Discover how to build agency over your mental and physical wellbeing
Feeling unmotivated, sluggish, or struggling to focus? It could be related to dopamine, the neurotransmitter that affects mood, movement, and learning. Dopamine plays a key role in the reward system, motivating us to engage in positive behaviours.
When dopamine levels are low, you might experience decreased motivation, apathy, and difficulty concentrating. You may crave substances like sugar, processed foods, nicotine, alcohol or caffeine, or you may want to over-engage in dopamine-boosting behaviours like work, social media, exercise.
Ultimately however, these behaviours and substances, when excessive, leave us dopamine-depleted, and so the cycle starts again.
The good news is, there are ways to boost your dopamine levels in ways that support your wellbeing.
This evening’s session is all about supporting the natural production of dopamine through nutrition, movement and breath.
Workshop agenda
6.15pm – 7pm – Introduction to dopamine
What does it do for us; why do some of us have lower levels than others (a discussion around nutrients, genetics, hormones, gut health). I’ll also talk about how to avoid cravings for addictive substances and behaviours.
7.15pm – 8.30pm – Yoga and breath to support dopamine
8.30pm – 8.45pm – Q&A and close
What to wear and what to bring
Wear loose, comfy clothes and, if you can, bring a yoga mat, yoga blocks or cushions and a blanket. Also bring a notebook and pen.
Yoga and breathwork is best done on an empty stomach. I recommend that you have something light to eat a couple of hours before the start of the workshop.
Workshop cost
£25 per person. Includes handouts and light refreshments afterwards. Places are limited to 12 people, and you can book your place here.
Concessionary rates are available - please get in touch for more information.
Workshop facilitated by Lindsey Beveridge
• Registered Nutrionist (BANT, CNHC)
• Nutrigenomics Practitioner (Lifecode GX)
• Transformational Coach (IACTM)
• Kundalini Global Yoga & Breathwork Teacher
• Workshop and retreat facilitator since 2019
I have been running online and in-person workshops and retreats on gut health, mental health, addiction recovery and the menopause transition since 2019.
My personal history of overcoming an alcohol addiction, a nicotine addiction and binge-eating led me to have a special interest in working with people who struggle with anxiety, low mood, and / or addictions to alcohol or other damaging substances or behaviours.
Since qualifying as a registered nutritionist in 2019, and later as a transformational coach, I have helped 1000s of people shift damaging patterns of behaviour. I’ve helped them implement positive changes to their diet and lifestyle so they can feel better. I trained as a Kundalini yoga and breathwork teacher because movement and breath are fundamental to healing.
I’d love to see you there.
About Kundalini Global
Kundalini Global works with the stress system. We experience how movement and breath can change how we feel - quite quickly. It is a wonderful practice for people who suffer from anxiety, low mood, and/ or addictive behaviour patterns.
The practice supports nervous system health - neurotransmitter release, fascia and psoas muscle release, and vagal tone - and I explain a bit as we go along.
It was founded by Carolyn Cowan, a yoga teacher and teacher trainer with decades’ worth of experience, who is also a psychotherapist specialising in trauma, anxiety, addiction, shame, pre-and-postnatal health and more.
Kundalini Global is unattached to any religious or spiritual practice or guru and it's suitable for all body types and levels of fitness.