Yoga with Chloe

Who wants to do yoga here!? Everybody yes? This is the beautiful yoga shala at overhanging the lushness of mountainous forest in Portugal. Nice eh? We are delighted to announce that we will be running a retreat in the new year here: yoga, nature, forest, water, food, massage and healing, loving vibes does not even begin to describe the nourishment you will receive...

27th January - 4th February 2019: Save the date. Booking links to follow.

Love.

Ahimsa Yoga news, inspiration and events - Welcome! -

Ahimsa Yoga news, inspiration and events - Welcome!

We love creating space for lovely souls to feel their heart. Here, is where your power lies...
Head over to to hear all about my collaborative passion project Ahimsa Yoga with my love.
Tuesday: 6 - 7:30pm YinYang Flow at ... two experienced teachers, double the love... we are getting delightfully full, so message us to save your spot! A balancing class, flowing from movement to stillness, balancing strength and softness... soft power and powerful softness...
More weekly classes to be announced *very* soon!! Watch this (heart) space..
Also to add to your diary: September 2nd YinGong Sunday Sanctuary... at St Augustines Centre... 3 hours of yin yoga and sound therapy...
More to come.
Love Dan and Chloe

At Ahimsa Yoga HQ (😂), we often try to remind each other to get excited by the little things, to feel blessed by the small miracles we otherwise rush past, to seek the meaning and the wisdom in the slow time of noticing and appreciating. These beautiful bubbles are blooming by our courtyard door, and I often enjoy looking at Dan crouching down to witness the slow growth unfolding before leaving the house.

Sometimes meditation or prayer, or whatever we chose to call it, is made out of tomatoes, or grasshoppers, moths or leaves. Morning meditations, silently crouching at 'the tomato alter' in the sunshine were:

A remembering of some of the wise words of mother (both mother earth and mother mother) who remind me that "where flowers bloom there is hope .... the opposite of hope is no hope, and that is a very, very dark place". Our tomatoes are blooming, especially in the light, that always, always gives me hope. .

That watering and caring for these tomatoes, that wilt and droop with neglect, is a delightful metaphor for self growth. By feeding ourselves what we need, however busy we are, whether movement, silence, sound, challenge, gentleness, laughter, tears, food, poetry, friendship, aloneness (ie all-one-ness), we grow. Without that, we wilt. So simple, yet so easy to neglect...

A remembering of Mary Oliver's words: "Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it"... because "attention is the beginning of devotion", and I want to love the world by attending to her.

Hence the tomato-based meanderings..

On another, but infinitely related note: YinYang Flow with Dan and I is tomorrow evening: 6 - 7:30pm at . Come forth, feed yourself what you need for hope, growth and astonishment..two teachers, double the love...double the meanderings...

Tomorrow! At we are teaching 'flow to stillness' at 13:10 - 14:40... it'll be a magical mix up of all the medicines of yoga, from a powerful vinyasa flow, to yin, to yoga nidra... all the while bathed in the vibrations of the sacred Gongs.

Come forth and feel!

Photo credit to John of and in the delightful Space Yoga Studio.

Love Wins.

A message on the separation/apartheid wall in Palestine...

Want to hear all about how this message, written on the ugliness of division and separation, is inherently linked to yoga as a practice for peace? (Especially pertinent as Trump so unfortunately is on UK soil today)...

Want to hear all about how you can learn active principles of Ahimsa Yoga, peace, love and liberation?

Want to practice this? See and feel the raw truth of this message?

Find out more about our upcoming retreat in Palestine, the story, rationale and love behind it all tomorrow at 11am at our talk in the talk zone at hosted by (of which the wonderful Space Yoga Studio is a sponser...).

Because. Love. Wins.

Find out more at www.ahimsayoga.co, like .ahimsa on instagram, ahimsayogabrighton on fb, and contact us on [email protected].

Love Chloe & Dan

Want to hear more about the practice, principles and story behind Ahimsa Yoga? Want to hear more about our upcoming yoga retreat in Palestine?

A yoga retreat...in Palestine!? I hear you say...

Well there's method to the madness, hope in the happenings, liberation in the love...

