Yoga with Bex Triggs

September classes starting Monday 2nd

Mondays
10am Gentle Hatha at Bearwood Community Centre BH11 - all welcome
🌟ONE space left 🌟

1.05pm Vinyasa at SportBU Bmth Uni - all welcome. 🙌

5.30pm Stretch & Restore Monday Evenings at All Saints Church, Southbourne . New class all welcome. ⭐First class 16th September.⭐

Wednesdays
5.30pm Yoga for Bournemouth Uni Students. Lansdowne Campus 🎉First class free 25th September🎉

Thursdays 🌻🌲☀️
9am Yoga outdoors at Knoll Gardens all welcome
The last session at Knoll Gardens is 28th September

Details and bookings www.bextriggs.com

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You are invited to my🍂Autumn🍂 Half Day Yoga Retreat

Sunday 20th October 2024
9.30am - 12.30pm
Embrace Yoga Studios Wimborne

Here's what to expect:
Dynamic Soulful Hatha Yoga class
Restorative Yin Yoga class
Silent time including breath work & meditation
Sound Healing with Tibetan Singing Bowls
Refreshing herbal teas and snacks
Togetherness with other amazing people

🍂Embrace all the changes autumn brings with these practices that urge you to fall into stillness, find balance, and prepare you for the cooler days ahead.🍁

Why you should attend:
🍁 Escape from the demands of your daily life by pausing and slowing down
🍁 Refresh your mind & reduce stress by immersing yourself in a relaxing peaceful environment
🍁 Deepen your mind- body connection promoting a profound sense of balance and tranquility
🍁 Leave feeling lighter, more at ease and better equipped to manage the challenges life throws at us.
🍁 Embark on a journey of self-discovery, time and space to explore your inner self, enhance clarity about your goals and desires and nurture your self-awareness and personal growth in your professional & personal life
🍁 Feel the physical benefits including improved flexibility, strength, and posture
🍁 Release tension and stress from your body and allow for emotional release and healing
🍁 Experience guided relaxation techniques that promote restful sleep, reduce muscle tension, and improve overall relaxation. Skills you can use in managing stress and improving your sleep in your everyday life
🍁Connect spiritually through meditation & mindfulness and deepen a sense of purpose and connection.
🍁 Boost your energy with the perfect balance of physical movement and relaxation, leaving you feeling revitalised

🐦EARLY BIRD £40pp book by 15th September
After early bird ends £45pp
Buy two tickets for £80

All levels welcome, even beginners.

🍁Book your place online TODAY 🍁
https://bookwhen.com/yogafitnesswithbex

Not long until September classes resume. Here's the schedule

Mondays
10am Gentle Hatha at Bearwood Community Centre BH11 - all welcome

1.05pm Vinyasa at SportBU Bmth Uni - all welcome

5.30pm Stretch & Restore Monday Evenings at All Saints Church, Southbourne . New class all welcome

Wednesdays
5.30pm Yoga for Bournemouth Uni Students. Lansdowne Campus

Thursdays
9am Yoga outdoors at Knoll Gardens all welcome
The last session at Knoll Gardens is 28th September

Details and bookings www.bextriggs.com

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I wanted to share this (not my words) -

"What kind of filter do you see the world through? Do you look for goodness or deceit, kindness or selfishness, intelligence or stupidity, beauty or ugliness?

The sage Ramakrishna told a parable that’s a great example of our ability to interpret the world according to our own mindset...

Four people were walking along a path one morning when they came across a man lying down with his eyes closed at the side of the path.

The first person concluded that the man must have been out gambling all night and fallen asleep on his way home. The second person thought that the man was unwell. The third was sure that the man was drunk. The last concluded that the man must be a saint in such a state of blissful samadhi that he was unaware of his surroundings.

We don’t know which person, if anyone, was right. They each saw a projection of themselves in the man. The person who thought the man was drunk was a drinker, the one who saw a saint was a saint.

One of the problems with our filters is that they are self-perpetuating. We don’t just focus in on the things that we are looking for, we filter out evidence of that which shows the opposite.

There’s an exercise that those of you who are teachers might like to try with your students that demonstrates this. Ask them took around the room and make a mental note of everything that is red. Then tell them to close their eyes and tell you everything they saw that was green (or blue or yellow or any other colour). People can often hardly think of anything because, even though they had just looked around, they had filtered out everything that wasn’t red.

