Wellness, Connection & Learning is the ethos at the core of Soul Happy’s Heart Hubs.

Soul Happy Heart Hubs are an immersive experience that will provide you with a chance to learn, practice and connect with like-minded individuals in a supportive environment.

You will learn powerful, tips and tricks to heal and lean into personal growth all while connecting with a community

All our workshops are designed to be fun, interesting, and engaging for those who take part with an aim to get the best outcomes for all who participate.

The Heart Hubs will cover a broad range of elements that contribute to a happy and healthy lifestyle.

Find inspiration and discover new skills to add to your wellness toolbox.  In these Heart Hubs, we will explore a wide range of techniques and topics, including self-care, wellbeing, stress management, and much more. This is suitable for all levels whether you’re a beginner looking to ignite your wellness journey or are well travelled on your journey and looking to learn and connect.

Human connection is a deep bond that’s formed between people when they feel seen and valued, illuminating connections, friendships & supports. Human connection makes you feel heard and understood and gives you a sense of belonging. Even though it seems we’re always connected thanks to social media and our smartphones, that notion couldn’t be further from the truth. Loneliness occurs when there’s a lack of genuine human connection to other people. But what does human connection really mean?

As human beings we are social species, wired to connect. According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, besides food, water, and safety, love and belonging are the most important needs we require and must fulfil. This includes our desire for interpersonal relationships, intimacy, to connect with others, and to be integrated into a group.

When we increase our connectedness with others we gain greater life satisfaction, more resilience & better mental health. Having a strong support system helps people overcome challenges more easily and maintain a state of well being. A sense of social connection is one of our fundamental human needs and it impacts our mental health, physical health, and longevity. Fundamentally we are social animals. We all need connection. Isolation and loneliness set the conditions for despair and depression. Feeling connected allows us to feel a sense of belonging, wanted and cherished. Social support is the belief and actuality that a person is cared for, has assistance from other people and is part of a supportive group.

We encourage sharing of ideas and stories in a supportive and fun environment. But if that’s not your thing and you prefer to just listen to the group that’s ok too.

🧡 Breathwork

Our breath can be truly transformative. When we focus on our breath, we learn a great deal about our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual state. 

Breathwork is an effective way to become aware and allows you to focus on the present moment.  Regulating your breathing can help you address the root causes of stress or anxiety and even help you overcome your triggers. Conscious breathing will change how you respond to daily life and help you react with deliberate intention rather than a response based on anxiety, stress, or fear.

For example, when the breath becomes erratic, it signals to our body that we are anxious, fearful, or worried. When it is calm and regulated, we feel safe and at ease. Paying attention to our breathing patterns allows us to pay attention to our emotions and what we need at any given moment.

The way you breathe affects and influences your nervous system and brain. When you slow your breathing down and focus on the breath, it activates your nervous system. This activation of your nervous system is responsible for whether you respond calmly or with some type of stress response.

Breathwork moves us from our sympathetic nervous system ( fight or flight mode) to our parasympathic (rest and digest mode) allowing us to use our energy to heal, digest, process emotions, build immunity, and create harmony, calm, and homeostasis within our bodies.

Deep breathing releases neurotransmitters that trigger the release of feel-good chemicals, which leads to feelings of happiness and relaxation. When you breathe deeply, it increases your oxygen inhalation and causes you to exhale toxins. 

Taking deep, calming breaths when a trigger or stressful event occurs immediately calms the mind and body. Deep breathing can cause you to handle situations in a present and mindful way.  When you learn to respond to stressors mindfully, you will experience greater success in your recovery and develop more resiliency and gratitude.

With our hectic lifestyles today, it is common to feel stressed, exhausted, overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, and run down. This is because cortisol dampens our immune system. How? It’s all to do with our nervous system. Our nervous system is made up of the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight state) and the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest state).

When we are in the rest and digest state, our bodies are calm and ignite inner healing.  When our breathing is calm and smooth, we experience feelings of connection, trust, and safety.

However, when we are in fight or flight mode, we are ready for an attack from a dangerous situation. Our bodies produce cortisol, we feel anxious or worried, our heart rate gets faster, our breathing gets shallow and energy is being taken from our digestion and immunity.

