The Body Workshop Open Day

Join in With The Body Workshop's Open Day – Saturday 26 January

Have you ever asked yourself why so many people are doing Pilates these days? The answer is, it changes people’s lives by Reducing stress, Mobilising the spine, Strengthening the core, Improving posture and Helping to “future proof” your body against injury.Now you can try it for FREE at The Body Workshop Pilates Open Day on Sat. 26 Jan.  

We have been teaching Pilates in Cirencester for nearly 20 years and our 5 highly qualified teachers offer 30+ classes a week in 2 dedicated studios in King St, Cirencester.

At the Open Day we are offering free:  Mat, Reformer and Seated Pilates Classes and The Franklin Method® Spine Class. Classes are suitable for all - male/female, young and old... and all abilities from beginners to advanced.

So, why not make 2019 that year that Changes Your Life?

To book  onto the open day via

     www.thebodyworkshoppilates.net/workshops

    01285 655446

     admin@thebodyworkshop.net

Corinium Museum January 2019 Events

One of Cirencester's best resources.

January

Swimming with Men

Corinium Cinema

Thursday 10 January, 7pm

A man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronized swimming team.

Cert: 12A

Run time: 1 hr. 37 min.

Cost: £6.50 per adult, £5.50 concession

Prehistory: A Story of Stone, Bone and Pottery

Afternoon workshop with James Harris

Thursday 17 January, 2-3.30pm

A lecture and handling workshop using fabulous prehistoric tools and pottery. Learn to identify objects from the Stone Age and the Bronze Age. Find out what the greatest ever human invention was.

Cost: £7 per adult, £6 members

Booking recommended

Dress and Identity in the Roman Empire

Afternoon Talk with Dr Valija Evalds

Wednesday 23 January, 2-3.30pm

The third in a series of 3 talks exploring Roman art and architecture. This illustrated lecture will explore the clothing of the Roman world: its textures, its colours and its symbols; from senators to slaves, to matrons and brides. 

Cost: £7 per adult, £6 members

Booking recommended

Rural Cinema

Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 January, 2.15pm

The Corinium Museum takes part in the Rural Cinema Scheme. Films are released approximately 4-6 weeks in advance. For film titles contact the Corinium Museum or visit our website.

Cost: £5.60 per adult, £4.80 concession

Spotlight on the Orpheus Mosaic

Gallery Talk with Emma Stuart

Wednesday 30 January, 2.30-3pm

The Orpheus Mosaic represents one of Britain’s finest examples from Roman Britain. Join Emma to hear about the design, unusual archaeology and the eventual rescue of this impressive mosaic. We will spend time in the gallery next to the mosaic giving opportunity for discussion and appraisal.

Cost: £3 per adult, £2.50 members

Booking recommended

La traviata

Royal Opera House LIVE Opera

Corinium Cinema

Wednesday 30 January, 6.45pm

From the thrill of unexpected romance to a heartbreaking reconciliation that comes too late – Verdi’s La traviata is one of the most popular of all operas. Alfredo falls in love in with the courtesan Violetta in glamorous Paris society, but underneath the surface run darker undercurrents, leading to a tragic ending. The opera’s wealth of melodies includes the famous Brindisi and the exuberant ‘Sempre libera’ – both showing the lyricism of Italian opera at its most immediately appealing. Richard Eyre’s production for The Royal Opera brings out all the emotional colour, from the giddy discovery of love, through painful confrontation to the inevitable conclusion. Lavish period sets and costumes enhance the reality of a moving story based on true life.

Sung in Italian with English subtitles.

Cost: £17 per adult, £15 members

Booking recommended

                   

Evening Lecture with Dr Caroline Morris

From Saints Bones to Charles Dickens’ Monkey

Thursday 31 January, 7-8.30pm

Henry VIII’s glove, Jane Austen’s Table, Sir Edward Elgar’s glasses – biographically significant objects like these have been displayed for centuries. Today, there are hundreds of museums and historic houses across the country dedicated to celebrated figures and filled with their possessions. Dr Caroline Morris will share her research on biographical objects with a brief history of their display; describing the influences upon the development of the modern biographical museum from the medieval reliquary and the Renaissance wunderkammer to Romanticism and the Arts & Crafts movement.

Cost: £7 per adult, £6 members

Booking recommended

Please contact us if you would like any further details or images for any of the events that we are holding.

Cirencester Hypnotherapy and Health Centre Jan 19: Beating Anxiety by looking at the past to make a positive future.

Nicola Griffiths: Get in touch with this local
therapist!

Nicola Griffiths is a clinical hypnotherapist and helps with numerous issues along with her colleagues.

