Core, Hips, Cardio all in 5 mins


What's Inside

Dear Reader

Hello, I’m writing this newsletter after teaching inside our Membership on a Monday morning and I’m sharing with you a FREE 5 min Movement video that includes core, hips, cardio. You can repeat this 2 to 3 times for more.

Not only does this help hips and lower back but the continuous movement is good for our heart health. Studies have shown that yoga can improve cardiovascular health including blood pressure, heart rate variability, cholesterol levels and reducing risk of heart disease. There have also been some interesting studies on perimenopausal women showing that yoga specifically demonstrated additional benefits such as reductions in stress levels, improvements in heart rate variability, and enhanced overall well-being. This includes hormonal health!

I’d love to hear what you’ve taken from this video or if you have any questions.

Love

Jo & Kev

P.S I have 2 spaces available for the lower back and hip recovery plan. You can choose to work with me online with monthly appointments or if you're local add in an additional treatment plan.


Mindful Movement

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Simple

🌿 Yoga doesn’t have to take an hour, yoga shouldn’t be treated as exercise but instead a daily part of your health and wellbeing. Switch up your mindset, yoga can be standing on your mat and making shape, but it can also be lying on your mat and breathing or taking 5 mins in savasana. You are still ‘doing’ yoga, despite your brain telling you, you’re not.


Sustainable

🌿 Can you find 5 mins in your day to repeat this movement break a few times this week?

Prevention

Take your pulse for the next week or track your heart rate using your Apple Watch or FitBit. What I love about yoga is that it will challenge and increase your heart rate but also provide techniques to reduce and balance your whole cardiovascular and nervous system which many other forms of movement don’t offer.


🗓️ WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK?

Yoga | Ayurveda | Treatments

  • Monday, 7am | Yoga Morning Movement - Join us for a 20-30 min Yoga session each week. You can access these classes in ourmembership library and programs.
  • Monday, 2pm - 7pm | Treatments Available with Kev
  • Tuesday, 2pm - 6pm | Treatments Available with Kev (West Lothian Home Visits)
  • Wednesday, 9am- 12pm | Ayurveda Consultations available with Jo
  • Wednesday, 6pm | Reset Yoga Class - A guided class you can do in your comfies to leave you feeling reset & relaxed. Includes a blend of restorative, yin, yoga therapy, myofascial release or therapeutic techniques.
  • Thursday, 2pm - 6pm | Treatments Available with Kev
  • Thursday, 9am -12pm |Ayurveda consultations available with Jo
  • Saturday 8am - 4 week Block Yoga in Person at The Steading.

Treatments

Available appointments KCR / CTR / Massage

Free Resources

We have many ways we can help you create simple, sustainable and preventable ways to navigate your health. You can find all of these in our resources section of our website. But here are quick links;

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Free 5 Day Hip & Lower Back Treatment Plan

Move without pain, improve and prevent lower back and hip pain.

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Free eBook The Simple Guide to Ayurveda

Learn to use food as medicine, create daily habits, to rejuvenate your body and mind from the inside out.

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Free Guided Yoga Nidra

Increase energy, reduce stress and improve recovery in only 15 minutes.

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  • Balance Your Hormones Naturally, balance your hormones naturally, reduce stress and address unhealthy eating patterns in Designed to support you with herbal medicine and teach you how to eat well for your unique mind/body type. Suitable from menstruation to menopause and everything in between. 2 spaces available each month.

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