Intro to Sound Healing with Holly Husler

Sunday 5th May

6pm – 7.30pm

Are you interested in becoming a sound healer, or simply want to discover more about the healing powers of sound? Join Holly Husler for a fun and friendly 90 minute workshop, where you will learn about:

– The science and history of sound healing

– The power of intention and how to manifest your dream life with crystal bowls

– How sound impacts the body, our emotions and our energetic centres (chakras)

– About crystal singing bowls and how to choose yours

For the last part of the session, you’ll be invited to lie down and get cosy under a blanket to experience a beautiful crystal bowl sound healing from Holly.

Ground & Slow Down; Yin & Nidra with Tanya Cruz

Sunday 12th May

6pm – 8pm

Family Yoga with Tanya Cruz

3.15pm to 4.15pm

£35 (1 parent + 1 child)

£50 (2 parents, 2 children)

No screens! Just family time with a difference! 

During this workshop, you will get the opportunity to enjoy fun yoga and mindful activities in a light-hearted environment. 

The session will take you through fun yoga poses, meditation, mindful practices, games, breathing exercises, and relaxation. 

The focus will be on you and your child practicing yoga together, and hopefully having lots of fun. The structure will not be like an adult yoga class, and we hope that there will be lots of laughter and silliness, as well as calm, quiet, and connection. 

The session is aimed at children between 4 yrs and 12 yrs and their parents/grandparents/aunts/uncles/carers etc.

Self-Care Sanctuary: A Heart Chakra Workshop with Philippa Bermingham

Sunday 19th May

6 pm – 8 pm

As the blossoming energy of Spring surrounds us, the heart chakra teaches us to be kind to ourselves. Here, we will take a nourishing 2 hours, cultivating self-compassion.

This workshop includes:

– A heart opening Yin and Yang Yoga practice, with essential oils to balance the anahata chakra.

– Mantra, Mudra and Pranayama Breathing Exercises.

– Meditations.

– A blissful Yoga Nidra session with intention setting.

Bring a blanket, layers, and cozy socks (for the Yoga Nidra), as well as a notebook and pen.

“When the heart chakra is in healthy alignment, you will feel surrounded by love, compassion, and joy, and connected to the world around you.”

Soundbath & Pranayama with Zsofia Nyakas

Saturday 1st June

12 pm – 1.30 pm

Pranayama is one of the eight limbs, or philosophies, of yoga. “Prana” means breath or vital energy, and “Yama” means control or restraint. Pranayama is the practice of becoming aware of how our breath behaves and how we can control it. 

Most people only use a fraction of their lungs and breathe shallowly, leading to negative effects like headaches, bad posture, lack of energy. Through Pranayama, we can learn to become conscious of our breathing, expand our ribcage and diaphragm, and extract more vital energy to maintain strength and health. 

After discovering our breath we’ll dive into a meditative state where the breath will become calm and slow. 

Using breath & sound we will open the body to a deeper energy that flows internally and allowing that long-suppressed tension to release. 

Come and join me to reset your nervous system.

Medical contraindications: 

This workshop is not recommended to attend for anyone with epilepsy, pacemakers/metal plates, clinically diagnosed to serve mental health or those in the first or third trimester of pregnancy.

What to bring? 

* Cushion, warm socks (anything else to help you to become comfortable & snuggly).

* Water or tea for hydration

Preparing for the Summer Solstice with Sian Bradbury

Sunday 9th June

12 pm – 2 pm

The Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year and the lead up to it is a beautiful time to focus on the full power of the sun.

The changing of the seasons are a time of transformation, change, nature and new beginnings, so this time of year is an opportunity to take stock, set our intentions and review those we might have made at new year.

During this workshop we will honour the lead up to the Summer Solstice through Asana, Pranayama, Mudra and a guided Yoga Nidra meditation.

Our Asana practice will draw attention to our “Inner Sun”, our storehouse of energy in the centre of the body known as Manipura Chakra and will be a mix of gentle and challenging postures, but will always have options so that all postures feel comfortable and stable for each practitioner.

We will look at different pranayama, breath techniques, to soothe our nervous systems enhancing a feeling of rejuvenation and renewal and leave you feeling ready to channel the transformative qualities of the Summer Solstice.

We will close with a dreamy Yoga Nidra, an immensely powerful guided meditation technique. Yoga Nidra promotes deep rest and relaxation that isn’t found in your average meditation practice. The practice draws our attention inwards, and we learn to surf between the states of wakefulness and sleep, where our body finds its natural state of equilibrium.

Handstands and Balance with Jamie Jeffrey

£38

This workshop aims to explore the principle of balance in the human body and how this can be influenced to achieve more advanced positions, using the handstand as our focus skill for the day. 

