^{A new way forward to restoring your health and balance using an age old practice.}

_{You know when you feel exhausted all the time and keep on having low grade infections or chronic pain that no amount of therapy will shift? You know how discouraging and upsetting it is to constantly ‘just not feel well’ though you can’t really put your finger on exactly why or what? You feel low, no energy, no excitement about things that used to make you buzz, a night’s sleep is never enough? It is almost like you don’t recognise yourself because you feel nothing like the ‘old you’ that you were a few years ago. In fact you may even have started to feel really old – no matter what age you actually are. If you recognise yourself in this description then Restorative Yoga could be a great help. You are probably suffering from burn-out, or are very chronically stressed and may be moving along the continuum to burn out. If that is the case you need to do something positive right away so that you begin the task of reversing the downward spiral of poor health and low spirits and start working your way towards a new you ,who is also the ‘old you’ – but better!}

_{First of all Restorative Yoga isn’t like the yoga you may have done at your local community classes. The styles of yoga run in those settings or private studios help you to stretch and strengthen. You work actively at the postures until your body begins to easily move through a sequence, or flow, of movements. You then start working on more advanced postures to carry on strengthening and increasing flexibility. A yoga session will leave you feeling physically balanced and mentally and is an excellent form of health and fitness promotion. You may have attended Iyengar, Ashtanga or Hatha Yoga classes and each one will have had a slightly different emphasis but the overall experience will have been balancing and energising. Restorative Yoga is different. This approach is specifically to help people for whom even gentle Hatha yoga is too active and who need to restore their health and find balance again in their lives as a priority. People who have had injuries, surgery or prolonged physical conditions such as high blood pressure will also find Restorative Yoga a breakthough experience. Its focus is healing and is a form of therapeutic yoga.}

_{Restorative Yoga is the yoga of deep, aware relaxation. It is a Yoga of ‘Being’, rather than a Yoga of ‘Doing’. It relies on you using a sequence of 3 or 4 specially designed postures in which your body is completely supported. These postures need to be selected carefully to suit your unique needs. This allows your muscles to utterly relax and melt into place instead of stretching and straining into position. As your body finds the shape of the posture and melts into place your nervous system switches to calmness and a deep inner healing mode.}

_{For stressed out modern day living this is must-have information and techniques. Your immune system will recover and life will feel different again.}

_{It can be done at home very easily once you have learnt the sequence that is right for you and it is also a wonderful personal support to give yourself a regular Restorative Yoga class if you feel you are burning out, stressing out or going through a very stressful period of your life.}

_{Our workshops are practical, informative and fun. Come along to find out how you can restore yourself back to full, joyful health again.}

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