Scaravelli Inspired Yoga Events in October
Treat yourself to yoga - you're worth it!
This Scaravelli inspired yoga approach is gentle, yet demanding. We work deeply, but with intelligence, so that the practice raises our awareness, helping us to make sustainable, healthy and nourishing choices, which will affect us and those closest to us, at all levels – physical, psychological and emotional.
Scaravelli inspired yoga, is particularly helpful for those who are working with postural issues, lower back pain, stiff necks and shoulders and for those who are stressed, and need some space to learn how to deeply relax.
Yoga Course
Winter Wellbeing
October 12 - November 23
6 live sessions
Saturdays
9:00 - 10:30am
From £60
Online via Zoom
Video recordings available
Boost Immunity & Wellbeing this Winter
Join Catherine for this Winter Wellbeing Course, starting October 16 on Saturday mornings for 6 live sessions.
Each session includes 45 minutes of Yoga, Somatic Movement, or Breathwork, along with wellbeing practices and themed focuses for each week. This is a 6 part course to restore a sense of harmony and balance as we transition into the winter months.
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Video Recordings
There is 6 months access to the recordings, so if you missed the start date you can join any time, catch up on the sessions missed and then join the group for the next session.
Get Strong & Resilient for Winter
• Are you feeling anxious, overtired, overworked or stressed?
• Do you have persistent pain or fatigue that is limiting your life?
• Would you like to explore how to enhance your health and wellbeing and restore space, calm and relaxation to your daily life?
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We explore how to incorporate simple techniques to rewire your system and restore a sense of ease and contentment. We’ll focus on developing your own personal recipe for wellness, focused on discovering a range of techniques you can use any time, any place, that you know will work to bring you back to centre.
Investing in your wellbeing can be the most important decision you ever make. Improving your sense of self-esteem, boosting your happiness and confidence are beneficial throughout the year, but especially during Winter, when a reduced immune system may leave us open to seasonal infections and feeling emotionally down.
Together, we’ll explore science based techniques which you can use at any time or place, to create your own individual recipe for feeling good.
Winter Wellbeing will include
• A science-based combination of theory and practice helps you develop more balance in your life
• Builds confidence and calm when confronted with day-to-day challenges
• Supports you as you create a bespoke range of techniques you can draw upon whenever and wherever you need
• Somatic movement practices to create a sense of grounding, safety and stability
• Mindful and embodied approaches that reliably turn down the volume on your overactive nervous system
• Helps you find balance and build resilience to support a healthy immune system
What to Expect
Each session we will focus on a specific element of wellbeing, with time for information and discussion. This is followed by a full hour of somatic movement and yoga, designed to encourage you to absorb and integrate the focus that week.
This Course is for you if:
• Feeling overtired or overworked, or that you don’t have enough time for yourself
• Feeling Stressed
• Experiencing long term anxiety and overwhelm
• Living with persistent pain
• Living with ME / CFS or Long Covid
• Offering end of life care
• Bereaved
• Managing trauma.
Winter Wellbeing Schedule
Join us to restore harmony and a balanced sense of personal wellness
Scaravelli Inspired Yoga Classes
Wednesday .... 6:00 - 7:15 pm .... (Yoga : Minehead, Somerset)
Friday …. 9:30 – 10:30 am .... (Strength & Resistance)
Sunday …. 10:00 – 11:00 am .... (Yoga)
Yoga may be particularly helpful for those working with long term joint issues, cranky backs, or regular aches and pains and good for stress and sleep issues.
I teach yoga which offers a fresh and truly accessible approach to yoga. Each class will follow a theme which evolves from my personal research and explorations, so each class builds and develops from the material we covered in the previous week.
Although I’d love to see you each week and there are definite benefits from regular practice, I always take time to carefully explain the focus and what we’re doing in each pose, so you won’t miss out if you can’t make it.
Classes generally follow a similar structure – we begin lying on the floor, to breathe and settle, before gradually building into stronger or more challenging practices and then dropping back down into Savasana to rest at the end.
When I speak of “challenging practices” I’m not referring to pretzel-style poses – my approach to yoga focuses on building depth and awareness in simple positions. We may place our attention on one phase of the breath, or a specific body part or element of our physiology.
