Mental Health Awareness Week

15th-21st May

We are proud to be supporting CPSL Mind this year as our charity of choice for Mental Health Awareness Week 2023.

 

Get involved by joining a free yoga class

Breathe Release Restore with Gurpran Rau

7 pm - 8:15 pm

Online Class

Jivamukti Spiritual Warrior with Vicky McFarlane

9 am - 10 am

In-Studio Class

Vinyasa Flow with Bethany Mental Health Awareness Charity Class in Cambridge

Vinyasa Flow for Empowerment with Bethany Marshall

12 pm - 1:15 pm

In-Studio Class

These classes are free to attend, but please do donate (if you are able).

The suggested donation is £10 but anything is appreciated.

Navigating Anxiety with Janine Tandy

A short micro practice that has a quick impact on creating a more calm, relaxed inner atmosphere.

Anxiety, worry, fear. All of these felt experiences not only pull us away from feeling grounded and present but can result in feeling disconnected and disembodied. We get stuck in the headspace and in a nervous system state of hypervigilance.  Follow this short micro practice for a wonderful and supportive way of mitigating this response and coming back into embodied presence.

Practice guidelines

  1. Get your body down onto the ground. When we can connect our physical form with the ground, it helps to settle that higher-toned energy.  

  2. Place your left hand over your heart centre to connect to this space. It is a lovely gesture of self-support and soothing for the nervous system.

  3. Place your right-hand palm down onto the floor next to you to ground energy.

  4. Feel your body here, connect to your heart, and with each exhale, visualize moving the anxiety, worry and anything else you'd like to release out through the right hand and into the ground. you can be quite specific with what you'd like to release.

  5. Stay for a few minutes - this is a short micro practice that has a quick impact - creating a more calm relaxed inner atmosphere.

Mental Health: going it alone is not a long-term option

Beverley shares how recognising self-reliance as a trauma response and not an admirable character trait is central to her recovery from depression.

Read the Blog Post here.

Featured Blog: Something about OCD

One of our dear teachers Vicky McFarlane has shared her daughter, Alice’s blog with us. The blog focuses on Alice’s lived experience of OCD. We hope it may resonate with whoever needs it, please feel free to share with anyone you feel would benefit. You can check out the blog here.