Yoga with Alena

✨Words can't explain how good did I feel to dive deeply into one of my favourite asana Virabhadrasana 1/Warrior 1 today.
Happy tootsies=happy me 😂🙏✨😊

Are you ready for some slow paced yoga with me soon?

From my heart to yours with all my love and gratitude 🙏✨🧘🏼‍♀️

💖What a priceless feeling to be back on my mat today!
🙏Day 11 post bunionectomy op, still long way to go, but feeling epic!
✨Bring on the barefoot season.
🌞Lots of love and sunshine your way lovelies and have a great bank holiday weekend!
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🌏Happy Earth Day🌏

Healing the Earth begins with my own healing,
love on the planet begins
with love in my heart.

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Yaay, I've had so much fun planning the Honour the Earth Yoga this morning, and can't wait to share it with you this Sunday at 4pm. It's going to be epic! ✨

I have a few spaces still available, who is in?

Lots of love and sunshine!
💖☀️🙏

https://yogaalena.as.me

🌎In honour of Earth Day,
I'll be holding a space on Sunday 21st of April @ 4pm.

We will explore five elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space through gentle grounding 1hour yoga flow, helping us to align with Mother Nature and with our True Selves. ✨

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, one finds it attached to the rest of the world. ~John Muir~

From my heart to yours with all my love and gratitude

Alena
🙏🧘🏼‍♀️💖

www.YogaAlena.as.me

Happy Mother's Day to all the lovely mamas out there and a big special thank you to all of you who joined me on the mat today. You've been amazing, so inspiring and you've made my day. ✨

From my heart to yours with all my love and gratitude 💖

✨Mother's day yoga✨

✨Come and join me for an hour of relaxing yoga on Sunday the 10th of March at 4pm, join us on your own or bring your mum, sister, daughter or any special woman in your life for free.

✨Indulge yourself in an afternoon of calming and gentle yoga to ease tension, clear your head. Taking some time out for yourself to rest and rejuvenate is not only needed as a mum, but is vital. Give yourself some space, some time to remember who you are, and enjoy the afternoon of gentle yoga followed by warm cacao.

✨No experience or flexibility is required, suitable for late teen upwards.

✨Spaces are limited, so please click on the link below to save your space, and if you're coming with plus one just fill up the form with their details, and use the code: MOTHERSDAY

https://yogaalena.as.me

Feel free to message me if any questions.

Lots of love, and I look forward to seeing you on the mat.

Alena
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✨Upside down Monday boost✨

Hey dear friends,
How are you, really?

Just a gentle reminder that is okay if all you did today was survive. 🙋🏼‍♀️
Im so grateful for Yoga to help me to ease the January Blues and here's my favourite pose of this month
Prasarita Balasana/Wide child pose.

From my heart to yours with all my love and gratitude
Alena
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Happy new year lovelies,
from my heart to yours with all my love and gratitude
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I'm so excited to announce 2nd year of Charity Yoga with Alena. I'm holding a space at Jodie Anne Fitness on Sunday the 10th of December at 4pm.

This year, I've chosen World Food Programme charity to help the most vulnerable in this crazy world we live in.

The afternoon will include Festive Yoga Flow and Cosy Guided Relaxation followed by warm cacao and cupcakes.

To book your free space please click on the link below ⬇️
https://yogaalena.as.me

We all have the power to help ✨

From my heart to yours with all my love and gratitude

Alena
🙏💖🧘🏼‍♀️

Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony..

Join me on Sunday 19th of November at 5pm, for a whole hour of movement, well needed guided relaxation followed by warm cacao.. 💖

Feel free to contact me for any questions or book your space here:

https://yogaalena.as.me

See you on the mat
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Today is the World Mental Health Day and I felt Iike I wanted to share this poem with you.
I'm trying hard to stay away from the news, keeping busy and focusing on a good stuff..realising how lucky I am.

How are you, how are you really?

