If you’ve experienced chronic back issues, or often feel stiff or achy, there are intelligent ways to get things flowing that go beyond basic stretching and strengthening. Eleanor’s approach to mindful mobilisation of the back involves awakening fluidity and ease in the spine, which comes with getting to know your anatomy, understanding the way you’re designed to move, and allowing free physical expression.

In this workshop, you’ll learn about the anatomy of the spine, back muscles and connective tissue, and how issues in your back may be affected by imbalances elsewhere. Through explorative movement, you’ll learn how to notice and gradually release constriction patterns and move through full ranges of motion. We’ll use some self-massage to get things flowing, and restorative postures to practice yielding.

For anyone who joins my weekly classes, this will be an opportunity to learn more about the what and why behind my cues, with plenty of space to ask questions.

These workshops are suitable for all experience levels, as this work is about exploring the experience of your own body.

If you have experience in somatic yoga or have completed the Intro to Somatic Yoga, you may be interested in exploring how this practice can progress into more transformational self-development.

In the basic yoga practice we are becoming more aware of ourselves in our bodies, better able to listen to what’s arising, and following impulses to honour our mind and body in the present moment. We can build on this practice in three key ways:

• Self-regulation practices for daily life

• Emotional processing to let go of conditioned patterns

• Attuning to your intuition to make more aligned choices

In this workshop you’ll be introduced to some tools (including meditation and visualisation), philosophical teachings and psychological frameworks you can use outside of yoga class to start rewiring stress patterns, deepening your self-understanding, and increasing your capacity for authentic relationship.

Please note that Eleanor is trained in Trauma-Informed Yoga and is available for private sessions if you’re working with challenging or distressing themes.

Finding Flow sessions are gentle, restorative practices specifically intended to help you cultivate fluidity in your mind and body.

You can expect to be guided through nourishing flowing movements alongside imagery and poetry to help hypnotise your mind-body system into a state of embodied ease. We end with visualisations and meditations to take you into relaxation and deep rest.

For more on how Finding Flow can help you with stress management, read my below blog.

What can Somatic Yoga do for you? Come and learn about the main pillars of somatic yoga and how they can benefit your wellbeing by helping you become more present, regulated and self-aware.

This may be your first introduction to somatic yoga, or you may be practicing but want to better understand the mind-body process. Greater understanding can often lead you to drop deeper into the practice, as well as bringing the principles into your daily life.

This offering will be live from Jiva Wimbledon studio and livestreamed via Zoom. You can also receive the recording of the session.

I also teach a weekly Somatic Yoga class in Surbiton, Thursdays at 12:45-1:45pm. Come join these classes to see if you’d like to learn more in the workshop, or following the workshop to establish an ongoing practice.

If you’d like to read more about the benefits of Somatic Yoga, read this blog.

This workshop is for anyone who wants to learn how to move with ease, lower overall stress levels, and connect with their body.

Integrated movement is possible when the various parts of your body can properly communicate, thereby orchestrating efficient movement.

Opening up this embodied communication requires body awareness and spatial awareness — a felt sense of how your body interacts with the laws of physics.

In this workshop you can expect:

• Presentation of some fundamental anatomy & biomechanics

• Embodied meditation to awaken awareness

• Explorative movement, including rolling, crawling and standing balances

You don’t need yoga experience to take part, though some basic experience in movement, exercise or sports would be helpful for these concepts to land.

Please note this workshop will be in-person at the Jiva Wimbledon studio. You can book your ticket through their system.

In the studio and online

Developing a strong core is so much more than finding ways to tense your abs. This workshop takes a mindful approach to building awareness, coordination, mobility and stability in the entire core — the whole cylinder of your midsection, from belly, to waistline, to lower back. We will cover the anatomy that makes up the core, including muscles, bones, fascia and organs, followed by breathing practices that help regulate pressure in the core (a key mechanism for both spinal stability and digestion). We’ll then move into gentle movement to help awaken sensitivity and mind-body connection, gradually progressing into more active strengthening postures (for bracing and stability) and movements (for mobility and range of motion). We’ll end with some relaxing restorative postures to help unwind the tension that we developed in the core during the session, which will facilitate the recovery that leads to strength adaptations.

This workshop is open to all levels, and modifications will be offered if some of the exercises feel too strong.

We recommend joining Eleanor’s weekly Somatic Yoga class as preparation and continued practice of these principles, though this isn’t required.

