Wellness Retreat

Hello everyone ☀️

Little reminder for you today

Spaces are filling up fast for the Reset Your Power Retreat on the 27th of March. (Only 3 spots left)

I still have a few spaces available so book now to avoid disappointment.

Book in now and recharge the batteries...to full Power 🔋

On the day we'll have

➡️ Yoga 🕉️

➡️ Meditation 🧘

➡️ Grounding 🌲

➡️ Breath Work 🫁

➡️ Mindful Eating (VeggieLunch) 🥗

➡️ Sound Healing 🔉

➡️ Tea & Chats ☕🗣️

The Sccul sanctuary in Kilcornan, Clarinbridge is our escape for the day.

Time: 10:30am - 3pm

Early Bird Price: €55

To book your spot

Just follow the link below

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https://powerfitnessireland.mypthub.net/3/p/165466

Cannot wait to have you all back again when this madness is over! Will be nice to have contact again and to centre ourselves after this surreal time! Stay home & stay safe🙏🏻 Power Fitness & Elleo Therapy🙏🏻❤️💚

A few pics from the Amazing retreat we had on the 7th March. The setting is unreal as is The Sanctuary, however, it’s nothing without the people who were there on the day🙏🏻☯️🧘🙌

What a day! 🙏🏻☯️🧘‍♂️👐 see you next time🙌

The day could not have gone any better! A big thank you for all who attended🙌🧘☯️🙏🏻 cannot way for the next one!🤩

Elleo Therapy & Seán Power would like to thank everyone who came to our retreat today SCCUL Sanctuary Amazing day with amazing people. Thank you🙏🏻☯️🧘

All set for tomorrow!

Wellness Retreat updated their address.

So excited for our retreat tomorrow! All set for a relaxing and mindful day with all at SCCUL Sanctuary with Elleo Therapy and Power Fitness 🙏🏻 Seán PowerKarl Diel-Muir

23 Days to go! DM for the remaining spaces!

24 Days to go! 3 places left🧘🙏🏻👍☘️

26 Days.....

Wherever you are and whatever you're doing, it's easy to squeeze in just 15 minutes of yoga practice a day. Here are 10 reasons why it will be worth it:

1. Improve flexibility, strength, and posture

Daily yoga practice will help stretch and tone your body muscles. Popular poses like the plank will simultaneously work on strengthening your arms, legs, shoulders and abs. You don't have to be super flexible to practice yoga, the beauty of yoga is that it can be practiced at all levels of ability.

A few minutes a day practicing poses like the warrior or the downward facing dog, will soon make you really feel the difference in your flexibility, whether you're pretty bendy already or not.

❤️ Daily yoga helps improve your posture, making you walk taller and sit up straighter at your desk. Aches and pains caused by incorrect body posture such as back pain can also be alleviated.

2. Better all-round fitness

When thinking of improving your fitness, most of us think of huffing and puffing away at the gym. But weights are not the only way to work out. Yoga gives you all that a gym can, but in a peaceful, safe and more holistic way. It combines aspects of cardio, functional and strength training all in one. What more could you ask for? The best part about this workout is that it can be done at your own pace, in your own home.

3. Weight loss

You don't have to practice Hot Yoga or be able to bend double in a yoga pose to lose weight. An everyday gentle yoga practice will fuel the metabolic system and will help burn fat, leading to weight loss. Daily yoga can also help restore the hormonal balance in your body, which can normalise your body weight.

An everyday gentle yoga practice will fuel the metabolic system and help burn fat.
Levels of cortisol, the hormone that is released in response to stress will be lowered, leading to less overeating. Daily yoga also strengthens the overall mind-body connection and helps you deal more effectively with unpleasant emotions rather than reaching for food to suppress those feelings.

4. Increase your energy

Just a few minutes of yoga every day will provide that much-needed energy boost in our busy lives and will keep us fresh for longer. Yoga, with its unique synergy of body and breath work, is perfect when your reserves are running low.

Daily yoga practice will awaken the main energy centres (called chakras) in your body. Great poses for extra energy are those that extend the spine, such as the tree pose, allowing energy to circulate throughout the whole body, and poses that open the chest, like the cobra pose, encouraging the intake of more breath.

5. Reduce stress

Many work places now offer lunch-time yoga sessions because it's been shown that yoga is an amazing stress buster. Any yoga practice, even a short daily one, should be made up of three elements; poses, breathing and meditation. Studies have shown that those people who regularly practice all three elements are better able to regulate their heart-rate variability (HRV). This generally means that their heart rate is lower, giving body the ability to respond to stress in a more flexible way.

Relaxing yoga poses can calm both your body and your mind.
Are you coping with so much stress that it's keeping you awake at night? Studies have shown that practicing daily yoga can reduce insomnia. When experiencing insomnia, practice relaxing asanas or postures, such as forward fold (uttanasana) or lying on your back with your feet up the wall. Relaxing yoga poses such as the forward fold or lying on your back with your feet up the wall can calm both your body and mind.

6. Breathe better

Breathing deeply and calmly is an essential part of every yoga practice. Yogic breathing techniques (called pranayama) focus on trying to slow down the breath and on breathing fully from the pit of your stomach to the top of your lungs.

These methods will make you feel more relaxed and balanced and will help you face the day with confidence and calm. They also have some great side benefits including increased lung capacity and more tidal volume (the total amount of air your lungs can hold at any one time). You can adopt these techniques whenever needed in daily life. They can help you stay calm in emergency situations, think clearer in stressful situations and they can help reduce pain.

7. Be happier

Adding a few yoga poses to your daily routine can make you an emotionally stronger and happier person. A recent study has shown that practicing regular yoga and meditation results in higher serotonin levels (the happiness hormone).

