QI Transitions

01/07/2025

Come and try a different style of yoga, perhaps try for the first time, or perhaps you’d like to know more about the Yogi lifestyle and approach to life? All available on what promises to be a fabulous day. If you're curious about Kundalini, then I'm offering some taster sessions and a kriya😁🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️😌🙏.

25/05/2025

Great to see a good video describing shiatsu 👏

If you'd like to try shiatsu then get in touch. I'm available Elephant Rooms or in Thulston QI Transitions and love to introduce shiatsu to new people 💆‍♀️🙌😊

A brand-new promotional video introducing Shiatsu and demonstrating the extraordinary power of nurturing touch. This valuable resource is now available for y...

21/05/2025

Hold the date! 😊✨️🧘‍♀️🙏

Would you like to try some yoga but don’t know where to start? Maybe you’d like to try a guided meditation, or find out some more about eastern approaches to self-care? Perhaps you’d just like a day where you can concentrate on you, physically and emotionally. On Saturday 27th September, Fran from QiTransitions will be leading 5 different sessions for you to explore.

10.00 – 11.00 There’ll be a Gentle morning yoga class, suitable for absolute beginners, giving us a gentle introduction to the day.

11.15 – 12.15. Come and learn some Japanese Do-In, waking up our meridians with a set of 5 exercises, alongside a routine of gentle self-massage, brushing and body awareness.

12.20 – 1.00 We’ll round off the morning with a Guided meditation focussing on IKIGAI, our reason for being.

Lunch time (Lunch not provided).

1.30 – 2.45 We’ll start the afternoon with a more general Kundalini Yoga class. Beginners are welcome alongside more experienced yogis. We’ll just adapt your postures depending on your ability and how much you’d like to do. This kundalini class will include asana’s, a kriya and some breathwork.

3.00 – 4.30 Rounding off the day, we’ll have an Inner Dance session. Whilst lying or sitting, we’ll use a wide range of music to evoke and stir up any lingering heaviness and internal toxins, allowing us to let go and clear from our bodies and energy.

£12 per session, or £45 for the whole day,

To book or for more information, please do get in touch 😊

Fran.Smith@btinternet.com

07813641006

21/05/2025

Can't believe this was nearly 12 months ago! If you'd like to join us, then our next share is next Tuesday 27th, 7 - 8.30pm at Elephant Rooms , Draycott. 🙌✨️😊🙏

21/05/2025

Thought this might help someone today 😊🙏

15/05/2025

Please support keeping Elvaston Castle Country Park as a public place 🙏

Please Help Save Elvaston Castle! As you may be aware, Derbyshire County Council has put the Elvaston Estate up for sale, one of our most dearly loved and highly valued local landmarks.

Elvaston Parish Council has declared the intention to bid for the Estate, together with The Friends of Elvaston and The Elvaston Castle Action Group, working with and alongside the Elvaston Castle Gardens Trust and the current management at the Castle.

If you'd like to show your support for that bid then please send a dated letter, sent as an email attachment to ‘info@friendsofelvaston.co.uk’.

There's further background in the letter below, posted earlier today to Spotted: Aston/Weston and Shardlow.

'Dear Admin,

The Friends of Elvaston have received a great deal of support, especially locally, in our joint community battle against disastrous and wildly inappropriate schemes planned by Derbyshire County Council (DCC) at Elvaston Castle Country Park.

The reason that I’m writing to you at this time is because Derbyshire County Council, having once again lost the case for its latest destructive proposals (through a community battle and legal action), has now put the Elvaston Estate up for sale. As it is listed as an Asset of Community Value (ACV) Elvaston Parish Council has declared the intention to bid for the Estate, together with The Friends of Elvaston and The Elvaston Castle Action Group, working with and alongside the Elvaston Castle Gardens Trust and the current management at the Castle.

In the case of both the Elvaston Castle Gardens Trust and we feel, the current management, these have had the rug well and truly pulled from under them by the County Council, as have the rest of us really. When the Council dropped its road plans it announced, both privately to us and the Action Group and in the media, that it would be dropping its road and other plans in favour of the creation of small, manageable income streams in an effort to revive the fortunes of the Estate and to reduce the need to spend the amount of revenue it claims to have to spend on it.

Despite great work by the Trust, which the Council had originally formed, together with hard work by the management in trying to attract schemes in line with the new proposals, it was only a few weeks later that the Council announced its plans to dispose of the Estate.

What we need to do now, as a matter of urgency, is to form a CIC as part of our plan to try and bring the House and Country Park back into true public ownership, for which we will have to look for funding from such as the Lottery Fund and others, the pressing need for which is to demonstrate the support that we have in trying to achieve that aim.

A sound business plan based upon activities currently undertaken at the Park, together with plans to build and integrate similar practices which are already being put forward by some local entrepreneurs, is well under way to support this.

As you will appreciate, time constraints are involved due to the way in which the County Council has gone about its plans so we have to move fairly rapidly.

Would it be possible for you please, on behalf of the community of Derby, to write us a letter of support for our joint community bid to take over the ownership of the Estate, under the leadership of Elvaston Parish Council? If you are able to do so it would be gratefully received and put to very good use in demonstrating community support for public ownership of the Elvaston Estate in order to protect and sustain it. If we fail in this the Estate could once again be in danger of falling into the hands of private developers whose only reason for buying it would be for their own needs and profit, not that of the general public.

A dated letter, sent as an email attachment to us, so that it could be presented separately. (addressed to whom it may concern if possible, NOT DCC!), would be ideal.
mailto: info@friendsofelvaston.co.uk

Obviously, if there was more than one, each letter would need to have a different signatory.

Many thanks,

Kind regards,

Graham Mansey, Chairman,
The Friends of Elvaston

14/05/2025

If you use the Elephant rooms in any capacity, please do fill one of these in 😊🙏

☀️ As we head into a weekend of sunshine and slowing down, we have a small favour to ask…

If you’ve connected with Elephant Rooms in any way — as a client, volunteer, or supporter — please take a few minutes to fill in our Stakeholder Survey before May 16th.

We haven’t had enough responses yet to get a clear picture of the impact we’re making, and we really want to hear your voice.

Your feedback helps shape our future and ensures Elephant Rooms continues to grow in ways that truly serve our community.

It only takes 5 minutes — but it means the world. 🙏

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PTL936F

Thank you, as always, for being part of this with us. ❤️