Hackney Festival of Fitness 2019

This year we were proud to provide the Mindful Movement session at the Hackney Festival of Fitness, part of an epic three days of movement, community, wellbeing and fun!

The plan for a soothing meditative session flew swiftly out the door as soon as we encountered the super loud sound systems and high intensity events nearby... 

...so instead we focused on more dynamic warm ups to prepare the joints, muscles and  mind for a variety of flowing meditative movements including Tai Chi's Grasping the Sparrow's Tail.

Having established the basis for the sequence, participants were challenged with increasing subtle details to encourage higher levels of concentration and focus, and more solid mind-body connections. Despite the heavy dubstep tunes blaring from nearby stages (and the every rising humidity!) everyone rose to the challenge!

In the end we drowned out the other sound systems with some beautiful Chinese music to create a more conducive atmosphere for flowing repetitions of various movements (when in Rome!) and for a few moments it was as if the outside world vanished as the deeply satisfying effects of Tai Chi movements took hold.

Overall it was a fantastically refreshing day and a great start to a season of outdoor wellbeing events.

Get in touch to book your outdoor wellbeing event for this spring and summer season!
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