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Breathing Space Yoga Studio, 14 George Street, Derby (2026)

06/08/2026

🌙This is… Meditation & Yoga Nidra 🌙

🌙 Focus 🌙 Rest 🌙 Restore 🌙

Ever wondered what the difference is between meditation and yoga Nidra?

Meditation and Yoga Nidra are two beautiful practices that invite us to slow down, turn inward and reconnect with ourselves. While they share the intention of cultivating greater awareness and wellbeing, they each offer something uniquely different.

✨Meditation is the practice of mental focus - Whether you’re focusing on the breath, a mantra, sensations in the body or simply observing your thoughts, meditation gently trains the mind to return to the present moment. It’s not about stopping your thoughts but changing your relationship with them, developing greater awareness, clarity and compassion.

✨Yoga Nidra is the practice of conscious rest - Often translated as “yogic sleep,” Yoga Nidra invites you to rest comfortably while being guided through a deeply restorative practice. Rather than focusing the mind on one point, you’re encouraged to soften, receive and simply follow the guidance as your body enters a state of profound relaxation while the mind remains gently aware.

You could think of them like this…

🧘 Meditation trains the mind.

🌙 Yoga Nidra allows the mind and body to deeply restore.

Both practices offer space to step away from the busyness of everyday life, but each takes a different path.

✨ Meditation can help to:
• Develop focus and concentration
• Increase mindfulness and self-awareness
• Create greater emotional balance
• Reduce stress and mental chatter
• Cultivate presence and clarity

✨ Yoga Nidra can help to:
• Encourage deep physical and mental relaxation
• Support nervous system regulation
• Ease feelings of stress and overwhelm
• Promote rest and recovery
• Leave you feeling restored and refreshed

At The Breathing Space, both practices are approached with kindness, curiosity and without expectation.

In a world that constantly asks us to do more, Meditation reminds us to become more aware.

Yoga Nidra reminds us that sometimes the most powerful thing we can do… is rest🤍

05/08/2026

🌬️This is… Pranayama 🌬️

🌬️Breathe 🌬️ Balance 🌬️ Be 🌬️

Pranayama is the practice of conscious breathing and is one of the foundational limbs of yoga.

The word comes from Sanskrit, “Prana” meaning life force or vital energy, and “Ayama” meaning to expand, extend or regulate.

It is more than simply taking a deep breath, Pranayama invites us to develop a deeper relationship with our breath. Using it as a tool to support the body, calm the mind and create a greater sense of balance.

Our breath is something we carry with us every moment of every day, yet so often we don’t notice it.

Through simple breathing techniques, Pranayama encourages us to become present and reconnect with ourselves.

Different breathing practices can be used to gently energise the body, encourage focus, cultivate relaxation or support the nervous system.

At The Breathing Space, we guide you through these practices always encouraging you to work within a pace that feels comfortable for you.

✨ Benefits of Pranayama
• Encourages calm and relaxation
• Supports nervous system regulation
• Helps reduce feelings of stress and overwhelm
• Improves breath awareness
• Enhances focus and mental clarity
• Creates a deeper connection between body and mind
• Encourages presence and mindfulness

Pranayama isn’t about breathing perfectly.

It’s about becoming aware of the breath you already have and discovering how it can support you.

Sometimes, a single conscious breath is enough to help us feel more grounded.

More present.

More ourselves.

Take a moment to listen to your breath.

It’s where a yoga practice begins, and where you can always return. 🌿

🌬️Pictured - Christine practicing

04/08/2026

🤍This is… Metaphysical Counselling 🤍

🤍 Pause 🤍 Explore 🤍 Transform 🤍

Sometimes, life invites us to look a little deeper.

Perhaps you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed or disconnected from yourself.

Perhaps you’re noticing patterns, beliefs or behaviours that no longer serve you.

Or maybe you simply have a quiet sense that something needs to change.

Metaphysical Counselling offers a gentle, holistic approach to self-exploration and personal growth, creating a safe and supportive space to better understand yourself and the life you want to create.

Blending traditional talking therapy with meditation, visualisation and breathwork, each session is an invitation to slow down, reflect and reconnect with your inner wisdom.

Together, you’ll gently explore your experiences, uncover limiting beliefs and create space for new perspectives, greater self-awareness and meaningful change.

This isn’t about someone telling you what to do.

It’s about giving yourself permission to listen to your own voice.

