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Love in the time of Corona

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Thank you SO MUCH to so many of you who have joined us online and brought our little shala together over the past three weeks, even though we’re apart.  If you haven’t joined us yet, you are welcome!

It feels like we’re sort of settling into this new normal now…though certainly for me, the emotional tides continue to ebb and flow. There is opportunity for clarity here too. And for me it has reconnected me to what this is all about.

Community.

Doing something that matters.

Providing a little lightness, a little openness, a little more kindness.

I love seeing you all at home, coming together to practice and to retain our togetherness. It’s important.  It’s love.

And now we can be limitless! Invite your friends, those who don’t live nearby, those who can’t usually come along to a ‘real’ class. This was always about us all. No boundaries.

So here is our timetable – please note a small time-change to Saturday mornings, and a new mid-week short stretch + meditation class on Wednesday evenings. 

I hope you can join us.  Please get in touch if you have any questions.  Details and updates are also regularly posted on our facebook page, please ‘like’ us to stay connected.

Sending love and wishing you all healthy weeks ahead,

Lucy x

2020 Yoga!

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2020 is very satisfying to write and see!

Don’t you think? It feels significant. A big year. A year for change?

Small steps my friends. We’re still deep in the winter. Not the time for sudden changes or restrictive resolutions, in my humble opinion :)  A time for quiet attention, tending our inner fires. Listening to our heart’s gentle song.  What might be there?  What might be possible, or needed.  No rush.  No need to jump.  Just listen.  Return to home-base.  It is all here, unfolding.

Classes at The Stables Yoga Centre, York!
I’m returning – finally! – to what feels like my own yoga-home, the Stables Yoga Centre in York on Monday evenings from 6th January! 

After almost 4 years, and two babies, I can’t wait to be back teaching Vinyasa Flow (6:15-7:30pm) and Beginners Yoga (6 week course, 7:45-9pm).  Contact The Stables for details and bookings.

The Stables is a beautiful space – if you haven’t been already I urge you to come along to any of their classes or workshops. A special place indeed.

Selby Yoga, FTW!
Our regular Saturday morning class resumes this weekend,
4th January, 9:30-10:30am at The Good Health Clinic.

I love our weekend yoga gang – thank you for making it such a fun, community practice, it’s such a highlight of my week to share it with you.  Jai!

The Sunday Sancuary popped up just before New Year – and sold out!  The overwhelming feedback was ‘ahhh – just what I needed!’

So here it is again, in the depths of the winter, when the sparkles of Christmas may already feel like a distant memory, let’s come together, tend our inner heart-fires, and choose rest, stillness, softness.  An opportunity for not-doing.

Sunday 26th January, 9:30-11am @ The Good Health Clinic, Selby
£10pp
Get in touch to book your place!

Yoga is BACK this September!

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It’s been a while, you guys! But whilst the summer might be coming to a close, yoga is BACK!

Our regular Saturday morning class resumes this Saturday, 7th September, 9:30-10:30am at the usual place, The Good Health Clinic in Selby. Flowing movement, mindful meditation, whole body living – yoga for *real* life!

There’s lots more ahead too.  Evening classes, including our Mama Yoga classes, daytime classes, and more Sunday Santuary sessions – I loved sharing the one we did in August with you, I hope to run more on a semi-regular basis.  There’s more info below!

Sunday Sanctuary – special extended classes

Special extended classes guiding you through movement, including flow, yin and restorative yoga, and meditation to explore deeper levels of rest and inquiry. 
Sound and silence, space and softness, stillness and flow.

Mama Yoga

I’d like to start a Mama-centred yoga + relaxation weekly class later in the year.  Whether your babes are tiny, not so tiny or in school – the overwhelm is real! They would be a mix of yoga, some breathing/meditation techniques and a place to be honest and share with other mamas and just be. A place to unwind a little bit. Have a cup of tea and a biscuit. 
Would you be interested? Or know anyone who might benefit? Please share and let me know! 

I’d love to hear from you and hear what YOU would like from our classes.  If you’d be interested in either a daytime or evening class, Mama Yoga and/or the Sunday Sanctuary extended classes please do get in touch and let me know.  It’s always been my aim to build a yoga kula that is supportive, useful and founded in JOY.  Thank you so much for being part of it!

Here’s to the seasons ahead!

With love,

Lucy x

 

 

Honouring the seasons

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This is usually how my practices look these days… impromptu, interrupted (regularly!), imperfect.  But still, I practice when I can, in whatever way that presents itself on any given day.  Even if it’s just a few moments of focussed intention, a deep breath, a little stretch out.  We spoke about the inner seasons in our final classes – that we are not static – we are in flow, changing, just like the seasons of the natural world.  Our lives, our situations, our bodies change – so why would our practice be a static unchanging thing?  Taking time to tune in and listen to what it is we need today is what will guide us to useful, compassionate living.  The seasons, our lives, our days, even our hours and minutes – things are moving, shifting, changing, even when we can’t see it.   Spring emerges from the quiet of Winter. Summer blooms. Autumn beauty returns.  It is all here in the breath itself: energy begins to rise like the spring; we feel the fullness of our body expanded and open at the top of the inhale (summer); the breath pauses and begins to release like the autumn; the winter leads us to the quiet stillness, the body momentarily quiet before the next breath, begins again.  And so it is in everything – the seasons turning with quiet surety, all around us and within us. Take solace in this ever moving dance.  We are a part of it, not aside from it. Listen.  What season are you in today?  What is that season telling you? What do you need to do, or not do, to honour that season inside?

