Shuniya Yoga's October Newsletter

Dear all,

I'm going to start with some wonderful news:

For the 4th year in a row, and even during these challenging times of a pandemic and a lockdown that has never lifted in Leicester, with 7 months (and counting) of daily online classes, my home yoga studio Shuniya Kundalini Yoga has once again been selected by ThreeBestRated as Top 3 Yoga Classes in Leicester and awarded their Badge of Excellence once more.

It's a motivation in these challenging times where there has been no face-to-face contact with students, lots of having to be very flexible and adapting to changing circumstances, heartbreaking and dramatic loss of life among students, and incredibly hard work behind the scenes (I really am due a holiday at some point, or even just a weekend off!), to keep serving & giving -- but it's also been a time unrivaled in showing us all how incredibly important this type of work and these offerings of yoga, meditation techniques, women's circles, Bone Closings, consultations, health coachings, doulaing, holding space, and just being there for someone, ... really are.
And I thank every single one of you who has attended online classes during this lockdown for all of your continued support and loyalty, as without you, Shuniya Kundalini Yoga wouldn't even exist anymore now... My heart is full of gratitude for you all

This one is dedicated to all of you, my committed students

I hope I may keep serving you for a very long time to come.

These are now all on the front window of my home studio:

If you want to join us online:
Every weekday we have one group yoga class, online, live and interactive (not prerecorded), from the comfort of your own home, in small groups where I can see you and engage with you (videos are on).
We've been doing this since the start of lockdown, and we continue...
Timings to suit all...
Monday 7-8.30pm
Tuesday 7-8.30pm
Wednesday 10.30am-12pm
Thursday 12-12.45pm
Friday (Meditation class) 4.30-5.15pm
Times all BST/GMT - add 1 hour for Belgium/the Netherlands/France/...

We have a lovely diverse and international group, with Leicester students joined by students from across the UK as well as people from Belgium, Dubai, the US, ...
Classes are kept small so I can see you all very clearly in your practice - no more than 12 students, most classes around 7-10 and Wednesday mornings very small with just 3-4 students. So you won't be just a tiny image on a screen far away or an invisible number...
I don't record the classes for later use / for sending out -- the energy is purely that of an in-person class.

Prices are explained once again further down in this newsletter. Total beginners are always welcome too. And the beauty of Zoom classes is that we can reach people everywhere - this testimonial is from one of the Belgian students:

MORE SUPER EXCITING NEWS:

I'll be back with a new in-person Closing the Bones training in Leicester, on 7 & 8 November 2020, at The Space to Breathe (our previous Monday evening yoga studio, which isn't used for any classes currently, so it's a very safe space for us to gather for an entire weekend)!
It'll be a VERY small group, and by the looks of it, the only chance for an in-person training with me this year 2020. Don't hesitate too long to reserve your space, as it's 6 people maximum to allow to abide by guidelines.
All info can be found on the folder on my website: https://www.shuniya-yoga.org/trainings/ or on the FB-event.

Then, for this week already:

The next opportunity for you to join one of my online Rebozo Self-Massage & Self-Wrapping Workshops is already coming up this coming Friday evening 16 October, 8-10.30pm GMT - you can still register for this one: https://www.shuniya-yoga.org/workshops/ for more info.
One person wrote to me the day after the previous Friday evening online circle: "I was so relaxed last night after the workshop I fell asleep when you played Bhakti mantra. Slept on the floor right through the night."

I have also emailed all previous participants to these online workshops with some discount vouchers and codes for in-person Closing the Bones sessions (as I'm offering in-person work again) and for Rebozos in the webshop. Check your email folders if you haven't seen anything pass by!

Rebozos for these workshops can still be purchased on the webshop and sent out in advance, also abroad -- there are currently lots of sales on many rebozos in my shop, also on the larger baby carriers.

By the way, did you know that new research is showing that it is likely not adrenaline, but osteocalcin (which is released by the bones of our skeleton) that drives the stress response -- and that it thus makes absolute sense to work on the bones during or after situations that have caused us stress, such as childbirth, a miscarriage, any trauma, a huge change in our circumstances, the current pandemic, loss, ...

