Spring Equinox re-set workshop – what do you really want?

Sunday 22nd March: 2 – 6pm
Find soft flow in your body and mind with yoga practices to create the space to think bigger and bolder about what you really want – and how to get there. Learn positive psychology skills for feeling your best more of the time. Reflect on your unique strengths and boost your self-confidence. Slow flow and restorative yoga with optional hands -on support to feel both strong and soft. Breath work to energise and soothe. Deep rest to replenish you.. Learn how to feel what your body intuitively knows.

Two practitioners. One deeply supportive space. Midlife informed. Evidence based. Deeply human. For this workshop, hosted in the cabin, I’m teaming up with Dr Kristin Bohn, a Clinical Psychologist and Positive Psychology Coach. We have 95 years of life experience between the pair of us and collectively more than 40 years of professional experience within our fields. We bring mid-life maturity, experience of peri-menopause, tween and teenagers, and the rollercoaster of mid-life career challenges and changes. We both know how it feels to lose ourselves and rebuild ourselves in midlife and we want to use our unique expertise to support you to make the most of this spring.

Location: Katie’s gorgeous cabin, hidden in the heart of Headington, Oxford. A few minutes walk from local and London bus stops, and the park and ride. Crucially, we’re located outside of the congestion charge zone.

Parking: available for free

Price: £100pp

BOOK HERE FOR YOUR SPRING RE-SET

INTRO TO YOGA FOR BEGINNERS

LEARN POSES, BREATH AND MUCH MORE!
Sunday 22nd February: 3 – 5pm: £28pp
Never been to yoga and not sure what it’s all about? Put off by lycra, bendy bodies and aesthetic focused advertising? Don’t consider yourself a “yoga person” but a bit intrigued? Come along to this friendly, relaxed, two hour workshop and explore what yoga actually is – it’s so much more than a flexible body! You don’t need “yoga clothes” – just clothes you can move and feel at ease in. We’ll explore:

  • What is yoga anyway? We’ll understand a bit of history and philosophy interwoven with modern science
  • Breathwork to use anywhere that offers a sense of peace and stillness
  • An experience of three different types of yoga and their different benefits
  • Learn some poses so you can practice at home or attend classes anywhere
  • A booklet to to help you practice at home, recordings of breath practices and nidra, a couple of videos to help you keep going if you wish and a discount on future yoga classes

This yoga workshop for beginners is for women only and takes place in a women only space. If you have any questions, please get in touch: katie@katiewheaterwellbeing.co.uk

BOOK HERE FOR BEGINNERS YOGA WORKSHOP

Shoulder softening workshop for women

Sunday 22nd February 6 – 8.30pm: £35pp
How are your shoulders? Feel hunched, sore, tense? Headaches, face ache, back ache, neck ache, stressed, struggle to sleep? End of half term frazzle?! It doesn’t have to be this way! Come along to this fun, friendly workshop and learn surprising and effective techniques to soften the muscles in your neck and shoulders enabling you to release tension both in the class and learn how to do this yourself at home. Most people will experience a significant improvements during the session. This workshop is 2.5 hours long because some of the techniques take time but they are SO worth it!
 
The workshop will include:

  • Hot stone self massage
  • Breath practices – you’ll be amazed at how much these can help
  • Deep rest nidra techniques to notice what is going on where
  • Gentle yoga suitable for no/all experience (there’s always something new to notice in the body/mind)
  • Myofascial release techniques
  • Specific stretches to get deep into the tension 
  • Restorative yoga with optional hands-on to  deepen the stretch
  • Booklet of techniques to use again and again, and a discount on your next massage

BOOK FOR MY SHOULDER SOFTENING WORKSHOP HERE

Face massage routine

Here’s one of my (many) face massages – designed to soften, not firm… maybe you want a firm face but to me, that sounds no fun… I want to be soft. My wrinkles and lines (smiles and frowns!) are hard won, showing my journey and life. I’m ok with that (for now, never say never, I’m still trying to love the space between my eyebrows which creases in a way I’m less than keen on!). This routine aims to help your face feel nice (soft, relaxed, ease in the jaw and forehead), has the added benefit of helping you to sleep, bringing more blood flow (aka “glow”) and improving lymphatic drainage (aka reducing puffiness). If you come to me for a massage, we can always include your face – I use a variety of specific techniques to ease facial tension, tight jaws, headaches etc. Book your massage here, available Monday, Wednesday & Thursday daytimes. 

  • Rubbing the hands together to create some heat. You can do this with/without any kind of oil/face moisturiser
  • Placing the hands across the eyes, cupping them to allow the eyes to rest: big inhale, big exhale, soften your jaw, relax your shoulders (remind yourself of this throughout the massage)
  • Making peace signs with the first finger and middle finger and placing them either side of the ears – a gentle stroke up and down a few times. Use the pressure you would use to stroke a kitten
  • Use the fingers to stroke down the opposite side of the neck and across the top of the shoulders
  • Use the the fingers to curl into the muscles in the top of the shoulders at the sides of the neck. You might need a little more pressure here. It might feel tight and tender (if so, book a massage with me!). Don’t work too hard here as we don’t want to bruise or cause further pain
  • Use your peace fingers to stroke either side of the collarbone towards the shoulders
  • Stroke over the tops of the shoulders and place both sets of fingers on the back of the neck
  • Pause and just compassionately and tenderly hold your neck here before stroking up and down a few times
  • Coming to the face:
  • Take your peace fingers and bend them, taking the finger knuckles to the centre of the chin and sweeping up towards the ears
  • Take the heel of your hands towards the jaw bone on either side of the chin and sweep gently upwards towards the cheek bones. Do this a few times.
  • Take your first finger, bent and using the back of your fingers place either side of the nose and sweep out towards the ears, under the cheek bones, a few times
  • Stroke your peace fingers either side of the ears again and hands down either side of the neck a few times each
  • Bring your bent peace fingers to the inner point of each eyebrow and gently sweep outwards a few times
  • Take the pads of your fingers and sweep them from the centre to the outer edeges of the forehead, to the hairline
  • Peace fingers back across the eyebrows a few times
  • Peace knuckles of the first fingers sweep back across the underneath of the cheek bones a few times (from the nose, working towards the ears)
  • Heel of the hands sweep upwards from the jaw to the cheekbones again
  • Peace knuckles either side of the jaw, from the centre of the chin, towards each ear, a few times
  • Peace fingers either side of the ears a few times
  • Sweeping hands down either side of the neck
  • Peace fingers across the collarbones towards the shoulders
  • Big inhale, big exhale
  • Give yourself a hug