Shine Yoga & Pilates

21/06/2025

🌞Summer Solstice: A Time to Shine from Within🌞

Today marks the Summer Solstice - the longest day of the year and a powerful turning point in the rhythm of nature. 🌿✨ Spiritually, this day symbolizes light, abundance, clarity, and the fire within - it’s a perfect moment to align with the sun’s radiant energy and set new intentions.

To honor this time, many yogis gather as a community to complete 108 Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskar) - a flowing series of yoga postures - as a gesture of gratitude to the sun and a moving meditation that connects breath, body, and spirit 🙏🏼☀️

But why 108? 108 is a sacred number in yoga, astronomy, and spirituality:
*️⃣There are 108 energy lines (nadis) converging at the heart chakra.
*️⃣The distance between the Earth and the Sun is roughly 108 times the Sun’s diameter.
*️⃣Mala beads used in meditation have 108 beads, guiding us through a complete spiritual cycle.

Through these 108 salutations, we can release what no longer serves, stoke our inner fire, and open ourselves fully to the light, transformation, and growth this season brings.

How many Sun Salutations will you manage?!

26/04/2025

Shine Yoga and Pilates, Yoga & Pilates With Emma, and Sound Bath Kent are joining forces once again to bring you a wonderful “Summer Yoga Day Escape”. A fabulous opportunity to switch off for the day to restore and revitalise the mind & body, and to replenish the soul. Set in Nurstead Court’s permanent marquee surrounded by the Meopham countryside, you’ll look out over lush green pastures where horses graze as you practise yoga, stroll through fields and woodland on a silent meditation walk and be soothed by the delightful healing sounds of gongs, Quartz Crystal & Tibetan Singing Bowls, Chimes and Sounds of Nature. Included in the cost are two complementary physical yoga practices - Yang & Yin, Sound Bath by Sound Bath Kent, Meditation Walk, and a short mindful art-based workshop. And there’s CAKE!Lunch is not included – bring your own to eat on the lawn (weather permitting).📅 Sunday 13th July🕙 10am-5pm (arrival 9.45am)📍 Nurstead Court, Court Lane, Nurstead, Meopham DA13 9AD💷£65 Early Bird until 22 June, £75 thereafter,🎟️ BOOK HERE: https://bookwhen.com/shineyogaandpilates/e/ev-saix-20250713100000If you'd like to chat about the event you can call me on 07497436045. Or email me at dawn@shineyogaandpilates.co.uk.

09/12/2024

✨I’ve been thing about doing this for a while and with Emma’s collaboration it’s finally happened! ✨
It was wonderful to play yesterday - the combination of quartz crystal and Tibetan Singing Bowls, Chau Gong, Japanese Koshi Chimes. Ocean Drum, Windsinger and Thunder Shaker made it a lovely sound journey.
Our next offering is on Tuesday 10th December from 7.45-8.45pm at Castle Hill Community Centre and there are just 2 spaces left at the special price of £15. Book in here: https://momence.com/s/108851582 or DM me.

02/12/2024

✨If you’re stuck for gift ideas, why not treat a friend or loved one to the gift of wellness ✨

Buy them a gift voucher for any amount that they can redeem against one of my wellness events - a candlelit evening of Restorative Yoga & Sound, a Yoga Day Retreat at a beautiful venue, or a sound Bath where they’ll be lulled into a state of complete bliss.

Buy yourself one too and share the experience together!

Get in touch to discuss your options 🙏💚

09/11/2024

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WHAT IS A SOUND BATH? It might sound a bit new age", but healing bodies through sound is thousands of years old with deep roots in cultures around the world.

A sound bath, or sound immersion, is a meditative experience where you're “bathed” in the sound waves produced by various instruments, including gongs, singing bowls, percussion, chimes, rattles, tuning forks, and even the human voice itself.

I won't inflict my singing voice on you as I don't think that would be very healing, but the sound of my Quartz Crystal and Tibetan Singing Bowls, gong, chimes, and percussion instruments that mimic nature’s sounds will help quieten your mind, relieve stress, promote deep relaxation and may help you sleep better. This will all benefit your overall wellbeing.

It’s a very transformative experience and it sounds so very good 🥰