Love and Light Shala; Yoga, Pilates and Meditation

14/10/2022

📝 J O U R N A L • P R O M P T S 📝

Inspired by .life 's 🎨 beautiful illustration, I channeled the following journalling prompts... If you write on them, snap a photo of your notes and share it in your stories with a tag to us both so we can celebrate you!

Write on the following:

1) What are you right now? Who are you? Or at least, who do you THINK you are?

2) Who would you like to be? If you could choose anything? Why would you choose that?

3) What can you do TODAY to close the gap between who you think you are and who you'd really like to be?

Excited to see what comes up for you here ❤️

12/05/2022

FREE Holistic Wellness Day in Stoke-On-Trent... Who is coming? 😍

I'm SO honoured to be leading first-ever 'Wellness Wednesday' on the 18th May alongside 🏋️‍♀️

Whether you are a staff member, a resident, or a patron at or simply someone who lives local to the gorgeous new co-working space, you are totally welcome to come along and soak up some of the good vibes!

The schedule for the day is as follows:

🧘‍♀️ 8am - 60-minute Rise and Shine Yoga (perfect for beginners and more seasoned yogis alike, this session is rooted in traditional Hatha yoga. At a gentle pace, you will be guided through a variety of deep stretches, strengthening exercises and breathing techniques in order to achieve simultaneous peace-of-mind AND boosted energy levels... If you need to dash off to work a few minutes before the end, feel free to do that!)

🙏 12pm - 60-minute Moments of Mindfulness (this is for you if you're struggling to achieve a good work-life balance... Using simple, short and sweet mindfulness techniques, breathing practices and journaling prompts, this is a great kick-starter for stress management, increased energy levels, better sleep quality, interpersonal connection and healthier life choices... Freely drop in and out of this session during your lunch break.)

💪 5pm - 30-minute Fitness Blast with Alecia (created for all levels of fitness and experience, Alecia will have you working muscles you didn't even know existed!)

🤓 ALL DAY - Holistic Wellness Clinic (this is your opportunity to 'pick my brains' about all things holistic wellness... If you are going through sleep challenges, want some new anxiety-management techniques, or would like to move towards a specific wellness goal, and are interested in exploring holistic methods, then step into my office! During your 15-30 minute appointment, you will be ‘prescribed’ a bespoke collection of empowering mini-practices, tools and resources to integrate at home.)

For booking (and more details) please email charlotte@smithfield-works.com with the subject header: WELLNESS WEDNESDAY.

See you there? 😍

25/10/2021

It was cuteness overload for our first Family Yoga Playshala since covid today!

We worked with an Autumn-into-Halloween theme with mindfulness, autumn leaf-blowing breath, moon salutations, a Halloween story, deep relaxation and a treat feast 😍

So much fun.

If you'd be interested in joining for our next one (Bonfire theme) please hit ❤️ on this post so we can get all of the details over to you asap.

🎃🎃🎃

23/10/2021

Last chance saloon y'all: if you are Stoke-based and have a kiddo who needs something fun to do tomorrow, bring them to this 🎃

Fun for all the family, this spooktacular Halloween Yoga Playshala is an alternative way to celebrate the spooky season

21/10/2021

🎃 The Family Yoga Playshala: Halloween Edition (Sunday 24th October 10am-11.30am) 🎃

Back by popular demand, our fun-filled Halloween-themed family yoga session is the perfect opportunity to bond with your little ones while letting them blow off some of that sugar-fuelled steam!

During the Playshala, we will be:

👀 Tuning in with a moment of mindfulness

🍂 Learning a collection of Halloween-and-Autumn-inspired breathing techniques

👻 Telling a 'spooky' yoga story with our bodies through imagination and play

⚰️ Working into a deep relaxation (which, this time of year brings a whole new meaning to the words 'Co**se Pose'!)

🍬 Enjoying a little social and free play time at the end, where health Halloween treats and smoothies will be served

And if all that's not enough to convince you that this is the ideal way to spend a Sunday morning as a family, the whole Playshala will be set to a playlist of your own favourite Halloween tunes from childhood (yup, Monster Mash, Time Warp, and the Adams Family theme tune are all on there!)

