with JAMBO TRUONG

Friday, March 6th, 2-5pm
YOGA FOR ANXIETY
In this workshop, Jambo will explore what happens to the body and brain when we experience anxiety and how we can employ techniques from Forrest Yoga to combat these feelings. Forrest Yoga is an inspiring, grounding and healing yoga practice that is intensely physical and internally focused. Guided by the use of breath, core exercises and intelligent sequencing, this practice releases tension and encourages a deeper connection with the physical and emotional body. Jambo will explore how breathing techniques can calm the nervous system and help us retrain our response to trigger memories and life’s challenges.

Saturday, March 7th, 1.30-4.30pm
ASSISTING CLINIC: THE SECRETS OF DEEP HIP OPENING
In this workshop, Jambo will introduce some fundamental hands-on assists to enable students to move each other into the deeper layers of hip-opening postures. This workshop will explore techniques to trouble-shoot tight hip flexors, loosen stuck lateral rotators and create more flexibility in the posterior chain (hamstrings, calf and back). Jambo’s experience of hands-on assisting has been developed through Thai yoga massage, Ayurveda yoga massage, Myofascial meridians and applied kinesiology. Come with injuries and case studies to explore, cherish and heal within Jambo’s Injury Clinic.

Sunday, March 8th, 1.30-4.30pm
WALL VIGNETTES
Wall vignettes is a high energy and fun way to practise Forrest Yoga. For the keen practitioner who wants to develop a stronger practise or advanced students who want to weave in stronger poses, this workshop focuses on a number of arm balances including crow variations. If you’ve never liked this posture, you will leave loving it. If you already love this pose then you will experience some new ways of working with it!

Jambo Truong is an eternal student of yoga and Forrest Yoga Guardian in training. Researcher, travelling assistant to Ana Forrest, TED speaker, his teaching style is “loud” and focuses on experiential functional anatomy which makes learning and remembering easy! Jambo has trained in Ayurveda, Classical Oriental medicine and coaching. He holds a degree in BSc(Hons) Integrated Health: Complementary Medicine. His yoga company emphasises the foundations of Forrest Yoga functional anatomy, practitioner/teacher development and community contribution. His team of trained specialists are leading in yoga therapy for trauma, chronic pain and addiction.

£35 for each workshop

with ALAN DOLAN

Transformational Breathing is a gentle, simple technique that helps people to open up the full potential of their breathing system for better physical and emotional well being. It teaches a pattern of conscious breathing that is natural, safe and healthy which has been demonstrated to have many benefits almost universally, including increased energy, better immune response and increased ability to deal with stress in a healthy way. It was developed by Dr Judith Kravitz and incorporates her knowledge of conscious breathing techniques as well as various other healing and spiritual principles which are combined to make Transformational Breathing a highly efficient and effective method.
LEARN A SIMPLE TECHNIQUE TO:
• Feel completely energised
• Let go of emotional baggage
• Release anxiety and alleviate depression
• Move beyond whatever is standing between you and you’re your happiness
• Become aware of emotions halting your personal growth
• Develop a new dimension to your yoga practice
• Experience deeply nourishing relaxation
• Understand the nature of spirit
• Open your breath and expand your life
Alan has helped many students realise their full potential through his work. We are delighted to have him back at Indaba!

£55 for 3 hours

with EMMA HENRY

Can’t get up into Headstand? Shoulders hurt in Chaturanga? This interactive asana problem-solving laboratory will explore practical ways to achieve more flexibility, balance, safety and freedom in your practice. Through partner work and the exploration of asana you will learn how to assist and support others while improving your own practice in the process. This workshop will begin with the key principles of yoga assists followed by a problem solving laboratory. Open to both teachers and practitioners who would like to deepen their understanding of asana, you will focus on the basic techniques of applying safe and practical hands-on assists as well as verbal and energetic assistance.

Emma Henry was introduced to yoga in the mid 90s and has been teaching since 1998. Her background in dance and martial arts is evident in her dynamic, innovative and playful choreography and understanding of anatomy and the subtle body. Emma’s yogic path has led her to Mysore to practice Astanga with Sri K Pattabhi Jois and to advanced certification in the Jivamukti method with Sharon Gannon and David Life.

£35/(£30 before March 1st)

with BRYONY BIRD

Want to confidently practice headstand at the end of a yoga class? Join Bryony on this 3 week course where you will learn techniques to prepare for, practice and hold Sirsasana. In order to execute Sirsasana without a wall, you need to strengthen your deep core muscles in order to find balance and alignment.
On this course you will learn how to stabilise your base, engage the shoulder girdle, access your core and be free from fear. These muscles groups will allow you to hold headstand for an extended period of time without feeling any pressure in the neck.
By reversing the flow of gravity you will feel refreshed, find balance and gain more confidence in your inversion practice. Plus it is a great party trick! This course is suitable for complete novices, triers and fallers as well as those too fearful to try.

with SHIMMY LEVY-RILEY

Practising yoga throughout your pregnancy is a wonderful gift for both yourself and your unborn baby. Prenatal yoga will help you be in the best possible mental & physical shape for birth and beyond!

