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Beginners Yoga - St. John's Church
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1-1 Beginners Yoga Session
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1 hr
20 British pounds
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Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga, incorporating principles of traditional Chinese medicine.
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Hatha Yoga
Move your body slowly into different poses that challenge your strength and flexibility.
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Pre Natal Yoga
Positions for pregnancy are modified plus prenatal yoga also emphasises breathing and stretches.
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Gravity Yoga
Mobility training method that helps anyone with stiff backs, locked up hips, and tight hamstrings.
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Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra instead focuses on relaxing and reaching deep consciousness.
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45 min
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Chair Yoga
Chair yoga is a gentle form of yoga that is practiced while seated.
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Wall Yoga
Wall Yoga incorporates the wall as a tool to deepen your practice.
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Benefits

Exercise

Chair yoga is a gentle form of yoga that is practiced while seated in a chair or using a chair for support. This adaptive style of yoga makes the benefits of traditional yoga accessible to individuals of all ages and physical abilities, particularly those with limited mobility or chronic health conditions. Chair yoga incorporates various yoga postures, breathing exercises, and meditation techniques to promote physical and mental well-being.

Improved Flexibility
Enhanced Strength
Better Posture
Stress Reduction
Increased Circulation
Accessibility
Enhanced Mindfulness

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Benefits

What is Wall Yoga?

Wall Yoga incorporates the wall as a tool to deepen your practice. By leveraging the wall, you can find stability and support in various poses, allowing for greater exploration of movements that might be challenging in a traditional mat-based practice. Whether it’s balancing, stretching, or strengthening, the wall offers an opportunity to enhance your practice safely and effectively.

Improved Alignment
Increased Flexibility
Enhanced Strength
Better Balance
Mindfulness and Focus
Accessibility

Yoga Nidra

Exercise

Benefits

Yoga Nidra doesn’t involve any stretches or poses. Yoga Nidra instead focuses on relaxing and reaching deep consciousness. Yoga Nidra is done while lying down. It involves a structured guided meditation, with 10 primary steps. A session that lasts about 45 minutes is usual however, if you’re just starting out or don’t have that much time, you can certainly do a shorter session of around 15 minutes.

Yoga Nidra Explained

Yoga Nidra works by tapping into your autonomic nervous system which takes care of the things your body does automatically, for example your heart beat, blood pressure, body temperature, digestion, and metabolism.

Reduce stress.
Lessens anxiety and PTSD.
Improves sleep quality and combats insomnia.
Treats chronic pain.
Enhances cognitive function.
Improves self-awareness and presence.
Cleanses and balances the chakras.

Hatha

Exercise

Benefits

When practising Hatha, you move your body slowly and deliberately into different poses that challenge your strength and flexibility, while at the same time focusing on relaxation and mindfulness.Hatha yoga places special emphasis on breathing and posture. Building core strength, which is key to good posture, is another important aspect of this type of yoga.

Physical benefits:

Improved flexibility, especially of the hamstrings, hips, and shoulders.
Improved muscle strength and tone.
Better posture and body awareness.

Mental benefits:

Reduction of stress and anxiety.
Improved sense of well-being.
Better sleep and ability to relax

Pre Natal Yoga

Exercise

FAQ's

Yoga is a form of exercise and meditation where breath and specific body positions are used to help connect the mind and body. Prenatal yoga focuses on positions that are specifically designed for your pregnant body.

How is prenatal yoga different from regular yoga?

Common positions in regular yoga such as those where your feet are spread far apart may be too stressful for your joints and pelvic area when you’re expecting. Positions for pregnancy are modified plus prenatal yoga also emphasises breathing, stretches and strengthening moves that help your body prepare for birthing.

Can prenatal yoga be the first time I ever do yoga?

Yes! You don’t have to be a yogi before you conceive to jump on the prenatal yoga bandwagon. As long as your doctor has given you the green light to stay physically active during pregnancy, yoga is an ideal activity for all expectant mums. It’s gentle and designed for pregnancy, which means it helps prepare you for the mental aspects of childbirth and beyond.

