Heather Lodge Holistic and Well Being Centre

Fancy improving your wellbeing with a free guided walk in nature?

Did you know that holistic treatments for stress and anxiety can help with IBS symptoms? Come and speak to Madeleine if IBS hinders your life experience and you are looking for help in managing your symptoms.

Heather Lodge welcomes Chrissy Archbold to the team!

August is "International Happiness Happens Month", dedicated to celebrating things that make you happy!
Did you know that there are 31 types of happiness? How many will you choose to celebrate today?
Amused Blessed Celebrate Cheerful Confident Content Creative Enthusiastic Fun Giving Grateful Helpful Honourable Humour Inspired Joyful Kind Love Motivated Nostalgic Optimistic Peaceful Playful Proud Relieved Respectful Satisfaction Social Spiritual Successful Valued

Or perhaps you'd like to add a new one that is unique to you?

At Heather Lodge we can help you tap into any or all of these with our extensive range of therapies, classes and groups - check out our website for more information. www.heatherlodge.scot
Happy August!

Check out our exciting calendar of events for August; including Lughnasadh celebration!

Please pass this post on to anyone who you feel might benefit from our services - Thank you 🩷

Have you noticed that when you feel stressed, you also experience digestive upset? This is a normal response, but some basic techniques can offer relief.
Here are three you can practise daily with minimum effort and no cost:

1) DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING
Most of us take shallow breaths most of the time, often due to stress. This is subconscious, but breathing can also be conscious, and practices such as diaphragmatic breathing can help support our gut.
2) EAT WITHIN A 12-HOUR WINDOW
The gut needs time at night to repair itself from the effort of digesting food during the day. If the gut does not have this downtime, gaps can develop in the gut wall; for efficient repair we need two things: a relatively empty gut and the growth hormone that is produced at night while we sleep.
3) TAKE A STROLL
Benefits can be achieved with just two to five minutes of walking after eating, as this supports digestive function by stimulating the stomach and intestines, helping food move through the digestive system, reducing bloating, and even helping gastrointestinal symptoms associated with irritable bowel syndrome.

For more information, and details of where to get help, see the article in our July newsletter by our Nutrition Coach, Emily Rose Mawson.

We need your help!
Can you explain our stone circle?

When we moved into Heather Lodge the back garden was overgrown and we didn’t notice the large, circular, stone structure alongside the Strathwhillan Burn. It is some 30 feet across with a carefully constructed top of dressed sandstone and a depressed centre; word is that it had been quite deep, but was filled in decades ago.
The Heather Lodge, Banner Lodge, and Moss Cottage buildings were originally farm ‘offices’ associated with the Douglas Hotel, (built in the Victorian era) and elements of their architecture suggest that they may have included a stable or coach house, and staff accommodation.
Perhaps the circular structure had some agricultural use? It’s too big for a well and, given the quality of the stonework, it seems rather ‘luxury’ for grain or slurry storage. There was some heavy cast iron pipe work associated with it, and one theory put forward is that the Victorians were able to collect methane generated from farm slurry, possibly for use in gas lighting.
Do you know more though?
Please forward any suggestions to [email protected] as we are desperate to find out!

Take a look at our new Newsletter for July!

Just follow the link here...

heatherlodge.scot This month we turn our spotlight on one of our long-serving therapists, invite you to join our intrepid band of volunteers, outline three ways you can improve your digestion and offer a post-election antidote to self-righteousness. And in case that's not enough, we invite you to solve a mystery and....

Here is the "What's On" calendar for July at Heather Lodge.

Thanks to funding from the Scottish Government's Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund, we're now able to offer a choice of seven different activities to Arran residents, free of charge. Choose from:

Wild Food Foraging
Forest Bathing
Exercise Sessions
Dance Movement Therapy
Therapeutic Gardening
Breath Walks
Women's Drumming Circle

To claim your free sessions please email [email protected] or call (01770) 302546.

For more information click the link
https://heatherlodge.scot/services/wellbeing-in-nature

One of our clients has written a guided self-care journal. Click on the link to download the free copy of the ebook 🌸
https://heatherlodge.scot/news/self-care-website-blog-and-guided-self-care-journal

Tomorrow (Friday 21st June) is the women's drum circle, this is a free event but places are limited so please contact Jill at [email protected] to book your place 🪘

Past-life Regression Group this Saturday 22nd June led by Devika, booking essential.

Here's the link for June's Newsletter. Enjoy! 🙂https://heatherlodge.scot/newsletters.php?id=D8W2z2vKVtBGPs1

If anyone is interested in coming to a Yin Yoga practice on Sunday 16th June or Sunday 7th July at 11:30am in the Garden Room at Heather Lodge please reserve your place at www.momoyoga.com/essenceofsoulyoga

As well as group meditation, Devika is offering one to one sessions.

New meditation sessions are starting at Heather Lodge, all welcome. To book your place phone Devika 07557403363 or just turn up 10 minutes before the meditation starts.

Wellbeing in Nature is our new programme offering a choice of seven free activities for Arran residents, all of which are proving popular.
To book your free sessions please email Jan, [email protected] or call 302546.

News Latest news from Heather Lodge.

Here's our What's on Calendar for June 😊

A bit late but here is our May newsletter! Learn about Qigong, read about our fabulous therapist, Maria, and did you know we had a wedding at Heather Lodge ♥️
https://heatherlodge.scot/newsletters.php?id=64Z4rqOm1rlOGTJ
Remember if you want our newsletter (on time 😉) you can subscribe through our website.

Soundbaths this weekend 🎶 Friday 17th 6-7pm, Sat 6-7pm & Sunday 3-4pm.

We love this time of year in the garden, come along and join us, every Wednesday morning. All welcome no gardening experience needed just enthusiasm 🍓🧅🌸

Here is our May What's on Calendar!