If the problem has a solution, we must find the way to find it, if it does not we need not waste time thinking about it. Dalai Lama

Lots of love and gratitude
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I’M FINE

Today I said “I’m fine” not once
But five times altogether
When people asked “how are you?”
Then made small talk of the weather

And so I hid behind my mask -
The one I’d worn a while
I set in place my bravest face
And dressed it with a smile

And that was how the day went
All “I’m fine” and talk of rain
Until somebody asked me how I was
Then asked again

They asked if I was truly fine
And I said I was not
And they said they were sorry
That they couldn’t do a lot

But then they sat beside me
Whilst I spoke the truth at last
They held me and they listened
As the tears slipped through my mask

And where before I’d felt
I should maintain this brave façade
I realised there was much to gain
By letting down my guard

See, though my load was still the same
It now was not as heavy
‘Cause sitting and offloading some
Had helped a bit already

Today they asked “how are you?”
And I told them I was fine
‘Til someone saw behind the mask
And asked me one more time

And though they may have felt
That there was little they could do
They’ll never know how much it meant
To tell someone the truth

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From ‘What the Wild Replied’ (search Becky Hemsley on Amazon. Available soon on the Etsy store).

Spoken word in comments 💛

What an amazing day at Wellbeing by the Lakes yesterday.
I was so lucky to reunite with my fabulous friends and I've met some amazing people.
Thank you to everyone who made it so special and I'm already so excited for the next year.
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Yaay only one more week until we're back at Jodie Anne's Studio, who is in? I'm already buzzing. 💖

We'll be meeting up at 9am most of the Sundays, but on 8/10 I'll be opening the doors at 7pm instead.

Enjoy this beautiful weather until it lasts and I'll look forward to welcoming you soon.

Feel free to contact me if any questions.

✨Yoga allows you to find new kind of freedom that you might not have known even existed - B. K. S Iyengar

See you on the mat
🙏🌞💖

https://yogaalena.as.me

The BLUE MOON
happens once in a blue moon😊, when we get two of the full moons per calendar month.
Check the sky for it tonight and also tomorrow when it's in its full beauty.
If you're like me and struggle to sleep during the full moon, swipe for some tips how to take a full moon bath and try to use magic full moon energy to help you to clear all negativity and set your intention ✨
Relax and transform
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🌞Hello lovelies,
I hope you're having an amazing Summer so far and the weather is not stopping your own Sunshine to shine strong and bright.

🧘🏼‍♀️I'm so happy and excited to offer you Rise & Shine Sunday Morning Yoga starting from September the 17th.

✨Come and join me to set the tone of your day with uplifting Sunday morning class that enhance your day ahead.
Each of 6 classes incorporates breathing techniques, slow-paced yoga flow and guided relaxation, so you'll leave your mat calm but energised, empowered and focused.
Classes are ideal for yogis of all levels who simply want to move, breathe, relax and feel good.

If you're new to yoga and would like to give it a try, contact me for a coupon code for your free taster class when booking.

🙏Thank you for sharing, from my heart to yours, with all my love and gratitude.

Alena
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https://yogaalena.as.me

I've had this calling recently to pause teaching for a while and concentrate on my personal practice a bit more..
By taking care of myself, I have so much more to offer to the world and others than I do when I'm running on empty.
When you take care of yourself, you're better person for the others.
When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.. so if you need to serve today, FIRST start with yourself. 🙏

Here's one of my favourite Leonard Cohen quotes:
✨Ring the bells that still can ring,
forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack, a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.✨

What is your favourite selfcare practice, how do you look after yourself so you're able to look after the others around you?

From my heart to yours with lots of love and gratitude.
I look forward to seeing you on the mat soon.

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We've completed our 4 weeks of Find Your Balance Yoga this morning and finished our practice with wise words of ✨Guy Burgs✨ - one of the most accomplished and respected meditation teacher in the West.
Here's just a bit of it:
..it doesn't actually take very much to make the deepest part of us incredibly happy, you know?
Just to be here, just to appreciate being here.
To feel that you're alive
To be in touch with your heart.. that's it.

It takes mindfulness to come to a human life and then above that, it takes mindfulness and virtue to come to a fortunate human life.
The chance to be part of this happens briefly. The invitation is not to show how inventive and imaginative you are,
but how much you can notice what you're already part of. And appreciate and share it, and care about those that are around, who count for their welfare while you are looking out for your own, that's it.
And then you'll get to end of it, having had an awesome time knowing that, that is something you'd recommend to others...💖

Thank you so much for joining me 🙏 I look forward to share more yoga with you in the near future.
Meanwhile enjoy sunny days and look after yourselves.

