Josh Box Yoga

Ostara ☆ Spring Equinox 22
Pilgrimage to Stonehenge

Ostara - Spring Equinox 22

Pilgrimage to Stonehenge ☆

A new years eve message from Josh Box Yoga..

To all of you amazing people out there. From the ones I had the pleasure of teaching every week, to the ones I was lucky enough to teach once or twice. Thankyou! I truly mean this and say it from the heart- I have absolutely loved our yoga journey together and it has given me memories to last a lifetime.

So many of you are asking "What has happened to Josh Box Yoga?!". My answer - Gone for now, but not forever!

It has been a matter of timing for me.
Since investing everything i had into my exploration around our beautiful planet, then coming back to the UK to share and develop all I had learnt through starting my own yoga business, the pandemic hit as soon as the wheels were rolling. Being in a financially tight situation from the start, I truly could no longer support myself through Josh Box Yoga alone and had to branch away doing what I knew best and graft to make ends meet.
In this year alone, I have gone from traveller, to grounds keeper, to yoga teacher, to online corporate yoga, to truck driver and finally after a long time of thinking and planning for my future, a tree surgeon. I absolutely love working with nature and being outdoors all day long, learning such valuable knowledge about these old old creatures all around us. A very physically demanding job that keeps me fit and is exciting too, winner! Tree surgery has been a truly great fit for me and I look forward to taking this path for as long as I can!

That all being said, once I have mastered burning off over 5 thousand calories a day and still have energy left to teach yoga, I will be back, holding awesome yoga classes at weekends for whoever wants to jump back onboard and look after their bodies along with me!!

As I said, Josh Box Yoga, gone for now, but not for good!..

Wishing you all a much better year ahead, filled with abundance, freedom, happiness and health!

Namaste my awesome Yogis 🙏🏼❤

Hello my beautiful yogis!

So sorry you've had to miss out on the weekly classes these past few weeks. As you can see this has pretty much been what I've been up to to earn some pennies,
driving all sorts of trucks and loads.

Unfortunately the same goes for tomorrow too, so the relaxation class will have to wait until next week. But keep your eyes peeled for an update for classes next week, as I'm in real need of some yoga in my life again as I'm sure you all are too!

See you all soon! 🧘‍♂️🙏🏼

Hey gang❗️

Are any of you wanting something specific for tomorrow's class? I'm planning it now so let me know if you want anything in particular! 🧘‍♂️🙏

Hello my beautiful yogis!

I'm back from the beautiful French countryside and boy was it peaceful and relaxing.

Join me, tomorrow morning at 10am so I can transport you back there in the countryside with me after some calming yoga 🧘‍♂️

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Hey gang!

I wanted to let you know that Thursday's 5pm 'Yoga Workout' class will no longer be happening regularly for the foreseeable future as many people are back to work now and getting back into some kind of normality the virtual class attendance has dropped dramatically.

Thats great to see, finally a light at the end of this long, dark and uncertain tunnel that we were in with COVID.
I'm currently waiting to be accepted to use the public spaces around St Leonards in the lovely garden spaces we have so I'll keep you all informed of that :)

🚀Just a quick one though - Fridays morning movement meditation is still on as usual so don't miss out on that 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️😁

Here's me trying to look cool the new T-shirt on our morning run, just before sprinted up the hill! 🏃‍♀️ 😎

Happy summer solstice you beauties!

As you all know, the summer solstice is the longest day of the year for the northern hemisphere right now, and I wanted to remind you that it's also traditionally celebrated as a time to reflect on what we have recieved and look toward new growth.
I know this year so far has been somewhat of a whirlwind but I do invite you to reflect on it all - the good, the bad and the ugly, all of it! And consider how you want to move forward with what youv learnt, what its shown you. You may appreciate different things in your life now looking at what you have, what you don't and what you managed to live without etc. Whatever challenges we've all faced since the last solstice, weve definitly had time to think. So let's all move forward together and make the most out of this awesome planet we live on. ❤✌🏼

Just a quick hello from me to say I'm starting to feel better and can't wait to get these online classes rockin and rollin again! 🧘‍♂️

See you all this Thursday at 5pm for workout yoga 💪🏼

Followed closely by the well deserved movement meditation and relaxation at 10am Friday! 🧘‍♂️🙏🏼

I had little thought this morning which could resonate with you all too..