I am now on maternity leave – but fear not, yoga is still on hand for you!  Janice Woods will be covering our Monday evening and Saturday morning classes at The Good Health Clinic in Selby.  Full details are on the classes page. 

I’m also very happy to recommend Linda O’Connor’s classes in Cawood on Wednesday mornings – you can contact Linda directly for information on townsleyl@hotmail.com.

I will be back of course!  I plan to return to teaching next year once we’ve got to grips with this new version of life! I will keep you updated.

Until then, with fondest love and deep gratitude,

Lucy x

 

Once more into the breach*…!

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I hope you’re all already embracing and enjoying the summer, the heat, the light, the storms and the cooling rain – all that Summer has to offer!

I find myself growing like the fruit and plants of summertime too, and am now preparing to slow things down and hopefully take a little time to pause and rest before baby arrives and life takes another new shape.  But there are still yoga offerings  to enjoy coming up over the next few weeks!

Our final regular class will be on Saturday 18th August.
All classes will be as usual until then:
Mondays, 6:45-7:45pm
Wednesdays, 10-11am
Saturdays, 9:30-10:30am
all @ The Good Health Clinic, Finkle Street.
I hope to see you before I finish!

On Sunday 19th August (10am-12noon), I’ll be running a special extended class, celebrating the seasons and changes.  It’ll be a mix of gentle, yin-inspired yoga and meditation, along with music and sound.  Exploring practices a little more deeply than we regularly get chance to in our usual classes.  And chocolate.  Yoga AND chocolate.  It’s what Sunday mornings are made for!
Booking essential – full details on our workshops page – get in touch to reserve your place!This is not good bye of course, I – and our classes – will be returning!  Until then, the lovely Janice Woods will be running the Monday + Saturday classes in our usual spots.  These classes will commence from mid-late September, I’ll be in touch with further details soon.Hope to see you over the coming weeks!
With love and sunshine
Lucy x
*Listen up, baby – no breech for you, please!!

Embracing Stillness and Darkness

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Deep breaths everyone – Christmas is here!!!
In the madness of the Christmas season, it can feel harder than ever to catch our breath as we get caught up in the whirlwind of presents! food! parties! shopping! The ‘must-dos’ and ‘should-dos’ before the countdown to Christmas runs out. All of these things are joyful and wonderful of course, but let’s face it, can begin to feel overwhelming too…

(I’ve a little Christmas class coming up to give you a couple of hours’ space to recharge…)

We’ve spoken before about embracing the darkness at this time of year, and I’ve spoken a lot in classes about noticing the moments of stillness…in poses…in the breath… and how we might go on to notice those tiny snippets of quietness in our busy daily lives.

Where can we find the moments of stillness..?
Feet on the ground and this breath.

Sometimes that’s all it takes to reset and reconnect to what’s really important, and what this is really all about:

Love. Being together. Gratitude. 
The little things.

What else is there? When you feel in the spin of it all, take a breath and remember the truth (in the frenzy of Christmas and beyond):

You already have all that you need; you are enough. 

 

Our last class of 2017 will be Monday 18th December.  We’ll restart on Saturday 6th January.

Thank you all so much for (re-)joining me this year to practice and continue to grow our yoga community!  Lucyogini 2.0!

Here’s to the continuing journey and evolution!

In the meantime, I wish you all very happy, safe, warm and peaceful Christmases, and a most abundant new year to come.

Hope to see lots of you in classes before then! 
With truest love and the jingliest of bells,
Lucy x

Yoga doesn’t care

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I have news for you.

Yoga doesn’t care if you’ve haven’t rolled out the mat all summer,
Or missed a few classes,
Or were meaning to get to class sometime back in April and…it just never happened.

Yoga doesn’t care if you have the latest Sweaty Betty Lululemon ultra-stretchy glitter leggings
…or your comfy old jogging pants with the hole in the crotch;
Or if you can touch your toes and stand on your head –
Or if you haven’t seen your toes in a while and your head feels like a troop of monkeys have taken up residence in there…

Yoga doesn’t care if you had chocolate for breakfast.
Or about your hair or make up
Or the air brushed covers of magazines showing ‘perfect’ bodies in ‘perfect’ poses.

Yoga just cares about now.
Community.
Good intentions, open minds and kind hearts.
The life in this breath and the goodness in our actions.

Yoga cares if you show up.
To practice; to today; to this very moment.

Yoga cares about living your practice, body, heart and mind;
Being the change you wish to see.
This is yoga for life.

Not just for the hour of class.
Not just for the current trend.

Making use of every day and night to realise our potential for love. 

