Conscious Relaxation
Relaxation workshops
At your workplace
In your community base
At your retreat place
Find your calm space
Tailored to your needs, our conscious relaxation workshops combine gentle floor-based stretching, breathwork, and meditation to help you - and your nervous system - to relax, recover and reset.
Our 2-hour workshops are the perfect antidote to stress and burnout.
They help to regulate your nervous system and help you to feel calm.
When balanced and functioning optimally, the nervous system creates
adaptability, resilience and a healthy immune response.
Our workshops incorporate:
Gentle, floor-based stretching, based on:
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Yin yoga - we relax our muscles, targeting instead our connective tissues - ligaments, joints and fascia - with long holds. These help to nourish and hydrate your tissues, as well as release tightness and any stored physical and emotional tension.
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Restorative yoga - we use bolsters, blocks and blankets to support your body and allow it to completely relax and let go, bringing your nervous system down to zero.
Breathwork
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We explore your current breath patterns and then use breathing exercises and techniques to stimulate the vagus nerve and soothe and regulate your nervous system.
No experience of yoga is needed
Soma sensing, meditation and yoga nidra
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We turn our gaze inwards for sensory awareness and self-enquiry. By cultivating interoception - our ability to sense and interpret our internal state - we can regulate and integrate our emotions and stress responses more effectively.
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Restoring our mind / body connection helps us to move out of autopilot - away from unconscious habits which can lead us to repeat behaviours and thought patterns without conscious choice.
Reiki
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We can use reiki, optionally, during the poses - a 'hands-on' energy treatment to help restore the flow of energy running through your body. It can help you to feel calm and revitalised.
Relax...Recover...Reset
Benefits of a relaxation workshop
Regular activation of the parasympathetic nervous system response helps recalibrate the body’s stress response, making it easier to return to a state of calm, even in the face of stress
Our workshops can help to:
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Activate your parasympathetic - 'rest and digest' mode, helping you to feel calm, relaxed and clear-headed - and less anxious, stressed and fearful.
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Encourage the release of feel-good hormones such as endorphins and serotonin.
- Improve vagal tone.
- Release any emotional tension that can get 'pushed down' and stored in our fascia.
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Re-pattern maladaptive stress responses and survival reflexes.
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Release habitual tensing, holding, gripping or tightness which can contribute to pain patterns.
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Support the brain’s ability to create new, healthier pathways.
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Move the nervous system out of 'stuck' states of hyper-vigilance or dissociation.
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Improve immune and hormonal regulation.
During the workshop you'll:
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Stretch areas of your body that may have become tight with prolonged sitting.
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Nourish your fascia - the vast intricate network of tissue that surrounds your muscles, bones, organs and nerves.
It can become tight and restricted due to:
-- Stress
-- Poor posture
-- Lack of movement
-- Dehydration
-- Inflammation
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Learn techniques to quieten your mind.
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Explore your personal breath patterns.
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Focus your attention inwards, exploring your internal body sensations and emotions.
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Connect with stillness and enjoy the benefits that brings.
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Switch 'doing' for 'being'.
Relaxation workshops in the Worklace
Turn stress and burnout into motivation, innovation, creation and inspiration
Whether they're organized as part or your team meeting, an away day
or just held over the lunch break.
Our corporate relaxation workshops:
-- Help your employees to:
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Thrive in a busy work environment.
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Stay calm and clear-headed - enabling them to drive the new ideas needed to grow your organization, by feeling:
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Focussed
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Motivated
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Creative
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Innovative
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Inspired
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-- Support your organization to improve employee:
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Mental health.
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Sickness levels.
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Resilience.
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Engagement.
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Performance, new ideas and innovation.
-- Focus on regulating the nervous system and reducing:
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Stress - helping employees to feel calm and relaxed.
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Physical tension - great for employees who sit at a desk.
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Emotional tension - that can be stored in the tissues.
-- Can be themed around:
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Specific areas of the body.
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Boosting confidence and self-esteem.
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Releasing grief, sadness and fear.
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Managing transformation and change.
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Seasons of the year.
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A topic of your choice.
-- Include soothing / meditative narratives about:
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The importance of a healthy nervous system.
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How stress is stored and manifests in the body.
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The physical, energetic, and myofascial benefits of each pose.
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The mind / body connection.
-- Can tailor narratives to include your:
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Health and wellbeing messages.
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Transformation and change messages.
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Culture and people messages.
All mats and props provided.
According to research in the UK:
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79% of employees experience moderate-to-high stress levels.
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With younger employees (16-24) and women showing the highest stress levels. (1)
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A quarter (25%) of respondents reported not feeling able to manage their stress levels in the workplace.
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And 1 in 5 (21%) needed to take time off work due to poor mental health caused by pressure or stress. (2)
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63% of respondents had experienced at least one characteristic of burnout — feeling of exhaustion, mental distance from their job, or decline in performance at work. (3)
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Stress is one of the most common causes of long-term workplace absence. (4)
Relaxation workshops & the nervous system
The importance of regulating your nervous system
A regulated nervous system
Lowered stress levels calm and regulate the nervous system, which can help to:
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Regulate mood.
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Improve resilience and our ability to 'adapt' well in life.
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Promote sound sleep.
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Balance energy levels.
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Regulate hormones.
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Stabilise blood sugar levels.
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Support thyroid function.
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Support reproductive health.
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Strengthen the immune and endocrine systems.
A dysregulated nervous system
Can contribute to or exacerbate chronic health issues, including:
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Autoimmune and inflammatory conditions.
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Mood disorders such as anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, and burnout.
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Trauma and ptsd-based symptoms such as chronic pain, digestive disorders and immune dysfunction.
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Neurodegenerative conditions.
Relaxation workshops supporting how you feel
About our workshops
Our workshops
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Support good mental health.
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Are trauma informed and trauma sensitive.
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Provide a safe space for thoughts, emotions and feelings to surface.
Help you to feel
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Energised, vitalised and well.
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Calm and relaxed.
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Grounded and de-stressed.
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Clear headed and able to think clearly.
Meet Vicky
I've worked for over 25 years in London and the Thames Valley in corporate and wellbeing communications.
I have scoliosis, and have always been prone to stress and anxiety.
My own yoga practice has really supported me over the years, helping to regulate my nervous system and boost both my physical and mental health.
After training as a therapeutic yoga teacher and reiki practitioner to support my own healing journey, I love watching the effects that relaxation, deep rest and calmness can bring to support the health, wellbeing and vitality of others.
To find out more and book your personalised workshop, contact Vicky.
Email: vickyburke02@gmail.com.
