Sensible Yoga with Max

07/01/2023

🤩 This weekend I am on a Breath-Body-Mind™ Fundamentals course.

👍🏼 BBM focuses on restorative breathing and movement practices.

😊 I’ll be learning more about the importance and value of breathing practices, movement, self-regulation, and co-regulation.

😍 From the website: “Designed to activate mind-body communication pathways, raise energy, regulate mood, enhance performance, reduce inflammation, and help dissolve pain; this training is for anyone who wishes to improve their stress resilience, physical health, and general well-being.”

😯 “Benefits of Breath-Body-Mind have been shown in healthcare practitioners, individuals with psychiatric and medical conditions, at-risk children, veterans, active-duty military, research studies, and survivors of disasters.”

😊 Movement, breathing and relaxation techniques that help to:

- Increase your stress resilience and renew your energy
- Reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and insomnia
- Increase lung capacity, oxygenation, and cardio-respiratory health
- Connect to your inner self and others
- Improve relationships and empathic abilities
- Improve performance in personal and professional activities.

🤩 it goes without saying that this weekend, as a 12 hour course, is just the start of learning about these techniques and considering how they may link with the yoga I already offer. I’m also hopeful they will be helpful to me in my everyday life and may include some techniques I can share with teaching colleagues in schools and nurseries…. Let’s be honest, most of us could do with more techniques to help us feel better in our day to day lives.

🤩 One of the main reasons I chose this course is also that everything is linked to research and data…. We have a zoom link-up to a professor in America to give us a lecture about it this afternoon.

🥳 I’m very excited to get started!

22/11/2022

🌲 Ideal Christmas Gift 🎁

Yoga Matters sticky mats £16.

Current RRP is £25 plus P&P

These colours available. (See photo)

11/11/2022

🥰 Finally making a start on reading this book and establishing a daily “coherent breathing” practice.

📚 Has anyone else read it?

🥳 I’m also signed up to do some training created by the authors early next year.

14/10/2022

🦋 A little update to this page…

I know lots of you also follow my children’s yoga page where I am still posting regularly Blue Butterfly Yoga.

I’m still very much teaching yoga but have decided to delay returning to my adult classes until Jan 2023 at the earliest.

I feel sure I will be teaching adults again in some capacity sometime next year but thought I’d give a little update for anyone hoping it would be after half term.

24/08/2022

☀️ Good afternoon everyone.

🌞 I hope you’ve been having a good summer while we’ve been away from yoga.

🦋 After much procrastination and mind- changing, I’ve come to the decision that I won’t be running the class in Poulshot this term.

💕 This is due to a number of reasons but basically comes down to the amount of juggling I do with different roles and prioritising my time. It hasn’t been an easy decision but it feels like the right one for now.

🤩 I may return to teach adult yoga again after Christmas or I may make my offering slightly different. I’ve got a few ideas bouncing around but I’m not ready to make a decision at the moment.

😊 Keep following the page for future updates. You’ve not seen the back of me 😉

11/07/2022

💕 Thank you all for a fabulous year of yoga.

🦋 I can’t believe I’ve been teaching my adult class in Poulshot for over a year now. Time has flown!

🦋 I will be taking a break over the holidays and won’t be posting as much on here. I am anticipating re-starting classes in mid-September.

🦋 If you’d like information about yoga with me or you’re interested in joining us after the break please let me know.

🦋 Get in touch via messenger or email: bluebutterflyyoga@outlook.com with any queries.

🦋 I will still be checking messages and emails. Thank you in advance for your patience if I am slower to respond than usual.

09/07/2022

08/07/2022

No class on Monday. Those affected have been messaged 😊

04/07/2022

😍 Thank you to those who joined me for yoga this morning.

🧘🏻‍♀️ Our main focus was on “side bends” but we had a good variety of spinal movements thrown into the mix as well as some energising breathing and a short relaxation to finish off.

🌞 Next Monday is the last session before we break for the Summer holidays.

🎉 There is space next week, so get in touch if you’d like to join us. An ideal opportunity to try the class for £8 before deciding if you’d like to join us for the next block starting in September.

03/07/2022

Spaces available tomorrow 😀

30/06/2022

It has taken me a long time to understand what yoga is really about. I feel like I have to keep learning it over and over again. Which is no surprise I suppose based on the world we live in.

I didn’t sleep well last night. The housework I had asked my husband to do hasn’t been done. I have little spare time today. But thankfully I was sensible enough to build myself a little yoga nest. Only 15 mins to spare and I spent it all led down- mainly still. I feel a hundred times better for it.

I think I’m going to commit to 10 minutes doing this every afternoon/ early evening now for as long as I need it. It feels like a monumental decision.

27/06/2022

🤩A small but perfect class this morning.

🧘🏻‍♀️As everyone who was there today has been doing yoga with me for a while now, we opted for a more “dynamic” class.

😊 Quite a few different breathing practises, linking movement and breath with some sequences and of course, time to tune into our bodies and relax at the start and end of the session.

😂We had a few laughs along the way today too.

🎉 Thank you for being there.

Spaces available next week:
Poulshot Village Hall
Mondays 11:30-12:30
£8