Signature Flow & Sound Healing
Cristina's signature flow is in tune with the seasons and moon cycles, a slow flow that integrates breath, alignment, mudra, intention, mantra, relaxation and sound healing.
Chakra Flow Yoga & Mantra Activation
The chakras are the body's seven main physical, mental and spiritual centers and together they form the pathway to healing, rejuvenation and evolution. They govern relationships, creativity, vitality, personal power, magnetism, manifestation, emotions, communication, intuition and access to divine wisdom. Each class focuses on one chakra at a time so we understand its domain, followed by a yoga sequence, breathwork and mantra designed to activate and re-balance the chakra to its original frequency. Once we have balanced all the main chakras it is possible to transcend material limitations and realize wholeness/0neness.
Restorative yoga
A gentle and slow meditative practice using props (blankets, bolsters, foams, etc.) to help you feel completely supported and relaxed in every asana, allowing deep release in the body and mind. This practice is recommended for those who are healing from an injury, surgery, illness or just need to restore and relax. Prana healing, reiki, meditation, mantras and crystal healing might be used during private classes as per my inner guidance.
Sound Healing
Cristina is Cotswolds foremost Sound Healer who is changing the way people perceive sound and in 2021 she was featured in the Daily Mail Article - "Soothe Yourself With Sound". Sound Healing with the worldwide renowned Crystal Tones Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls is a practice now supported by quantum physics, feng shui, therapists, healers and doctors like Dr. Mitchell Gaynor at his oncology practice at the Strang- Cornell Cancer prevention Centre. The sound frequencies slow down brainwaves to a restorative state, which activates the body's parasympathetic or self healing system. It's a very effective system form of alternative medicine because it works directly on the body's energy field and chakras (energy body). According to the Ayurveda - the science of life, the flow of energy through the chakras is essential for health and vitality. Chakras must be balanced otherwise the physical body is vulnerable to disease and illness. The crystalline sounds emited by these crystal singing bowls (99.99% quartz), koshis and the wide range of tones, frequencies emited by the hand made gongs interact with the whole physical and energy bodies - bone, blood, fascia, endocrine system, organs, chakras, cells and its DNA.
Family Yoga
A fun, non-competitive physical activity, with many postures that are named after animals and other creatures. Breathing exercises and deep relaxation are also included, leaving both parent and child feeling peaceful and positive. With children living in a 'hurry up' world, school pressures and other modern influences, these classes are the perfect counterbalance to these pressures, whilst instilling the foundations for future generations.
Pregnancy yoga
A gentle and slow practice focusing on open stretches, proper breathing and deep relaxation, preparing mothers-to-be, feel calm, strong and in control physically as well as mentally. Early pregnancy is a very good time to start, from as early as fourteen weeks, provided your midwife or doctor agrees.
Quantum Healing Nidra & Sound Frequency
Combines yoga nidra with quantum healing by focusing on deep relaxation, energy work and intention setting to promote cellular-level healing, and nervous system regulation using breath awareness, body scan, voice command, sanskrit mantras and sound to shift states of consciousness and the release of long held emotions and stress, allowing the body's innate healing intelligence to activate.
Pranayama (Breathwork)
Breath is life. The way we breathe affects every system and function in your body. If your breathing changes whether consciously or unconsciously, then all these systems will change accordingly. Understanding and using the breath to reduce stress and anxiety, increase energy levels, eliminate toxins, improve creativity, induce flow states, let go of trauma, and increase cardiovascular health and athletic performance. Breathwork has benefits for everyone - recharges your body and controls your mental state by regulating the flow of prana (life-force).
Meditation
This practice takes you to a state of awareness of your true being, a state of complete and spontaneous relaxation, innocence and bliss. It helps to remove negative thoughts and diminishes fear and loneliness. Different techniques and tools are used to suit the individual or group's needs.
Mindfulness
The ability to see what's going on in our minds, bodies and the world around us, and to respond from a place of clarity and compassion rather than fear or insecurity. As we become more accepting of our own thoughts, we become more empathetic to others. Mindfulness is a proven stress buster, as it help us understand what we can and can't change. Stress isn't caused by what's happening, but our response to it.
Shakti Energy Flow
Yoga, breathwork, and freestyle dance are a powerful combination which activates the universal shakti that flows through us all but often gets depleted from everyday life. We begin the session with yoga's mindfulness, strength and flexibility, then finish with the joyful, expressive free movement of dance to a powerful playlist.
Hatha Yoga
Deep asana, powerful alignment, mudra, mantra, breathwork and meditation.
The Yoga postures or asanas exercise every part of the body, stretching and toning the muscles and joints, the spine and the entire skeletal system. And they work not only on the body's frame but on the internal organs, glands and nerves as well, keeping all systems in radiant health. The yogic breathing revitalises the body and help to control and purify the mind, leaving you feeling calm and refreshed and with increased clarity, mental power and concentration.
