Events & Courses
Soul Sundays VII: Quiet
Soul Sundays VII: Quiet
The morning will begin with a slow and steady hatha yoga class. We’ll gently ease out aching muscles and take time for some gentle breathwork practices and meditation.
You can then lie down, close your eyes, cosy up with cushions and blankets and be guided through a deep Yoga Nidra practice. Sometimes referred to as “yogic sleep,” Yoga Nidra is a form of meditation and a mind-body therapy that allows for deep restoration and relaxation. It is said that a 30-minute yoga nidra practice is equivalent to 2-4 hours of sleep.
As your slowly come back to the room, you'll be handed a lovely cup of herbal tea and healthy sweet treat. They'll be space to have a little chit chat at the end too.
The aim for our 7th Soul Sunday is to help you find some quiet.
About your hosts
Jess North is a local yoga teacher who has been offering classes in Helston and Constantine for the past 7 years. She has taught aromatherapy yoga workshops to groups of 60+ at festivals such as Port Eliot and The Great Estate. She teaches regularly on Horizon Inspired retreats and is the founder and curator of Soul Sundays. Jess recently moved up to East Cornwall and is teaching in Looe, Downderry & Torpoint.
Kathy North is Jess's mum. She has taught popular Hatha yoga classes in South Devon for over 15 years in the Satyananda tradition. She is a Mandala Yoga Ashram Teacher and an accredited British Wheel of Yoga Teacher. She is authorised by the Bihar school of Yoga and Satynanda Yoga Centres UKto teach Yoga Nidra, the art of deep relaxation. She has also been a facilitator for R.Y.E. UK (Research into Yoga in Education).
About Soul Sundays
Soul Sundays are a soul-centred series of monthly mini-retreat mornings with offerings from a carefully curated line-up of wellness specialists, movement teachers and creatives, bringing you something for your body, mind and soul
About your retreat space
.Held at the gorgeous Roselidden Farm, join us in the light, airy barn with sumptuous underfloor heating and the giant log burner roaring in the corner. Roselidden is the perfect setting for our morning together where we’ll find some ahhhh…. quiet.
Soul Sundays VII: Quiet
Sunday 5th June 2022 10am - 1pm
Roselidden Farm, TR13 0PT (1.5 miles north east of Helston, just west of Trevenen Bal)
£35 (incl. booking free)
TRE Introduction Course
TRE Introduction Course
I am running a short 3 week course introducing you to the practice of TRE - Tension and Trauma Release Exercises and there are just 6 places available.
After 3 sessions with me you will have a good understanding of the beneficial impact the practice can have on your whole system. My intention is that after the course you will feel confident and comfortable in continuing to practice TRE on your own at home.
More about TRE
The course will help you to unlock this ancient, natural instinctive mechanism that helps us recover from tension or trauma. When we go through a stressful time, hormones are released in the body to help us cope. If the adrenaline and cortisol is not fully discharged, it can create chronic tension and disharmony in our body and minds. Have you ever seen an animal shake after a stressful moment? He is simply discharging the excess stress hormones to help bring his physiology back into balance. This is TRE! As human, western adults we seem to have forgotten how to access this practice, but this course will help you recover the mechanism. Through the tremors, we release the tension and calm our nervous system.
Benefits of TRE
Reported benefits of TRE include: less worry and anxiety, more energy and endurance, better sleep, healing of old injuries, reduced symptoms of PTSD, reduced muscle and back pain, improved relationships and relief from tension headaches and pain. Personally I have found relief from anxiety, insomnia, chronic slipped disc related lower back pain, intense period cramps and healing from RSI.
TRE is a safe comfortable and natural process. People describe it as relaxing, enjoyable, uplifting and find it deeply calming. Our bodies when reacquainted with its reboot through TRE just want to release and restore, knowing they are returning to a place of calm and natural balance.
Course content
We will go through some theory of TRE and then the practice in each session. The practice consists of a series of physical exercises and grounding practices to prepare, followed by the shake and then we integrate the practice by deeply resting afterwards. There will also be space to discuss anything that may be arising and ask questions.
Booking
I am asking for £60 investment for the 3 x sessions. Just 6 places available. The groups will be held at the beautiful Roselidden Farm. https://www.roselidden.co.uk/using-roselidden/ on the following dates…
Tuesday 18th January: 6pm - 8pm
Tuesday 25th January: 6pm - 8pm
Tuesday 1st February: 6pm - 8pm
If you would like to discuss the course with me before you book, just send me an email. You can also read more on my blog post about the TRE practice.
Soul Sundays VI: Breathe
Welcome back to Soul Sundays!
I am delighted to invite you to our 6th mini-retreat morning at the beautiful Roselidden Farm, near Helston. Our theme for December is ‘Breathe’.
Morning Yoga
Jess will open the morning by guiding you through a yoga class that will start slowly and aim to plant ourselves firmly into the ground. We’ll unfurl through a sequence of steady and open hearted postures to enable you to take fuller, more nourishing and deeper breaths.
Breathwork
Breath and Bodywork Practitioner Natalie Keany will then guide you through a short body scan and breath awareness meditation using felt sense to explore and re-connect with your internal world, bringing awareness to your own breathing pattern. Often breathing can be shallow and restricted due to tension and trauma held in the body. As the session continues, we will continue to open the body to receive a deeper, fuller breath. We will follow with a heart opening partner exercise, a reminder of the importance of human connection as an essential nourishing ingredient to our wellbeing. We then transition into a deeply releasing conscious connected breathing session, an opportunity for your body to let go of any emotional and physical tension which has been held in the body.
We will aim to leave you feeling grounded, relaxed and open hearted by the end!
We'll close our morning with some grounding tea, healthy snacks and chit chat.
Soul Sundays VI: BREATHE
Roselidden Farm, TR13 0PT (1.5 miles north east of Helston, just west of Trevenen Bal)
£35 (incl. booking free)
About Natalie
Natalie is the founder of Evolve Breath & Body (https://www.evolvebreathbody.com/), a therapeutic breathwork modality specifically designed to release tension from the body and integrate trauma.
She began her journey 15 years ago when travelling the world learning various modalities to help her to heal and understand her own experience of developmental trauma. She discovered breathwork in India 9 years ago. It had such a huge impact on her own life, she has since been dedicated to learning this work and sharing it with others. She has been working as a facilitator for the Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release Institute for the past 7 years, offering trainings, workshops and sessions to people in Asia, America, Australia and Europe. She now dwells in the Cornish town of Helston and enjoys nothing more than supporting people to release, make space and connect with the innate wisdom of their own bodies.
About Jess
Jess North is a local yoga teacher, offering weekly Hatha classes in Helston and Gweek. She's been practicing yoga for 20 years and teaching for 6. She believes passionately in the transformative effects of yoga which has helped her through life in so many ways, from the physical to the mental and emotional and back again! She is in her element when she's sharing what she's learned so far with you. She has taught aromatherapy yoga workshops to groups of 60+ at festivals such as Port Eliot and The Great Estate and teaches regularly on Horizon Inspired retreats in Cornwall. She is a qualified TRE Provider and runs small introductory groups and offers 1:1’s in the practice. Jess is the founder and curator of Soul Sundays.
Your retreat space
The studio is a beautiful converted barn surrounded by fields with wooden floors, underfloor heating and a huge log burner. It’s the perfect setting for our morning.