Workshops

Opening with some serious warm up & conditioning based on flexibility and mobility you will learn ways to efficiently strengthen wrists, shoulders and core.

Hortense will help each student to build confidence in the wonders of standing upside down.

We will break down how to efficiently use the wall in creative ways to build the confidence for eventually kick in the middle of the room.

This 3 weeks course is specifically designed for students who are embarking in the world of inversions. A minimum 6 months practice & being able to hold a plank for 30 seconds is the only prerequisite. (If unsure please talk to Hortense).

Hortense’s playful, creative and humorous classes are inspired by her interest in a myriad of different styles of yoga. Having discovered her passion for the practice on a trip to India in the mid 90s, she has since travelled the globe to get her ‘fix’ both as a teacher and student. Her teaching is relaxed yet firm and she trusts that the benefits of yoga are both mental and physical. Inspired by movement, Hortense also practices acrobatics and flying trapeze!

£70

Life is filled with opposites and at times it can feel as though we are on a rollercoaster of ups and downs. But as the Bhagavad Gita emphasises, yoga allows us to find equanimity or samatva in the way we face the dvandvas or opposing psychological pulls that affect us all: joy and sorrow, victory and defeat, praise and blame, success and failure. Stew’s asana-based workshop will be the perfect training ground in your quest for grace and equanimity.
Jump aboard this fun-filled rollercoaster that will be packed with the best kind of ups and downs as we vin-ya-asana through vigorous sun-salutations. Despite the sweat that Stew’s dynamic Yogasana will create, we will seek that neutral space between effort and rest, finding a balance between the opposing forces working on the body. When the posture becomes ‘steady, comfortable and grounded in joy’ (Sutra 2.46), we will become familiar with how this neutral position feels within our bodies and minds. We can then bring this sense of equanimity into our daily lives and learn to be unaffected by the pull of opposites and dvandvas.
The Bhagavad Gita encourages us to to find this equal-mindedness so that we can free ourselves from the binds of the Gunas: sattva (goodness, constructive, harmonious), rajas (passion, active, confused), and tamas (darkness, destructive, chaotic). These are the three qualities of nature that exist in all beings to varying degrees, thereby determining our characteristics.
If we obtain samatva and equanimity, transcending even our satvic nature, we will no longer be affected by the dwandwas and opposites of life: desirable or undesirable, friend or foe, rags or riches. We will connect with our Supreme Self and no longer be affected by the desires and attachments of life. Dreamy!

£35

Saturday, October 1st, 7-9pm
YOGA AND THE STORIES OF A HUMAN LIFE: AN EVENING OF LIVE STORYTELLING AND ACOUSTIC SONG
Be moved, entertained and stimulated during this unique evening of storytelling and song. Audience participation will be encouraged as we explore ancient yet timeless fresh stories from the Indian yoga tradition, bringing it vividly into the context of our lives today.

James Boag is a student of Sanskrit and teaches applied yoga philosophy and mythology around the world. Drawing on his background in languages and scriptural teaching, he brings the practical essence of traditional Indian teachings into the vivid context of our human lives today. His soulful and intoxicating voice invites us into a welcoming space of warm, healing and uplifting sound.
Elizabeth Boag is a stage and screen actress who has recently returned from New York where she performed principal roles in Sir Alan Ayckbourn’s highly acclaimed productions of “Confusions” and “Hero’s Welcome”. She trained in music theatre originally and is thrilled to combine her singing voice with her brother’s for this unique event.

Sunday, October 2nd, 7-9pm
YOGA, THE GATHERING: A SPECIAL THEMED TALK
Drawing on timeless, practical teachings from the heart of the yoga tradition, and with particular reference to Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra-s and the Bhagavad Gītā, this talk will explore yoga as ‘the gathering’, and as the integration of the miraculous gifts with which we are endowed as sentient human beings. James will distil essential yoga teachings into a refreshing tonic, easy to imbibe, agreeable to digest, and, if you choose, readily applicable into all aspects of your life and all your work with various yoga techniques.

If you’ve ever wondered what yoga philosophy has to do with the ‘yoga’ you do on a mat, or any other technique, how this yoga can help us in the challenges of our lives today, and why this ‘traditional’ teaching is still alive and evolving even after thousands of years, this talk is for you, and everyone you know.