In the studio and online

The benefits of breathwork are more and more widely known, but most people find it hard to develop a consistent practice. Somatics is all about attuning to your body and learning how to let go of unnecessary holding patterns, more so than ‘doing’ more. In this workshop we’ll look at breathing anatomy and mechanics, and then apply this understanding to breath practices with specific benefits for posture and digestion. We’ll also look at the breath’s role in nervous system regulation, applying these principles to practices for stress reduction. Over the 2 hours you can expect: –

• Anatomical, mechanical and physiological theory

• Gentle movement to unlock breath-related soft tissues

• Breath exercises + breath-related meditations & visualisations

This workshop is open to beginners, though some experience in yoga or mindfulness will be helpful. We recommend joining Eleanor’s weekly Somatic Yoga class as preparation and continued practice of these principles, though this isn’t required.

Meditation is a powerful tool in self-development, and in this group we’ll cover various forms of meditation to discover your own unique access points for self-awareness and self-regulation.

But this process is not just about introspection; it’s about exploring how we can take insights about our patterns and beliefs into real-life shifts in your daily experience.

You might expect a range of gentle, meditative movement, breathwork, Active Imagination, visualisation and emotional processing. There also will be space for sharing and asking questions in a safely held container.

Returning to the group each month will be a way for you to find community, validation and support along your self-development and healing journey.

The group facilitator, Eleanor, is passionate about exploring the intersection of meditation, spiritual traditions, psychotherapy and self-development coaching. You can also join her weekly Mindful Movement sessions to deepen your practice of self-awareness and self-regulation.

Wimbledon studio and online

A monthly group all about rewriting your nervous system and getting in touch with yourself. You’ll be guided through a meditative process of discovering and unravelling holding patterns in your body.

Through the meditation and inquiry practices, you can develop an understanding of where and how you are preventing the natural flow of your life. You’ll be able to witness firsthand how the way you live in your body mirrors how you show up in the world.

Students who join live will have the opportunity to share and ask questions for individualised guidance about bringing your insights into tangible shifts in your daily life.

Book through Jiva’s website.

Wimbledon studio and Online Livestream

Yin isn’t just about stretching. It can also be practiced as a way to build your tolerance to stress.

Yin becomes an emotional regulation tool when you allow yourself to lean into your ‘edge’. We can use the sensation of stretch as a microcosm of any intense experience that we may have to deal with in life.

People who love a sweaty workout have found a way to build resilience against uncomfortable situations, but being still and calm in the face of stimulation is a whole other form of ‘mental toughness’, because it’s not about being tough — it’s about being at ease in the face of challenge.

In this workshop, we’ll use mindfulness and self-regulation to ease into the edges of what we’re willing to tolerate. This is not about gritting and bearing pain — it’s about conversing with your body to really get to know your limits, and remaining calm as you approach that fine line.

This approach to meditation is a perfect entry point for anyone struggling with seated meditation, as it provides a meditative focal point other than our deepest shadows and demons.

Book tickets through Jiva.

Join Sarah and Eleanor for a Half Day retreat on Sunday 22nd May 15.00-17.00.

No matter where you are in your journey of motherhood, you’ll be experiencing a thousand feelings all at once. This path is a rollercoaster, and at any given moment you can find yourself overwhelmed, confused, or ungrounded.

In this half-day retreat we’ll explore the very first step to finding balance in this journey you’re taking; the first chapter in the story of your unfolding as a mother. 

The Sacred Pause is that gap between everything that’s pressuring you from the outside world, and all the thoughts pulling you around in your head. It is the sanctuary we find in which nothing is being demanded of us. 

During this half day retreat you can expect:

• Sharing circles 

• Movement to awake the subtle senses in the body

• Meditation to explore nervous system regulation and self-soothing

• Somatic coaching and Reiki healing to shift and balance our energy centres

• Restorative Yoga for a deep rest

• Breathing techniques to find stillness and calm

. We want to give you the tools to continue practicing The Sacred Pause by yourself, so this retreat includes some time to share your experience (if you’d like to) and to ask questions about your specific practice.

Please bring a Yoga Mat, blanket, eye pillow if you have one, bolster or pillow and journal. We suggest you wear comfortable, warm clothing. 

Book via this link.

You can find out more about Sarah and Eleanor here:

www.flowwithsarah.net

www.fluxandflowcoaching.com

This workshop is all about moving and stabilising the joints of the upper body. We’ll be  developing the strength to generate power through the arms, bear weight in our hands, climb, carry — and any other daily activity that might require our upper body strength. 

In building strength, we want to ensure we can be strong while moving through ranges of motion, as well as stabilising ourselves in various positions. This requires awareness, coordination, mobility and stabilisation. 

Expect exercises from yoga, somatics and movement therapy to optimise function at the wrists, elbows, shoulders and upper back. 

Hosted at Jiva Wimbledon and online; available as a recording. Book through Jiva.

