Ellie Stafford Yoga

The mind is like water—
it becomes clear when it is still. Peace is found in your ability to
remain calm in the midst of chaos.
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Doggy ownership means sharing all aspects of your life, including your yoga practice!😂🐶

Would we have it any other way?

Dogs want to share their love unconditionally whatever is going on.❤️

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Making ourselves longer is one of the benefits of yoga!

Lengthening the spine, arms, legs and core. Hips are opened, we gain strength and our balance and coordination improves.

Just a few reasons to try yoga. And the great thing about the heat is that it’s great at helping us to get longer!

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Happy Monday! 😎 Enjoy the little coolness that sunset brings.🌅

Looking forward to seeing you on the mat this week. Practice will be slowed down as needed to respect the heat and fans will be deployed, or air-con as below.
Mon 6:30pm Longlevens (Slow Flow) £7 taster
Tues 10am Churchdown (Seated) £5 taster (*air-con room)
Tues 1:30pm Brockworth (Gentle) £7 taster
Tues 6:30pm Churchdown (Dynamic Flow) £7 taster
Weds 1:30pm Churchdown (Slow Flow) £7 taster (*air-con room)
Weds 6:30pm Churchdown (Yin) £12 drop-in
Thurs 6:30pm Churchdown (Slow Flow) £7 taster
DM for details or book by clicking on a class via www.elliestaffordyoga.co.uk/timetable/
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I know! Me all the time 😂 I agree with one of the comments saying that I think my right is my left from mirroring for so long!:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FxiLUa5vT/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Send help.

“You might think that not doing anything is a waste of time. But that’s not true. Your time is first of all for you to be—to be alive, to be peace.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh (How to Relax)

Remember lockdown hair?! When Zoom was just an 80's song?

So we just rolled our sleeves up and communicated via Zoom. And I produced some pretty shoddy videos, with zero editing skills!

But one thing about communicating online was that it brought us all together, decreasing that feeling of isolation just a little bit.

As a yoga teacher, I appreciated that connection with others, as I attempted to teach from home. It was a long time before we could all get together and had the confidence to do so.

Getting together and meeting in class. It's something we can now thankfully take for granted again.
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www.elliestaffordyoga.co.uk

All I said this week is the P word! Didn’t say how many breaths did I?! 😂
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CivDzqfES/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Double red card 🚩🚩

So how's the heat affecting you? 🔥 There are so many answers to this and it varies from not at all to struggling to cope. We are all different and we have different ways of coping.

Therefore, when you have a small business, it's tricky making decisions about running yoga classes in this weather. I am continuing to run classes and although numbers are inevitably low, I am only cancelling if it looks as if I will be virtually on my own!

Yoga is adaptable and when you think it originated in a hot country, there are ways in which we can just slow our practice down completely and even take a glacial pace. We can all take sensible precautions, drinking water and ensuring there is plenty of ventilation.

Spending more time on meditation, breath work and even introducing a little yin to class are just a few ways we can adapt.

So I will play it by ear each day and wait on my mat for you to arrive when you're ready. We will soon be grumbling when the rain and cold return!

Take care,
Ellie 😎
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