✨ Metaphysical Counselling may help you to:
• Explore thoughts, feelings and life experiences in a safe, supportive space
• Identify beliefs and patterns that may be holding you back
• Build greater self-awareness and emotional resilience
• Gain clarity around your values, aspirations and direction
• Learn practical tools to support your wellbeing beyond each session
• Cultivate greater balance, confidence and inner calm
• Deepen your connection with yourself and your purpose

At The Breathing Space, we believe that healing begins with self-awareness and self-compassion.

You don’t have to have all the answers.

You don’t have to know exactly where to begin.

You simply need to be willing to take the first step.

If you’re curious to learn more, Louise offers a FREE Initial Discovery Call—an opportunity to explore the approach, ask questions and discover whether Metaphysical Counselling feels like the right path for you. 🤍

03/08/2026

🌿This is… Ear Candling & Clarity Ritual 🌿

🌿Refresh 🌿 Restore 🌿 Reconnect 🌿

Our Clarity Ritual is a deeply restorative treatment designed to help you feel lighter, clearer and renewed.

At the heart of this beautiful ritual are Ear Candles. A gentle, traditional therapy that uses the warmth of specially crafted candles to encourage relaxation and a sense of clarity.

Combined with soothing massage, lymphatic drainage and mindful facial techniques, this treatment becomes a complete reset for both body and mind.

Your experience begins with a short consultation, allowing your therapist to tailor the treatment to your individual needs. Every session is thoughtfully personalised, drawing on years of experience to create a nurturing space where you can truly rest, restore and reconnect.

As the treatment unfolds, you’ll enjoy a blissful release of tension through the head, neck and shoulders, gentle lymphatic drainage techniques that support the body’s natural lymphatic system. A soothing facial massage helps relax tired muscles, encourages healthy circulation and leaves your skin feeling refreshed and radiant.

✨ Your Clarity Ritual may help to:
• Encourage deep relaxation
• Ease feelings of sinus congestion or pressure
• Relieve tension in the head, neck and shoulders
• Support the body’s natural lymphatic drainage
• Calm the nervous system
• Promote a sense of mental clarity and wellbeing
• Leave you feeling refreshed, lighter and renewed

Available Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Friday’s.

At The Breathing Space, this is more than a treatment.

It’s an opportunity to pause.

To release what you’ve been carrying.

To create space for rest, clarity and renewal.

Sometimes, the greatest gift we can give ourselves is permission to slow down.

Come and experience your own Clarity Ritual—a chance to reset, restore and reconnect with yourself. 🌿

02/08/2026

✨This is… Usui Reiki ✨

✨Pause ✨ Receive ✨Rebalance✨

Reiki has been a spiritual practice used for thousands of years in Japanese culture, but Usui Reiki is the Reiki energy practice developed by a Japanese Buddhist priest, Dr Mikao Usui.

The word Reiki (pronounced Ray Kee) is often translated as “universal life-force energy.”

Rei refers to universal wisdom or spiritual consciousness, while Ki is the life force energy flowing through all living things.

During a Reiki treatment, you remain fully clothed as the practitioner places their hands lightly on or above different areas of the body whilst channeling the Reiki energy.

Reiki works with the body’s subtle energy body (the Ki and the aura) and the chakras (energy centres). Reiki helps to balance your flow of energy and fill up your energy cup, supporting the body’s natural capacity for rest, restoration and healing.

✨ Reiki can help to:
• Encourage deep relaxation
• Calm the nervous system
• Ease stress and emotional overwhelm
• Support a sense of balance and inner peace
• Promote rest, restoration and overall wellbeing
• Create space to reconnect with yourself

At The Breathing Space, Reiki offers you something that can be difficult to find in everyday life…

Just a quiet space where you can rest, breathe and receive.

Available with our Reiki Master - Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Friday’s.

Whether you come seeking relaxation, emotional support or simply an hour of restoration, Reiki meets you exactly where you are ✨

01/08/2026

🤸🏽‍♀️ Joy & Playfulness ☀️

As we move through the heart of summer, the days invite us to slow down, laugh a little louder, breathe a little deeper and savour the warmth of the season.

Today we welcome Lammas, a time to pause and notice the seeds we’ve planted and the growth we’ve nurtured, both around us and within us.

Before we rush towards what’s next, Lammas reminds us to celebrate what we’ve already cultivated.

