Cath Barnes-Holt Iyengar Yoga and Acupuncture

28/01/2025

2025 is the year of the Wood Snake 🐍

The Snake is associated with wisdom, intuition and regeneration. This is the year to explore self-improvement, develop patience and find balance in your life.

🧧How to celebrate the lunar new year…
🐍 Use the Snake’s lucky colours - green, black and yellow.
🐍 Create a calm, organised environment by declutterring your space.
🐍 Introduce new house plants to your home to welcome fresh energy and prosperity to your habitat.
🐍 Focus on protecting your health and balancing your energy through acupuncture and herbal medicine.

Wishing you health, happiness and harmony ☯️

31/10/2024

Lamps for Diwali to celebrate light, hope and new beginnings ✨✨ Good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, inner peace, wisdom, unity, optimism and compassion.
Happy Diwali everyone 🪔
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Om shanti 🙏🏽🕉️

21/06/2024

On the day of the Summer Solstice we’re also
celebrating the 10th International Day of Yoga!! 🧘‍♂️🕉️🙏🏽

This year’s theme is “Yoga for Self and Society”

“Yoga is not just about exercise; it is a way to discover the sense of oneness with yourself, the world and nature.”
Narendra Modi (Prime Minister of India)

25/01/2024

THIS is why we do Iyengar yoga! 🙏🏽✨

"Yoga in a way not only strengthened my legs, my body, but also, I think made me calmer on the tennis court... It kind of really helped me focus a lot better"

Rohan Bopanna becomes the oldest tennis world number one aged 43 after he and Matthew Ebden reach the Australian Open doubles semi-finals.

05/01/2024

To celebrate National Iyengar Yoga Day, classes on Jan 17/18/19 are FREE to newcomers and students who haven't been to class since the summer. Check my website for info and contact me to book your place 🙏🏽

https://cathbarnesholt.co.uk/2024/01/03/national-iyengar-yoga-day/

14/12/2023

Remembering BKS Iyengar on his birth anniversary 💜
14.12.1918 - 20.8.2014
Grateful for his teaching each and every day 🙏🏽🕉️

30/09/2023

What's all the fuss about yoga?

Would you welcome the health benefits of yoga, but find yourself put off by the spirituality? Cast those doubts aside ...

21/06/2023

Happy summer solstice and International Day of Yoga 🧘‍♂️ 🤸🏻‍♂️🙏🏽

18/06/2023

Classes this week between Weds 21st June and Friday 23rd June are free to newcomers and those students who have not been to class this year ✨
We are celebrating the 9th International Day of Yoga 🧘‍♂️🕉️
Join us!! 🙏🏽

01/06/2023

"You must do the asana with your soul. How can you do an asana with your soul? We can only do it with the organ of the body that is closest to the soul - the heart. So a virtuous asana is done from the heart and not from the head. Then you are not just doing it, but you are in it. Many people try to think their way into an asana, but you must instead feel your way into it through love and devotion" ~ BKS Iyengar, Light on Life

20/03/2023

Ahh the Spring equinox, the balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, new and old, deep and shallow, heavy and light, black and white. Find some equilibrium in your life 🙏🏽🧘🕉️☯️

28/02/2023

'Do 15 minutes of yoga to reduce blood pressure' - yoga is recommended in today's Times newspaper as one of the best '12 midlife habits that will have a lasting impact on your health'

Peta Bee writes:
A trial published recently in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology suggests that yoga improves cardiovascular health, including the health of arteries. A group of people with high blood pressure were asked to do 15 minutes of yoga or stretching exercise in addition to 30 minutes of aerobic exercise training five times a week for three months. By the end of the trial both groups had lowered their blood pressure, but the yoga group more significantly, reducing systolic blood pressure by 10 mmHg compared to a reduction of 4 mmHg with regular stretching.

Yoga also lowered resting heart rate and ten-year cardiovascular risk. The lead researcher Paul Poirier of the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute at Laval University, says that yoga is recommended for the management of hypertension in its forms both as an exercise and as stress relief. "Our study shows that structured yoga practices can be a healthier addition to aerobic exercise than simply muscle stretching," he says.