Mission Workshops and Courses:
Opening doors to something deeper
A Mission workshop gives students a chance to unpack a particular skill, technique or posture, and linger a bit longer than they would in a regular class. A workshop is a chance to explore and to ask questions. They are generally taught on a Friday night or at the weekend, giving students more time to sink in, reflect and learn.
Friday 19th – Sunday 21st September
£75 each or £300 for full weekend
Join Leslie, one of the best-known and most-respected teachers of contemporary yoga with a direct lineage to the grandfather of modern yoga himself, Sri Krishnamacharya, for a weekend of anatomy workshops.
Leslie is the leading authority on yoga anatomy, having co-written the cult classic book “Yoga Anatomy,” which sold more than one million copies in 24 languages. He is an internationally recognised specialist with four decades’ experience in the fields of yoga and anatomy.
Friday 26th September
Book using your Mission membership
Forget Hinge, Bumble, and Tinder. Mission:Match is the new place to find true love, or lasting friendship.
On September 26 at 18:00 come to a 60-minute hot yoga class taught by our resident matchmaker Sindy Haque, and then come upstairs to Cafe Mission to see what might unfold.
“One of the best things about my job teaching yoga is the people! I get to meet so many different types of people from all walks of life. I realised I could tell a lot about a person from simply teaching them yoga. How well they listened…how they reacted…what made them resist, surrender and connect. Yoga and love are two of my favourite topics, and if I think two people would be good together, if I sense something, well I want to make it happen!”
Join us to put Sindy’s success rate matching couples to the test. Love might blossom, or you might make a new friend at Mission that you didn’t have before.
Sunday 28th September: 12.30-6.00pm
£130 for the full day or varying prices for individual workshops
Delve into the traditional Ashtanga Yoga practice with Kino MacGregor and Tim Feldman as your guides.
You can join any of these workshops, or join for the full day!
Led Full Primary Series: 12.15 – 2.15pm
Jumping, Walking, Rolling, and Floating: 2.30 – 5pm
Conference, Meditation & Chanting: 5.00 – 6.30pm
Saturday 4th October: 12.30-6.00pm
£200
This unique live workshop for women and their birthing partners is informative, practical and confidence-building. Knowledge is power and you will gain a good understanding of physiological birth and how to cooperate with and encourage this innate and evolved process to flow.
Your environment has an enormous influence on the way you birth and Lolly pays particular attention to educating your partner on how to hold and protect your space. She will draw on her many years as a doula, yoga teacher, certified hypnobirther and childbirth educator to provide you with the tools for working together before and during the birth. You will learn how to release tension and fear though education, breathwork, visualisation, movement and massage.
There will be a maximum of 10 couples attending this workshop, giving time for individual questions. Ideally, this workshop should be taken in the third trimester of pregnancy, but it can be taken at any time.
Sunday 5th October: 12.15-6.00pm
£100
Sensitive Awareness
It can take time for the underlying rhythms of the body to come to light, particularly those essential to health and to life itself. When brought to awareness and illuminated these rhythms have a profound effect on our body, our mind and consciousness.
This workshop invites a deep participation in our physiological behaviour and reveals a way of being sought by practitioners through the ages, a simple and effective approach will refine our sensitivity and reveal the subtle yet powerful aspects of our true nature.
Suitable for all yoga practitioners
John Stirk is a yoga teacher and author with a background in osteopathy. He has been teaching and running courses for more than 40 years in the UK and internationally. He has published several books, notably The Original Body, Primal movement for Yoga Teachers, (2015) and Deeper Still, Authentic Embodiment for Yoga Teachers (2021).
Sunday 5th October: 3.00-5.00pm
£40
Take your training to the next level with this focused 2-hour workshop designed to help you achieve and refine the muscle-up. Whether you’re chasing your first rep or looking to clean up your form, this masterclass will give you the tools to succeed.
What you’ll learn:
This workshop is for athletes who can perform pull-ups and dips confidently, (at least 10 and 15) and want to progress toward efficient, competition-standard muscle-ups.
By the end of this workshop, you’ll walk away with a step-by-step progression strategy, corrective drills, and the confidence to approach the muscle-up with proper mechanics.