Want to hear more... come along to our talk in the talk zone at tomorrow at Hove Cricket Ground at 11 am hosted by ... it'll be an interesting and open discussion, with story, thought, and space for questions.

Ahimsa Yoga: Practice peace and realise freedom.

Find out more at www.ahimsayoga.co, like .ahimsa on instagram, ahimsayogabrighton on fb, and contact us on [email protected].

Love Chloe & Dan

"I Worried: Mary Oliver

I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers
flow in the right direction, will the earth turn
as it was taught, and if not how shall
I correct it?

Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,
can I do better?

Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows
can do it and I am, well,
hopeless.

Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it,
am I going to get rheumatism,
lockjaw, dementia?

Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing.
And gave it up. And took my old body
and went out into the morning,
and sang."

We all worry. We all know what anxiety feels like. Worry often arises out of a sense of wanting to control our circumstances. Our ego wants to grapple, twist and bend the wonder of the world, the messy magic of this life, into a neat, understandable box. Our ego wants the colours of being to remain fixed firmly between self imposed lines.

When we worry less about the edges and shift our perspective to the source, focus less on the lines and witness instead the full colour spectrum, we feel and realise the depth and the glorious intensity of living fully, in every moment of every experience that life offers to each of us. When we put the ego into the back seat, and allow our heart to take the lead, we realise 'all that matters is how we love', and worry dissolves.

Give it a go, and trust the process.

Tonight: YinYang Flow with Dan and I () at : 6 - 7:30pm .
Take your body to the seaside and flow!

Find out more about us and our in at www.ahimsayoga.co, like .ahimsa on instagram, ahimsayogabrighton on fb, and contact us on [email protected].

Love Chloe & Dan

Photo by the wonderful Katrina

Tomorrow! YinYang Flow with Dan and I - Ahimsa Yoga - at clubhouse, on the beach down the steps from Kemptown.

I'll be taking you through a firey yang flow, while Dan softens you with an immersive yin practice. Because we feel the world needs balancing: more femme in the yang, and man in the yin..

Find your balance.

10 class: £90, 5 class £50, drop in £12.

We are building a community based on Ahimsa: Love and compassion to all living beings, and our Tuesday classes will be both energising and restoring, and strong and soft.

Expect a warming vinyasa Yang flow, with options to make this accessible for all challenge levels, followed Yin with press an massage (with consent)

You'll benefit from the love and expertise of two yoga teachers, so will receive touch and physical adjustments (with permission), as well as verbal and visual demonstrations

We are booking up, so do message to reserve your space!

Ahimsa Yoga: Practice peace and realise freedom.

Find out more about us and our in at www.ahimsayoga.co, like .ahimsa on instagram, ahimsayogabrighton on fb, and contact us on [email protected].

Love Chloe & Dan

"Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future, and faith is having the courage to dance to it now." Peter Kusmic .
We believe this.

Ahimsa Yoga: Practice peace and realise freedom.

We've classes, workshops and a retreat in planned! .
Your vibe attracts your tribe. Join our tribe, look up www.ahimsayoga.co, .ahimsa on instagram, and on facebook see what we up to.

Love Chloe and Dan.

Tomorrow! YinYang Flow at clubhouse, on the beach down the steps from Kemptown: 6 - 7:30pm, 10 class: £90, 5 class £50, drop in £12.

Dan and I are building a community based on Ahimsa: Love and compassion to all living beings, and our Tuesday classes will be both energising and restoring, and strong and soft.

Expect one hour of a warming vinyasa Yang flow, with options to make this accessible for all challenge levels, followed by half hour of Yin.

You'll benefit from the love and expertise of two yoga teachers, so will receive touch and physical adjustments (with permission), as well as verbal and visual demonstrations

We are booking up, so do message to reserve your space!

Find out more about us at www.ahimsayoga.co, follow ahimsayogabrighton on facebook, and like yoga.ahimsa on instagram. Also, look up our retreat in !

Love Chloe and Dan

Hi folks...

This is today... yin, Gongs, poetry and generally all round immersive, healing magic. I promise you it'll be good...

See you on the mat - arrive ten minutes early to get comfy and settled - 2-5pm Space Yoga Studio - near Preston Park on Florance Road.

