Thank you to all the regulars who have made pop-up sessions during the last two months fun and fully booked.
I’m happy to be able to offer a short and varied programme of teaching in Borve between Christmas and New Year. I hope there’s something for everyone, to tempt you to put down that mince pie, get off the sofa, and leave your relatives behind for an hour or two, while you come to Borve for a lovely stretch, strengthen and relax! All classes are a maximum size of 6 participants.
Please have a careful read of this post then email me if you have any questions or to check there are spaces in any class(es) you want to come to. Don’t send money until I’ve confirmed to you by email there’s space for you and you can go ahead to make a booking payment. If your plans are up in the air, your health is variable, or you are concerned about winter driving conditions, I recommend you don’t advance book – it is absolutely fine to contact me in the 24hrs before any of these sessions to see what ‘last minute’ spaces are available. You can read the full booking & cancellation policy at the ‘Booking’ tab on this website.
Please note that for all classes YOU MUST BRING YOUR OWN MAT – I no longer have a stock of mats to borrow in the Borve studio.
Festive season programme:
Thursday 27th. Private tuition available by appointment from 2.30pm onwards (see the ‘Private tuition’ tab on this website for more information about this).
Friday 28th. Time: 1-2.30pm. Cost: £10. This session includes an adaptation of Olga Kabel’s sequence ‘Letting go of worry, finding inner peace’, which lends itself well to this time of year, when we are reflecting on how 2018 has gone and our hopes for 2019. A fairly gentle class, in which moves can be easily adapted to make them more or less physically challenging, as is appropriate for individual participants. Feedback from those who have done this session in the past is that it can be profoundly effective – remember, ‘fairly gentle’ definitely doesn’t mean ‘not doing anything’!
Saturday 29th. Time: 2-4pm. Cost: £14. A general level session, inspired by Richard Faulds’ Kripalu Yoga. Potentially more physically demanding than Friday’s class, but modifications/alternatives will be offered throughout. Please note the Saturday and Sunday sessions are not ‘repeats’ of the same class – and you are welcome to come to either or both.
Sunday 30th. Time: 11am-1pm. Cost: £14. A general level session, inspired by Richard Faulds’ Kripalu Yoga. Potentially more physically demanding than Friday’s class, but modifications/alternatives will be offered throughout. Please note the Saturday and Sunday sessions are not ‘repeats’ of the same class – and you are welcome to come to either or both.
Monday 31st. Time: 10.15-11.15am. Cost: £7. Stretch out and gently strengthen. Anyone is welcome in this class, but I’ll try to give booking priority to those who feel the weekend sessions and Monday 11.40am would currently be too much for them.
Monday 31st. Time: 11.40am-12.40pm. Cost: £7. A physically stronger class, adapted from Shiva Rea and Mark Stephens ‘Dancing Warrior’ sequences. Suitable for those with no current joint pain/injury, who enjoy flowing slowly from pose to pose, and getting quite warm in the process!
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In other news, our house is currently under offer, and all going well, the new owners will move in on 1st February. Whilst we’re enjoying the exciting changes of our move from west to east coast, I have absolutely loved living and doing yoga here, and am sad that the ‘yoga in Borve’ era is coming to a close. I hope to see as many of you as possible at these December sessions, and I’m planning to offer additional sessions in January. These will be finalised at short notice depending on the circumstances of weather/roads/packing! From February onwards, I hope to offer occasional tuition when I’m back on Skye – perhaps private tuition in people’s own homes, along with workshops in Portree and Edinbane, led by myself and maybe with other Pilates and yoga teachers too. Lots of possibilities! If you’ve not already done so, please make sure you’ve emailed me at catherinemccabeyoga@outlook.com and requested to be on my mailing list, if you’d like to be kept informed of any future yoga/pilates news. You can also click the ‘Follow’ button on this blog if you want to be notified any time I write a new post here (which usually only happens once every month or so at most).
Many thanks to everyone who supported ‘Yoga in Borve’ during 2018. My very best wishes to you and yours for the festive season, however you choose to spend it – and I hope you have a healthy and happy 2019.
Catherine McCabe Yoga 