Newsletter

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…

Hello and welcome to our September newsletter. I am so pleased that there is a September newsletter and that we have opened our doors again to our students and clients. Many of our teachers and therapists have been busy behind the scenes teaching online and I am sure many of…

Welcome to our March newsletter, Our fabulous Kim Mackie has just come back from the first fortnight of her Holistic Yoga Therapy Training with the Krishnamacharya Healing & Yoga Foundation. Here she is receiving her introduction pack, with her class group, and showing off her wonderful henna-ed hands. What a…

Welcome to our February newsletter. February can be a difficult month for many people, with cold dull days and nothing to look forward to, and a seemingly long wait to brighter days. But for me the longer days, and lighter evenings and the appearance of the first Spring flowers reminds…