Five days of early morning springtime yoga.

Our annual Dawn Yoga sessions are an ideal time to truly experience the flow of Prana – our vital life force.  By practicing daily we can nurture our minds and bodies and feel the benefit that a regular yoga practise can bring.

As always we begin each day with the practice or mouna – or silence.  You will be gently guided through some simple warm up stretches – testing your powers of observation as we work without verbal instruction for the first part of the session.

Our focus for these springtime sessions will be be ‘RE’

Refresh – Our mind and spirit

Renew – Our San Kalpas – our intentions

Relight – Our fire – focusing on Manipura Chakra

Rejuvenate – Creating space in the body

Revitalise – Through Breath – Pranayama

Replenish – Reducing stress and restoring equilibrium

Revive – Shifting stagnant energies

Revamp – Let’s try something new!

Repair – Enhancing circulation, reducing inflammation

Restore – Relaxing, finding stillness

Our sessions culminate with the celebration of the Spring Equinox on Friday 20th March

The sun will rise at 06.08 on this auspicious day and breakfast will be available as we celebrate the start of Spring.

8 places

To book:

Members – purchase credits and book as you would your normal classes

Non members – please email susan@bodynurture.co.uk

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A Somatics workshop for those who have attended an ‘Introduction to Somatics’ sessions

With a basic understanding of the concept of Somatics we are ready to progress to learning a basic workout that you can practice regularly at home.

What’s included in the session:

As in the previous sessions we will run a ‘self body scan’ – noticing where we are tight/uneven/out of balance

A recap on some of the basics

A closer look at Red and Green light and Trauma reflexes and how we might go about planning our own ‘maintenance’ self practice according to the needs of our bodies.

If you are interested in attending this session but have not attended an ‘Introduction To Somatics’ session, it is still possible to attend.  You would simply need to book a one to one session with me to bring you up to speed.

Please email me if you would like to do this – and if there is more than one person I will try to arrange the session so that you can attend together which will be reflected in the reduced price per person susan@bodynurture.co.uk

Body Nurture members – book via  the bookings system

Non members please email for further details

8 places

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Hanna Somatics is a safe, gentle and common sense approach to eliminating chronic muscle pain for the long term. It is the only sensory motor training method that teaches you to reverse the root cause of most chronic muscle pain and gives you strategies to reduce muscle tension and pain in the future.

We are lead to the belief that as we get older our physical ability declines and we become more and more restricted in our movements.

This need not be the case!

During this Workshop you will be introduced to the 8 basic exercises originally presented by Thomas Hanna in his book Somatics – Reawakening the Mind’s Control of Movement, Flexibility & Health

To book:

Members – purchase a CR from the STORE within the booking system and book yourself in

Non Members – please email susan@bodynurture.co.uk

8 places

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Regular Gong Baths are held at Body Nurture on a Saturdays between 2 and 3.30 pm.

Please see the Gong Dates 2025 page for further details and our Booking and Prices page for details of how to book for both members and non members of Body Nurture

Where possible we like to work with full moon energy

10/5 – Full Flower Moon

12/7 – Full Buck Moon

9/8 – Full Sturgeon Moon

18/10 – Moon in Virgo

8/11 – Moon in Gemini/Cancer

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Hanna Somatics is a safe, gentle and common sense approach to eliminating chronic muscle pain for the long term. It is the only sensory motor training method that teaches you to reverse the root cause of most chronic muscle pain and gives you strategies to reduce muscle tension and pain in the future.

We are lead to the belief that as we get older our physical ability declines and we become more and more restricted in our movements.

This need not be the case!

During this Workshop you will be introduced to the 8 basic exercises originally presented by Thomas Hanna in his book Somatics – Reawakening the Mind’s Control of Movement, Flexibility & Health

To book:

Members – purchase a CR from the STORE within the booking system and book yourself in

Non Members – please email susan@bodynurture.co.uk

8 places

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A beautiful celebration of Beltane. A flower strewn evening of ceremony, yoga, drumming, chant and all things feminine

It is the ushering in of summer, and the opportunity for us to give thanks for surviving another winter

It’s a time to celebrate the women that are in our lives, or that have passed through on their respective journeys.  To show our love and respect for them and ourselves.