We'd LOVE to meet you and your little one for this event... And don't worry if your kiddo is usually quite boisterous and playful... there will be plenty of opportunity for that during the workshop. Nothing scares us, even at Halloween :)

Admission covers one parent-child combo at £22 total: additional participants with cost a further £5 each. Head to https://www.loveandlightshala.com/event-details/family-yoga-playshala-halloween-edition to book!

Fun for all the family, this spooktacular Halloween Yoga Playshala is an alternative way to celebrate the spooky season

15/10/2021

Starting today, the 4-Week Empowered Feminine Flow course at The Shala in Trentham!

This course is for women warriors who KNOW they deserve more from their workout than a couple of burning muscles, a racing heart and a sweat.

Empowered Feminine Flow is a journey for the body and soul to go on together, as the women participating move through a collections of physical, and energetic challenges.

Beginning with a connection meditation, the practice moves through a kundalini-inspired warm-up and into a session designed to trigger the fire within. As the practice winds down, or****ic breathwork and soul-work meditations lead to the deepest of deep relaxation sections... And it is all set to a banging playlist, with Goddess, seasonal and lunar-based themes.

While the practice can be a physical challenge (of course, it is totally suitable for beginners, with different variations offered throughout and the instruction to listen to your body and take breaks when you need them) this course is designed to help you shift through and mental, emotional and energetic blockages which may be keeping you small. Soul-limiting beliefs will be cleared, current, past and ancestral traumas will be healed, and your class friends will become your sisters.

Each of the classes on this 4-Week 'Empowered Feminine Flow' Course takes place every Friday evening at 6.10pm.

So if you are ready to connect with the strong Goddess within, whilst embodying power and nurturing your spirit, join us!

Head here to book: https://www.loveandlightshala.com/event-details/4-week-empowered-feminine-flow-course-friday-6-10pm ❤️

12/10/2021

Have you seen? We have listed our next Yoga for Menopause Workshop at The Shala ❤️ Here are the details... https://www.loveandlightshala.com/event-details/yoga-for-menopause-workshop-2

06/10/2021

The menopause is not always celebrated in our culture, and the myriad of symptoms which a woman may experience during this time of her life (for example, sleep disturbance, anxiety, stress, low mood, hot flushes, mood swings and joint and muscle pain) it is hardly a wonder that society often portrays the menopause so negatively.

If the above symptom list felt like a personal description of your current experience however, you are not alone.

Menopause yoga provides a safe space for women to come together to support eachother.

The menopause is an important rite-of-passage for every woman as she crosses the bridge between The Mother and The Crone architypes. Again, The Crone, is often portrayed negatively in mainstream Western culture... However, this archetype represents wisdom, medicine, experience, depth and truth. This phase of a woman's life is as unique and individual as she is and can be an opportunity for growth and self-development. The destination of The Crone is a gift: we would do well to approach this bridge, together, fully prepared for all that may come along that journey.

Menopause yoga aims to educate and empower women to support them through the journey of perimenopause, menopause and post menopause. It is a mind-body practice which brings together Western medical science and Eastern wellbeing practices.

During the workshop, as well as enjoying a sharing circles with the others in attendance, you will learn a special blend of yoga postures, breathing techniques, and meditative practices, designed to alleviate some of the symptoms which come during this phase of your journey.

So please, reclaim the power of this period of life, and join us for this 3-hour workshop at The Shala! We start at 10am on Saturday the 9th of October, and will be finished at 1pm.

https://www.loveandlightshala.com/event-details/yoga-for-menopause-workshop

22/09/2021

Autumn Open Day (2021)

13/09/2021

Have you seen that we have added Menopause Yoga to our FREE Open Day at The Shala Trentham this Saturday? This session is a profound holistic practice for women approaching, moving through, or just past the menopause and is taught by our specialist teacher... Please reserve your FREE spot at this taster session by heading to the following link and completing your registration :)

A beautiful holistic practice for women approaching, moving through, or just past the menopause.

02/09/2021

How are y'all feeling about the upcoming changes to our lovely little studio?

If you don't yet know what they are, that may be because you are not on our emailing list (or you are, but our emails are falling into your spam, so go check there first!)

To stay abreast of the shifts we are making over the next few months, head to https://www.loveandlightshala.com/ and drop your email into the pop up box ❤️