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Yoga
Slow Yoga
for stress, anxiety, burnout, fatigue, long covid and autoimmune​
Yoga is possibly the oldest scientific method of settling the nervous system and supporting the body, its organs and systems to function well. Through breathing practices, postures, and meditation, yoga stills the mind and creates positive change in the body and our emotions.
I have been practicing yoga since I was thirteen. I studied meditation teacher training with Yogi Ashokanada in 2018 and undertook YTT200 training with David Michel and Amie Evans at Union Yoga in Ramsgate in 2023. I’d always wanted to do yoga teacher training to develop my personal practice with no intention to teach. Tuesday evening yoga class was set up in my local village hall so I could practice for the exam, this has evolved into a weekly invitation only, word of mouth community class for villagers who largely had no previous experience of yoga.
In the Spring of 2024 I completed Charlotte Watts and Leah Barnetts specialist training in ‘Yoga for Stress, Burnout and Fatigue Conditions, including Long Covid’. Since then, alongside my training and practice as a craniosacral therapist, I have been combining my knowledge of yoga, meditation, health and wellbeing to support those dealing with these issues to recover and re-find wellness.
“Stress, burnout and fatigue are states that are intrinsically linked via the nervous and immune systems, which can become disordered from psychosocial stress, overwhelm, fear, anxiety, trauma and the high expectations of modern living.” (Yoga Campus, Watts and Barnett)
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Yoga - the perfect medicine
Stress, Burnout and Fatigue
While some stress is a normal part of life and useful for motivating and helping us get things done or dealing with emergencies. Long term stress where we are in a state of constant alert or hyper vigilance is problematic for our nervous system and can result in emotional and physical collapse or ‘burnout’ where we are unable to self-regulate.
Fatigue can be the result of chronic stress or burnout; It often follows an illness, commonly linked to medication regimes (for cancer, digestive and cardiovascular diseases) or autoimmune or inflammatory conditions. Chronic fatigue or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME) is also hugely on the increase, especially Post Viral Fatigue, resulting from glandular fever and Covid 19.
Stress is the underlying cause of most non-communicable and chronic degenerative health conditions, including fatigue, anxiety, depression, digestive issues (including IBS), insomnia, high blood pressure, heart disease, and likely also auto-immune issues. We know that stress can often lead to a flare up of autoimmune problems, and research now indicates that stress may also be a causal factor in the development of autoimmune disease.
Yoga and meditation practices offer very real and well evidenced methods to help to restore equilibrium through a quieting of the mind and a calming of over activated and dysregulated nervous systems.​
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Yoga Offerings
One to one private lessons
Somatic / Therapeutic yoga - 1 hour (£55) or 90 minutes (£75).
Therapeutic Yoga and Craniosacral Therapy
90 minutes. (£75/£85)
Approximately 30 minutes of guided somatic yoga to settle the mind and
release tension held in the body, followed by a 45-minute craniosacral treatment
to support your body to resource itself and repair.
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Slow Yoga for Stress, Burnout and Fatigue
Concorde House Clinic, 26A Stour Street, Canterbury
Sunday’s 11-12 (£12)
This class is a soothing blend of Somatic, Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin and Restorative yoga,
with gentle breath work and meditation.​
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