Do you find your shoulders are still tight, even after lots of stretching?
Eleanor’s approach will help you unravel tension with more regard for your specific mind and body.

You’ll learn how to truly let go of subconscious holding patterns — taking strain away from the body by clenching and stretching LESS. We’ll use self-massage as a way to stimulate the area, sending fresh blood, taking away waste, while also strengthening mind-body awareness.

You’ll then train your body to move efficiently and gracefully with as little effort as possible. As we gradually move towards strengthening functional movements and improving mobility, you’ll do so with efficient use of tension, rather that unconscious stiffening that causes so much of our pain and imbalances. 

Book tickets through Ebb&Flow Yoga.

In this workshop we’ll explore the anatomy of the mid and lower back. We’ll look at the concept of a ‘neutral spine’, core engagement and opening ranges of motion in the pelvis and ribcage to foster healthy functioning of these areas.

We’ll go through a calibration process of awakening awareness of these body parts, experimenting with therapeutic movement and self-massage.

Our intention is to discover where you might be unnecessarily holding tension or avoiding certain movements because of faulty patterning.

This work will be helpful for anyone dealing with chronic issues in these areas, but may also help with alleviating issues further ‘downstream’. Because we are indeed an integrative system, this approach can also help with overall stress levels by creating flow in the body and ease in the mind.

Book through Ebb&Flow.

In this workshop we’ll explore the anatomy of the upper back and neck. We’ll look at how movement and posture of the ribcage and shoulder blades is integral to health in these areas.

We’ll go through a calibration process of awakening awareness of these body parts, experimenting with therapeutic movement and self-massage.

Our intention is to discover where you might be unnecessarily holding tension or avoiding certain movements because of faulty patterning.

This work will be helpful for anyone dealing with chronic issues in these areas, but may also help with alleviating issues further ‘downstream’. Because we are indeed an integrative system, this approach can also help with overall stress levels by creating flow in the body and ease in the mind.

Book through Ebb&Flow.

In this workshop we’ll mostly look at facilitating healthy range of the arm bones, shoulder blades and ribcage in pushing, pulling and rotational movements.

• £54 for both workshops — Book through this link.

• £28 for single workshop — email me at eleanor@fluxandflowcoaching.com to book.

MINDFUL STRENGTH WORKSHOP SERIES

Do you ever wonder how some people can look graceful & integrated when they move?

Do you always get the same old niggles, aches & injuries?

Do you wish you could better understand how your body functions so you can move with more ease and grace?

I’m putting on a series of workshops to give you a whole new foundation for your physical development.

Whether you’re a seasoned weightlifter or you’re just starting to get curious about building a stronger body, this approach will help you understand how to optimise the way that you train.

We’ll explore anatomy and healthy joint biomechanics to re-educate your body and bring more conscious awareness to your movement.

We’ll work through mobility drills that will develop control and stability through ranges of motion you may not have reached in years!

We’ll look at posture, alignment and positioning in 6 fundamental human movement patterns — ones you’ll definitely recognise if you train already.

If you’ve ever been given cues like “squeeze your tummy”, “push your hips back”, “pull your ribs in” or “arch your back”, perhaps you’re not really sure what they mean practically, or why they don’t seem to be working for you. These workshops will help you explore whether these cues are accurate for your body, and how the ones meant for you actually translate into positional adjustments. You’ll leave with a greater understanding of your unique body and some corrections you may want to work on.

Expect:

• Experiential anatomy for body awareness

• Functional movement & corrective exercise

• Stability in alignment

• Mobility

• Principles of recovery

WHY ‘MINDFUL STRENGTH’?

I’ve designed this approach by bringing together the worlds of yoga, functional movement, corrective exercise and strength training. I noticed a natural connection between these disciplines that I don’t see on offer, so I wanted to marry them together to find a mindful approach to strengthening the body for optimal function. With the fine-tuned awareness of yoga, the intelligent biomechanics of natural movement, and the muscular development of strength training, I believe we can train for longevity and ease of movement.

Each workshop is £28, or you can buy all three as a course for £80. To book or ask any question about your specific needs and interests, contact Eleanor directly at eleanor@fluxandflowcoaching.com

In this workshop we’ll focus on the mechanics of hinging at the hip, squatting and lunging. We’ll look at the anatomy of the pelvis, spine, ribcage and skull, and some potentially controversial discussion of a ‘neutral spine’ and methods of core engagement. We’ll troubleshoot why you might be experiencing back pain during these movements, or why you hamstrings seem to always be tight!

We’ll then move on to look at the anatomy of the hips, knees and feet for squatting and lunging. We’ll look at some novel ways of bulletproofing the knees, opening up functional range in the hips and ensuring solid grounding in the feet.

