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ONLINE LIVE WORKSHOP: Shake off 2024 & Feel Uplifted with Margi Young
Thursday 9th January | 7-9PM (GMT)
Welcome the new year with a deeply nourishing workshop designed to help you ground yourself, reflect on the past year, and set meaningful intentions for 2025. Through gentle movement, restorative poses, journaling, and breathwork, we’ll create space to let go of the old and embrace the possibilities of the year ahead.
This workshop is open to everyone, regardless of experience. It’s a unique opportunity to slow down, listen to your heart, and find comfort in a supportive, nurturing environment.
Let’s come together to shake off 2024 and set our intentions for 2025. Sign up today and take the first step towards welcoming the New Year.
Who This Workshop Is For:
- Anyone who faced difficulties and challenges in 2024 and wants to shake it off.
- Those who are looking to set intentions for 2025 and embrace the New Year.
- Individuals interested in gentle, nurturing practices that soothe the body, mind, and spirit.
- Yoga practitioners of all levels, including beginners.
What to Expect:
- Setting Intentions for 2025 – Begin with a brief discussion on the importance of reflecting on the past year and setting clear, heartfelt intentions for the new year.
- Gentle Movement Practice: Move into a slow, mindful flow to awaken the body, release tension, and create space for new energy.
- Restorative Yoga: Transition into deeply restful poses, allowing the nervous system to settle and integrate the movement.
- Meditation & Breathwork: Calming breathing techniques and a guided meditation to seal your practice and intentions for the year ahead.
Margi Young
Margi’s classes emphasize clear alignment, mindful breathing, diligent effort, and deep relaxation so that the benefits of yoga reveal themselves. She roots her yoga classes in Buddhist philosophy and in The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali so that the physical practice manifests in a calm mental state. She sincerely hopes that the practice that she offers helps her students stay centered and calm off the mat as well. Taking a cue from the Buddha, Margi’s classes are lighthearted as she believes it is imperative that we come together and study this vast subject with joy.
Margi holds a BA from Mills College in Oakland, California and an MFA from New York University in dance and choreography where she graduated with the Seidman award for excellence. In 2001, when she attended a yoga teacher training at Cyndi Lee’s OM Yoga Center in New York City, she was certain that a life immersed in yoga was right for her. For 10+ years Margi taught at OM before moving home to San Francisco where she now teaches classes, workshops and trainings.
She also travels the world and is thrilled to be able to offer her classes on Movement for Modern Life. Her main teachers have been Genny Kapular, Cyndi Lee, Jennifer Brilliant, Carrie Owerko, Martin Aylward and Tias Little. She is also certified in restorative yoga, cranial sacral therapy, prenatal yoga and mindfulness meditation. Margi was named one of the 100 most influential yoga teachers in America from Somima, an online publication.
The workshop will take place on Zoom and you will receive the link the day before the workshop. If you haven’t received the link please get in touch at least 2 hours before the start of the class.
Can’t make it live?
We will be offering a on-demand playback of the workshop for 14 days afterwards, so you don’t have to miss out!
Cost
We know that some of you are facing some real cost-dilemmas and we know that sometimes our wellbeing practices are the first to suffer when life gets hard.
We want you to know that we are there for you.
Therefore, our workshops and live events are offered on a ‘Pay As You Can’ basis.
There is a suggested price, which we ask you to pay, if you have the means. The suggested price is the ‘true cost’ of running the workshop, and this is £35.
If finances might get in the way of you joining, you can pay what you can afford, and therefore you are still able to join. This is the Buddhist system of Dana. The minimum that we can accept is £15, because like you, we are also struggling at these times.
Those of you do have the means, please do feel free to pay more than the suggested price. We want so much to continue to support you for years to come with online workshops and community gatherings. However, we can only do that if we continue to have your support through tougher times.
Please do get in touch if you have any queries whatsoever about the workshop, about payment, or any concerns at all. We really love to hear from you.
Questions?
If you have any questions about the workshop, drop us a message on support@movementformodernlife.com
Terms & Conditions
Practising safely
The live online workshops are for your education and your enjoyment only. You are participating in the live classes at your own risk. You are encouraged to to take breaks when needed and/or when in doubt, don’t do sequences that you are even a little concerned about. If you have any health condition, please seek medical advice before taking any form of exercise. If you have any concerns, please let us know before the workshop starts.
If you feel unwell in any way or if you experience any discomfort during class, please stop the class and consult your health practitioner immediately. Remember that yoga is mostly a journey off the mat and into life, and it is a journey about taking responsibility for our own actions and cultivating self-knowledge. Only choose exercises which will nurture and support you, and please take responsibility for yourself and your current abilities during your practice. Remember that each day is different, and even if yesterday you were able to perform a movement, that is no indicator that the same exercise is possible today. Please move within your comfortable limits and if you’re in any doubt whatsoever, please seek medical advice.
We are not medical practitioners and we do not seek to offer medical advice. Please consult your healthcare practitioner before starting any new exercise. This is particularly important if you have any limiting condition or are, pregnant, nursing, regularly taking medications, or have any existing medical conditions. We do not accept any liability whatsoever for any injury or damage, either during or after this retreat. Your participation in this retreat is entirely voluntary and at your own risk, and you agree to abide by the T&Cs of Movement for Modern Life.
Payment
Your secure payment will reserve your place on this workshop. No refunds will be made.
Your data
By signing up to the online workshop, you consent to us adding your name and email address to our marketing database. If you do not wish to receive emails from us outside of this workshop, please do let us know and we will be sure to remove you from our database.
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