A client said to me recently that they like to worry about things so that they’re prepared for any eventuality. I replied with “You overload your brain that way, creating negative chemicals and you’re actually less well prepared because your poor old brain is already in fight/flight mode. Whereas if you go forth into 2019 with the attitude that things are going to be good, or that you’ll cope better, then you start changing the chemical response to more positive ones. This allows you to deal with things so much more easily”.

I remember well some decades ago worrying that my father-in-law might lose his job. In fact, what happened was my brother-in-law lost his and we hadn’t seen it coming.

Frequently, if we worry about something, it either doesn’t happen or we’ve been so wrapped up in worrying about the thing that hasn’t happened, we don’t see the thing that is appearing on the horizon and, more importantly, a thing we could possibly have taken action over before it happened – if you follow me!

So what’s the answer? Well it’s to look at what good things have happened. Whether that be in 2018 even if your year hasn’t been that great, or, if your memory is as poor as mine, you might want to simply think about the good things that have happened today or in the last week! It makes one heck of a difference to how we view life overall and it can allow us to be more successful, more able, and definitely healthier, especially if we carry out this positive mental exercise daily. It’s no good just doing it once and thinking, ‘Ha, that’s that sorted then’.

What I like about the dramatic rise in anxiety is it’s made it more normal. If you go down with a common cold, you might think “Why me?” but I doubt you think you’re the only one with a cold? And that’s how mental health issues such as anxiety should be viewed – as something that we sort of catch but that we can get rid

of if we take the right steps, and I don’t mean just taking a paracetamol!! Let’s get rid of the taboo aspect and with the dramatic rise in anxiety, it’s certainly being talked about more which in my book is a very good thing.

As you step into 2019, make it a good year. Take action if action is needed or simply enjoy living in the moments of happiness.

Make it a proper ‘Happy’ New Year.
Visit the website www.cirencesterhypnotherapycentre.co.uk for more information!

Country Matters With the Hodge: The Reality of Sheep Farming

Far more is going on than it might appear with sheep farming.

Country Matters
By The Hodge
‘A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox is to a rich one’.
Old proverb

Christmas is past and all the food and the drink and the partying and indulgence is over. Ditto the New Year celebrations. Your liver may have taken a battering and the bathroom scales have gone badly awry in the cold weather but you survived it all. Well done! Now all you have to do is to get through the rest of the winter and the drudgery of work and all will be well.

So, as you begin your daily commute spare just a moment’s thought for the sheep-keeping farmer or his shepherd. A lot will have started lambing before Christmas; others may be starting now or in the next few weeks. Many believe sheep are creatures whose one aim in life is to die. Accordingly, lambing time means staying up with all the roly-poly ewes to ensure that their ambitions are not easily fulfilled.

Sheep need help with lambing just as most western ladies need a midwife. Most sheep lamb at night so the period of new life for most farmers means weeks of night duty in a cold barn surrounded by sheep, many of which will try to present their lambs the wrong way round or back to front meaning that the shepherd must be on hand to put his arm up the birth canal to rearrange things in the hope that the lamb can be safely delivered and kept alive. Sheep were probably designed by nature to produce one lamb once a year but by selective breeding, farmers have modern types that will regularly produce, two, three or even four little beings which all adds up to extra productivity. On most farms, as the pregnancy develops, a specialist scanner will come along and inform the farmer how many embryos each ewe has so that she can be colour-marked so that the guessing is taken out of the equation. Clever, eh?
Inevitably, some of the more determined ewes will achieve their life’s ambition and shuffle off their ovine coil during the process and the farmer will have the added joy of trying to get a less productive ewe to foster those offspring or hand rearing them once they’ve received their initial life-giving colostrum, found in the mother’s first milk.
And I’m not talking about a smallholder here with a dozen or so ewes but a serious farmer with hundreds of ewes all set to give birth over a six week period. Sheep farming is a seriously intensive business for the farmer. I was brought up on an arable farm with dairy cows and pigs. Whenever I asked my father why we didn’t have sheep, I would be answered with a non-committal grunt that I learnt meant that the subject should be changed. When I got to about 12, instead of a grunt, I got sent to spend part of the summer holidays with a cousin in Hampshire who had a large pedigree flock of sheep. I spent three weeks dagging – an ancient term for the removal of clinkers of unmentionable substances that had collected under the tail – and dealing with foot rot – an affliction of many sheep that produces gasses of pungency once experienced never forgotten – so that when I returned home, the subject was never broached again.
So next time you have a roast leg of lamb or a lamb chop or cutlet of English or Welsh origin, spare just the tiniest thought for the dedication and perseverance that meant that the lamb itself was born and survived long enough to make it to your table – against all the odds.