Meet Susanna Edwards – Weblog

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All of us face challenges in life whether or not or not it’s the pressures of labor, monetary or relational challenges, physique and hormonal transformations similar to menopause or coping with psychological or bodily sickness, or with loss or grief. 

I’ve lived  with a continual pelvic situation because the start of my daughter 13 years in the past and I’ve been on a journey of self discovery in mid-life. I’ve researched, lived and constructed a strong set of methods to navigate life with positivity, elevated capability to perform and embrace wellness in physique and thoughts and outlook. I now share my learnings with others.

My background is in artistic arts, though I’ve at all times practiced totally different types of yoga; Yin, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Ashtanga. I knew when the programs and buildings I operated inside weren’t serving me anymore, that my true path was to pivot and change into a yoga instructor, to concentrate on this as my central follow and to make use of my previous expertise and information to reinforce this follow. That is after I arrange the Faculty of Inventive Wellness.

Creativity, educating and studying are in my DNA. By combining my previous experiences and expertise with yoga and breathwork I’ve created a singular enterprise. Disciplines merge, methods of noticing, seeing and understanding ourselves are explored in a holistic sense.

I exploit motion, breathwork and picture and textual content/writing based mostly artistic strategies to look at, course of and create, and I assist others to do the identical. It feels proper, a real calling in my mid-life.

What does a typical day seem like for you? 

In the meanwhile I’m placing collectively a brand new on-line providing ‘Breathe Straightforward for Menopause Mums.’ It’s based mostly on my expertise of menopause, mumming, working and burnout. Burnout can creep up on you.  I do know so many ladies who’re beneath such strain in midlife, juggling careers, parenting, taking care of ailing mother and father and hitting perimenopause all on the identical time. I wish to share the strategies that helped me and share preventative strategies to keep away from burnout. This providing is a brief, simple to digest on-line breathwork course to assist ladies develop a each day follow of anchoring, respiration and studying to self regulate their nervous programs. There are three each day pranayama  video practices (3 per week for six weeks) to follow once you wake, at lunchtime and earlier than mattress. It’s onerous to take time and area for self with a number of each day calls for, it’s also onerous to create new habits so I’m there in a pleasant, useful and bitesized manner as a supply of studying, of consolation and of growing new strategies to stay by.

I educate on-line and in individual a number of days every week Yin, Restorative and extra dynamic Hatha/ Vinyasa based mostly lessons, I’ve personal shoppers and a beautiful group of standard ladies who attend every week, ages vary from 12 to 88.  I stroll on a regular basis with my two Cockapoos Bennie & Pickle and being in nature on a regular basis is tremendous vital for me. I additionally meet up with different artists and wellness practitioners to plan and ship pop up occasions and experiences. I may be working a retreat or volunteering at a neighborhood market backyard referred to as Worthy Earth. Additionally it is vital for me to be current each day with my household, my daughter, my mum and my associate and to chuckle, not take life too significantly. 

Immediately I went for a sauna and swim in a lake on personal land in Hampshire at Fallen Willow Sauna (one in every of my collaborators). I’ve not too long ago purchased a rebounder so the day typically begins with a bounce. After I attended the superb Aryveda sequence of lessons on this Yoga Issues neighborhood I found my Kapha predominant dosha likes to begin the day with bouncing to get the whole lot flowing and to keep away from stagnation and sluggishness. 

Mainly I do what feels good and worth issues similar to time, nature, studying and neighborhood having stepped away from the grind tradition and feeling like I used to be by no means ‘sufficient’.

How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to change into a yoga instructor? 

I’ve practiced since my early 20s and I’m now 48. My first ardour and studying was in Iyengar. I actually acquired into the precision of  it and went a number of occasions to India on Yoga and Ayuvedic retreats. I felt an actual pull to change into a yoga instructor in my mid to late 20s however I used to be rising a vibrant profession in arts and design schooling and growing my very own design follow. I dabbled with several types of yoga over time, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Restorative and Yin. Yin turned an enormous a part of my life in 2018 and over the next two years I’d go to a category with my Mum taught by a tremendous instructor Daphne. She battled with most cancers on and off for years and used Yin to assist others with most cancers or caring for others with most cancers.  Sadly she handed away a number of years in the past however her voice and spirit is etched within  me. My Dad was identified with Mesothelomia (asbestos associated) most cancers and Daphne and her lessons helped us by a very onerous time. After Dad died in 2020  I hit burnout and went on a journey of unravelling and of  complete recalibration. I labored on rediscovering my pleasure and reprioritising what I wanted, liked and desired in my life. Yoga was a each day should, alongside residing extra in tune with nature and my creativity and creating area in my life for household.  A interval of unlearning and relearning occurred and is ongoing. So I retrained as a yoga instructor and right here I’m completely loving what I do and feeling nicely and rooted and persevering with my path and fervour of educating however in new methods, methods which are pertinent to our occasions and sharing the instruments and strategies that labored for me. Residing authentically and listening to what I want.

What impressed you to specialise in your follow?

