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Kombucha for gut health workshop

This is a super fun workshop! Learn everything you need to know on how to brew great Kombucha for gut health a super healthy fermented fizzy drink. We discuss ingredients, talk recipes, equipment, fermentation, how to achieve good carbonation, flavours, and storing.

Making your own kombucha not only saves you money but gives you control over the flavour and freshness and means you always have a refreshing live probiotic drink always on tap.

An option to watch and take notes or get hands-on experience by making your own starter brew (extra cost for equipment).

Read my blog post about the full benefits of Kombucha for your health

The best place on-line to purchase all your Kombucha equipment is Happy Kombucha

NOTE: When you book into our our workshop or day retreat you will receive 10% off your equipment from Happy Kombucha and the Scoby

Some of my favourite Kombucha flavour pairings - I very often mix and match these pairings because it’s all I have in the fridge, it’s seasonal or it’s what I fancy. It is not hard to come up with something yummy when you start with a basis of great ingredients. As you start to experiment with different flavours, you will get an idea of what you like and gain confidence with pairing different ingredients. Have fun playing and add ice for a gorgeously refreshing summer drink!

Pomegranate & fresh mint
Blood Orange & Blackberry
Mint, Thyme, sage & Rosemary
Slice apple, pinch cinnamon, fresh ginger, slice lemon and fresh turmeric – winter wonder!
Raspberry & Ginger & Lemon
Citrus Mint – slice orange, slice lemon & mint

Seasonal Tea Ceremony

In this part of the retreat we will share a simple, guided tea meditation. Tea meditation acts as a bridge to help you connect with a state of mindful awareness - using sight, sound, smell and taste to develop bodily awareness and connection.

Bio: tinyteahouse is run by James Thirlwall. James is a certified tea sommelier and educator who uses tea to help people connect. tinyteahouse workshops are designed to promote fellowship, harmony and inclusion - the values of a traditional Asian tea house. After years living in Japan, James spent a decade as an acupuncturist before a career as a tea sommelier creating tea programs for the world’s leading hotels, restaurants and spas. tinyteahouse has been lucky enough to host workshops for retreats by Lama Rod Owens, Bamford Haybarn. He is the master tea practitioner at The Bothy by Wildsmith and is honoured to be an Artist in Residence at The Dreaming in 2025.

Link to tinyteahouse

All about our Day Retreats

Nutritional Talk / Workshop

Options available for talks & workshops to choose from:

Weigh Loss & preparing 1/2 healthy snacks
Fermentation – what it is? Why we need to know about it? and how to incorporate it in your diet
Fasting – how to fast safely, its benefits and ways to incorporate it in your lifestyle
Menopause – What it is, when does it happen and how do you know you are in it. Tips and ideas on how you can experience your Menopause in a holistic way.
Self-care – the new buzz word! What does this really mean? Lot of tips and ideas on how to live a more holistic healthy life without it costing the earth or taking up too much time. Many great take home ideas here!
A subject of your choice – let us know if there is a subject you would like to know about, and we will see if we can organise it.

Raw Chocolate Workshop

Unwrap the magic of chocolate and learn to make your own raw chocolate treats at home from a real Chocolatier.

One of the most popular workshops we do!

After a brief introduction on where chocolate comes from and some healthier alternatives to sugar, it’s time to pop on your apron. You’ll make two types of raw chocolate - dark and ‘mylk’ - and raspberry truffles enrobed in smooth chocolate.

There will be lots of hands on experience, tasting as you go and great tips about healthy treats that you can impress your guests with or just enjoy yourself!

Goodie bag to take home. All recipes are vegan and nut-free.

Sep/Oct and Thursday/Friday only

Learn how to run

Chi Running & Oxygen Advantage Breathing Retreat

A unique workshops to improve physical health and sports performance through breath and functional movement

Open to anyone looking to improve their health, fitness and achieve a sense of enjoyment and fluidity in movement regardless of age, fitness level, skill set or training regime. From beginner runners to ultra marathoners, those who have never exercised to fitness buffs.

Saturday 30th March 2019
The Oxygen Advantage will address dysfunction breathing patterns to improve breathing in everyday life. Start with this and improve your physical fitness and sports performance.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY

COST & HOW TO BOOK

The science behind breathing
Tests to detect any breathing pattern disorders such as chronic hyperventilation
Practical functional movement exercises to improve breathing
Breath-hold exercises to encourage your body to tolerate build up of CO2 and thus reduce breathlessness during exercise, improve aerobic threshold and VO2 max
Tips for better sleep and reduced stress
The science behind meditation
Build the Foundations of Good Running uses the Chi Running technique to improve running efficiency, reduce risk of injury and bring enjoyment back to your running. Chi Running is based on age-old movement principles of Tai Chi, focusing on movement from the body’s centre of gravity.

