Laugh Time With Flora

Feeling very grateful for another wonderful experience facilitating laughter yoga sessions for AllSorts today. Such rich sessions with people beautifully demonstrating how to meet their laughter where it’s at.

Image 1: A list of ideas about what laughing gives us/does to us.

Image 2: Pooled ideas of things participants do to calm themselves.

After some TLC this January? Check out STUDIO SOMA's generous New Year Self-Care Series:

>> Starting from Where You Are: Setting mindful intentions through Yoga Flow & Restore // // 2.1.2022

>> Befriend Your Body: Coming home to the sensory self through Mindful Movement & Creative Writing // with Kate Sagovsky // 9.1.2022

>> Embodying Happiness: Connecting Feldenkrais, Laughter Yoga, & the Neuroscience of Happiness // with Kate Sagovsky & // 16.1.2022

All 10.30am-12.30pm UK.

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STARTING FROM WHERE YOU ARE

Setting mindful intentions through Yoga Flow & Restore

At New Year there can be pressure to make sweeping changes which don’t usually last. No matter where we want to go we can only start from where we are. This Flow & Restore Yoga gives space to welcome in 2022 in a different way.

Sarah will guide you in creating a sankalpa (intention set by the heart & mind), which allows you actively to work with & appreciate yourself through each step of a process. With clear-sighted compassion we will focus on & encourage the reflection & rest that all humans need in order to move towards acceptance & sustainable health habits.

BEFRIENDING YOUR BODY

Coming home to the sensory self through Mindful Movement & Creative Writing

Body positivity - in which we are encouraged to embrace all of ourselves without negativity - often seems like an impossible goal when we feel distanced from (or even disgusted by) our physical self. Body neutrality asks: if we remove ideas of ‘positive’ & ‘negative’ how might we relate to our bodies in a different way?

In this unique workshop we will bring ourselves back to the experience of moving, noticing the sensations, feelings, memories, & images it provokes. We will return to a child-like experience of moving from gentle curiosity. Rather than interrogating our feelings about our body, we offer ourselves the opportunity to connect to our feelings through our body.

As we shift between moving & free writing, we'll notice: what is your inner dialogue? How might you speak with yourself in the way you might speak to a beloved friend?

EMBODYING HAPPINESS >> previous post

Seriously pleased to announce that laughter yoga is going to be an ongoing feature .space in 2022 🎊, starting with a workshop in the studio's generous New Year Self-Care Series offering kicking off on Sunday 2 January. ❤️‍🔥

The workshop triptych - in chronological order:

>> Starting from Where You Are: Setting mindful intentions through Yoga Flow & Restore // // 2.1.2022 at 10.30am UK

>> Befriend Your Body: Coming home to the sensory self through Mindful Movement & Creative Writing // with Kate Sagovsky // 9.1.2021 at 10.30am UK

>> Embodying Happiness: Connecting Feldenkrais, Laughter Yoga, & the Neuroscience of Happiness // with Kate Sagovsky & me // 16.1.2022 at 10.30am UK

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EMBODYING HAPPINESS

Connecting Feldenkrais, Laughter Yoga, & the Neuroscience of Happiness

Join us on a radical journey to reconnect our minds & bodies, & discover how movement is the unlikely key to unlocking happiness in our stressed-out, unhappy world. In this unique workshop experience we will uncover how mindful movement facilitates changes in the brain through neuroplasticity. You will be guided through a fun journey of practical movement explorations in which we will discover how laughter can be practised & brought into our lives by choice, as we remember together what it feels like to play freely & become lighthearted, spontaneous, & creative. By moving with awareness & choosing to laugh you can expand your self-image & discover the potential for new ways of being that did not previously seem possible.

Co-facilitators Kate & Flora will share from their own experience how opening the door to laughter & mindful movement is a valuable self-care practice that can help you cultivate happiness in the present moment. Not when you have more money, not when your work is done, & not when this crazy pandemic finally ends. It will no longer be an out-of-reach, fantastical goal, but rather a grounded & surprisingly accessible embodied state. A happier life is waiting for you, exactly as you are. 

These workshops are open to both complete beginners & those with more experience of movement practice.

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