We will look at the functionality of the position and how this can be conditioned using simple bodyweight strength and flexibility training exercises. From here, we will explore the process of learning and developing the skill itself and how to structure practice such that improvement can be seen and tracked over time. The workshop will be suitable for those curious to begin their handstand journey but also help those who may be looking for guidance or support at the intermediate level. I intend that participants will go away from this session with both an understanding of the handstand skill and the body preparation that makes it possible. 

About Jamie: I coach flexibility and mobility, core and local strength, and movement skills. I work with people on the foundation of their functionality intending to enhance their enjoyment of the body however they choose to use it in the world. I spent ten years as an elite acrobatic gymnast and three years on the British team with my training partner. We represented GB at two world cups and the 2019 Acrobatic Gymnastics European championships in Israel, from which we came away with a silver medal in the men’s pair dynamic exercise. We were also selected for the 2020 world championships, though these did not occur due to Covid. During this time, I also spent five years developing my coaching skills in Richmond Gymnastics Association’s squad program. For 3 of these years, I also worked in the general gymnastics, inclusion, and preschool programs, so I became accustomed to working with a full spectrum of abilities. From 2021-2022 I was the lead coach for RGA’s National Development Plan squad, during which time gymnasts under my team’s guidance achieved: Regional medals – 3 gold and one silver. National medals – 1 silver, one bronze. 

I am currently the resident acrobatics and gymnastics coach at the award-winning Commando Temple gym in Deptford, London. I have delivered over 300 hours of 1-2-1 personal coaching sessions since July 2022 and led three workshops. I also work with people as an online coach.

Mandala Masterclass with Sunita Devi

Sunday 16th June

6pm – 8pm

Yoga Teacher Training Foundation Day with Allie Hill

Saturday 22nd June 2024

10am – 2pm

£39

*held at a convenient location, just 10 minutes’ walk from Clapham Junction station.

Venue details:

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Battersea Reach

Juniper Drive

London SW18 1TA

Fascinated by yoga but not 100% sure that you want to embark on a teacher training or teach (yet?)?

Our foundation course is the perfect half day of training to whet your appetite and learn a variety of topics from the yogahaven founder, Allie Hill.

This half day training will give you an introduction to the yogahaven teacher training, and you will learn the theory that underpins yoga – it’s an ideal way to expand your knowledge in a safe and supportive environment. 

Allie and the yogahaven team have been delivering yoga teacher training since 2006 and the

Foundation day is an opportunity to find the answers to your burning questions about stepping into teaching yoga as a career, or to simply deepen your knowledge of this vast and magical subject.

The day will begin with a yoga class and Allie will then cover the following topics: Vision & Goals, Yoga Philosophy, Posture Clinic – looking at the do’s & don’ts of popular poses,

Teaching Skills, Practice & Ethics.

Honouring the Autumn Equinox with Sian Bradbury

22nd September, 12 pm – 2 pm

£35

Summer has now ended; the days will shorten and the cooler weather reminds us that we

must all respond to this change with it.

This is the perfect time for rest and renewal, a chance for us all to go within to explore

and understand ourselves.

Yoga restores the equilibrium between our mind, body, breath and soul. It is about

balance, a balanced life and a balanced practice. A balance of holding on to our intention

and letting go of our expectations. In alignment with the season, during this workshop

we aim to find a new rhythm. Autumn is often described as a season of the soul, when

the heat and high energy of the Summer are ending and we are being called back towards

the earth, grounding, stilling and becoming inwardly present. As nature slows down and

begins to draw inwards, she encourages us to do the same. We need to consider how best

to recuperate, regenerate and replenish our energy for Autumn.

We will focus on nourishing the mind, body and soul with a vinyasa flow practice, breath

work, yin and yoga Nidra. Suitable for all levels.

I will invite you to celebrate the awesomeness within each of us and plant seeds for our

future.

‘Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly.

They take their time and wander on.

This their only chance to soar.’

Delia Owens

Nourishing mind, body and soul with Tanya Cruz

Sunday 6th October

6pm – 8pm

Mandala Masterclass with Sunita Devi

Sunday 27th October

6pm – 8pm

A Restorative Winter Solstice Practice with Tanya Cruz

Sunday 15th December

6pm – 8pm

The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year. We have arrived at the point in the year when the darkness has expanded to its fullness and must now bow down to the sun, the light is returning. This isn’t immediately evident as winter stretches out before us but there has been a shift from moon to sun, from dark to light, from yin to yang, the earth’s energy has shifted.

At this point, the world appears to standstill before changing direction. We too stand still; we pause, we reflect. We take this opportunity to restore our energy, especially as before the return of the sun, we have the festive season, which can be very busy and very overwhelming.

You can take time in this workshop to find that space to relax, restore, and embrace the peace within you.

We will start with a short round of slow sun salutations as we bow to the returning sun which will then move into a winter meditation and breathwork practice, leading into Yin and finishing with Yoga Nidra.

“On the shortest day and the longest night… keep your inner flame burning bright”

All levels welcome