Hosted By: Celia Roberts, BSc Senior Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist
All tickets go to fundraising for Suicide Prevention Pathways:
$88 – Post-event recording
Let us explore how yoga and breathwork can reduce pain levels, improve heart rate variability, strengthen the vagal tone, lower stress hormones, and improve mental health conditions.
We will touch upon how the body memorises trauma and practical ways we can challenge the brain & body’s memory of mental health conditions and move the body out of the past.
This retreat will offer you a brilliant combination of restoration, compassionate care, and evidence-informed yoga and meditation practice. Learn to embody the research and understand the innate energetic connection between body, mind, emotional states and breathing.
You will come to understand the deep mind-body connection through the science of psychoneuroimmunology. We will explore how changing our breath, posture, facial microexpressions, and prosody (vocal tone) affect our mood and mental states.
Embrace yourself in a beautiful morning of learning, insight and self-compassionate care.
We will be exploring:
- How stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and the like are in the body, not just the brain
- How adverse mental health affects the microbiome and vice versa and how we can reverse this through yoga
- Neuroscience of Trauma & Anxiety
- The biological and karmic fate in our genes (epigenetics)
- Practical application of breathing for heart rate variability
- Eliciting nervous system control (vagal tone)
- Using breathing practices to immediately remedy panic, anxiety, and depression
- Yoga Asana for anxiety, low mood & depression
- Compassion Focused Therapy
A little more about Celia’s role for SPP and how you might wish to help with a donation or simply by attending this event:
I recently accepted a role on the board of Suicide Prevention Pathways (SPP). SPP is a unique organisation that employs a team of specialised counsellors to give emotional and practical support, as and when needed, at no cost, to people at risk of suicide. It has saved many lives.
Last year, for example, SPP received 206 requests for support (an increase of 58% from the previous year). In fact, 48% of these were young people in distress. SPP has seen a significant increase in the youth referred to our service for support with younger people currently making up 42% of those we are supporting through a suicidal crisis.
It costs SPP, on average, $1,500 to support an at-risk person. This is funded entirely by donations from community members. Every dollar raised goes into organising and delivering the service; no donations are spent on rent, advertising or other overheads.
At this time of year, SPP holds its main fundraising drive, to fund its operation during the coming year. If you choose to support community organisations this financial year, I ask that you give consideration to joining me in helping SPP to extend this service as widely as possible by attending this event or making a donation via SPP’s donation platform https://www.givenow.com.au/spp
| $88 Post-event recording | ||
Payments taken via our site with all proceeds will be going to fundraising for Suicide Prevention Pathways.
A welcome email will be sent to all participants closer to the event as a reminder.
Post-event recording will be emailed a couple of days after the session.
If you’d like to make a one-off or set up an ongoing regular donation please visit the SPP’s Give Now page https://www.givenow.com.au/spp. For more information about how SPP works to support people contemplating suicide and their family and friends visit spp.org.au