EU Parliament Conference on Ayurvedic Indian Medicine 23 January 2024 Alice Roberts – first published 26 January 2024 Key abbreviations EU – European Union UK – United Kingdom AYUSH – Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy: the six Indian systems of medicine prevalent and practiced in India and some neighbouring Asian countries. WHO –[…]
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Improvements to our floatation suite have enabled us to pass on savings in the prices of floats, saunas and spa packages This August, we closed for 10 days to upgrade our floatation experience. By giving our floatation pool its own float room, within the larger floatation therapy suite, we’ve created a closer environment that’s better at[…]
Early shopping to help you beat the festive rush NB. These November 2020 offers have now expired. We’re having a November Noel sale! 20% off some wonderful Unity Spa experiences, plus Unity gift vouchers, only during November. Festive gift for a friend or loved one? Post lockdown detox or unwind? Buy now and save 20%! Valid[…]
FRIDAYS, 6.30–7.45pm, LIVE ON ZOOM. JUST £20 FOR THE FULL COURSE. BOOK HERE Imagine trying yoga for the first time. In the complete privacy of your own home. With expert, live online guidance. A lockdown project? Even a lockdown benefit? Yoga for beginners is a four-week live Zoom course that gently introduces beginners like you[…]
Sadly we have to close our doors during lockdown II, from 5 November until we reopen on 3 December 2020. But through lockdown we have a full 16(!) live Zoom classes a week for just £8 per class (and free to members), offering yoga, pilates and tai chi. Here’s a rundown of what we’re offering[…]
Unity founder Sevanti reflects on the help that gentle one-to-one yoga, breathing, meditation and more are giving to people who find the current times difficult. Ciara is a young girl who’s profoundly affected by anxiety. The isolation of the last few months has made life much more challenging for her. She’s a child who lives[…]
I am sure that most of us have experienced the past 6 weeks of lockdown as an intense rollercoaster of change. Change is the only constant, nothing ever remains the same of course. Yet this time, this extreme situation provides us with an opportunity to stand back and look afresh at life as we[...]
When the Unity Centre took over the Old Turkish Baths in Lewes, the building was nothing more than an empty Victorian-age shell. This presented a clean slate to work with when it came to choosing the heating system. We knew we wanted our business to produce low to zero carbon emissions, in keeping with our[…]
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to retreat into a cave, drown out election woes and Brexit and even calm our climate anxiety just for a bit? Let’s take inspiration from nature and do what bears do. Rest and renewal is what our bodies deeply crave at this time of year . . . but as well[…]
We all come from a long line of ancestors, of fates and stories once told and later lost. However lost and forgotten our ancestral past may be, it still lives through us, mostly unconscious and unexplored. Our lives are influenced by events and experiences that happened to others in a distant past and we are[…]
This week I was asked to teach yoga to teenagers at a secondary school with body image in mind, as part of mental health awareness week 2019. It was an exciting opportunity to share the practice of yoga with young people and to present them with a potentially invaluable resource for self care. It also[…]
Soundbaths seem to be all the rage at the moment, even getting a bit of air time on ITV’s Lorraine television programme at the start of the year. But what exactly is a sound bath, or sound healing for that matter? Sound healing may seem like a modern concept, but it is a healing modality[…]
We are all made up of a collection of programs, which we acquire through various channels in the course of our lives: some are innate, some are learned. We are often unaware of these as they influence how we live and how we are. They affect us on the material, emotional, mental and psychic levels,[…]
W/FMT is a non-invasive, gentle & yet deep massage covering the upper & lower abdomen, from the diaphragm to just above the pubic bone and the upper & lower back and glutes. We work over the conception vessel (Ren), the Mother Line, the lower chakras, & around the pelvic bowl. Treatments end with wrapping of[…]
Shamanism, Why is it Different? I gain clarity and nourishment from what some people call ‘The invisible realms’. I often have a sense of having one foot in this ‘other world’. This is the land of the mythic, a land of story, archetype and myth. As a shamanic practitioner, I’ve used my shamanic skills and[…]