July's Sensory Immersion, Passion for Photography, & Importance Of Staying Active

Happy Hour with your mix of all things wellbeing and happiness is here with a brand-new episode! 

This week, Holly and Paulina bring you some great music, interesting conversations and even some random chat as Paulina presents her Fun Photography Fact of the week!

First, David Hogg joins us to chat with VI Photographer Rachael Andrews.

Padma Cheriyan returns to chat about her years encouraging visually impaired people to give physical activity a go as she ran clubs for Tai-Chi, ballroom dancing, yoga, and more!

And finally, Andy Shipley returns with this month's Sensory Odyssey exercise which is all about connecting with the land around us.

You can find Rachael's work on both Facebook and Instagram under the name Soft of Sight Photography.

Find more Sensory Odyssey exercises here: https://www.natural-inclusion.org  and join Andy for a deeper immersion into this exercise Thursday 28th of July. To take part email: andy@natural-inclusion.org

Finally, send in your music therapy recommendations, random funny stories or happy facts here: radio@rnib.org.uk. 

The Happy Hour Podcast is our trimmed down version of this hour-long show, so if you'd like to listen to the full show with all the amazing songs featured, catch a new episode of the Happy Hour on RNIB Connect Radio Mondays at 1 PM, with a repeat Thursday at 6 PM and Sunday at 10 am.

Image shows a forest lush with greenery at Coed Nant Gwernol. Image credit: Jordan Mansfield