SUMMER SOLSTICE SEASONAL FLOW

With Deborah Grossman

Saturday 22nd June 2019 | 2 – 4pm

We hope you can join us to celebrate and welcome the summer season. The summer season is all about warming up; the sun is the ultimate source of almost all light and warmth on Earth’s surface and Summer is when nature’s and our energy are at their peak. It’s about getting our heart beating, balancing calm with vibrancy and a time for enjoyment rather than striving – a time for living life to the full!
Our seasonal practice encourages circulation, social as well as body, heat (tapas) and a sense of calm. It’s the season for laughter, contentment, meditation, exercise, compassion, letting go, balance and socialising.

Organs associated with this season are the heart and small intestine and our practice helps to open us up, encouraging flow of energy along the organs’ meridian lines. Challenging postures stimulate our heart and circulation, warmth, joy and personal expression; cooling postures balance and close the practice. Yoga nidra will complete our workshop (along with some delicious seasonal treats!)

We look forward to welcoming you.

£20

SOUND TO SILENCE KIRTAN EVENINGS

With Julia Carr

Friday 28th June | 6:30 – 8pm

These monthly Sound to Silence sessions are an opportunity to drop out of our busy minds into our hearts with the healing practice of Kirtan.The practice of Kirtan is from the path of Bhakti Yoga and is essentially a meditation practice. This joyful practice can help us to connect with the very best of ourself, whilst giving strength and courage to face challenges in our life.In addition to the chanting each session will also include some gentle yoga movement and preparatory meditation

Everyone is welcome!

£10 when booked upfront. £12 on the day.

YOGA IN THE PARK CHARITY FUNDRAISER

With Heather Gregg

Sunday 30th June | 9:45 – 11am

Charity Fundraiser for ‘Born Free Satpuda Landscape Tiger Partnership’, India & Keighley Cat Care

Following the outdoor events we’ve held over the past few years we’ve received great feedback & requests for more of the same – Heather will once again be leading these outdoor yoga & meditation in the beautiful Roberts Park, Saltaire from 9:45am – 11am on the dates above. This will be a fun energising morning class alfresco followed by pranayama (breathing techniques) & meditation – I hope you can join! We’ll meet near the bandstand to set up the mats and be ready to get going at 9:45am.

*** Weather conditions permitting – all participants will be contacted by email if play gets called off because of rain ***

Please bring own mat or let us know if you require to borrow one – We have a limited number to supply – heatheryoga@hotmail.co.uk ***

INTRODUCTION TO AERIAL YOGA

With Paddy Gallagher

Sunday 30th June | 2 – 4pm

This Aerial Yoga workshop is a 2-hour introductory session. You will be seated in the hammock at the beginning, folded over the hammock for a downward dog, resting back into the hammock during sun salutations and suspended in the hammock for inversions, as well as flipping in and out! At the end of the workshop you will also get the chance to fully unwind and rejuvenate by lying down in the hammock during Savasana.
Suitable for all levels of fitness and no previous experience of yoga or aerial work is needed, just bring an open mind with a sense of fun.

Only one ticket person/ per account name. If you have booked 2 tickets under the same account name please contact 07901866259 as this won’t show 2 places on the roster and spaces are very limited. Thank you

£25 for Early Bird Rate if booked by 7th June, £30 Full Price.

Booking is essential to guarantee your place as places are limited.

FAMILY YOGA: LAUGH, PLAY, MEDITATE

With Deborah Grossman

Sunday 7th July | 3 – 4pm

This Family Yoga workshop is a great way to spend some quality time together, reconnect with each other and have fun through Yoga.
Open to all ages of children and family members, we will go on a yoga journey together with some music, yoga games, support each other in partner poses, and practice some breathing exercises.

During the session with yoga teacher Debs Grossman, you’ll experience plenty of laughter & joy, enjoy learning together & spending time in each other’s company, practice energetic and exciting yoga activities to challenge everyone, discover partner yoga to encourage bonding& being a team. This will help to build on strength, flexibility, enhancing focus & mindfulness, and finding inner calm & quietness.

£10 adult and one child, £2 for additional children/ adults. Maximum 3 children per family.