What else is happening this month workshop-wise? Well, I'll be offering a lovely session around Sacred Cauldron (Womb) Care during the Barefoot Witch Festival over the Halloween weekend, more specifically on the (Blue) Full Moon Saturday 31 October from 2-3pm.
Check out the entire (Zoom) event for sure! Tickets are just £25 for access to all live classes the entire weekend.
This again is a women's only workshop - sorry, dear men - and I will guide you into deeper contact with your pelvis – our foundation, that cauldron in which we hold the stories and patterns of our ancestral line that so often hold negative connotations, but where we can also access the ancient wisdom of our foremothers – and your womb – that powerhouse and centre of all creativity in our lives.
I will introduce you to:
* the ancient practice of bajos or yoni steams (and talk about how and when to steam, what herbs you could use for what purposes – be it fertility enhancement, helping with irregular or painful cycles, postpartum healing, (peri)menopause, PCOS, endometriosis, fibroids, adhesions, healing after loss, sexual trauma healing);
* deeply healing womb space massages;
* sacred womb space wrapping with Rebozos or Mantas (which are woven particularly for this purpose and are used in traditional Cerrada or Closing the Bones ceremonies).

And as you will have been able to see in the September newsletter, I have finally started offering treatments and private classes again at my home studio last month.

This means you can book in again for
* Restorative Full-Body Massages & Foot Massages
* Closing the Bones Ceremonies
* Liver Detox Packings
* 1-2-1 yoga classes (max. 2 students at any time)
* face-to-face consultations
(students who can't do online sessions will get priority to book in).
There are certain measures in place which we'll discuss beforehand when you contact me for a booking. I've only seen about 2 people per week, but it's been SO good to finally be offering in-person work again ...

New products, as well as new offers and discounts on skincare products, rebozos, malas, ... still appear constantly on my Instagram account and FB page. The Rebozos, Malas, homemade skincare products and Neal's Yard Organic Remedies products can all make for beautiful end of year gifts (NYR has a gorgeous range of Christmas products available, but I also do bespoke gift creations, e.g. on the many offers you'll find all the way at the end of this newsletter; these can all come gift-wrapped).

* The Meditation Malas that I currently have ready and for sale can be seen here:

You can also browse the webshop of course.

* I have truly splendid new rebozos come in - you can find them all on the webshop, with lots of sales at the moment, including on the embroidered ones:

* Current homemade Aromatherapy Blend offer, on one of my bestselling blends:
I'm currently offering my blend "Calming nr. 2", which is a special nerve calming blend consisting of German (Blue) Chamomile, Mandarin & Lavender, for just £13 for 10ml pure blend instead of £16.50.
We certainly live in a time where a lot of us can use natural means to calm our nervous system.

(and of course, all the anti-germ and immune-boosting blends are incredibly useful again this season!)

October's Rebozo Self-Massage & Self-Wrapping Women's Circle this Friday !!

As by now many of you know, ever since the first beautiful and nurturing Rebozo Self-Massage & Self-Wrapping Red Tent during the GBKY festival I have been running these sessions once or twice a month, with women joining from all from all over the world, from all walks of life and backgrounds, from so many different cultures, and from so many age groups ranging from teenagers and young adults to women in the peri-menopause and having entered those beautiful wisdom years of the crone. Many women have been joining nearly every circle.

I have my October Rebozo Women's Circle coming up this Friday evening 16 October 8-10.30pm GMT/BST. It's not a good idea to wait til the last day to register, as almost each workshop has been booked full.

For all info, you can go to the Facebook-event or the folder that you can find on my Workshops webpage.

And it's also not too late to order your rebozos if you want to use authentic ones.