Benefits can be felt on all levels – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. A regular practice will help increase strength, stamina and flexibility. You may also find that yoga helps you deal more effectively with stress and anxiety, and you will treasure the quiet time set aside for your practice as a sanctuary for you to connect with the baby growing inside you.

This Pregnancy Yoga course will focus on Asana (postures), Pranayama (breathing techniques), positions for Labour, Birth and Relaxations whilst working through troublesome ailments such as back pain and water retention that come from being pregnant!

Shimmy’s Yoga for Pregnancy & Childbirth course is recommended from week 13 until birth. Before commencing any Prenatal class it is important to consult your doctor, especially if you have had any complications in your pregnancy, including a history of miscarriage.

Shimmy’s approach to teaching is somewhat similar to her approach in life: being light but grounded, dedicated, mindful, aware, and understanding of the personal limitations that are inherent to each and every individual. With a smile and love for teaching, Shimmy seeks to instil a sense of lightness and ease to her students, whilst assisting in them in the discovery of oneself, connecting mind and body.

£50 for 3 weeks

with SHIMMY LEVY-RILEY

Created with those brand new to yoga in mind, this three week course focuses on breath and body awareness.
Each week new principles and postures of yoga will be integrated into a well balanced class which will leave the student feeling both energized and at ease in body and mind.
The course is designed to give you a basic knowledge of postural names and alignment, breath control, and conscious movement. Asking questions is encouraged in this unique environment!
Following the course, the adventurous at heart will be ready to join a level one or two class; or those still interested in the foundations of yoga will be ready to step into a beginner’s class to build strength and deepen their overall knowledge of the practice.
Shimmy’s approach to teaching is somewhat similar to her approach in life: being light but grounded, dedicated, mindful, aware, and understanding personal limitations that are inherent to each and every individual. With a smile and love for teaching, seeking to instill a sense of lightness and ease to students, whilst assisting in that discovery of oneself, inevitably connecting mind and body in subtle ways.

£60 for 3 weeks

with REBECCA DENNIS

Discover the natural healing qualities of a full breath and learn how this powerful breathing technique can help improve your wellbeing. Learn the individual qualities of your unique breathing pattern and be encouraged to develop a regular Transformational Breath practice.

Each week there will be a short yet informative talk followed by a full 75 minute practical.
Week One- Grounding: The Diaphragmatic Breath
Week Two – Expression & Heart Opening – Letting go and clearing unwanted emotions
Week Three – Developing a Transformational Breath practice at home

Transformational Breath®, is a self-healing technique that helps people to access the full potential of their breathing system for better physical, emotional and mental well-being. The connected pattern of conscious breathing is a natural, safe and easy –to-learn technique, which has proven to have many benefits.
Rebecca first studied holistic massage, physiology and anatomy in 2006.  She became interested in a number of different therapies and travelled to India to study reiki and energy healing. Fascinated by her new found knowledge of the mind, body and soul connection she went on to study with the US founder of Transformational Breathing, Judith Kravitz in Mexico and Italy.
Rebecca now has a regular practice helping people deal with stress, anxiety and every day challenges in life.

£70 for three weekly 90 min classes with only six students.

with BRYONY BIRD

Designed with those brand new to yoga in mind, this three week course focuses on breath and body awareness. Each week new principles and postures of yoga will be integrated into a well balanced class which will leave you feeling both energized and at ease in body and mind. The course is designed to give you a basic knowledge of postural names and alignment, breath control, and conscious movement. Everyone has to start somewhere, and this small group setting allows you to feel comfortable with learning the postures of yoga and how to modify them to your body.

Bryony loves to teach beginners as it the best time to explore the basics and evaluate which style of yoga will be best for you. Bryony teaches with compassion, humour and relaxed shoulders.

She was first introduced to Yoga during her teens by her Mother. Since then she has deepened her own practice through studying with many teachers and being open to all styles and systems. This exploration has allowed her to engage with her body and most importantly get to know herself.

Bryony undertook teacher training in order to further her understanding of yoga and found sharing her knowledge and communicating with students was a natural progression.  She continues to be inspired all forms of yoga, being particularly intrigued by the subtle details of alignment, different body types and the energetical body.

This course is open to six students only, booking is required

£60 for three weekly 90 min classes

with KRISTI JOHNSON

Through a strong and playful Forrest Yoga sequence of Pranayama, Core Work, Shoulder Work, Arm Balances, Inversions and Partner Work, we will play with finding the stability and lightness we need in order to float, fly and surf gravity with grace.The sequence will shed light on the mechanics of floating and flying, while building strength and connection in the muscles surrounding the shoulders and the core – the essential ingredients for bringing ease into an Inversion and Arm Balancing practice.We will be jumping, going upside down and gravity surfing from one pose to the next, so be prepared to sweat, challenge yourself and work honestly with your fears, struggles, anxieties and breakthroughs. Whether you are a frequent flyer and want to expand your repertoire, or you are early on in your journey of flying, this workshop will hit the spot!

This workshop is open to all levels, provided you can kick up into a handstand on the wall or assisted. Modifications will be offered where required.

