Esther Abrey Yoga

✨️✨️Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga classes are back!✨️✨️✨️

After a wonderful few weeks away, I'm excited to be back this week for our Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga classes 🧡

🤰Pregnancy Yoga
🧡Mondays 12.15pm www.estherabreyyoga.com/pregnancy-yoga-wallingford includes class recording and online options based at Grace & Gravity

🧡Wednesdays 1pm The Little Yoga Studio

🤱👩‍🍼👶Postnatal Mum & Baby Yoga
🧡Tuesdays 10.30am www.estherabreyyoga.com/postnatal-yoga-wallingford

🧡Wednesdays 10.45am at The Little Yoga Studio

PAYG and class pass options available.

I look forward to seeing you soon 🧡✨️

All the aerial yoga love with Grace & Gravity ✨️

I count myself to be so lucky to share classes here amongst so many other awesome teachers, and there are so many brilliant summer and autumn events, from aerial silks workshops, kids summer holiday circus fun, as well as my monthly workshops:

Beginners Aerial Yoga
✨️Sunday 18th August 11.30am-1pm
✨️Sunday 1st September 12.30-2pm

Family Aerial Yoga
✨️Sunday 18th August 10-11am
✨️Sunday 1st September 10-11am

Restorative Aerial Yoga and Nidra
✨️ Sunday 18th August 1.30-3pm

For event booking, save your space at www.graceandgravity.studio/events/workshops

And of course, regular weekly and monthly classes with me, and the rest of the team are bookable with membership or PAYG 🧡

I'd love to see you at a session soon 🧡✨️

We are delighted to be busy behind the scenes curating our Nurture & Nourish Autumn Seasonal Retreat Day 🧡✨️

A day of
✨️ Reflection
✨️ Intention setting
✨️ Yoga and mindful movement
✨️ Breathwork
✨️ Guided meditation
✨️ Sound journey
✨️ Communal feast
✨️ Fire ceremony

And I am so excited to be teaming uo this time with my dear friend , a clinical aromatherapist and reflexologist and one of my favourite humans, who will be guiding our mindful creativity as we explore our own aromatherapy blend, and create our own ceramics ✨️

As always, nestled under the canopy of the heated tipi at the ever brilliant

Super Early Bird tickets are available until the end of July, and Early Bird until end of August.

It is going to be a really special one ✨️

Do NOT try this at home folks! For Pregnancy Yoga to support your pregnancy and birth experience, get in touch- regular classes with me at www.estherabreyyoga.com/mellowmamasyoga and The Little Yoga Studio

And for postnatal yoga to support your recovery, strengthening, stabilising, (or if it feels like someone snuck one of these into the delivery room 😱😊), and all the love with your little one, I can help!

Xx

In 1963, inventors George and Charlotte Blonsky patented a design for a spinning bed to help women give birth with ‘considerable propelling force’.

One flow of

Energy and breath

Connects the full

Depth and breadth

Of consciousness.

There is nowhere to

Go but here, no time

But now, no why or

How or maybe...just

This knowing, simple

And complete, that I

Am already what I

Thought I had to seek.

Donna Faulds ~ I am already ✨️

Ready? Set? Stop!

I have been pinching myself recently, topping myself up with private sling sessions with the awesome , a beautiful retreat day with the equally beautiful .sanson, before sharing a full day of workshops myself at on Sunday 🧡✨️

And one thing that has really struck me through these experiences, when asked the question "what next?" I very clearly heard "this". Thinking ahead, planning, prepping is all awesome. But sometimes, just pausing and focusing on right now is exactly what's needed.

I am fortunate to be in a stage in life that I wouldn't have dreamed possible a few years ago. So how about I exist in it for a bit? Appreciate it? Play with being present?

Before turning my attention to new seeds of intention for the future and exciting new projects when the time is right ✨️

Your diary might be fast filling up, and that sense of urgency that can accompany summer energy may be creeping in. But what is the next thing was just this? Right here, right now?

In this week's mat based and adult aerial classes, we are playing with fascial manoeuvers, weaving together samana, deep front line fascia, and breathwork to support this too 🧡

I'd love to see you on the mat:
Tonight ~ Tuesday
5.20pm Slow Flow
6.25pm Aerial Yoga (1 space left!)

Tomorrow ~ Wednesday with my offerings
10.45am Mum & Baby Postnatal Yoga
12pm Slow Flow
1pm Pregnancy Yoga

Thursday
Private accessible yoga
1.45pm Accessible Yoga

Friday
Private clients

Sunday = 2nd Sunday of the month, so I'll be
Monthly Tipi Yoga + Brunch - last spaces remaining!

See you on the mat 🧡✨️

Today's class reading 🧡✨️

Heaven on Earth ~ Don Miguel Riaz

I want you to forget everything you have learned your whole life. This is the beginning of a new understanding, a new dream.