We come together in a nurturing circle -- women trying to conceive, women having recently given birth, women recently having miscarried. Women learning how to wrap and massage themselves when they are menstruating to help eliminate period pains. Women learning tools to help with their IBS. Women finding themselves again. Women falling in love with themselves again. Women honouring themselves again. Women rising up and holding the space for other women to rise up... Women diving deep into their pain, and coming back out on the other side. Women being vulnerable and real among other women.

Videos can be on or off, so you will be sharing as much as you are comfortable with.

I will be introducing you to the Rebozo or Manta, a shawl traditionally used in Closing the Bones or Cerrada-ceremonies. Traditionally offered during the postpartum (or to heal a miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, loss), Rebozo work as offered in Closing the Bones is also used to support us when menstruating, to mark major transitions in a woman’s life, such as the menarche, marriage, divorce, job or home changes, (peri)menopause, hysterectomy, … , to help with fertility problems, as well as for treatment of anxiety, shock, trauma, PTSD, ADD, autism, or sensory over-stimulation. There is nearly no end to its applications.

If you ask me to name what has changed my life most profoundly in the last 4 years, it's these Rebozos and what they allow me to do for myself and others. The work they allow me to do. The feedback this cloth can give me as soon as I wrap it around myself or someone else...

For me, the humble Rebozo or Manta symbolizes both the fabric and the tight weave of Sisterhood: it provides support, comfort, softness, the feeling of being held, and a chrysalis-like space for the many transformations we as women go through. While being rocked and wrapped in a Rebozo helps a woman to find her own self and center again and seals up any energy leakages, being in a circle of women can do the same thing for us. Now imagine the strength of those 2 combined…

So we will gather online, share (if wished) in a Women's Circle, and nourish ourselves with beautiful Rebozo massage techniques for the entire body from head to feet, with a tender womb-space massage and with Rebozo wrapping on ourselves, holding space for stagnated energy and stuck emotions to be released gently but powerfully.

I’ll show you several ways in which you can massage your entire body with a Rebozo (and even use it for stretches in your yoga practice), teach you to wrap your own head, torso, abdomen and hips, and show you some hands-on massage techniques for the abdomen and hips, helping to release tension from the abdominal fascia as well as adrenaline deposits on the hip bones.

Bring a Rebozo (or, if you don't have one, you can try a pashmina-type fabric (not too slippery though!)) to the session, and some massage oil and a small towel. The cloth you work with should be around 2-2.5m long, and 50-60cm wide.

If you would like to work with a Mexican Rebozo but you don't have one, you can purchase them from my webshop and I can parcel them out in time for the workshop. https://www.shuniya-yoga.org/shop/ - click further to Rebozos/Mantas. I have some beautiful discounted combos of open and close weaves that are perfect for the work we do in these workshops (and what you can then keep doing at home).

2-day Closing the Bones Training in Leicester

So as I announced above, I'm finally offering an in-person Closing the Bones training in Leicester again, on 7 & 8 November 2020. Unfortunately the Covid-situation doesn't allow me yet to travel to Belgium to run the planned trainings there - but Belgian folk (or the German people that wanted to come) are more than welcome to come to Leicester if they like.

This November training will not be held at my home as I normally do, but at The Space to Breathe, which is a beautiful and cozy studio right in the center of Leicester. We used to run our Monday evening yoga classes there, but since Covid the studio hasn't been used by any groups, and so it's a very safe space for us to gather for an entire weekend.

It'll be a VERY small group, and by the looks of it, the only chance for an in-person training with me this year 2020.
Don't hesitate too long to reserve your space, as it's 6 people maximum to allow to abide by guidelines and 2 spaces are already taken.
All info can be found on the folder on my website: https://www.shuniya-yoga.org/trainings/ or on the FB-event.

Daily Zoom Yoga classes during this lockdown

So adding to what I wrote above already about our daily yoga classes:

The first 3 days of the week we repeat the same kriya & meditation, so you get to experience a kriya and meditation much deeper should you want to (of course you can just join only once!).
* Monday 7-8.30pm
* Tuesday 7-8.30pm
* Wednesday mid-morning 10.30-12

And then we have the 2 shorter (45 minute) classes:
* Thursdays 12-12.45pm: lunchtime class
* Fridays 4.30-5.15pm: weekly meditation class

--- these are the UK (GMT) times, add 1 hour for e.g. Belgium, the Netherlands, France, ...
You can always check this again on the Class Schedule page of my website.