Forrest Yoga is a dynamic practice, brilliant for building strength, stability and flexibility. This practice has a strong focus on the breathing and is a powerful way to generate energy in the core and unwind the neck, shoulders and hips. Poses are held for longer to give the body an opportunity to release on a physical, energetic and emotional level. The sequencing in the Forrest Yoga practice is designed to suit modern day bodies and is effective for creating healing around physical and emotional injuries.

A certified Forrest Yoga Teacher, Kristi’s classes are strong, grounded and inspiring, based on the four pillars of Forrest Yoga – strength, breath, integrity, and spirit. It is through Forrest Yoga that Kristi found healing and discovered the true power and beauty that has unfolded in her own life. She believes in working hard, but working mindfully, and offers modifications for different levels and injuries, sharing compassionate hands on assists.

£35/(£30 before March 8th)

with CHRIS CHAVEZ

Friday, March 27th, 6.30-8.30pm
FULL SPECTRUM WORKSHOP

Saturday, March 28th, 12.00-2.00pm
INVERSIONS AND ARM BALANCES

Sunday, March 29th, 12.00-2.00pm
BACKBENDING WORKSHOP

In this series of workshops we will navigate the practice and the power of The One Teaching: The True-Self!
Chris will support and guide you through an awesome array of intoxicating inversions, exhilarating arm balances, heart-pumping backbends, and mind-dissolving meditations!
All poses and sequences will be taught in stages.
Every level of student will be supported and challenged! Get ready to open your heart, clear your mind, and free your body as you discover a whole new level of being in your practice!

Chris Chavez first began the practice of Iyengar Yoga in Ireland, where he was touring as a professional musician in the mid 1990’s. While traversing the globe playing music and studying various other methods of yoga, Chris imparted the knowledge and the gift of yoga upon everyone he met. In 2001, Chris landed in Los Angeles, California, where he submerged himself into the practice and study of yoga and began to teach and build community. Certified as an Anusara Instructor between 2006 and 2012, Chris is known for his extensive studies, his vast working knowledge of the mind and body, and his great personable demeanor.
Chris is considered one of the most sought after teachers in the world, training thousands of teachers and students a year in North America, Europe, and Asia. Chris’ world travels and experiences have made him one of the most down to earth yoga teachers you will ever meet. His teachings are fun, challenging, and spiritually uplifting.

£40 for each workshop
£108 for all three

with MARK MORFORD

Saturday, April 4th, 1.30-4.30pm
ABSOLUTION FLOW
Something stuck? Nagging fear, doubt, anxiety clogging the arteries of your life? Then this workshop is for you. Mark Morford’s Absolution Flow is a pure dedication practice, offering up all tangled poisons and tired dogmas to the breath, to the moment, to the fiery and awakened heart. This means vigorous, athletic Vinyasa, meditation and pranayama in service of dissolving false convictions and self-delusions. Bring a towel, and some water. Abandon your expectations. Come and be absolved.

Sunday, April 5th, 1.30-4.30pm
THE YOGA OF RESURRECTIONS: A SPECIAL EASTER WORKSHOP
How high do you want to go? What does it mean to “awaken” to the spiritual path, to rise up, a la Jesus, out of a contracted, ego-based awareness to a more authentic spiritual life? And what’s the true meaning of “resurrection” anyway?

Join one of San Francisco’s premier authors and yoga instructors, Mark Morford, for this special Easter Sunday Vinyasa workshop. Investigate many of the ways that a dedicated yoga practice can transform both the physical body and “resurrect” the neglected spirit. After all, Jesus may have been many things, but he was also one hell of a yogi. This workshop will containing a dynamic asana practice as well as Yoga Nidra, meditation and Dharma discussions.

Mark Morford (ERYT-500) has been leading fiery, heart-provoking Vinyasa classes, workshops and retreats since 1999. His yoga is a challenging, deeply devoted, irreverent fusion of Tantra-infused awareness and strength-building movement that is set to great music and designed to invigorate the body, guide the frenzied mind toward samadhi and burn off reckless illusions.

with REBECCA DENNIS

Transformational Breath is a self-healing technique that enables you to clear restricted breathing patterns and fully access your breathing capacity, providing you with a more stable physical, emotional and mental well-being. Letting go of the breath enables you to let go of your negative thought patterns and gain more clarity. By learning how to improve your individual breathing pattern you can release tension from the body, relax the mind and find a place of calm in your being.

Indaba’s Transformational Breathing facilitator, Rebecca Dennis, has a strong intuition and a gentle approach. Her wealth of experience in bodywork and healing has given her a great understanding of the body and where emotion, trauma and tension is held. She became interested in a number of different therapies and travelled to India to study reiki and energy healing. Fascinated by her new found knowledge of the mind, body and soul connection she went on to study with the US founder of Transformational Breathing, Judith Kravitz in Mexico and Italy. Rebecca now has a regular practice helping people deal with stress, anxiety and every day
challenges in life. She will joined by fellow breathing facilitaror, Aimee Hartley.