• £54 for both workshops — Book through this link.

• £28 for single workshop — email me at eleanor@fluxandflowcoaching.com to book.

MINDFUL STRENGTH WORKSHOP SERIES

Do you ever wonder how some people can look graceful & integrated when they move?

Do you always get the same old niggles, aches & injuries?

Do you wish you could better understand how your body functions so you can move with more ease and grace?

I’m putting on a series of workshops to give you a whole new foundation for your physical development.

Whether you’re a seasoned weightlifter or you’re just starting to get curious about building a stronger body, this approach will help you understand how to optimise the way that you train.

We’ll explore anatomy and healthy joint biomechanics to re-educate your body and bring more conscious awareness to your movement.

We’ll work through mobility drills that will develop control and stability through ranges of motion you may not have reached in years!

We’ll look at posture, alignment and positioning in 6 fundamental human movement patterns — ones you’ll definitely recognise if you train already.

If you’ve ever been given cues like “squeeze your tummy”, “push your hips back”, “pull your ribs in” or “arch your back”, perhaps you’re not really sure what they mean practically, or why they don’t seem to be working for you. These workshops will help you explore whether these cues are accurate for your body, and how the ones meant for you actually translate into positional adjustments. You’ll leave with a greater understanding of your unique body and some corrections you may want to work on.

Expect:

• Experiential anatomy for body awareness

• Functional movement & corrective exercise

• Stability in alignment

• Mobility

• Principles of recovery
  

WHY ‘MINDFUL STRENGTH’?

I’ve designed this approach by bringing together the worlds of yoga, functional movement, corrective exercise and strength training. I noticed a natural connection between these disciplines that I don’t see on offer, so I wanted to marry them together to find a mindful approach to strengthening the body for optimal function. With the fine-tuned awareness of yoga, the intelligent biomechanics of natural movement, and the muscular development of strength training, I believe we can train for longevity and ease of movement.

Each workshop is £28, or you can buy all three as a course for £80. To book or ask any question about your specific needs and interests, contact Eleanor directly at eleanor@fluxandflowcoaching.com

This one is for mums and mums-to-be!

Before you can truly step into this role, you must know The Mother archetype within you. To mother authentically, you must learn to mother yourself first.

In this workshop you’ll learn how to cultivate your mother energy. Through movement, meditation, visualisation and Reiki, you’ll experience the felt sense of being held, witnessed with compassion and deeply nurtured. You’ll get the opportunity to share your experience in a safe circle of women on this same journey, and to hold space for those beside you.

You can be anywhere along your path to motherhood to join us, from thinking about conceiving, through pregnancy, to being a new mummy.

I will be co-facilitating this workshop with pregnancy yoga teacher, reiki master and mummy, Sarah Ashe (@flowwith_sarah).

You can book through this link.

When we experience physical stiffness, it’s sometimes because our muscles just don’t want to let go.

But much of the time, it’s also because the connective tissue (myofascia) that encases every muscle and muscle fibre has become ’sticky’ with lack of use. To release the adhesions that build up in the fascia, we can use a variety of techniques including self-massage, stretching and mobilisation, and breathing.

In this workshop you’ll learn about how to work with the chains of myofascia that wrap around the body to release hard-to-get-to knots and tightness — many of which can be missed in your general yoga or stretching practice.

You don’t need to be a yoga practitioner to attend this workshop (in fact, non-yogi athletes and desk workers are highly encouraged to join!).

£35 per person

Book through Ebb&Flow.

*included in Flux&Flow Fellowship membership

If you’re looking to unravel your unwanted patterns and step into the life that is meant for you, here’s a secret you need to know: this process requires bucket loads of compassion for self and others. 

One of the essential steps in working through your conditioned responses involves admitting where you have been unconsciously creating undesired patterns in your life. Knowing we are responsible for our suffering can lead to deeper shame and self-criticism. That’s why self-compassion is essential.

And if we are to accept and forgive the actions of others, compassion again becomes the vital ingredient. Compassion for self helps fosters compassion for others, as vice versa.

In this workshop, we’ll explore the Buddhist view of compassion and try some practices for cultivating what they call ‘loving-kindness’. The idea is to practise compassion so it becomes a way of life, and a soothing balm for any suffering we experience or witness.

We’ll then see what the Tantric tradition has to say on the matter, and practices some invocations that help us contact the unconditional compassion that lies within us all. These practices help to bring compassion into an embodied state.

Drop in workshop: £15

Flux&Flow Fellowship: £45 per month

Email eleanor@fluxandflowcoaching.com to book or enquire.