Can't wait...

Less than a week to go to YinGong Sunday Sanctuary 2 - 5pm at Space Yoga Studio £30

Dan and I will guide you through a deep immersive yin practice, while David of Gong Therapeutics will bathe you in the healing vibrations of a Gong bath.

This is an invitation to journey into your inner sanctuary....

Sound good? Book here: www.spaceyogastudio.uk/workshops/
.. or read on to learn more about yin and it's healing powers... (more on nadi yoga soon...)

Yin yoga is a powerful practice centred on softness, stillness and surrender. Through long hold, deep, opening postures a yin practice seeps into and softens the many layers of our body and being.

On a physical level, Yin works with fascia, a fibrous connective tissue that spreads across the landscape of our body, binding our body as One. Fascia binds not only our muscles into one connected chain, but also our organs, nerves and lymph. Yin is a perfect balance to a more dynamic, 'yang' practice, as it is through the long-hold, opening postures of Yin that we can work to lengthen and soften this continuous fascial network. A network which plays such an invaluable role in the body's health and functioning, as the interconnected whole that it is.

Yin also works with the subtler more energetic shifts, locks, doorways and openings throughout the powerful vehicle of the body. "The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream." (Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women that Run with the Wolves).

Our body keeps the score, our body knows: all that we have ever experienced is written onto the landscape of our body, which houses the inner realities of our life experience, in all its pleasures and heartbreaks. Yin gives the time, space, stillness, softness and surrender to delve deep, to listen, to unfold and breathe into all of the little drawers and pockets of density we carry around - all the little jars in which we put our 'stuff' - our fears, anxieties, insecurities, hurts and traumas. Yin offers the challenging opportunity to open these up, and observe as our body and being as it shifts and changes when we give our selves time to 'be', and to 'open' through allowance, acceptance and surrender.

Life is about rhythm, and we must oscillate between periods of exertion and recovery, movement and rest to seek the soft, strength of balance, of being. Yin yourself back to balance, to softness, stillness and surrender, and watch as your unfold into the free being that you are.

Get on your mats, drop your 'stuff', listen, feel and heal. Open up to The Medicine.

See you Sunday!

Love.

I am really excited about this... less than two weeks to go until me, Dan (Ahimsa Yoga) and David of Gong Therapeutics take you on a journey into the inner sanctuary...

We'll be at Space Yoga Studio for a three hour yin yoga and nadi (sound) yoga immersion on Sunday July 1st 2-5pm: £30.

Yin yoga bathed in the vibrations of sacred gongs a sacred Space.... sounds good?

Book here: https://www.spaceyogastudio.uk/workshops/

Read more and tell us you are coming here https://www.facebook.com/events/2000214393527772/?ti=cl

Love.

Want to look as relaxed as Dan??? Dan is chilling in the scenic Hosh Yasmin organic restaurant here, at which we are hosting our Hurriyeh Yoga awakening retreat.

The powers that be would never have you believe that Palestine is anything like as beautiful as it is... but amidst the hardships of occupation, the ancient land of Palestine - it's beauty and the many stories of its people - endures....Because truth can never be silenced...

Come and see for yourself! And leave nourished and awakened in ways you never would have believed possible from the much misunderstood land of Palestine.

We will be running our Hurriyeh Yoga awakening retreat from September 23rd - 29th at Hosh Yasmin organic farm, set in an olive grove on a hillside near Bethlehem. .

You can join us for all six nights for £695, or for three nights for £345. In this price, you will have two yoga classes daily from two experienced and passionate yoga teachers, organic vegetarian breakfasts and dinners, three days exploring and visiting people and projects building peace, two rest days and a Turkish bath!

Find out more at www.ahimsayoga.co, like .ahimsa on instagram, ahimsayogabrighton on fb, and contact us on [email protected].

Love Chloe & Dan

We are excited to announce more opportunities for you to explore and practice in Palestine!

We've had requests to provide a shorter and cheaper option for our Hurriyeh Yoga awakening retreat in Palestine, so we are offering two options:

1. 6 nights: £695
2. 3 nights: £345

Price includes rustic accommodation, tasty organic vegetarian breakfasts and dinners, two yoga classes daily, trips around West Bank and a Turkish bath!

