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 9th October: 6.00-8.00pm
£40
This is the last in a series of workshops exploring the foundational elements of Vinyasa practice: breath, bandha and drishti — the three points through which practice becomes integrated. Each workshop can be taken individually.
The Series
Modern yoga is often taught as sequence. These workshops returns to the method.
Rooted in the Mysore tradition, these workshops explore Tristhāna – the principle that breath, body and mind are not separate, but unified through practice. Rather than adding more, we refine what is already there.
Each workshop combines āsana, prāṇāyāma, mantra and meditation, with hands-on adjustments and philosophical context drawn from Stewart’s decades of study and teaching.
Friday 9th Oct: Drishti
Where you place your gaze shapes your mind. This workshop focuses on drishti (or the discipline of attention) and how it influences stability, clarity and presence within practice.
To see clearly is to practise clearly.
Why this all matters:
In a landscape of increasingly diluted interpretations of yoga, this series returns to a direct, somatic and lineage-based approach. It is not performative, nor is it decorative.
Practice as it was intended to be: precise, embodied and whole.
This workshop earns 20 SWEATPOINTS
Friday 23rd October: 6.00-8.00pm
£40
Kettlebells are simple pieces of equipment. Using them well is anything but.
Grip, alignment, breathing, timing, momentum, tension, catching, redirecting force — there is a huge amount happening at once. In a regular class, you’ll hear these cues, but there is rarely time to stop, take the movement apart and understand exactly what your body (and brain) are doing.
This workshop is that deep dive.
We’ll break down the key kettlebell movements from the ground up, exploring everything from the swing and snatch to the intricate Turkish get-up. We’ll look beyond what a movement should look like to understand why it works: how the feet connect to the floor, how force travels through the body, where the bell should move, when to create tension and when to release it, and how to catch and redirect momentum efficiently.
Then we’ll drill it. Again and again, until the movements become less about thinking and more about knowing.
We’ll also explore something unique to kettlebell training: its cognitive demands. Working with a moving weight requires perception, timing, reflexes, coordination and proprioception. You need to know where the bell is without constantly looking at it, anticipate its trajectory and organise your body around it in real time.
Expect drills that challenge the relationship between brain, hand and body as much as strength.
Better technique means safer, stronger training, but it also creates freedom. When you no longer have to think about every component, your swings improve, your transitions sharpen and your flows become more fluid. Minimal training. Maximal learning.
This workshop earns 20 SWEATPOINTS
Saturday 24th October: 4.00-6.00pm
£40
Soft Acrobatics explores acrobatic movement through softness, momentum and flow – learning not just individual skills, but how to move smoothly between them.
In this two-hour workshop with Samuel, you’ll work with movements drawn from acrobatics and Capoeira, including forward, backward and side rolls, bridge rotations, cartwheels and variations, walkovers and Macacos, butterfly kicks, handstand-to-roll transitions, leaf rolls and coin drops.
Rather than approaching these as isolated tricks, you’ll explore how they connect: how to use momentum and weight transfer, move between the floor and standing, and find fluid transitions from one movement into the next.
Samuel’s approach to Soft Acrobatics has developed in part through his work and learning with Bambu Bodies, whose regular classes at Mission explore Capoeira and its movement vocabulary. The workshop acknowledges those influences and the Capoeira lineage from which many of these movements originate, as well as Samuel’s training as an elite gymnast.
The focus is on developing coordination, confidence and a broader movement vocabulary while finding greater ease and efficiency in acrobatic movement.
Open to anyone curious about exploring acrobatics and movement. You don’t need to be an acrobat – come ready to move, experiment and play.
This workshop earns 20 SWEATPOINTS
Saturday 31st October: 12.30-3.00pm
£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.
Everyone is welcome! 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.
This workshop earns 25 SWEATPOINTS
Friday 6th November: 6.30-7.45pm
£25
Join Charlie at Mission for an immersive sound bath experience, the first time Mission is hosting an event like this.
