Take a break throughout your time at the BVA Live to energise and elevate your mood, in partnership with VetYogi we are delighted to invite you to chill out in the VetYogi Den
VetYogi Den
It’s not just for avid yogis and fitness fanatics.
The VetYogi den is designed to give you a space to chill out throughout BVA Live and equip you with essential tools and easy wins to improve your clinical performance and boost the well-being of your team.
Want a few moments of calm amongst the congress chaos, or to discover how to welcome more well-being into your life? Head over to the VetYogi Den for an escape and a chance to learn how to improve your well-being. With a variety of yoga and meditation taster classes from Vet Yogi, this is the space to relax with fellow veterinary professionals. Exchange how you manage your well-being in and outside your sector and gain support and advice on how to improve it.
VetYogi will also be on Stand E80, where you can ask Chloe and her team any questions, find out more about the VetYogi platform and browse their full range of yoga and home fragrance products.
We ask kindly that the Wellbeing Zone remains tech-free so leave your phones in your pocket and enjoy a rest-bite between lectures!
Vet Yogi Den Programme
Thursday
11.30 - 11.45 Meditation 101
Explore what meditation can mean for you - and what it doesn’t have to be - and give it a go for yourself. A chance to pause and breathe.
12.30 - 12.45 Event Equilibrium Yoga
Whether you’re sat down for sessions or walking those pink floors of the exhibition, we all benefit from a breather. Let’s re-balance and give your circulation a boost.
15.00 - 15.15 Find Your Zen Yin Yoga
Set yourself up for a great night ahead by taking the opportunity to wind down. Relax in some peaceful yoga poses and learn ways to build Yin into your day.
Friday
10.30 - 10.45 Trataka for Tired Eyes
A powerful and cleansing candle-gazing meditation. Come along to rejuvenate the eyes and still the mind through sight; the perfect set-up for Day 2 (using the LED candles which worked fine for LVS)
12.30 - 12.45 Moving Meditation Yoga Flow
Struggle to sit down and meditate? Try some simple yoga poses that help get you out of your head and into your body, connecting with your breath along the way.
15.00 - 15.15 Soothe Your Soles Yoga
You’ve no doubt got your steps in over the past couple of days, so this is back by popular demand! Attend to your tired legs and feet with some yoga and myofascial release techniques.
VetYogi is thrilled to be back at another London Vet Show, where, together with CloserStill Media, we aim to provide a calming space amongst the conference chaos, and, encourage our colleagues to try some self-care practices both at the event and to take away from busy day-to-day life. This year the Wellbeing Zone programme offers more new and exciting sessions, including our tailored yoga and meditation taster classes, plus we’ll once again have our full range of VetYogi yoga and home fragrance products.
We can’t wait to see you all for connection, candles, or even if you just need a moment of quiet.
Meet the Team
Dr. Chloe Hannigan BVetMed MRCVS, Founder and Director, VetYogi
Chloe qualified as a vet from the Royal Veterinary College, London, in 2012, and has worked in mixed and small animal practice in the UK, Australia, and NZ. She is currently a small animal locum, and loves the variety, teamwork, and surgical opportunities which her job brings, while acknowledging that sometimes veterinary medicine can be a very challenging profession to be a part of.
Having practiced yoga and meditation on and off for many years, she realised just how beneficial these practices were for helping with the management of work-related stress, easing the tension and aches that come from doing a physically and emotionally demanding job, and generally feeling more positive both professionally and personally.
Wanting to share these practices in realistic and evidence-based ways, she qualified as a yoga teacher in Bali and founded VetYogi in 2017, and encouraged by the response of the veterinary community, completed her 500-hour yoga teacher training in India in February 2020. She has since gained further yoga teaching and mental health qualifications, is registered as a Yoga Alliance Professionals teacher, and teaches a variety of yoga styles, including Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Yoga Nidra, as well as Meditation/Pranayama. She is a proud member of the profession, and passionate about improving veterinary mental health and wellbeing by bridging the scientific and spiritual realms.
Lindsey Raven Emrich RVN
Linds is a Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) and qualified British Wheel of Yoga teacher, with many years of experience in both the veterinary and yoga worlds. She currently works part-time in practice alongside teaching, involvement with a variety of eco initiatives, and family life. Linds qualified with the British Wheel of Yoga in 2015 and has been teaching yoga since 2013. Her veterinary colleagues thought she was crazy when she took on the 3 year course alongside working as a full time veterinary nurse!
As a busy working Mum she knows just how hard it can be to find time to practice self-care, so in alignment with the VetYogi ethos she delivers her teaching in ways that are supportive and achievable for all! She primarily teaches Hatha yoga, along with meditation and breath work, and enjoys making yoga accessible for everyone. Her focus is enabling her students to better understand their own bodies, and appreciate what is “normal” for them. Linds shares the VetYogi mission to encourage all veterinary colleagues to embrace yoga for better holistic health, and joined the team as a VY Associate Yoga Teacher in 2021.
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