Spin City Newbury Blog

Body Positive 30 Day Challenge For the month of June, we've decided to focus on a 30 day challenge to improve mental well-being. Lead by the BBC Body Positive  Instagram, we're going to follow along the 30 day path and we'd love for you to join us!  First, follow @BBCBodyPositive on Instagram Second, follow us @SpinCityNewbury on Instagram  Third, commit to taking one small step everyday to better your mental wellness. Starting 1st June! Week 1 - Connect "This week, the focus of the challenges is "connect" - and by this we mean actual human interaction. Evidence shows that good relationships – with family, friends and our wider communities – are important for our mental wellbeing. Building stronger, wider social connections can help us feel happier and more secure, and give us a greater sense of purpose. As Dr Zoe says, "We're social animals and we don't thrive when we're lonely and isolated." What better way to

🍀🍀🍀We’ve been gifted THREE VIP TICKETS to our Charity Ball by some generous Spin City Students who are unfortunately unable to make the ball! They would like to pay some kindness forward by offering the tickets for FREE to someone who otherwise wouldn’t have been able to come. If you know of someone who deserves a jolly good night out, tag them, tell us why and they’ll be in with a chance to win! What are you waiting for!? Open until 6pm on Saturday 25th May, winners announced Sunday 26th May. * Comment on the original post! Link here >  https://www.facebook.com/spincitynewbury/photos/a.771122629631993/2174426309301611/?type=3&theater&ifg=1 #kindess #payitforward #charity #charityball #summerball #spincitynewbury #spincityfamily #newbury

©The Image Cella This weeks beautiful instructor profile is Capper! Something to brighten up your Wednesday for sure! Name: Capper (Amy) Age: 25 What do you teach? How to be awesome. [Also silks, hoop] How long have you been in your respective discipline(s) FOREVERRRRRR. I started Pole 10 years ago, Hoop 6 years ago and Silks 5. I accidentally did Trapeze this one time. I’ve been teaching Hoop since 2013 and Silks since 2014. I am qualified to also teach a few other disciplines. 😊 What inspired you to become an instructor? That’s not how that happened. Kate told me that I was an instructor. [Those were the days!] I keep this tradition alive by choosing my TA’s in a similar fashion. What’s the most important thing about instructing for you? The impact we can have on the wellbeing and physical/ emotional health of our students. It’s a big responsibility, and not one to be taken lightly. It scares me more than any other thing about instructing.

Well, we said we'd post a full list of raffle prizes didn't we? It's HUGE! Where possible, businesses have been linked so you can check them out yourselves!  ALL proceeds from raffle ticket sales are going to our three charities - so without further ado and in no particular order, here goes... 20 Classes at Spin City Newbury, valid for 6 months - Spin City Newbury Botanicals facial treatment - iStyle Hair and Beauty, Newbury Gel polish application - Over the Moon nails and beauty Cut and Blow dry with luxury Fusio treatment - Haringtons Hairdressing, Reading Three pairs of sterling silver earrings - Squirrels Fine Jewellery, Basingstoke Family trip on MV Jubilee canal boat from Newbury Wharf - The Kennet & Avon Canal Trust, Admission for 1 adult and 1 child - Cotswold Wildlife Park Admission for 1 family - Finkley Down Farm £15 gift card - Ugly Duckling Pottery Painting Coffee House, Newbury Nurse nail clip appointment - Companion Care Vets, Andover Brewer

© The Image Cella Well, well, well, what's all this then! It's time to meet another instructor... Name:  Nadine Age: 49!!! What do you teach? Pole and yoga How long have you been in your respective discipline(s)? About 8 years for pole, 15 years for yoga What inspired you to become an instructor? I was the winner of the UK Amateur Pole Performer (Expert Level) and one of my prizes was free xpert training. Seemed too good an opportunity to miss. I started teaching in Fareham and have never looked back!! What’s the most important thing about instructing for you? I love seeing people grow in confidence, when someone nails a trick or move it’s the best reward ever! What’s a favourite move of yours that might be seen as underrated to others? Jallegra and anything on spinny pole… spinny pole IS THE BEST!!! How do you get out of a funk or get your mojo back? I revisit videos of Michelle Stanek or Marlo Fisken and remind myself pole dancin

It's only a month to go until the big night and we are all getting excited! I thought I'd give you an update on what we are doing and more importantly, what we are doing it for. As often as we can we try to arrange some fundraising and over the last couple of years have run training sessions and jams to support our local homeless population as well as last months awesome scratch night which raised over £340 for Newbury Soup Kitchen/ HAVEN  (a donation which was doubled by donating via The Good Exchange, well done gang!)  This year we decided that instead of arranging our usual annual student showcase, we would go bigger, sparklier (who even thought that was possible?!) and much more ambitious - and would try and raise loads of money to support some important charities. The Charities... The first is Berkshire Women's Aid/Refuge . BWA provides a range of services to enable women in situations of domestic abuse to make choices about their future and to rebuild t