From my heart to yours with all my love and gratitude.

Alena
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Yoga, above all else, is a practice of balance.
Balance between effort and ease, strength and flexibility, power and surrender, yin and yang..

Come and release your happy hormones, give yourself a gift of selfcare and love and prepare your body and mind for a week ahead.

We'll be meeting up for 4 weeks, every Sunday morning, starting on 14th of May at 9am.

Booking is essential:
https://YogaAlena.as.me

I can't wait to welcome you.

Alena
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Breathing in I calm my body,
breathing out I smile.
Dwelling in the present moment...
I know this is a wonderful moment.
~Thich Nhat Hahn

Our 5 Week Energize to Elevate course is coming to the end and we are meeting up on this Sunday morning for the last session just before Easter holiday with few spaces remaining.
If you're interested to join us feel free to message me or click on the link below.

Lots of love and many wonderful moments to you all.

Alena
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https://YogaAlena.as.me

FRIDAY vibes of Paschimottanasana - just what I needed after a loong week at work!
This asana in translation means 'Intense stretch of the West' where West here refers to the back side of body (because of the practice of facing The Rising Sun in the East).
Great for reducing stress, anxiety, relieving spinal compression, tones and stretches your spine, burns belly fat and increasing calmness.

I'm excited as always to practice with you on Sunday morning.

Wishing you all happy weekend.

Alena
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https://YogaAlena.as.me

Hey lovelies

I'm excited to hold a space for Yoga Nidra - Yogic Sleep guided relaxation happening on Sunday the 19th of March at 10am 🌸Mother's day🌸

Give yourself a gift of deserved selfcare and love, let go of everything you no longer need in order to relax your body, mind and spirit. Join us for our women circle at the end of our practice including Ceremonial Vegan Cacao leaving you feeling glowing. ✨

No yoga experience needed.

The booking is now open and with limited spaces.
Please book through the booking link bellow or message me for more details.

https://YogaAlena.as.me

Much love
Alena
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✨Friday Upside Down Mode✨
💖Happy weekend everyone💖

🧘🏼‍♀️Energize to Elevate 5 Weeks Yoga Course is perfect for anyone starting or continuing their yoga journey.
This 5 Weeks Yoga routine will not only release tention and stifness from your body, but also present you the opportunity to build strength through asanas, movement and a deeper connection of the body, mind and spirit.

✨Gift yourself permission to reconnect with your heart, strengthen your body and welcome more peace within.
Each class is finished with cosy guided relaxation and optional hot drink.

Feel free to contact me for more details or if you have any further questions.

To book your space please click on the link below

https://YogaAlena.as.me

I can't wait to welcome you!
Namaste
🙏

The BWY and the Mandala Ashram are holding a Meditation of Hope on Thursday 16 February 2023 at 7pm for anyone who wishes to come together for victims of the Türkiye and Syria earthquake.

The meditation, led by Swami SatyaDaya, is called The Courage to Care: keeping an open heart in the midst of tragedy. It will be followed by a candlelit vigil and time to be together in silence.

This Meditation of Hope is open to all and will be hosted on Zoom. Please feel free to share with family and friends. You’ll find more details here W: bwy.org.uk/meditation-of-hope/

To make a donation to support the millions of victims in Türkiye and Syria, you can donate to the DEC appeal.
W: www.dec.org.uk

£30 could provide blankets for six people
£50 could provide emergency food for two families for 10 days
£100 could provide emergency shelter for four families.

✨What an amazing class today!
🙏Thank you everyone who joined me, I'm so grateful for yoga and all of you in this busy, crazy world we live in.

💜🤍We finished our 6 weeks beginners course today focusing on Ajna - Third Eye Chakra and Sahasrara - Crown Chakra.
Our peak pose was Rabbit pose - Sasangasana and supported Head stand Sirsasana.
We finished our class with guided relaxation followed by hot cacao and a bit of catch up.

🧘🏼‍♀️I'm planning the next 5 weeks yoga course starting in March, so keep your eyes peeled on here if interested.
Meanwhile have an amazing half term, have fun and stay safe.

💖From my heart to yours with all my love and gratitude.

Namaste
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My new hoodie has arrived, it's so cosy!
What do you think?
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