Winter Yin Yoga Online Workshop

Rachel has been back at Treetops to finish our fourth season in our online yoga collection, Winter.

Filmed by the fireside with cosy cushions and blankets, this gentle hour focuses on gentle and relaxing Yin Yoga. It is suitable for all levels, including beginners (but not if you are pregnant).

Yin targets the deepest tissues of our bodies, our connective tissues such as ligaments, joints, bones and the deep fascia in the body, it is the opposite to a vinyasa yoga practice that warms up and stretches the muscles. 

Yin Yoga helps alleviate stress and restore energy levels.

(Yin is great if you are a runner, I know some of you who are practicing for half marathons and 10k races at the moment, this would be ideal for you, but also ideal if like me you just enjoy gentle lying down yoga!)

The class is £10 with an accompanying Spotify playlist, or you can just listen to the fire crackle and the birds tweet around the feeding station on the verandah.

Available to buy from our website

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"Rachel is an excellent yoga teacher and following her online workshops has been really easy . Rachel gives clear instructions and the pace feels just right. All the workshops at Treetops are set in such a beautiful environment - you can hear the birds singing and the cows mooing in the background of the outside workshops! I always feel so much better afterwards". MB

PS:  All of our online workshops are professionally filmed with great sound quality, editing and can be watched in HD. Once downloaded onto your computer, laptop, ipad or phone they are yours to keep, to rewatch again and again, press pause, rewind, etc.

Hello 2023

 Hello Everyone

Our current frosty spell is beautiful but oh so frosty.

It's a while since I updated you all with what's going on at Treetops this term, plenty behind the scenes and we look forward to welcoming Claire and our painters back from March.

We have 1 space left on our Spring Flowers Watercolour class on Thursday 2 March, suitable for all levels of artists.  The class runs from 9:30am until approximately 3pm.  All of your materials are included so you just need to bring yourself.  Also included is a delicious lunch with a glass of wine.

Other classes coming up with Claire include:

Beginners & Refreshers class on Tuesday 4 April

In the Med on Tuesday 11 May

All our classes with Claire cost £85

To see what else we have please visit the website

Watercolour Classes

Proving very popular at the moment is our Online Snowdrop Watercolour Workshop, we put this together in aid of Hospice UK and to support the National Garden Scheme's Snowdrop Festival 2023.

It is suitable for everyone, and is shorter than our other online workshops at just under an hour, and it only uses 4 watercolour paints.

Claire shows you how to sketch and paint these beautiful little flowers.  Covering how to apply masking fluid, mix paints, apply washes, think about your back ground, mid ground and foreground, and the finishing touches such as shadows.

The Online Workshop costs £15 with £10 going directly to Hospice UK.

Buy Snowdrops Workshop HERE

We also put together a Snowdrop Materials Box with everything in that you need for the Workshop, you can buy this separately in our Shop

Don't forget we have a great choice of Online Workshops to download and do in your own time at home, some wintery to suit now and a lovely blossom one to look forward to Spring with!

See other Online Workshops

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Rachel was at Treetops this week filming some new Online Yoga Workshops, one was a lovely relaxing Yin Winter Workshop, so we now have the full 4 season collection for you!  This is currently being edited and sound engineered so should be with us soon in all it's lovely HD and professional quality.

We also filmed a short Morning Wake Up flow (10 minutes) and a Bedtime Settle Down flow (17 minutes).  These will be available to buy as one, and are perfect for when you don't have lots of time available but can still stretch, focus, practice your breath and relax.

To see our other Yoga Online Workshops see here  

They vary in length, some are in sections, once downloaded you can practice your yoga again and again.

Rachel was relieved that for Winter I let her inside to film, the other 3 are in the woodland our gardens at Treetops and look wonderful, and you can hear the birds, and even the cows in the bottom field sometimes!

Our popular evening Aroma Yoga classes will be back soon, make sure you are on the mailing list as these dates sell out quickly.

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Our beautiful Wellbeing Candle is selling really well, a gorgeous scent of geranium and warm woods, made locally with locally sourced beeswax it makes a lovely gift or treat for yourself.