£40

with NAOMI ABSALOM

The most beautiful backbends and creative inversions all start with a basic yet precise understanding of alignment. Strength and correct postioning of the shoulders are key to a safe and ultimately playful and experimental practice. Lack of knowledge in this area can lead to relatively loose joints being forced into damaging positions. Understanding how to align the shoulders and then working on creating strength around the front, back and sides of the joint will help you to support the work of the core and midline and vice versa. This combination of core work and shoulder strengthening will be a big game changer in your asana practice as too much strength creates contractiona nd too much flexibility damages the soft tissue. A big dollop of both will work wonders in terms of making your practice lighter and your transitions smoother.

Being diligent in every posture and every transition, will lift you out of the lower back and into the chest. Once all of this is in place then you can begin toplay – think natarajasana, handstand tuck, variations of forearm balances, hollowback, kapotasana and a few others Naomi has up my sleeve!

Be prepared to work hard, learn new transitions, get strong and work into every little corner of your body.

£35/(£30 before March 29th)

with MILES BORRERO

Miles Borrero’s workshop is a riff on classical yoga with the pulse of jazz! Experience the basic human right to move in ways you never thought you could, uncovering the richness and depth of our essence. Miles will guide you with playfulness and smart alignment into fancy binds and big backbends. Deconstruct and rebuild the poses you are familiar with for a holistic experience that encompasses dharma, asana, kirtan, pranayama and the unexpected. It’s yoga twisted on its head, and will leave you buzzing with energy and connecting the purest expression of joy and calm. Laugh, fall over, roll around, have a party, lose yourself, find yourself, and put the missing pieces back together. All levels welcome.

Miles Borrero’s highly creative yoga sequences are fused together with a vast knowledge of the body, sprinkled with pranayama and meditation, supported by dharma and enriched with singing and jazz. Coming from a classical yoga background, she offers an intelligent take on the practice while still respecting the tradition of it. Her yoga is pulled apart and reconstructed, then twisted around and flipped on its head for an artful, enlivened experience.

Borrero leads retreats and teacher trainings both nationally and internationally and her unique teaching style has not escaped notice-Miles has recently been featured in publications including Om Yoga and Mantra. Deeply influenced by and eternally grateful to all of her teachers (Raghunath, Ana Forrest, Schuyler Grant and Phillip Askew among others), she believes yoga is an integrated science, art and practice meant to help us know and love ourselves better and more freely.

£35

with HORTENSE SULEYMAN

Backbending involves stretching forward and extending backwards, not just folding. During this three-part course, you will learn how to safely awaken your spine by opening your chest and shoulders whilst lengthening your hips and strengthening your legs.

After a short warm up which will include sun salutations and warrior series, you will explore different ways to deepen your backbends. You will work on loosening your upper body, improving the flexibility of your quads and keeping the breath strong, calm and continuous. We will look at some advanced backbend variations such as Chakrasana (Wheel on forearms), Natarajasana (Dancer’s pose) and for the more adventurous students Vrischikasana (Scorpion pose). This course of 3 playful sessions with just 7 students will create greater depth, ease and safety in your backends, helping you to take your practice to the next level.

Hortense has been practicing and studying many styles of yoga both here and abroad and still travels all over London to get her ‘fix’. She has trained with Dharma Mittra and Ana Forrest.

This course is for the more experienced and adventurous student.
£60 for 3 weeks, just 7 students

with JODY SHIELD

This therapeutic workshop will focus on the heart, love and relationships. We are imprinted with past relationships and love experiences from partners, lovers and parents. This unprocessed information is stored in our energy field, clogging up our cells, emotional and physical bodies. 

Light Grids will support you to release, process and transform these old emotions, trauma, memories, and limiting beliefs about love and self-worth. We will focus on gently opening the heart, which is a powerful intuitive brain, a mighty energy centre, a place of truth, authenticity and pure emotion. We will aim to move more into the heart, to live a life of purpose, truth and love. Moving into the heart raises our vibration so we attract more love, joy and abundance in. 

You will feel completely supported and safe throughout the workshop and be able to:
- Release emotional baggage and trauma
- Clear your partnership ‘seat’
- Release old beliefs about love
- Release genetic information about love and relationships 
- Deepen your self-love and connection to you
- Awaken the power of your heart
- Open the layers of your heart
- Clear blockages in your chakras
- Tune into love and joy
However you feel about love and relationships this workshop will be perfect for you.
Light Grids offers huge benefits and noticeable results, and you’ll feel yourself change during the session. You take back your power, your responsibility and your potential to create your best relationships.
Read more about Jody and Light Grids here http://indabayoga.com/therapies/jody-shield/

£45 for 3 hours of life-changing work.

with LAUREN RUDICK

Friday, May 22nd, 2.00-5.00pm
FRIGHT OR FLIGHT
All about arm balances. Face your fears, learn proper alignment, then fly. This workshop is guaranteed to get the core working and the adrenaline pumping. Join Lauren for an exuberant adventure into arm balances.

Saturday, May 23rd, 1.30-4.30pm
EXPLORE YOUR CORE
This class is all about fun transitions that ask the yogi to learn what and where the bandhas are and how to use them. We will move through fun and challenging transitions that demand we get centered, pull in through the midline, stay grounded and get to the core of the body.

Sunday, May 24th, 1.30-4.30pm
BACKBENDS FOR THE NON-BENDY
A “bend don’t break class”. Expand into advancing the practice rather than just heat up so much that the backbends come more easily. In this workshop we bend not just the bodies but also our thought process so that challenges do not break us. Lean to use yoga to physically and internally open the heart.

