THURSDAY Oct 31st IGNITE
Opening ceremony 10am
Get ready to move and raise your energy
We have the amazing Suse Coon taking us through powerful movements and sequences that will transform your energy.
Combining Breathing, Qigong & powerful releasing techniques we will spend the day igniting our inner passion and raising our vibration
With Lilia Letitgo Sinclair, Suse Coon and team
FRIDAY 1 NOV - UNITE
10am Singing for health and happiness with Sue Kali
The Singing heart queen and creator will be with us for the morning.
Using the power of the voice, the vibration of the body to reach altered states.
12.30- Lunch
2pm - 5pm
Breathwork for changing chemistry and brain waves
EFT & The Sedona Method for peace
Intention & focus for greater Health, Wealth and Happiness
Weekend speakers
Using Ayurveda to Live Happier and Healthier - Jen from the Warrior Woman project
After being diagnosed with Crohn's disease in March 2017 Jen started to learn about Ayurveda the sister science of Yoga and found the benefits not just to be healing but also created a vibrancy beyond the expectations of what the hospital lead her to believe (she had been told to lower her expectations of her health). Learning about Ayurveda, working with the different doshas (archetypes) that are not only body types but also different times of the day, and change seasonally has helped her not only regain a healthy body but feel better than she ever has.
In this workshop Jen will teach you the basics of the Ayurvedic doshas, the different body types, how they fit with different times of the day and seasons of the year, how different foods affect different people depending on their dosha, how lifestyle practices impact you and how to create a daily routine that will set you up to be healthier and happier.
Jen Wilson. Author, Bodyworker, Urban Hippy; has worked in the health, fitness and wellness industry since 2009, with a BSc Sport & Exercise science, an NLP Master Practitioner, Personal Trainer, Pilates, Yoga, Meditation teacher, nutrition coach and massage therapist she has worked with hundreds of people over the years helping them get to know and listen to their body. Author or Become a Warrior Woman, 9 Rules to Sort Your Shit and creator of Warrior Woman Project® Jen helps her clients work out what it is they want in life, who they truly are and what they are truly capable of, and work from a place of self-love.
In this workshop Jen will teach you the basics of the Ayurvedic doshas, the different body types, how they fit with different times of the day and seasons of the year, how different foods affect different people depending on their dosha, how lifestyle practices impact you and how to create a daily routine that will set you up to be healthier and happier.
Jen Wilson. Author, Bodyworker, Urban Hippy; has worked in the health, fitness and wellness industry since 2009, with a BSc Sport & Exercise science, an NLP Master Practitioner, Personal Trainer, Pilates, Yoga, Meditation teacher, nutrition coach and massage therapist she has worked with hundreds of people over the years helping them get to know and listen to their body. Author or Become a Warrior Woman, 9 Rules to Sort Your Shit and creator of Warrior Woman Project® Jen helps her clients work out what it is they want in life, who they truly are and what they are truly capable of, and work from a place of self-love.
Yoga, connecting body, mind and breath
Having dabbled in Yoga for years always looking for that 'special' class that wasn't just an exercise class Jen found a teacher that lead her to other teachers that opened her experience that Yoga was indeed more than just an exercise class. It ran much deeper, it was a connection on another level that she had been searching for.
In this workshop Jen will take you through a mantra based Yoga practice allowing you to connect with your body, mind and breath. The class is suitable for all bodies and can be done from a chair if for any reason you are unable to move on to the floor.
In this workshop Jen will take you through a mantra based Yoga practice allowing you to connect with your body, mind and breath. The class is suitable for all bodies and can be done from a chair if for any reason you are unable to move on to the floor.
Annie Hughes - Ignite
The mum-of-three had suffered a brain bleed and her husband Garry was told to prepare for the worst. Fast forward to today and Anne is celebrating two-years clear from the aneurysm that nearly killed her.
