Treehouse Yoga

So mow the lawn and tidy up the hedges, plant some wild flowers, pick the fruit, water the veg. Treat your body to all the nourishment and care that it deserves for carrying you around all day/ for your life!

This week we learn to lean into the autumn shift with postures and props to help us release tension into the ground.

Yoga with me this week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays:

9.30am
12.30pm
Winchcombe 6.30 & 8pm

Autumn, when the fruits that gathered their summer - sun sugar get ready to fall. When we let go and prepare to hunker down. How does our practice change at this time? What postures do we turn to and enjoy more?
How is your body feeling as the weather cools and dampens?

Classes this week:

Tuesdays 12.30pm
Wednesdays 9.30am
Winchcombe - 6.30pm & 8pm

Delicious heart warming flows to set the body up for the change in season.

Exploring intentions as we move into Autumn 🍁 🍁 🍁

"Movement is the song of the body" Vanda Scaravelli

Here I am growing and moving with the corn! Reaching my shoots up and planting my roots down....

Explore these two energies in your body.

New Beginners/Gentle Yoga starts in Winchcombe on 11th September at 6.30pm.

Open for 6 week bookings.

If you've been curious to try Yoga come and join us in this friendly, accessible class where you can experience the foundational postures and breathwork in a no pressure atmosphere. We will focus on how the poses feel to you and how to adapt and make them work for your own body, in all its glory!
Enquiries to: [email protected]

A joy teaching these lovely people this morning under the yellow laburnums. A few slippery worms joined us on our mats halfway through.

Next class outdoors is on the 22nd June - book in!

Some of the lovely people who made it to my outdoor class at Postlip this morning. Sorry Jules, Cathy and Julie I took this after you had left!

Today I really enjoyed my job. I taught a trauma informed yoga session to a lovely enthusiastic group of people in a recovery program. It's a regular weekly class. Some had never done yoga before and told me they 'didn't know their bodies could feel like that'. I then taught some regular, and some new faces at Orange, another group of varied wonderful students. A strong and steady vinyasa flow inspired by finding the prana and apana energies within us. Thank you everyone I taught for making my job so interesting :)

Beltane Blessings everyone!

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone--
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance--
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love--
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed--
or have you too
turned from this world--

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?

The Sun, Mary Oliver

The power of touch. Fantastic couple of days learning from Aram Raffy the art of touch and adjusting in Yoga.

Finally kicking off my midday Yoga class at Rosieglo yoga studio in Leckhampton this week and the first class is free!

Come and join me in this beautiful space just off Bath Road
12-1pm Thursdays.

Suitable for all abilities :)

However you feel about New Year there's a friendly space to learn to breathe, move and relax in company at Abbeyfields community centre every Wednesday evening.

Learn the foundations of Yoga at 6.30pm or join the slightly more advanced later class at 8pm for an hour of flow that will get you breathing a little more deeply and leaving a little more spacious :)

BOOK : www.momoyoga.com/treehouse-yoga/teacher-profile

Movement is and play is important for adults as well as kids! What ways do you 'play' on a daily basis? Play invites curiosity and curiosity in our bodies and sensations brings us wholly into the present. Play is too - you can't be involved in playing unless you're fully engaged in it.

Hello! Next week I will be releasing a new video for my students. A short, morning flow practice for those that wish to practice more often but maybe still find it challenging to do this unaided or have limited time. They will be posted on my you tube channel. Enjoy!

We've been exploring using props in bow pose or Dhanurasana this week. Raising the middle of the body can allow you to access the posture and the feeling of the posture in a different way. In my case it allows for a much more uplifting feeling of opening across the front that I don't feel if I am flat on the ground where I feel like a beached turtle! Some of my students found the opposite and preferred without props. Finding your own practice is about exploring the options and finding agency in your practice. I love it when students choose to take a different route because it shows they are actively engaging in their practice.

So happy to be teaching in my favourite studio today! Come full circle from teacher training 4 years ago....Join me on Tuesday lunchtimes 12.30 for mindful Vinyasa Flow with lots of play :)

Bird of paradise or Svarga Divijasana. I love the way this posture brings together loads of the energetic actions we learn and practice in Vinyasa Flow regularly. It draws on a lot of hip opening, core and balance work. The journey to reach it is of course more interesting than the final thing....
There are two ways to come into this pose - watch my little breakdown video if you'd like to give it a try or come to this week's classes to learn the progression!

"Just where you are, that's the place to start" Pema Chodron

No such thing as a 'yoga body' only a body that practices yoga :)

Two classes tonight at Abbeyfields in Winchcombe -
Beginners at 6.30pm - FULL
Mixed group at 8pm - 3 places

www.momoyoga.com/treehouse-yoga/schedule

Find a practice space with other welcoming people.

New class alert! Come and join my beginners course in a beautiful space over at Stoke Orchard.
Still a few places left!
Stats Monday 11th September

Using the wall to warm up my back. Start with hands close to the wall then kick up and hold, gradually take hands further away, lower your bum till you touch the wall behind you. Later, bend the legs. Hold a few breaths. Do these at the end of a warming practice. Nice prep posture for upward wheel.

Two NEW Beginners Yoga courses running this September!

Community Centre, Winchcombe
6.30pm Wednesdays
Starts: 6th September

Orchard Community Centre
10.40am Mondays
Starts: 11th September

In both we will learn to develop a personal yoga practice and work out how to move our bodies in a way that nourishes and sustains us. Becoming stronger and more flexible and learning to calm and steady our mind.

A few places left on both: [email protected]

Fabulous fun hens today laughing their way in and out of or . Lots of exploration and connection as we partnered up to explore balance, and all this on their hangovers!

This. Find your friendly local yoga teacher in a village hall near you - it's not all about high energy yoga to DJ beats or whatever the latest yoga craze is.

Don’t give up on yoga – it really is for everyone | Letters Letters: Try a class in a village hall with all ages and abilities, suggests Helen Stenson; plus letters from Jasmine Brown, Davy Jones and Ann Linich

Next outdoor Yoga class is this Saturday folks!
This will be a special Ashtanga into Yin class (or Yang into Yin). We will balance the energising, strength of Ashtanga with the softening reflective nature of Yin.

You will have the lovely Isabella Ferrante Alfonsi for the first part of the class and me for the latter part.
Maybe you're trying Ashtanga for the first time? Don't worry all are welcome :)
Experience a sense of calm and connection to start your weekend.
Booking here: www.momoyoga.com/treehouse-yoga/schedule

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone--
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance--
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love--
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed--
or have you too
turned from this world--

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?

Mary Oliver
The Sun

Solstice day! The day with the most daylight hours.
Happy Solstice friends and students!
Let this be a time of recognising the light and basic goodness within all of you!
Welcome in summer - we missed you.