GINGER PAI -PRESENTS:
Healing from Depression through Yoga and Mindfulness with Heather Mason
assisted by Carly Taylor.

Venue: The Light Centre Belgravia London
Time: 10.30-5pm and Date: 13th December
Exchange: £75.00
Booking essential: E mail - events@gingerpai.com Phone: - 07804 613 132

Modern science and psychology are now beginning to appreciate the importance of bodymind
approaches in the treatment of depression, anxiety and stress. In Healing from and
Depression through Yoga Mindfulness Heather Mason assisted by Carly Taylor will explore
the curative role that yoga therapy and mindfulness can have on emotional healing. This
workshop will offer an opportunity for experiential learning combined, with insight into
groundbreaking theory around how both yoga and mindfulness influence the brain and
nervous system. Using a combination of yoga therapy, break-work, mindfulness and
psychotherapeutic support, Heather and Carly will guide you through practices specifically
designed to work with both the mental and physiological aspects of anxiety and depression.
Appropriate for all levels: this includes both students and clinicians

What to Expect:
1) A wonderful, gentle supportive day by two of the UKs leading teachers in Yoga and
Mental Health
2) Skills you can take home and practice to cultivate well-being
3) Insight into how to work with depression and anxiety over the long term
4) A CD to aid you in home practice
5) An opportunity to ask personal questions and how yoga and mindfulness can influence
them
About:

About Heather Mason – www.yogaforthemind.info
Heather Mason offers Yoga Therapy for the mind and the body based on her extensive training in
psychotherapy, yoga therapy, and mindfulness-based practice. Having suffered from both
depression and anxiety Heather offers an approach that is both experientially and scientifically
based. This prompted her to found a company called Yoga for the Mind where she integrates the
benefits of yoga postures, breath practices, mindfulness techniques, and psychotherapeutic
principles to help people alleviate stress, anxiety, and depression. Through this combined approach
Heather is able to work with both the mind and body meeting both the psychological and
physiological aspects of mental-health through a process of mutual cure. Heather holds an MA in
Buddhist Studies from SOAS University London, and completing a three year MA in Clinical Buddhist-
Based Psychotherapy.
This educational journey is an accompaniment to a three year meditative and yogic journey in
South East Asia where she resided in Buddhist monasteries and learned how to transcend her own
emotional suffering. Heather has been teaching yoga since 2001 and is also a qualified yoga therapist.
Heather is the only person in the UK to have trained extensively with the Boston Trauma Center
Massachusetts on how to use yoga as a complementary treatment for Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD and is now enrolled in an MSc in Neuroscience, Roehampton
University to conduct research on how Yoga can positively influence the brain.

About Carly Taylor - www.gingerpai.com

Carly Taylor is a qualified yoga teacher (Integral Yoga Institute Gibraltar/ recognized by The Yoga
Alliance) and founder of Ginger Pai – www.gingerpai.com. Carly’s teaching style is gentle & fun, she
works in a relaxed and intuitive way. She specializes, in working with people who have ME/Chronic
Fatigue (Trained with Fiona Agombar) and has trained as a LifeForce Yoga practitioner with Amy
Weintraub to use yoga to treat depression and anxiety.
Additionally, Carly completed the Integral Yoga / Raja Yoga – ‘The Science of the Mind’ teacher
training in Portugal with Nalanie Chellaram & Hersha Chellaram and has been influenced by many
other inspiring teachers, including: Heather Mason-‘yoga for the mind’, ‘Bridget Woods Kramer-
Anusara yoga, DR Ruth Gilmore/Paul Fox Yoga Anatomy, David Sye Yoga Beats being just a few.
Drawing on a combination of skills and knowledge Carly founded Ginger Pai, which integrates yoga
and creative arts to promote good mental health and happiness. Ginger Pai also organizes various
events throughout the year for inspiring teachers. Most recently Amy Weintraub –Life force yoga to
balance the Mood in Surrey and Fiona Agombar-Teaching yoga to people with ME/CFS in Brighton

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