BATHING IN STILLNESS: YIN YOGA & GONG SOUND RELAXATION

With Heather Gregg

Sunday 7th July | 5:45 – 7:15pm

This month’s Sunday Yin Yoga workshop we will indulge in the quiet and gentle practice of Yin Yoga and once again include a special addition of deep relaxation with Gong Sound bath!
Yin Yoga is a healing practice of long-held poses where muscles completely relax & surrender to allow us to access the deeper layers of the body. It works on releasing constrictions in the connective tissue, ligaments, and tendons that support the hips, pelvis and lower spine. It also stimulates & opens the energy meridians of the subtle body, often described as a “needleless acupuncture session” for the body!
This nurturing workshop will take you through a specific series of seated & supine poses. Aimed at improving joint mobility, cultivating flexibility and help you heal yourself by releasing deep seated tension, breaking up blockages and thus encouraging easier flow of energy around the body, moving you out of negative emotions. You’ll discover balance and find a deep peace in your body & mind.
After the physical part of the practice you will release yourself totally into a soothing sound bath of gong, bells and singing bowl from Sound Therapist Alison Butterworth. The sound balances out the right & left sides of the brain, which stimulates & shifts the nervous system to a restorative and healing mode, and takes you into a deep state of relaxation & ease. A sonic massage and charges the cells of the. body – you will feel an incredible sense of calmness, quietness, and clarity.
Sooth, restore and relax deeply in this bliss bubbling Sunday yoga workshop.
Come and enjoy!

£15.

INTRODUCTION TO AERIAL YOGA

With Paddy Gallagher

Sunday 21st July | 11:15am – 1:15pm

This Aerial Yoga workshop is a 2-hour introductory session. You will be seated in the hammock at the beginning, folded over the hammock for a downward dog, resting back into the hammock during sun salutations and suspended in the hammock for inversions, as well as flipping in and out! At the end of the workshop you will also get the chance to fully unwind and rejuvenate by lying down in the hammock during Savasana.
Suitable for all levels of fitness and no previous experience of yoga or aerial work is needed, just bring an open mind with a sense of fun.

Only one ticket person/ per account name. If you have booked 2 tickets under the same account name please contact 07901866259 as this won’t show 2 places on the roster and spaces are very limited. Thank you

£25 for Early Bird Rate if booked by 30th June, £30 Full Price.

Booking is essential to guarantee your place as places are limited.

INTRODUCTION TO AERIAL YOGA

With Paddy Gallagher

Sunday 21st July | 2 – 4pm

This Aerial Yoga workshop is a 2-hour introductory session. You will be seated in the hammock at the beginning, folded over the hammock for a downward dog, resting back into the hammock during sun salutations and suspended in the hammock for inversions, as well as flipping in and out! At the end of the workshop you will also get the chance to fully unwind and rejuvenate by lying down in the hammock during Savasana.
Suitable for all levels of fitness and no previous experience of yoga or aerial work is needed, just bring an open mind with a sense of fun.

Only one ticket person/ per account name. If you have booked 2 tickets under the same account name please contact 07901866259 as this won’t show 2 places on the roster and spaces are very limited. Thank you

£25 for Early Bird Rate if booked by 30th June, £30 Full Price.

Booking is essential to guarantee your place as places are limited.

YOGA UNPLUGGED: RESTORATIVE YOGA – RELAX, REJUVENATE & REBALANCE

With Debbie Gibbs

Friday 26th July | 7:45 – 9:15pm

This restorative yoga class is a perfect way to unwind and close out your working week so you’re fully recharged & ready for the weekend ahead. In restorative yoga, otherwise known as the art of relaxation, the body is fully supported by props in passive yoga poses to gently stretch, relax and open the body, adjusting the nervous system and resting the adrenal glands to melt away physical and mental tensions and promoting deep release, rest & relaxation in the mind and body. They also assist the body’s processes of healing injuries and recovering from illness by releasing tension that would otherwise impede recovery. Taking place in a calming setting of low light and candles – this yoga class is the ideal opportunity to take your mind off your busy life & indulge yourself.
Open to all ages & abilities – No experience necessary.

£15.

BATHING IN STILLNESS: YIN YOGA & YOGA NIDRA WORKSHOP

With Heather Gregg

Sunday 18th August | 5:45 – 7:15pm

A special Sunday workshop to indulge in the quiet and gentle practice of Yin Yoga and soak up the transformative power of Yoga Nidra.
Yin Yoga is a healing practice of long-held poses where muscles completely relax & surrender to allow us to access the deeper layers of the body. It works on releasing constrictions in the connective tissue, ligaments, and tendons that support the hips, pelvis and lower spine. It also stimulates & opens the energy meridians of the subtle body, often described as a “needleless acupuncture session” for the body!
This nurturing workshop will take you through a specific series of seated & supine poses. Aimed at improving joint mobility, cultivating flexibility and help you heal yourself by releasing deep seated tension, breaking up blockages and thus encouraging easier flow of energy around the body, moving you out of negative emotions. You’ll discover balance and find a deep peace in your body & mind.
After the physical part of the practice you will release yourself totally with a Yoga Nidra Meditation. Yoga Nidra, or Yogic Sleep, takes you into a deep state of relaxation & ease which shifts the nervous system to a restorative and healing mode. It brings an incredible sense of calmness, quietness, and clarity.
Sooth, restore and relax deeply in this bliss bubbling Sunday yoga workshop.
Come and enjoy!

£15.