Emotions are created from our thought, that's how we get into that mood because of the way we are thinking. We can obviously control our thoughts thus meaning we can literally change our emotions!

Let me put it more simply and use myself for example right now, I have been pretty poorly and like anyone, that would get you down and leave you feeling defeated, especially when it stops you from doing the things you wanted to do. I realised that it's my interpretation that will make me feel that way, so instead, I try to replace a negative thought, with a positive one (easier said than done i know, but practice, practice, practice) and if im successful with this, not only will my mood and outlook change but my experience will become more positive too.

Our experience of life isn't so much what happens to us, but rather how we process what happens to us.

In a book im reading, Michael Neill says - "the prevailing model in our culture is that our experience of life is created from the outside in - that is, what happens to us on the outside determines our experience on the inside. People or circumstances 'make' us happy, angry, sad, fearful or loving and the game of life is to find, attract, create, or manifest the right people and circumstances in order to have more of the good feelings and fewer of the bad ones.
While people and circumstances certainly matter what's even more important is that we think about those people and circumstances. Everything from Cognitive and Rational-Emotive therapy to the majority of the self-help movement points out that if you can replace a negative thought, belief, or attitude towards people and circumstances with a positive one, not only will your experience change immediately, but before long the people and circumstances will likely change as well - and even if they don't, at least your positive thoughts and attitudes will allow you to make the best of a bad situation."

Once you realise that its only your own thinking that you are experiencing, that thinking loses much of its hold over you. You might still feel the uncomfortable feelings of course, but because you know that what's causing them isn't outside you, you don't feel compelled to change the world in order to change the way you feel.
So whenever you're going through a tough time that feels like it won't end, or can't change, use your strength to change a negative thought into a positive one, again, easier said than done, but the more you practice this, the easier it becomes giving us a much better experience in life.

I hope this may help you today! :)

To all my lovely people, I have become rather poorly this week (thankfully not covid related) but this means unfortunately all of my yoga classes will have to be cancelled. Things should be back to normal next week. 🙏🏼❤

❗️CLASS DAYS HAVE CHANGED❗️

Please note that both online classes have moved a day forward:

💪Yoga Workout at 5pm-5.40pm
was Wednesday - NOW THURSDAY

🧘‍ Movement Meditation at 10am-11am
was Thursday - NOW FRIDAY

I hope this does'nt cause any inconvenience to the regulars 🙏

❗Need To Relax?!❗

Join me every Thursday at 10am via Zoom, where I will take you on a peaceful journey with my Movement Meditation Mornings and guided relaxation 🧘‍♂️

Seem as the sun has gone away, lets get back to some yoga!

Join me this evening at 5pm for a good old yoga workout to shake away those cobwebs!

I just love it when people are able to leave the hecticness of life at the door when they come to class, (even if it is online), It gives people that opportunity to press pause on life and really relax their mind and feel like they can take on the world after!

Thanks so much Mandy! See you next week ;)

Nothing but stillness in the air at Avebury Stone Circle.
You can't even notice me right?! 🧐

Cannot wait to get back to exploring again!
The tent is packed, the tank is full, South West England, we will be coming for you!

This mornings class planned, holding some nice restorative postures longer this time, flowing through the class nice and slow🧘‍♂️
Now, time for a morning run along the beach for some fresh air in the lungs🙏

See you later!

