Sacred Recovery Resources for yoga practitioners, teachers, therapists  & circle facilitators

With Judy Hirsh Sampath

Book on the BWY Website for days running in West Kirby 18 May 2024

For yoga practitioners, yoga teachers and therapists, circle facilitators and all of us who are suffering grief and loss in mind, heart and spirit.

If you are interested in discovering more ways to support yourself, your students and clients, many practices, stories and perspectives will be shared. If you wish to help others, learn more about what it takes to support holders of grief and loss; to become a strong container to hold space for expression of an ailing spirit and how to guide towards recovery and reconnection. Join yoga therapist and trainer, Judy Hirsh Sampath in a day of enquiry.

Aims of the Day

Explore responses to shock, loss & grief

Guided sequences – from dark sorrow to heartfelt recovery

Understanding coping strategies

Living with ongoing grief

Sequences – aliveness & savasana

Completion with a yoga nidra blessing

Supply resources to take away

Learning Outcomes

Participants will

Have space to share and/or witness personal stories

Practice embodied mindfulness sequences

Discuss emotional pain, coping strategies, recovery & acceptanc

Receive a yoga nidra blessing to close

Receive resources to take away

Outline plan for the day

10am introduction

10.15 Shock, overwhelm & the grip of dark sorrow

10.35 Group discussion

11.00 Guided embodied sequences

12.15 Breakdown of sequences 

1pm lunch

2pm In the grip, paradigm shift

2.30-3.30pm Guided practices for heart recovery

3.30-4pm Discussion, Q&A, resources

4-4.30pm Yoga nidra - a parting blessing

4.30pm Close

Pre-work for the day

You may wish to prepare through self-reflection and meditation on what your intention is for joining this workshop.

Note or journal the truth about that comes through holding space for yourself.

You may wish to have with you an object, photo or something that reminds you that you are safe, sound, supported and brave.

About the Tutor

Founder of Yoga Headspace, and co-founder of Yoga United and Yoga United Education, Judy’s practical and soulful yoga therapy courses and 1-2-1 sessions are based on many years of direct experience, professional learning and research.

As well as psycho-educational tools, she engages the physical body as an entry point to a deeper understanding of Self, truth and trust. Unlocking the bodies’ natural intelligence opens up a deeply compassionate healing space and a treasure chest of personal gems with which to meet the pain of stress, grief, emotional & mental disturbances - as well as tapping into creativity, clarity and wisdom. She brings a creative mix of movement, meditation, yoga philosophy and psychology to educate people of all ages, sizes and abilities to tune into their own capacity for self-healing, self-care and communal care.

She takes yoga, meditation, embodied mindfulness, restorative yoga, yoga nidra and yoga therapy into health spas, offices, schools, mental health & fertility settings. She runs professional training, short courses and retreats in UK and India.