by Library Admin | 21 Nov 2022 | activities
60 min Hatha Yoga class with Ivana on Saturday mornings 10:30-11:30
Classes will typically include physical postures asana, breathing practice pranayama, and relaxation. Classes start gently, with grounding floor poses and breathing practices. They typically continue with warming up postures and follow with standing, balancing, and floor postures with time to slow down and relax the body and mind at the end of the practice. Options and modifications are offered throughout the class to suit everybody.
This class welcomes everyone but it is pitched to Beginners and Level 1 students. It is particularly recommended when returning to practice after a break or when wanting a steady practice to build over time.
Ivana trained in Hatha and Vinyasa yoga with Jessica Stewart and Yin yoga with Jose de Groot. She started practising yoga almost 20 years ago and loved the practice ever since. Not just how strong and reinvigorating the body feels but the calm and the ease of both body and mind after the practice.
The class cost is £10. To book or for more information please email ivanazyoga@gmail.com
Ivana is a very popular teacher, and has a loyal following. But don’t take my word for it – read some of the reviews left by her class members:
“I have been doing Yoga with Ivana for quite a few months now and have thoroughly enjoyed every class. Ivana is friendly and very clear in her instructions and creates an inclusive environment so that you feel at ease and calm in the classes. The themes are changed too which keep the classes interesting. I am so glad I took the first step to begin Yoga with Ivana, it has positively changed how I feel mentally and physically.” Kiran
“Ivana is very warm, friendly teacher. The Saturday class is welcoming, the pace of the yoga is great and explained throughout”. Jane
“I have been practising yoga with Ivana for six months now having, started as a complete beginner. I thoroughly enjoy her classes. The small group sessions that she runs are always friendly and relaxed whilst still providing a challenge physically. She really has a talent for working with each individual’s abilities and needs within the class, and gently encourages adjustments to suit each person.
Classes are planned to have a theme, which means that no two classes are identical, and I have learned so much working with her. I always leave the class relaxed and uplifted and ready to enjoy the day ahead. Ivana is a talented teacher who clearly cares deeply about her work. I thoroughly recommend her classes.” A.M.
by Library Admin | 14 Nov 2022 | events, FRONT PAGE NEWS, latest
We’re sincerely hoping that our relaunched monthly Third Friday music events does not become a series of unfortunate cancelled events after last year’s Covid-related shenanigans. because we have a fest of fun planned for you between now and the end of the year.
The festive season kicks off with Jazz at the Library on 25 November. Ticket link.
Then we follow up with Carols by Candlelight on 11 December. Info link.
Next, it’s a free Family friendly concert on Friday 16 December. For parents and kids only. Free, but you MUST reserve. Reservation link.
Finally, later the same evening we have our postponed Winter Piano and Cello Recital. Ticket link.
Don’t miss any of them – bound to be loads of fun!
by Library Admin | 31 Oct 2022 | Cricklereaders, Cricklereaders Read, FRONT PAGE NEWS, reading
The book chosen for the last Cricklereaders of the year is Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead.
Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can.
Demon’s story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking ‘like a little blue prizefighter.’ For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise.
In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty isn’t an idea, it’s as natural as the grass grows. For a generation growing up in this world, at the heart of the modern opioid crisis, addiction isn’t an abstraction, it’s neighbours, parents, and friends. ‘Family’ could mean love, or reluctant foster care. For Demon, born on the wrong side of luck, the affection and safety he craves is as remote as the ocean he dreams of seeing one day. The wonder is in how far he’s willing to travel to try and get there.
Suffused with truth, anger and compassion, Demon Copperhead is an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between.
If you’d like to join the group, email cricklereaders@cricklewoodlibrary.org.uk for more details.
Next meeting: Sunday 11 December, 1030-1130
by Library Admin | 8 Oct 2022 | Cricklesingers
We’re on a short pause while our MD, Anna, rehearses for an opera. Regulars will hear via Whatsapp when we are resuming. If you’re not yet a regular, sign up!
by Library Admin | 18 Sep 2022 | Cricklereaders, Cricklereaders Read
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
‘The most exquisite kind of literature… I’ve put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that demand to be revisited every now and then. ‘
OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
‘Could not be more timely… It’s funny and absurd, but it’s also frightening, because even as Gospodinov plays with the idea as fiction, the reader begins to recognise something rather closer to home… A writer of great warmth as well as skill‘
GUARDIAN
‘In equal measure playful and profound, Time Shelter renders the philosophical mesmerizing, and the everyday extraordinary. I loved it’
CLAIRE MESSUD, author of The Woman Upstairs
‘A genrebusting novel of ideas… Gospodinov’s vision of tomorrow is the nightmare from which Europe knows it must awake. And accident, in combination with the book’s own merits, may just have created a classic’
THE TIMES
‘Gospodinov is one of Europe’s most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists, and this his most expansive, soulful and mind-bending book’
DAVE EGGERS, author of The Circle
The September group will meet at the library at 1030 on Sunday 30 October. Do join in.
