Saturday 11th October 1.00-2.30pm

Riverside Wellbeing, Whaley Bridge, SK23 7AA

Max 8 people

Investment of £30 if booked before 1st October - then £ 35

Calm Your Inner Critic – Parts Work, Somatic Regulation & Reframing Exercises

We all carry an inner critic – that voice that questions, judges, or holds us back. In this experiential workshop, you’ll learn how to soften its grip and cultivate a kinder, more supportive inner dialogue.

Drawing on parts work, you’ll explore the protective role your inner critic plays and begin to meet it with curiosity rather than resistance. Through somatic regulation practices, you’ll discover tools to calm the nervous system and create space between the critic’s voice and your deeper self. Gentle reframing exercises will then help you shift perspective, opening new pathways for confidence, creativity, and self-compassion.

This workshop is for anyone who feels weighed down by self-criticism or perfectionism, and is ready to find more ease, balance, and inner support. No prior experience is required - just a willingness to explore and meet yourself with openness.

Creativity in Motion: A Somatic Journey to Transform Anxiety into Expression

Saturday 8th November 2025 | 12.30–2.30pm

Riverside Wellbeing, Whaley Bridge

With Dr. Sally Eccleston, Registered Psychologist, Somatic Therapist and Yoga Teacher, and Tess Gee, a local illustrator

About the Workshop

This two-hour creative and somatic workshop offers space to move from anxiety into presence through embodied movement and mindful art-making.
By combining gentle physical awareness with creative expression, the session supports emotional release, nervous system regulation, and a renewed sense of calm.

You don’t need any previous experience in art or movement. All you need is comfortable clothing, curiosity, and a willingness to explore how the body and creativity can help you reconnect with ease and inner steadiness.

What to Expect

Arrival and Grounding

We begin by slowing down and bringing awareness to the body. Gentle breathing and simple movements help release physical tension and signal safety to the nervous system. This time allows you to settle, arrive fully in the present moment, and prepare for creative exploration.

Movement and Expression

Through guided yet intuitive movement, with easy to follow movements, you’ll be invited to explore how emotion and energy move through the body. As you reconnect with rhythm and flow, you’ll be invited to express your experience through colour, texture, and shape—alongside words if you wish. Creative expression provides a way to process feelings and experiences that can be hard to verbalize, supporting regulation and self-awareness.

Transformation and Connection

From movement and expression, we shift into openness and connection. You’ll explore what it feels like to move with more ease and create from a place of trust and joy. Together we’ll contribute to a shared mandala - a collective symbol of wholeness and transformation.
Mandalas represent wholeness, the universe, and the interconnectedness of all things. They are often used as tools for reflection and healing. Together we’ll create one as a group, and each participant will take home a small piece to remember the experience and the sense of connection it inspired.

Integration and Reflection

We close with a period of stillness and gentle rest, allowing body and mind to integrate the experience. You’ll leave feeling grounded, lighter, and more connected to yourself - with simple, embodied ways to return to calm and presence in daily life.

Tea and snacks will also be offered as part of this workshop.

What You’ll Gain

This workshop offers a safe, supportive space to pause and reconnect with yourself. Through movement, breath, and creative expression, you’ll learn evidence-informed practices that help reduce tension, increase self-awareness, and support emotional regulation.

You’ll gain simple, body-based tools for grounding and calming the nervous system, as well as ways to approach anxiety and stress with curiosity rather than resistance.

By the end of the session, you’ll likely feel more centred, open, and connected to your body’s natural capacity for balance, creativity, and resilience.

Your Hosts

Sally
Sally is a highly trained, registered HCPC Psychologist and Senior Yoga Teacher with over eight years of experience and professional training. She is skilled in a range of therapeutic approaches, with a special interest in integrating the body within psychological therapy. Yoga was introduced to her as a student in 2011, and after completing her Doctorate in Psychology, she undertook her initial yoga teacher training in 2016. Sally believes that yoga and movement are powerful tools for change — helping strengthen the mind–body connection and supporting awareness of the barriers to wellbeing, including trauma and mental health challenges.

Tess
Tess is a self-taught illustrator who has always found presence and peace through drawing. With a love of patterns, the female form, and the natural world, she creates artwork, cards, and window illustrations for local businesses. Her creative practice centres around mindfulness, beauty, and connection - inviting others to find stillness and joy through simple acts of making.

Step away from the noise of daily life and gift yourself 90 minutes on a Sunday evening devoted to deep rest and renewal. This workshop combines the profoundly restful practices of restorative yoga, the guided journey of yoga nidra, and gentle somatic unwinding to help you soften tension, calm your nervous system, and reconnect with a sense of inner ease.

Through supported postures, mindful breath, and guided relaxation, you’ll be invited to release layers of physical, mental, and emotional fatigue. Somatic unwinding offers space to gently listen to your body’s natural rhythms, while yoga nidra opens the doorway into a deeply restorative state of consciousness often likened to “yogic sleep.”

Whether you’re feeling depleted, stressed, or simply in need of a reset, this immersive practice will leave you grounded, nourished, and replenished. No prior experience is needed - just come as you are and allow yourself to be held in stillness and rest.

Held at Riverside Wellbeing in Whaley Bridge

Investment of £17

Winter Solstice Immersion Retreat

Honouring Darkness & Welcoming Light

📅 Sunday 21st December 2025

🕙 10:00am – 4.30pm

Where? Riverside Wellbeing, Whaley Bridge, SK23 7AA

Early Bird Price until 9th November: £95

Standard price: £110

Limited to 8 spaces only

What’s Included

✨ A full day of practices to align with the Winter Solstice and New Moon energy:

• Morning Circle & Intention Setting - arrive gently, connect with others

• Ceremonial Cacao

• Authentic Flow - warming movement to stoke inner fire in the winter stillness

• Parts Work Reflection - journaling + guided inquiry to release the old year and what no longer serves

• Candlelight Letting-Go Ritual - symbolic burning, writing, or earth-offering

• Seasonal Lunch - a nourishing, warming vegan meal with herbal teas

• Afternoon Restorative & Yin Practice - long-held, deeply supportive postures with bolsters and blankets

• Yoga Nidra Journey - guided rest honouring the darkest night, opening to the return of light

• Closing Ceremony - collective intention setting for the year ahead, with song/chant or meditation

As well as a

🌿 Take-home ritual pack including:

🌟 Curated music playlists, candlelit practice space, and seasonal altar for collective offerings.

Join other like minded individuals for a celebration of Winter Solstice, a time of deep rest. This is a magical time of year at the height of darkness before we begin to welcome the light back in.

We can use the energy of Winter Solstice as a reminder to honour both the light and the dark, and to nourish the depths of you. Enjoy some time set aside to rest and replenish so that you can enter the festive break as a rested rather than exhausted being! It is hibernation time in Nature and it is a wonderful opportunity for us to harvest what we’ve sown and developed over the past year, and then reflect and refocus. As we honour winter we honour our yin and slowness before spring starts to emerge. It’s also a great time to plant our own seeds for changes we want to manifest in our lives.
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This time is so very needed right now to create a sense of clarity and peace for yourself - you will be surrounded by love, positivity and practices to help you to feel alive and remember what's really important.

Held on the edge of the Peak District, in a cosy and inviting studio space, with 10 people maximum. Not only improve and dedicate time to your mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing but also meet likeminded people in the community.

✨ This retreat is a chance to pause at the threshold of the year, release what weighs heavy, and invite in clarity, renewal, and light. You’ll leave nourished, grounded, and resourced for the season ahead.

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