Gravity Yoga

Exercise

Benefits

Gravity yoga is a mat-based, targeted mobility training method that helps anyone with stiff backs, locked up hips, and tight hamstrings. These classes are hugely popular because they deliver flexibility results quickly. Below you will find the three pillars of Science Of Stretching™. Wet Noodle. Muscles stretch best when completely relaxed. So when you train for flexibility, you attempt to relax into the stretch as much as possible. 4:8 Breathing. Inhale through your nose to the count of four, exhale to the count of eight. This breathing practice turns off the stretch reflex, stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system response, and relieves muscle tension. The typical Science Of Stretching™ hold times are 2-5 minutes.

Improves Focus.
Low Impact Exercise.
Straightens muscles.
Improves mood.
Enhances mental health.

Yin Yoga

Exercise

Benefits

Yin Yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga (as exercise), incorporating principles of traditional Chinese medicine, with poses that are held for longer periods of time than in other yoga styles.

Increasing your overall flexibility.
Improving circulation.
Enhancing the range of motion of your joints and ligaments.
Encouraging to connect with your breath.
Improving emotional balance.

Breath Coaching

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What is breath coaching?

Most of us breath shallowly, rapidly and through our mouths and breath coaching is learning to breath correctly. Breath work is the manipulation of CO2 in a natural way to make it work for your body and minds advantage. The skills you learn will help you release old habits, limits and emotions stored in your body. Its is a self-healing technique that will enable you to feel lighter, more present and more confident to make changes in your life.

Mindfulness with PRESS PAUSE

Press Pause is a unique company offering a number of services for you. Our company started with Mindfulness and has grown to include many more areas, but mindfulness is built into our core.
When you choose us you will be picking a family run company that offers personalisation of course alongside the option of group sessions allowing you to create something personal to you. In the past we have helped people with everything from reducing stress to pain management.
Contact us for a one to one in which we can discuss your personal needs or join us in a group where you can meet new people and learn how to use Mindfulness to benefit you in your everyday life.

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Meditation

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Meditation is an all-round benefit to your life, improving sleep, pain perception and reducing stress. It creates a calm, peaceful moment allowing you to fully unwind and relax. The skill of meditation allows you to switch off and stop your mind buzzing. Press Pause will support you along your meditation journey creating a better quality of life.

Hypnobirthing
1 hr
25 British pounds
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What is Hypnobirthing?

Hypnobirthing is a way of birthing that uses self hypnosis, relaxation techniques plus specific breathing exercises. This will empower you to have a calm birth and remove fear in relation to the pregnancy and birth. It gives you support, skills, information and confidence to have a positive birth.The techniques used for hypnobirthing range from calm breathing to guided visualisations. You will learn deep relaxation skills that you can practice, affirmations that you can pin up around the home too. You will have audios to listen to which will help you relax during pregnancy and birthing. The course will guide you through all the different stages of birth and give support. You will learn to be in control of your birth and trust your body.

Hypnobirthing starts from an understanding of the anatomy and physiological processes involved in birth. I use the SIMPLE hypnobirthing method and it is all about cultivating the Big 3.

Endorphins- body's natural pain killer

Oxytocin- the birth hormone

Oxygen the fuel of the uterus.

Hypnobirthing is about training the brain to relax during pregnancy and childbirth. It combines the practical with the philosophical. As much as possible we want to reduce the fear/stress response and activate the parasympathetic nervous system or the calm rest and digest response. The SIMPLE system is about having belief in your body, your baby, medical systems, in your hypnobirthing practice, in your breathing techniques, in you active birth movements, in your birth partner and the belief that you can do this. Not only can you do this but you can even enjoy it.

We look at the uterus, and how the various uterine muscles work together, to enable birth to happen. I teach various breathing exercises and relaxation techniques that facilitate theses muscles to work efficiently and comfortably.

The focus on relaxation is based around the autonomic nervous system is composed of 2 parts. These are the the Sympathetic nervous system and the Parasympathetic nervous system. We focus on keeping in the parasympathetic part of our nervous system so that oxygen, oxytocin and endorphins keep flowing.

Helps ease stress during pregnancy

Assists with reducing fears around the birthing process
Gives you knowledge of the birthing process
The Skills you and your birthing partner develop create a great start for you and baby
The mindfulness exercises you learn will support you with emotions and feelings during this time and beyond
Hypnobirthing is a mindset that encompasses a deep belief that your birth will be simple wherever your birth journey goes
Increases your birth partners role allowing them to fully support you
Prepares you with a mixture of skills to allow a calm birth
Encourages you to be intune with your body and teaches trust your body
You will feel empowered to birth with confidence and calm excitement