Summer Fun at Treetops

The beautiful bluebells in the woods at Treetops

Join us in the woods this summer for our Woodland Retreat Days with Laura.

We can't wait, a truly relaxing day absorbed in nature where we will enjoy a blend of meditation, breath work, gentle stretching, sound, creativity and a delicious plant based lunch.

It will be a peaceful and grounding day to rebalance your mind and body.

(And if you want to hug a tree I have loads! 😁)

The Woodland Retreat days run from 10am - 2pm.

£65

The dates are:

9th June

(back up day 23 June)

2nd July

(back up day 8 July)

17th September

(back up day 24th September)

We have put back up days into the diary incase of really bad weather, so please check you can make those before booking)

For more information please click here

On Friday 30 June we have Summer Cookery with me, a really fun demo style class where I share 7-8 recipes with you for the Summer using delicious seasonal ingredients along with plenty of ideas to help you with inspiration for cooking for friends and family.

You will be able to taste the food as it's made, and we will explore presentation ideas, look at what can be prepared ahead of time, whilst enjoying a refreshing summer drink recipe.

We have two classes on the day, choose from

10am - 1pm

or

7pm - 10pm

£50

You will receive a recipe booklet of everything created to take home with you after the class.

Book Summer Cookery Here

We have Claire here in August for a bright and beautiful Summer Florals Watercolour Class, master skills in painting loose and free, keeping vibrancy in your paints and feel happy and cheerful!

The class runs from 9:30am - 3pm and costs £85, this includes all of your materials, a 2 course lunch with a glass of wine and refreshments throughout the day.

All other Claire Art classes are now on the website for you to see

Art Class Dates Here

We'd love to see you!

If you are unable to join us in person at Treetops, please have a look at our great library of Online Art Workshops with Claire

We currently have a really good rhododendron watercolour online class, which covers skills in placement, colour and negative painting, hard and soft edges.

All of our Online Art Workshops cost £15.

Don't forget we also have a great library of Yoga Online Workshops, which once downloaded are yours to keep, filmed with Rachel we have a mix of seasonal yoga, hatha, yin and also specialist workshops in Chair/Seated Yoga and Yoga for Stress, Fatigue and Burnout.

All Online Yoga is HERE

Our beautiful Treetops Wellbeing Candle is lovely to light during the summer, the gorgeous geranium smell is so pretty, it also has warm woods and lavender in the mix.

It makes a great gift too, have a look in our Art Materials and Wellbeing Shop for other ideas.

Summer AromaYoga dates

 

Rachel and I have FOUR new AromaYoga dates for you, please book on the website

Treetops Website

When the booking calendar appears, click on the green "check next availability" button for the class and date to appear, or click on the workshop date on the calendar.

AromaYoga Balancing Hormones

Wednesday 20 July

and/or

Thursday 11 August

AromaYoga Relax & Destress

Wednesday 17 August

AromaYoga & Chakras

Wednesday 21 September

All evenings run from 7pm - 9pm and cost £25, this includes a warming drink and delicious nibbles after the class.  We also provide all the equipment needed plus filtered water.  You just need to wear comfy layers and bring some snuggly socks.

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Also don't forget our great Online Yoga Workshops that are available on the website, they are great to do at home, when you haven't got the time or energy to go to the studio, or just want to do a yoga flow and then flop into bed!  Once downloaded the film is yours to keep, so you can rewatch and practice your Yoga as many times as you like.  Rachel has also supplied Spotify playlists with each workshop.  Investment £10.

Buy Online Yoga Workshop

Finding Balance Aromayoga

 

We had a lovely evening with Rachel and seven yogis for our Finding Balance Aroma Yoga Workshop.

A very relaxing yin workshop with a beautiful piano soundtrack in the background.

Rachel shared various oils with us, talking about their properties and benefits.

After class we stay wrapped in the savasana duvets whilst enjoying a warm drink and delicious nibbles

We have some new dates coming up, keep an eye on facebook

Treetops Facebook

Welcome to February

February is the month for Valentines Day and all things rosy and red.

We would like to offer you £5 off our online Autumn Berries Watercolour Workshop so that you can enjoy working with a lovely red paint.

If you haven't tried Claire's watercolour paints yet, we will post you a FREE Poppy Red tube, with every pair of paints bought from her range.  (value £8.40)

Mixed with a little transparent yellow you can highlight on top of the berries for glorious orangey tones, or mix it with a little blue for the underside of berries.

Claire chose to have this gorgeous rich colour made as she was finding other reds were producing a colour that was too dull for her taste, and needed a number of applications to give sufficient coverage.  Poppy Red has become one of the most popular colours in her watercolour range.

All of Claire's paints contains honey, an ingredient which has been used over the years by colour chemists to produce extra translucent and vibrant colours.

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In Yoga red represents the Root Chakra

The chakras are the points in our body where our energy flows.  The Root Chakra is located at the base of your spine and creates the foundation for all the chakras that lie above it.  It helps you to feel grounded and able to withstand challenges.

Rachel, our Yoga tutor, has created a lovely playlist on Spotify and the first four songs are specific to the Root Chakra, it is lovely to listen to whilst relaxing, meditating and during a gentle yoga flow.

We would like to offer you Rachel's online Woodland Yoga Workshop for just £12.50 this month, take some time for yourself and discover how relaxing and gentle Yoga can be.  Once you have bought the workshop you can watch it again and again.

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In season this month, red and pink vegetables & fruit are beetroot, rhubarb, apples, red cabbage and purple sprouting broccoli.  But I thought, seeing as it's Valentines Day, and it's been a VERY long January I would share my Red Velvet Cupcakes recipe with you!  (Some of you may remember I used to run Colourful Cupcakes a few years ago, running classes and creating cupcakes for weddings and parties).

