I'll be away helping to maintain the forest at Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery, in Hampshire, home of a practising community within a Thai forest tradition.
Classes will resume on Monday 31st August.
In my absence there will be a class at Yoga Place on Wednesday 26th August, taught by Roxanne.
The GoldenYoga Summer Solstice Retreat
What an idyll we co-created, gracious gratitude to all who came.
Such a privilege to play in profound and yet so light a way…
The last appearance of a Strawberry Moon (when Summer Solstice coincides with a full moon) was in 1967, the Summer of love, my birth year! No wonder I'm wide awake basking in the lightest night of the year, following the lightest day. The next Strawberry Moon will be in 46 years... We abandoned GoldenYoga HQ and saluted the setting sun as the full moon rose in a pink sky on Walthamstow Marsh this evening.
Scroll down for this week's classes Y@Z's will be on Thursday 23rd June 6.30-8pm and will resume to Wednesday from next week
There's a workshop at GoldenYoga E17 10am -12noon on Sunday 26th June if its fine we may even head to the local nature reserve,
The Summer Solstice Retreat was simply sublime!
The next one will be 4th-6th November 2016
Yoga at Zandra Rhodes' Salon was on Thursday night last week to make way for The Missoni press launch.
We resume on Wednesdays from 11th May 6.30-8pm.
The GoldenYoga retreat in Puglia bridged 6 decades with participants in their 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's & 70's. Alas we didn't manage to draw John Banks (in his 80's) into our yoga stable (the studio once housed animals). He rather drew us into his butterfly kingdom with a screening of his film 'Gilded Butterflies and the secrets of their scales'. You may now quiz us on the extraordinary science of the colours in butterfly wings, along with the wings we’re sprouting.
I deviated from our usual blend of spinach or chard to nettles, for those brave enough, served in my late Grandmother's teacups.
Avocado, banana, kiwi, fresh ginger, fennel bulb, choice greens, sesame & pumpkin seeds, spirulina, coconut water and almond milk. Protein packed and delicious!
What a privilege to help prepare choreographer Mara Vivas and her dancers for their performance of ‘Triptych” at The Place tonight. The dress rehearsal was utterly captivating.
Immerse yourself in experimental work by the School’s postgraduate students and commissioned professional choreographers. http://www.theplace.org.uk/whats-on/london-contemporary-dance-school-presents-4 http://www.theplace.org.uk/whats-on/london-contemporary-dance-school-presents-4
Dear Yoginis and Yogis, From the depths of the darkest, shortest days of the year I send warmest, well wishes and golden light.
I’m winding down for the end of the year, as you can see in the picture,
I’m feeling touched by the mystery and magic of life as it unfolds in enriching, exciting and affirming ways. You who come to my classes are intimately linked with this evolution and our exchange continues to inform, delight and inspire.
As we move towards the full moon (on Christmas Day), the ease and power with which we may connect and transform our more subtle energies increases and our emotional body opens to its potent lunar influence. Sun Salutations or dog pose after general wriggling on all fours, followed by child’s pose, will help keep us buoyant, enlivened and in the flow.
Be peace. Live the love you are and all is well…
With gratitude and seasonal sparkle, Sallyanne xXx
Zandra Rhodes created a pocket park at Greenwood Theatre on Weston Street with Joe Swift. I await the advent of a voluminous kaftan park...
I've since headed the camomile which is now drying for tea
...and in The William Morris Gallery herb garden
— those feet are still floating... need to anchor them
Playgrounds provide a rich terrain of exploration. This wooden shark swims in a playground near a new 1-1 client. Here's the first in what may well evolve into a series of fin assisted back bends.
I need to plant my feet to rise back up supported...
Playgrounds provide a rich terrain of exploration. This wooden shark swims in a playground near a new 1-1 client. Here's the first in what may well evolve into a series of fin assisted back bends. I need to plant my feet to rise back up supported...
In the garden of the house in Derbyshire we moved to when I was five years old. Dad is long!
Mum took the photos and is considerably less long and as lovely.
Yoga in London on Sunday
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