Lauren Rudick has been teaching and practicing yoga for a decade. She has solid roots in traditional Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa and Power Yoga with continued education in Ashtanga, Yin, and Anusara. Lauren’s dynamic and upbeat classes are infused with humour, positivity and joy helping her students build confidence on and off the mat.

£40 for one workshop/£108 for all 3 workshops

with HORTENSE SULEYMAN

Salamba Sirsasana to Parsva Bakasana, Eka Hasta Bhujasana to Astavakrasana, Ado Mukha Vrksasana in Padmasana, Eka Pada Galavasana and Eka Pada Koundinyasana, Vrschikasana…. Sound complicated and foreign? Let’s demystify.  In this 3 weeks course, Hortense will will translate transitions by using clever sequencing so you can build up to these poses. You will lay the foundation of advanced asana by exploring the use of bandhas and breath. By making every posture accessible through exploration of parallel postures, you will build strength and open the body preparing you will to fly! Hortense has been practicing and studying many styles of yoga both here and abroad and still travels all over London to get her ‘fix’. Her teaching is relaxed yet firm and she trusts that yoga benefits are both mental and physical. This course is for the more experienced and adventurous student.

7 people  maximum.
Booking is required.
£60 for 3 weeks

with SANDRA HEIDER

Sandra Heider’s Forrest Yoga workshop will explore the transformative power of asana, focusing on converting stuck energy in the hips and pelvis into aliveness and vitality. This workshop will be centered on a strong asana practice, which will create the necessary fire for transformation. As we create space within the tense areas of our bodies, we unlock energy that is bound up in the repression of our shadow side. If we choose to name our issues honestly and have the courage to stay present with our conflicts and discomfort, the these obstacles can be seen as opportunities to grow and evolve, as well as to create wisdom, love and freedom in our body and life.
Forrest Yoga is renowned as an intensely physical and internally focused practice that teaches us how to carry a transformative experience off the mat and into daily life. It is an inspiring, grounding and healing yoga practice that challenges students to access their whole being and to use cleanse the emotional and mental blocks that dictate and limit their lives.

Sandra Heider has been practising yoga since 1999 and is a certified Forrest Yoga Teacher and Mentor. She has been teaching since 2005 and assisting Ana Forrest at her workshops and teacher trainings throughout Europe since 2009. Forrest Yoga and Psychotherapy has helped Sandra deal with eating disorders and feelings of not belonging and of not being good enough. She looks to find integration between spirituality, psychotherapy and physical practices. At the heart of her teachings lies the assumption that we need to return to our bodies and to our feelings in order to experience peace, acceptance and self-love, and to lay the foundations for genuine relationships with other people. Sandra MA is the founder of Equilibrium Yoga and Well-Being Centres in Peteborough and Huntingdon (UK) and recently completed her 5 year studies in body psychotherapy at CBPC in Cambridge (UK).

£35 for 3 hours

with SARAH EZRIN

Saturday, June 13th, 1.30-4.30pm
MOON OVER MY HAMMIES: HAMSTRING OPENING WORKSHOP
In this workshop, we will open and explore this infamous muscle group. By understanding the anatomy of the sitting bone-hamstring connection, one will be able to properly move the pelvis in forward bends gaining more length and stability. For those with previous injuries or very supple hamstrings, learn to safely stretch from the belly of the muscle. We will then play with advanced postures that require hamstring openness, such as deep forward bends and arm balances.  When we are able to create space physically, we create space mentally and energetically. Happy hamstrings equal a healthy mind!

Sunday, June 14th, 1.30-4.30pm
THE ROYAL FAMILY OF YOGA: HEADSTAND & SHOULDERSTAND WORKSHOP
Classically referred to as the king and queen, head balance and shoulderstand are two of the most beneficial postures in yoga. The physical benefits of these poses are innumerable from opening the upper back and shoulders to deeper effects such as balancing the endocrine system, which regulates hormones, metabolism, and mood. On a psychological level, inversions are fun! They teach concentration, and literally shift our perspective as we explore our edge. But sometimes these noble poses are challenging and even risky if practiced incorrectly. In this workshop, we will look at the anatomy of the shoulder girdle and upper regions of the spine to understand optimal alignment. We will learn modifications and how to prop-erly (pun intended!) use props so that anybody can benefit from these powerful poses. We will also play with advanced variations. It is said that Mr. Iyengar practiced headstand thirty minutes a day until his mid-90’s! Tap into your inner King and Queen!

Sarah Ezrin, E-RYT-500, is an energetic and humorous yoga teacher and writer based in Los Angeles. With a profound love of travel, Sarah runs around the globe leading teacher trainings, workshops, and retreats. She is a regular contributor for many publications including Mantra Magazine. A background in psychology and life coaching infuse her classes, which are dynamic and alignment-based. For Sarah, yoga is beyond the postures; it is about connecting to one’s brightest and most authentic Self. Life should be spent laughing with those we love and doing the things we most enjoy, like yoga! For more information on Sarah please visit her website or connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

£35 for each workshop

with PATRICK BEACH

Get ready for take off with Patrick Beach in a fun filling exploration of flying high and hovering low. We will approach a number of inversion postures in a way that is both accessible and engaging for all levels of students! Class will be set to a playlist that inspires you to take flight and unearth new awareness in your practice.