When we realise how this works, the polarisation of our politics and the inability of people to see the other side’s point of view makes more sense. Especially when online algorithms persistently reinforce this polarisation, acting as a pre-installed, self-perpetuating filter on our world.

Yoga philosophy in general, and the practice of Swadhyaya, Self-Inquiry, in particular, is really about first recognising and then removing our filters, stripping our experience back to its truthful essence, free from assumptions and misconceptions.

Then we have a chance to return to our essential, filterless nature — freedom"

Love and Oneness 🙏🏼❤️

Katharine
https://unchangingbeing.com

I'm excited to announce a new class starting Monday 16th September. 5 30pm in Southbourne

Stretch & Restore Monday Evenings

Movement & Stretching leave feeling refreshed and restored for your week ahead.
All levels welcome

Interested?

book here https://bookwhen.com/yogafitnesswithbex

This is Kara she is a friend and a fabulous yoga teacher based in Bath. She is hosting a retreat this October that looks divine! So I wanted to share this with you as she has some spaces available 🙏. Please do contact Kara for bookings 🙏🙏🙏

My next yoga retreat week is in Daylan in October...

Only 4 Poolside Suites are available, including a bedroom with a wardrobe, a bathroom with a shower, a sofa room, a terrace, wifi, a safe box, a hairdryer and a mini bar...

Only £999 includes breakfast, x5 dinner, water, daily yoga, and transfers from Dalaman Airport...

Suites are available as single, twin, or double.
10% discount for 2 people. (Non Yogis welcome, too)

DM me for booking and more info!

£300 deposit required now, balance in September

One of the 6 major obstacles to Yoga (or union) is over eating.
When the body is overloaded with food it becomes sluggish and mind becomes dull.
Over a period of time toxins build up, constipation sets in and the whole physical - mental system becomes blocked.
You won't progress as quickly in your Yoga if you are overeating.

When the mind and body are not functioning in harmony, there is a division between the physical and mental rhythms.

Which inevitably leads to sickness...

(Hatha Yoga Pradipika) verse 15. Page 51.

Food really makes a difference to how you feel you feel you attend a yoga class. From personal experience I don't eat 2 to 3 hours before a class which means my stomach is light. Empty and I can move with lightness. I also have more clarity and feel good mentally.

Also I rarely feel sluggish and am rarely sick. Because I eat 95% of the time REAL food.

We can't rely on just Yoga to improve our mental and physical wellbeing. We must look at what we are eating and drinking.....(amongst other lifestyle choices)

The Kitties were superb today. Highlight of my month is teaching yoga Pause Cat Cafe had a wonderful group of students today 🙏🐈
Next session Sunday 28th July

I'm now on Holibobs! ✨ Off to Greece to recharge!

Some classes are cancelled some are being covered read below for info!

Thursday 20th June Jackie Hayfield is teaching at Knoll Gardens. Thursday 27th June is being covered.
To book your places please find contact details on the website https://www.knollgardens.co.uk/events/

Monday 24th June NO Yoga at Bearwood Community Centre
Monday 24th June Sport BU, class is being covered.

I'm back on Sunday 30th June at Pause Cat Cafe for Cat Yoga! to book visit their website https://pausecatcafe.co.uk/product-category/event-tickets/

And Mondays classes resume July 1st!
teaching at Knoll Gardens on 11th July!

I✨ VACATION MODE ON! ✨😁

When you teach Yoga to those who are more Senior...and think I want to adopt them all as my grandparents 😁🙏❤ the kindness they all radiate is truly uplifting. Their motivation to keep moving even when dealing with Health conditions is inspirational.
Yoga has no limits, it's available to anyone and everyone. You just need to find the right Teacher ad style of Yoga for you. 🙏
Another fantastic outdoor Yoga class at Knoll Gardens this morning. 👏 I offer options for the different abilities.

Fancy giving it a try? Comment below 🌻

Yoga outdoors in Nature at Knoll Gardens starts Thursday 30th May, then every Thursday at 9am until the end of September.