Just 15 minutes of yoga a day can change your brain chemistry and improve your mood.
The same study showed that long-term yoga practitioners have more mass in the areas of the brain associated with contentment. Another study has shown that the brain's gamma-aminobutyric (GABA) levels are higher after practicing yoga. Higher GABA levels are associated with lower levels of depression and anxiety. To put it simply, just 15 minutes of yoga a day can start changing your brain chemistry and improving your mood.

8. Become more mindful

Yoga and mindfulness go hand-in-hand. When practicing yoga, you will shift your awareness to the sensations, thoughts, and emotions that accompany a given pose. That awareness will bring the mind back to the present moment – the main aim of mindfulness - where it can stay happy and focused.

Practicing mindfulness has lasting physical and psychological benefits that are very much in line with the benefits of yoga. You will feel more calm and relaxed, and less stressed and anxious. You will experience higher levels of energy and enthusiasm and more self-confidence and self-acceptance.

9. Improve concentration and think clearer

Yoga poses and meditation require you to concentrate on your breathing. This process of observing your breath calms your mind and makes you more mentally relaxed. As a result of this mental stability, you'll able to recollect and retain more information. Meditating for just a few minutes in the morning can result in better concentration throughout the day.

The process of observing your breath calms your mind and makes you more mentally relaxed.
By reducing mental stress and physical tension, we are able to recall easier and have more organised thoughts. Improved cognitive function happens when we are able to clear our minds and refresh. From a place of peace and calm, we are able to use our mental facilities more efficiently. Overall, by reducing mental stress and physical tension through daily yoga, you'll be able to think sharper and have more organised thoughts.

10. Live longer

As you now know, everyday yoga will help you increase your level of fitness, regulate your heart rate, reduce your stress levels and make you a happier person. All those elements may add valuable years to your life.

It's also known that yoga decreases the risk of heart disease, and it reduces the pace of your breathing which has been directly linked to a longer lifespan. Recent studies have shown that the meditation element of yoga might help delay the process of ageing by protecting the telomeres (caps) at the end of our chromosomes, too.

What more excuses do you need to hit the mat?

7th March 2020 The Sanctuary

Benefits Of Sound Therapy 7th March 2020

In today's age of stress, anxiety, and frustration it can seem very difficult to get any kind of break from the pressures of our daily activities. One way to make a positive change in your life and to relieve stress is to use sound therapy. The ways that your body reacts to certain sounds and vibrations can have a positive impact on your physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
Here are the top ten benefits that you can get from sound therapy:

1. Relief from stress

One of the greatest benefits that a person feels from sound therapy is relief from stress. The soothing sounds help to re-tune your brain to cope with stress better by replenishing brain energy with high-frequency sound.

2. Fewer headaches

Many people use sound therapy to get relief from chronic headaches and migraines. It can also address the underlying cause of many headaches like stress and high blood pressure. One study reported that adults who suffered from migraines got relief from their symptoms after two weeks of therapy.

3. Boost in confidence

Creating new, positive patterns in your brain with sound therapy can also give you a great confidence boost. You will be able to take charge of new challenges and have the confidence to make necessary changes in your life.

4. Gives you more focus

Sound therapy can also help you regain focus in your life. This is achieved by lowering brain wave frequency to help you focus more. This can help you, not just in coping with day-to-day activities; sound therapy can even be used to achieve better athletic performance.

5. More energy

Much of the way you feel is connected to signals that your brain sends throughout the body. A body under stress feels tired and fatigued and one of the main organs that affects stress levels are our ears. Sound therapy feeds the brain with stimulating sounds that motivate the brain to release latent energy.

6. Improved relationships with others

Too much stress is one of the major causes of breakdowns in relationships within the family, workplace, and anywhere else where we interact with others. With the help of sound therapy, your stress levels get reduced and to are able to focus more on building and strengthening relationships.

7. Think more clearly

By using specific frequencies to help re-balance brain function, sound therapy can help you think clearer and avoid the temptation to rely on self-destructive and addictive habits. A healthy mind promotes a healthy body and you can break the cycle of negative thinking and habits to enjoy a much calmer and focused life.

8. Improve organisation skills

Obviously, when your brain is more focused and there is 'less going' on in it, you are able to take control of your daily tasks on a whole new level. You will find that a course of sound therapy will help improve your organizational skills which will benefit your work and family life.

9. Improved attention span

Many parents who have children that suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), speech or language difficulties have found many benefits from sound therapy. This is because sound therapy can help retrain the brain to listen more efficiently and help focus attention on tasks.

10. Get relief from common ailments

Because many of the ailments and health problems that we face in the modern age are stress-related, you can get relief from these by regularly using sound therapy. For example, problems like hypertension, stomach pain, depression, and joint pains are all related to stress and anxiety. When the correct sounds vibrate around the body, it creates a healing environment where the body and mind start to heal itself.

Join us on the 7th March 2020

Manage time for your inner self! Join us on March 7th. The Sanctuary!

A simple walk in nature can be a powerful tool.

1. Helps reduce stress.

2. You’ll feel happier. Just try it and tell me you don’t feel better.

3. Better brian functioning (I use outdoor walks as work breaks).

4. Regular walking and an increase in activity levels can be enough to help you lose weight.

5. Walking in nature can lower blood pressure and also help alleviate depression, anxiety and other mental health conditions.

So get out more often ! You literally have nothing to lose.

Previous Wellness Day👌

Some pics of the sanctuary where we will have our wellness retreat on March 7th 🙌

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Wellness Retreat updated their business hours.