Yoga & Pilates in Chippenham, Wiltshire

January 2012    

Welcome to 2012!

 

As we start a new year I want to introduce a woman called Amy Purdy. At 19, Amy lost both her legs below the knee to meningitis. An automatic reaction might be "poor woman - what an awful thing to happen" but the story continues.

 

Amy wallowed in self-pity for a few months before waking up with a simple realisation: "I don't have to be 5'5"- I can be as tall as I want... and I can make my feet fit any shoes on the sales rack!" Her mind altering thought was: "If life were a book and I its author, how would I want this to go?"

 

Amy said, 'Our borders and our obstacles can do one of two things: stop us in our tracks or force us to get creative.' Amy is now a pro-snowboarder and champion as well as delivering articulate and entertaining public motivational speeches on dealing with challenge. I encourage you to watch her very touching and inspirational video here .

 

So how can we use all the gifts and obstacles that we have been given to springboard us into the new year with creativity & imagination?. We have so much going on at Santosha in 2012 to empower you to start writing your new story....see you in class soon.

 

Claire xx 

In This Issue
Your Intuitive Self
January Courses
Children's Yoga
Rest & Renew
Slow Time Course
Jo Clarkson
Home Practice
External Events
Quick Links

Looking Ahead...
 
We have so much to offer this year including more guest speakers and a special series of music events coming soon. Also...

FEBRUARY
- Creating a Home Practice with Claire
- MAHA Challenge
- Shanti & Shaktii with Naomi
- More Children's Yoga

APRIL
- Retreat with Sianna Sherman & Theodore Kyriakos

MAY
Immersion 1
Headstand & Handstand with Naomi

JUNE
Anatomy Trains Training with Mike Doxey
William Mahony

Plus more Teacher Training, Immersions and great workshops with guest teachers coming soon!  

Click here to find out more... If the workshop you are interested in is not yet listed, please use the contacts form to register your interest and we'll send you more information as it becomes available.


 


 

TopStill time to fill out our client questionnaire and win a 5 class pass! Click here and follow the link before 31st January.... 
Your Intuitive Self & Your Physical Health
Friday 13th January 2012

7.30pm- 9.30pm
£10 in advance, £12.50 on the door 

With Peter Steedman
Be inspired and entertained as Peter shows you, how to be more trusting of your instincts, how to empower yourself, how to release old fear and how to become FREE. 
January Courses
Start something new for 2012...

Courses are a great way of kick starting a new practice or enhancing your skills with a structured program of fun and learning. Take the next step with one of these great offerings:

Children's Yoga- Starts 4th
Pre-Natal Yoga Starts 4th
Post natal Yoga- Starts 5th
Introduction to Anusara Yoga- Starts 9th
Pilates- Beginners Module 1- Starts 9th
Yoga Dreams: Slow Time- Starts 26th
 
**All courses must be pre-booked** 

Children's Yoga
Wednesday, 3.45pm-4.45pm
5 Week Course starts 4th January
£25 maximum 15 children
With Gayle Fletcher

For ages 3-12. Great for building confidence, increasing calm and focus and fun for children of all ages. 


We've teamed up with Revolutions cafe downstairs to offer you a hot drink & cake for only £2.50 while your child is in class- relaxing time for you as well as your little ones!
Post Christmas Rest & Renew
Sunday 22nd January,  2 - 4.30pm
£20 early bird till 8th January
£25 thereafter
With Theo Wildcroft

Snuggle up and join us for an afternoon of restorative yoga, breath work and yoga nidra.

Encourage your body to open to a deeper level of release, stimulate your immune system and calm your nerves and mind, whilst you dream the afternoon away, focusing on your heart's desires.

Timed for the height of winter when your mood and your immune system most needs a boost. Book now to give yourself a treat!

Yoga Dreams: Slow Time
Thursday, 7.45pm - 9pm

5 week course starts 26th January  
With Theo Wildcroft, £40

5 small group sessions over 5 weeks to explore a more spacious, more meaningful relationship with time. 
Through breath, movement and stillness we will explore the natural rhythms of our bodies and our world to the beat of moments, days, months, years and even lifetimes. Join us.

Jo Clarkson   
Kirtan with Jo Clarkson
Saturday, 28th January 2012
£10 on the door

Resonate with the voice and soul of Jo Clarkson. A kirtan wallah, student of Ram Dass and a genuinely lovely being. Join us to listen, sing and welcome love into the studio.
Cultivating a Home Practice
with Claire Murphy
Sunday 5th February, 2012
10am-1pm
£25 early bird till 22nd Jan, £30 after 


We can only really say we are 'Yogis' or that yoga is 'ours' when we take it fully into our daily lives.  Whether you choose to do daily asana, pranayama, meditation or mantra recitation, it's the committed home practice which is the best indicator or progress along the path of yoga - that we are embodying our desire to connect to source, to spirit, to Self in a repeated, demonstrative and tangible way.

 

Join me for a morning of practice, where I will break down asana into bite-sized chunks which you can mix and match to suit your daily mood and schedule.    

 

For those of you enrolling in the 2012 Maha Challenge this workshop will give you the tools to get started on your home practice and even if you are not joining the challenge you can learn ways to revitalise your home routine. 

External Events

Hosted by Claire Murphy Yoga
A spectacular weekend retreat with Sianna Sherman &Theodore Kyriakos
13th - 15th April 2012
EarthSpirit Centre Nr.Glastonbury
www.playoflightandshadow.co.uk
If you want to extend your practice and go deeper, the Anusara Immersions are the perfect way to proceed. We will be running these from May at Santosha. Click here for more details.

We appreciate feed back, suggestions and any communications from our community. Please get in touch here if there's anything you'd like to see or even just to say hello.

With gratitude,

Everyone at Santosha Studio
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