In celebration of International Women’s Day – on Monday the 8th of March, we have chosen some magical events for you to participate in online – join a workshop or retreat and immerse yourself in a healing experience alongside other women.
The Sharing Moon
Dates: Monthly starting Sunday 21 March 2021 19.30 – 21.00 GMT via Zoom
What you get: The Sharing Moon is a monthly membership and online live women’s yoga circle, to connect, share and grow together.
☽ Are you looking for a safe and nurturing space where you are supported and encouraged by like-minded women?
☽ A space to practice ancient ways to connect with your unique feminine energy & wisdom, and to nurture your health and wellbeing with healing women’s yoga, breath & meditation practices?
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Then The Sharing Moon is for you! We are Helen Soden of Feet To Earth Yoga and Victoria Quilliam of VQ Yoga. Victoria specialises in Yoga Nidra, Pre & Postnatal yoga, Yin and lives in the south of Spain. Helen, based in Hertfordshire specialises in Hatha Yoga and meditation.
We are both passionate about women’s health, yoga, and creating community. We believe that when we share our stories and create community we can grow stronger together.
What’s included in the membership:
☽ A LIVE monthly online Sharing Moon circle event, including opening and closing ceremony, yoga for women, breathing and meditation practices, journaling exercises, learning about the phases of the moon and how that can affect us, inspirational guest speakers, life affirming ceremonies and much more!
☽ Access to The Sharing Moon private community Facebook page where you can continue to connect and share your stories with other women, keep the conversation going and grow the community.
☽ Weekly Sharing Moon email to support you throughout the month with inspirational articles, book suggestions, discussion topics, Yoga and meditation videos and more!
☽ A monthly Sharing Moon Newsletter.
Cost: £25 for a monthly membership
My Body Is My Temple Yoga and Meditation Retreat
Dates: 15 – 29 March / April 12 – 26 / May 12 – 26 / June 9 – 23 / September 8 – 22 / October
What you get: Two weeks of live online sessions, calls, written information, transmissions and micro practices as well as instructions and support for a 5-day Ayurvedic cleanse during the retreat. Practices, tools and philosophies to put the soul back into your yoga practice. All sessions recorded for later access. Self-paced, all material online for access any time and no live sessions or calls.
What you will learn:
- Breathing, mindfulness and visualisation techniques to apply to any yoga practice that will ease your soul back into the practice
- Using the concept of the “ Edge” to turn your yoga practice into a life practice
- Practices to develop your intuition
- Practices of self-acceptance
- Investigating the link between judgement, discernment, acceptance and forgiveness
- Philosophies on the nature of reality, and where science and mystical wisdom traditions meet
- Going beyond the paradigm of masculine and feminine to investigate your experience
Cost: €150.
Sensual Self-Care Retreat
Dates: Friday, March 19th at 7pm EST till Saturday, March 20th at 8:30pm EST
What you get: A 1-Day Experiential Event for Heart-Centered Women Seeking Next-Level Healing.
Spring brings hope, energy and new life.
The snow melts and Spring allows the water to nourish Mother Earth.
Are you too ready to feel more A-Liveness in your body and life?
Then, join us for the Sensual Self-Care Virtual Retreat on the Spring Equinox to experience deeper healing and energy activation!
After this day-long virtual event, you will…
- Have a deeper more intimate, loving relationship with yourself (and others)
- Receive an oxytocin boost and feel more grounded, relaxed and happy
- Have new tools and simple techniques to reduce anxiety and create peace
- Understand what sensuality really is and learn why it is a critical part of healing mind, body and soul
- Have experienced new ways to connect to your intuition
- Have more clarity on your true desires and how to embody them with ease and joy
- Feel more A-Live in your body
- Know how to increase your pleasure with food
- Have prepared an easy, delicious plant-based meal for yourself
- Feel more creative and “in flow”
- Have activated the healing response in your body, mind and soul
Cost: $98 USD
TRANSITIONS: Navigating Change with Grace – Virtual Wellbeing Retreat
Dates: March 13th, 10am-3:30pm GMT
What you get: Whether in our bodies, the cycle of the seasons, or the world around us, we are always experiencing change. Join us on March 13th for a day of practices, workshops, and talks that will provide you with the community, resources, tools and practices in support of navigating transitions with grace.
We will open and close the day with a yoga practice, and sessions will include topics such as: authentic connection, journaling for creativity, authenticity + vulnerability, and dancing for wellbeing.
