COURSE
YOUR WAY TO WELL-BEING –LEVEL 1
BEGIN TO LIVE WITH GREATER EASE, LESS EFFORT AND MORE JOY
Using Alexander Technique
learn the tools to help manage the stresses and strains of life and improve your well-being
Where: Redland, Bristol
When: 5 week course - Monday 5 November to 3 December
7.00 – 8.30 pm
Cost: Course fee - £60 for the course
Tutors: Jane Morris MSTAT & Belinda May MSTAT
To book or for more information www.alexandertechniquesomerset.co.uk or Contact: Jane: jane@freedomandease.co.uk or 07775430877
Belinda : belinda.e.may@gmail.com or 01761 463 385

Nowadays, living our busy lives, we can feel overwhelmed and stressed. It seems thatwe don’t have enough time. We cannot easily make choices in our lives and can neglect ourselves and our well-being.
Belinda May and Jane Morris, both Alexander Technique teachers, have teamed up to offer a course that explores the tools for you to find a way to tackle these challenges.
This 5 week course, Your Way to Well Being, puts you on the road to manage the stresses of life and so begin to live with ease, less effort and more joy.
Using the principles of the Alexander Technique, we will explore how to:

•   Become aware of yourself and gain more balance
•   Connect with your support
•   Learn more about your habits and responses
•   Take these learnings into activity
•   Give yourself the gift of ease, choice and time
  
  

Cyclescheme

Tomorrow, Weds 15th August, is Cycle to Work Day.  https://www.cycletoworkday.org

We live in such a hilly city that electric bikes are now a common site and electric bike shops plentiful. One of our practitioners recently tried one out and is now seriously considering getting one. They're quite an expense but Cyclescheme allows you to purchase one (or indeed any bicycle, and / or accessories) at a significant reduction through your place of work. You can find all about how the scheme works here:

https://www.cyclescheme.co.uk/?utm_source=cycletoworkday&utm_medium=website-link&utm_campaign=cycle-to-work-day-What-Is-CTWD-Section

A patient was kind enough to share this recipe with us. Enjoy!

Vegan Chocolate Tart

For the pastry

·      75g coconut oil

·      55g golden syrup

·      75g ground linseeds

·      185g ground almonds

·      15g coco powder

Melt the coconut oil and golden syrup, add the dry ingredients mix thoroughly  and press into 20 cm tart case, freeze until solid.

For the filling

·      80g coconut oil

·      500g dark chocolate

·      200g almond milk 

Melt chocolate and coconut oil together, heat up the almond milk and pour over the chocolate and mix, pour into tart case, refridgerate.

NEW MASSAGE THERAPIST JOINS CHANDOS CLINIC 

We would like to welcome new massage practitioner Debbie Parsons to our team here at Chandos Clinic. With more than 12 years experience, using a variety of massage techniques, Debbie is fully equipped to help with a specific injury or chronic ache. She is qualified in sports and remedial massage, and also offers reflexology. 

As an introductory offer, Debbie is offering a 40% discount off her treatments until the end of Sept 2018.

Please ring Pat or Deb on reception for further details of her times and prices, and they will happily book you in to see her.

Violette Aubry

and

Giles’ Sabbatical 

Dear Patients! 

From 3rd. September 2018 Violette Aubry will be returning to the Chandos Clinic.

She will be acting as Giles’ locum until the end of December 2018 while he is on sabbatical.

Violette trained at the same school as Giles: The European School of Osteopathy. She qualified in 1995 and worked at Chandos Clinic from 2008 to 2013. We are delighted that she has time to re-join us this autumn. She is a French national, resident in the UK and has bilingual skills. 

She has a special interest in children and is completing a diploma with The Sutherland Cranial Osteopathic Collage in Paediatric Osteopathy.

She has similar skills and training to Giles, which is why she has been asked to come and cover for him. 

                    PLAYING OUT!

I have written about "Playing Out" in the past. If you are the perfect fit for them, or know anyone else who might be, please contact them. They are an amazing organisation who do so much for the physical and emotional well-being of our young folk, near and far.

Dear friends

Please help us find the perfect (or close to perfect) Company Administrator for Playing Out. 

This is a great part-time job for someone highly organised, who loves facilitating others to do things as well as possible. It is a really crucial role for Playing Out going forward, as things are starting to take off in a big way across the UK (and beyond!) and we need this ‘rock’ at the middle of it all to keep us grounded, effective and enable us to make a massive impact. It would be a really big help if you could share this with your networks and in particular anyone you think would fit the bill.

Deadline is 9th July.

The full job ad and application information is here:

http://playingout.net/job-opportunity/

You can also share it on Facebook from here: https://www.facebook.com/PlayingOut

…and Twitter here: https://twitter.com/playingoutCIC/status/1007646948831219712

Thank you!!

Alice Ferguson
Director, Playing Out CIC 

BankSpace, 145-147 East Street, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 4EJ 

Tel: 0117 953 7167
Mobile: 07896 957141
http://www.playingout.net

Twitter: @aliceplayingout

I normally work Monday-Thursday

Playing Out CIC is registered in England and Wales. Company Number 07694294

'Tis the season to be sneezy.

So many of you have been coming in to the Chandos Clinic with eyes and nose streaming. The pollen count has been unbearably high these last few days. Here are some very useful pointers from the BBC. Anyone who suffers from hay fever, myself included, know we can't ever completely eliminate it, but there are some tips here that will certainly help dampen it down.

And we always have tissues in reception!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44381799

As an unrelated aside, I have just read that we should all be washing our hands for 20 seconds, which is how long it takes to sing "Happy Birthday" twice!