SERENESocial x LFW: Yoga Brunch at Hoxton Hotel, Shoreditch

To celebrate London Fashion Week this year I was kindly invited by May of Red Velvet London to a beautiful VIP event with SERENESocial. Since attending my first SERENESocial class over a year ago I have remained a fan of their work. Their classes combine the beauty of yoga with the wonder of women socialising together. They host a variety of events in London, Los Angeles and New York that bring a wide range of people together to practise yoga and enjoy brunch.

This month's Raising The Vibration event was hosted at the incredible Hoxton Hotel. When I lived in Shoreditch I used to drink (a lot) at the Hoxton Hotel and never really appreciated the beauty of the space. The large building not only plays host to a bustling restaurant, cosy bar, work space and bedrooms for guests but has a number of rentable spaces 'out the back'. The courtyard is pretty awesome too!  The Raising The Vibration event was packed with mindfulness and wellness events including a beautiful but intense yoga session hosted by Davina and Tegan and DJ'ed by Chelsea Leyland (like yes, really), meditation with Kaja Wunder, group hypnotherapy with Chloe Brotheridge, and panelists including Goldenmylk entrepreneur Zoe Lind van’t Hof, and nutritionist and author Chantal di Donato. May and I took part in the yoga session and after tucked into a delicious brunch.

Yoga is such a delicate art and when you mix incredible teachers with incredible music the practise is something magical. At my last SERENESocial class it actually rained the moment we began savasana which was absolutely mind blowing. At the Raising The Vibration event I was able to experience DJ'ed yoga. This sounds like a really weird concept but actually it has changed my whole view on the relationship between yoga and music. I attended a Kundalini Yoga class at Triyoga last year which was not initially set to music. Although the class was intense and deeply spiritual the overwhelming silence was actually quite difficult to experience. We were so lucky to have had Chelsea Leyland as our DJ for the Raising The Vibration yoga class. Each beat was so perfectly in tune with the movements we were actioning and, in the same way that house music can make you spin harder, the choice of sound really impacted on how deeply each move was made. 

I was also so happy to see the wonderful Tegan Bukowski up and teaching this class. Tegan and I met at my last SERENESocial yoga session and struck up a great chemistry. Since that time Tegan has become a qualified teacher and her passion for yoga practise continues to inspire me. Hey, her outfit from RUYI was pretty sick too. I found Davina Wellesley's teachings at the start and end of our session really great bookends. Her soft voice and clear instructions were effortless to follow and she is clearly well practised in getting the best of our her students.

Thank you May for this one!

After our yoga session we were treated to a family-style brunch in the courtyard at the Hoxton Hotel. It was here that I finally met Carly from Project Hot Bitch! I have been stalking Carly on Instagram and Twitter for months -  I told her, she's cool with it - and was so happy to have finally got the chance to meet her. Carly, May and I sat together through brunch enjoying delicious avocado toast with tomatoes, fresh fruit salads, mini croissants and pancakes with fruits and maple syrup. The brunch was absolutely delicious and I am keen to return to the Hoxton Hotel to review their brunch offering soon. 

Overall it was a pretty awesome day! Thank you to May for inviting me and to SERENESocial, The Hoxton Hotel, Class Pass and RUYI for hosting the beautiful event. 

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