“An Awakening Woman is…in a glowing, and embodied, nothing-held-back love affair with the great mystery. She moves in this world with fierce compassion, grace and freedom, and is passionate about truth, rest and real love.“ ~  Chameli Ardagh 

8 places

Members – book via the booking system

Non – Members please email Sue – susan@bodynurture.co.uk

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Celebrating the Summer Solstice.  Puja – a celebration – in this case to honour the sun

We will begin our evening quite late –  chanting and rituals, perhaps a mug of cacao

When the time feels right we will begin to settle down.  Participants will be invited to bring with them any bedding that will make them comfortable for the night.  The gongs start to work their magic……..

The sound from the gongs gets quieter and quieter………….

It is quite usual to drift in and out of sleep – sit up for a while – settle down again as our bodies absorb the beautiful gong energy and we let go of anything not serving us

As dawn approaches gentle drumming will  bring you lovingly out of your slumber.  We will witness the sun rise at 04.38 – connect with our brothers and sisters celebrating at Stone Henge, and honour the ancestors who have done the same for thousands of years before us.

Following the Solstice Celebration our final yoga session before breakfast

Pricing for this event:

Yoginis attending the Dawn Yoga Series discounted price – £20

Guests attending the Puja only – £35

10 places

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Five days of early morning yoga.

Our annual Dawn Yoga sessions are an ideal time to truly experience the flow of Prana – our vital life force.  By practicing daily we can nurture our minds and bodies and feel the benefit that a regular yoga practise can bring.

As always we begin each day with the practice or mouna – or silence.  You will be gently guided through some simple warm up stretches – testing your powers of observation as we work without verbal instruction for the first part of the session.

Our sessions culminate with the celebration of the Summer Solstice on Saturday 21st.

The sun will rise at 04.38

Participants who have been attending the early yoga sessions can choose come in for their 5.45 am practice as normal on the final day  (Saturday) – or there is the option to attend the all night Gong Puja, which would start on the evening of Friday 20th.

Attendees will be woken from their slumber with a very gentle and moving drum ceremony – in time to witness the sun rise along with fellow yoginis celebrating at ancient monuments such as Stone Henge.

Passes for the all night Puja are offered to Dawn Yoga Yoginis at a discounted rate of £20

6 places

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A Somatics workshop for those who have attended the ‘Introduction to Somatics’ sessions in April

With a basic understanding of the concept of Somatics we are ready to progress to learning a basic workout that you can practice regularly at home.

What’s included in the session:

As in the previous sessions we will run a ‘self body scan’ – noticing where we are tight/uneven/out of balance

A recap on some of the basics

A closer look at Red and Green light and Trauma reflexes and how we might go about planning our own ‘maintenance’ self practice according to the needs of our bodies.

If you are interested in attending this session but did not attend the ‘Introduction To Somatics’ session last year it is still possible to attend if you would like to book a one to one session with me to bring you up to speed.

Please email me if you would like to do this – and if there is more than one person I will try to arrange the session so that you can attend together which will be reflected in the reduced price per person susan@bodynurture.co.uk

Body Nurture members – book via  the bookings system

Non members please email for further details

8 places

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What is Kombucha?  Basically it’s fermented tea.  It is a probiotic – containing bacteria/micro organisms reputed to be good for our gut health and supportive to our immune system

In this workshop you will learn all about kombucha, and how you can make your own at home for next to nothing.  Just a little sugar and a few green tea bags approximately every 2 weeks.

You’ll need a SCOBY - Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast.  This is what ‘eats’ the sugar and  in turn ferments the brew.

I’ve brewed my own Kombucha for more years than I care to remember now – and as some clients have expressed an interest in making their own I thought I’d share my brewing tips with you.

£25 for worksop and SCOBY

£50 for the workshop plus  SCOBY and 8L brewing jar.   You will be ready to go!

6 places

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