Svastha Lincs CIC

16/12/2025

Hello everyone, Seasons Greetings
Thank you for all of the attendance to our offerings this year. We've continued to run a weekly cuppa, chat and movement class. And we added special days, running four full day events with brilliant teachers, health and wellbeing experts all made possible with the grant from Awards For All, part of the National Lottery. This funding has now to come to an end so we will put a new bid in to keep things going with affordable pricing enabling everyone to attend. We are passionate about making things that are so often exclusive available for everyone.

In addition this year I'd like to say a massive thank you to Janine Walker who has been invaluable in her skill with company management and finances helping me (Rebecca), the novice. Janine has stepped down from being a director to concentrate on her business plans and we wish her all the luck in the world.

And on that note, I'd like to thank Jon Ives for joining us as a new Director. A man of many talents, not least Sea Shanty singing and Sports Massage. We look forward to new and inspiring offerings for community health and wellbeing projects.

Our last session of the year at Brookenby Community Centre is tonight.
Have a warm and cosy break and we'll see you on Tuesday 6th January.
🌲🌠⛄️

29/10/2025

Finally found the brilliant print out of the Pancamaya model by Sequence Wiz, based on the brilliant book Yoga for Transformation by Gary Kraftsow. And so I've been a ble to tidy up my thoughts and scribblings for this Saturday's Retreat day.
Working on mind body connections from ancient therapeutic models is tried and tested over millennia.
It's an honour and pleasure to share with folk who are interested and in need of support.

See you on Saturday ❣️🙏🏻

23/10/2025

Fabulous news, the retreat day on November 1st is now fully booked.
We can't wait to share a day of exploration around movement, physical and emotional health.

16/09/2025

Our weekly sessions continue. And I thought this podcast about backpain was particularly interesting.
Any kind of pain can lead to anxiety and deep worry, perhaps even leading to depression so it's important to recognise how to tend to it. Self care is the key, rest but not taking to your bed can help along with appropriate pain relief for a couple of days with sudden onset backpain.
The interesting advice from the backpain specialist was with regards to movement and rehabilitation.
Many of the postures we do in class are perfect for spinal.mobility and care. We don't need numerous reps. But we do need mindful, breath based movements which we offer. They not only help with physical self care but also emotional a d psychological support.

Take a listen and see what you think.

Watch this space for upcoming retreat day news ❣️🙏🏻

Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken get to the bottom of back pain.

30/07/2025

A full house last night at our Brookenby class. Our meeting room is rather small, only 9 chairs, but luckily the hall we use for the mindful, breath based movement has plenty of space for us.
After Yoga with Rebecca had a week off to study Vedic chanting we had a great chat about the therapeutic effects of sound and music. And of course how everyone's taste is different.
It was good to reflect on sound as we used it as a therapeutic topic on our last Retreat Day as few weeks ago.

The physical part of the evening focused on how we can find support using the breath, taking us away from the very physical and material mindset we can all fall into when using the body. The breath as support has a beautiful dynamic to it challenging our imagination and neuroplasticity. Great for mental and emotional wellbeing.
Everyone was so relaxed at the end of the session there may have been a couple of snores 🙂

05/07/2025

Our weekly cuppa and movement/breath yoga classes continue.
All are welcome
Tuesdays 6 to 7.30pm ish (we keep running over chatting too long).
Brookenby Community Centre
Cost still £1!!! Then funding from Awards for All, National Lottery will sustain us for a few more months.

16/06/2025

Another wonderful Retreat Day.
This one discovering the uplifting effects of sound and music.
We chanted, looked at vedic philosophy, sang and bathed in sound.
Everyone left feeling uplifted with a smile.
Svastha Lincs would like to thank
Iza Moon Gongspace Lincolnshire
Yoga with Rebecca and Breathe Healing for all the support and brilliant specialisation in their respective knowledge.
Here's a few pics from the day.
Watch this space for future events

07/06/2025

Hello everyone
There's one week to go until the Sound Retreat day in Binbrook.
A gentle and nourishing exploration of how various practices from singing, to chanting, to listening are all wonderfully therapeutic.
This day is partially funded so affordable for all. Pay £40 or less, nobody will know.
Our aims are for rural communities to have access to all the things that promote health and wellness which are often unaffordable or miles away.
Message via our FB page or Yoga with Rebecca to book your place 💙🙏🏻

21/05/2025

We really are building a great team of folk on our Brookenby health and movement classes.
For the last 2 weeks we've been exploring how the body gets stiff, sore and achy. Jon one of the weekly attendees is an expert sports massage therapist and brought along a massager to demonstrate and teach us how to use them.
It was good fun, we all benefitted, asked lots of questions and got top tips for maintaining our muscle health.

08/05/2025

It's so important when we talk about health to understand some of the underlying issues cause by diet and lifestyle, and probably some genetics too.
Obesity is a modern disease process and the more we understand about it the better.
Unravelling many disease processes is coming down to inflammation. Whatever health issue we have the future health promotion models and treatments are going to be based around reducing inflammation for a vast majority.