£25 for each
£40 for both

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 and physical shape for birth and beyond! Before commencing, consult your doctor, especially if you have had any complications in your pregnancy, including a history of miscarriage. Recommended from week 13 until birth.In this nurturing four week course, you will be led through asanas (postures), pranayama (breathing techniques), positions for labour and relaxation techniques. Troublesome ailments such as back pain will be addressed. This course will relieve tension, increase your strength, stamina and flexibility, while also helping you deal with stress and anxiety. Treasure this quiet time set aside for your practice as a sanctuary for you to connect with the baby growing inside you.

Shimmy’s teaching is gentle and kind, encouraging and nurturing. With a smile and love for teaching, she seeks to instil a sense of lightness and ease in students, whilst helping them to connect with their bodies and minds. She believes that in both life and teaching one should be grounded but light, dedicated, mindful, aware and understanding of personal limitations that are inherent in each individual.

£70 for 4 weeks

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. He travels extensively offering workshops, retreats and teacher training courses around the world. 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.

Saturday, October 8th
Vinyasa Power Yoga
In this class the students will test their body and mind – with longer posture holds, some difficult sequences and challenging vinyasa. This sequence will be woven together with a beautiful flow and end with pranayama and a wonderful deep relaxation. (Intermediate to Advanced level)

Sunday, October 9th
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 achieve new poses and refine your practice.

£40 for each workshop

Through this ceremony you are invited to explore the Blue Lotus through heart-opening Cacao. Susan is passionate about re-building our relationship with plants and understanding the medicinal gifts they offer us.

Blue Lotus is our name for the ancient Egyptian Blue Water Lily, which was seen in ancient Egyptian culture as the flower of birth and re-birth. Also honoured traditionally in South America as the flower of transcendence and universal divine beauty, this elixir will support Susan working with the blue-lilac rays of the upper, etheric, magical worlds and the silver-yellow rays of the physical realm.

This workshop will take you on a restorative journey to explore the layers of inner self in a subtly profound way, stimulating the capacity to inhabit deep awareness, presence and tranquility.

The gentle dreamy effect of Blue Lotus will be interwoven with soundscapes from ancient traditions – prepare for a journey into divine wisdom and nourishment, moving towards alignment on all levels of your being, in universal beauty and perfect symmetry.

£25

Rebecca Dennis will lead you on a 3 hour journey with this powerful breath technique.

You will learn and experience the deep healing benefits of Transformational Breath and practice this progressive self healing breath work. This can help you let go of any unhealthy breathing habits, such as breath holding, shallow breathing and over breathing and release both physical and emotional tension from the body. This can dramatically shift the way you feel in your body and bring higher states of awareness to the mind.

Benefits of improving your breathing:

• Open your breath and expand your awareness
• Feel more energised and revitalised
• Let go of stuck emotions and gain a sense of freedom
• Release anxiety and alleviate depression
• Move beyond whatever is standing between you and true self
• Cultivate a deeper connection with yourself and others
• Become aware of emotions halting your emotional growth
• Develop a new dimension to your yoga practice

Following this full experience of deepening and expanding your breath, Sound Healer and Therapist, Leo Cosendai will lead you through a deep healing and relaxing sound bath, using the ancient healing sounds of The Bronze Gong. This powerful instrument releases tone resonance and complex harmonics that will wash through you and can act as an accelerator of altered states of consciousness. It creates a space in which there is both a coming together of the senses and a union of the real with the unreal. It feeds its surroundings through an acoustic space, in which harmonic tones add and subtract from each other, giving you the chance to re-stimulate both our pituitary and pineal gland giving you a deep connected sense of relaxation and a heightening of the senses

£45

What is your true, deepest self worth? What does it mean to live from that worth?

The yoga tradition puts forward a vision of the Self that is vast and all-encompassing, and replete with fullness and value. Yet most of us experience a dullness, an achey sense of inadequacy, or an intense pressure to achieve in life to prove our value.

If our worth is true and intrinsic, we never have to prove ourselves, and we are never inadequate. Join Leila Sadeghee for an inspirational vinyasa flow workshop based on the Tantric teaching of the Six Layers of the Self. We’ll excavate the layers, seeing where we might have mistaken some limited part of ourselves for the real deal of our wholeness.

This workshop is deeply informed by Leila’s personal journey. Having spent many years feeling less-than what she thought she needed to be… Having suffered abusive and painful relationships as a result… Having berated herself for her perceived failings, to the point of misery, she really knows what it is to face the low self-esteem demon square in the eye, and see the other side of it. Leila speaks with power, dignity, and deep understanding about the truth of each person’s true value, which is nothing short of the unfathomable value of life itself.

