Summer mini-course: Yin Yoga and Mindfulness for Resilience

If you missed this live class, you can still watch recordings of two in-depth workshops on cultivating resilience (4 hours of content).

  • Learn held yin yoga poses and discover how to safely work on deep tissues
  • Improve vagal tone and heart rate variability through breath control
  • Find out about Chinese medicinal approaches to organ health for the summer
  • Discover a comfortable approach to seated meditation that works for you
  • Cultivate mindful attention that you can bring from the mat to daily life
  • Condition your nervous system to build resilience, flexibility and adaptability

No prior experience with yoga or meditation required.

Price: £10 or pay-what-you-can (price for both workshops per household). Please transfer payment via PayPal using this link or email Xenia to request bank details to receive unlisted video links. This special offer is valid until the end of July only.

About the instructor: Dr Xenia Pestova Bennett offers group and individual classes in breathwork, meditation, Yin Yoga and Hatha yoga. Her unique perspective combines her extensive performing and recording experience as a concert pianist with wellbeing approaches to create bespoke sessions that calm and balance anxiety and stress.

Having studied in the UK, The Netherlands and Canada, Xenia holds a Doctorate in Performance from McGill University. Her wellness training includes completion of a 200-hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training qualification led by Eleonora Ramsby-Herrera in 2019, 100 hours of Yin/Yang Yoga and Mindfulness (primary and secondary levels amounting certified by Yoga Alliance) with Sarah Powers in 2018, Oxygen Advantage® functional breathing and Buteyko Method instructor training with Patrick McKeown, and Yoga Mindset Coaching training (basic level) with Karina Ayn Mirsky in 2021.

Date

26 Jun 2021
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Time

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

Online
Maitri Studio

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Maitri Studio
4 The Mount, Belfast BT5 4NA, UK

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Pianist and composer Xenia Pestova Bennett has earned an international reputation as a leading proponent of uncompromising music.
Her work spans a wide range of sound worlds, styles and genres from classical and contemporary art music to free improvisation, experimental electronica, multimedia and avant-pop. Her ten studio albums to date include widely acclaimed recordings for Naxos Records, Innova, Unsounds, Diatribe, Farpoint and Ergodos.

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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
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