Mat or chair based
Suitable for Beginners
This 10-week course offers yoga for all and incorporates the chair for those who prefer to be sat rather than sitting/lying on the floor. You do not need any prior experience. Beginners and people of any age and ability are welcome. Every practice will be adapted and modified as required, ensuring that you can participate fully, working at your own pace in a supportive and non-judgemental atmosphere.
Yoga and Mindfulness
Each of the 10 sessions will last two hours and includes:
- Breathing practices
- Yoga postures within your safe limits
- Meditation and mindfulness
- Relaxation
- Group discussion
The session can be undertaken on a mat or on a chair so is accessible to all.
Home practice is encouraged during the duration of the programme.
How can I register for the programme?
Evidence based yoga available as a social prescription activity
You can be referred into the programme through your GP, linking into a local social prescribing service as an onward referral route or alternatively, you are able to refer yourself and self fund.
What do I need to bring?
All props are provided including blankets however, you may wish to bring an additional blanket and/or maybe some cosy socks for your relaxation. Maybe bring some water as well to ensure you stay hydrated.
What do I need to wear?
Wear comfortable clothes you can move in. You are welcome to keep your socks on but please ensure they are non slip.
Helping alleviate functional disorders
Associated conditions including fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel (IBS), fertility issues, elimination issues, chronic fatigue (CFS), and many other functional disorders where there is no pathological cause may also be significantly improved by rebalancing the autonomic nervous system and improving heart rate variability,
You are invited to take part in a before and after survey to help with on-going medical research to further confirm that improving heart rate variability and your autonomic nervous system will help alleviate function disorders.
Jo Burningham
Helping and empowering individuals to improve their own health and wellbeing with yoga
Jo has had yoga in her life since a teenager. Always striving heard to achieve success in her 30 years in IT whilst studying anatomy, physiology, psychology and yoga. Teaching for 7+ years and practising for 35 years, Jo originally studied yoga with Dr. Elena Voyce and subsequently studied Yoga Therapy with Yoga Campus before training in the yoga4health protocol with Yoga In Healthcare Alliance. Through challenging teenage years and a stressful corporate career, yoga has always been Jo's tool to regain focus and overcome body and mind challenges.
St John's, Woking
St. John's Memorial Hall, St Joh's Lye, Woking, GU21 7SQ
Monday 9:45 - 11:45 AM
23rd September 2019
Cost £130
Jacobs Well, Guildford
Willow Sanctuary, Watts Cottage, Jacobs Well Rd, Jacobs Well, Guildford GU4 7PP
Monday 1:30 - 3:30 PM
30th September 2019
Cost £160
Hove Methodist Church
Hove Methodist Community Center, Portland Road, Hove, BN3 5DR
Wednesday 9:45 - 11:45 AM
2nd October 2019
Cost £97.50 - Concessions available
Coming Soon
Haywards Heath and Portslade
Courses also coming soon to Haywards Heath and Portslade. Register your interest by contacting us or the Yoga In Healthcare Alliance to find your local teacher and get details of courses in your area.
Designed by the UK’s leading yoga therapists and yoga teachers
The 10 week programme fuses ancient practices with modern medical science. Designed by the UK’s leading yoga therapists and yoga teachers, including Paul Fox, former Chair of the British Wheel of Yoga; Dr Robin Monro, founder of the Yoga Biomedical Trust; Heather Mason, founder of the Minded Institute; Dr Ned Harfiel of Bangor University; and Emily Brett, founder of Ourmala.
This ensures that the programme is of the highest standard and sensitive to patient needs.
The programme is devised by the Yoga In Health Care Alliance. A social enterprise that is enabling the UK National Health Service to provide yoga to its patients. Encouraging and enabling the NHS and yoga teachers to work together effectively.
Yoga is an effective ‘mind-body’ medicine that can both prevent and manage chronic health issues and it also delivers significant cost savings to healthcare providers.
In a cohort of around 17,000 patients
25% were practising mind-body techniques
of which 43% presented less often to the health services