The olive tree is the symbol of Palestinian nonviolent resistance to military occupation: 'sumud' - steadfastness through remaining on the land. Come and explore the ancient land of Palestine, and the beauty that endures despite hardship.

Ahimsa Yoga: Practice peace and realise freedom.

Find out more at www.ahimsayoga.co, like .ahimsa on instagram, ahimsayogabrighton on fb, and contact us on [email protected].

Love Chloe & Dan

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Don't let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life".
Rainer Maria Rilke.

The desert of Palestine. The land in which my love and I are hosting Hurriyeh Yoga, an awakening journey, within and without. A yoga retreat with a difference.

We've more workshops and classes planned in Brighton and Hove to spread the yoga medicine. Watch this space...

Find out more at www.ahimsayoga.co, like ahimsayogabrighton on fb, and .ahimsa here. Contact us on [email protected] for a chat.

See you on the mat..feeling it all.

I'm really excited to be journeying with Dan and
David (Gong Therapeutics) to bring you YinGong Sunday Sanctuary at Space Yoga Studio...

Yin bathed in Sacred Gongs in a sacred Space.... sounds good? Read on, share and come along...

"Ahimsa Yoga and Gong Therapeutics have teamed up to create the perfect blend of yin yoga and sound therapy. This immersion is accessible to anyone at any stage in their yoga practice. You will be bathed in the vibrations of the sacred Gongs while you hold deep, opening yin postures, journeying toward a Yoga Nidra Gong Bath.

Dig deep, restore and retreat on this immersive journey into your inner sanctuary. Tension will dissolve in your body as you connect to the medicine of your higher self, and release all which inhibits you."

My love Dan, rooting to rise, earthing to elevate: recharging batteries, plugging in to The Source.

Join me and Dan in Palestine this September as we embark on our Hurriyeh Yoga awakening journey. A yoga retreat with a difference... .

Or want to meet us a little closer to home? We've yin workshops planned at Space Yoga Studio first Sunday of the month June, July and August, where we will be partnering with Gong Therapeutics to bathe you in the vibrations of the sacred Gongs... .
Hear more at www.ahimsayoga.co, follow .ahimsa on instagram, on Facebook, or email us on [email protected] for a chat.

Love.

The beautiful restaurant at Hosh Jasmin, Palestine. The place to enjoy delicious, organic vegetarian/vegan Palestinian cuisine on your Hurriyeh Yoga awakening journey....if you fancy joining me and Dan in Palestine this September.

After your practice, your rest or your exploration around this occupied land, kick back, taste Palestine and bask in a golden glow as the sun sets over the surrounding hills. And you can get a glass of local wine too...

Want to hear more about our upcoming yoga retreat in Palestine? Look up www.ahimsayoga.co, follow ahimsayogabrighton on fb, .ahimsa on instagram, and get in touch and have a chat..

Love.

I'm really excited to announce that my love Dan and I are creating Ahimsa Yoga, a passion project delving deep into the practice of peace.

Ahimsa: (Sanskrit) Love and compassion for all living beings. Because we believe in peace on the mat, and peace off the mat is the path to freedom and liberation.

We've retreats and workshops planned, and much more brewing!

Look up www.ahimsayoga.co to find out more, and like on facebook and yoga.ahimsa on instagram to keep updated.

It's going to be beautiful....

Love Chloe.

"what we think is less than what we know: what we know is less than what we love: what we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are." - R.D Laing

Stop thinking, start feeling flows tonight:

6 - 7.15pm Vinyasa Flow Yellowave
7:45 - 9:00pm Flow and Restore Spaceyogastudio

Classes next week:
Sunday: 5 - 6:30pm Hot Yoga Dynamic Hot Yoga
Tuesday: 7:30 - 8:30am Vinyasa Flow
Tuesday: 12 - 1:30pm Vinyasa Flow
Wednesday; 6:30 - 7:30am Hot Yoga
Thursday: 6 - 7:15pm Vinyasa Flow
Thursday: 7:45 - 9:00pm Flow and Restore

Balance is one of the most important lessons yoga has taught me.

