Our friend Richard Hershman came and tidied up the Yogawest garden earlier in the year ready for our favourite few months of blooms and scents. We look forward to many weeks of tea on the terrace (the Moroccan Mint is growing well), enjoying the beautiful flowers to come. The cushions are now out for the summer!
Category Archives: Community
Yogawest Garden Spring Tidy
Posted in Community
Yogawesties on Gloucester Road
You may have noticed a couple of shops catering for children, just a few minutes walk from Yogawest. Moodles and Oddsox are the latest additions to the thriving area of Gloucester Road Central. Both businesses are owned by Yogawest students.
Moodles, owned by Sarah Ubhi, opened in January 2014 and specialises in quality children’s clothing. All the clothing is British made, echoing Sarah’s wish to minimise her carbon footprint and her concerns about working conditions in overseas factories.
Sarah’s three children (aged 12, 10 and 8, and also Yogawest students) provide valuable input to Moodles, holding positions of business adviser, creative director and buying assistant!
The independent children’s shoe shop Oddsox was launched by friends Jo Adamson and Sarah Chope in 2012, offering quality footwear at an affordable price. With three children each, they were both aware of the need for a local alternative to the shopping mall. Footwear sizes in Oddsox range from pre-walkers up to an adult size 8.
We wish Sarah, Jo and Sarah continued success with their retail ventures.
Posted in Children, Community, shop, Uncategorized, Yoga
Yoga for health
We all know that yoga is good for mental, physical and spiritual nourishment. On the Yogawest website there are a number of articles on the health benefits of a regular yoga practice. Here are links to articles on the benefits of yoga for back pain, neck pain and depression. Share these with anyone you think would benefit from this information.
Posted in back pain, Beginners, Community, Health, Intermediate, neck pain, therapy, Uncategorized, Yoga
February Love Yoga Offer
Valentine Yoga Gift
We all know how good yoga is for the heart, and to celebrate the month of love, we invite you to give a free yoga class to someone you love who hasn’t yet been to Yogawest: perhaps a family member, neighbour or friend. Your nominated friend can choose to come to a class (between Feb 14th and Mar 14th), or have a £15 discount off a 5-week foundation course (to be booked before Mar 31st and started before end April).
How to Get A Free Class Voucher
Email Yogawest and give us the name and email address of the person you’d like to give a Valentine Yoga Gift to. We will email them a voucher which can be redeemed at reception (no booking required for drop-in classes).
Or if you prefer the tangible, we can make you a gift voucher – ask us to leave one for you at reception to collect.
How to Redeem Your Voucher
The free class is valid between February 14th and March 14th and is for any beginner or general class on the timetable: email us to book your place (quote your voucher number LOVE+Vxx or LOVE+EVxx ), or just turn up 10 minutes early with your voucher to register. Please bring your voucher with you when you come.
Alternatively you can use your voucher as a £15 discount off any foundation course starting before end April 2014 (must be booked before March 31st).
Which Class is Good to Come To?
All our classes are listed here and you can drop in to most of them without booking (except foundation courses). We would recommend attending a beginner class for the first visit, (one of the quieter classes is on Wednesday at 9.15am). If you are quite fit you could also come to a general class (one of the quieter ones is e.g. Friday 12.30pm). Either way, do let the teacher know you are new. Find out more about Yogawest and read FAQs here.
Thank you to our teenager class for the wonderful heart images for our February newsletter.
Movember 2014
Have you noticed Mike’s rather wonderful moustache growing throughout November?
He’s in practice for next year’s Movember for which we will be inviting Yogawest men to join us to raise money for men’s charities. We’ll also have some great ideas and suggestions so women can join in too!
Well done to those of you who have been involved this year. We cannot wait to join in next time.
Reduced timetable at Christmas
During the Christmas period we will be closed for one week. The last classes before Christmas will run on Sunday the 22nd of December, 10am and 11.45am classes only (no evening class).
Yogawest will be closed from Monday 23rd December until Sunday 29th December. A reduced timetable will be running on the 30th (morning 10.30 and evening 6.15) and 31st Dec (9.30 morning only), all welcome. Download info here: Xmas opening times 2013 and do check the online timetable before you come.
Yogawest will be closed on New Years Day and the full timetable will resume on January 2nd (although some term time classes may not yet have resumed).
Yoga Day Sunday Dec 8th
Prepare for Winter!
A whole day of yoga can sound daunting: Indira and Diana plan to help you discover what a beneficial thing it is to do, whatever level your practice is. The day is designed to prepare your mind and body for the darker, colder weeks ahead. You can work at your own pace and gentler poses can be given at any point!
Diana and Indira teach yoga holidays together in Turkey and students say they enjoy the joint energy of their teaching, which combines sound yoga knowledge with a humorous and compassionate delivery.
Date: December 8th
Time: 10–4.30 (Tea will be served during a midday break.)
Level: All levels from beginner to experienced students. (Complete beginners may be given alternative poses if necessary.)
Cost: £50
To read more about this day click here.
To see pictures and information about a recent yoga day taught by Lizzie and Karen click here.
Yogawest Products have Arrived
You may have seen that we have been creating a range of products in our perfume lab at Yogawest. We are pleased to announce that the first batch of products are now on sale! You can buy our ‘Relax’ and ‘Energise’ oil burner fragrances, which we use in our studios, for £7.50 each and our ‘Refresh’ room spray for £8. These mixes all contain specially blended essential oils to help you to relax or invigorate yourselves and to refresh your surroundings.
We also have five pure essential oils on sale. You can choose between lavender, rosemary, bergamot, juniperberry and geranium.
And we have a selection of candles that are the perfect size for popping in Christmas stockings. The scents we have chosen are Geranium and Tea Tree, Rosemary and Thyme and if you want to get into the festive spirit Orange and Clove. Come and have a smell!
The Perfume Lab
We have been developing our own range of Yogawest scents, including bath oils, room sprays and oil burner fragrances. Our ‘Relax’ and ‘Energise’ studio oil burner fragrances, which we know you love, will be available to buy as part of this range.
Christmas Gift Ideas
We are offering Yogacards as Christmas presents this year. If you buy a Yogacard -6 for someone who has never been to Yogawest before as a Christmas present we will give you a 10% discount off the price of the card.
And we have some extra stocking fillers in the Yogawest shop, such as scented candles and hanging decorations. Full details in the next newsletter and keep an eye out in the shop.
We’ve decided!
Posted in Advanced, Beginners, Bristol Pound, Classes, Community, Gifts, Health, holiday, Intermediate, Offers, shop, studio, therapy, Uncategorized, Yoga
Spread the Joy
One of the best ways of people finding Yogawest is through reviews on the internet. We looked recently and found there are only 2 reviews of us out there, and we’d really love it if you could find 5 minutes to add one of your own.
To say thank you we’ll give you a voucher for £5 off your next purchase at Yogawest. Simply email us telling us where to find the review and we will reply with your gift voucher.
Review us on:
Trip Advisor – review here
Yelp – review here
or Google Maps – review here
Let people know what you think about the teaching, atmosphere and facilities or anything you think would be helpful to know as a first timer. Happy reviewing!
Posted in Advanced, Beginners, Children, Classes, Community, Competition, early morning, foundation, Health, Intermediate, Offers, studio, Teachers, Yoga