Whatever material we cover in class you can expect to:
• Move with more ease and clarity
• Learn approaches to downregulate your nervous system
• Undo and dissolve unnecessary tension
• Enhance your understanding of your body
• Explore your relationship with yourself, and others
• Relax and unwind with restorative breathwork and simple, meditative movement
• Leave feeling refreshed, calm and with a sense of quiet peace
Breathing and Pranayama
Sunday Monring
9:00 – 9:45 am
£6
Breathing and Pranayama + Yoga Class
2 Class Pack
Sunday Mornings
9:15 - 11:00
£15
Yoga Class
Sunday Mornings
10:00 - 11:00
£12
Would you like to explore your breathing in more depth?
We all know that breathing is a central element of yoga practice, but did you also know it’s key to regulation of your nervous system? Following Covid, there’s more scientific research than ever showing how regular breathing practices can help lower resting blood pressure, reduce stress and anxiety.
In this weekly Breathing and Pranayama class, we’ll spend 30 mins exploring our breathing and how it affects us. We’ll look at simple breath awareness, as well as more structured forms of pranayama and introduce contemporary approaches to supporting those working with Chronic Fatigue, Long Covid and other conditions.
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Regular breathing practice improves our relaxation response leading to:
• lowered blood pressure and heart rate
• reduced levels of stress hormones in the blood
• reduced lactic acid build-up in muscle tissue
• balanced levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood
• improved immune system functioning
• increased physical energy
• increased feelings of calm and wellbeing
Strength and Resistance
Friday Morning
9:30 – 10:30 am
£12
This weekly class draws on the latest sports science to build strength and stamina and improve joint health. We’ll explore the use of resistance and weights to help increase bone density and improve our mental health, sleep, confidence and resilience. Especially important as we age, it’s recommended you bring some resistance bands and small hand weights (if you have them).
Why Strength Resistance?
Is it for YOU?
There are so many reasons why it's beneficial to work more strongly, including:
• Maintain muscle mass and bone density
• Maintain and improve cardiovascular health
• Develop more joint support
• Maintain flexibility and balance
• Help improve strength and stamina
• Improved posture
• Improved sense of wellbeing
• Improved sleep and avoidance of insomnia
• Increased self-esteem
• Get up and down from the floor safely and with ease
• Balance the effects of fluctuating hormones during menopause / andropause
• Fulfil your physical potential and maintain your strength, stability and resilience for the long term
Do you need any equipment?
We will use the following equipment:
• A pack of 5 ‘resistance loop bands’
• A 7" Pilates ball
• Hand weights 1kg or 2kg (can substitute cans of veg in bags)
Scaravelli Inspired Yoga Nidra
October 25
Friday
6:00 – 7:15 pm
£15
Online via Zoom
Are you ready to unwind and relax? Do you relish the thought of spending an evening just for you, when you can simply let go?
If you’re tired of doing too much and need some serious chill time, please join us for an evening of spacious yoga and breathing followed by a long luxurious session of yoga nidra.
Yoga nidra translates as “yogic sleep” – it’s a form of guided meditation, where you rest and float in the space just before sleep, aware of everything, yet blissfully detached. Leave feeling calm, refreshed and revitalised.
Suitable for all levels and particularly helpful for those working with stress related conditions and those who would like to improve their sleep.
Yoga Videos
Over the last few years, we've been busy recording and editing all my yoga workshops and courses to make them available in digital form, so you can download and keep them forever.
We’ve also recorded some of my regular yoga classes to offer you the convenience of practicing whenever and wherever you are.
If you need some extra rest, then maybe Yoga Nidra is more your thing. Make yourself comfy, wrap up in blankets and follow my voice as we travel through magical landscapes, dive deep into ourselves and explore the liminal space between waking and sleeping.
Whether you’d like to practice breathing, or learn more about anatomy and how our bodies are affected by our yoga practice, it’s all here for you. If you’d like to dive in deeper, you’ll find the workshops I taught with Gary Carter and if, like me, you are working with lower back issues, join me live, or connect with the recordings of my Yoga for Back Care Course.
I do hope you find something here that’s helpful and nourishing and look forward to hear about your experience. Oh, and if there’s something you’d like to hear more about, let me know – I’d love to hear from you.
All videos are recorded into the MP4 format, one of the most common file formats used on the internet today.
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