Workshops

Workshops 2025

March

Kinetic Kīrtana

with Lisa Nicolls-Rider

March 22nd - 7-9pm

At the Brighton Buddhist Centre

Booking through Evolution Arts

In Your Hands Self Massage and Therapeutic Movement

with Zoe Boarer Pitman

Sunday March 30th

About Balance 20 - 22 Gloucester road Brighton

Get ready to ease your body and mind into a lighter feeling of being with a radical act of self love!

Come join us for a rejuvenating event focused on therapeutic movement and self-massage. Learn techniques to release tension, improve flexibility, and promote relaxation. This in-person event will take place at the new About Balance at 22 Old Stein. Treat yourself to a session dedicated to you. Don't miss out on this opportunity to unwind and recharge!

IN YOUR HANDS AGENDA

Feeling into the breath 13:00 - 13:15We will stand to ground and try out 2 different types of breathing. Breath for grounding and rising into the ether. Breath for creating space in the body and melting into that space.

Opening the feet 13:15 - 13:30 We will open the feet with some light stretches and massage balls. In brief I will share with you the main areas of the feet associated with reflexology, meridian system & Māori foot mapping.

Follow the fascial landscape, opening through the body 13:30 – 13:50 With some easy, light, mindful stretches we will begin to feel into the body's connective tissue and muscles. These techniques are take from my experience of Yoga, Qi gong & physio fascial release techniques. There are standing and sitting on a chair.

Waking up the lymph neck, head and face massage 13:50 – 14:20 We will sit and massage into the armpit lymph work around the jaw and ear, cheeks and temples and down the neck. These are simple techniques that you may well be familiar with that I use daily we will bring our awareness to (it's not what you do its the way that you do it) working with kindness to yourself not in effort to grip or grasp but loving and acceptant. Then we will use some Indian Head massage techniques to reach deeper levels of relaxation before we begin to work the back of the neck and shoulders. After the initial neck work we will use a massage medium such as cbd balm, tiger balm or rose oil.

Organs of action, Praise your hands and nurture your foundation 14:20 – 14:40 Massaging down the arms and hands. Then massaging the feet with oil, working up the calves. The forearms and calves can hold a lot of stored up tension.

Lay to rest - Back and Tummy 14:40 – 15:00 Loo breaks can be taken as we come to lay down. First, we will roll a blanket and use this to release the weight of the body into using the breath and movement to message into the Glutes & Mid and Upper back. We will take a short amount to gentle rub the tummy in a nurturing way with love and acceptance, the tummy holds a lot of emotion and works very hard to support us by making our fuel into energy. We will than lay in Savasana for a few minutes of precious silence.

April

Deep Rest Series - Spring Rest & Reset

The Yoga Garden Knepp Estate Horsham, Sussex

With Donna Raftery

Friday 4th April 2025

Gentle Heart Centred Yoga Workshop. Harnessing the potentiality of Spring Energy

Practices include yoga asana (postures), pranayama (breathwork), meditation and nidra (yogic sleep) with Reiki infused savasana.

3-5.30pm / £38

As part of her Deep Rest Series, Donna returns to the Yoga Garden to deliver this wonderful yoga workshop marking the abundance of Spring energy. Reset with clarity to move forward with softness and ease.This gentle Yoga Workshop will ease you into the Spring phase of the year with intuitive movement, meditation and deep relaxation. Honouring the feminine quality of fluidity and grace.Restful and restorative. Bring your curiosity and willingness to look within.Refill your cup and be utterly nourished.

Suitable for absolute beginners, returners and regular practitioners.

Ideal for those who care for others - nurses, carers, parents etc.

Leave refreshed and rested. Come home to yourself.

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Women's day retreat at Wild Space, Sussex

with Khadine Morcom
Sunday 27th April
10am-5pm

A glorious day off-grid for female-identifying participants, in this very special hidden part of the beautiful South Downs National Park in Sussex. This is a day retreat co-led by Khadine and Sam Roy and includes Tibetan yoga practices, meditations and yoganidrā. You'll be served a delicious, wholefood veggie lunch and cake! And the best bit - you get to sauna and cold plunge in the afternoon. It's a little bit of heaven!