Patrick’s own yoga journey started from a bet with his dad about learning to do a handstand. That fateful wager led Patrick to find the invigorating freedom and joy of balancing upside-down, and has kept him coming back to his mat each day. Now sharing that discovery with his students, he teaches a fluid power vinyasa yoga that emphasizes strength, flexibility and a constant sense of play and adventure. Patrick believes yoga is an exploration of personal enlightenment and loves being a guide for students taking their own unique journey.
Usually finding a spot to float wherever and whenever, Patrick takes his teaching on the road for workshops. Patrick and his trusty handstand have been featured in both Yoga Journal and Origin Magazine and the engaging content he creates on YouTube, Instagram and tumblr. His stomping grounds of Seattle give him (and kittens Zelda and Opie) time to catch-up on Game of Thrones, read comics, enjoy the vibrant indie music scene, and of course, to focus on his own dedicated yoga practice.
£40

with DYLAN WERNER

Friday, July 10th, 2-5pm
STRENGTH, BALANCE & CORE STABILIZATION WORKSHOP
This workshop is a great precursor to an inversion/arm balance workshop. We will go over how to properly engage the core to stabilize the body and provide support in all poses. Learn how to develop SASS (straight arm scapular strength) essential for all arm balances, handstands and strength poses. We will go over different ways to develop proprioception needed for all balance poses, refining our inner drishti. Finally we will find ourselves transitioning and flowing through basic to more complex movements, tying it all together.

Saturday, July 11th, 1.30-4.30pm
INVERSIONS AND ARM BALANCES
We will build from the ground up! Starting with the hands. Everything you need to know to hold, develop and understand sustained handstands, headstands and forearm stands, even moving into hollow back handstands and forearm stands. Different techniques on how to enter the pose, hold the pose, build confidence, overcome fear and fly! We will learn how to incorporate all of this into our daily yoga flow.

Sunday, July 12th, 1.30-4.30pm
INTRODUCTION TO ACRO YOGA
We will cover how to properly spot, base a flyer and fly. You will learn basic beginning acro poses with a partner, working in close contact, gaining trust and overcoming fear. We will cover flying therapeutics, using partner poses to lengthen the spine and rejuvenate the body. We work in groups of three or four, so no partner is necessary but if you have one you want to work with, we’ll keep you together.

Dylan was born and raised in the mountains of Southern California. Having a passion for healthy living and an active lifestyle, he dedicated his life to pursuing this way of living. With a background in wrestling, rock climbing, martial arts and health and fitness, Dylan found yoga to be a culmination of everything he loves. He was first introduced to yoga through his martial arts training in 2001. Dylan started teaching yoga in 2011 after 10 years of advanced movement training. He has since lead teacher trainings and workshops all over the world and is a globally recognized yoga instructor. Dylan looks to bring awareness through motion and balance, to find strength in flexibility and bring union between the body and soul. His style is fun, energetic and challenging. He believes that strength, balance, flexibility and health are achieved every time we step on the mat and it’s the beauty of yoga that helps us translate that to our everyday lives.

£45 for each workshop
£115 for all three

with NORMAN BLAIR

So much of the time we are living somewhere else and we are disconnected from our bodies. In this workshop, there will be a time to rest and recharge, for pausing and reflection. There will be space for us to listen to the heart’s wisdom and deepen our connection to the practices of yoga.

In yin yoga, we stay in the poses for significant periods of time and practice meditation and pranayama. All apart from absolute beginners are welcome.

£35/(£30 before July 12th)

with KAREN BRANEMAN

Friday, July 17th, 2.00-5.00pm
THE THORACIC SPINE: HOW TO GO FROM FIXED TO FLUID
This is a restorative workshop rooted in relaxation and methodical use of blocks, bolsters, and other props to approach the opening process thoroughly yet gently. This workshop is perfect for all levels, especially those who wish to build their back bending practice.
Working with a variety of postures to warm-up and build anatomical awareness, you will begin to investigate your natural range of motion. Slowly, you will be encouraged to work deeper into that range, opening your shoulders and building the core strength required to support new flexibility.

Saturday, July 18th, 1.30-4.30pm
BREATH-POWERED BACKBENDS
A workshop to bring out the backbender in all of us! Working from the extremities to understand shoulder mobility and the importance of psoas-awareness, we will start flexing inward to the core of the matter: the spine
Journeying our way up from the floor, practitioners will be guided through a series of back-opening asanas which are initiated through deep-breathing. The workshop will culminate in Urdhva Danurasana variations, followed by forward bending and a gentle closing sequence.
Suitable for all levels, especially for people who are flummoxed by backbending and are looking for a new approach.

Sunday, July 19th, 1.30-4.30pm
APPROACHING INVERSIONS
An adventure into flying on the mat! This workshop will open with strong, guided Vinyasa sequences and progress into a creative, energising range of arm balances and inversions. Amidst the flow, we will pause to breakdown the mechanics of inversions: preparation, entry, the full expression of the asana and variations.
This workshop is best suited for experienced yoga students and teachers. It is not for beginners but you students don’t need to be advanced either; just willing to have fun and experiment with balance and gravity!