This comes at an auspicious time with the Scorpio New Moon and Lunar Samhain – a time of deep reflecting and honouring the ancestors.
Charlie creates a soft womb-like symphony of sounds weaving together several gongs, bowls and other instruments with voice to create a sonic field that can help bring about deep states of meditation and help you to enter a place beyond time and space which can tap into deep and healing vibrations. The sounds and vibrations can bring to the surface a range of feelings and sensations, when this happens, you are invited to observe, accept and allow what arises to flow through you.
Sound is vibration and vibration is energy, sound moves matter.
No experience of yoga is necessary.
Please reach out for a discussion if you are in Pregnancy or have a mental health condition.
This workshop earns 13 SWEATPOINTS
Saturday 7th – Sunday 8th 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.
This workshop earns 82.5 SWEATPOINTS for the weekend or 42.5 SWEATPOINTS for one day
Saturday 7th – Sunday 8th 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.
This workshop earns 82.5 SWEATPOINTS for the weekend or 42.5 SWEATPOINTS for one day
Friday 13th November: 6.00-8.00pm
£40
Join Michael for a practice that explores the intelligence of the spine and the subtle balance between strength and spaciousness. This session moves beyond simple “opening” into backbends and invites you to understand how the body distributes effort, creates support, and finds length without collapse.
Through progressive sequencing, you’ll work with shoulder integration, thoracic mobility, and the coordination required to move into Wild Thing with control and clarity. Rather than forcing depth, the practice emphasises organisation; how to stabilise where needed, soften where possible, and transition with intention. This is a thoughtful, layered approach to backbending that builds both awareness and resilience.
Ideal for dedicated students and teachers looking to refine their understanding of spinal movement, shoulder mechanics, and the quality of their transitions.
This workshop earns 20 SWEATPOINTS
Friday 4th December: 3.00-6.30pm
£70
Teachers’ Practice and Sangha
This is a space for teachers to be curious, and explore again.
We’ll connect with the body as a home to return to and feel its resourceful and creative nature. We’ll explore what it means to sense safety in our body and breath and let the nervous system settle to build resource before we build sequence.
Leaving the familiar for a while, we let the senses stretch out onto meadows and shores. That’s the invitation here: to step away from teaching and guiding, and let something else lead – not effort, not method, but the kind of knowing that arises on its own when we stop trying. Breath knows. Felt-sense knows. The body has its own quiet intelligence. It doesn’t need us to manage it – only to make room for the creative spirit to flow.
Expect slow movement, guided rest, partner and group work and unhurried conversation, the kind that happens when a room of teachers stop giving and performing, and start breathing and moving together. Sangha (community) is simply what forms when we let ourselves connect and be in contact.
No agenda beyond presence. Come as you are; leave a little more at ease in yourself.
This workshop earns 35 SWEATPOINTS
Sunday 20th December: 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.
This workshop earns 100 SWEATPOINTS
Friday 29th – Sunday 31st January, 2027
£50 per workshop or £235 for full weekend
Join Jared for a weekend of workshops with a strong emphasis on functional movement, clear sequencing, and practices that make sense in real bodies and real lives.
Expect smart transitions, intelligent use of breath, and space to explore rather than perform. Jared is particularly skilled at creating classes that challenge students while remaining inclusive, offering options that support longevity in practice.
This workshop earns 117.5 SWEATPOINTS for the weekend or 25 SWEATPOINTS for one workshop
Friday 4th – Sunday 6th June, 2027
£50 per workshop or £245 for whole weekend
Some teachers show you what to do. David Garrigues shows you how to understand why you’re doing it. Across five workshops, he’ll unpack the foundations of Ashtanga practice, from Surya Namaskara and standing poses to backbends, arm balances and inversions, revealing the principles that connect every part of the system.
Whether you’re refining the basics or working towards more advanced postures, you’ll leave with a clearer, stronger and more intelligent practice that continues to evolve long after the weekend ends.
This workshop earns 122.5 SWEATPOINTS for the weekend or 25 SWEATPOINTS for one workshop
Next Dates TBC
£78
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.