You’ll learn:

The importance of body awareness
How to improve posture
Key breathing focuses to make running and walking less effort
How to speed up by relaxing
The importance of rhythm
How to use gravity and the force of the oncoming road to help rather than hinder forward momentum
How to incorporate form focuses and visualisation into any training programme

Cost: £110 (including Yoga 4 runners, lunch & 3.5hrs of Chi Running & Breathing practise)

Location: Islip, Oxfordshire (full details when space confirmed)

How to book: Email info@satyayoga.co.uk (only 2 spaces) • Payment can be made by BACs transfer (Payment must be made to reserve your space)

Note: Let us know of any injuries i.e lower back, knees, HBP, LBP, hyper-mobility • Please bring weather appropriate clothing • Yoga suitable for all levels • Mats & blocks available

Note: You can book a private one-one session (at a concession price 1hr-£45(usually £70)) with Grey Caws after 3.30pm on either days (this will need to be pre-booked & paid for in advance). You may have a chance to book on the day if he has space.

Posture Day Retreat

Perfect Posture
Jo discusses the true secret to sustainable, healthy posture and gives you the tools to achieve it, effortlessly. She use a combination of techniques: stretches and exercises, relaxation techniques, and hands-on correction to achieve the perfect posture.

There is growing evidence that poor posture can lead to a lifetime of chronic pain, fatigue, and low self-esteem. This workshop will give you practical tools to guide you towards good posture, a habit that will help put you on the path to a pain-free and self-confident life.

Furthermore, as we age it is our posture that can let us down, make us appear older and invisible to others. Come and discover how to stay young, straight and flexible with our expert Jo Kuszmar.

ABOUT JO KUSZMAR

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

SCHEDULE FOR DAY

COST AND BOOKING

“Teaching good posture is about looking at how and where a person invests their energy, as well as reflecting on where there’s an absence of energy and then helping them correct that,” says Kuszmar, who trained as a nurse and shiatsu practitioner. She developed the deportment techniques seven years ago, when, after a divorce, and approaching the wrong side of 50, she feared she was becoming invisible.

Click on the following link for a Telegraph article about Jo’s work.

Click to listen to Jenni Murray on BBC 4’s Woman’s Hour talking to Jo about her posture clinic – Are we a nation of slouchers? What good posture can do for you.

Slouching at a desk, when sitting at the dinner table or standing
Curious about their own posture and would like to get it assessed
Lopsided from wearing their handbag on the same shoulder or their shoes wear out in a certain way
Suffering from lower back pain, shoulder tension and rounded shoulders/upper back.
Interested to understand the importance of movement/mobility and how to do it correctly
Uncomfortable about their body and have low self esteem
These are just a few of the many reasons why this workshop is for you!

Menopause and yoga day retreat

Only three known species go through menopause: killer whales, short-finned pilot whales, and humans. Two years ago, scientists suggested whales do this to focus their attention on the survival of their families rather than on birthing more offspring. But now this same team reports there’s another reason: older females enter menopause because their eldest daughters begin having calves, leading to fights over resources or lending a helping hand to help raise their calves. The findings might also apply to humans, some scientists say.

Do you know what is happening during the menopause? Are you concerned about the changes? Worried about the side effects of HRT? Would you like to understand how to prepare yourself before or after the menopause? What is ‘normal’ and when should we seek help from our GP? Book into our day retreat and find out more.

Learn how to boost your energy, improve health, gain ideas on what can help with night sweats and hot flushes, female dryness, mood swings, and aching joints. Is soya good or bad? What about diet, herbs, alternate support and treatments? Should you be exercising and if so what kind of exercise? Come with your questions and concerns.

Numbers are limited to 10 (only 4 spaces left)

DATE & COST

JO KUSZMAR

WHO IS THE RETREAT FOR?

Wednesday 2nd May 2018
- 9:15-9.30 tea & raw energy balls
- 9.30-11.30 Yoga for menopause by Jo Kuszmar
- 11.30-12.00 Walk (weather permitting)
- 12.00-13.00 Light lunch
- 13.00-15.30 Talk & Q&A
Cost: £60 To secure your place please email info@satyayoga.co.uk or zena@satyayoga.co.uk

Jo is an Oxford based svastha yoga teacher (means ‘Wellness’ broadly speaking) interested in eastern models of health, particularly the role of yoga and food in keeping well and for treating specific conditions. Jo is also a shiatsu therapist of 25 years standing and utilised her understanding of oriental energetic & yoga to manage her own menopause.

Jo’s main specialism, which has risen out of this field, is in posture. she has been interviewed on Woman’s Hour, the World Service and recently on PM, the news programme on the subject. Articles have been written about her work in both The Daily Mail and The Telegraph.