And guess what –
It’s never too late, you’re never too old, it hasn’t been too long (true facts).
Classes start back NEXT WEEK – join us and begin again, start afresh, continue the journey – yoga doesn’t mind which it is for you (and neither do I)!

Check out our new timetable for September – including a NEW Monday evening class!

See you soon yogi friends!

 

New Year – New Classes!

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Happy New Year yogi friends!

I’m BACK baby! I’m delighted to say that weekly yoga classes in Selby will be returning from Saturday 14th January at our new venue, the Good Health Clinic in Selby – a cosy little studio in the sky!

  • Saturdays (two classes), 9:30-10:30am + 10:45-11:45am – Weekend Flow! Come get your weekend off to a flowing start and super-charge your Saturday
  • Wednesdays, 10-11am – Yoga Flow! Your mid-week recharge and refresh

All classes will combine flowing yoga, breath work, relaxation and meditation suitable for all levels of yoga experience.  This is yoga for life – using the tools of yoga to explore this amazing body and the joy of living in ways that make sense not just on the mat, but in everyday life.

More details can be found on our Classes page. I’ll be adding more classes to the schedule as the year goes on, and my teeny yogini grows :)

Prices remain as before, £7 per class, or buy a block of 6 classes for £36 (valid over 7 consecutive teaching weeks).

Spaces are limited, so block-booking is recommended.

Really excited to connect and flow with you all again!

Here’s to the continuing adventure – see you on the mat!

lucyogini xoxo

 

Maternity Leave

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I am now on maternity leave!  Thank you so much to everyone who has shared classes with us, read these posts, practiced with us online!  My heart is full of gratitude.

This is not goodbye!  I will be back! Please stay in touch and check back here and on the facebook page for details of when classes will return.

We celebrated Spring and transitioning last Sunday at our last class (just for now!), and spoke about the time of ‘zwischen’ – the German word for ‘in between’ – the space between here and there, between sleep and awake; before we let go of who we are in order to become what we might be.  

This is of course particularly poignant in these final days of pregnancy.  But we all go through these transitions, every time we approach a change, big or small, by choice or circumstance. It is easy to try to rush ahead… culturally we resent waiting!  Much less honour this time to transition, of becoming.  And yet, there is a necessity to waiting and honouring this time of inbetweeness, where we wait to be called upon to become what we might be.  It gives our intuition space to develop and strengthen. And naming this time helps us to listen to this deep intuition and it’s guidance.

And so now, I wait. With open heart, body a little achy, emotions a little raw, into this time of Zwischen, honouring, listening, watching, reminding myself to trust in the flow of all things. 

This is not goodbye, my friends, only au revoir! I will be back – how could I not?!

Until then, wishing you all beautiful shining summers! I hope you will make time to play, to move, to be full of lightness! (…and you can practice with me online, to help stave off those yoga cravings!)

‘Practice and all is coming’
Trust in the divine truth that we already have all the answers we will ever need; trust in this simple practice – no mats, no lycra, no enlightment required: Get your feet on the ground. Live in this breath.

Everything else…comes next.

To the continuing adventure!
With deepest gratitude and fondest love,
Lucy x

 

Big change for a little yogi!

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It’s been a real pleasure to share our happy news with you all over the past couple of weeks that we’ll soon be welcoming a new tiny yogi to the world – in just a few months (eek!)!!  We’re really excited!  Our little yogi is due to arrive in April, so all being well we’ve still time for yoga up until then. I’m planning on taking a few months off over the Summer to get acquainted in my new role as a Mama, returning to classes (in some form) in September.

So, big changes are coming! Change is always coming.  In the month we learned that not even David Bowie is immortal, it can come as a shock as we are reminded that even our icons are truly human. This body is not forever; we are not unchangable.  As I move through pregnancy, it often feels that it is my mind that is constantly playing catch-up with my ever-changing body.  My body and this growing little person inside have no concern for my slow, resistant mind! I have come face to face – joyously, wonderingly – with the impermanence of being.  Every day different. This is true for us all.  We get sick, we get older, we get better, bigger, smaller, we tire, we recover.  It is all ever-changing.

And yet, our human minds are conditioned to resist change! We like things to stay the same – often even things that we’re unhappy with! Rather stay within safe confines of what is known, than the risky ‘other’ – ever if that other may be better. We try desperately to stay the same, stop time, wish that things were as they once were.  How strange we are!

But in a world that is constantly changing, living in a body that is constantly changing, our resistance to change can make us tight and anxious as we try to hold on to what we know.

And this is why we practice.  To stay flexible, not just in body but in mind. Flow. One breath at a time. One breath comes into being, rises, peaks, releases and comes to an end.  Just as our lives start as one cell, two cells, we come into being, and eventually we will all release back into pure ethereal energy. Just as the Universe itself was born of one moment, it too will eventually peak and return to energy.  Everything is in flow.  All of this is encapsulated in the single rise and fall of one breath.  This is why we practice.  To stay in touch with the flow of ourselves, the flow of all things and to welcome these state-of-being changes as events that will rise and peak and will pass into the next. To trust in change and our ability to flow with it. We practice so that our hearts stay open and courageous and not become tight in the face of change.

“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape” – Unknown