Day 1 Yoga Retreat Schedule

ARRIVE FROM 3PM

Arrive and get yourself settled into your new lodgings. Have a restful cup of tea after your journey and start to leave everything from home behind you as you start to let your body relax and take in the beautiful surroundings of the Welsh countryside.

6PM RESTORATIVE YOGA SESSION

Get completely relaxed for your weekend with this restorative yoga session. Bring blankets and pillows and wrap up warm so you can be completely comfy as we focus on deep relaxation and rejuvenation through relaxing yoga postures and breathwork.

7PM LIGHT SUPPER AND WELCOME MEETING

Settle-down to a light supper and get to know your fellow Yogis. This is a relaxing atmosphere where we sit and chat and get to know one another in-front of the campfire. Here I will tell you what we will be doing over these next few days and also what we hope to achieve.

Most of the time I want to sleep in. 
My brain and my body wants to sleep in.
Press snooze. 
But I get up.

I’ve got one tent left at my Yoga Retreat this September.

Could it be yours?
Have you already looked? Admired it? Dreamed it?

Manifested it? Some of you already have! There’s going to be cake!

Let me know what’s stopping you pressing that ‘Let’s go button’?

Ping me a message!
I might just surprise you!

It’s going to be one hell of a weekend!

As a Member you also get a 15 minute, 1-2-1 session to discuss your personal needs, goals or just have a check in and ask questions.

This month, I’ve helped people online in their 1-2-1 sessions with headstand and handstand goals. Worked on jump backs and jump throughs. Discussed the pain of trapped nerves and how to use the pain.

So I’m here.
Teaching online. Live.
6 days a week.
To remind you to challenge yourself.

When the mind wanders, in your practice. In your pose.
Start checking in with the body.
What can you feel? Where can you feel it?

What happens if I push more with this muscle? Or pull more with this muscle?
Can I feel more strength? Feel more of a stretch? Is that where I need it?

“I try to do 45 minutes a day in total. I feel so much better. The new routine is boosting my energy levels, even on those days when I wake up feeling tired. It's improving my posture.

I don't feel stiff any more, even on those days when I spend a lot of time sitting at my desk.

Most and foremost, I feel like this is a long term routine, more than a workout programme that I'm likely to quit at some point. This is Strength for life, indeed!”

So much more than just stretching!

Feeling more open in the body and chest, allows us to breathe deeper and wakes up our brain with more oxygen. It boosts the testosterone hormone in the body whilst also lowering our cortisol stress hormones too. Did you know that a lot world leaders, have very high levels of testosterone and very low levels of cortisol. Probably why they don’t give a fluff about what anyone else thinks!!

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This Wellbeing Yoga Retreat day is focused on tuning into our inner strength. Inner strength within our body. We’ll try to access some of those more underused muscles in the body to help you feel stronger, taller and more confident in your body and posture. 

1,398 hours of yoga classes, workshops, retreats and festivals!

But it’s all of you that make all of this even possible and I feel incredibly grateful and really lucky that I get to do what I do.

The meaningful conversations that happen before and after classes or workshops are the real highlights for me. The new people we meet along the way and the fabulous friendships that have blossomed!

Start the new year with the opportunity to reconnect with your body.

Our body speaks to us all the time but with busy lives we don’t always listen.

We’re not always in tune or even in sync with our bodies.

Stress and worries of the mind, certainly show up in the body too. Certain times of the year don’t always help either. 

Whether we hold tension in our muscles, like our back, shoulders and hips; or it just shows up in our work or daily tasks with an inability to focus on the task in hand; we need the tools to learn new habits or even unlearn old, bad habits.

A Yoga Session in Chester to give you the opportunity to check you're doing certain postures correctly and safely; or explore some more challenging postures to you; this is a great session to dive a bit deeper in terms of your understanding.

We'll go through some of the traditional yoga postures to make sure you understand what you're trying to achieve and how you can correct it

Designed with Ashtanga in mind, this Workshop Yoga Session is also designed for beginners too, who are just wanting to check they are doing things correctly and more importantly safely. It's a good opportunity to actually explore some of the Ashtanga postures, without having to go at an Ashtanga pace!

Ashtanga Yoga Chester - what to expect?

Ashtanga is a journey of progress. 

We do the same sequence of postures each week. 

It's a real work out. 

You'll sleep well. 

You'll feel like you worked every muscle in your body.

Join us for a two hour yoga workshop to explore opening the hips. This can be really helpful to learn which hip, glute and leg muscles to strengthen and stretch, to help reduce lower back or sciatica pain.

In a similar style to the regular Tuesday morning yoga class that takes place at Gladstone's Library, we will have a little longer to really deep dive and explore more about the hips, glutes and hamstrings and how little tweaks to your body and everyday movement can help relieve tired, tense muscles.  

We'll move through some standing, balancing and seated postures, including a lovely relaxation at the end too. 

Suitable for all ages and levels, including beginners who are curious about how yoga may help. It's also suitable to pregnant women looking to relieve tension and pressure.

YOGA in the PARK next Wednesday (11 September 2024, 6:30pm at Wepre Park!

Brought to you by Our Dee Estuary this yoga session is FREE but you must book as we do have limited spaces.

Bring your mat and a blanket. Dress to keep warm.

A weekend for you - relax and recover; refuel and nourish; learn and discover.

Just 6 weeks until our next Weekend Yoga Retreat in this stunning eco-retreat.

Complete with an onsite log-fired sauna and wild swim pool for a little dip anytime you fancy.

Meet Jenny, one of our members…”I’ve suffered with a bad lower back for years, and Emma's online classes have been helping me to strengthen my core to take some of the pressure off. For the first time in years, I don't wake up with lower back ache first thing in the morning (largely also helped by Emma's advice to change the position I sleep in) and I now have tools to relieve pain when it's particularly bad.”

I do think there’s a lot to be said about the beauty of learning online and practising yoga online. You can shout, swear even or make bodily noises for example, which you might not otherwise get away with in a physical class or learning scenario! Well, I can’t obviously, if I’m the one teaching! I think you’d notice but for everyone else joining in the class, you’re on mute! You can even have your dinner cooking in the oven, ready to go the minute you finish savasana!

The best way to start your Sunday!

Join us this summer in our sun-soaked corner of the park for Yoga Brunch.

Begin your session with fresh fruit juice followed by a 60-minute mood-boosting yoga class and brought to a close with a delicious pastry brunch.

Suitable for all levels and led by Emma Garland, The Good Food Yogi whose class will enhance confidence and posture.

NOTE: Please remember to bring your own yoga mat with you.

Sunday 11th August, 9;30am - 11:15am