This 3-day retreat offers yoga practices and insights for those caring for others, either professionally or as unpaid carers or supporters of friends or family. It is designed to nourish and reinvigorate yourself as a practitioner and offer a new or renewed skillset for your valuable role as a carer.
Tutor(s): Tulsi
Increasing numbers of people care for others either informally as a family member or friend, or in a professional capacity. As care givers, or yoga teachers, of people with a wide range of physical, learning or mental health issues ranging from down syndrome to dementia, autism to cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis to arthritis, it can be challenging to find ways in which we can effectively utilise specific yoga practices and understanding.
This 3-day retreat is for anyone with an interest in sharing the tools and experience of yoga with people they love or care for and who may find accessing mainstream classes and practices challenging or inappropriate. You do not need to be a yoga teacher; you simply need the willingness to share simple accessible yoga practices with others.
Throughout the retreat we will explore such practices and explore the different techniques and skills that can enhance the yoga experience for both care giver and receiver. This will be a very practical and hands-on experience and participants will be encouraged to explore alternative ways of sharing yoga practice and ideas with others within the group.
We will explore:
- Asana practices - including how to work hands on with people with limited mobility, and how to use simple movement and breath to maximise the effect of simple practices
- Mantra - using sound and mantra to explore releasing emotions and enabling and encouraging self-expression
- Pranayama – working with accessible practices that can harmonise, balance and uplift a person’s energies
- Relaxation and meditation - exploring different ways to allow people to experience deep relaxation and an inner subtle connection with that which lies deeper within.
Further information
Tulsi has over 30 years’ experience of working with people of all ages with a wide variety of physical, learning and mental health issues and disabilities. She has worked in prisons, schools, care homes, day centers and for housing, mental health and drug and alcohol projects. Over her twenty plus years of teaching yoga she has explored creative and effective ways of working with those who might otherwise be excluded from yoga, and she is passionate about enabling others to feel comfortable working with and sharing with these client groups.