The theme woven into our August’s classes is Joy & Playfulness, because these are not luxuries—they’re nourishment.

Sometimes we think yoga is about perfect poses or disciplined practice. But some of the deepest healing happens when we let go of striving and reconnect with curiosity, freedom and play.

✨ To wobble without judgement.
✨ To move because it feels good.
✨ To smile in the middle of a flow.
✨ To breathe deeply simply because we’re alive.

Playfulness helps soften our nervous system, sparks creativity, invites connection and reminds us that movement can be joyful, not just purposeful.

This month, we invite you to honour your own harvest while making space for lightness.

Celebrate how far you’ve come, embrace moments of joy and allow your practice to become a place of exploration rather than expectation.

May this Lammas season remind you that growth and gratitude, strength and softness, purpose and play can all exist together.

🌻 Here’s to harvesting joy.
🌿 Here’s to practising with curiosity.
💛 Here’s to finding freedom in movement.

31/07/2026

✈️ Going on holiday? Take us with you! 🌿

Let’s take The Breathing Space around the world!

Going on holiday this summer? We’d love our tote bag to come along for the ride.

Whether you’re heading to the beach, exploring a new city, wandering through the countryside or simply enjoying a staycation, our Breathing Space tote bag is ready for the adventure.

Take a photo of your tote wherever you are. On the beach, by a lake, in the mountains, at a café, or discovering somewhere new. Don’t forget to tag us in🫶🏽

Let’s see how far our lovely community can travel together. 💚

Where will The Breathing Space tote bag be spotted next? 🛄

30/07/2026

🤍This is… Rosen Method Bodywork 🤍

🤍Listen 🤍 Release 🤍 Reconnect 🤍

Rosen Method Bodywork is a gentle form of touch that invites you to reconnect with yourself in a deeply restorative way.

Rather than working deeply into muscles or using forceful techniques, Rosen Method uses attentive touch and presence to bring awareness to areas of unconscious tension that the body may have been holding for years.

Our bodies often carry the stories of our lives. Stress, emotions and past experiences can sometimes become held as patterns of muscular tension, long after the original event has passed. Rosen Method offers a safe, supportive space to become aware of these patterns, allowing the body the opportunity to soften and let go in its own time.

There is nothing you need to achieve.

Nothing you need to force.

Simply space to notice, breathe and be.

✨ Rosen Method can help to:
• Encourage deep relaxation
• Increase body awareness
• Gently release long-held muscular tension
• Support emotional and physical wellbeing
• Calm the nervous system
• Foster a greater sense of ease, presence and self-connection

At The Breathing Space, every Rosen Method session is guided by curiosity, compassion and respect for your individual experience. The treatment unfolds at your body’s own pace, creating an environment where you can feel deeply supported and truly listened to.

Available Tuesday’s and Thursday’s.

Sometimes, the body speaks in ways that words cannot.

Sometimes, simply being heard through gentle, mindful touch is enough to begin a process of change.

Rosen Method isn’t about doing more.

It’s about creating the conditions for your body to remember how to let go. 🤍

29/07/2026

👣This is… Reflexology 👣

👣Restore balance 👣 Release tension 👣 Reconnect 👣

Reflexology is a holistic therapy works on the principle that specific points on the feet (reflexes) correspond with different areas, organs and systems of the body. By applying specific pressure to these reflex points, the treatment aids balance, support relaxation and promote an overall sense of wellbeing.

Although the treatment focuses on the feet, many people describe experiencing a feeling of relaxation throughout their entire body. As tension begins to melt away, the body has an opportunity to slow down, reset and simply rest.

Every reflexology session begins with time to understand what you’d like to gain from your treatment. Your session is then tailored to you, creating a calm and nurturing experience that supports both body and mind.

✨ Reflexology can help to:
• Encourage deep relaxation
• Support the body’s natural balance
• Help ease stress and tension
• Promote a sense of calm and wellbeing
• Encourage rest and relaxation
• Provide time to pause, recharge and reconnect

At The Breathing Space, reflexology is more than a foot treatment—it’s an invitation to slow down and give yourself the care and attention you deserve.

Many people find that as the body relaxes, the nervous system begins to settle, breathing becomes softer and a deep sense of calm emerges. It’s a chance to switch off from the demands of everyday life and enjoy a moment that is entirely yours.

Available Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Friday’s.

You don’t have to do anything.

Simply lie back, relax and let your feet tell their story 👣

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