The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time. You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven. Why not dream a different dream? Why not use your mind, your imagination, and your emotions to dream heaven?

Just use your imagination and a tremendous thing will happen. Imagine that you have the ability to see the world with different eyes, whenever you choose. Each time you open your eyes, you see the world around you in a different way.

Close your eyes now, and then open them and look outside.

What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.

Our 4th Annual Fundraiser is on Summer Solstice this year 🧡

✨️Thursday 20th June, 7.30pm ✨️

Save your space at www.estherabreyyoga.com/charityfundraisers

I'd love to see you there 🧡

Join the wonderful Esther Abrey Yoga at her annual fundraiser for FONS. The walled garden at Nettlebed Community School is a beautiful location for some summer solstice yoga 🧘🏼‍♀️🧘‍♂️🧘🏼🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏿

Another day, another reminder (to myself too) to breathe ✨️

In our always on, always plugged in times, the pressure can build. Pulled in 100 different directions, brain foggy, feeling like you've forgotten something but you can quite remember what.

It is amazing how much time we have when we unplug a bit. Go analogue.

When I'm working I listen to vinyl to help me measure time blocks rather than my phone. The ritual of putting it on to play, and leaving it on, not skipping around to the next song.

And I put my phone in a phone prison. I know! I read Stolen Focus a few years ago now and think it is time for me to re-read it. So many wake up calls in 1 book.

So if you are feeling the pressure today, try less, not more 🧡 Take a walk without the tech (raincoat probably needed if you're in my neck of the woods), find an analogue activity- book reading, tea sipping, w**d digging, side wiping, poem absorbing, song soaking, doodle making, cake baking, sock pairing, candle lighting, honey stirring.

Even for the time that that moment takes ✨️🧡

https://mailchi.mp/ae438c09ba09/may-you-still-be-well

💫May you (still) be well 💫~ the email that you didn't get, meet the experts, and your new favourite recipe! Retreat days, aerial workshops, and monthly specials.

Let's make a start shall we?

Mind-full? Stop. Take a breath.

As the 1st sutra says, "and NOW, the practice of yoga begins" - whatever has been buzzing around, taking our energy. It starts now.

🧡

Meeting on the mat this week at:

Today
5.20pm slow flow
6.35pm aerial yoga

Tomorrow
10.45am Mum & Baby Postnatal Yoga
12pm Slow flow
1pm Pregnancy Yoga

Thursday
1.45pm Accessible Yoga
Private after school aerial clubs

Friday
Private clients

🧡✨️

Loving my aerial journey 💃 Before and during both my pregnancies, I loved my kettlebells - being slightly hypermobile, strength is so important to balance out all the bendiness, and even more so now I'm in my 40s.

Aerial play is another way to support strength, alongside challenging my fear of heights and my ideas of what I can't do, building my proprioception (again something that is affected by hypermobility), and playing 💃 Aerial yoga is a lovely practice where you can explore the familiar and traditional, whilst giving your body very different feedback and focus, while sling, hoop and (for the first time last night, silks), bring more flips, tricks and dance and circus based to it.

On the 1st Sunday of the month, I offer workshops at Grace & Gravity - coming up we have
✨️Beginners Aerial Yoga
✨️Restorative Aerial Yoga and Nidra
✨️Family Aerial

www.graceandgravity.studio under Events

And weekly, alongside other awesome teachers, I offer Aerial Yoga
✨️Mondays 11am
✨️Tuesdays 6.35pm
✨️1st Sunday of the month 11.15am
✨️Private after school kids aerial clubs

And private group and individual sessions, and parties too ✨️

I'd love to see you soon 🧡

As Cadence Cycle Club say, check out Rough Ride Guide for your off road adventures 🧡 Great to have the hubster back, and for him to be buzzing after guiding another group on their adventures 🙌💪🇬🇧🇫🇷🚵‍♀️🚵‍♂️

Can't wait for more riding (and yoga) adventures coming soon as we work behind the scenes on bike and yoga adventures for you in the Pyrenees 👀

https://mailchi.mp/47f035392e04/may-you-be-well-tipi-yoga-brunch-this-sunday A mini wellness update, letting go, and Tipi Yoga + Brunch is back this Sunday!

May you be well ~ Tipi Yoga + Brunch this Sunday I’ll be honest. I have spent the past 2 hours carefully formatting, tweaking, cropping, writing a May newsletter for you. And then the system crashed. And it was gone, never to be seen again!

