Mon 11 Dec 2023 20:00-20:45
Webinar

Working in the NHS can be stressful, placing a strain on both the mind and body. This is a special online class, created to give you dedicated time-out and a physical release. Join this beginner session of seasonal yoga with our experienced instructor, Rachel James, and feel the benefits of gentle exercise for your mind and body. Whether you are taking some quiet time or participating with your friends or family, this engaging session is for people of all ages and abilities. It will leave you feeling relaxed and ready to face the upcoming winter pressures.  

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Introduction to Seasonal Yoga for NHS Professionals
Online 45 minutes Free

Join along live from the privacy of your own home

Press pause on your hectic work life and reattune yourself to nature through gentle movements in rhythm with the seasons. Book your free place and expect:

  • To set your own pace: This is a safe place for you to set your own ability and difficulty level in the comfort of your own home
  • Time to yourself: Reduce your stress and manage anxiety with thoughtful movement
  • To feel the physical benefits: Improve your circulation and increase your heartrate
  • Expert instruction: Your instructor will guide you through your yoga poses in live time
  • To have fun! Please share the link with your family and friends so that you can all benefit

Practise in live time or register now to receive the recording

Strike a pose! Feel the benefits of increased physical strength and flexibility online:

  • Take part in a facilitated 45-minute yoga session with Rachel James
  • Find a quiet space with reasonable clearance to enable you to stretch in comfort
  • Full privacy with your camera and microphone switched off
  • Or you can catch up with the webinar content at any time on-demand after it takes place

20.00     Introduction and instructions

  •     Please do put on comfortable clothing and find yourself a private space or a shared one with your friends or family in preparation for this session
  •     Find a quiet space with reasonable clearance to enable you to stretch in comfort 

Special seasonal yoga webinar for NHS professionals

  •     Relax and unwind as you are guided through a series of poses with your yoga leader
  •     Feel boosted by increased circulation and a gentle increase in your heartrate

20.45     Close of class

Your seasonal yoga instructor

Focus on strength, flexibility and breathing to boost physical and mental wellbeing with Rachel James, who has had her training style previously described by attendees as ‘really engaging and motivating and encouraging’ and ‘very clear, patient, kind, helpful, knowledgeable’.


Job Title:
Learning & OD Business Partner
Organisation
Royal College of Physicians
Biography


Rachel has over 20 years’ HR/L&OD experience across the public and not-for-profit sectors. Rachel currently heads the Learning & Organisational Development team for the Royal College of Physicians, leading on skills development, cultural transition, wellbeing and belonging. Rachel co-chairs, with the RCP’s president, the strategic Diversity & Inclusion taskforce and under her stewardship the RCP won the ‘best mental health and wellbeing support’ award from Memcom in 2021. Rachel is also an experienced coach and learning specialist, designing and delivering development programmes for staff, managers and leaders. Her particular interest is around developing organisational culture and behaviours to maximise people’s wellbeing, performance and continuous improvement.

Expected attendees

This online class has been designed to benefit all NHS healthcare professionals who would like to equip themselves with tools to manage the ongoing pressures of these unprecedented times. Please do also share the link with your friends and family who are also welcome.

Past attendee feedback

See what our free wellbeing webinars have previously been described as:

‘Amazing! Just listening to Mike's voice made my anxiety melt away’

30 Minute Meditation: Building your Resilience During Uncertainty

‘Excellent! I really liked the meditation techniques used and speaker's voice was very relaxing thank you everyone’

30 Minute Meditation: Building your Resilience During Uncertainty

‘Calming and restorative’

30 Minute Meditation: Building your Resilience During Uncertainty

‘Brilliant! I will pass on the recording to family and friends and colleagues who I know have also had problems recently’

30 Minute Meditation: Mindfully Managing your Anxiety

‘Really enjoyed session and materials provided will assist greatly in practicing newly learned techniques.’

30 Minute Meditation: Mindfully Managing your Anxiety

‘Hits exactly the right pace, voice is soothing - could listen for hours!’

30 Minute Meditation: Mindfully Managing your Anxiety

‘Very useful session during these stressful times.’

30 Minute Meditation: Reducing your Stress and Worry

‘Good to take time to reflect on true feelings’

30 Minute Meditation: Reducing your Stress and Worry

‘Very calming nature and very good at guiding the meditation’

30 Minute Meditation: Reducing your Stress and Worry

‘Was very soothing and helpful’

30 Minute Meditation: Improving your Sleep

‘Two really useful short meditations and I felt such relief seeing the comments in the chat and realising I wasn't the only one - lots of others were posting about having the exact same problems I do with sleeping’

30 Minute Meditation: Improving your Sleep

‘Absolutely fantastic, really helpful’

30 Minute Meditation: Improving your Sleep

‘Practical ideas that really seem to work and are supportive towards stressed NHS workers’

30 Minute Meditation: Improving your Sleep

‘Excellent as great to sit and relax as not often time in this busy world’

30 Minute Meditation: Improving your Sleep

Supporting NHS professionals

SBK Healthcare has produced many useful webinars to help and support NHS healthcare professionals. These webinars can be viewed as videos free and on-demand, and include:

  • NHS Pensions Explained: Setting Yourself up for the Future
  • Becoming a Financially Informed Practitioner
  • NHS Life and Money: Parenthood, Menopause and Pensions 
  • Financial Wellbeing Support for NHS HCPs
  • Handling and Responding to Difficult Conversations
  • 30 Minute Meditations: Accepting thoughts and emotions 
  • Managing Anxiety at Work for NHS Frontline Staff
  • Managing Burnout for Frontline NHS Staff during COVID-19
  • Managing Conflict on the NHS Frontline
  • Recognising and Reducing Stress for NHS Frontline Staff

                    There are also upcoming webinars and online forums featured on the SBK Healthcare homepage.