I will be continuing with this schedule for the foreseeable future and classes will stay online throughout Autumn and Winter. So-called "hybrid teaching" (some of you in person in the room, others on Zoom) is something I won't do, as I would personally feel that I'm serving neither group to my best capacity if my attention has to be divided between people physically present, and people online. I feel that both media come with totally different needs for teaching, with different ways of holding space and being present to you all.
I very much appreciate that Zoom classes are not the ideal scenario for everyone, and are making it impossible for some people to join us - I'm so sorry about that, and I would love to see and teach you in an in-person setting again. But my continuing feeling is that our current Zoom classes are still the best possible solution given the alternatives, and will probably be for a (good?) while to come.
I also realize that for others, these online classes are actually working better than in-person classes (no travelling to class and back, being able to practice without feeling self-conscious in a group, ...) and that some of you wouldn't even be able to be with us as you live far away. So there is a blessing in all this, and I have personally found and heard from many of you that our online classes are allowing very powerful work to take place, and I'm extremely grateful for this opportunity to continue to teach.

If you like to join us and you're wondering about the payment structure: this can be found on the Prices page and is also explained here again:

We are carrying on with the same prices as for our normal 90 min. Zoom group classes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but instead of access to 1 class a week you will get access to ALL 3 of these classes on Zoom every week!

Single week: £10
Series of 4 consecutive weeks: £35
Series of 8 consecutive weeks: £65
Concessions: £28 for 4-week series; £55 for 8-week series; £7.50 single week.

Additionally, for the 2 shorter (45 min.) Zoom classes on Thursday and Friday, you pay 1 fee but get to do both these classes if you want. Price is £5 per week for these 2 sessions (or £4.50 concession fee).

You will get all information to log in sent to your email after you've paid via BACS (bank details are in the green box on the Prices page - I can provide Belgian euro-account details for people in Europe or PayPal account details for people elsewhere).

While all in-person treatments are now back on (see the very start of this newsletter) you can of course still book private Skype or Zoom sessions which can include: yoga classes, health consultations, consultations around fertility, pregnancy, birth, pre- and postnatal yoga, Meditation & Pranayam sessions , and coaching . As I said at the very start of this newsletter, I'll now also be offering these back in person, prioritizing bookings from people who don't have the option to do online sessions.

As for the private yoga classes, this is also a great time to invest in doing a 5- or 10-session series (these are always discounted compared to individual sessions) on a specific topic to explore further, or something that will specifically serve you right now. A full list of topics you can choose from for these 5 or 10 session series is listed here.

Current Offers Neal's Yard Products

First of all: the End of Year range is out and can be found here on my NYR webshop (the Winter Woodland range - with an enchanting blend of invigorating organic silver fir and refreshing cypress, and beautifully grounding vetiver - sold out immediately, but I have 2 extra Woodland aromatherapy sprays available for the first 2 people to ask me).



Other offers - ideal for bespoke gift creation at reduced prices. Everything can be gift-wrapped at no extra cost.



I have 2 Beauty Sleep combos on offer:

* Combo 1:
Shower Oil 100ml normally £10
Body Lotion 185ml normally £22
Foaming Bath 100ml normally £8
Total normally £40, now just £29.50!!

* Combo 2:
Shower Oil 100ml normally £10
Body Lotion 100ml normally £10
Foaming Bath 100ml normally £8
Total normally £28, now just £18.50!

Howlite mala (great for sleep and insomnia) optional at £58.50 for 8mm mala.