Monday 6th – Friday 10th October – SOLD OUT
£625
Bring More Function to Your Flows, Design Curriculums that Inspire, and Build Workshops & Series that Motivate.
If you’re tired of teaching one class at a time with no clear direction—or stuck between rigid sequences and total randomness—this five-day training will change the way you teach.
You’ll learn how to sequence smarter, structure your teaching, and build a meaningful path for your students to make more progress and stay motivated to return to your classes. Whether you teach in drop-in studio settings, online, or offer private sessions, this training gives you a modern, adaptable framework to support consistency, growth, and creativity–and, reduce your burnout and decision fatigue as a teacher.
Wednesday 8th October: 6.30 – 8pm
ONLINE ONLY
£15
The Bhagavad Gita teaches that how we see and act in the world depends on whether we know and live from our dharma—our deepest purpose. In this workshop, we will explore how this timeless teaching speaks directly to the struggles of our modern world. Through the wisdom of the Gita, we will reflect on what it means to step into our unique role, to act with clarity rather than confusion, and to align our choices with justice and compassion.
You will leave with practical tools for discerning your own dharma, a deeper understanding of how purpose shapes justice, and inspiration for bringing the wisdom of the Gita into your daily life and community.
Shanna Small is a seasoned yoga educator and social justice advocate who has spent over two decades weaving together spiritual wisdom and community care. Her teachings draw from the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutras, the Vedas, and trauma-informed practice, with a focus on accessibility and equity. Shanna guides students in discovering their own dharma and purpose, helping them bring clarity and compassion to both personal practice and collective action.
This workshop will be recorded and the recording will be available for 7 days.
Wednesdays 29th October; 19th November; 3rd December: 9.30am – 5pm
£390
An intensive Course for Practitioners and Teachers.
This course reveals the deeper dimension of yoga by acknowledging that;
Practice and discussion will include:
The projected outcome anticipates an experiential shift in the cellular, physiological, and behavioural aspects of being. Change is an ongoing consequence of practice and understanding but transformation lies beyond change.
(The course comprises three days of contact time spread over six weeks to maximise processing)
John Stirk is a yoga teacher and author with a background in osteopathy. He has been teaching and running courses for more than 40 years in the UK and internationally. He has published several books, notably The Original Body, Primal Movement for Yoga Teachers, (2015) and Deeper Still, Authentic Embodiment for Yoga Teachers (2021). You can hear him talk about his work on this podcast.
Friday 31st October: 3.00-6.30pm
£70
Designed for the yoga teachers’ community and enquiry based practitioners, the Teachers’ Practice & Sangha offers a supportive environment for teachers and yogis to gather, practice, connect and dialogue. Come and feel the support of our community. All styles are welcome.
Create: To create is a natural expression of life and being. This session invites us to awaken creativity through presence and intuitive movement that draws upon the imagination. With an open heart and mind, practice and teaching can be infused with new ways of seeing and approaching asana.
Facilitated by two of the UK’s most experienced senior teachers, Anna Ashby & Jean Hall offer reflective movement practices inspired by the old and new. Sessions support and deepen personal practice, as well as shed light on the challenges faced by contemporary yoga teachers.
The sessions may include:
> Asana
> Somatic movement
> Breath awareness
> Restorative yoga
> Meditation
> Inquiry, reflection and journaling
> Dialogue and exchange
> Creative process
Saturday 1st November: 3.00-5.30pm
£50
If you’ve ever experienced Transformational Breathwork and Sound, you’ll know it can feel almost miraculous! Transformational breathwork is a therapeutic breathing technique that can relieve physical tension in the body, emotional stresses and blockages, leaving you feeling lighter and more connected to Self. Using circular breathing, you can move into an altered conscious state and access and release deeply buried obstacles and blocks. There is no other technique that can take you as deep into yourself, in such a short period of time, as breathwork.
After the Breathwork session, you’ll continue to lie on your mat, while Pablo will bring you into a state of deep integrative relaxation using sound. Sound healing has been used for centuries to promote relaxation, reduce stress, and enhance overall wellbeing. The soothing sounds and vibrations of the Gong, singing bowls, chimes and drum, will help create a meditative and immersive environment for you to assimilate and integrate all the benefits of the breathwork session.