The freelance charity consultant isn’t wasting any of her precious time either, penning a book that aims to empower working-class women, hosting a chat show on local radio and holding motivational workshops. She said: “I’d just stood up from my dinner and got a pain behind my eye and quickly that escalated and I was unconscious by the time the ambulance took me out of my house.”
Anne, 43, remained in a coma for days with doctors unable to operate on her brain due to the amount of blood that was obstructing their vision. Nine days later a Spanish surgeon entered her brain via her groin and implanted a platinum coil.
She said: “It’s amazing how they fixed my brain. It was in the middle so doing open surgery wouldn’t have worked because they would have had to touch so many bits of my brain to get to it.
“By the time I realised what had happened to me, there wasn’t even a scar or anything.”
Her children, just two, nine and 13 at the time, witnessed their mum falling ill but for Anne, although she wishesthey hadn't, she believes it has equipped them to withstand the sometimes harsh realities of life.
She said: “Now they know. I mean really, really know that things can be so bad but the sun will always shine again.
"I was just lying all tubes and machines and my family were told the chances of me surviving were slim, and if I did I would have severe deficiencies.”
But after another two weeks in hospital, Anne was recovering at home with a shaved head and a scar on her skull from where it was opened to alleviate the bleeding.
She said. “I was very dizzy so I felt like a drunk woman. I couldn’t walk in a straight line. I couldn’t really do very much for myself. My husband had to do a lot for me.”
Instead of feeling victimised by what happened, Anne has transformed her experience into something positive, thanks in part to a lifelong interest in spirituality and self help.
She said: “I’ve been reading self-empowerment stuff for years - I call myself a hippy. I’ve been on a spiritual journey forever. For over 20 years I’ve really immersed myself in it.
Anne recovering in hospital
“As soon as I appreciated what had happened to me I remember having the thought process of, Anne, you’ll fix this in your mind.”
With that positive mindset, Anne was determined to look forward and to never feel sorry for herself.
She said: “I never said why me. I never let my thoughts get negative. It wasn’t up for discussion - I was getting better.“
As well as her physiotherapy, Anne undertook her own mental path to recovery, prescribing herself a regime of meditation, visualisation and positive affirmations.
She counts Glasgow-born motivational expert Jack Black and American spiritual leader Wayne Dyer as teachers.
With the help of an NHS brain clinic and a psychotherapist who were "amazing", she was able to deal with the trauma of what she had been through, regaining confidence and lost chunks of knowledge.
Now, as well as filming new BBC Scotland current affairs comment programme with her husband, Anne's writing the book that she will self-publish so that it reaches every women it needs to.
She said: "What I'm hoping this book does is open up a whole world to people so they can delve deeper.
Anne's three children with husband Garry
"Pursuing a spiritual journey has become a middle-class pursuit and that's why I'm writing the book. It's not for the women who's juggling three kids, has a full time job who's not got a lot of spare money."
Anne, who grew up and lives in Govan, credits her strength to the determined women who came before her.
READ MORE: Glasgow designer creates sustainable clothing brand from used jeans
She said: "I'm from a long line of strong Govan women. When I stand here as Anne, I stand as my mum who was the oldest in a family of 10 who had to leave school at 15 to go and get a job. Her life was good but she didn't achieve what she could have."
Anne's mum died of leukemia at only 48, leaving four children of which Anne was the youngest at 13.
She said: "I've just always been a very glass half full person. I've always felt what's the alternative? This has happened. These women [my grandmothers and my mum], they made it possible to do what I now do."
After giving a TEDx talk on resilience in 2017, Anne started a talk show, Ignite with Anne Hughes, on Sunny Govan radio and launched a series of affordable "empowering and inspiring" workshops, Ignite your Life, which she still runs.
She said: "I believe my purpose in life is to inspire and motivate women, especially working class women.The freelance charity consultant isn’t wasting any of her precious time either, penning a book that aims to empower working-class women, hosting a chat show on local radio and holding motivational workshops. She said: “I’d just stood up from my dinner and got a pain behind my eye and quickly that escalated and I was unconscious by the time the ambulance took me out of my house.”