Along with Jackie Hayfield Yoga we will be taking Yoga outdoors at the tranquil and stunning Knoll Gardens. I think what makes this a truly magical place is the well-kept gardens, the array of trees and plants and grasses. The walkways meandering around the gardens there is always something to see and find. But the fact is we have the garden all to ourselves for our session. Plus, if it's raining, we have a lovely marquee to practice under. We embrace nature and the weather and use it to guide our practice. You will leave feeling lighter, fresher, and calmer.
Contact Jackie to book your place : Jackie 07955 587772 or [email protected]

Further information can be found on the website

I did my three year renewal one day first aid course today and it's a reminder that everyone should invest in learning this. It's worth the money when you can help save lives... your friends, family and members of the public including my yoga students!. 🙏 you never know when you might need to administer anything covered in the training. In particular CPR!

I enjoyed some time out in Nature this morning on a walk and love it when I find a good tree🌲

Tree pose - replicates the graceful, steady stance of a tree.

Benefits
🌲 brings balance and equilibrium to your mind
🌲 helps feel connected to nature
🌲 helps improve concentration
🌲 helps strength and stability
🌲 improves balance
🌲 improves patience
🌲 cultivates inner peace

Incorporating Tree pose into your daily life will help provide stability and strength in your balancing both on and off your Yoga mat.

It will help cultivate patience and focus.

Use Anjali mudra a gesture of reverence and presence...invoking a clear and centered state of mind.

And remember.. smile smile smile 😀
😀 relieves stress
😀elevates mood
😀 relaxes facial muscles

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A reminder on Bank Holidays Mondays there is no Yoga.
Its my chance to enjoy a three day weekend and spend quality time with family and the great outdoors. Hoping to have a sea dip weather and sea conditions permitting and I have my 5 year old Nephew staying over and I'm taking him to a family yoga class (I think I'm the more excited one out of us!😁) I start an online Yoga Philosophy course Sunday evening which I've been wanting to do for a while because I love reading and bringing in the Yoga Sutras into my daily life. 😀

I hope you have time to slow down and rejuvinate its so important to block out that time to nourish yourself. Recharge. ⚡🙌🙏

What are your plans this weekend? ❓

Yoga isn't about what you look like it's about how you feel.

Notice, observe, just be with yourself and your body. Become your own teacher. Listen to what you need every time you step onto your Yoga mat

Tonight I went to a hot vinyasa class I know its a strong practice with one of my favourite and fantastic teachers Pip. I know the class will be flowing and challenging and there's always optional arm balances. Handstands. Forearm stands etc. But tonight I didn't have the strength in my body to attempt these. My body was telling me no.. not tonight.. don't force yourself into an inversion take a child's pose and regulate your breath. My breath was starting to become short and strained. I knew I was working too hard. Our yoga practice should be strong. Fluid and graceful and the breath steady.
Listen to your breath it will guide you. Listen to the sensations in the body it will tell you what to do.
In Savasana I felt peace and calm flood my mind and body. My breath was quiet. It was blissful.
Walking home I felt as light as a cloud. Relaxed and open.

This is my most valuable piece of advice for not just yoga students but for every body

Slow down. Sit in stillness and listen...be guided from within. Honour your body and mind. Take care of yourself.

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Yin Restorative & Yin Yoga (Embracing Stillness) Sunday 21st April 2024

A peaceful morning of Yin & Reatorative yoga. Followed by Tea and home made low carb cake (made by me!) 🙏🌻🧘‍♀️

If you would like to register for upcoming events like this drop a 🌻in the comments

I'm supporting the students wellbeing at Bournemouth University (where I also work in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences. 😁)

I am blessed to be working in Higher Education it's very rewarding and having been to Uni myself (way back when!) I understand how stressful it can be for students with deadlines and exams etc.

I'm sharing techniques they can learn to use on their own to manage their anxiety and stress and cultivate peace, ease and calm in Body & Mind. Including breathing techniques, movement, stretching and relaxation. 🙏

If you are a student at Bournemouth University check out SUBU website to book your place https://www.subu.org.uk/social/whats_on/

⚡**last chance to book⚡

Beginners welcome. Floor based yoga. Time to switch off and slow down relax and nourish your mind body and soul. In a peaceful setting.

Details in the flyer below⤵️

To book your spot email me at [email protected]

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Are you a student at Bournemouth University or know someone who is a student? If so you can now access Yoga at the Lansdowne Campus.....

