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🧘💚 Our Final Stretch, Connect and Belong Session 💚🧘

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This week we had our last session with the lovely Lisa. 💐 Our Stretch, Connect and Belong journey has been full of:💚 Friendships😂 Laughter🌟 Learning new things🤸 Stretching🎲 Playing games📚 Stories🧘 Mindfulness😌 Relaxation🤝 Togetherness

Tuesday was a warm day, so we started with some gentle stretches. 🌞 🎲 Everyone took turns rolling the yoga dice and choosing a pose for the whole group to try 👏 Everyone did an amazing job!

💛 Ellie loved stretching and giggled all the way through the session.
Gethin showed how flexible he is and impressed us with his stretches.😍
🙌 Christopher and Anthony enjoyed trying some new moves 🧘‍♂️
🪑 Ffion joined in from a chair, showing that yoga can be made accessible if you have a bad back or cannot get down onto the floor.⭐
Kirsty was amazing as always. Nothing holds this young lady back and she is always happy to give everything a go.💪🧘‍♀️
👑 Our Princess Paula was busy doing what she loves best – enjoying a biscuit, a cuppa ☕🍪 and some colouring. It was a little too warm for her to join in, but she chose Alice in Wonderland for our relaxation story… and of course it included cake! 🎂🐇📚💖

💐 A huge thank you to Lisa for her kindness, patience and encouragement throughout the programme. You have helped us grow in confidence, make new friends and enjoy every session💚 We really hope we can continue Stretch, Connect and Belong in the future because our members absolutely love it. It has made such a positive difference, and we’d love to keep making more happy memories together. We’ll miss you, Lisa! ❤️

Reconnect Tuesday Group

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🌿☔🧘‍♀️ What a busy, fun-packed day for our members at Caerphilly People First at this week’s Tuesday Reconnect session! 🧘‍♂️☔🌿 Our day started with a visit to the beautiful TARAGGAN Educational Gardens. Unfortunately, the rain showers had other plans, so our gardening session was cut a little short. We still managed to get some weeding done before heading back to the office! 🌱🌼 Back at the office, there was plenty of fun with games of 🎱 pool and 🎯 darts before lunchtime.

In the afternoon, it was time for our fantastic yoga session with the wonderful Lisa! 🧘‍♀️💜 At this session we practised breathing exercises using colourful chiffon scarves ✨ Enjoyed gentle stretches ✨ Picked letter cards with different yoga poses ✨ Tried Warrior poses, Tree pose, Sitting Baby and many more ✨ Had lots of laughs, including some fantastic dance moves from the lovely and hilarious Paula 💃😂 ✨ Finished with relaxing music, mindfulness, and yes… a little bit of snoring! 😴🤣

These sessions are so important to our members. Feedback tells us that yoga helps reduce anxiety, improves wellbeing, boosts confidence, and gives people techniques they can use at home whenever they need them. ❤️ Many members tell us they regularly practise their breathing exercises and favourite poses between sessions. A huge thank you to Lisa for another amazing session filled with relaxation, laughter, friendship, and fun. 🌟 We can’t wait to do it all again next week! 🥰

Stretch, Connect and Belong Yoga

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✨ What a fantastic afternoon at our Stretch, Connect and Belong yoga session yesterday! ✨🧘‍♂️ A huge thank you to Lisa for another fun-filled session! 💜 We enjoyed plenty of giggles 😄, gentle stretching 🤸‍♀️, and used yoga cards to practise different breathing exercises 🌬️ and yoga poses 🧘.

Everyone joined in brilliantly and did an amazing job! 🌟 It was wonderful to see everyone relaxing, connecting, and having fun together. 💕😊 Of course, we finished the session with a lovely cuppa ☕ and a chat 🗣️, which is always a great way to end the afternoon. Well done everyone – we can’t wait to do it all again next week! 🎉💜