The freelance charity consultant isn’t wasting any of her precious time either, penning a book that aims to empower working-class women, hosting a chat show on local radio and holding motivational workshops. She said: “I’d just stood up from my dinner and got a pain behind my eye and quickly that escalated and I was unconscious by the time the ambulance took me out of my house.”
Anne, 43, remained in a coma for days with doctors unable to operate on her brain due to the amount of blood that was obstructing their vision. Nine days later a Spanish surgeon entered her brain via her groin and implanted a platinum coil.
She said: “It’s amazing how they fixed my brain. It was in the middle so doing open surgery wouldn’t have worked because they would have had to touch so many bits of my brain to get to it.
“By the time I realised what had happened to me, there wasn’t even a scar or anything.”
Her children, just two, nine and 13 at the time, witnessed their mum falling ill but for Anne, although she wishesthey hadn't, she believes it has equipped them to withstand the sometimes harsh realities of life.
She said: “Now they know. I mean really, really know that things can be so bad but the sun will always shine again.
"I was just lying all tubes and machines and my family were told the chances of me surviving were slim, and if I did I would have severe deficiencies.”
But after another two weeks in hospital, Anne was recovering at home with a shaved head and a scar on her skull from where it was opened to alleviate the bleeding.
She said. “I was very dizzy so I felt like a drunk woman. I couldn’t walk in a straight line. I couldn’t really do very much for myself. My husband had to do a lot for me.”
Instead of feeling victimised by what happened, Anne has transformed her experience into something positive, thanks in part to a lifelong interest in spirituality and self help.
She said: “I’ve been reading self-empowerment stuff for years - I call myself a hippy. I’ve been on a spiritual journey forever. For over 20 years I’ve really immersed myself in it.
Anne recovering in hospital
“As soon as I appreciated what had happened to me I remember having the thought process of, Anne, you’ll fix this in your mind.”
With that positive mindset, Anne was determined to look forward and to never feel sorry for herself.
She said: “I never said why me. I never let my thoughts get negative. It wasn’t up for discussion - I was getting better.“
As well as her physiotherapy, Anne undertook her own mental path to recovery, prescribing herself a regime of meditation, visualisation and positive affirmations.
She counts Glasgow-born motivational expert Jack Black and American spiritual leader Wayne Dyer as teachers.
With the help of an NHS brain clinic and a psychotherapist who were "amazing", she was able to deal with the trauma of what she had been through, regaining confidence and lost chunks of knowledge.
Now, as well as filming new BBC Scotland current affairs comment programme with her husband, Anne's writing the book that she will self-publish so that it reaches every women it needs to.
She said: "What I'm hoping this book does is open up a whole world to people so they can delve deeper.
Anne's three children with husband Garry
"Pursuing a spiritual journey has become a middle-class pursuit and that's why I'm writing the book. It's not for the women who's juggling three kids, has a full time job who's not got a lot of spare money."
Anne, who grew up and lives in Govan, credits her strength to the determined women who came before her.
READ MORE: Glasgow designer creates sustainable clothing brand from used jeans
She said: "I'm from a long line of strong Govan women. When I stand here as Anne, I stand as my mum who was the oldest in a family of 10 who had to leave school at 15 to go and get a job. Her life was good but she didn't achieve what she could have."
Anne's mum died of leukemia at only 48, leaving four children of which Anne was the youngest at 13.
She said: "I've just always been a very glass half full person. I've always felt what's the alternative? This has happened. These women [my grandmothers and my mum], they made it possible to do what I now do."
After giving a TEDx talk on resilience in 2017, Anne started a talk show, Ignite with Anne Hughes, on Sunny Govan radio and launched a series of affordable "empowering and inspiring" workshops, Ignite your Life, which she still runs.
