BLITHE BOOK CLUB

May 17th Friday 6:30-7:30pm, free with Rachel Belward

Every couple of months we'll be hosting a free book club. If you've ever had the goal to read more, wanted to explore and discus books in a kind and judgement free environment...this is it!

Hosted by the wonderful Rachel who is not just an avid reader, but a long time member of Blithe Yoga.

We're going to kick off with The Yoga Manifesto by Nadia Gilani.

Grab a copy of the book and we'll see you there.

"How did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged?

Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga for twenty-five years. She has also worked as a yoga teacher. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation. 

Combining her own memories of how the practice has helped her with an account of its history and transformation in the modern west, Nadia creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping. By turns poignant, funny, and shocking, The Yoga Manifesto excavates where the industry has gone wrong, and what can be done to save the practice from its own success."

FRIDAY SOUND SESSIONS

90 minutes - Twice a month on Friday’s 7pm, £24- with Lexi Elven

Twice a month we’ll be hosting very special sonic meditative journeys - a therapeutic sound bath.

We have two sound facilitators - Lexi and Mayra - who offer different crafts and sounds.

By being bathed in sound, experience deep relaxation and stress relieving effects. Be immersed in the soothing sounds of therapeutic instruments such as Gongs, Crystal Singing Bowls, Tibetan Singing Bowls and other instrument’s rich harmonic frequencies.

Switch off, feeling the stresses and strains of the day melting away as peace and harmony come singing back to you. Setting yourself up for a great weekend.

Have yourself in comfortable clothes, maybe a jumper, a small scarf like a bandana to wrap around our weighted eye masks, a blanket and cosy socks.

This event is not suitable for those fitted with pace makers or in their first trimester of pregnancy.

If you have a Hybrid Pass or Gift Card with us this will deduct 4 credits. Our Sound Sessions are not included in our Intro Deal.

Please note: 1 ticket purchase per person, should you require an extra ticket for a guest we’ll have to manually make that ticket allocation for you. Our booking system gets confused if you book two spots!

SUMMER SOLSTICE YOGA SUPPER CLUB

Friday 21st June 6:15-10pm, £50-£80 with Kim Gichinga, Mayra Ganzinotti, Lexi & Norah Elven

The Summer solstice is almost upon us, reminding us to celebrate the nourishing light of the Sun and the light within each of us. During the Summer solstice, the Sun reaches its highest point in the sky and gives us our longest day of the year.

This Summer Solstice, let us gather in community to enjoy a evening filled with the nourishment of movement, food and sound. 

Our Supper Clubs are an intimate event, with only 10 spaces to share in movement, nourishment and sound in our Blithe Yoga studio. This year our wonderful teacher Kim Gichinga will be guiding the movement, myself and my mum Norah will be cooking and the lovely Mayra Ganzinotti will be providing her dreamy soundscape in alchemy bowls.

Please arrive for 18:15 for a 18:30 start. Wear comfortable clothing, and something warm like a jumper, cosy socks and a blanket. Bring a yoga mat, or let us know if you are unable to so we can provide one for you. 

Money raised from this event will go towards the charity Goodwill Caravan. Goodwill Caravan are currently in Egypt and Gaza border providing aid in the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

Sliding Scale Pricing
£80 SUPPORTER: Reflective pricing of market rate for a similar service.
£50 COMMUNITY: Priced for those whose economic situations would prevent them from being part of an event like this. 

Please be mindful that if you purchase a price at the lower end of the scale when you can truthfully afford a higher price, you are limiting access to those who truly need the gift of financial flexibility.

INTO MOTHERHOOD - PREGNANCY MINI RETREAT

Next event TBC 2-6pm, £50 - with Lexi Elven & Suzie Kamau

Join this team of mothers. Specialist Pregnancy Yoga Teacher and Sound Bath facilitator Lexi Elven with Doula and Ayurvedic Naturopath Suzie Kamau for this nourishing and informative mini retreat to help guide you through this transformative time of pregnancy into motherhood. 

Suitable for pregnant women, this beautiful event is the perfect self-care day for modern mothers. Connecting into your body, your pregnancy and your baby.

What's included:

• Gentle and restorative yoga to ease, stretch and strengthen your body.

• Deeply relaxing guided meditations and practical breathwork to help you fully relax the body and mind.

• Special guest apperance of Norah Elven, Lexi's mother who will do a special talk about Chinese Confinement post natal care.

• Practical session on herbs and essential oils for this time

• Discussion on pre and postnatal nutrition with a chance to make your own 3rd trimester and postnatal herbal teas to take home.

• Nutritious food and delecious drinks and samples of confinment food.

• Q&A about all things birth and postpartum.

• Relaxing sound bath to finish.

Leave feeling deeply nourished and revitalised in the company and community of other mothers to be.

COMMUNITY GRIEF WORKSHOP

Next session TBC - with Jasmin Khan

Our current social and political challenges are causing grief and vicarious trauma for many. You might feel heartbroken, hopeless and exhausted. These bewildering times can also amplify grief that has already been ongoing for you, such as ancestral grief and displacement, you may have lost a person through bereavement or the end of a relationship, had a miscarriage, are experiencing ecological grief, feel regrets, or mourn unfulfilled hopes. All types of grief are welcome in this free workshop. 

The intention of this workshop is to remember our capacity to be with grief, and to experience the transformative power of tending to grief. In community we can cultivate a safe space to open up to grief, to talk about our losses and to find companionship in navigating the often overwhelming and unfamiliar journey of adapting life to loss.

This is a free workshop that focuses on sharing in community, though you can share as much or as little as you like. We intend to regulate our nervous system and find home and belonging in our body, history and community. There will be little movement involved, so you don’t need a change of clothing. 

The workshop will inculde:

• sharing circle

• meditation

• altar making 

• grief ritual

• learning tools to manage grief 

• learning therapeutic theory about grief

• calming the nervous system