Come, move your body, become more self-aware, and be uplifted in an afternoon of soulful, nectarean yoga.

£35

This 3 weeks course is for the more advanced student who can already balance a little on their own. Requirement – able to hold a 30 seconds handstand against the wall & fearless to kick in the middle of the room.
Opening with some serious warm up & conditioning based on flexibility and mobility you will learn ways to efficiently strengthen wrists, shoulders and core.

We will break down how to efficiently tuck, straddle & pike, whether you’re working on your handstand, forearm stand or headstand. And for the most adventurous how to begin the process of pressing up.

Hortense will help each student to build confidence in the wonders of standing upside down!

Hortense’s playful, creative and humorous classes are inspired by her interest in a myriad of different styles of yoga. Having discovered her passion for the practice on a trip to India in the mid 90s, she has since travelled the globe to get her ‘fix’ both as a teacher and student. Her teaching is relaxed yet firm and she trusts that the benefits of yoga are both mental and physical. Inspired by movement, Hortense also practices acrobatics and flying trapeze!

£70

Saturday October 22nd, 1.30-4.30pm

EXPLORING AYURVEDA

• How to regulate your diet according to your personal body and mind type
• Living with our full capacity of energy
• Understanding our digestive system and all digestive issues
• How to build your willpower
• Ayurveda and the use of food and drinks as medicine
• Understanding how to combine food properly to avoid build up of toxicity in the body
• How to fast and cleans the body for maximum health
• How to regulate and heal common ailments of sleeplessness, elimination, nervous and immune issues
• Gaining clarity of focus and discipline through our diet and lifestyle
• Keeping the body disease free
• Gaining knowledge of the universal use of Ayurveda in all of our life
• What is your personal character like and how does it affect your direction and choices in life

• How Ayurveda can evolve our yoga practice from a physical and mental journey to a heightened a spiritual path
• How to reach your short term and long term goals
• Understanding your lifelong purpose
• Defining the lifestyle you want to live

Sunday October 23rd 1.30-4.30pm

TEN COMMITMENTS

Deeper Yogic practices will always challenge us to go beyond our boundaries so we can grow inwardly and not just outwardly. Our mind has a certain capacity and always wants more but our soul is the main driving force which is here to live through its purpose. When we go deeper into mental and physical practices and gain universal knowledge of the truth, life tends to become more interesting and more bountiful.

Here we will go into 10 commitments we should make to ourselves so we can evolve on a body, mind and spirit level.

Yamas (Abstentions)-
Abstentions are what we should cut out or do less of.

Niyamas (Observance)
Observances are what we should be practicing.

Yogi Cameron first started practicing Yoga in Paris at the Sivananda Ashram in 1987. After being mentored in natural medicine until 1999, he embarked on becoming certified in Yoga at the Integral Institute in New York City as well as the Sri Satchidananda Ashram. His continued training in Ayurvedic medicine, yoga and meditation have been through his guru Sri Vasudevan in Kerala, and also through the International School of Ayurveda in Puna, India. Yogi Cameron works with individuals and groups throughout the world to provide them with these ancient healing and lifestyle guidelines so people

can start to live healthier and more spiritually-conscious lives. When our body and mind work in balance through the guidance of our spirit, anything we want to achieve becomes possible.

£40 each

£75 for both

Please note that you will need to know the basics of AcroYoga e.g Star, Bird, Straddle Throne for this course. 30 sec handstand at the wall is also a benefit to this course but not essential. Please contact us if unsure but welcome people with a strong Yoga practice. Come either as a pair (AcroYogaDuo), or as an individual. If coming as an individual, please expect to learn both roles.

We strongly believe that coming back and revisiting AcroYoga with familiar people will develop you as an AcroYogi. Repetition is the mother of skill which will enable you to feel the movement and automatically respond to your partner with fluidity and grace.

£150

FORREST YOGA & MYOFASCIAL BODYWORK – NECK & SHOULDERS

Saturday, October 29th, 1.30-4.30pm

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, 1.30-4.30pm

PRANA PURIFICATION WORKSHOP

With just 7 people enrolled, this is a unique opportunity to explore your personal journey, questions and challenges as a teacher and student. In this intimate environment you will gain the support that new teachers often feel they lack at the beginning of their careers.

