Don’t Suffer with Painful Muscles: Try Somatic Movement

The leaves are beginning to fall and the days are becoming shorter; autumn has arrived. It’s a new season and a great opportunity to do something new for yourself – Somatic Movement!

What is Somatic Movement?  It’s a slow, safe and gentle form of therapeutic movement developed to re-educate your brain to safely release, lengthen and relax muscles. It helps you discover muscles that have become habitually contracted, learn how to release them, and reduce muscular pain.

Join expert Carole Marshall for a six-week programme to raise awareness of the way you move and respond to stress, and the impact that it has on your body. We will address a different area of the body each week, learning movements that encourage relaxation and and realignment. Building week by week, Carole will encourage and enable you to develop your own 10-15 minute daily practice.

Grow Your Business with Coaching and Mentorship

Barnes Class is delighted to announce we have teamed up with business coach and mentor Harleen Chadha. which will help you identify your next critical move in your life/career or business.

Harleen has a proven track record of helping people achieve their goals by empowering you to smash through your limiting beliefs. Just look at this quote from one of her delighted clients:

Harleen has an insightful and fearless approach to coaching, balancing gentleness and sensitivity with firmness when it is needed. She pushed me to explore my boundaries and really discover what is deep inside me. She helped me focus on what is really important, so that I could prioritise actions and move forward to make the changes that I wanted to make but in which I had felt stuck and unable to move. I would highly recommend her as a coach.

– Allison Lindsay, Business Psychologist, London

Harleen will help you find your inner voice, crystallise your vision/goals and create a strategic action plan to steer your way towards your soul-led goals.

Harleen is offering her one-to-one business and lifestyle coaching and mentorship as one-to-one sessions in either 6 or 10 blocks. These can be conducted in the manner you find most convenient to suit your busy schedule:

  • Virtual, using Skype
  • Telephone
  • Face-to-face in a local cafe

To learn more and to book, please click here.

Discover: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Many people know and practise the art of mindfulness, which is a mental state achieved by focussing one’s awareness on the present moment, whilst calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations. It’s a great way to reconnect and gain new perspective.

However, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is not as well known. This article will seek to shed some light on this subject.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, or MBSR, is a programme which uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness and yoga to help people become more mindful.

MBSR has been described as “a group program that focuses upon the progressive acquisition of mindful awareness.” The programme is an eight-week workshop that entails weekly group meetings (two-hour classes) and a one-day retreat (five-hour mindfulness practice) between sessions six and seven. It can also include formal home practice (a minimum of 45 minutes daily meditation, six days a week), and coaching instruction in three formal techniques: mindfulness meditation, body scanning and simple yoga postures.

Body scanning is the first prolonged formal mindfulness technique taught during the first four weeks of the workshop and entails quietly lying on one’s back and focusing one’s attention on various regions of the body, starting with the toes and moving up slowly to the top of the head.

MBSR is based on the following tenets: non-judging, non-striving, acceptance, letting go, beginner’s mind, patience, trust, acceptance, and non-centering.

Barnes Class is delighted to host this 8-week programme with local expert Ali Gilling. For more than 20 years, Ali has been practicing and teaching yoga. She has travelled extensively pursing her own spiritual development and perfecting her teaching methods. Her relaxed and encouraging manner gives students the confidence to embark on their own journey of self discovery and personal development both on and off the mat.

If you’re in need of a reset and a practical guide to eliminating stress in your life, we welcome you to join this course. It begins 7th March and will be held in the peaceful and historic St. Mary’s Church in Barnes.

To learn more about the class and book your ticket, please click here.

Unplug: From the School Run

For many of us, the best part of the holiday season is not having to do the school run. Is a typical Tuesday morning in your house anything like this?

  • “Mom, where’s my geography book?”
  • “I need to be a fairy today for the book assembly. Do we have any wings?”
  • “I have to be at school 30 minutes early for a special music lesson. Can we go now?”

And once you perform the herculean efforts to find the geography book, dress the little one as a fairy, and get the eldest to school half an hour early, traffic is madness, the workday commute is on, buses are hogging the lanes, and everyone is fraught.

On your way to a Barnes Class to begin the Time for You, you think you’d better nip into Nero for a quick coffee to go. But there’s no need to add yet another bit of madness to your morning.

We at Barnes Class appreciate the value of a great cuppa, whether coffee, tea or herbal infusions are your preference. Each of our events features free flowing beverages to relax you, inspire you and help you get into the groove of learning.

We look forward to sharing a great cuppa with you soon!

Explore: What is Mindful Yoga?

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We are all busy. Spouses, children, parents, friends, family – everyone has a set of balls they’re juggling in the air. Sometimes all this juggling means that we do not take time for ourselves, to refresh, to breathe.

Ali Gilling has been practising spiritual yoga for more than 20 years. Travelling extensively around the world, Ali pursued her own spiritual development and began offering holidays, retreats and workshops. She expertly weaves mindfulness into her classes, presenting yoga in a relaxed and encouraging manner.

Under Ali’s careful and expert guidance, students are given an opportunity to explore a mindfulness practise through movement, breath and body. Her sessions explore all the different aspects of mindfulness and meditation through gently stretching the body. Ali will give you exercises to continue your breathing and meditation at home, ensuring that you have the tools you need to relate the practises to your daily life.

 

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