Newsletter

Despite unknown origins, Yoga was documented for the first time in the form of the Yogasutra, authored by the great Yogi Patanjali (we study this text once a month with Sarah Ryan). This text documents the entire philosophical system of yoga, exploring our deep psyche, and helps to facilitate personal…

Happy March. We have a wonderful Yoga Sangha at the yoga centre. Sangha is a Sanskrit  word that means company, or community or association. The shared sense of community amongst yoga practitioners has grown worldwide in recent years. This has helped novice yoga practitioners to assimilate more easily into the…

Happy February to you all. Although we are all waiting for the first signs of Spring, I thought I would share my lovely Amaryllis that I had for Xmas. The yoga centre and therapy rooms are busy and there is an air of optimism for more normal times. It feels…

Welcome to January 2022! We started the New Year with a wonderful Om Shanti Concert with Magdalena, chanting and drumming, shaking our shakers and relaxing to Magdalena’s beautiful voice; a very special and soulful way to begin the new year in the centre. Read more about the monthly Om Shanti…

Hello and welcome to our December newsletter We have made it to the end of a precarious year, and like many others we are extremely glad to be still open! Thank you to all the teachers and therapists who have worked through such difficult times watching their class sizes go…

Welcome to our November newsletter If you hold your thumb at arm’s length up to the starts at night, there are 4 million galaxies that fit just under your fingernail! There are more stars than all the grains of sand on earth! There are more cells in our body than…

Welcome to October 🙂 The Dorchester Yoga and Therapy Centre opened its doors in November 2015. From  almost the beginning there has been a regular monthly meeting with yoga teacher Sarah Ryan looking at  the amazing Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. This is probably the most important yoga book ever written….

Welcome to September. We hope you have found time to escape your normal routine, and have enjoyed some  Summer fun, either by relaxing, or being active, being social or finding a quiet space; whichever were your requirements. My Summer read was “A Lonesome Dove” a Western novel by Larry McMurty,…

Welcome to our July newsletter. The Fire element is associated with the season of Summer, and combined with coming out of lockdown… WOW!… all that energy! There have been lots of energetic inversions and backbends in classes and lots of joy and laughter at being together again. So our workshops…

We are open!!! And it is wonderful!! Throughout lockdown many of our therapists and counsellors have been continually working to offer their skills and support, and many of our yoga and pilates teachers have been working online.  We opened cautiously in April for a baby massage course and a Kinesiology…

Welcome to our November newsletter 🙂 These babies have certainly enjoyed being back in the studio, these four have just completed my first baby massage course back in the centre, and are showing off babies natural ability for yoga with their beautiful upper backbends. The next course starts on Thursday…

It feels so good to be open and busy. It seems that everyone has missed their yoga, pilates and tai chi, as our classes are very full. We hope you are well. Welcome to Pilates teacher Michelle Skelland who started with us in September. She has been teaching on Wednesdays 10:15…