We aim to show you the power of your breath and sound as vehicles for healing and enhancing your physical, mental and emotional health. The session will last for 2.5 hours, giving us space to set an intention and to share and integrate our experiences after the breathwork and sound. We will start with a breathwork session, moving into beautiful sound healing and floating off into bliss.
This workshop is suitable for everyone. For this experience, bring a bottle of water… you might want to bring a journal to make notes on your experience but this is not required. There is no movement component to this workshop, so no need to wear “yoga clothes” but please dress for comfort.
If you are aware of any heart conditions or brain conditions (ie. Epilepsy, PTSD) you may experience or could be/are pregnant please let Sally or Pablo know on the day.
Saturday 29th – Sunday 30th November: 12.00-3.00pm
£165 for the weekend, £85 for one day
Over the two-day workshop Yuval will teach you the basics of handstands. He’ll help you establish a solid base necessary to take your handstand practice to a new level, safely and efficiently.
You’ll learn the technical preparations for handstands and come to understand and experience the alignment points of a straight line handstand. You’ll experiment with some different handstand shapes, learn balance strategies, and play with various wall drills, as well as different ways to enter a handstand.
This workshop is for beginners who can hold a handstand for 20 seconds against the wall. It is also for intermediate handstandsers who want to revisit the basics and improve alignment and control.
Saturday 29th – Sunday 30th November: 3.30-6.30pm
£165 for the weekend, £85 for one day
Saturday’s class will focus on refining the different shapes of handstands (tuck, pike and straddle) and adapting them for advanced level transitions and sequences.
Sunday’s class will focus on press to handstand, stalders, and the holy grail: one-armed handstands.
Both workshops are intended to give students a better understanding of how to practise complex handstands, and how to create or refine their own practice routine. While the workshops can be taken individually, you’ll get the most out of Yuval’s teachings by taking both.
These workshops are suitable for students with a committed handstand practice, and who can hold a solid handstand for at least 30 seconds.
Sunday 18th January
£40
Are you scared of falling out of a handstand in the middle of a busy class? Are you holding back from trying because you are worried you’ll fall onto someone else, or hurt yourself? This fear is normal, but also something easily overcome.
In this workshop, Nicki Ratcliffe (aka the Queen of Handstands) will give you the tools necessary to understand how to fall out of a handstand safely, even with dozens of other people in the room. Nicki will give you the confidence to fall so that you can start trusting yourself and developing your handstand skills. Don’t let fear drag you back!
This workshop is suitable for those who can already kick to handstand against the wall.
Friday 8th – Sunday 10th May
£50 per workshop or £190 for full weekend
Join Sianna, the visionary of the Rasa Yoga Collective, Mythic Yoga Flow®, and RITUAL, as she shares her voice in the way of community and collaboration. She is a gifted Storyteller, Hypnotherapist, NLP Practitioner, Ritualist and Shadow Work Guide.
Rasa Yoga is a bhakti fusion of asana, mantra, mudra, myth, pranayama, meditation, functional anatomy, Tantric yoga philosophy, shadow work, social justice advocacy and soul alchemy.
Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th May, 2026
£275 for full weekend
Join Patrick Beach for a weekend of workshops that will shift your perspective and inspire new approaches to your yoga and movement practice.
Patrick balances athletic, strength-based movements like handstands and unconventional transitions with fluid, creative sequencing inspired by natural movement patterns that will take you well beyond the formation of physical shapes and deep into self-inquiry and awareness.
Patrick is a well-known internationally travelling yoga teacher and movement educator, celebrated for creating the Awakening Yoga system – a dynamic and fluid vinyasa-style practice that builds strength, flexibility and encourages playful expression.
NEXT DATES TBC
£115
This handstand course focuses on press to handstand.
The course embarks on a journey of balance, strength, and poise. The classes will unfold with careful guidance, focusing on foundational elements crucial for success.
You will delve into body tension, understanding weight distribution, and mastering proper alignment. Each session cultivates mindfulness as students gradually overcome fears and build confidence in inversions. Progression unfolds through drills targeting shoulder stability, wrist mobility, and body awareness.
With instruction, participants learn to kick up, finding stability against gravity’s pull. Amidst hard work and determination, you will discover newfound strength and agility on the palms of your hands.
