February 2021

Hello Friends

I have so enjoyed having some rest time easing into the beginning of 2021 and now I am ready to teach you wonderful people!

Enter Spring Revival! We begin next Wednesday with 8 weeks of vinyasa flow to emerge from our Winter hibernation into the freshness and vitality of Spring.

If you’ve been feeling…

• Dull
• Foggy
• Grey
• Lethargic
• and Generally “meh”

You are not alone in that!

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Spring Revival is here to up regulate your system, delight your senses and bring some flavour back into your life.

Here’s what’s on the menu!

• Fun dynamic movement spiced up with a few yummy restorative postures
• Delicious myofascial release (self-massage of your connective tissue) to release stale, stagnant and stuck energy
• A large helping of Prana Mandala Vinyasa Flow (moving in all directions around the mat in sync with our breath) from Catherine’s recent training with Shiva Rea.
• A huge dollop of movement medicine providing HAPPY hormones – we will “bio hack” our bodies flooding them with dopamine, serotonin, endorphins and oxytocin, mmm delicious!

During this global transition, re-emerging, moving together and flowing with ease is vital for our natural state of peace.

It’s time to MOVE again with a hop, skip and a jump into Spring!

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DETAILS:

8-Week Course

10 March – 28 April

Wednesdays 7.30 – 8.45AM GMT

Replays included for 7 days after live event.

INVEST HERE​

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We begin next Wednesday, 10 March at 7.30AM. Sign up closes on Tuesday, 9 March at at 11:59 pm.

Send any questions my way.

See you soon… I’m so excited!

Catherine xo

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PS. Incredible Empower mentees and alumni, you have a 50% discount for Spring Revival on checkout.

PSS. Progress and consistency is fundamental to experiencing genuine change in your emotional, spiritual and physical lives. Enjoy the beautiful yoga content in the VIP Community and my YouTube. For more, Spring Revival is a chance to invest in a full 8 week term of fun practice with accountability if things have turned a bit sluggish! ☺

Hello Friends,

Together with my friend Carolyn Brown from the Yoga Girl Community®, I have launched a “room” on the new audio chat live streaming App Clubhouse to talk, share and learn from each other in real time. On my second ever “show” I had the honour of hosting Rachel Brathen (Yoga Girl®) and Lara Heimann of LYT Yoga™ which was an incredible experience.

The magic is that these conversations happen live, nothing is recorded on Clubhouse. This is an innovative idea in a world where EVERYTHING seems to be capture, recorded and repurposed.

In a way, it’s like yoga. It’s in the NOW, always happening.

Consider this an invitation from me to get involved!

💃Come join the Clubhouse party! (it’s audio only!)

👋If you have any problems joining hit reply to this email so I can help you out ☺

Join our Room here

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When: 12.30 GMT | 1.30 CET

What: Sustainable Movement and Empowered Life with Yoga

What: Enjoying life and business the Yogic way! Cultivating sustainable practice and empowered spiritual entrepreneurship through balancing yoga on and off the mat.

How: Once you enter the room, raise your hand 👋if you’d like to speak at any time, share your beautiful voice, experience and opinion.

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See you there! I really look forward to sharing this experience with you.

Speak soon

Catherine xo

PS. There is plenty of beautiful complimentary yoga content in the VIP Community and I have a new live Vinyasa flow yoga course, Spring Revival available for you to sign up to NOW ☺

PSS. A final friendly nudge that my Breathe Easy Pranayama course is on special offer for you until the end of Feb. Use it to strengthen your lungs, your fitness and stamina by enhancing your lifeforce energy.

Hello Beautiful Community

I’ve been working on learning the art of self-regulation (within myself first) so that from an embodied state I can share the practice with you.

What is self-regulation?

It’s the ability to manage and monitor your own behaviours, actions, energy states and thoughts in a way which produces positive results for you and those around you.

How do we do it?

We pause, tune in and listen to our body. The body wisdom always knows the what’s up and if you haven’t read this book all about it, here’s the link.

What do we do next?

After feeling into how we are in the moment it’s time to decide whether we need to up-regulate or down-regulate.

What’s the difference?

We need to UPREGULATE (fight or flight sympathetic nervous system response) when we feel in a low mood. This one or any quick vigorous movement like jumps, dancing, sprinting or breath of fire for is for you if you feel:

• Depressed
• Sluggish
• Bored
• Lazy
• Lethargic
• Inert
• Down
• Basically sick of being a couch potato!

We need to DOWNREGULATE (rest and digest parasympathetic nervous system response) when we need to calm ourselves. This one (4,7,8 breath, or any of my yoga nidra on YouTube) are for you if you feel:

• Anxious
• Wired
• Jittery
• Nervous
• Manic
• Overwhelmed
• Buzzing
• Can’t sleep

What happens when we don’t self-regulate?

We spiral. Simply put we wallow, remain stuck, get overwhelmed, continue on but procrastinating in negativity with a lack of self-control. Self-regulatory failure is a core feature of many social and mental health problems.

👀 What’s the secret sauce?

The good news is, you can self-regulate extremely quickly – in 20 seconds! ☺ The challenge is developing your awareness to pause, notice and act accordingly.

If life, we are ultimately out of control but the one thing we can control is our response.

For a longer pranayama practice, enjoy my complimentary 30 minute class here.

For those of you truly invested in strengthening your lungs and enhancing your lifeforce energy via fitness and stamina, my 16 part video tutorial Breathe Easy Pranayama course is on special offer for you throughout February.

Let me know how you get on self-regulating.

Be well,
Catherine xo

PS – If any of you are hanging out on the Clubhouse app come and hang with me and Carolyn Brown every Wednesday at 2pm GMT. Find me @yogacatherine​

PSS – A lot have you have probably read this one but I’m loving it!