insideKENT Magazine Issue 93 - December 2019 | Page 130

HEALTH+WELLNESS SEASONAL WELL-BEING CONT. tells us how having access to nature on a daily and weekly basis supports a healthy and happy life, supporting your immune and hormone systems, lowering blood pressure and supporting your mental and emotional well being. It is also a lovely way to spend time with friends, or connect with your family 2. Slow down: Make the right choices for you and learn to say no: We have a lot of fear around saying no, because we are worried about offending and or disappointing others. Often this only leads to more stress and anxiety; promoting less rest and less self-care. Creating boundaries for yourself will often provide others with the chance to reflect on their demands. And will allow you the freedom to change any unhealthy patterns. 3. Get cosy, and invite the winter spirit into your world: Light fires and candles, spend time inside reading a book, take long baths or perhaps get creative. Creativity is something that lives within us all, each moment of the day as humans we are creating a new life on a cellular level. Choose something that you have always wanted to explore without an end goal or an expectation of perfection! Paint, draw, write, sing and build…have some fun with this. 4. Create that winter pause with holistic practises: Enjoy holistic practices, such as yoga. Find a class that particularly offers you the opportunity to work with your breath and explore restorative yoga, yoga nidra, and guided meditation and long relaxation. Winter Rest Retreat - 1 February 2020 Alice Rose will be holding a Winter Rest Retreat for women at the beautiful location of The Old Palace Retreat in Wrotham, Kent. The intention for the weekend is to honour the essence of winter and create a restful space for participants to take a pause from life, find stillness, reflect and ultimately rest. The weekend offers a deeply restorative, nourishing and relaxing experience. There will be gentle and restorative yoga practises, seasonal and local menus, 130 meditation, relaxation, sound healing, yoga nidra by local Kentish teacher, Lauren Barber, and a unique skincare workshop, ‘Love your Skin’ by beauty expert and Kentish holistic therapist, Emine Rushton. To add to the rest factor The Old Palace offers luxury rooms for you to retire too creating the most restful weekend away from the busyness of everyday living. For all information and prices please go to www.alicerose.space/winter-retreat All these practises work directly with the parasympathetic nervous system, moving you out of your fight and flight mode and into a rest and digest response. This helps to lower blood pressure, anxiety, physical, and mental stress, leading you to create a more harmonious and higher state of well being. Alice Rose lives and offers classes, seasonal workshops and retreats in Kent, she is a yoga teacher, sonic sound healer and soul space designer; creating lovingly nurturing spaces for you to welcome yourself home, rest, embody and heal. www.alicerose.space [email protected]