YOGA FOR MENOPAUSE

With Lyn Hill

Saturday 10th August| 2 – 5pm

It is with great delight that we return to Heather Yoga for a third afternoon of nourishment. We will be learning yoga poses to help with the menopause from aching bones to hot flushes and all that is in between; from the early stages of peri-menopause all the way through to the other side. Gentle restorative poses and deep meditation to connect with your inner wisdom and knowing. As well as the yoga poses we will be learning some breathing techniques and mudras to help with hot flushes, anxiety, poor sleep and many more symptoms that we may experience. A time that many women fear, associated with growing older and all that brings, but the menopause is when we step into the next chapter of our lives, a re-birth of becoming who we want to be and coming into our full power, a time to reach deep within and shed the skeletons from our closet, letting go all of that no longer serves us. At our previous sessions we’ve had some beautiful sharing, all learning from each other, sharing what we’ve all experienced and shared tips on what has helped us along the way. It has been of great benefit to all finding how we can prepare for the menopause and ways in which we can make the transition easier on a physical and emotional level; laughter and tears all welcome. We will be journaling all that arises throughout the afternoon so please do bring a notebook and pen.

£25

STRESS REDUCTION WORKSHOP FOR TEENS

With Mandy Young

Wednesday 28th August | 1 – 3:30pm

Want to learn how to better manage stress, frustrations and anxiety?
Feeling overwhelmed with exam stress?
Want to help understand you have choices in how you respond to stress and how to manage mood swings?
Care to give your mind a break – reduce mental clutter and unwanted thoughts? Find some mental space?
Need to learn to keep your cool when things going wrong?
Join Mandy in this 90 minute stress reducing workshop for teens.
Using mindfulness exercises and breathing techniques, it will help you take charge of your response to stress rather than it controlling you and your emotions.

£10

A DAY OF WORKSHOPS WITH ADAM HUSLER

Sunday 8th September | 1 – 7pm

London’s most in-demand yoga teacher Adam Husler, is back in Yorkshire this Autumn for a day of workshops as part of his International tour dates. We are so pleased that he will be visiting Heather Yoga this September with some refreshing and unmissable Yoga workshops.

Kung Fu Hips:  1pm – 3.30pm – see full details below

Twist Again…And Again: 4.30pm – 7pm – see full details below

Prices include £50 for a package of both workshops or £30 for each individual workshop.

About Adam
Drawing from a variety of lives lived off the mat, Adam Husler( E-500RYT) brings a unique perspective to those who seek more from yoga than making pretty shapes. He offers creative, effective and clearly-sequenced teachings that focus on balancing flexibility and strength; physically and mentally. Educated by globally renown teachers, including Jason Crandell and Michael Stone, Adam specialises in a signature style of Alignment-Based Vinyasa— fuelled by a fascination with anatomy and a desire to ask ‘why?’
Adam believes that yoga is a personally subjective practice of self enquiry, where one thing is for certain: whether a long-time listener, first time caller, or anywhere in between… yoga offers us all plenty of options to challenge and reward. Start small, go slow, practise, and all is coming. With a robust home schedule in London and leading workshops, trainings and festivals continuously around the world, Adam has thousands of teaching hours under his belt.

KUNG FU HIPS

With Adam Husler

Sunday 8th September | 1 – 3:30pm

Martial artists have got it right, finding that beautiful sweet spot in the legs; perfect balance between flexibility and strength, through incredibly smooth, dynamic movement.

Here, we wont be kicking each other in the head but we’ll be exploring integrated movement, enhanced mobility, dynamic transitions, arm balancing and deep static poses that will challenge all levels of practitioner. Expect a controlled, strong yet fun vinyasa practice that will challenge ego and body!

With a focus on the legs and our hip socket, we’ll be developing our understanding over
this complex area and how happenings in our knees, ankles and pelvis can affect asanas for better or worse. This sequence will follows Adam’s typical accessible, anatomical
instruction, but will also feature some movement patterns inspired by Adams backgrounds in martial arts, Budokon yoga and the world of functional movement.

Prices include £50 for a package of both workshops or £30 for each individual workshop.

TWIST AGAIN… AND AGAIN

With Adam Husler

Sunday 8th September | 4:30 – 7pm

There’s a family of asana that every 21st century body loves and needs, the twists!

Here we’ll begin by touching base on the mechanics of whats happening in your body when you
twist with integrity and congruence, then the rotations will begin.

Via a controlled vinyasa practice, we’ll gradually explore the core-muscles required for non levered twist and then begin to add some leavers, gradually getting deeper into our
opening and closing twists. As time goes by we’ll explore adding our new found twists to increasingly challenging balancing poses and arm balances like grasshopper, side crow, Koundinyasana A and revolved bird of paradise. Though it will be a strong practice there’ll be plenty of options for different bodies and levels of experience.

Prices include £50 for a package of both workshops or £30 for each individual workshop.

POWERFUL PRACTICES with Naomi Absalom

Saturday 26th October 2019

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