Studio Classes
Soulspace Group Classes
Slow Flow, Fridays at 130pm Fridays is a breath centered slow paced class, suitable for all levels, where we move through from pose to pose in a flowing style. Some poses are held but for no more than three or four breaths, and all holds are your choice to undertake. Modifications to poses, as well as optional poses are offered so that you can remain stable and appropriately challenged in the movement.
The practice is steeped in mindfulness and inclusivity, with a sprinkling of Tantra elements to enliven the senses and to leave you with a sense of balance and well-being.
On Sunday mornings at 9am, Gentle Flow takes a similar interoceptive approach, but we start lying down and easing into the session, building towards a balancing standing sequence later on.
Peri & Menopause Yoga is at the new time of 11am Saturdays. It is an hour class specifically designed to support women through the menopause transition and beyond. We will bring focus to mental wellbeing, balance, strength and the pelvic floor as we move through a gentle warm up to standing poses and finally a beautiful relaxation.
Slow Flow - 130pm Fridays at Soulspace, Wonthaggi on hold until Jan 2025
Gentle Flow - 9am Sundays at Soulspace, Wonthaggi on hold until Jan 2025
Peri & Menopause Yoga - 11am Saturdays at Soulspace, Wonthaggi on hold until Jan 2025
Book through https://www.atsoulspace.com/new-page
Bookings are essential as class numbers are capped.
Yoga for Perimenopause, Menopause & The Great Beyond
At Asha Yoga, Croydon on November 23.
This is about more than a hot flash. From our forties to our sixties and beyond we are in a position to affect the way we move through the tricky road of mid-life by focusing on what we can address, and yoga has so much to offer to do just that.
Yoga for Perimenopause, Menopause & The Great Beyond is a three and a half hour workshop offering you simple and practical tools and ideas to support yourself through this time in your life. Because what we do now has an impact on the present, and also on the way we will be in our senior years.
And I for one intend to hold onto my vitality, my independence and my well-being. My Great Beyond will be just that. Great.
As a fifty-seven year old woman, I am very intentional about how I show up for myself. I wish I knew what I know now when I was forty. In fact I wish I knew it when I was thirty. But wishing isn’t helpful. Positive, pro-ageing choices and actions are!
In the workshop I will offer gentle and specific movement tailored to the experience of the menopause transition, as well as breath work, self-soothing practices and meditation. Self-compassion, humour and connection can be so powerful to navigate the challenges we face with grace.
There will be kinship with like hearted women, a sharing circle in which you can offer your experience and insights or remain quiet if you prefer, and just actively listen with an open heart.
To close the session we will share space over herbal tea, an anti-inflammatory blend that is exactly what we need right now!
I hope you’ll join me for the last of these curated workshops for this year at Asha Yoga, Croydon on Saturday 23 November.
It’s $110 for the three and a half hour workshop.
All participants will also leave with a Fern & Frost organic linseed filled eye pillow, to continue the practice of relaxation and self-care at home.
Yoga Basics at The Wellness Room
A foundation style class, suitable for all levels with focus around presence and awareness in more introductory yoga poses and with breath connection. The aim is to create the space to explore your practice in a mindful way affirming and strengthening your confidence with yoga.
This one hour class is weekly, 930am Wednesdays at The Wellness Room, Koo Wee Rup until 18 December 2024. Casual classes are $20 and The Wellness Room also offers packages and membership prices that are very generous.
The Wellness Room, Suite 5, 352 – 354 Rossiter Road, Koo Wee Rup
The Samkalpa Sessions -Monday 30 December, 2024
Samkalpa ( pronounced Sun-kalpa ) simply means intention.
And I’ve been finding more and more that establishing a clear intention for every spell of time I spend in practice helps keep me focused and present for whatever arises.
Intention, I find, is well supported by the use of Mudra. Placing the hands this way or that may seem superfluous until you start working with it regularly. Each time you form the specific shape with your hands in practice you’re reminded of the intention you set at the start of the session. You plug right into it and consequently Mudra is a great tool to keep you present and clear of distraction. And energetically, the five elements of the body are harnessed in finger placement to support intention.
The use of sound is also a powerful tool to lean into different chakras to assist that immersion in intention. I have returned to sound personally after a spell in the wilderness of a kooky little hearing issue. Music was an integral part of my upbringing and it’s use in healing and supporting wellness can be quite profound. It feels like coming home to be integrating my voice in mantra and using crystal bowls and other beautiful elements of sound into my sessions.
The Saturday afternoon sessions will start with Yin-spired gentle movement interlaced with Mudra, followed by a restorative Yoga Nidra meditation, layered with sung mantra and sound vibrations, bringing together all the elements that I know affect all the Koshas, the layers of our being so deeply. We will weave heartfelt intention into the entire practice.
The Samkalpa Sessions run from 3pm til 5pm. Lots of time to really become really immersed in your practice.
Each session works with chakra energy specific to what is relevant at that time, and the elements of mudra and mantra will be tailored accordingly and threaded through the session.
The next Samkalpa Session is on Monday 30 December 2024.
This is the perfect way to close the year that has been and prepare ourselves for 2025 with intention and presence. It is $50 for the two hour classes at Soulspace, Wonthaggi. There are limited places available and this end of year session always books out so please do make sure you secure your place early.
“Annebelle creates a space of harmony and healing that, while always a different experience, is always what I need at the time.”
“Annebelle has changed my life I have become a dedicated member of her beach, studio and now her healing Samkalpa Sessions.
Annebelle is able to create a space of love and community while still giving me privacy and the ability to work at my own pace.”
“Pure bliss. Perfect ‘me’ time, away from day-to-day stress. Annebelle creates a perfect atmosphere to feel at ease.”
“I took a moment with my daughter to care for my body, mind and heart at Annebelle’s lush Samkalpa Session and we loved it. Immersion in a space of nurture and warm vibrations of sound. Such a beautiful way to show yourself some love. Annebelle takes incredible care in creating a warm nurturing space to unwind and soothe. We’re looking forward to going again to soak it in.”
“Amazing! After each of Annebelle’s Samkalpa Sessions I felt calm and grounded. Each session had a different impact on me, but I always came away with a deep feeling of peace. ”
“I was a little anxious as I don’t do a lot of yoga, but I love sound healing. I attended several sessions & I felt very welcomed by Annebelle. I’ll be booking in for the sessions in 2023.”
“Such amazing sessions! A lovely experience of setting intention, movement, meditation and sound.”
Online Yoga Classes
Annebelle offers a membership to her Live Online yoga classes which includes On Demand access to the library of saved class videos and meditations for $60 per month.
Or you can join us casually for drop in classes whenever suits you for $20 per session.
Pricing
$25 - 1 hour casual class - Soulspace
$20 - 1 hour casual class - The Wellness Room
$50 - 2 hour The Samkalpa Sessions
$60 - monthly Online Membership
$20 - Online class
Private sessions, online personal practices and group session POA.
Please email Annebelle.