In your forties or fifties and want to find out more
Keen to understand how and if you can prepare yourself for the menopause
Perimenopausal
How can you look after yourself after the menopause

The menopause: The word menopause actually means your last menstrual period. Meno- refers to your menstrual cycle and –pause literally means stop. However, the actual definition of being menopausal is when you have not had a period for one year.

The term perimenopause is often used as this is the time in which you experience menopausal symptoms but are still having periods. These periods are often more irregular and scanty than they used to be.

Often when you read about menopausal symptoms this also refers to perimenopausal symptoms.

The average age of the menopause in the UK is 51 years, however this can be earlier for some women. Symptoms of the perimenopause often start at around 45 years of age. If the menopause occurs when you are under 45 years of age then it is called an early menopause.

Chi Running & Yoga

About Chi Running: Chi Running borrows the principles of T’ai Chi, to help runners of all ages move more mindfully, efficiently and effectively. Improving performance and reducing risk of injury.

The benefits aren’t just physical. When running is easier, it’s also more fun!

Many Chi Runners have found that this more mindful approach to running has boosted their self confidence, increased their mental focus and helped them stay healthy and active in other areas of their life.

Click on the links for information on the instructors:

Zena Kidd-May http://www.satyayoga.co.uk/about-us/
Gray Caws http://chirunning.uk/instructors/gray-caws/
Rachel Masser http://www.energitraining.co.uk/

PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY

COST & HOW TO BOOK

• 08:30-09:30 2/5k run with Gray Caws & Rachel Masser
• 10:00-11:15 Yoga for Runners with Zena Kidd-May
• 11.15-12:00 Bring own lunch or enjoy Zena’s free raw energy balls, bananas & teas
• 12:00-13:00 Chi running explained with Gray Caws
• 13:00-14:00 Practise Chi running with Gray Caws

Cost: £55 Location: North Street, Islip (full details when space confirmed)

How to book: Email info@satyayoga.co.uk (only 9 spaces) • Payment can be made by BACs transfer (Payment must be made to reserve your space)

Note: Food will be GF & DF but not NUT free • Let us know of any injuries i.e lower back, knees, HBP, LBP, hypermobility • Please bring weather appropriate clothing • Eat breakfast before you come • Yoga suitable for all levels • Mats & blocks available

Restorative Day Retreat

Friday 24th June 2016

Programme:
• 09:30-09.45 Arrive/Tea
• 10:00-11:45 Dynamic Hatha Yoga with Zena Kidd-May
• 12:15-13:15 Lunch prepared by Modern Baker
• 13:15-14:30 Restorative Yoga with Derek Elliot
• 14:30-14:45 Depart with goody bag

Cost: £70 inclusive of lunch, teas and goody bag

How to book: • Email info@satyayoga.co.uk to reserve you space • Let us know of any injuries i.e lower back, knees, HBP, LBP, hypermobility • Let us know of any food allergies and intolerances • Payment can be made by BACs transfer (preferred), cheque or cash in advance of the day to secure your space • Please bring a jumper and socks

NOTE: This workshop is not for beginners to yoga but if you are reasonably fit with no injuries do get in touch

Zena Kidd-May http://www.satyayoga.co.uk/2016/about-us/

Derek Elliot http://www.derekelliottyoga.co.uk/Yoga/About.html

What is Restorative Yoga:

This style of yoga evolved from the work of B.K.S.Iyengar and encourages both healing and rejuvenation in the physical body as well as promoting evenness of the mind. Generally most poses are supine and supported by props. These longer holdings help to release muscular tension and bring about a relaxation response in the nervous system. Even at the best of times we can exhibit a stress response to our environment. Restorative yoga allows the space for the parasympathetic nervous system to operate and promote a release from the flight or fight response of the sympathetic nervous system. The outcome is a relaxed, grounded and more centered state of being.

Modern Baker http://www.modernbaker.com/about-the-bakery/

Category: Past Day Retreats

Kombucha for gut health workshop

Kombucha for gut health

Seasonal Tea Ceremony

Yoga | Lunch | Seasonal Tea Ceremony

In this part of the retreat we will share a simple, guided tea meditation. Tea meditation acts as a bridge to help you connect with a state of mindful awareness - using sight, sound, smell and taste to develop bodily awareness and connection.

Nutritional Talk / Workshop

Course Details

Raw Chocolate Workshop

Course Details

Learn how to run

Course Details

Chi Running & Oxygen Advantage Breathing Retreat

Posture Day Retreat

Menopause and yoga day retreat

Chi Running & Yoga

Restorative Day Retreat

Friday 24th June 2016