Join me for a a free Hatha Flow Yoga session in the Bournemouth Gateway Building (Lansdowne Campus), focusing on Yoga Postures, breath control and mindfulness in order to help promote strength, flexibility and mental balance.
It is a great way to relax and unwind with friends or meet new people. Please bring your student ID card to access the building, a water bottle and a yoga mat if you have one. Mats will be available should you need one.

Beginners are very welcome

To book your place register online here >> https://www.subu.org.uk/ents/event/5886/

There really is so much Joy when teaching Seniors Yoga read my blog to find out more and my tips for other Yoga Teachers

The Joy of Teaching Yoga to Seniors: How Empowering Older Adults Can Bring Fulfillment and Growth I love working with older students, it was never something i originally intended to do but when i started my first class in my local community centre which is still running today it organically evolved and the student's were mostly older than 55. Why do I enjoy it so much? My older students usually....

Restorative & Yin Yoga (Embracing Stillness)
Sunday 21st April 2024
10am - 12.30pm

Enjoy a blend of yoga's creating a profound sense of renewal, relaxation and well-being via a state of conscious stillness. Ending with an extended relaxation to the sounds of the Tibetan singing bowls. Herbal teas and treats included.

Venue: Wimborne Wellness Centre , Arrowsmith Road (Wimborne)
maximum 10 spaces available

To book your place email [email protected]
https://www.bextriggs.com/copy-of-upcoming-events-workshops

Wow January has flown by and classes this month have had an underlying theme with breathwork and movement to support Circulation. Digestion and for the next two weeks core strength.

By having a focus we can direct our energy and mind to a central point in our practice. Helping us become more present in the moment. Listening to the subtle signs of our body and nocticing the quality of our breath.

Asking ourselves
What do I need from my Yoga Practice today?
What will nourish my body and mind?

And off our Yoga mats
What do I need more of in my life to nurture positive wellbeing?
What do I need less of that isn't supporting my mind and body?

It's really important to take time for self reflection. Maybe keeping a journal to record thoughts and actions.

Sometimes we get caught up in auto pilot and then suddenly we come crashing down with illness and burnout.

By learning to recognise signs in your body and thoughts in your mind we can almost 'nip things in the bud' so to speak. And then add in or take away things in our life to bring about balance of effort and ease in body and mind.

Yoga helps us cultivate this mind body connection
Yoga supports us to bring our body and mind into harmony.
Yoga offers us the skills to navigate and live a joyful and easeful life.

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Cat yoga is fully booked tomorrow and with only a couple of tickets left for February's session don't delay and book your place for some stretchy feline fun and relaxation with the kitties 🐈
all levels welcome even those new to Yoga.
Stay after the class to enjoy a coffee and playtime with the cats. Pause Cat Cafe

Book here
https://pausecatcafe.co.uk/shop/yoga/

Wishing all my students and followers a Peaceful & Joyful Christmas and New Year. 🌲🥂
Thankyou for your support this year 👍🙏
I look forward to 2024 🧘‍♀️

Classes resume 8th Jan 🙌

What are you doing Sunday 10th December?
Are you Feeling overwhelmed? Exhausted? Rundown?
Do you want to feel energised, renewed and relaxed?

I have just what you need....3 and half hours of Yoga to help restore, renew and relax your nervous system and calm the mind. In a cosy soulful Yoga studio... as soon as you walk through the door you will feel a weight lifted off your shoulders.
You will also have time for a hot drink and tasty treat.

***I have only a few spaces left ***

To book drop me an email [email protected]

Between me and Olly we have alot of books but they are all positive books mostly around topics such as Yoga and Personal Development. We love to learn and study. I often read a book once then go back to read it again and make notes.
I highly recommend the three books in the photo below....
🌟Happy Mind, Happy Life by Dr Rangan Chaterjee (also check out his podcasts!)
⚡The Monk who Sold his Ferarri by Rob Sharman
💪 The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

Wow just inspirational books.. seriously powerful and life changing.

"Our mind is like a garden to flourish it must be nourished daily"

"When you master your mind you master life"

"Success on the outside begins with success on the inside"

"Saying you do not have time to improve yourself is like saying you don't have time to stop for fuel because you are too busy driving , eventually it will catch up with you"

"It's the repetitions of affirmations that leads to belief. Once that belief becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen"

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