Yoga & Yoga Mindset Coaching
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Group & Individual Classes
Group Classes
Summer Yoga with Xenia (online)
It’s time to rest, recover and build up strength as we soak up some much-needed sunshine!
Join Xenia for a series of meticulously designed calming sessions to balance both body and mind with invigorating breathwork and soothing held yin yoga poses, finishing with more active sun salutation sequences to welcome the energies of the season. Each class will address different aspects of energising and restorative yoga to help you both rest and get ready for whatever lies ahead.
This is an online class - if you can’t make it live in real time, you will have the opportunity to review the video at your leisure during the week.
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Individual Work: Yoga Mindset Coaching
Yoga Mindset Coaching is a pioneering approach devised by Karina Ayn Mirsky. In these sessions, we will draw on practices inspired by the Internal Family Systems model of therapy to listen and pay attention to the "parts" of you that are most active in a given moment. In the second part of the session, you will be supported through a yoga-led intervention designed to reflect your energetic needs. This could be a movement sequence on the mat, yoga pranayama breathwork, Functional Breathing exercises, mindful focus meditation, a guided relaxation or a bespoke combination of these elements. The sessions can take place in-person or online and discounted package deals are available. Please contact Xenia for more information and to arrange a free taster consultation call.
About the Instructor:
Dr Xenia Pestova Bennett is an internationally active concert pianist and composer. She combines her research and experience in performance anxiety with extensive accredited training as a yoga, breathwork and meditation instructor. Having studied in the UK, The Netherlands and Canada, Xenia holds a Doctorate in Performance from McGill University. Her wellness training includes Hatha Yoga Teacher Training, Yin/Yang Yoga and Mindfulness with Sarah Powers, Oxygen Advantage® functional breathing and Buteyko Method instructor training with Patrick McKeown, and Yoga Mindset Coaching training with Karina Ayn Mirsky. Xenia is in demand as lecturer and coach on wellbeing and anxiety management for organisations including the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine, Contemporary Music Centre (Ireland), Facebook, Moving on Music, Sound and Music, Triyoga UK, and tertiary educational institutions around the world. In 2022 and 2023, she presented 66 workshops in schools across Ireland reaching 580 participants in an ambitious "Befriending Anxiety" programme with The Music Network.
Course Feedback
"I really enjoyed this programme of Qi Gong and Yin Yoga. As a beginner, I found Xenia’s demonstrations and explanations encouraging, clear and helpful: I am looking forward to future classes with Xenia."
“Excellent classes. Restorative and mindful in a practical easy to understand way. Xenia draws on many different aspects of yoga and other techniques to inform body and mind. Highly recommended.”
“Put simply, Xenia is an excellent teacher. Her clear, measured approach allow me to overcome my co-ordination challenges, and every session leaves me feeling positive and invigorated!”
"After months of illness Xenia's class helped my body get moving again, the Yin Yoga was amazingly helpful and through gentle movement brought back a feeling of wellness. It was a lovely weekly event and expertly taught!"
"Your last Yoga Session was a little dream 😴 during a busy day."
"Xenia's classes have kick-started my daily yoga practice after a long break and I have gained deeper insight into the diverse systems she covers, including new and rewarding approaches. A very special experience from a talented teacher which I would highly recommend to anyone from beginner to advanced."