Would you like to learn ways to reduce stress, lift the darker moments, ease anxiety and bring joy and meaning back into your life? To learn research-based tools that change the way your brain works and that you can use continually throughout the rest of your life?

  • Do you ever feel overwhelmed and stressed out?

  • Are you unable to see things clearly and keep perspective?

  • Do you have difficulty sleeping and relaxing?

The course provides you with a toolkit of natural resources to support your wellbeing.  Whether it is learning psychological skills so that you no longer feel controlled by your thoughts and emotions, learning to breathe well and reduce anxiety, learning how to get a better night’s sleep or how to relax and energise yourself naturally.

This research-driven and evidence based course, devised by The Minded Institute, is made up of 8 weekly two-hour sessions, each one focussing on a different tool to help you find calm in your mind and gain a new perspective on your life.    The classes are kept to a maximum of 10 students and consist of yoga postures, mindfulness, meditation and a focus on a topic to help enable change to take place. No prior experience of yoga is needed.

Many courses focus on either the mind or the body, but here the premise is that the most effective way to encourage long term transformation is to focus on the entire person, both mind and body. Mindfulness and therapeutic yoga are known to reduce stress, anxiety and depression

The course is designed to allow you to deeply understand how yoga and mindfulness can work for you both in the short and long term to create and maintain positive mental health.  The posture sequence is specifically designed to rebalance the nervous system and to teach you how to regulate your mood and emotions.  Throughout the course you are invited to explore mental patterns, perceptions and habits that keep you stuck in unfulfilling experiences of life.  You will learn how to use your mind to heal your body and your body to heal your mind.  This is an empowering and holistic, tested strategy for deep inner healing.

Home practice and reading material is provided to help integrate the practice into daily life. 

  • Weeks 1–2: teach you how to regulate and understand your emotions through using the breath.  The breath (just as with yoga postures) can be used to energise or to quieten the nervous system and you will learn how to engage the breath to activate or calm your mind and body

  • Week 3: we will begin to explore mindfulness through working with the body

  • Weeks 4-5: we look at how to understand emotional wellbeing through listening to the body

  • Weeks 6-8: having built strength and resilience over the previous weeks we are then ready to start working with the mind, engaging in practices which will enable you to view and adapt your mental patterns in new and more helpful ways

Each week the theme builds upon and develops the previous week’s learning. At the end of each session there is a chance to discuss what you have learned, although this is optional.

Absolutely no previous experience of yoga is necessary, although all levels are welcome.

Dates for next course: 8 weeks from Monday 13th January to 3rd March 2025.

Time : 6.30-8.30pm

Venue: Abbey Church Rooms, Romsey SO51 8EN.


Cost : £160.00 if booked and paid for by 13th December 2024. £200.00 thereafter. Concessions available for unwaged students - please contact me to discuss.

Includes :

  • 8 x 2 hour classes of breathwork, psycho-education, movement, mindfulness, meditation, and deep guided meditation

  • pre-course telephone consultation

  • comprehensive printed and bound manual

  • audio download of meditation, yoga nidra, and breathwork practices to support your learning and home practice

  • weekly phone support as necessary during the course

Registration: please contact me directly to book or for more information :