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Grounded in the Glow - online festival

Summer Solstice marks the longest day of the year, when the sun is at its highest position in the sky. Since prehistory, this been a significant time in cultures across the world, and has been marked by festivals and rituals. Join us for a day of nurturing practices to deepen our sense of harmony and connection with nature, through yoga and ayurveda.

Attendees are invited to join us live throughout the day, bring your notebooks and questions, and will receive links to the recordings. If you cannot attend live and wish to watch the recordings in your own time, there's a ticket for that too.   

Tutors: 

9-10.15 - Nahdeannah Francis-Pennant In Bloom: A Summer Solstice Sojourn 

10.45-12 - Geny Caloisi: Ayurveda for Summer

12.30-13.45 - Emma Tian Williamson: Qi Flow: Discover the Synergy of Qigong and Yoga

14.30 - 15.45 - Richard Kravetz: Sense the Season: Chair & Wall-Supported Sensory Yoga for Solstice.

16.15- 17.30 - Vicky Arundel: Cooling the Fire: Myofascial Release, Acupressure, and Nervous System Regulation

In Bloom - A Summer Solstice Sojourn with Nahdeannah Francis-Pennant   
A somatic movement and visualisation practice inspired by the Summer Solstice and the Solar Plexus Chakra, inviting you to reconnect with your vitality, confidence, and inner fire. Grounded yet playful, this session explores themes of fire, air, and seasonal transition through gentle, warming movement, embodied flow, and imaginative imagery drawn from the natural world. 
Balancing activation and ease, the practice gradually softens into guided relaxation and song, offering space to integrate, restore, and reconnect with a sense of joy, ease, and inner radiance - leaving you feeling nourished, uplifted, and deeply present. 

Ayurveda and the Summer Solstice with Geny Caloisi

Yoga and Ayurveda were always intended to work together. Yoga gives us practices to support the mind and consciousness, while Ayurveda helps us care for the body and create the conditions for health and wellbeing. Together they offer a framework for living in harmony with ourselves and with nature. The Solstice marks the beginning of the Pitta season, associated with heat, transformation, ambition and intensity. Those qualities exist not only in the environment but also within us. We may feel more productive and energised, but also more prone to irritability, inflammation, overheating or burnout.

This session will explore how we can work with the energy of summer rather than against it. We'll look at practical Ayurvedic approaches to food, daily routines, meditation practices, lifestyle habits and simple techniques such as mudras that can help support balance during the warmer months. There will also be a guided visualisation, to give attendees an opportunity to experience these principles.

Cooling the Fire: Myofascial Release, Acupressure, and Nervous System Regulation with Vicky Arundel 
We live in a yang-dominant culture, and the heat and intensity of summer can amplify this - often showing up as burnout, feeling “tired but wired”, restlessness, or mental agitation. This session invites you to explore how working with the fascia can offer a powerful and practical entry point into calming, balancing, and regulating the nervous system, drawing on both Eastern and Western perspectives of health. 
Through a blend of theory and experiential practice, you’ll be guided toward a deeper embodied understanding of how fascial work can support physical ease, energetic balance, and nervous system resilience. For the practice portion, participants will be invited to use a pair of myofascial balls (or two tennis balls as an alternative).

Sense the Season: Chair & Wall-Supported Sensory Yoga for Solstice with Richard Kravetz
Celebrate the summer solstice with a gentle, accessible yoga practice, designed for people with visual impairment. This 75-minute class invites you to explore the season through sensation rather than sight, using clear verbal guidance and curious mindful movement as we experience yoga through touch, sound, breath, and inner awareness.

Qi Flow: Discover the Synergy of Qigong and Yoga with Emma Tian Williamson
This session will introduce qigong and the ways it can illuminate and expand your yoga practice.  Discover how these two traditions offer a powerful path back to embodied aliveness and wholeness; exploring their shared roots and distinctive threads, and the creative ways they enrich each other. You'll experience their synergy in a Qi Flow practice: pairing yoga's grounded alignment and mindful transitions with qigong's spiralling movements and subtle energy work. Moving with intention and blending softness with strength, you'll attune to the qi and prana flowing through you, uncovering inner harmony and a deeper connection with body, heart and spirit.

Additional Information

The Zoom link can be accessed once you have booked your ticket, via My Events, click onto this event, open the Meeting Information tab. 

What to Bring

Yoga mat and props you find useful for asana, pranayama and meditation practice. Notebook and pen. 

For Vicky's session you will need two tennis balls or you may prefer to use massage balls: 
https://www.stressnomore.co.uk/products/yoga-tune-up-therapy-balls-92395  

For Richard's session you will need a chair, a wall for support and a scarf or blindfold.