Wales Antiques

This blog will from time to time complement my Wales Antiques Web Site and its printed companion. The guide is a developing listing of general suppliers of antiques and collectables in Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Powys and beyond; it now including auctions and in the future specialist heritage related attractions. Over 23 years it has become an essential resource for anyone with an interest in buying and selling antiques and collectables in West Wales and Beyond. If you would like to know more visit the site here.

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Yoga Retreat Day

namaskar

Treat yourself with a intense yoga retreat day on 27th March 2011

10am welcome chai/indian tea
10:15am meditation followed with hatha-yoga/ posture work for body awareness, and relaxation
12.15pm pranayama and yoga nidra
1.15pm indian veg lunch
2 to 4pm bhajan singing, mantra chanting and satsanga/ discussion on various aspects of yoga in daily life

book your space in advance £40/35concession

in yoga surender

In Best of Yoga, Health and Spirit
Yogachariya Jnandev (Surender Saini)
info@yogabreaks.co.uk
www.yogabreaks.co.uk

Yogachariya Jnandev (Surender Saini) @ Yoga Breaks

My friend Surender has published his programme…

Namaskar

Few upcoming yoga events

Sunday 12 December · 10:00 – 13:00

Prana-Yama is process of refining your thoughts, mind and emotions through regulating breath. Balancing your harmones, refining of nervous system, cleansing of karmic influnces, refining and opening channels of energy flow/naris and many more are the benefits…..

If you want to learn to be still, meditate or relax then book your space for this special workshop on pranayama and yoga-nidra

£15 per person

Saturday, 01 January 2011 · 11:00 – 13:00

welcoming new year with sun-salutations for health and well being in year 2011

sun-salutations in yoga are set of various postures for saluting or worshipping sun/light and also to get rid of stiffness and toxins from our body, which enables us to absorb energy from the space bringing rejuvanation to complete peronality

join us from 11 am to 1pm
there will be chai and some indian snacks at the end.

book your space in advance
£15 for the morning

ONE YEAR DIPLOMA IN YOGA starting on Sunday 9th january 2011

Course with YOGA SATSANGA ASHRAM

Commitment requirements (one year course):
attend atleast one class per week
one full day per month (for 10 months)
2 weekend residential retreats
monthly written and practical homework

Total Cost: £1100 or £100 per month
concession can be discussed / exchange etc.

Course outline:

Origins of yoga

History and Hinduism

Ashtanga Yoga theory – 8 steps
1 – Yama (5 moral restraints)
2 – Niyama (5 ethical observations)
3 – Asana (posture)
4 – Pranayama (breath work / control of prana)
5 – Pratyahara (concentration)
6 – Dharana (sensory withdrawal)
7 – Dhyana (meditation)
8 – Samadhi (Enlightenment / liberation)

Basic anatomy

Yoga into our daily life

Healthy diet and life style

Relaxation techniques

Asnana groups – hathenas (breath forcing techniques) Loma viloma (balancing techniques) surya namaska (various sun salutations) Pelvic looseners, mudras (ancient hand gestures), standing postures (sama-sthithi group)
Pranayamas – cleansing breath, breathing rythyms,
higher practices – a breif introduction to theory and practice.

Closing ceremony – on completion of the course will receive certification from YOGA SATSANGA ASHRAM as successfully completing our 1 year DIPLOMA IN YOGA according to our standard.

If you are interested please reserve your place, we will take up to 5 students in our first year.

love in yoga


In Best of Yoga, Health and Spirit
Yogachariya Jnandev (Surender Saini)
info@yogabreaks.co.uk
www.yogabreaks.co.uk

Wales Antiques Guide 2010

It’s that time of year again; as it is with the crocus and the primrose, the West Wales Antiques Guide reminds us it is spring…

And this year I InDesign-ed it myself; well done me!

Wales Antiques Guide 2010

The WALES ANTIQUES GUIDE is published annually each spring and distributed across Mid and West Wales and beyond. We have been publishing the Guide since 1987 – twenty-three sucessful years! If you are interested in finding out more about the Wales Antiques Guide contact Paul Williams on 01239 615866 or 07790438157 or by email at paul_williams@btinternet.com. Prepared and designed by Paul Williams with the help of Norman Williams and John Higginbottom.

New Wales Antiques Auction and Fair Dates for 2010

I’m updating fair and auction dates for my web site Wales Antiques…
If you have fair or auction dates that you think should be included post them here.

 New Wales Antiques Auction and Fair Dates for 2010

Photos: Folly Farm Vintage Fun Fair

Once again MyCeredigion finds itself in Pembrokeshire…

Not far from Narberth in Pembrokeshire is a treasure house of fun. Anyone who’s been to Folly Farm will know you really only go with children. In fact an un-accompanied adult, male, with a camera would probably be fed to the pigs.

Anyway for the third time this year I braved it’s hallowed halls with a party of 20 celebrating EM’s number 4 birthday, the Big O-Four. Folly Farm has all the usual appointments associated with farming; goats (yay, feeding time!) cows, sheep, horses, donkeys, chickens, giraffes, ocelot etc etc. Of course you guessed, it’s not only a farm it’s a zoo too.

But what do you do in the unlikely event of rain in West Wales or if you’re tired of petting and feeding and gawping? Well, we head for ‘Europe’s largest undercover vintage funfair with a huge collection of working rides and stalls lovingly restored for your enjoyment.

I’m not a fun fair fan in the normal, That’ll Be the Day sense. Too many scary rides and too much teenage shrieking. But this is special. As it says on the can, it’s ‘Vintage’. The Chairoplane, the Caterpillar, Dodgems, the Royal Coronation Speedway, the Cakewalk, Golden Gallopers and a Helter Skelter with coconut mats rough enough to satisfy the most sadistic PE teacher.

Best of all? The vintage art…

Highly Recommended. Here’s some pictures.