Yoga
Yoga, not just as an exercise but as an all encompassing lifestyle, can be a gentle and beautiful way to help support our mental health.
What can yoga help with? Anxiety and depression; healing past trauma, physical aches and pains, and many more.
What does practicing yoga really mean?
It is simple, arrive at the class in comfortable clothing and with a mat! The rest you will be guided through.
A class will involve checking in with the body, mindfully focusing on the breath and how we feel in that moment. The class then moves on to movement, stretching and trying out different poses some of which can be very wierd. The class then ends with a ten minute relaxation, lying on the floor, allowing the body to process the movement it has done, and then fully let go.
There will be breathing, there will be stretching, there may be tears, groans and often laughter - all of it is ok!