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YOGA Yoga is an ancient form of exercise that originated in India 5000 years ago which can be useful to everyone, no matter your age (or size!).

Western science is now catching on to the fact that practising yoga has real health benefits.

There’s some evidence that regular yoga practice is beneficial for people with stress, high blood pressure, heart disease, aches and pains – including lower back pain – depression and stress.

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increased lubrication promotes a sense of improves balance improves of joints, ligaments wellbeing & relaxes your concentration & focus and tendons system So, what does all this mean?

In real terms, you may find you are able to sleep better, have fewer colds, feel more confident and less stressed, to name a few.

Ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation - all of these can be exacerbated by stress. So if you stress less, you’ll suffer less. Yoga, like any physical exercise, can ease constipation—and theoretically lower the risk of colon cancer because moving the body facilitates more rapid transport of food and waste products through the bowels. And, although it has not been studied scientifically, yogis suspect that twisting poses may be beneficial in getting waste to move through the system.

Yoga quells the fluctuations of the mind, according to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. In other words, it slows down the mental loops of frustration, regret, anger, fear, and desire that can cause stress. And since stress is implicated in so many health problems - from migraines and insomnia to lupus, MS, eczema, high blood pressure, and heart attacks - if you learn to ‘quiet your mind’, you’ll be likely to live longer and healthier. Yoga can be the catalyst to so many health and wellbeing improvements, and doctors even conclude that the benefits are there for us all to benefit regardless of gender, age, fitness and size.

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lot of what I do as a coach and therapist is investigative. Before the change ‘magic’ can occur I need to find out, and it is very useful for the client to find out as well, how they do what they do. After all, how can you change what you don’t understand?

Makes sense doesn’t it?

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Leamington Spa’s comedy Festival is back!

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The Hobgoblin Leamington Spa Comedy Festival is back with a bang in 2016 and will run from Friday 7th to the Saturday 15th October with an enviable line up of top comedians and up and coming stars.

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New research suggests that regularly playing a musical instrument improves cognitive skills in both children and adults, changing the shape and power of the brain and can increase IQ, according to researchers.

Lutz Jäncke, a psychologist at the University of Zurich, said: “Learning to play a musical instrument has definite benefits and can increase IQ by seven points, in both children and adults. We found that even in people over the age of 65 after four or five months of playing a instrument for an hour a week there were strong changes in the brain. The parts of the brain that control hearing, memory, and the part that controls the hands among others, all become more active. Essentially the architecture of the brain changes.

For children especially we found that learning to play the piano for instance teaches them to be more self-disciplined, more attentive and better at planning. All of these things are very important for academic performance, so can therefore make a child brighter. Of course music isn’t the only answer, but I do believe that it should be used in addition to other things.”

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Playing an instrument teaches kids to persevere through hours, months and sometimes years of practice, and of course enjoyment, before specific goals are reached, such playing in a band, or memorizing a piece of music for instance. In group sessions, taking turns to play individually is the basis for classmates play, kids learn to ‘give and take’.

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What’s going on in Leamington & Warwick and surrounding villages?

Warwick Words History Festival

3rd - 9th October Full details of all events during this period at warwickwords.co.uk Box office: 01926 334418 Personal appearances by leading historical writers – both fact and fiction.

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October half-term events for children start with: Spooky Arty Tots 2.00pm - 3.30pm. 24th October Halloween-themed craft with some stories and tall tales.

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11.00am - 3.00pm. 26th October

Meet a creepy-crawly collection of live spiders and insects. Will you be brave enough to handle one?

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Museums at Night 5.00pm – 8.00pm. 28th October

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Warwick Rocks Chocolate Festival – even more chocolate than last year, spread across the whole town, one not to be missed!

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Lots of chocolate, be it cake, truffles, beer, wine and even gin, what’s not to love!!

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Wednesday 19th October

Royal Leamington Spa Horticultural Society

invite Anthony Allen back by popular demand! at St. Peter’s Church Hall, Dormer Place, 7-0 pm for 7-30 pm start.Everyone welcome, non members £3 on the door including coffee / tea and biscuits.

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The Big Draw Invention Interventions

1st October 2016 - 30th October 2016 11.00am - 4.00pm

Take part in our month long activity and draw an invention that brings together art, science and technology to create an amazing new gallery exhibit.

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Fifteen Ways to Hide Writing Workshop £20 15th October 11.00am - 4.00pm

Inspired by Concealment and Deception, as well as metaphorical ideas of camouflage, you will write poems and try your hand at short fiction as well.

The workshop will be led by Matt Black (Mentor to Write On! Warwickshire Young Writers and Derbyshire Poet Laureate, 2011-2013), who has already written poems for the exhibition. Matt will share background information about the camouflage team, as well as providing ideas, inspiration and routes into your own writing.

Non-refundable. Places are limited, please call 01926 742700. Payment required to confirm booking

Poetry, Patterns and Pinot £5 15th October 7.00pm - 9.00pm

Listen to original poetry on the theme of camouflage, inspired by the exhibition.

Sample various wines with the guidance of a local expert.

Non-refundable. Places are limited, please call 01926 742700 to book. Payment required to confirm booking. .

The Mop Fair 14th - 15th and 21st - 22nd October Music, street food and entertainment, with fairground rides installed in the centre of Warwick. www.warwickmopfair.co.uk

Budbrooke W.I. - meets second Wednesday of every month, 7.30 St Michael’s Hall Budbrooke, new members always welcome.

Next meetings: 12th October, our speaker is talking about Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, November is our Annual meeting where we elect the officers. If you would like to know more or arrange to come to a meeting, please cal me: Anne Foster 01926492837

Leamington Farmer’s Market 22nd October at 9.00am - 2.00pm Regent Grove, Leamington Spa, CV32 4AP

Leamington Farmers Market takes place every fourth Saturday of the month and showcases around 20 Traders. Shoppers can buy a wide range of excellent quality locally produced food, from bread and cakes to fresh fish, game and meat all of which is baked, cooked, reared and/or produced within a 30 mile radius of Royal Leamington Spa.

Jephson’s Jungle Club halloween event Glasshouse, Jephson Gardens Leamington Spa, CV32 4AA Tuesday 25th October 10:00am - 12:30pm

Make a bat or ghost peg for your Halloween decorations.

Autumn and Apple Day at Hill Close Gardens Sunday16th October 2016 11.00am - 5.00pm £2 - Child 50p Hill Close Gardens, Bread & Meat Close, Warwick, CV34 6HF

Autumn and Apple Day will bring visit ors to see the historic apple collection. Since 1856 apples, pears and plums were known to have been grown in the Gardens as well as soft fruit.

Now there are more than 60 different varieties in the Gardens. By the 1990s, the trees were totally overgrown with swags of ivy and brambles.

Noreen Jardine, assisted by Geoff Croft and many volunteers, started a programme of clearing and restoring these trees to bring them back to growth and fruit bearing.

Apple tasting and sales. Craft stalls, bee keeping, competitions and children’s activities. Hot lunches and teas, sales of plants, produce and gifts.

Special half-price entrance for this event.

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