For the Cakes:

140g self raising flour

2 tablespoons Green & Blacks Cocoa

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

110ml buttermilk

1 teaspoon white vinegar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Christmas Red Colour Paste (needs to be paste not liquid colouring)

60g butter

170g caster sugar

1 large free range egg

Preheat your oven to 170c/325f/Gas3

Mix the flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda and a pinch of salt.

In another bowl mix the buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla and red paste, mix well so the paste is blended well.

Beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy and pale.  Beat in the egg bit by bit.  Mix in a small amount of the flour mixture half of the liquid mixture and repeat.

Beat well.

This will fill 12 cupcake cases in a muffin tin. 

 Bake for 20 minutes.

  Leave them to cool slightly and then remove the cupcakes onto a wire baking rack.

For the Icing:

200g cold full fat Philadelphia cream cheese

75g unsalted butter at room temperature

450g icing sugar

1 tablespoon warm water

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Beat the sugar, butter and water together.  Add the philadelphia, beat until the mix is smooth and shiny.  Add the vanilla.  Use a palette knife to decorate the cakes.  You can add red sprinkles or crumbled red velvet cake to decorate.

Have a great February!

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Sacral Chakra AromaYoga Workshop

Thank you to Rachel and everyone who joined us last night for our AromaYoga Workshop.

This month it was focussed on the Sacral Chakra

Rachel led a gentle meditation and yin yoga session whilst we listened to music specifically designed to activate and heal imbalances in the second chakra, which is responsible for emotions and creativity. 

It is very beneficial to connect with water, and some of the pieces sounded lovely with waterfalls and waves.

The Sacral Chakra is represented by the colour orange, a happy positive colour.

I chose orange foods for our nibbles at the end of our practice; peaches, sweet potato, butternut squash and oranges.

The lovely oils Rachel used for the evening were; bergamot, marjoram, citrus bliss and lavender.

In the room diffuser we enjoyed wild orange and lavender.

Immune Support AromaYoga

We had a very relaxing evening last night with Rachel at our Immune Support AromaYoga class.

We enjoyed a mix of yin and hatha yoga, with some gentle restorative, whilst Rachel shared and spoke about essential oils, in particular those good for our immune systems at this time of year.

I love this rollerball I bought from Rachel about a month ago, it smells so good.

After our class we enjoyed some nibbles and warm almond milk chai lattes whilst still wrapped up in our duvets.

I made sweet potato falafels and stuffed chestnut mushroom, both recipes from Deliciously Ella, the falafels included turmeric and cumin, both good for our immune systems.

To finish with we had brownies and clementines dipped in dark chocolate.

Rachel will return in the New Year with some new AromaYoga classes.

AromaYoga Evening with Rachel

Rachel led a lovely evening of AromaYoga on Wednesday, the evening was focussed on our Root Chakra.

A grounding yin yoga session took place, whilst Rachel talked about the chakra and her oils.

We used oils that are really good for grounding, some delicious tree and woodland scents and the amazing frankincense.

We moved into some hatha and finished with a very relaxing shavasana under warm duvets!

The evening drew to a close with delicious nibbles and almond milk chai lattes.

Rachel returns to Treetops on:

Immune Support AromaYoga

Wednesday 13 November

Festive Oils AromaYoga

 Wednesday 11 December

7pm - 9pm

£25

AromaYoga Evening with Rachel

We had a great evening with Rachel on Wednesday for our AromaYoga class.

We enjoyed a 90 minute gentle yoga practice with Rachel sharing and explaining various essential oils to us.

After a lovely relaxation with duvets and dimmed lights, out came the nibbles and warm drinks.

It was a really cosy friendly evening.

Rachel will be back with us on Wednesday 1 May

7pm - 9pm

£25

All our nibbles were vegan and gluten free.

Great inspiration can be found here:

Lazy Cat Kitchen

AromaYoga Evening with Rachel

Last night Rachel returned for another AromaYoga class, with the lights dimmed and the diffusers giving out a lovely sweet orange smell, we started off with a relaxation practice.

Rachel spoke to us about the evening's chosen oils which included bergamot, sweet orange, fir tree and lavender.

We followed a gentle hatha practice with some gentle stretches and introduced the pigeon pose, which was new to some.

After our savasana wrapped in cosy duvets with beautiful piano music playing we enjoyed some delicious nibbles.

Rachel will be back with us in early 2019

Treetops through the Summer .......

Treetops is open throughout the Summer for Relax & Restore classes.

We are here every Monday morning for Restorative Yoga and Meditation/Breathwork

9:30am - 10:30am

10:45am - 11:45am

£10 per class

We have our Retreat Day on Saturday 11 August

11:30am -4:30pm

£75

A great day, full of relaxation, yoga, meditation, time outside, nutritious food, creativity ...

Next Friday we have our new class AromaYoga, this is with guest tutor Rachel, the evening is a mix of gentle yoga flow with essential oils.  I went to one of Rachel's recent classes and thought we must have an AromaYoga evening here, it was so relaxing, both in our poses and the gorgeous smells.  Rachel talks us through which oils are useful for various ailments and their health benefits.

The class runs from 7pm-9pm and includes time for drinks and nibbles

£25

We also have another date booked with Rachel on Friday 17 August.

I'm busy putting together our new Autumn timetable of classes, the usual mix of watercolour, pen & wash, oils, yoga and Aga BUT with some new additions and new tutors!

Dates will be sent out mid-August, watch out for an email in your inbox or keep checking the blog.

Enjoy the sushine