Unfortunately with our busy, stressful lifestyles today, we are in flight or fight mode a lot more than we should be, creating excess cortisol production, and honestly, it’s slowly killing us. It’s killing our immune systems and our circulatory system, affecting the function of our hearts, causing strokes and heart attacks, damaging our respiratory health, interrupting our sleep, creating anxiety and panic attacks, affecting our digestive systems, and forcing cells to multiply at an excessive rate leading to ill health.

Breathwork unveils a profound journey within, offering a gateway to enhanced well-being and self-discovery. As you embrace the power of conscious breathing, you embark on a transformative odyssey that transcends the boundaries of the physical and touches the realms of the mind and spirit.

The benefits are not merely physiological; they extend to mental clarity, emotional balance, and spiritual harmony. In each intentional breath, a symphony of rejuvenation unfolds, fostering a resilient mind and a vibrant life. Embrace the breath as a guiding force, and let its rhythmic dance lead you to a harmonious existence—one where vitality and inner peace intertwine effortlessly.

Breathwork is said to change and balance brainwaves; over time, this recalibrates the brain, which eliminates many symptoms caused by old emotions and trauma. The parts of yourself long forgotten wake up, and you can feel inspired, creative, and spiritual.

By controlling your breathing, you can become fully aware of your immediate state of mind and emotions and become present in the moment. When you become fully aware of your feelings, you pave a pathway to intentionally and objectively respond to what is happening around you.

🧡 Yoga

Have you always wanted or wondered how to start yoga but don’t know where to start? Have you gone to a class and felt that is was too advanced or talked yourself out of going because you were intimidated, don’t feel like you have the body shape to practice or the level of fitness to practice? Well if you have you’ve come to the right place!

Our Yoga for Beginners is for beginners! This is yoga for bog standard beginners!!!!

Created specifically for you—to give you all the tips, guidelines, and recommendations you need to start a successful yoga practice.

When you’re brand new to yoga, it can feel intimidating and be difficult to know exactly where and how to get started. Our Yoga for Beginners guide is created specifically for you—to give you all the tips, guidelines, and recommendations you will need to start a successful yoga practice.

Our classes are aimed at integrating mind, body, and spirit to achieve a state of enlightenment or oneness with the universe. Guiding you through approaches and techniques – asanas (yoga postures) pranayama (yoga breathing) mudra (body gestures) and sharkarma (internal cleansing) These physical practices are used to purify the body and cultivate prama (life-force energy)

Regardless of what your goals or intentions are for starting, just the yoga poses themselves are a beautiful form of mental and physical exercise.

Yoga is in no way exclusive—being able to practice yoga does not matter how old you are, how much you weigh, what you do for a living, where you live, or what religion you practice or where you are on your wellness journey.

Our Beginner Yoga classes are accessible to everyone.

If you are out of shape or extremely inflexible, our beginner yoga will guide you in a gentle practice,

The yoga movements and poses require clothes that can stretch and move freely with your body. You do not need to purchase clothing specifically designed for yoga practice, you can put together a comfortable outfit from your existing wardrobe to get started.

Yoga classes may use additional props, the most common being straps, blocks, blankets, and bolsters. You don’t need to purchase these right away as you can easily substitute these items with scarves, a stack of books and pillows.

Once you feel comfortable with a few basic beginner yoga postures, you can incorporate them into a sequence where we will continue to guide you to build your practice.

These classes are aimed to improve your flexibility, range of motion, strength, balance, inner peace, and overall well being.

The benefits of yoga are almost endless! Practicing yoga helps build healthy virtues and good values, such as discipline, honesty, devotion, self-inquiry, mindfulness, and non-attachment. Yoga empowers you to make conscious choices toward living a more healthy and fulfilling life.

Yoga also helps you:

🧡Keep your mind healthy and strong
🧡Reduce stress and promote relaxation
🧡Boost your immune system
🧡Help heal aches and pains in the body through gently movement
🧡Increase happiness and well being and reduce depression
🧡Lose weight and change your body shape
🧡Improve and maintain the health of muscles, joints, and organs
🧡Improve flexibility, strength, stamina, mobility, range of motion, and balance

Yoga for Beginners takes you through all the basics of practicing yoga and then teaches you the poses in the context of a yoga practice sequence.

Join us to ignite your yoga practice.

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