To balance my inhales and exhales, strength with softness, effort with ease, rooting with rising, challenge and comfort, fire with air, water and earth. In short yoga has helped me practice balancing my mind, body and spirit, my being and my life.

I'm excited to be teaching two ends of the yoga spectrum this evening:

**Come and find your balance today with**

A powerful and dynamic vinyasa flow class Yellowave with a sea and sunset view at 6 - 7:15pm...

And/or a restorative gentle, drippy, breathy flow Spaceyogastudio at 7:45 - 9:00pm

What does your body and being need today?

Classes next week:
Tuesday: Vinyasa Flow 7:30 - 8:30am
Tuesday: Vinyasa Flow Dynamic Hot Yoga 12 - 1:30pm
Wednesday: Hot Yoga 6:30 - 7:30am
Thursday: Vinyasa Flow 6 - 7:15pm
Thursday: Flow and restore 7:45 - 9:00pm
Sunday: Hot Yoga 5 - 6:30pm

Yoga church! Perfect...

Beautiful new Space opening up - to open you up - in Brighton. I'm delighted to be a shiny piece in the mosaic of yogi(ni)s teaching, practicing and exploring in this sacred space.

Come and find yourself on the mat at in St Augustines near Preston Park. Next week is opening week and is completely free... so.... feel free!

Because you are by the way. You are free.

See full schedule here: www.spaceyogastudio.uk and taste the many flavours of the yoga palette!

I'll be teaching a powerful vinyasa flow on Tuesdays 7:30 - 8.30, and a healing, drippy-melty flow and restore on Thursdays 19:45 - 21:00.

Love.

Truth.

So let's roll out our mats, and crack on..

Vinyasa flow tonight this springy day Yellowave - kemptown - 6 - 7:15pm...

You won't regret it. I promise...

Other classes this week:
Sunday: 5 - 6:30pm Hot Yoga Dynamic Hot Yoga
Monday: 7 - 8:15pm Vinyasa Flow The Healthy Living Company
Tuesday: 12 - 1:30pm Vinyasa Flow
Wednesday: 6:30-7:30am Hot Yoga
Thursday: 6 - 7:15pm Vinyasa Flow

Upcoming classes to be announced at Spaceyogastudio ...watch this space to hear more about Space!

Love.

"...so many social figments come between us...But if we could strip away all the exigencies and contingencies, and reveal to each other our naked presence? If you take away everything, all the clothes, the disguises, the grease paint, also the common projects, the games that provide the pretexts for the occasions that masquerade as meetings - if we could meet, if there were such a happening, a happy coincidence of human beings, what would now separate us?" - R.D. Laing

In yoga you can practice stripping away all your layers (not literally....that's too much... Catherine Considine would giggle too much), so that we can flow toward this "happy coincidence of human beings", in union with self and 'other', shed of our "social figments". Come and give it a go....it's good stuff...it's medicinal...it's real.

Vinyasa flow tomorrow at Yellowave - 6 - 7:15pm - £12 drop in.

Other classes:
Sunday: 5 - 6:30pm Hot Yoga Dynamic Hot Yoga
Monday: 7 - 8:15pm Vinyasa flow The Healthy Living Company
Tuesday: 12 - 1:30pm Vinyasa flow Dynamic Hot Yoga
Wednesday: 6:30 - 7:30am Hot Yoga Dynamic Hot Yoga
Thursday: 6 - 7:15pm Vinyasa Flow Yellowave

Learn to love and soften into the struggle as much as you enjoy the reward. Revel in the climbing, the necessary breaks, the hard parts, the "I can't" moments, as much as the peaks, the views from the top, the moments of clarity and beauty. Growing pains are all part of growing, opening and strengthening. Learn to soften into them, even run towards them, embracing your thresholds as you flow, and observe the wonder that unfolds.

Vinyasa flow tonight 6 - 7:15pm at Yellowave. £12 drop in.

Photo: Snowdon, where I struggled, climbed and laughed with my love by my side.

As the sun sets early in the day, and solstice times calls for hibernating, tonight is my last class for a while! I'm off for Christmas, and Yellowave is closed for the first two weeks of January.

Come one and all and Go with the flow, rhythm and cycles

♡