She said: "I believe my purpose in life is to inspire and motivate women, especially working class women.The freelance charity consultant isn’t wasting any of her precious time either, penning a book that aims to empower working-class women, hosting a chat show on local radio and holding motivational workshops. She said: “I’d just stood up from my dinner and got a pain behind my eye and quickly that escalated and I was unconscious by the time the ambulance took me out of my house.”
Shirley Sutherland - Living your purpose
Shirley Sutherland is a Spa Therapist for Portavadie Hotel and Spa. She previously worked across Europe as a Holiday Representative Manager, for 9 years, before returning to Scotland 2014 to study Beauty Therapy, then carrying on to graduate from City of Glasgow College (2018). While working at The Apex Hotel Spa, her student Spa Therapist placement took her to the Corinthia Palace Hotel & Spa in the Island of Malta (2018), where Shirley was offered a job, however had to return due to commitments. Since then Shirley has completed training in Cancer Touch - Well Being Therapy (2019), Reiki 1st Degree Practitioners Course (2019), and Crystals Foundation Diploma (2019). Shirley returned to Malta to work at Earth Garden Festival (2019) where she offered several treatments including variation of Massage, Reflexology, Reiki and Crystal Therapy and worked as a Visiting Therapist at DEA Aesthetics and Wellness Salon. Shirley found this an enlightening experience, one like no other. Working and studying on the West coast of Scotland, Shirley has never felt more at home. She is finally, realising her purposeful life journey, living her true self.
Julia Melville - Kundalini Yoga and Gong bath
The Psychotherapist Yogi
Much more than simply yoga, Julia is also a therapist, relationship therapist, mentor and life coach. Julia offers Kundalini yoga retreats and workshops as well as corporate workshops for employee wellbeing, meditation and pranayama workshops always with an understanding of helping to clear blocks around relationship with self. Julia brings a holistic stance to her practices, using them as a platform to deal with trauma, stress release and issues around relaxation. Julia believes there’s a physiological reason for all imbalances and ailments and aims to help you unearth and address yours. Julia also works as a Theta Healing®️ instructor and practitioner and combines all three of these trainings in her work.
Julia’s work is about supporting you to accept all of yourself, overcoming the old patterns of behaviour that hold you back; that drain your energy; that create conflict with self and others. This is a journey Julia has experienced herself and understands that the value and power is in the partnership created through the work. The value is in the time and space created, unlocking the blind spots and the painful parts to feel the freedom within you. Julia offers all of this with warmth, compassion, humour and confidentiality. This is your space for you to release those patterns that no longer serve you; a space to grow; a place for you to understand your goals, your ambitions and your dreams.
Julia’s particular interest is in the energy of our bodies - the relationship we have with that energy - where we hold energy, how we use our energy and how working in this way shifts our energy. In 2006 Julia changed career and enrolled in a three-year counselling course continuing on to train as a couples therapist. However she was always conscious that psychotherapy couldn’t provide all the answers and was continually searching for alternative methods and techniques. In 2012, Julia attended a retreat and had her first Kundalini Yoga experience. The effects of this experience are still being felt today—Kundalini Yoga is now a daily part of Julia’s life. In 2014, Julia was introduced to the powerful forces of ThetaHealing®. and had an insightful and profound healing, and personally experienced and witnessed the powerful shifts it produces.
Such first-hand experiences encourage Julia to share what she has learnt on her journey to-date with you, knowing that they will be transformational for you too. Julia’s pluralistic approach, which combines talking, healing, meditation and breath work, is a truly unique offering.
