Yoga & Relaxation

Yoga will

Increase your energy
Reduce stress symptoms and their causes
Prevent and recover from injuries
Strengthen your circulatory, nervous and immune systems
Gain core strength, flexibility, joint stability, co-ordination and balance
Improve your posture, heal your Back pain
Balance your hormones and find PMT/menopause solutions
Detoxify and tone your organs
Cardiovascular rehabilitation
Conquer Depression and Anxieties...
Aid Chronic illnesses and conditions (Stroke, Cancer, Insomnia, HIV...)

Yoga, as a system, extends beyond physical postures, to include breath control, meditation and deep relaxation. The benefits from a yoga session will stay with you afterwards and eventually, if you cultivate a regular practice, you will develop an increased awareness of what is going on in your body and mind so that you can begin to change old negative patterns of thought and detrimental bodily habits.

While physical exercise generally is important to maintain health and well-being, we need more in our contemporary times. We can learn, through yoga, to develop our own centre of stillness and quietness, our own "inner sanctuary" without withdrawing from our loved ones. Yoga in particular can provide an effective way to deal with that all too familiar feeling of "Stop the world, I want to get off!" without totally losing control and damaging yourself or others.

Corporate

Organisations need healthy, balanced employees who have concrete skills to help them rise above stresses and worries. Yoga and Life Coaching are a great combination as they provide mental, emotional, physical and spiritual solutions to overcoming today's challenging times.

Work related stress is the leading cause of absence in non-manual workers.
Acute medical conditions are the leading cause of absence in manual workers.
Work related stress has increased by almost 30% since 2007.
The average cost of sickness absence has increased to £666 per employee per year.
Costs are as high as £1,333 per employee per year in some industries.

Source: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development: Absence Management Annual Survey Report 2008

Golightly provide yoga classes in your workplace to fit in with your timetable. Our classes are designed to help participants learn how to deal effectively with stress, improve concentration, develop better breathing habits, make better use of energy, improve body awareness and "reconnect" body and mind.

Our fully qualified instructors draw from a variety of relaxation techniques and hatha and yin yoga principles to teach you/your staff useful strategies to help break down habitual responses to stress. You/your staff will learn to retrain your body and mind so that you do not automatically respond to stress in ways that serve to increase tension in negative and debilitating ways.

Yoga classes are available in free-standing terms (minimum of 6 weeks - one class per week). Alternatively, you may be interested in combining one of our Coaching Development Programs with a follow-up yoga term. Contact Golightly now.

Schools

Golightly offer a range of yoga, relaxation techniques and coaching for schools to improve health and wellbeing for the whole school:

After school yoga classes for staff paid for by individuals themselves
INSET, CPD and IIP sessions
Senior management one-off or ongoing support
Senior student sessions emphasising relaxation to cope with studying and exam pressures
Lower-school student sessions to improve behaviour and concentration

Contact Golightly now for more details.

One-to-One sessions

Do you have specific needs, such as illness, injuries or weight loss, you wish to work on?

Are you new to yoga and would like to have extra guidance in the basics of the practice?

Are you an experienced student who wishes to get beyond particular blockages and fears?

Golightly offers private lessons for students who want a focused practice. A private lesson can help you deepen your practice by exploring the fundamentals of yoga, specific breathing techniques, alignment adjustments and modifications for injuries or health conditions. Lessons can be at your home or at work.

With Golightly, a one-one-one session is tailored to fit the needs of you, so beginners can work on the fundamentals and more experienced students can work with specific needs.

Improve your body and your mind for health, happiness and success. Contact Golightly now.

Yoga, Relaxation and Meditation Classes & Workshops

For local Classes and Workshops please go to Golightly's Facebook page.

Join the Glasgow Relaxation and Meditation Group, it is for people who are interested in practising meditation for general well being and an opportunity to try out different meditation and deep relaxation techniques. (Beginners, general and advanced.) Information on day- and weekend-long Workshops too.

Conferences / Retreats

Looking for something a bit different to complement your conference/retreat program?

Support your organisational or program needs
Support your specific learning outcomes and program objectives
Bring participants to the present so that they can focus better and hence work more effectively
Utilise mind/body connections to support intuitive wisdom and creative visioning
Transfer practical on-going skills
Provide relief from heavily intellectual and outcome driven agendas

Whilst our sessions utilise our expertise in Yoga, they may also draw upon a wide range of other techniques such as Life Coaching, NLP, reiki, art therapy. Contact Golightly now.