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Activities Week: Yoga and Movement, Creative Writing and Relaxation
February 9 @ 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Free
About this Event
As part of Activities Week, we are offering a selection of wellbeing sessions. You can book three consecutive sessions or pick and choose the activities you want to get involved with. Please see the descriptions of the sessions below.
Location: London College of Fashion, 105 Carpenters Road, London E20 2AQ, room 117
Yoga and Movement (45 mins) 2pm – 2:45pmThis 45-minute flow will be creative, playful, intuitive, and grounding. It will be open to all levels and incorporates a warm-up, a building up of heat through a vinyasa flow style sequence, and finishing with a wind-down and closing savasana relaxation.
Creative Writing (1 hour) 3pm – 4pmCreative Writing with poet and facilitator Caroline is a nurturing, expressive, and supportive space to explore your writing practice. Through games, exercises, writing prompts, and looking to the work of other writers for inspiration, you will find ways to overcome the overwhelm of a blank page, filling your books with thoughts, reflections, memories, feelings, ideas, and the beginnings of creative pieces you can return too.
Meditation and Guided Relaxation (25 mins)
session 1: 4:30pm – 4:55pm | session 2: 5pm – 5:25pmTo close, a 25-minute class includes an opening meditation, rejuvenating breath work, yin yoga long-hold poses, and closing with full guided relaxation. You should leave feeling revived and restored.
About the facilitator:
Caroline Druitt is an advanced yoga teacher who began practicing at age 16 and has been teaching since she trained in 2015. Her classes integrate movement practices with breath awareness, encouraging each individual to adapt the class to suit them in each moment, taking what they need to feel nurtured and nourished. Caroline also works as a writer and teacher in South East London. Her poems have been published by And Other Poems, The North, Lucent Dreaming and commissioned by Apples and Snakes. In 2023 she was longlisted for the Outspoken Prize for Poetry, shortlisted for the Bridport prize the Aesthetica Creative Writing award and commended in the National Poetry Competition. With support from Arts Council England she is currently working on her first collection.
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Make sure you book your place to avoid disappointment as there is a set capacity for each session.
If you have any questions, please contact communications@fashion.arts.ac.uk
Image by: UAL’s Arts Students’ Union
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