May

Brighton Buddhist Centre - All the way down the rabbit hole

with Jim Tarran

āsana, meditation, prāṇāyāma - yoga deep-dive practice

For students with one or more years regular yoga practice.

May 17th 2- 4:30pm

costs £25 Vajrasati or concessions £33 regular price.

June

A Belt for Yoga - at Luna Wave

with Jim Tarran

June 8th 3:30-5:30pm

A yoga belt or yogapaṭṭa

One aspect of modern yoga that finds surprising continuity with ancient forms of Indian yoga and asceticism, is the use of “props” to support one’s yogic and meditative practice. The idea of using a cloth yoga strap or belt to fix one’s body in a posture turns out to be at least two thousand years old! We see it is depicted in the reliefs at Sanchi, an ancient Buddhist site in Madhya Pradesh (c. 50 BCE–50 CE), it is mentioned in Pali texts from 150 BCE and we find it used even now by Northern Buddhist Tantrics.

There are so many ways that a belt can assist in a modern practice of yoga to stabilise, to direct, to contain, to maintain and to bridge.

This workshop with Jim Tarran will give you dozens of ways to use a yoga belt for either you own practice or to share with others.

Price £30

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Adjustments part 2

Why - When - How

Sunday June 15th 2pm-4:30pm

with Jim Tarran @Space studios

This is a workshop for anyone who wants to learn more about how and when (and when not) to give adjusts in yoga classes.

You will learn:

*Non contact adjustment (verbal)
Adjustment flavour (how to transmit the spirit of yoga practice through expression, tone, humour and breath), specific instructions for specific poses.
Vocal Tone appropriate to the student/movement.
*Sympathetic Contact Adjustment (SCA) - anatomy, technique.
You will experience:
Adjustments from Jim.
Working with others to try adjustments out
A chance to get Jim’s expert advice gleaned over the last 33 years of teaching.

Booking via Space Brighton

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July

Restorative chair yoga and yoganidra

Saturday 12 July, 5pm to 7.30pm, £25 Full / £20 Concession

2 hr 30 min2 hr 30 min

From 20 British pounds

From £20

Brighton Buddhist Centre

Description of Class

An ever-popular workshop, this will be a thoroughly enjoyable exploration of chair yoga that as one previous participant states: "I've never had so much fun with a chair!" This particular workshop will explore the use of chairs as a yoga prop for the purpose of yoga - integration with consciousness. The humble chair is often promoted as a prop for 'accessible yoga' but there are many yoga explorations possible with a chair that can both challenge and release us. This particular workshop will have the essence of restorative yoga at heart, so although we will practise some postures that will be subtly dynamic (you will definitely feel into your whole body!) we will spend a lot of time using the chair to support total release. The workshop will close with a 30-40 minute guided yoganidra (yogic sleep) practice (a verbally guided reclined practice that is deeply restful and paradoxically profoundly awakening!). Your tutor Khadine has been practising yoga and meditation since the mid 90s, teaching since 2004 and training yoga teachers since 2014. She is a senior registered teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals and holds a masters degree (with distinction!) in Yoga and Meditation Traditions. Her classes are deep, kind and fun and her passion for the whole tradition of yoga make her classes inspiring, uplifting and transformative. Khadine teaches Vajrasati yoga which is underpinned by the qualities of inclusivity, inquiry and authenticity. Her classes are known for being intuitive, creative and innovative, using our own deep understanding of ourselves to experience yoga through the most intimate and spacious relationships simultaneously. Khadine has a particular interest in consciousness and the states of consciousness we experience, and she taps into this inquiry as a yoganidra facilitator and teacher trainer, using her extensive experience in this field to guide students into deep states of relaxation and clear awareness.

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