Alert Level 4 Lockdown will remain in Wales for at least another 3 weeks

Aura Yoga with Geri classes will continue via Zoom as timetabled below.

Hatha Yoga

Monday 9.30-10.30am & 7.00-8.00pm

Wednesday: 9.30-11.00am

Meditation

Thursday 7th, 14th, 21st January 2021 6.15-7.15pm

Yoga for ‘Hot’ Women

Thursday 28th January, 4th & 11th February 2021 6.30-7.30pm

Please contact me directly to reserve your place or complete and submit the new yoga student questionnaire.

£5 per session

Aura Homoeopathy Clinic will continue online via FaceTime, Skype, What’s App and Zoom.

Please check out my website for further details or message me directly to book a no-obligation 15 minute chat.

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Aura Yoga with Geri Meditation is hosted by me, the most unlikely of meditators, as my mind is naturally very restless. Regular Meditation practice has transformed my life. In my youth I was plagued with anxiety, worry, stress, digestive issues, skin problems, insomnia and fear that was so self-limiting.

• Do you feel worn down by the un-quiet of your own thoughts?
• Do you feel anxious?
• Do you worry constantly?
• Do you have trouble sleeping?
• Do you feel isolated, alone, foresaken?
• Do you suffer panic attacks?
• Do you feel apathetic?

Would you like to regain mastery of your mind?

Our minds already know how to naturally retreat from the stress and strain of our frenetic lifestyles and the many environmental factors that impact us deeply.

Mindfulness and Meditation may offer a retreat from these feelings, emotions, sensations and symptoms. Now more than ever we need to regain control of our mind, breath and body. This pandemic and lockdown life is directly impacting our mental health as well as our physical well-being.

Mindfulness and Meditation has so many benefits that ultimately help restore balance, harmony, equilibrium to us physically and emotionally.

We begin each session by focusing on the correct way to breathe, recognising how we hold tension in the body and mind and how to release it.

Breathing in expands the muscles of the diaphragm down and out. Simultaneously we then amplify the tension in your body by making fists, scrunching your toes up, stiffness in your limbs. Drawing in life giving Prana (life-force/vital force/universal energy) into your body, flowing into your organs, bathing your entire body and cleansing it.

When we exhale we push the diaphragm muscles in and up, possibly allowing the air to flow from your open mouth, sighing the breath out. Simultaneously we let-go and release the physical tension you’ve amplified. Perhaps visualising fatigue, anxiety and exhaustion being expelled from your body.

In this way the lungs fully expand, air rushes into them, then is vigorously expelled.

After a minute or two of breathing this way you will notice a difference.

Do you remember the Mary Hopkins song “I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony”?

Well I’d like to teach the world to meditate in perfect harmony.

Do come and join me on Thursday 7th, 14th or 21st January 2021, 6.15-7.15 pm via zoom, £5 per session.

Please contact me directly to book your place.
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Turn off the news, notifications.

Take a break from your ‘tech’.

Temporarily become ‘unplugged’.

Take time to breathe, pause and enjoy the spacious of your soul.

Breathe deeply and easily, focusing on the out breath.

Sighing is a great way to do this but perhaps just 3-5 ‘sighs’ at a time and tune in to what’s happening within you.

The space created by these good quality exhalations will result in slower, deeper, mind, breath, body connections.

This ‘Space’ is where the magic happens.

When you travel on the London Underground there’s signs and announcements to “Mind the Gap”.

I highly recommend you to do just that and notice the ‘gaps’, pauses, space in between your breaths. They are an integral part of the music of our soul.

It’s not just a matter of breathing In and Out. There is a pause after each Inhalation and a pause after each Exhalation.

There is peace, stillness, beauty, a certain magic in the pauses, gaps, rests.

I invite you today to “Mind the Gap”

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