Julia has regular supervision ensuring that she has a place to be supported in her work. Supervision can have different meanings but in this context it is about Julia having people there specifically to support her. Julia has regular supervision each month and working in this way helps Julia to fine tune her practice, to be aware of when she is getting over stressed and it is also a place for any questions or issues that might arise from the work Julia is doing.
www.juliamelville.com
Much more than simply yoga, Julia is also a therapist, relationship therapist, mentor and life coach. Julia offers Kundalini yoga retreats and workshops as well as corporate workshops for employee wellbeing, meditation and pranayama workshops always with an understanding of helping to clear blocks around relationship with self. Julia brings a holistic stance to her practices, using them as a platform to deal with trauma, stress release and issues around relaxation. Julia believes there’s a physiological reason for all imbalances and ailments and aims to help you unearth and address yours. Julia also works as a Theta Healing®️ instructor and practitioner and combines all three of these trainings in her work.
Julia’s work is about supporting you to accept all of yourself, overcoming the old patterns of behaviour that hold you back; that drain your energy; that create conflict with self and others. This is a journey Julia has experienced herself and understands that the value and power is in the partnership created through the work. The value is in the time and space created, unlocking the blind spots and the painful parts to feel the freedom within you. Julia offers all of this with warmth, compassion, humour and confidentiality. This is your space for you to release those patterns that no longer serve you; a space to grow; a place for you to understand your goals, your ambitions and your dreams.
Julia’s particular interest is in the energy of our bodies - the relationship we have with that energy - where we hold energy, how we use our energy and how working in this way shifts our energy. In 2006 Julia changed career and enrolled in a three-year counselling course continuing on to train as a couples therapist. However she was always conscious that psychotherapy couldn’t provide all the answers and was continually searching for alternative methods and techniques. In 2012, Julia attended a retreat and had her first Kundalini Yoga experience. The effects of this experience are still being felt today—Kundalini Yoga is now a daily part of Julia’s life. In 2014, Julia was introduced to the powerful forces of ThetaHealing®. and had an insightful and profound healing, and personally experienced and witnessed the powerful shifts it produces.
Such first-hand experiences encourage Julia to share what she has learnt on her journey to-date with you, knowing that they will be transformational for you too. Julia’s pluralistic approach, which combines talking, healing, meditation and breath work, is a truly unique offering.
Julia has regular supervision ensuring that she has a place to be supported in her work. Supervision can have different meanings but in this context it is about Julia having people there specifically to support her. Julia has regular supervision each month and working in this way helps Julia to fine tune her practice, to be aware of when she is getting over stressed and it is also a place for any questions or issues that might arise from the work Julia is doing.
www.juliamelville.com
Yoga Nidra and hooping with Claire Fisher
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Yoga Nidra, sometimes referred to as ‘the art of deep rest’ or ‘yogic sleep’, is a deeply relaxing and restorative meditation carried out lying down in savasana. Studies have shown that regularly practicing Yoga Nidra positively impacts physical and mental wellbeing. Studies also show that regular practice significantly reduces anxiety, depression, and the stress hormone cortisol. As an added bonus, Yoga Nidra also boosts serotonin, the neurotransmitter associated with happiness. So many good reasons to give it a go! Prepare to be taken on a journey into self-discovery and rejuvenation in this 60minute session.
Hilary Thain - Power of Protocols
As a young child Hilary developed a phobia of food resulting in a severely restricted diet that included no fruit or vegetables for over 2 decades. When she was 12 she got glandular fever, her parents divorced and she developed stomach ulcers leading to decades of chronic fatigue, depression and anxiety, a persistent sugar addiction, lack of confidence and low self esteem.
Always believing there was more to life and a way out of suffering she spent the next 3 decades on a journey of discovery. Buying a one-way ticket to Moscow helped build confidence and overcome social anxiety. Training in NLP helped let go of the past and a chronic Irn Bru addiction. Overcoming her food phobia in her 20s and noticing a connection between what she ate and how she felt led to eventually qualifying as a nutritional therapist and training as a plant-based chef.
Despite having all these experiences, knowledge and tools there was still something missing and the fatigue, sugar addiction and anxiety persisted. This is when she came to realise that it’s not just about the food we consume, it’s everything else that’s going on in and around us - the negative self talk, the stress of modern day living, toxins, relationships and holding on to old ways of being.
