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✨ SLOW & GLOW ✨
🌿 Stretch n Soundbath 🌿

Fancy giving yourself a couple of hours to slow down, switch off and be completely looked after?

Come and join me for a beautiful Slow & Glow Sunday afternoon, a little escape from the busyness of everyday life, combining gentle movement, relaxation, pampering, skincare, tea/coffee and delicious homemade cakes followed by a deeply relaxing extended sound bath.

And this month, I've added a little
extra something special… ✨

🌿 A LITTLE TROPIC SKINCARE EXPERIENCE 🌿

When you arrive you'll be warmly greeted by myself and Corrine Mackenzie, Platinum Leader of Tropic Skincare who will introduce you to the gorgeous Tropic skincare range, You'll have the opportunity to try the products for yourself, ask questions and get advice on what might work for your skin. I've been using Tropic for 7 years and the products are beautiful. Whilst you enjoy hearing about Tropic you'll be served tea/ coffee and a selection of homemade cakes.

And then comes a little bit of pampering… 💆‍♀️
We'll treat your hands to a lovely, softening Tropic scrub followed by nourishing hand cream before we head through for the relaxation part of the afternoon.

🧘‍♀️ THEN IT'S TIME TO SLOW DOWN…

Next door In the main hall we'll settle onto our mats for:

✨ Very gentle stretching
✨ Relaxing breathwork
✨ A guided meditation
✨ An extended sound bath

Allow yourself to be immersed in the beautiful sounds of the gong, ocean drum, Tibetan & crystal singing bowls, Koshi and Kenari chimes and rainstick.

Two hours to breathe, relax, be pampered and enjoy some precious time for YOU.💚

And before you leave, you'll receive a lovely little bag of treats to take home.

This isn't just a stretch class or a sound bath…
It's a Sunday afternoon of slowing down, being spoiled and leaving feeling completely refreshed.

💚 SLOW & GLOW
📅 Sunday 20th September
⏰ 2–4pm
📍 Balloch Village Hall
💷 £40 per person

If you're feeling like you need a little "me time", come and join us for a truly special aftenoon.

Contact me on 07706 453825 to book.

Heart full of love and a cup full of gratitude...

I have woken up feeling a way that's almost hard to put into words..

I have just spent the weekend with 9 women I can only describe as absolute legends, some I've met before some I haven't, but a year ago I didn’t know any of them and then I was introduced to wild swimming and I can honestly say this has changed my life.

When I'm in the water everything is still, I feel peace, I feel content, for that moment everyday worries just disappear. And when you are with a group of empowering women laughing till your belly hurts you know you've found something amazing.

So today will be spent reminiscing, relaxing and there will definitely be ALOT of smiling.

Happy Sunday Folks 💚🧡

That's me off on an overnight adventure....quite liberating thinking I'll be totally off grid and in nature 💚💙

Beach antics 😆

Find your Tribe....Feel the Vibe 🩷

A paragraph extracted from the book I'm currently reading.."A Monk's Guide to Happiness"

WHAT MEDITATION IS NOT?

​Many people are attracted to meditation out of a deep urge to ‘switch off’. They seek relief from the incessant busyness of their minds, and so they assume the only alternative is total mental silence. This is perfectly understandable; we all have too much going on in our minds – we’d love to get some space from it all, and so we want to ‘clear the mind’, blank out our thoughts. In reality, that’s more like being in a coma or under anaesthesia, and meditating with that aim will simply lead to more stress: ‘I can’t stop my thoughts. I can’t clear my mind. I can’t switch off, it’s going wrong. I’m just filled with thoughts.’ We begin to feel like a failure and many people give up meditating because of this: ‘I can’t do meditation because I have a very busy mind’ or, ‘I tried meditation, but it didn’t work.’

​It is worth questioning how experiencing a blank, empty mind for 10 minutes would provide any benefit to the rest of our busy lives. That’s just like being knocked out for a short while. If we think meditation is about having no thoughts, there are much easier ways to achieve that – we could throw ourselves down the stairs and then we’d be unconscious!

​The more we try to force our thoughts away, the louder they seem to shout. If you press your hand down on to a spring, it pushes back with equal pressure; if you force a child to sit still, they will fidget and want to move. If you put restrictions on your mind, that mind will stage a revolution.

​So many people think of meditation as the mental version of trying to hold one’s breath and suffocate. Meditating like that will simply produce more cortisol, as the brain goes into fight-or-flight mode every time a thought arises.

​HOW TO DEAL WITH THOUGHTS

​The aim of meditation is not to get rid of our thoughts, but to change our relationship with them. ‘Inner peace means to end the war with our thoughts, it certainly doesn't mean to go blank, meditation means to be at peace with your thoughts and emotions, this really is the only way to find true happiness.

Words by Gelong Thubten.

Trying to work but someone has other ideas.......

The Turn

September September how are you here?
Are we ready for the Ber months to appear
The glow of morning light arriving much later
Leaves start dancing around like ashen crisp paper

The ebony of night draws in with speed
A warm, cosy jumper, just what we need
Apples ready for picking, a piping hot crumble
Summer attire put away or bagged for the jumble

Curtains drawn quicker, the flicker of a candle
Boots dusted down, au revoir to the sandal
Every shop filled with hues of amber and rust
Halloween round the corner, a marketing lust

But Autumn we love you, the beauty we see
The odd balmy evening before the geese flee
A terracotta rainbow at each turn of your eye
Enjoy this wonderful season, Mr Summer goodbye

Words by me 🧡