Karen first went to India to study Yoga with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in 2003, and regularly journeys to KPJAYI in Mysore as a committed Ashtangi. She is currently undertaking full time study on the MSc in Human Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Biomedical Sciences. Karen has recovered from numerous sports-related injuries through conscientious health practices, which she has learned from key teachers and friends.
American by birth, Karen moved to the UK in 2003 and has been teaching and practicing Yoga continuously since then. She practices with enormous gratitude for the influence of Western teachers, particularly David Keil and Sarah Durney Hatcher.

£40 for one workshop/£108 for all 3 workshops

with RUSTY WELLS

Friday, July 31st, 2.00-5.00pm
HOW TO BUILD A BOAT
Build the strongest foundation possible! This is challenging vinyasa workshop designed for intermediate students who want to build strength in the legs and entire core. From the ankles to the ribs, we will tone and stretch it all!
From lunges to crunches, this workshop will provide you with tools that can be used at home in order to safely and effectively build the strongest power yoga practice imaginable. These techniques will nourish your forward bends, deepen your backbends, strengthen the muscles around your spine and tone your entire midsection. Come prepared to sweat… a lot!

Saturday, August 1st, 1.30-4.30pm
BHAKTI FLOW MASTER CLASS
Experience extreme power flow yoga in a dynamic session designed to take the seasoned practitioner to a new level. This challenging class, wrapped in love and devotion, will introduce students to Bhakti Flow, Rusty’s signature freestyle vinyasa class. It is a prayer-filled dance to the Beloved. Come prepared to sing, sweat and flow!

Sunday, August 2nd, 1.30-4.30pm
FLOWER OF POWER
Intense vinyasa can actually be steady and comfortable, right? This workshop dares to examine the attitude behind it’s intensity. Find that sweet edge of your own personal power. Seasoned vinyasa students will enjoy this signature Bhakti Flow class that turns your yoga mat into a flying magic carpet. Come prepared to sweat and sing!

Rusty Wells is a yogic messenger in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. He infuses his joyful, energetic and mind-blowing classes with his belief that we can best serve others and heal ourselves through unconditional love and devotion. To this end, he passes along his profound gratitude for breath, body, and mind through yoga’s time-honored practices. An experienced instructor and humble student, Rusty teaches his own style of yoga called Bhakti Flow. Based in San Francisco, he leads teacher, leadership and life trainings, retreats and workshops around the world. His classes are an experiential explosion of music, sweat, stillness, and energy that will open your heart and leave you overflowing with bliss.

£40 for one workshop
£108 for full weekend

Exploring a different theme each day, Julie Martin’s beautifully choreographed workshops use the natural intelligence of the body and breath to find a lyrical, moving meditation that unveils the true yoga within us. Yoga is a process of unfolding, letting go of layers and remaining curious to all the possibilities. In these workshops you will explore how your structure really wants to move and how to enhance your strength and stability without limitations. In the relationship between movement and stillness we can learn to be powerful without strain and mobile without injury. We can learn to breathe with grace.
Through encouraging play, curiosity and awareness, each workshop becomes a journey through body and mind, fusing the qualities of traditional yoga with personal discovery and self-expression. Julie’s aim is to guide students towards awareness and inspire presence, to find freedom in movement, and move towards stillness, to our true practice, our true selves.
Julie’s vinyasa sequences will take you on a journey of spirals, waves, pulses, expansion and contraction, breath and awareness, moving and stillness. Each class will also include 30 minutes of pranayama, a 20 minute guided meditation and a joyous 15-20 minute savasanahhhhhhh!

“The practice is not in the asana, it’s in the awareness” – Julie Martin

Julie Martin, Director of Brahmani Yoga is an internationally recognized teacher of Vinyasa Flow. She has been teaching for over 18 years and running highly respected teacher training programmes for past 11 years. A former professional dancer, Julie imbues her classes with grace and fluidity. Yoga is a process of unfolding, letting go of layers and remaining curious to all the possibilities. Julie teaches yoga as a process of discovery, guided by the application of anatomical information to this modern asana practice.

£35 for each workshop

with BEACH YOGA GIRL aka KERRI VERNA

Friday, August 28th, 2.00-5.00pm
HANDSTAND WORKSHOP
In this workshop, Kerri Verna invites us to explore and approach handstands in a playful manner. We will be focusing on core and arm strength in a fun and interactive way. We will be on our hands balancing learning to be a kid again. Kerri’s handstand drills will get your heart pumping and her tips for success will change the way you may be approaching your handstand practice. This class is taught for all levels of practitioners.

Saturday, August 29th, 1.30-4.30pm
CORE PLUS INVERSIONS
In this workshop Kerri will teach you how to have fun while working your core. She will share all her tips and tricks to unlocking the strength of the core while learning how to balance upside-down! Kerri’s light hearted approach to advanced asana inspire you to try things you thought you would never do. For ALL levels of practitioners.