PS. - i'm taking you on a journey this morning ;)

How beautiful are some of the Himba customs 🙏🏼

Of all the African tribes still alive today, the Himba tribe is one of the few that counts the birth date of the children not from the day they are born nor conceived but the day the mother decides to have the child.
When a Himba woman decides to have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and she listens until she can hear the song of the child who wants to come. And after she's heard the song of this child, she comes back to the man who will be the child's father, and teaches him the song. When they make love to physically conceive the child, they sing the song of the child as a way of inviting the child.
When she becomes pregnant, the mother teaches that child's song to the midwives and the old women of the village, so that when the child is born, the old women and the people gather around him/her and sing the child's song to welcome him/her. As the child grows up, the other villagers are taught the child's song. If the child falls, or gets hurt, someone picks him/her up and sings to him/her his/her song. Or maybe when the child does something wonderful, or goes through the rites of puberty, then as a way of honoring this person, the people of the village sing his or her song.
In the Himba tribe there is one other occasion when the "child song" is sang to the Himba tribesperson. If a Himba tribesman or tribeswoman commits a crime or something that is against the Himba social norms, the villagers call him or her into the center of the village and the community forms a circle around him/her. Then they sing his/her birth song to him/her.
The Himba views correction not as a punishment, but as love and remembrance of identity. For when you recognise your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.
In marriage, the songs are sung, together. And finally, when the Himba tribesman/tribeswoman is lying in his/her bed, ready to die, all the villagers that know his or her song come and sing - for the last time that person's song.

⚠️ *SERIOUS QUESTION from me* ⚠️

COVID-19 forced alot of businesses to adapt and continue via the internet. Yoga being one of them.

As you all know I have been teaching yoga classes online for a good month or so now and they have been going really well.

I'm curious -
Are you all attending, ONLY because you cannot come to real life classes?

Does this make my classes more accessible? - less driving/parking/time taken out etc for locals. As well as being available online for everyone else in the country?

Would people want to carry on online classes in the future if they had the option to attend real life classes too?

I love yoga, I love teaching it and I miss my students a lot. I miss hearing about their lives and connecting with them through our practice.
But I have to admit, virtual classes hav'nt been as bad as us teachers were dreading. I have been able to introduce yoga to people who have never given it a try that live all over the country and to me, that's amazing! I have been able to connect to friends, family and new individuals through my yoga classes that I would NEVER have had the chance to, staying locally.

What are your thoughts and feelings of attending virtual yoga classes and do they have a place in YOUR future??

Josh Box Yoga updated their business hours.

Either I am very boring, or these guys are super relaxed! 🙊🤷🏼‍♂️

Such a great class today!
We had some new faces joining my awesome regulars, which is always exciting and everyone looking really on form today ;)

Great job! Happy Thursday's everyone 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️

I know how i'll be starting my Thursday, the right way! Are you joining us?! :)

Sometimes you really do just need to 'stop and smell the flowers' on your daily quarantine exercise.
(Ok, and maybe take your clothes off too)

Spending more time outdoors nurtures our “nature neurons” and our natural creativity. For example, after just an hour interacting with nature, memory performance and attention spans improved by 20%.

So when you're next out on your daily 'lockdown' exercise, make the most out of it and never take being in nature for granted. 🌳🐝

Come and join in a beautiful webinar this evening with the lovely Priti Mandeep Kaur at 7pm!

Sat Nam guys,
Come and enjoy this free reiki webinar @7 pm BST on Zoom
❣️Please register in following the link.

What to expect ?
💫 I will guide you through a healing meditation
🙏 Distant group Reiki Healing
💙Tips for self-care and self-healing

ALSO - I will gift one Reiki Session to one of the participants (£65 value).

Share the love to anybody who could benefit from it and register yourself 😄
Love and light,
Priti Mandeep Kaur
https://www.pritimandeepkaur.com/webinar-reiki

It's definitely times like these that really make me feel fortunate to live where I live. So close to nature, with this being my back garden.
It makes me think, will people's priorities change a little when we're out of this, maybe change the way they live or the location?!

The smell of that cold, fresh, salty air hitting my face and the sound of the gulls in the distance is enough to make anyone feel calm!