At the beginning of 2019, after more than a few years working in stressful HR jobs, tired, depressed and making all the wrong food choices, Hilary sold her flat in Glasgow, let go of most of her possessions and was open to seeing where life took her. A sequence of chance events led Hilary to joining the Heal Scotland Community in April 2019. It was here she discovered the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle – community!
Hilary loves cooking for others and bringing people together to eat. She loves to be outside, preferably in the sunshine rather than the drizzle and midges. Hilary is currently based in Argyll volunteering with the Heal Scotland Mission whilst putting together a plan on how she can maintain a healthy, less stressed lifestyle and help others to live more simple and healthy lives.
Always believing there was more to life and a way out of suffering she spent the next 3 decades on a journey of discovery. Buying a one-way ticket to Moscow helped build confidence and overcome social anxiety. Training in NLP helped let go of the past and a chronic Irn Bru addiction. Overcoming her food phobia in her 20s and noticing a connection between what she ate and how she felt led to eventually qualifying as a nutritional therapist and training as a plant-based chef.
Despite having all these experiences, knowledge and tools there was still something missing and the fatigue, sugar addiction and anxiety persisted. This is when she came to realise that it’s not just about the food we consume, it’s everything else that’s going on in and around us - the negative self talk, the stress of modern day living, toxins, relationships and holding on to old ways of being.
At the beginning of 2019, after more than a few years working in stressful HR jobs, tired, depressed and making all the wrong food choices, Hilary sold her flat in Glasgow, let go of most of her possessions and was open to seeing where life took her. A sequence of chance events led Hilary to joining the Heal Scotland Community in April 2019. It was here she discovered the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle – community!
Hilary loves cooking for others and bringing people together to eat. She loves to be outside, preferably in the sunshine rather than the drizzle and midges. Hilary is currently based in Argyll volunteering with the Heal Scotland Mission whilst putting together a plan on how she can maintain a healthy, less stressed lifestyle and help others to live more simple and healthy lives.
Jennifer Main -
Initiation Ceremony: The Service of Leadership
Jennifer Main is a Transformational Guide and Best Selling Author. She has served as a leading instructor of Theta Healing in the United Kingdom and beyond, helping to demystify the complexity of the subconscious, allowing others to live beyond beliefs. She is a catalyst for change, challenging artists, creatives, healers, and entrepreneurs at the top of their fields to expand into uncharted territory. Her goal is to inspire individuals to recognise unique potential and calling, to embrace purpose, and to live an aligned and authentic existence.
Jennifer's latest work has focused on understanding boundaries and barriers, and how we create through the choices we make every day, and that by understanding our motivations, we apply choice as a way to limit or liberate.
Initiation Ceremony: The Service of Leadership
Every one of us is a leader in our own right. We lead through our words, actions, and the choices we make each day. But are we attempting to lead through our fears and pain, or stepping up, into authentic leadership, inspired by the best of ourselves?
True leadership is an act of service, a calling, purpose, and the world is calling for us now.
Join Jennifer as she takes you through aspects of true leadership: integrity, truth, visibility, and intuition. Learn more about your own gifts, waiting to be shared with the world, and how to access and amplify all that you have to offer.
Our ceremony will include poetry, blessings, music, healing, and prayer. I include lyrical messages, music that supports your journey, and words that deeply heal. Ceremony provides a space for death and rebirth, endings and beginnings, new freedom to choose.
During the ceremony, we will take time to resolve family karma and release obligation and fear from the ancestral line.
Jennifer will transmit information throughout the ceremony, for individuals, and for the group's benefit. Time for meditation and inner connection will be given, as well as space for sharing, and expressing these rediscovered gifts.
At the end of the ceremony, you will feel more aligned, more present, and supported in your next steps. I look forward to welcoming you into a new beginning.