Though I educated beneath Lucas Rockwood at Yoga Physique (Barcelona), the place the coaching was scientifically pushed, and the fashion was vinyasa based mostly I’ve undertaken additional coaching in Yin, Restorative, Yoga Nidra and additional utilized anatomy &  physiology of yoga. I’ve additionally educated within the Science of Wellbeing (Yale College) and have attended plenty of artistic brief programs, an Accelerating Girls’s Enterprise programme by the Faculty of Social Entrepreneurs. Alongside my very own journey of therapeutic with CBT, Trauma and Bereavement counselling. I’ve labored with various therapies similar to CST (Cranio Sacral Remedy) which for me discovered superb ends in releasing buried trauma and my womb. I actually take a look at wellness from a holistic perspective. I suppose I’ve recognized issues that I’ve confronted and that society faces at the moment, disconnected people, patriarchal programs born out of capitalism that take away us from being related, societal expectations, strain, hustle tradition, menopause, mid life disaster, loss, trauma… And I’ve fashioned an idea and enterprise that helps individuals to heal, to reconnect, to be human, to seek out pleasure,to really feel impressed, to create area, to manage. 

Due to this fact the specialist Yoga areas I’m actually fascinated with and that appear probably the most related are Yin, Restorative, Nidra but in addition different strategies to course of, to unlearn, to discover, to replicate  and to create embrace writing, drawing, printing, narrative exploration utilizing imagery. I’m notably fascinated with trans-disciplinary collaboration between artists, musicians, psychologists, therapists, yoga academics. That is what actually excites me, this holistic method to wellness. To create new issues, new strategies, new methods of exploring who we’re and what worth we will convey to others and to the world we stay in. The world wants creativity proper now and it wants therapeutic. That is my calling.

How have you ever seen your follow profit your college students?  

I can really feel it and see it. In a category it’s palpable each on-line and in individual. Individuals carry of their day, their power, their experiences. The lessons I ship permit them to shed, to let go, to create area, to heal and most vital to take heed to their true selves. They shift, there’s a metamorphosis. It’s stunning. I can see it of their posture, their tone, their faces, their eyes. It’s a person and a collective expertise. All of us really feel it. It’s a sure form of alchemy. The Yin is superb as a result of I do know have the identical group coming over for over 2 years now. I can see how the follow helps them on a weekly foundation but in addition over the seasons – it’s actually stunning and cyclical. This provides me such pleasure. 

I suppose it’s fairly a maternal factor. I’ve taught since I used to be 21 and suggestions from college students was at all times that I impressed them,  I made them really feel secure, in a position to be weak, to share, join, uncover and develop. To seek out their voice not their fashion to be their genuine selves. It is a present. I’ve solely been educating yoga for two years and I do know that I’m doing the identical as I did in an artwork and design context, I’m bringing all that have with me. I’ve been so fortunate to have such superb suggestions which you’ll see on our web site. 

To be instructor you might want to be humble and to be scholar, to keep away from comparability as a lot as you’ll be able to in an instagram world and to do what feels proper and to by no means cease studying. I really like sharing, laughing, holding, nurturing and creating. That is it. I’m a fuller bodied center aged lady who loves what I do- that is good power and persons are drawn to good power and it spreads, it’s contagious. Come and be part of me!

What’s your favourite quote or life motto?

Honour thy error as a hidden intention.

Brian Eno

I wish to rethink ‘give up’ as an energetic verb.

Brian Eno

What’s developing for you in 2024/2025? 

Yin Yoga for Autumn – Yoga Issues Group Class Sunday thirteenth October 2024

The primary of  4 seasonal Yin Yoga lessons  for Yoga Issues Group

Yin Yoga for Autumn  – Om Yoga Present October 2024

6 Week Inventive Wellness Course Yoga Issues Group 2025 register curiosity right here 

Breathe Straightforward for Menopause Mums – On-line Bitesize Breathwork Course for Girls. Study to Self Regulate Your Nervous System and Handle Peri/Menopause Signs. Quick, Manageable 2-5 min Morning, Lunchtime and Night Video Practices, Toolkits and Sensible Data. Lifetime Entry.

Winter Deep Relaxation Retreat in Hampshire – SCW X Emily Bruce Yoga Remedy. Expertise Yin & Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Nutritious Meals, Science of Relaxation, Journaling, Nature Walks & Inventive Workshop. seventh -Tenth February 2025.

Summer time Wellness Retreat at Three Daggers Wiltshire – SCW X Arc Pilates.  Expertise Farm to Fork Eating, Yin Yoga with Acupressure, Guided Yoga Nidra, Pilates & Fascial Launch, Breathwork & Nervous System Regulation, Sauna with Optionally available Chilly Water Swim, Time to Learn, Chill out and Use the Wellness Services. twentieth -Twenty second June 2025.

• Breathwork & Yoga
• On-line Wellness Quick Programs
• On-line & In Particular person Wellness Occasions
• Wellness Retreats
• Inventive Workshops

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Private:

Strolling, wild Swimming and Sauna, Foraging, making time for household & pals and happening a retreat for me with Dirish in Spain in November. 

Common Restorative Hatha & Yin Yoga Observe for me and rebounding a beautiful morning bounce on my new rebounder  to spring into every day!