30/01/2025
Saturday 29th March - fundraising event. Please get in touch to find out more about Yoga Health Connect and our work in the community.
🌻**3-hour Springtime Yoga Workshop**🌻
Saturday March 29th 2025
2pm to 5pm
The Sanctuary, Llanishen, Cardiff CF14 5HR
**Fundraising Event**
Profit goes towards the work of YOGA HEALTH CONNECT Community Interest Company
This 3-hour workshop will focus on sharing yoga practices to foster positive health as we move into the spring. There will be practical yoga techniques shared by the three Yoga Health Connect teachers & therapists who between them have over 20 years of teaching experience. This workshop will be a mix of gentle yoga asana and somatic movement, breath awareness, meditation and relaxation. No prior knowledge is needed, just a sense of curiosity and interest in yoga. Over the three hours you will have space and time to:
✅Nourish and restore
✅Improve wellbeing
✅Rebalance
✅Release stress & pain.
£45 (£39 concessions) includes refreshments - tea, coffee and cake
To book, please contact Clare: clare.yhc@gmail.com
** Yoga Health Connect - work in the community
https://www.yogahealthconnect.com/
Yoga Health Connect CIC is a not-for-profit community organisation which aims to provide partially funded or free at the point of delivery yoga programmes to people within our community who would otherwise be unable to access health & wellbeing activities such as yoga. YHC works:
To develop, promote and increase access to yoga so the positive benefits of yoga can be experienced more widely.
To provide yoga to improve mental, physical and social health & wellbeing, supporting resilience and fostering connectivity to others.
In partnership to provide yoga as a complementary approach to healthcare to help reduce the burden on local healthcare systems, such as the NHS.
In the community with people who may experience barriers to attend yoga (e.g. financial, accessibility or health restrictions).
Yoga Health Connect - Teachers & therapists
🧘♀️Jo Bogacz has been a full-time yoga teacher since 2013. She is a professional Yoga Therapist registered with the Complementary & Natural Health Council. She has specialist expertise in yoga therapy for mental health, chronic pain and women's health. Jo teaches in a gentle and considered way and is able to tailor practices to the person or group as necessary. She is a founder member of the Yoga Therapy Association and the founding director of Yoga Health Connect CIC. She has personal lived experience of a long-term chronic health condition and how the transformative power of yoga as a psychosomatic technology coupled with compassion-based practice fosters healing, change and choice.
W: www.yogahwb.com
🧘♀️Clare Strange is a yoga teacher and director of Yoga Health Connect CIC. She is based in Cardiff, passionate about teaching gentle, accessible yoga with an emphasis on creating a supportive, non-competitive environment. She enjoys teaching an adaptive, breath-led asana practice, pranayama, and always ending with a long relaxation. Clare started practicing yoga over 10 years to help manage her chronic illness, and then proceeded to train as a British Wheel of Yoga Teacher, undertaking the 500-hour diploma. Yoga has been a foundational pillar of helping Clare to manage her health and wellbeing over the last decade, and her lived experience greatly informs the way that she teaches.
🧘♀️Sheena Carlisle is a trained 375 hour Yoga Teacher certified with Yoga Alliance Professionals and as a Somatic Movement Teacher through Radiant Star Yoga. Sheena has 30 years of personal yoga practice, is a member of the British Wheel of Yoga and a director of Yoga Health Connect CIC. She integrates mindful body movements derived from her Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Dance Movement Therapy. Somatic Movement and Therapeutic Yoga techniques are a core element of Sheena’s classes.