If you wish to join this Mentoring course, you must have attended Lizzie’s Assisting Course (Nov 8th – 29th).
£150

AIM OF WORKSHOP
To develop a deeper understanding of lower back anatomy and biomechanics.
What to look out for as a teacher regarding specific asanas and different types of spines/bodies.
How to manage injuries to the lower back and ultimately prevent them through modifications in technique.
Empower teachers with the ability to give bespoke advice/modifications.

CONTENT
Anatomy and mechanics of the lumbar spine and associated structures to include
discs, facet joints, ligaments and muscular elements.

The anatomy and role of the 4 superficial abdominal muscles.

The anatomy and role of the psoas muscle .

The importance of the lower limb in protecting in the spine.

Injuries to the lower back – specific conditions and how to recognise them.
What advice to give students with a particular issue.

Specific exercises to rehabilitate lower back injuries. Different spines/bodies require different exercise to be beneficial.
At worst, the wrong exercises can even be counter productive
This part of the workshop is aimed at creating safe and progressive exercises that are appropriate for an individual’s type of spine, body type, fitness, and yoga experience.

WORKSHOP TARGET
Teachers, teacher trainees, experienced yoga practitioners and body therapists.
£35

Jody Shield is an intuitive therapist who is fast becoming the go-to healer among London’s high-flyers. An advanced practitioner in the Light Grid Healing Technique™, her uplifting nature creates a safe space in which she will support you to process the past, be more present and create a life you love.
Jody believes in the power of holistic healing and runs a thriving global practice. She runs self-help workshops and private sessions to enable you to release stress, anxiety, limiting beliefs, fears and symptoms. The first European meditation ambassador for Lululemon, Jody is also a popular inspirational speaker and has been featured in Stylist magazine, Red, Psychologies, Women’s Health, Sheerluxe.com, the_numinous and Hip and Healthy.

£55

A call out to all who would like more focus, strong intention and the impetus to make it happen; this energy work session is for you.

These New Moon events are timed to coincide with the most auspicious time of the month to create and make intention manifest.

We offer you a safe and empowered space to journey inwards, aligning your inner resonance with what you want to create.

When the mind is still and the heart is open, we all have the potential for alchemy to occur and for you to create gold in your life.

Working with the elements of breath, sound and visualisation, your awareness can journey to the quiet and infinite space within, the space where you are able to do the inner work allowing your outer reality to shift to a more empowered path.

Sound vibration from the crystal singing bowls weave another element of energy to the mix resulting in an expanded and heightened state of being, enhancing your ability to gain inner clarity and determination.

£20

To further develop the knowledge, skills and understanding gained through each module, each course will be followed by a 4-week Small Group Mentoring course. This will focus on the topics explored in the preceding Teaching Skills course. With just 7 people enrolled in each of these follow-up courses, this is a unique opportunity to explore your personal journey, questions and challenges as a teacher and student. In this intimate environment you will gain the support that new teachers often feel they lack at the beginning of their careers.
It is not compulsory to attend a follow-up Mentoring course. But if you wish to join a Mentoring course, you must have attended the relevant Teaching Skills course (Assists/Sequencing/Philosophy) beforehand.

Explore the building blocks for creating a well-balanced and intelligent structure for an asana class. Over the course you explore the basic components and ideology behind sequencing, then evolve this into a class format and address how to pace and group asana together, develop your own sequence, and finally assess, refine and address unique body-types, variations and improvising.

£150

Opening with some serious warm up & conditioning based on flexibility and mobility you will learn ways to efficiently strengthen wrists, shoulders and core.

Hortense will help each student to build confidence in the wonders of standing upside down.

We will break down how to efficiently use the wall in creative ways to build the confidence for eventually kick in the middle of the room.

This 3 weeks course is specifically designed for students who are embarking in the world of inversions. A minimum 6 months practice & being able to hold a plank for 30 seconds is the only prerequisite. (If unsure please talk to Hortense).

Hortense’s playful, creative and humorous classes are inspired by her interest in a myriad of different styles of yoga. Having discovered her passion for the practice on a trip to India in the mid 90s, she has since travelled the globe to get her ‘fix’ both as a teacher and student. Her teaching is relaxed yet firm and she trusts that the benefits of yoga are both mental and physical. Inspired by movement, Hortense also practices acrobatics and flying trapeze!

£70

Friday, March 10th, 2-5pm

VINYASA KRAMA – THE ART OF SLOWING DOWN