Yoga Gatherin'

26/09/2023

May this continue into your week 🙏 ✨️ 🙏

My weekend wishes for you. 💛 Happy Friday!

19/09/2023

The wisdom of Ganesha 🙏

Please stop trying to be perfect. You are doing your best in challenging times. Stop for a moment and breathe. Take in the vastness of the sky and the solidity of the ground. You are alive. Life will always be complicated and messy so take one moment at a time and start again.

Sit for a moment outside today and let stability and possibility fill your body and mind.

14/07/2022

Enjoy some "micro" yoga practices today ❤️

When you’re feeling scrambled, try one of these ten microbreaks (five minutes or less!), which in studies have been found to increase your energy & support your well-being:

1. Take a few deep breaths. Breathing activates your parasympathetic nervous system, which minimize your stress response.
2. Be kind to yourself. Put your hand on your heart and say, “You’re doing a great job, [NAME]. This is hard right now, and you’re being really brave.”
3. Catch yourself rushing, and pause. Rushing is one of the least helpful things we do, because it ends up creating lower quality products *and* increasing our stress more. Try to move 10% more slowly and see if it helps.
4. Stand up and walk around if you are able, stretch your body however you can. A few minutes of movement can help you to release the stress on your body.
5. Set a timer for five minutes, and look away from the phone or a computer until it goes off. Pay attention to the room you’re in, the people around you, and any nature you can see.
6. Talk to someone for a few minutes. Call a friend or loved one and tell that them you only have five minutes, but you wanted to say a quick hi. Ask them how they are doing and really listen.
7. Sometimes stress can manifest as boredom and in struggling to pay attention. Set yourself a new goal to focus your attention. Go back to that timer, set it for five minutes, and commit to focusing on that goal until it goes off.
8. Express gratitude to someone. Take five minutes to send a quick text or email to someone who has helped you recently. Gratitude helps to buffer us from the negative effects of stress and gives us something grounding and nourishing to focus on.
9. Put on a song that makes you happy and dance or sing along.
10. Write everything that’s on your mind down on one piece of paper or in a document on your computer. Get it out of your head and somewhere you can observe it. Once it’s there, categorize it into three buckets: “Things I Can’t Control”, “Things I Can Influence” and “Things I Can Control.” From there, choose one thing from the Influence/Control lists and take an action towards addressing it.

29/06/2022

Let's connect to ourselves 🥰 and each other. for Health & Happiness 😊 Friday 10am Kinloch Hall Campbeltown

Connecting to yourself is about connecting to your humanity: the part of you that is pure goodness. This helps you to express that goodness outward and share it with the world, positively impacting those around you.

There are many ways to connect to yourself. What’s your current favorite?

Sometimes connecting to yourself is about being. Feeling your body, allowing your emotions, getting in touch with your desires and needs.

Sometimes connecting with yourself is about letting go: of stories you’ve been telling, or ideas you’ve held about who you are.

Sometimes connecting with yourself is about connecting with someone else, who can help you to see what is happening within you, or mirror back your beautiful inner qualities, or support you as you parse through your inner world.

Sometimes connecting with yourself is about doing. Doing things that make you feel alive. Expressing your nature and sharing it with other. Extending love to yourself and to others.

Sometimes connecting to yourself is about, paradoxically, forgetting yourself, and connecting to the part of you that is interconnected with everything and everyone. Experiences like awe, wonder, curiosity, and helping others help to you go beyond yourself, and at the same time, help you to feel more connected.

28/06/2022

Hopefully this is why coming together for an "in-person" class feels different 😁🙏😁

Joyful June - Day 28: Notice how positive emotions are contagious between people

https://actionforhappiness.org/joyful-june

15/06/2022

Let's get in again 😀 This Friday 10am Dru Yoga Movement for Health and Vitality Kinloch Hall Campbeltown

Joyful June - Day 15: Look for something to be thankful for where you least expect it

https://actionforhappiness.org/joyful-june

12/06/2022

🥰 Practice with a makes it feel even better 🙏🥰

Mouth yoga♥️
Thich Nhat Hanh:
"Why should I smile when there is no joy in me? The answer to that is: Smiling is a practice. There are 42 muscles in your face. When you are angry or fearful, these muscles tense up. The tension in these muscles creates a feeling of hardness. If you know how to breathe in and produce a smile, however, the tension will disappear - it is what I call “mouth yoga.” Make smiling an exercise. Just breathe in and smile - the tension will disappear and you will feel much better."

08/06/2022

Maybe some yoga? Dru Yoga style class for Health & Wellbeing 🌟❤🌟This Friday morning 10am Kinloch Hall Campbeltown . Anyone new wanting to come please contact via WhatsApp or email rachelyogagatherin@gmail.com

Joyful June - Day 7: Do something healthy which makes you feel good

https://actionforhappiness.org/joyful-june

01/06/2022

Hooray for 😍

26/05/2022

Many of these "joyful" moves come into the Dru Movement for Health & Wellbeing classes - and you get sprinklings of through the class, work, and - and you can do it all in a chair or reclined on your back! What's not to love ❤😍❤

Six research-backed moves to improve your mood

25/05/2022

Another relaxed Dru Yoga Movement for Health & Wellbeing this Friday 10am Kinloch Hall Campbeltown ☀️Free Offering☀️ Email rachelyogagatherin@gmail.com or WhatsApp to book of you are new to the class 😀

19/05/2022

I got distracted by the sunshine 🌞 Dru for Health & Wellbeing ☀️Friday 10am☀️ tomorrow Kinloch Hall Campbeltown . Enjoy a and evening 🧘‍♀️🙏