divide the teaching between them, with practices that complement each other.
The Venue
Beaumont House, Stoughton Drive South, LE2 2NA. Situated next to the Botanic Garden
Payment Terms
To register for the workshop a non-refundable deposit of £155.00 is payable. The balance of the payment is due by Friday 27th October 2023.
Cancellation Policy
In the event of a cancellation a refund of £155.00 minus a £10.00 administration fee will be given only if that place can be filled from the waiting list before the workshop begins.
Bookings
Zoë Martin: info@yogaleicester.co.uk
Summer Rhythms
summer rhythms
"In the summer when you see the entire sky endlessly clear, enter such clarity.
- Vigyan Bhairava
Practices to carry you through the summer months.
The workshop will incorporate a slow, meditative āsana practice to support a natural unfolding of the body, delicate breathing practices, guided relaxations and meditations.
Cost: £36
The Yoga of Awakening - With Zoë Martin
When we learn to live in harmony with nature and follow her gentle rhythms we feel joyful and alive.
Celebrate and tune into the re-emergence of spring and her expansive, light giving qualities through an afternoon of yoga practice.
Explore how the ground and gravity can support the body to let go of tension and patterns of holding
Nurture a sense of curiosity as we deconstruct poses to encourage and awaken lightness and freedom within the body
Examine how breath is capable of cleansing and peeling away layers of tension and tightness resulting in a feeling of wholeness and clarity
Enjoy new blossoms of you! The workshop welcomes all no prior yoga experience necessary.
Zoë Martin has immersed herself in the study and practice of yoga for over two decades. Yoga’s rich philosophy permeates and informs her approach to living - you could say it’s become her ‘lifestyle’.
Her teaching is both clear and concise, guided by her personal learning and practice.
Through simplicity, intuition and inventiveness she supports yoga students to discover, experience, understand and embody the practice of yoga.
Summer Yoga Workshop
Are you longing for light and warmth? Join Zoë for an afternoon of yoga practice to celebrate the Spring Equinox.
Spring Yoga Workshop
Are you longing for light and warmth? Join Zoë for an afternoon of yoga practice to celebrate the Spring Equinox.
Natural Menopause Workshop
Therapeutic yoga practices combined with dietary information to support and minimise common menopausal symptoms.
