Last year on 23rd March, we opened the Well Being Centre in two beautiful yurts, at Glynleigh Organic Farm, near Hilliers Garden Centre, Stone Cross. The Well Being Centre, on the edge of Pevensey Marshes, is an environmentally friendly and holistic health centre for complementary and transformative healing work, in all its many forms. The centre was officially opened by Andrew Durling of Eastbourne Green Party and Friends of the Earth.
It all began with a 14ft yurt at Playgroup Music Festival in 2011! A few years later as a proud owner of the same yurt, made beautifully by the Yurtshop in Battle, I was looking for a semi permanent place to locate it during the warmer months of the year, to practice Shiatsu (the holistic Japanese bodywork therapy), Acupressure Massage and Qigong. Fortuitously, at our next bookclub meeting, an old friend Jon Ross had been invited to join us. Jon and Becky Ross own Glynleigh Organic Farm and he said he may be able to help me out! In exchange for a day’s work a month on the farm I could put up the yurt from time to time to do treatments. What a wonderful place to work, surrounded by the beauty, fresh air and natural sounds of the countryside!
My clients found their treatments more deeply relaxing and restorative than usual. Jon and Becky were most interested in the work I was doing and loved the yurt. After many discussions, cups of tea and a whole range of delicious homemade cakes and biscuits, the idea of a Well Being Centre in yurts was born.
We use solar power to generate our electricity and heating is mainly woodburners sourced with wood from the farm and our neighbours. We hold weekly classes in the big 24ft yurt of a whole variety of different yogas; Kundalini, Hot Asthanga, Dru, Animal, Bikram and Restorative Yoga as well as Qigong and Meditation. In the smaller yurt we offer a wide range of different therapies such as Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Shiatsu, Massage (Deep Tissue, Acupressure, No Hands) Reiki, Counselling and Wellbeing coaching. There are monthly workshops of Kundalini Yoga, Sound Baths with the amazing Soundlove, deeply relaxing and restorative Qigong and Meditation sessions as well as Shiatsu clinics where Shiatsu and Acupressure massage is available for a donation. There is parking available, shared lifts encouraged, and a bus route passes close by. There are now also ecological compost toilets all housed in a brand new stunning green roofed building.
We have our Open Day this year on Sunday 15th May with a mixture of tasters, demonstrations, talks and delicious homemade refreshments. We look forward to welcoming you to the Well Being Centre which opens again on Monday 21st March this year. Take a look at our website glynleighwellbeingcentre.com and our Facebook page for more information for this year’s programme.
Nick Neter MRSS, DipQT B’Sc Hons
The Well Being Centre, Glynleigh Farm, Hailsham Rd, Stone Cross, BN24 5BS
07773 061309
glynleighwellbeing@ gmail.com
