Yay4yoga

SEPTEMBER - the gateway to autumn 🍂
A season that gently invites a softening. A letting go of rushing in favour of a steadier rhythm.

In class, we often begin with Constructive Rest: lying on the back, knees bent, feet grounded, back body fully supported. It’s a beautifully simple, yet powerful way to help the nervous system settle. The breath steadies, the lumbar spine releases its tension, the whole body remembers how to let go, somatically sensing all is well in the moment.

I practise it every day, setting a timer for just 10-15 minutes. It’s amazing the difference it makes. Maybe this is your season to gift yourself that pause too - a small daily check-in to refill your own cup, noticing how it feels to be a well-rested woman.

What’s Coming Up:

https://www.yay4yoga.co.uk/schedule

• UNWIND - Nurturing Yoga for Women: Thursdays, 7:30-8:30pm, Deeside Wellbeing Collective CIC studio Banchory. Gentle movement to relieve tension, before supported restorative poses and lingering guided relaxation. One weekly drop-in space available.

• PEACE & JOY At FINZEAN HOUSE - Yoga Mini-Retreat - 5th & 6th December. Save the date. Booking opens soon.

• Candlelight Yoga and a Menopause Yoga workshop are also on the horizon.

Hope to see you soon on the mat.

Whether you’re completely new to yoga or have practised before, you’ll receive a warm, friendly welcome - with support to adapt as needed, tuning into what feels most appropriate for your body and mind on any given day.

“A savasana a day keeps the nonsense away.” ✨

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~ NURTURING YOGA FOR WOMEN ~
Two spaces have become available for tomorrow’s class 7:30-8:30pm Deeside Wellbeing Collective CIC studio, Banchory.
We continue our focus of reconnecting to self.
Join me for some gentle, mindful movement encouraging a steady breath and a chance to quietly tune inwards. Find your anchor through gently grounding poses. Notice how it feels to anchor a perhaps wandering mind. Enjoy deeply restful restorative yoga supported by a multitude of props allowing ultimate rest. Leave feeling a well-rested woman 😃💕
Booking link below.

https://www.yay4yoga.co.uk/schedule/c8043f0a-f6f9-4c3e-9140-e10753d81048_1787855400

~ PAUSE, LISTEN, RESET ~
💕 “Put your ear to the ground and listen hard.” This line, from Matt Haig’s profound and inspiring book Reasons to Stay Alive, stayed with me as I listened during a long drive to visit my Mum — mid-life sandwich very much ongoing.

💕 As we reach the tail end of summer, autumn is coming into view. For many women, this can be a season of significant change, with family rhythms and responsibilities shifting in all sorts of ways.
A regular yoga class can offer a much-needed opportunity to step out of the busyness of the day, turn inward, and show up for yourself in the way you so often show up for others.

💕 YOUR WEEKLY RESET
I invite you to gift yourself a guaranteed weekly time slot to reset, rather than continually pushing through.
If you are craving a little space from the daily responsibilities of life, I would love you to join me.

• 6-week block starts this Thursday, 20 August
• Time: 7:30–8:30pm
• Booking details and link are available via the link below
• Last 2 spaces remaining

💕 No yoga experience or prowess required!
Very happy to answer any questions at [email protected].

https://www.yay4yoga.co.uk/schedule/d3205ebc-7cca-47aa-af8b-a4b03280621e_1787250600

BOOK YOUR OASIS TO UNWIND
Spaces tomorrow for the last class before a 2-week break.
After that a new 6-week block begins.
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Thursday 30/7, 7:30-8:30pm at Deeside Wellbeing Collective CIC studio in the heart of Banchory.
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I’d love to see you there 🤗
Your body and mind will thank you for the reset.
No experience needed. Booking via link https://www.yay4yoga.co.uk/schedule/ea183ff4-448d-4233-924b-3eae40037ce7_1785436200 or at www.yay4yoga.co.uk in “schedule”
Any questions at all please get in touch at [email protected]
Ali

~ 🦥 SLOTH YOGA! 🦥 ~
It’s so hot right now I was called to offer a theme of “slow like a sloth” this evening 😃
A favourite pose was a deluxe variation of forward facing savasana - just hanging out sloth-like on a pile of bolsters, cushions, blankets.
When the body is fully supported, the nervous system trusts it can let go of holding, tension… The mind stills. We more easily access deeply restorative rest.
Feedback confirmed the desired effect 😊💝😴
We closed the session in another Savasana relaxation pose, with a guided Cooling Stream visualisation - amazing how the mind really can cool the body.
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No class next week, but we’re back 23rd and 30th July.
Book by the week. Use this link

https://www.yay4yoga.co.uk/schedule

or email me, Ali, at [email protected]

~ UNWIND ~
Book by the week during July.
Book online and come along to the cool studio on a Thursday evening at 7:30pm. Enjoy some relaxed gentle movement, easing out any tension, then settle into restorative yoga - soothing frazzled mind and body after the heat and activity of the day.
A savasana a day keeps the nonsense away.
At Deeside Wellbeing Collective CIC studio, Banchory
Thursdays 9th, 23rd, 30th July, 7:30-8:30pm.
Booking is essential but no experience is needed at all. You can book via the website schedule here
https://www.yay4yoga.co.uk/schedule