Cost: £15 – £25 (sliding scale pricing)
Tell Your Story for Healing Experience
Dates: Friday, March 26th, 7:00 – 9:30pm/ Saturday, March 27th 10:00am – 4:00 pm / Sunday, March 28th, 10:00am – 2:00pm EST
What you get: The Tell Your Story for Healing Weekend Experience is a unique, virtual weekend designed to guide you in telling a story from your life that you’ve been wanting to share, let go of or move on from in a safe space among other women, for heart and soul healing. This experience creates a retreat-like atmosphere that supports you in setting yourself free by telling a story.
Cost: $350
Live yoga workshop for international women’s day
Dates: Friday 12th March 7pm – 9pm GMT
What you get: This year for International Women’s Day we have partnered up with our friends at Yogamatters to offer you an evening of yoga, meditation and self introspection. This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #ChooseToChallenge, and throughout this two hour workshop we’ll be tuning inwards and exploring how we can choose to challenge and stand up for equality. Change starts from within!
The workshop will be guided by Movement for Modern Life yoga teachers Gabriella Espinosa and Yvonne O’Garro, who will take us on a journey through mind body and soul. It is open to everyone and suitable to all levels and abilities.
Embodied Movement and Intention Setting Practice with Gabriella
Gabriella will guide your through a gentle embodied movement practice to create a stronger connection between your body, your emotions and your mind. This will be followed by a guided visualisation and intention setting practice to inspire you to choose to challenge.
Restorative Yoga practice & Poetry reading with Yvonne
Restorative yoga is a deeply restful practice that requires stillness from you. When the body is relaxed, you feel rested which is likely to provide an increased sense of wellbeing. During the session, Yvonne will share some beautifully inspired poetry alongside guiding you into 4 or 5 postures, providing the body with a total sense of ease, supporting you to choose to challenge.
Supporting ActionAid
We are really excited to be running this International Women’s Day event in aid of ActionAid; an international charity supporting women and girls living in poverty.
Cost: In order to support the incredible work ActionAid is doing in Cambodia, we ask you make a donation for your place on the workshop.We suggest somewhere between £10 and £35 (a minimum donation of £10 is required).
Mothering the Mother – a nourishing online retreat for post-natal mothers
Dates: March 13th 2 -5.15pm GMT
What you get: We open with a sharing circle to honour your journey in motherhood. We will explore transitions and how we can embrace change. We will incorporate movement for an embodied practice and then settle into deep healing and relaxation with a live sound bath.
This retreat is open to mothers at all stages on their post-natal journey – be your baby weeks, months, years or decades old.
There is an optional add-on of a baby yoga and massage class to be held at 3pm (in a separate zoom room) for your baby and partner / carer.
Cost: £32.93
International Women’s Day 2021: Women, Power, and Nature
Dates: Monday 8th March 11am – 12.15pm GMT
What you get: Kent Wildlife Trust’s Head of Advocacy, Julia Hunt, will be joined by our two distinguished key speakers in discussion around women, nature, and power.
This discussion will look at two main points around gender and nature:
1) What benefits can access to nature bring to women, and what barriers can prevent them from accessing those benefits?
2) As more women in the UK reach positions of power, whether through the greater control of wealth, or as more women gain seats in government and other decision-making bodies, will we see a change in our societal attitudes and investments in nature?
Chair:
Julia Hunt is the Head of Advocacy at Kent Wildlife Trust. Julia works with councillors, MPs, and community decision-makers to press for the best possible outcomes for wild spaces and the wildlife that lives there at a local, regional and national scale.
Key Speakers:
Tracey Crouch is the Conservative MP for Aylesford and Chatham and former Minister for Sport, Civil Society and Loneliness, as well as being a member of the Animal Welfare, Mindfulness, and Wellbeing Economics All-Party Parliamentary Groups.
Isabel Hardman is Assistant Editor of The Spectator and presenter of Radio 4’s The Week in Westminster. Her book, the Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind, looks at the way the outdoors can help manage mental illnesses and improve people’s mental health.
Agenda:
11.00 – 11.15: Introductions (Julia Hunt)
11.15 – 11.30: The Natural Health Service (Isabel Hardman)
11.30 – 11.45: Women in power and how women can shape our relationship with nature as a society going forward (Tracey Crouch)
11.45 – 12.15: Q&A session
Cost: Free
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