Life During Lockdown

Hello my name is Sharon Stock and I am the owner of The Dairy Holistic Hub in Southport, where I offer yoga, reiki and meditation.

As you can imagine I was devastated when I made the decision (before it was made for me) to temporarily close the doors to the business. I knew so many of my clients came to the Dairy for their little bit of ‘me’ time, so I still wanted them to be able to achieve this in some way at home. As scary as it was I realised I would have to be a big girl and go online!

GOING ONLINE

I was so lucky, literally a week before lockdown I had began my social media training with the amazing Phil Gee. He has made the whole transition to going online so much easier. Before I met him I didn’t even own a lap top! Thank goodness I bought one just before everything changed.

My clients have really embraced seeing me on the Facebook lives. I love it when they send me pictures of how they have made their room ready for the class. I really miss seeing them all, but what a great opportunity for me to reconnect with clients that have moved away. I have ladies logging in for my classes from London, Florida and Brazil.

With so many requests I am going to carry on with my online classes after lockdown is over, again with a lot of help from Phil Gee.

HOME LIFE

My wonderful husband and I live in an apartment but are extremely lucky to have a balcony overlooking gardens, We are making time for each other and with this lovely weather are enjoying having a lot of our meals outside with the odd glass of red wine!

With both of us being self employed it has been a bit of a worry, but we are taking this time for us and have been planning our future and seem to both be as busy as if we were working full time, the days seem to go really fast, especially as I am now really enjoying my online classes.

I am really close to my Mum, Dad, my sister and all her family. I am finding it really hard not to see them. The first thing I am going to do is go and give them all a big hug, but again at least we have facetime (even though some of the time I’m looking down my mums ear!!!)

KEEPING HEALTHY (MIND AND BODY)

I am extremely lucky to be part of Kinetics gym, we have been setting our selves targets to do each week, which keeps us in a routine, as well as healthy. We check in on each other on a regular basis. I am enjoying more than ever my self practice of yoga and meditation, even 10 minutes a day can make so much difference to how I feel.

THE FUTURE

This time has made me appreciate what I have so much more. I also have believe in myself and what I can achieve. I am excited to launch my online package for yoga and meditation and cant wait to give everyone a super big hug when I return back to The Dairy.

THIS TIME HAS MADE ME REALISE LIFE IS PRECIOUS- EMBRACE EVERY MOMENT