Intro to 2nd Series

Whether you do second series or not this workshop will be a great exploration into the way the 2nd series works on the muscles, nervous and cardiovascular systems. Years ago the Primary and Secondary series used to always be practised together as they create a compliment for each other. Primary focusing on forwarding bending and Second on backbending and hip opening. Therefore adding second series postures to the end of your Primary practise will allow your body and mind to feel more complete in its movement... more

Sacred Dance

Sacred Dance is a movement meditation of self expression and exploration inspired by the 5 rhythms system and the Soul Motion work of Vinn Marti.

It is not about learning steps or following a sequence of moves. It is about allowing the dance that exists within you to rise up and express itself... more

Being Inward: An introduction to yin yoga

Yin yoga can give us the space to slow down, a chance to stay with our experiences rather than always rushing. In a yin yoga practice, all the postures are sitting - and all the postures are held for sustained periods of time (often five minutes). Within these long holds there is an encouragement of softness and an emphasis on relaxing muscular tissue. In this session the principles behind the yin yoga practice will be explained... more

Awareness and Attention: yin yoga as a way of waking up

In becoming more aware - by being attentive to our moment-by-moment experiencing - we can awaken from our patterns. Through this there can be foundations of harmony and peace: so there is a greater ease, a deeper sense of balance, feelings of calmness and acceptance... more

Yoga and the Chakras

Explore the Chakras in this Creative Flow workshop. Discover ways to tune in and balance the energy of the Chakras through yoga, and how to intertwine this with the groove of your practice and daily life. Learn how these energy centers within the subtle body can impact the wellness of your physical and emotional being... more

Clear The Past

As we step from one year to the next, it is a natural time to look back and evaluate… and to look forward with hope and awareness. It is an exciting time when we can make clear intentions for the year ahead... more

Ayurveda - "The Science of Life"

Ayurveda, which means "The Science of Life" in Sanskrit, is considered the "Sister Science to Yoga". Through Ayurveda, we learn how to obtain perfect health and balance according to our constitution, or unique physical, mental, and spiritual characteristics... more

The Art of Touch

In this workshop we will be looking at the how, the why and the where of physical adjustments in yoga asanas... more

Anatomy of Yoga

In this workshop we will look at how our own knowledge of our physical body can take us so much deeper into our relationship to asana and breath work. Just a little insight into the anatomy of the human body can help us to become our own best teacher... more

Introduction to Thai massage

This workshop will give you a first insight into the healing art of Thai massage. You will practise on each other and learn how to massage the feet, legs and back with various techniques including muscle stretching similar to yoga, rhythmic palm pressure to relax the major energy lines in the body, and thumb pressure on acupressure points... more

Holding Space

Create a healing space for yourself through awareness We all know how to be healthy and happy, but why do we forget so often? Together we will look at how we hold onto tension in the body and how to free ourselves. We will learn how to tap into our own innate healing wisdom. Generally all our stresses and tensions start in the mind, but then we lock them down in the body... more

Iyengar Style Yoga

Take advantage of this 3hr workshop to imbibe and learn from someone that has the ability to transform your understanding and approach to your practice and give it an added dimension. Glenn will provide guidance and direction to inspire you further along the yoga path... more

Playing With Gravity As An Active Force

Morning session will focus on applying gravity as an active force to mainly backbends. Afternoon sessions will focus on applying the same principals to inversions and forward bends. Not suitable for beginners, you do not need to be flexible but a good foundation of practice is needed... more

The Soul's Rhythm

Five days of embodied movement and ecstatic dance grounded in 5 Rhythms® of Gabrielle Roth, and the stirring work of Soul Motion™.

Following the inspiration of the inner heart beat and outer deeply felt music, we will journey to a core connection with our ecstatic selves. There are millennia of history in this dance, yet it is being born through you in the moment. We tap the energy of the shamanic path, bringing ourselves fully into the moment from the pull of our destiny and the roots of our past... more

Exploring Your Posture in Yoga

You are invited to come and discover how you can in your yoga and life practice! Feel and change how we relate to the ground, gravity and our breath and learn how we can improve our attitude to our postural habits... more

Basic Alignment Workshop

This workshop is designed to assist people who want to learn or clarify basic alignment principles in their yoga practice.

In this workshop we will spend our time exploring yoga fundamentals, warming up ourselves with a flow sequence, including finding a peaceful place within, accessing self confidence and celebration of being in our bodies... more

Back Bending Workshop

Back bending can be one of the most challenging postures in our asana practise. Sometimes we work with lower back pain in our back bends and believe it is about our back being stiff. However, the truth is that lower back pain is usually caused by stiff hips (psoas) and incorrect use of feet... more

Learning to Live From The Heart

Yogi Bhajan said the only journey we need to do in our lives is from the navel chakra to the heart chakra – from ego to compassion... more

Sacred Dance

Sacred Dance is a movement meditation of self expression and exploration inspired by the 5 rhythms system and the Soul Motion work of Vinn Marti.

It is not about learning steps or following a sequence of moves. It is about allowing the dance that exists within you to rise up and express itself... more

Basic Alignment Workshop

This workshop is designed to assist people who want to learn or clarify basic alignment principles in their yoga practice.

In this workshop we will spend our time exploring yoga fundamentals, warming up ourselves with a flow sequence, including finding a peaceful place within, accessing self confidence and celebration of being in our bodies... more

Intensive Pranayama

Emil Wendel, will be teaching a (3 hour workshop) that will take us deeper into our practice and ourselves. The first half of the class will be pranayama exercises that will be taken further than in the usual drop in classes. The second half will be a lecture on the pranayama and meditation tools that Emil regularly uses... more

Sacred Dance

Sacred Dance is a movement meditation of self expression and exploration inspired by the 5 rhythms system and the Soul Motion work of Vinn Marti.

It is not about learning steps or following a sequence of moves. It is about allowing the dance that exists within you to rise up and express itself... more

Feet on the Ground, Spine Growing Up

In this workshop we will develop awareness around the body's relationship to gravity and the earth and see how this puts us more on our centre. Then, all movement towards, and asana itself may contain the restedness of the earth's holding together with the release and lengthening upwards of the spine... more

Mantras in our Yogic Practice

What precisely is a Mantra, and how do they work? When to apply them in our Yogic Practice? This is the second in a series of longer discourses by Emil Wendel. These 3 hour workshops are designed to take us deeper into our practice and ourselves... more

Aligning the Body, Aligning the Mind

Our practice of Yoga is to bring us to the centre. By focusing on the spine we are immediately brought there. By working the two sides of the body we are brought back there; and by making our movements from the centre we discover all that lies between there and our apparent edges... more

Mudras in our Yogic Practice

This is the third in a series of longer discourses by our resident Emil Wendel. These 3 hour workshops are designed to take us deeper into our practice and ourselves... more

Basic Alignment Workshop

This workshop is designed to assist people who want to learn or clarify basic alignment principles in their yoga practice.

In this workshop we will spend our time exploring yoga fundamentals, warming up ourselves with a flow sequence, including finding a peaceful place within, accessing self confidence and celebration of being in our bodies... more

Getting to Know Your Breath

A day of Yoga in which we will explore that which is right under our noses. Using both asana and pranayama techniques to deepen the attention on the breath, we will see how it has everything to do with our ability to let go of tensions both at the level of the body and the mind. How it is the breath leads us into stillness and tranquility... more