If you buy a Wellbeing Candle in February, you will also receive some Geranium, Rose & Lavender bath salts in an epsom and pink himalayan salts mix, these are soooo relaxing at bathtime.

Our Wellbeing Gift Boxes were not just for Christmas, they will be available all year for gifting, they include the Wellbeing Candle, a rollerball blend from yoga Rachel, a lavender, rose and geranium eye pillow, the above bath salts, loose leaf herbal tea, delicious vegan chocolate and a lavender bag.

£50 with free p&p

For those of you who enjoyed our Christmas Canapes Class and would like more Cookery at Treetops, I'm currently putting ideas together and will announce dates shortly.

Fresh, colourful, seasonal and easy ideas

Make ahead of time, help with cooking for family and friends large occasions.

Don't forget to follow us on facebook for up to date news and our dates page on the website.

And look, a new Online Watercolour Workshop coming soon ....

 

The team were back together again last weekend, making a Watercolour Special, which is due out in January.

We can't wait for you to see it.

We have a great selection of recorded workshops that you can buy and download from the Treetops website, from Beginners through to Advanced, perfect for the winter months, a great time to get your paints out.  Each film comes with a materials and paint list, images of all the stages in the workshop and some top tips from Claire.

Treetops Online Workshops

December Aroma Yoga Classes

 

We have had some amazing Aroma Yoga evenings with Rachel this month, with our final Festive Aroma Yoga this Wednesday.

We have had an evening of Chakras, a Relax & Destress evening and then our fun Festive Aroma Yoga evenings.

Rachel has excelled herself with her playlists and beautiful essential oils.

And the duvets have been much loved!

We have enjoyed lots of delicious canapes, catering for all dietary requirements, vegan, vegetarian, gluten free

We have a few Wellbeing Gift Boxes left which can be collected from Treetops or delivered locally.

7 beautiful items; a Treetops Candle, a Treetops Essential Oils Rollerball, lavender & geranium bath salts, loose herbal tea, a lavender eye pillow, a vegan chocolate bar and a small lavender bag.  All of this in a lovely box for £50.

We have lots of treats on our Christmas Shopping table, so pop by if you are passing, or visit the shop on the website.

Rachel and I look forward to seeing you in 2023 for more relaxing Aroma Yoga.

Dates to be announced.

A Winter Scene Art Class

 

Our final Art class of the year with Claire

A Winter Scene

Claire demonstrated with pen which was then followed with a light wash of watercolour paint.

Beautiful pictures, you can feel the cold in them!

We warmed up with a festive casserole for lunch.

After lunch there was time for a few quick sketches.

2023 coming soon, keep an eye out for our newsletter via email or follow us on facebook

facebook.com/treetopswellbeing

Christmas Canapes Class

 

Well this class was so brilliant and busy, I didn't get any time to take photos!

But I can say we had a fantastic group in to watch the demonstration of over 10 different canapes for this upcoming festive season, both savoury and sweet.

Learning what could be prepared ahead of time, with plenty of top tips, and sharing of products. In true Blue Peter style I had made extra of many of them, so there wasn't one canape that couldn't be tasted.

Everyone enjoyed a glass of fizz on arrival and enjoyed the canapes being passed around.  

Thanks everyone for coming, it felt and smelt so festive!

Water Lily Pond Oils Class

 

Our Oils class was bright and beautiful, we painted Water Lilies amongst a vibrant green and blue pond, the end results were brilliant.

We all had such a lovely day, the majority of our artists had not painted with Oils before and they really enjoyed themselves.

Claire starts the class with a full demonstration of the painting for everyone to watch, before they start to put paint on the canvas.

As you can see they are all so different, I love this shade of pink with the green and blue.

Below is our family trio out to spend a lovely day together, we also had another mother and daughter come together too.

Lunch was Scandi Salmon, which was delicious followed by a pear and chocolate crumble.

We will definitely be holding another Oils Class next year, so look out for the date.