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Ayurvedic Yoga Massage is a wonderfully effective method, which is a pleasure to both give and receive. It is based on traditional Ayurvedic Massage and Iyengar yoga, and its popularity in the UK has been growing as more therapists and clients experience it. After qualifying in this tradition, Kate is now super-excited to welcome her Teacher and Mentor, Despina - the Founder of Ayurveda Yoga Massage UK, to Sass for a four-hour workshop. This four-hour workshop (you’d be surprised how the time flies during an AYM workshop!) are an excellent way to learn to offer an amazing massage to friends and family - they are going to love you that little bit more! Enjoyable for all participants, you'll learn as much from receiving as you will from practising on someone else. (either you can bring a partner or we can pair you up with another participant). It feels like a gentle yoga practice (which we can help you adjust to your own body, so you are always moving comfortably when offering treatments) and a loving kindness meditation in one. Workshop participants are always surprised at how amazing they feel in their bodies and minds afterwards. Importantly, it is so essential to our wellbeing that we are in contact with how we feel, and present in our bodies - which takes some practice! Both giving and receiving AYM is a brilliant way to improve our understanding of bodies and minds, including our own. AYM is unique in that you give an oil massage, so you feel the quality of the muscles; then you give some assisted stretches, so you start observing how bodies move and connect that with the quality of the muscles. We also use gentle mobilisations, which make it easy to observe when the client is holding parts of the body, and can consciously release them; or when tightness cannot be released by conscious effort, which is where the massage and the stretches come in. Throughout the massage, we are trying to encourage ease of breath so we become tuned in to how people breathe, where they hold their tension, how much of it they can release by relaxing and where massage (and Yoga/other therapies) can come in and help with bringing further softness, freedom of movement and ease of breathing. THE COURSE WILL GIVE YOU Further insight into this amazing but little known technique and the physical/mental benefits of massage Techniques to use on friends and family at home More accessible for people on low incomes who need treatments, but cannot afford regular full price treatments from a therapist The MOST delightful massage experience ever - leaving you feeling in a truly, blissed out state! THIS COURSE IS SUITABLE FOR Complete beginners and those that love massage! WHAT TO BRING/WEAR Loose, comfortable clothing - this a skin massage so ensure you have suitable underwear too. AYM using an oil/calamus powder to massage which can get on clothes but easily washes out. £60 per person or £100 for two people. If you want to book as a pair, please email Kate - kate@sassyoga.co.uk