Sunday, August 30th, 1.30-4.30pm
POWER UP YOUR ASANA
In this workshop Kerri will teach you how to have fun while working your core. She will share all her tips and tricks to unlocking the strength of the core while learning how to balance upside-down! Kerri’s light hearted approach to advanced asana inspire you to try things you thought you would never do. For ALL levels of practitioners.
Kerri Verna is best known as @beachyogagirl on Instagram where over 665k follow her daily yoga inspiration. Kerri has taught Yoga and Pilates past 12 years online and at her home beach in Lake Worth, Florida. Her training includes a background in many forms of fitness including Tai Chi, Yoga, Stand-up Paddle-board Yoga, Pilates, Indoor Cycle, Kickboxing, and Personal Training. Along with being an international Yoga teacher, photographer & inspirational speaker, she is a wife and mother of two young boys.
£40 for each workshop/£108 for full weekend

with MICHAEL STEWART

Saturday, October 3rd, 1.30-4.30pm
CHAKRA SADHANA: TANTRIC HATHA YOGA
Yoga is the science and art of self – our transformation and self-realization. In Michael Stewart’s Tantric Hatha Yoga workshop, we are given a sadhana that will allow us to access the totality of our being. We will be led through a dynamic yoga practice using all the elements of Hatha Yoga; Asana, Pranayama, Bandas and exploring components from Tantric sadhana; Mantra and Mudras. In this Chakra Sadhana, we will be taken on a journey from annamaya kosha (food body) to anandamaya kosha (bliss body) while invigorating the chakras with pulsations of divine bliss. Using precise sequencing of asana, pranayama, mudras and bija mantras, Michael infuses his classes with practical philosophy, devotion and play. Come and experience a practice that will leave you wanting more. Jai Shri Ma!

Sunday, October 4th, 1.30-4.30pm
UPSIDE DOWN!
In this workshop, Michael Stewart will explore a variety of access points into a wide range of fun and challenging arm balances. As we delve into specific anatomical and bio-dynamic movement methodology for arm balances, we will explore our fears and apprehensions. This in essence is how Yoga asana can give you the courage to live life to its’ fullest potential. Ever wonder why we go upside down in Yoga? We are not gymnasts so why balance on our hands? When we were kids we all played with cartwheels and handsprings without much “fear”. As we develop into adult hood, our sense of self begins to define how we express ourselves and we may become more courageous at expressing ourselves or less. This is evident in many aspects of our lives, and certainly our notions of play and boundaries seem to be effected by how we view ourselves. Once the ego begins to develop we certainly are more careful of looking bad at doing something, or expressing ourselves in ways that we consider not good enough. What changed? If you have these questions and more, this workshop is certainly suited for you.

Michael J. Stewart is a Hatha Yoga teacher with a varied background. Michael’s Yoga journey has taken him from the Jivamukti studio in New York City to study with Iyengar teachers Sharat Arora and Rajiv Chenchani in India. He has also studied with Sri Dharma Mittra, and is currently studying Rajanaka Yoga with Dr. Douglas Brooks. Michael is deeply moved by the the practice of mantras and kirtan. This allows him the opportunity to combine his love for African music and his connection to traditional Sanskrit mantras. His teaching is inspired by the spirituality of Swami Sivananda and the deep insight of Patanjali. He is also known internationally as a Movement facilitator, African Drumming teacher, Choreographer and Theatre director.

£40 for one workshop/£75 for both workshops

with DOUG SWENSON

Friday, October 9th, 2.00-5.00pm
FLUID POWER: SADHANA CHI
A very powerful arrangement of soft form Yoga asanas, connected together with cool and hot vinyasa. You will sweat plenty, achieve new poses and get the ultimate workout. When finished, drift into a blissful deep relaxation followed by a guided meditation.
All levels welcome.

Saturday, October 10th, 1.30-4.30pm
INVERSIONS AND BALANCING
In this class the students will experience a delightful, holistic flow of asana – focused around handstands, inversions and balancing. With many tips on how to avoid and overcome injury.

Sunday, October 11th, 1.30-4.30pm
ASTANGA WITH EXTRA SPICE
This class will follow the order of asanas for 1^st level Ashtanga, with the addition of some poses from 2^nd and 3^rd blended in at appropriate places in your routine. This class includes hands on adjustments and personal suggestions on how to enhance your practice. Class ends with pranayama, and deep relaxation.
For intermediate and advanced level practitioners.

Doug Swenson began his study of yoga in 1969. He has had the fortune of studying with many great teachers including Dr. Ernest Wood, K. Pattabhi Jois, Ramanand Patel and others. Doug is a master yoga practitioner, philosopher, poet and dedicated health advocate. He has incorporated influences from several different yoga systems along with his passion for nutrition and the environment to develop his unique approach. Over the years he has authored several books; “Yoga Helps”, “The Diet That Loves You Most”, “Power Yoga for Dummies”  and “Mastering The Secrets of Yoga Flow”. He travels extensively offering workshops, retreats and teacher training courses around the world. Don’t miss the opportunity to study with one of the world’s top instructors. Doug’s classes are always invigorating and inspirational and his supportive style of teaching and keen sense of humor send his students home with a smile on their face and a softness within their heart.

£40 for each workshop
£108 for all three