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.
16th January – 6th February – SOLD OUT
£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.
Saturday 17th January: 12.30-2.30pm – Stand Up: Part 1
Saturday 31st January: 12.30-2.30pm – On the Upside (Down): Part 2
£40 for each workshop
Saturday 17th January: 12.30-2.30pm – Stand Up: Part 1
In this workshop you will learn (or refine) how to assist the standing poses of the sequence (warriors, folds, balances, splits)
You will learn the difference between active and passive assists, when and how to use one or the other. Introducing the “Vice principle” on how to secure the base to allow more freedom of breath and less unnecessary tension. How to be firm to create softness and vice versa.
Saturday 31st January: 12.30-2.30pm – Stand Up: Part 2
In this workshop you will learn how to assist a student practising inversions and arm-balances (including Handstand, Headstand, Pincha, Scorpion , Crow, Crow to Handstand, Spot Tripod, Straddle to Tripod, 1 Leg Crow, Galavasana, and more)
We will look at the classical entries but also more fun ones (think kicking up to handstand vs pressing up to handstand)
You will learn how to cleverely position yourself and use your stronger base muscle groups and body weight to save yourself from injury and keep your body healthy long term. How to assess if the student is ready for such a pose / transition should they ask you to try it.
The difference between assisting these poses in a yoga class setting to 1-1 or gymnastic spotting. And the different approaches to positioning and hand placement in a static vs vinyasa setting.
Sunday 18th January: 12.30-2.30pm
£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 30th January: 4.00-6.15pm
£40
Join Anna Ashby, senior teacher, trainer and author of the acclaimed book Restorative
Yoga: Power, Presence, Practice (2022) for a special 2 hour and a quarter workshop that explores the transformative power of Restorative Yoga where nervous system regulation rests at the heart of practice.
No previous experience of the practice is required.
The afternoon includes:
This workshop offers a great introduction to the practice and is preparatory for further training.
Anna Ashby has been innovating in her field for over 30 years, leading workshops, trainings and retreats in the UK and Europe. Her unique style reflects a variety of influences, including dance, extensive yoga training focused on alignment and precision, restorative arts and somatic movement. Much of her inspiration stems from her 12-year immersion in yoga practices while living in an ashram during the 1990s. She continues to explore practices and movement modalities that foster ease and presence in everyday living.
Saturday 21st February: 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.
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.
Sunday 1st March: 12.15-6.00pm
£100
In essence we have no material core, our true centre is spatial – freedom from ourself lies within ourself.
All aspects of our ‘self’ are organized around a core of dynamic emptiness central to our existence. This centre is experienced when we awaken sensations free from the weight of conditioned perceptions.
Core energy manifests as a boundless outpouring that dissolves habitual patterns from the inside out, clearing the way for inherent qualities to arise. These qualities surface on the back of a profound sense of emergent freedom.
Using a simple and direct approach, this workshop provides the means through which we can dissolve layers of conditioning that inhibit freedom from ourselves.
“The self manifests through the organism, but there is always some part of the self unmanifested and always as it seems, some power of organic expression held in abeyance or reserve” – William James
Some yoga or meditation experience required.
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).
Friday 10th – Sunday 12th April
£23-£46 per workshop or £243 for full weekend
Join Eddie Stern for this accessible weekend of workshops — available as a complete program or as individual sessions — and explore a range of classical yoga techniques that cultivate focus, stability, and inner harmony.
Yoga Sangraha is not a new style of yoga, but a fusion of classical Indian traditions with contemporary scientific understanding. Created by Eddie, it offers grounding and calming practices designed to regulate and balance the nervous system.
Thursday 23rd – Sunday 26th April
£200 for four classes, £50 for one class in-person, £20 for one class online
(Chanting and Conference are free)
Join R Saraswathi Jois, Ashtanga Yoga’s senior-most female teacher, in a rare visit abroad from her Shala in Mysore, India.
Saraswati will teach led Primary and led Intermediate Series as well as chanting sessions and hold a Conference. You can attend in-person, or you can also attend online.
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
£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.
Saturday 13th – Sunday 14th June: 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 13th – Sunday 14th June: 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.
28th July – 2nd August
£690 for full immersion
Join Kino MacGregor and Tim Feldmann for a full week of practice, learning, and community. Each morning begins with Mysore-style practice, followed by afternoon workshops designed to deepen your philosophical and technical understanding of Ashtanga Yoga, refine your hands-on adjusting skills, and strengthen the connection between body, mind, and spirit.
Taken as a whole, the immersion will spark the fire for practice, method and lineage of Ashtanga Yoga.
You can sign up for the entire immersion (recommended) or cherry pick your way from the Mysore practice, Led Primary Series, or single workshops.
Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July: 12.30-3.30pm
£165
Are you new to handstands? Come learn from Cirque du Soleil performer Alona Zhuravel who since an early age has been gracing circus stages and big tops around the world.
These workshops are pitched at beginners and will help you understand the principles of alignment when upside down, first against the wall and then slowly away from it. You’ll build confidence and become familiar with the different shapes of a handstand — tuck, straddle and full handstand. The capacity of these workshops are limited so that Alona can spend time with you individually. You’ll also learn how to work safely with a partner.
Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July: 4.00-7.00pm
£165
These workshops are for those who have a more established handstand practice.
You’ll work on sharpening your focus and perfecting alignment in the freestanding handstand. You’ll develop familiarity with tucks, straddles, full handstands and even flags and the one-armed handstand. You’ll work new and different shapes, some of which you may have practised before but others you probably haven’t!