Try-out offers on our 3 main skincare ranges!
Mini-size products of our Rose, Frankincense and Orange Flower (Neroli) range. For respectively: normal to sensitive, all skin types (incl. mature skin), or dry skin.
Each bundle will last for several weeks, giving you a great chance to try out these products before you choose your larger sizes, and they make fabulous bespoke gift sets!
They all come gift-wrapped for you, with extra samples of some other facial skincare products. And the first 4 people to respond will get a free small hand cream as well!!
Package 1: our Rose range
* Toner
* Facial oil
* Moisturiser
* Optional to include: Wild Rose Beauty Balm, the one-in-all product.
Normally £14.75 without WRBB - now just £12. With WRBB normally £26.75 - now just £23.

Package 2: our Frankincense range
* Toner
* Facial oil
* Refining cleanser
* Hydrating cream
Normally £26.50, now £23.

Package 3: our Orange Blossom (Neroli) range
* Facial wash
* Facial oil
* Moisturiser
Normally £16.50, now just £14.

Free included samples will be a selection from the following: Beauty Sleep, WRBB, Facial Oil of another range than your chosen one, Facial Polish, White Tea Eye Gel, Frankincense Concentrate, ...

Aromatic Duo: 200ml Body Lotion (normally £21.50) + 200g Body Butter (normally £23), now just £38.75 (that's 25% off).
150g Frankincense Toning Body Cream (normally £30) + 185ml Beauty Sleep Body Lotion (normally £22), now just £46.50 (that's also 25% off).

Organic Beauty Oil (Omega 3-6-9 balance) & Super Antioxidant Boost. A truly fabulous supplement and oil, these are (the largest) part of my husband and mine's own daily regime. Normally £32 together, now just £27.50. The Antioxidant Boost is a powerful Immune-Boosting supplement, but is also the one supplement I would recommend for couples trying to fall pregnant (for both man and woman to take).

🛁🛀 Foaming Bath Trio in glass bottles, normally £24, now just £14 (choice currently from Aromatic, Geranium & Orange, Beauty Sleep and Rose & Pomegranate).

Offering 15% off of these 4 gorgeous blends!

De-Stress, normally £13.50, now £11.47
Vitality, normally £13.50, now £11.47
Women's Balance, normally £15.50, now £13.17
Meditation, normally £17.50, now £14.87

🛁🛀 Rose & Pomegranate Bath Duo: 100ml Foam Bath & 100ml luxurious Bath Oil. Beautiful glass bottles. Normally £25 for this duo, now just £15! Or individually sold: Foam Bath £8 Bath Oil £17.

All of these offers have to be ordered through email or direct message - they are not as such available on my webshop.

If you have been thinking of joining us at Neal's Yard Organic Remedies as a consultant, now is a very auspicious time. We currently have a £60 joining offer available on the Frankincense Business Kit (you would get all products pictured on the above picture which amounts to over £200 worth of products, plus a personal webshop ready for you to start using immediately, you can join several free online trainings if you want, and I'll also teach you how to maximise your own discounted shopping and be available for all your questions).
If this sounds like something you're interested in, feel free to get in touch for more info or if it's a no-brainer for you, then just head over to sign up straightaway on https://uk.nyrorganic.com/shop/japjeetkaur/area/become-a-consultant/
(You can also of course join on the £95 joiner kit which has even more products!)

Where to find us on Social Media?

* My Instagram account is the easiest place to always find all current offers (much easier to find things there than on Facebook).

* Shuniya Kundalini Yoga Facebook page: for class & activity announcements, special discounts, seva opportunities for workshops or retreats, posts on (kundalini) yoga, pregnancy, health, nutrition, ...

* Sikhs(') Nurturing Nature Facebook page, blog & website page: the places to be for caring for our environment and for all homemade products. On the Facebook page I share lots of posts and information on how you can reduce your carbon footprint, reduce your use of plastic, use products that are healthy for you AND Mother Earth, how you can make your own products, ... and generally try and help raise awareness on taking care of our Mother Earth and walking lightly on Her.

* Japjeet Kaur NYR Organic Independent Consultant Facebook page, Instagram japjeetkaurnyr & webshop: for information posts & special offers on any Neal's Yard Remedies Organic products.