Workshops 2024
“yogis” enjoying a version of “pāśāsana” at a Vajrasati Yoga workshop
Workshops explore a variety of themes. They usually consist of a minimum of a two hour practice and/or study session. Some sessions will last a day. These are great opportunity for a deep dive - check out our sessions below.
Fully Alive and totally Centred!
Yoga Immersions at Barcombe Hall
Retreat Day in the Beautiful Sussex countryside
with Jim Tarran
17th March
(and again November 17th)
Costs £68 - £58 (VSM/UC/NUS/OAP) - includes light lunch soup/salad/teas
10am - 4pm
Immerse yourself for a whole day and come back fully restored. Nourish yourself from head to toe and immerse yourself in Jims’s 32 years of teaching insights.
Meditation, body work, breath work and mantra.
(Also includes a half hour, after lunch, Q and A - “ask me anything” yoga related - history, Sanskrit, anatomy etc. (bring a question and a note pad).
“Day Retreat in the Earthship”
with Tammy McCann
7th April
The Earthship, Stanmer Park
The Earthship, within the exquisite Stanmer Park. A chance to immerse yourself in a day dedicated to cultivating compassion – a theme that will deepen our connection with ourselves, others, and the world we inhabit.
We will move through a series of practices including:
Gentle yoga practice to awaken the body and mind.
Mediation on compassion to deepen into our theme.
Nourishing homemade vegan lunch, followed by time to enjoy the community and the area.
Mindful woodland walk connecting with the trees and the natural world, deepening our understanding of our place within the web of life.
The Earthship Stanmer Park Brighton.
“It’s all about the Breath”
with Jim Tarran
28th April
@Fison Fitness Herne Hill (station) London 1:30pm - 4pm
Join Jim for a two hour immersion on how the breath IS the body, the breath IS the mind.
Inspired by the haṭha-yoga text the Amṛtasiddhi that states you cannot control the mind with the mind but with the breath.
The yoga immersion - which will include familiar yoga postures with breath-work, as well as meditations and practices that incorporate the breath from the tantra and haṭha-yoga - will demonstrate how creating flow in the breath will create a flow in the mind and body. This flow is sometimes called non-attachment in yoga texts and Jim will teach practitioners on the event how the experience is at the Heart of all yoga traditions whether it is known as "openness" (śunyata), surrender (bhakti), service (seva) or trust (śraddha). Jim compares this experience to moving smoothly through a forest "without getting snagged".
"When breath is perfected and fixed in the place of the Goddess of the Centre, then consciousness has the nature of bliss, uniform like the sky"
(AS26:2).
To book contact Jim by text to 07960192662
£33/£25 concession and VSM
The lovely studio space at Fison Fitness
“Tantric Goddess Yoga Workshop”
with Khadine Morcom
April 28th 14:15 - 17:30
Beechwood Hall (women only workshop - sorry guys.. .the Mahāvidyā course with Khadine is open to you)
co-hosted by “Sussex Ladies” Facebook Group
Tea-break with homemade cake costs £38:50
Beautiful tantric Goddess
Moving Towards Summer Retreat
with Leonie taylor
Barcombe Village Hall
Vegan lunch included 10am- 4pm
28th April
Unfurling body and mind, silent walking, self massage.
Costs £85/£160 for two includes mid morning snacks and lunch (vegan)
“Buddhist Yoga”
with Jim Tarran
July 14th
2-5pm @ the Brighton Buddhist Centre
In this workshop we will explore and compare traditional Buddhist paradigms such as “conditioned co-production” (sanskrit - pratītyasamutpāda Pāli: paṭiccasamuppāda) with sāṃkhya yoga features in the Patañjali Yoga Sūtra. W will see how the PYS is a text known to have absorbed huge chunks from the Yogācāra/Vijñānavāda (way of yoga/consciousness only school) Buddhist school which are roughly contempoary to the PYS..
We will practice traditional haṭha yoga and explore its foundations - a Tantrik Buddhist milieu the Amṛtasiddhi - the earliest systematic and well-structured Sanskrit text about what came to be called haṭha yoga. As well as practices from the Tibetan yoga systems.
Overlaps and cross-pollination between the Śaiva and Bauddha (Buddhist) traditions are explored through figures like Padmasambhāva and Matsyendra - figures revered in both traditions, the former of whom is dressed in the style usually associated with Śaiva kāpālikas (“skull men”)
Expect: meditation, breath practices and haṭha movements to bring about a sense of being stable in your centre. We will include a Green Tārā chanting (a beautiful bodhisattva (“mind/energy directed to Awakening”) who personifies centred action. We will explore how such action is inherently compassionate and appropriate to the moment.
To book contact Jim by text to 07960192662
A Bhutanese tantric Buddhist yoginī.
”Yoga Immersion” at Barcombe Hall
with Jim Tarran
Retreat Day in the Beautiful Sussex countryside
November 17th 2024
Costs £68 - £58 concession - includes light lunch soup/salad/teas
10am - 4pm
Immerse yourself for a whole day and come back fully restored. Nourish yourself from head to toe and immerse yourself in Jims”s 30 years of teaching insights.
Meditation, body work, breath work and mantra.
(Also includes a half hour, after lunch, Q and A - “ask me anything” yoga related - history, sanskrit, anatomy etc. (bring a question and a note pad).
coming into the beautiful practice space at Balcombe Hall