Back from an awesome weekend away full of gorges, castles, croissants, blanquette, rivers, mountains, geckos, and weird barbie 🧡

It's amazing how much laughter there can be with an umbrella and a shoe 😄

So now it's back to the mat, and what a treat of a week 🧡

Today
5.20pm Slow Flow
6.35pm Aerial Yoga (just 2 spaces left)

Tomorrow
10.45am Mum & Baby Postnatal Yoga
12pm Slow Flow
Private clients

Thursday
12.45pm Accessible Mindful Movement
After school aerial clubs with

Friday
Private clients

Sunday monthly Tipi Yoga + Brunch
Food orders by close of play today- don't forget to save your space (link in bio ✨️)

I can't wait to see you on the mat soon 🧡

Wallingford BabyBar are a brilliant local baby feeding charity. This event is to help share awareness for new families 🧡

I have shared this with my pregnancy and postnatal folks, but popping on here to spread the word too 👌🧡

Join us at BabyBar - Best Starts
Get off to the best feeding start with Wallingford BabyBar, your local infant feeding charity.

When: 22nd May 7.15 - 9pm
Where: The Ridgeway Community Church
£5 a ticket suggested donation, which includes a cuppa and cake

Calling all parents-to-be (or anyone in need of a refresher!) Come and get the answers to your questions, find out about the feeding fundamentals and chat over your options, discover the best resources and local support to help your feeding journey flourish.

We’ll be talking feeding choices - breastfeeding, bottlefeeding plus everything inbetween. We’ll chat about how to get off to the best start on the lead up to and right after birth, we’ll have top tips to feed your baby, your way, and will prepare you with what to expect in the early days. All our support is evidence based and delivered by trained specialists.

With some infamous BabyBar cake and a cuppa to keep us going we’ll then split into smaller groups with a trained peer supporter to discuss and answer your questions.

We’ll come back together to explain a bit more about what we do and also give you the inside scoop on what support is available both online and locally.

Lastly we’ll arrange a whatsapp group to connect with other local families - get to know others who will be on the same journey as you.

This evening of support will equip you with key information, give you confidence and provide a great opportunity to meet others. Get off to the best start with Wallingford BabyBar.

Every month, on top of regular classes, there are opportunities to explore deeper into these practices.

Monthly nidra circles ~ 1st Sunday 1st Thursday
We meet in the round to delve into the realms of yoga nidra - a guided meditation practise that sends the brainwaves into the state between waking and sleeping, allowing us to explore the subconscious, set intentions, and deeply relax ✨️

Monthly Tipi Yoga + Brunch ~ 2nd Sunday of the month
We meet under the twinkling canopy of the Tipi to move, breathe, rest, before sharing the most delicious spread of nourishing delights prepared by the inimitable www.estherabreyyoga.com/tipi-yoga-brunch

Monthly aerial love ~ 1st Sunday of the month
We explore aerial yoga with a regular open class, and workshop fun where we can
✨️Beginner's: explore your very first aerial yoga experience or building confidence before joining our regular classes
✨️Restorative aerial where we float just above the ground, resting deeply into the support before exploring nidra meditation and sound journey cocooned in your fabric
✨️Family: at the other end of the spectrum is our ever popular family aerial where you can play, flip, spin, teaming up with your little ones as you explore the slings together.

Nurture & Nourish are my seasonal day retreats at and I am delighted to be teaming up with the brilliant for the Summer session, and for Autumn 🧡

More to come on those soon and hop on over to www.estherabreyyoga.com/nurture-and-nourish-retreat to save your space 🧡

I'd love to see you at a session soon ✨️

Many of you will have heard me say that yoga is like a conversation- an opportunity to check in and listen to what is happening in your body and mind. And actually listen to that.

Yesterday, I had an intentionally quiet day - big old 9km yomp through the woods and fields, and not trying to fill every moment. I have noticed that this is a pattern of mine - seeing a gap and needing to plug it with something productive. So this weekend is quieter, and I am listening.

Are you able to build in a bit of space to listen today? To put down the phone and step away from the distractions, and just listen for a bit? 🧡 There's a whole lot of wisdom right there.

Coming back to ahimsa ~ again ~

And this is why it's a practice right? Times and circumstances change, and sometimes we revisit these ideas as a practice, not as something we have ticked off ✨️

The yamas in yogic philosophy are qualities that we would explore before we even get on the mat. And the very first one is ahimsa - kindness - non violence - non hate - love.

In this world this can be really tough. So much negativity and heartache, and social conditioning.

I have had a few conversations over the past weeks as we've explored this in classes and retreats about how we often translate this into having to be "nice".

But niceness stems from needing to please the other person. From external needs rather than internal, often bypassing our own needs, signals, truths.

Kindness comes from a deeper seated internal need that is being met, and naturally flows out to others from there. From that place of strength and integrity.

Even from a physical perspective, we open our heart/shoulders and chest best when we use strength in the back and along the muscles running along the spine and shoulders. Space in the heart through strength in the back.

