Exeter: Heavitree Pleasure Ground
Where?
Join our FREE Park Yoga sessions at Heavitree Pleasure Ground, Exeter.
Please look out for the large Park Yoga flag.
When?
10am – 11am every Sunday morning from 4th May to 14th September.
Getting here:
By road – From City Centre, take Heavitree Road to Heavitree Fore Street. Turn left at Whipton Lane. Parking is available along the road.
By Public Transport – Buses from city centre include R and S.
The park can be reached by foot or bicycle from entrances at Whipton Lane, Roseland Avenue, Hamlinin Whipton Lane.
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Parking:
Parking is available along the road.
Facilities:
- Ramp/Level Access
- Dogs welcome
- Toilets
- Picnic areas
- Coffee van
Meet your instructor: Nikkie
Nikkie has been practicing yoga for over 25 years. She qualified in Integrated Yoga in 2005 and has been teaching ever since, offering classes for adults, children and babies across Devon. Nikkie’s teaching is creative and playful, focusing on the relationship between teacher and student. Her aim is always to share joy in the simplicity of moving the body freely and feeling the breath and she believes that anyone can do yoga and benefit from it. Having been teaching a long time, she feels that the most important aspect of her teaching is in ensuring that she always remains a student, always learning.
As a qualified secondary teacher and tutor, she is particularly passionate about working with young adults and currently teaches yoga and mindfulness to students and staff at Exeter College. As a creative writing teacher, she also incorporates journaling and writing into her workshops. Nikkie teaches yoga trapeze and has qualified with Shiva Rea to teach prana flow yoga, which integrates yoga and free form dance. She has also completed the Michael Stone certificate in teaching meditation with YogaCampus and Yoga Alliance. She values the deep transformative effect of meditation and its ability to create steadiness in the face of life’s challenges. Nikkie is also a trained baby sleep consultant and offers this as a bespoke, individual service, as well as running regular sleep clinics.
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Park Yoga Heavitree
Free yoga for all abilities from May to September.
The forecast says it’s not going to rain tomorrow, so Park Yoga will be on as usual. If you haven’t been before, or have any questions come and introduce yourself before the class, or stay for a quick chat after. As well as a laid back simple flow tomorrow, we’ll be doing some seated stretches, relaxed breathing, lymphatic exercises and the ever popular eye exercises, an old yoga technique backed by neuroscience. Yoga’s not all forward bends and warrior poses, though those will feature too 😊
We’ve been incredibly lucky with the weather so far this year, but it has been known to rain at Park Yoga now and then!
We try to go ahead with the session anyway, if the rain is light or intermittent. If it gets heavier during the session, we’ll abandon or retreat under a tree!
I will always be there, even if it’s just sheltering in the cafe with a coffee, so you can turn up and see. I’ll also post on this page every Sunday morning to let you know whether the session is running or not.
If you’re coming to yoga in rainy or drizzly weather then:
Bring a raincoat, a towel to stop your mat getting slippery and a spare pair of socks to change into after.
Some people love yoga in the rain - you never know, you might be one of them 😂
Still, keeping my fingers crossed for clear skies on Sunday, 10-11am. Hope to see you then!
Whether it’s sunny or not, the benefits of exercising outside are well researched. But being outside in nature is not only good for physical health, but for mental health as well. Research shows a big positive effect in reducing symptoms of anxiety and fatigue, something that yoga also can help to alleviate. Just being in our beautiful park, surrounded by trees can help with increasing vitality. Add in some breathwork, movement and relaxation and there are so many reasons to give it a go. Also, it’s free and you don’t need to book! Every Sunday until September, 10-11am, at Heavitree Park.
Source:
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The sun is out! let’s hope it stays that way until 11am. Free Park at Heavitree Park this morning, 10-11am. Good luck to everyone in the Great West Run!
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