Workshops & events
Managing chronic pain
Sunday 11th February 2024, Little Yoga Space Lisboa OR Online
We can help people change the narrative of the stories that dictate their lives, from a story of pain to a story of health. Let’s understand the different types of pain, and the role of body awareness and movement in managing and preventing chronic pain. |
Harmonise the Energy of the Centre with Somatics, Yoga and Meridian Stretching
Saturday 9th March, Vishuddha Yoga Centre Oxford
In this workshop we will explore how to release some of the tension we hold, invite more space and re-ignite that vital life force through a combination of somatic movement, yoga and meridian stretching used in East Asian medicine. Leave feeling more grounded, nourished and revitalised, and maybe a little more yourself again. |
Restoring vitality in the internal organs
Sunday 10th March, Vishuddha Yoga Centre Oxford
The abdomen is the centre of our body, physically and energetically, and we even call it the second brain. It should not get forgotten in our treatments. Tension in and around the abdomen is often the reason for lower back pain, pelvic problems or digestive issues. Many people hold their emotional tension, habitual protective patterns and unprocessed trauma in this area. In this workshop we will explore tools and techniques of visceral manipulation as well as the Eastern perspective of the Hara. And we will cultivate a deeper level of presence to help us connect with this usually more sensitive part of our Being. |
Through the lens of the Vagus Nerve
Saturday 23rd March, Little Yoga Space Lisbon
This workshop is for floor-based bodyworkers (Thai Yoga Massage, Shiatsu, Ayurvedic massage etc) and Yoga therapists, or if you work with hands-on adjustments and touch, and are increasingly attracting clients dealing with more complex issues, such as pain, chronic conditions or trauma. You are working with people who are looking for support in their personal healing and growth process. These people are in need of more than just a relaxing treatment or a good stretch. This is where we need to understand and work directly with the Autonomic Nervous System and the Vagus Nerve. |
Thai Yoga Massage introduction workshop
Saturday 13th April & 4th May 2024, Little Yoga Space Lisboa
Let's re-connect in this world of disconnect. We are Beings of relation by Nature, so no wonder we struggle with the modern lifestyle that keeps creating more and more isolation. Living in this conflict is one of the root causes of all the pain we carry around. Thai Yoga Massage is a practice of deep connection between two people and offers a beautiful antidote to this conflict. The main principles of this ancient bodywork are: loving kindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity. Thai Yoga Massage is like a meditation in action, with two people on the mat, a sacred dance. And aside from a chance to experience this connection, this workshop is also an opportunity to learn some fun and delicious moves and stretches that feel great to give and to receive. |
The Story of the Pelvic Floor
NEXT DATE TBC
We, and especially women, are being conditioned to tighten the Pelvic Floor as part of building core strength, through which it has over the last few decades gained an almost infamous reputation. But do you actually know, what it is? Where it is? What it does? |
Improve your Resilience with Breathing Exercises
Next date TBC
Learn how to regulate your nervous system with the power of the breath. Especially during challenging times, it is important to nurture our innate resiliency, so we can navigate life with more ease. This workshop is for anyone who wishes to gain some very practical tools to help them with their own anxiety, as well as yoga teachers, social workers, nurses or therapists, who wish to support their community. |
Restore your vitality
Next date TBC
If you ever feel sluggish, heavy, stiff, tired, or just somehow not yourself, you lack some of your natural vitality. That can be because of a number of reasons.... one of them being your diaphragm holding too much tension causing disruption in your internal pressure and communication system. With a stuck diaphragm, our breathing can't be in its full expression and vital life force can't be distributed through out body. |
Why & how to yield
Next date TBC
Let's remind the body of what yielding really feels like. It's part of the body's natural blueprint, but gets overwritten by habitual holding and coping mechanisms all the time. This Yoga workshop is a playful exploration of how we can establish the conditions in the body to allow effortless and natural movement to be expressed. |
The Stillness within
Next date TBC
It's when we come to this perfect inner Stillness within, that change can take place, that a shift can happen, that healing can begin. It's the fulcrum from where we can come into our full expression, from where everything moves, and to where everything returns. |
Advanced Thai Yoga Massage workshops / focus days
MORE DATES COMING UP SOON...
These advanced Thai Massage focus workshops will help you expand your repertoire, so you can work more creatively as well as more therapeutically on people with particular conditions. There are a number of different themes... |
Free your breath
NEXT DATE TBC
Are you finding yourself struggling with the stress of the current times? Maybe you are noticing some typical symptoms sneaking up on you, like feeling drained or sluggish, or carrying a lot of tension in the body. You would probably just love to get back to feeling yourself again. But you are finding it difficult to find the discipline for doing a regular self-care practice of something, anything. Maybe you can't even make up your mind what kind of practice to take up. I hear you. That's why I love working with the breath. It's 'relatively' easy, everyone can do it, and it's powerful. It makes a difference. It so profoundly helps to regulate our nervous system, that it promotes a whole range of health benefits. Even with just half an hour, or even 20 minutes a day. In this workshop you will learn three different breathing techniques, plus different ways to prepare, stretch, vitalise and open the body. You will walk away with some simple-to-follow routines to help you develop a daily self-care practice. The recording of the online stream will be available to everyone afterwards. |