I repeat this today as I am circling back round to it again myself. The inner critic can be loud sometimes, and so today I am choosing to be kind by:
✨️ nourishing and choosing the food that will help me to feel good. I can end up choosing food that ends up in energy crashes and then wonder why I don't feel so good 😁🤔
✨️ moving my body
✨️ getting away from the screen and out in nature - gardening and a walk in the local bluebell woods
✨️ naming my inner critic and having more of a conversation- not letting their chat become a soliloquy but also taking the time to recognise and not ignore either- I find journalling helps with this too

Onwards 🧡✨️

What would kindness look like to you today?

Lesser spotted yogi in her natural habitat.

Fallen mossy trees are much harder to balance on than you'd imagine.

📸 Reluctant hubster

Restorative Aerial Yoga with nidra and sound journey was so special to share on Sunday 🧡 Looking forward to getting the next one booked in ✨️

✨️New Moon vibes are out in force today ✨️

Monday sees the next new moon and I can feel the pull of the introspection, quiet, stillness.

The next 2 Sundays reflect this time of intention setting in my offerings:

Sunday 7th April (and the first Sunday of the month) with for
9.30am Slow Flow
12.30pm Aerial Workshop - this month's is Restorative Aerial Yoga and Nidra
6pm Monthly nidra (and online link in bio)

Next Sunday 14th April ~ the next instalment of our seasonal Nurture & Nourish Day retreat at . Last spaces remaining to join for a day of yoga, breathwork, intention setting for the new season, mindful creativity, and guided relaxation 🧡

As we have explored together at our classes, so hum - I. Am. That. ✨️🌑✨️

This Wednesday saw Spring Equinox here in the northern hemisphere and it has been feeling spring like- complete with sunshine and hailstones 🎢

There can be a sense of urgency as we move towards longer light, but this is still the time in-between- nature is peeping out but not in the full bloom of mid Spring or Summer.

On the mat we've been exploring those spaces in-between, balance, and seeing if we can notice that sense of speeding up, choosing to explore even, mindful movement.

We can explore this idea through the breath too - box breathing is a great way to get curious about where our instincts lie -
✨️find an even breath in and out, visualise drawing 2 sides of a box as you inhale and exhale,
✨️and then add an even hold at the end of the in-breath,
✨️and the end of the out-breath, drawing the other 2 sides of the box.

Note that if pregnant, stick with the even breath in and out, no breath holds 👌

This practice helps
✅️with mental clarity,
✅️regulates our nervous system,
✅️and encourages mindful awareness of our responses.

Opportunities to meet on the mat this week before a reduced holiday schedule:

Monday .studio
9.20am Slow Flow
11am Aerial Yoga
12.15pm Pregnancy Yoga book via link in bio ☝️

Tuesday
10.30am Mum & Baby Postnatal Yoga link in bio ☝️
Private school yoga sessions
5.20pm Slow Flow .studio
6.35pm Aerial Yoga .studio

Wednesday
10.45am Mum & Baby Postnatal Yoga
12pm Slow Flow

Thursday
1.45pm Accessible Yoga

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Spring wellness - https://mailchi.mp/2b7ba6df7c0a/hello-march-hello-body-here-is-how-you-can-reconnect-with-that-incredible-body-of-yours

Here is your latest mindful moment, and opportunity to reconnect with the wonderful collection of cells, breath, experience, sensations and thoughts that make you, you!

Hello March! Hello body! Here is how you can reconnect with that incredible body of yours! I hope that 2024 is treating you well so far and that you have been able to catch your breath and explore some mindful moments amidst it all. If you haven’t, and you are feeling it, I have just the thing for you -this month’s free mindful moment comes in the form of a specially curated yoga nidr...

I love my Mondays with Grace & Gravity and they often go for a coffee together after class too 🧡✨️

Feeling like your Monday morning might need a boost tomorrow?

Our Slow Flow class at The Swan is a chance to reconnect after the weekend and ease yourself into the week. Move with the breath as you flow and absorb this healing practice.

Options are given to allow you the space to explore and get exactly what you need from the session before heading off into your day.

Join Esther tomorrow morning from 9:20-10:20am at our riverside studio in Streatley
https://www.graceandgravity.studio/booking

Esther Abrey Yoga

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✨️ Are you ready to reconnect? ✨️

Opportunities to meet on the mat this week before I head back to next week 😍

Tonight
5.20pm
6.35pm Aerial Yoga

Tomorrow
10.45am Mum & Baby Postnatal Yoga
12pm Slow Flow

Thursday
1.45pm Accessible Yoga
Private After-school Aerial fun

Friday
Private clients

Sunday
9.30am Monthly Slow Flow at The Swan
11.15am Monthly Sunday Aerial Yoga
1.30pm Family Aerial and Circus 🎪 🚫 join waiting list
6pm Monthly Nidra

Monday
9.20am
11am Aerial Yoga
12.15pm Pregnancy Yoga -link in bio 🧡

Next Sunday 10th March is the next Tipi Yoga + Brunch

Link in bio to save your space 🧡🧡