5 Courses in Bristol

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jenna topham - women's personal trainer

Personal Trainer | Jenna Topham Strong Like a Woman | Bristol 'Strong Like a Woman' offers women's personal training , nutrition services, pre and postnatal classes and coaching with Jenna Topham

made to motivate - women's health & fitness coaching & massage therapy

I am a trained massage therapist and fitness coach specialising in helping women achieve optimum wellbeing. I offer holistic health services including remedial massage, pregnancy and post-natal fitness classes and courses in pelvic floor and core health. This restorative work benefits every woman at every stage of life.

bohemian blooms

I have had a love of plants and flowers from an early age, and I used to earn my pocket money as a child weeding my gran's garden. She was a very knowledgeable ‘plants woman’ and I absorbed so much from spending time with her. My mum also loved flowers, and it was her ambition to fill every room of her house with them all year round; she never quite managed it! Building on their passion, I decided to take up the gauntlet, and started to grow seasonal flowers from seed. I became addicted, and was soon making bouquets for friends and selling flowers and plants at my garden gate. It was here that I met my first bride-to-be who was buying one of my posies. We started chatting and she casually asked me if I would do her wedding flowers. She liked the fresh, scented, pretty flowers that were not available on the high street. My cottage garden flowers lent themselves so beautifully to a natural, free-flowing design… I immediately said yes, and have never looked back.

womankind and missing link

Our Help When You Need It service offers outcome based support for women with practical and emotional support needs, living in Bristol. The service recognises that women with mental health issues have times when they are well, and times when they need support. This service can be accessed as and when you need it. If your mental health is impacting on how you are living your life, our service may be able to help you. We offer short to medium term, outcome focused, practical and emotional support to women with mental health needs who live in Bristol. We use variety of communication methods from phone and text, email, virtual platforms, limited face to face. We also offer group work. We work closely with adult care and anyone can refer to our service and you can self refer. When you contact us you will speak to our triage worker to assess if we can help you immediately or over the short term. Our lines are open Monday-Friday 9.00am-5.30pm. Should you need more support you may be referred to a support worker.

janet haigh

I am a freelance designer-maker, applied artist, crafts-woman, whatever you want to call me – I stitch stuff by hand; fabric, metal, porcelain, leather, vitreous enamel.. . My work is various, it depends whether I am working for myself, to commission or collaborating with other artists. But whatever I do is slow to make; detailed hand stitching in any material whether in silk, linen, wool or wire takes time, consequently my work is also slow to evolve. I decided to show on this site what I do, who I am work with, how I work and also how I think. I want to show the work behind HER WORK not just the finished things. The journey from the first idea, searching, researching, drawing, sampling and eventually making the finished piece. You will be able to watch my work progress, or not; maybe by seeing this record people will come to value making that is manufactured by hand, heart and eye. In May 2010 I developed – Heart Space Studios ( from my yoga practice “Put your Hands in your Heart Space”) and for 5 years it was a space in Bristol England for all things textile. The activities at the studios can still be viewed – I closed the studio workshops in 2015 – the classes remain on this site as part of the blog, they contain many of my most popular posts….. Heart Space Studios continues as a group of makers who develop projects primarily for publishing companies. Most notably we work with designer Kaffe Fassett in the production of his patchwork quilt books and other fabrics.

spirit of the inca

Lying flat on my back for 16 days back in 1980 something, I was in so much physical pain that I could not move. It was then that I began to realise that I needed to change my life! I had been literally 'floored'! Stopped in my tracks. I had nowhere to run, or hide. "It wasn't by chance that during that time I came across a reflexologist who helped me to see that this was a turning point in my life. As a result of that meeting, and the healing that followed, I trained to become a reflexologist. My healers journey had begun and everything changed. "Over the course of the next few years, I noticed that some clients healed and others did not. My curiosity and desire to be of service led me to explore all kinds of therapeutic processes... counselling, gestalt, person centred therapy, psychosythesis. It was a great help in understanding how the mind affected the body. And I noticed that now I was able to help more people to heal.. and yet I noticed that still some clients did not. "My wondering about this led me fully into the healing arts and I began to understand that we each have a soul's journey. I had to ask myself: 'Why am I here?' 'What am I meant to be doing with my life?' "At the level of the soul I needed to know that my life has meaning and purpose beyond the everyday, and I learned that creative expression is vital to my wellbeing, as is finding a meaning and purpose that fits who I am. During this time I had many teachers. I trained to be a yoga teacher, I discovered 5 Rythms dance, and explored ways to use my voice... each time reaching out beyond my comfort zone, beyond who I thought I was.. to discover aspects of me that had been hidden or surpressed in the simple act of living this everyday reality. "My wondering led me to run a women's group for ten years. I wanted to explore what it means to be a woman in today's world. Together, we explored the sacred feminine, the goddess, the myths that we live by, we explored sacred landscapes, ceremony and ritual and found ways to connect with Mother Earth, a connection lost in working world today. During those years I took groups on Outward Bound courses in the landscape of Dartmoor. It was as much my journey as it was for those who shared it with me. We all learned a lot about ourselves, about what we were truly capable of. Incredible transformations took place in us all. Above all I learned the resilience of the human spirit, how stepping beyond fear creates inner trust and confidence... and that when we truly face our fears and embrace them we liberate ourselves then our presence liberates others. "Finally my journey led me to Shamanic Training. I have worked with a number of shaman in my life, and now, Incorporating the processes and techniques that I have learned both from the Inca tradition and many other great teachers along the way, I have developed a training which is powerful, beautiful and for me is the final piece in the puzzle. "Working at the level of energy affects all of the bodies: the soul's journey, the mental body, the emotional body and the physical body. I have also learned on this journey that it is a sacred journey, a journey towards wholeness... and the more I heal of myself, the more I affect those around me in a positive, life enriching way. "This is the work that I do in the world, it's the gift that I bring. "My medicine stones form a powerful healing tool called a Mesa. "My Mesa contains the wisdom that comes from my personal healing, the transformation of old worn-out stories of powerlessness, turned into power; of pain and suffering turned into compassion; and ancient wisdom handed down through the ages, through a lineage of medicine men and women whose grace, dignity and childlike innocence reminds me of what we have lost in the Western world. "And now I teach others how to build theirs."