One off events Moving towards Christmas an oasis of calm is offered with the candlelit yoga class on Friday 5 December. You can make a weekend of it and join the Charka workshop the following day Saturday 6 December. Dates for workshops have now been confirmed going into Autumn 2009.
Yoga Holidays. I also have penciled two weeks of mid-winter warmth in Lanzerote end of February 2009 and possibly an early summer yoga break in Tuscany. Please email for more details and to earmark a space!
Candle lit Yoga Evening Friday 5 December 2008
An evening of joyful hatha yoga, a calm evening in the lead up to festive season. The session will include asanas (postures), breath work, relaxation and a meditation for peace, health & happiness for all. We will finish with mince-pies & hot spiced apple juice or mulled wine for those not driving home.
Eynsham Village Hall, Back Lane. 6.45 - 9.30pm
£12.00 (£10 if booked with Chakra workshop following day). Limited spaces available.
Saturday Workshops with Hazel
A workshop is a great way to deepen your enjoyment of yoga. The day offers the time to experiment and hone techniques that a weekly class just does not allow for. Many students describe the workshops as a rare treat, giving themselves some 'me - time'. The groups are small and held in quiet locations with green space around.
Wear usual comfortable stretch friendly clothing but maybe easy layers to allow for the changing tempo of the class. Please bring your mat, blanket/towel and cushion and an open mind! You are advised to eat (ideally two hours before class) a small breakfast and bring a light lunch to share.
Yoga and Chakras Saturday 6 December ’08
Marsh Baldon Village Hall
This day will concentrate on the energy centers or chakras as key to your yoga. Asana with pranayama (breath) and meditation using colour & chakra imagery.
Yoga Inside Out Saturday 31 January ’09
Old Headington Parish Hall.
Explore your yoga from the inside out, rather than the final shape, we will build the poses on the breath and feel how the muscles work and thus asana unravels. This deeper yoga is supported with using the bandhas or muscles locks.
Yoga from the heart Saturday 7 March 2009
Marsh Baldon village hall. Opening the heart centre, Anahata chakra, can lift your spirits and help shake off winter as we move into Springtime. We encourage the breath in deeper and give ourselves an energy boost with warming, flowing poses. £35
Yoga and Chakras Saturday 2 May 2009
This popular workshop repeats. We are lucky have the lovely new venue of the spiritual retreat centre in Abingdon at St. Ethelwold’s House. For ease today lunch included so a little more expensive at £45. B&B accommodation is also available in the house so easy to make a weekend visiting this Oxfordshire town or just relaxing in the riverside garden.
Challenge Yourself Saturday 6 June 2009
Marsh Baldon Village Hall. Breath is key to finding your balance whether holding a difficult one legged pose or finding ease and comfort in standing. We will take time to undo poses, finding the foundation and alignment, discovering the balance.
Further Dates going forward in Autumn 2009
Yoga from the heart Saturday 3 October 2009
St. Ethelwold’s House, Abingdon. Opening the heart centre, Anahata chakra, can lift your spirits and help combat the effects of the shortening daylight of Autumn. We encourage the breath in deeper and give ourselves an energy boost with warming, flowing poses. The day will balance yoga postures and sequences, include still time for breath work with relaxation and meditation. Lunch included. B&B also available.
A 50% non-refundable deposit is required to secure your place. Please phone 07931 743785 or email from Contacts page. Saturday Workshops run 10am to 3.30pm.The workshops are £35.00 which includes handouts and booklist relevant to the day.
Saturday Venues and directions:
Marsh Baldon Village, OX44 Reputably the largest village green in South England
Old Headington, Oxford A local landmark building!
St. Ethelwold's House, Abingdon The garden runs down to the River Thames
Marsh Baldon is a quiet village hall outside Oxford, OX44. Directions from A4074 at Nuneham Courtney. Take left turn sign posted to Marsh Baldon, a winding leafy road into village, drive past the pub & large village green, almost leaving the village the hall is on your left, just before the vegetable allotments. There is ample parking.
Old Headington Village Hall is on Dunstan Rd, OX3 9BY, where the road changes name from St Andrew's Rd. It is across from Stoke Place. There is ample parking as it is unusual for the Girl guide hall to have weekend events but please take care of parents and girls walking to the hunt behind if so.
St. Ethelwold’s House, East St. Helen’s Street, OX14 5EB. St Ethelwolds is an open spiritual retreat centre and so offers a haven of peace and tranquility in a beautiful building in the centre of Abingdon dating back to the 14th century. East St Helen’s Street is one-way leading into West St Helen’s Street. No parking is available but there are on street meters, a council car-park on West St. Helen’s Street, and free car-parks just over the river bridge, a twenty minute walk away.
Pigeon pose shown with ease
Marsh Baldon Workshop 2004
This difficult pose is an excellent stretch of the quadriceps
Would you like to make a weekend and stay in the city of Oxford or discover the lovely countryside around Marsh Baldon? Please email and I can suggest some B&Bs or hotels.
Other Themes offered as Workshops
Dates to be confirmed
If you would like to attend one of these or have a suggestion for a future workshop please get in touch.
Meditation and Yoga This introduction will offer gentle movement to warm up and exercises to enhance different postures for meditation. Breath is the basis for meditation & we will look at different themes to develop your meditation upon: concentration, working with chakras, mantras and/or simply silence.
Yoga for Teens
I plan to also run a class especially for parents and teenagers with techniques for easing exam stress and coping with the school/life workload. If your child would benefit from this please email to add their name & age, once enough interest is logged I will confirm the date.
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Please call Hazel if you would like to know more and to book your space: 07931 743 785
If you have any requests for a particular aspect of yoga, please drop me an email.
Stress Management Workshop
Hazel has facilitated Stress Management Workshops for staff training for some of the health care related businesses in Oxford. A workshop can be customized for your working environment. The training can cover aspects such as Techniques in calming yourself and dealing with difficult confrontations; assertive attitude for the work place; posture awareness and simple yoga exercises for the office; and or Relaxation Techniques. If your company would like to offer staff an In-house training day on Stress Management or customised workshop please give Hazel a call.
Special Groups
A big thank you to Oxford Council’s Adult and Continuing Education Team who helped fund opportunities to teach with people who would not necessarily get the chance to be introduced to Yoga. The varied groups, with very different requirements, linked with specific centres, a Medium Security Unit and a wonderful group at the Enablement Centre, and a series of ‘taster events’, eg. refugees group and yoga for the whole family to join in, taken to disadvantaged areas in and around Oxford.
If you work with a special group of people who could gain from yoga please get in touch to find out more.
The last three summers I have also taught as part of English Language Summer Schools. I tried to learn ‘flexibility’ and ‘calm’ in 7 languages and the students seemed to enjoy a new lesson experience.
Teaching in sunshine by the pool in Lanzerote April 2008
YOGA AWAY FROM IT ALL
My recent couple of weeks teaching in Lanzerote in April 2008 were a pleasure to teach and share yoga in the sun; The two mixed ability groups came out for relaxing and pampering as well as deepening their yoga pracitse. Next yoga holidays will be somewhere a little less windy but somewhere warm for a week break, as well as long weekends planned in centre of rural North Ireland and city break in Salisbury. Please contact me if you would like details and I will email you as soon as venues and dates are confirmed.
If you have a group of friends who would like to have a weekend of yoga away or interested in joining one set by us, please contact Hazel.
Yoga by the pool with Tuscan rolling hills and Yoga indoors at Villa Santa Vittoria
