Workshops
Our workshops offer you a more in-depth way to enrich your practice, knowledge and wellbeing.
To book, please refer to our timetable and select the date you would like to book.
Workshops are non-refundable, and the cancellation policy is 24 hours prior to the event. If you need to cancel your booking, please email the studio.
From Surviving to Thriving with Serena Louth
Tuesday 11 May | 6-8pm | £15 | Online
In this workshop we’ll be diving in to what it is that lights you up so you can move from a place of surviving to thriving. If you feel like you’re living life on autopilot, disconnected from your self-worth and exhausted from giving away all your time, this is for you. Serena will be sharing how to shift your energy and mindset so that you can feel more empowered, purposeful and joyful every single day.
Self Worth Coach Serena’s mission has been to help prevent as many people as possible from feeling as lost, directionless and disconnected as she once did. To guide others towards a more mindful and intentional way of living, one where they value themselves, feel connected to their bodies, find community with like minded sisters and feel fulfilled every day. Most of all Serena strives to empower people to take their happiness into their own hands and to have the courage and self-belief to go after their dreams.
Tuesday 11 May | 6-8pm | £15 | Online
Back in the Studio | Gong Bath with Junior Valentine
Friday 21 May | 7-8pm | £20 | Lee Studio
Join us for this special Gong Bath to celebrate the reopening of our Studio.
Our signature sound bath run by our qualified Gong Master Junior Valentine, who will take you on a magical sound journey with his three gongs. Setting intentions for our rebirth back to the world and connecting to the universal energy.
The gong is a sacred and ancient instrument of healing, rejuvenation and transformation. Feel the deep relaxation and stress relieving effects of this amazing Sound Bath. All you have to do is lie down and let the sound vibrations flow through your body and mind. Please bring your own blanket and pillow.
Gong Baths and guided meditations are normally safe for all. However, Gong Bathing is not advised for those who are in the first or third trimester of pregnancy, have a pacemaker, or who suffer from Menieres syndrome, have a history of psychotic episodes, or who experience epileptic seizures in the state between sleeping and waking. This is because the effect of the sound vibrations and the guided meditation can act as a trigger. You are responsible for consulting your medical practitioner before attending if you have any concerns regarding your mental or physical health, and for disclosing any such conditions before the event begins.
Open to all levels | Friday 21 May | 7-8pm | £20 | Lee Studio
Opening to Joy | Creating a Calm & Tranquil Heart + Sound Bath with Sasha Gabbe & Martina Saorin
Saturday 22nd May | 2-5pm | £30 | Catford Studio
A workshop of Yoga Flow with Qi Gong + Yin Yoga + Sound Bath
Yoga House opens the doors in May and welcomes the community back to share practice together.
We are emerging from a crisis and perhaps you are feeling uncertain about the future, anxious about returning to ‘normal’ or overwhelmed about what comes next. The last year has shown us that we are all interconnected. Perhaps some of the positives that have come out of the crisis is that we have become more open to developing caring and compassionate relationships with our family, our friend’s and our neighbours.
Sasha will share practices that can help you connect to the heart and open to change. These will be useful tools to navigate our relationships with others and the wider community, through the path of compassion, peace and empathy.
Sasha will weave these principles into the workshop as we gather. She will guide you through grounding practices of Mindfulness meditation, a Yoga Flow with Qi Gong and Yin Yoga to help create a calm and tranquil heart, as we transition into the Fire element (which relates to the heart) + season of Summer. These practices can help you manage your emotions and anchor you in the here and now.
We shall close with a blissful Sound Bath journey, to help open your heart.
At the end of the Yin Yoga practice you will be encouraged to settle into a supportive Savasana to experience a blissful one-hour Sound bath led by Martina. A sound bath is a form of sound therapy where the gongs and other instruments are played in a therapeutic way to bring relaxation and healing. (The term gong bath means that you are bathed in sound waves.) It is a simple yet profound way to connect with the core of our being and tune our body at the cellular level through the gentleness of its resonance. It requires nothing but receptivity to be fully experienced, but it has to be experienced in order to be completely understood.
When the Gongs are played, the sound vibrations immediately quiet the mind, allowing relaxation in the whole body and beyond.
Gong master – Martina Saorin
A 200hrs certified teacher, specializing in Hatha Yoga as well as being an Advanced Yin Yoga teacher, Restorative Yoga Teacher a Level 3 Reiki Master practitioner and a fully qualified Sound therapist.
Martina is based in Crouch End in North London. IG @yogicsound
Mindfulness meditation
We will start by sitting together and settling into the body, bringing awareness to breath and mindfulness of thoughts. Sasha will share simple yet transformative mindfulness meditation techniques.
Qi Gong / Yoga Flow
Sasha will then share a practice which will be a fusion of Qi Gong and Yoga Flow. Qi Gong means ‘energy cultivation’ and the exercises will focus on creating a calm and tranquil heart. These gentle rhythmic exercises will be weaved together with more familiar Asanas of a Yoga Flow.
Yin Yoga
The final phase will be a Yin Yoga practice which helps release the deep fascia of the body, which also supports our joints and organs. This can be useful to increase our range of movement and to create more ease within our bodies. Yin Yoga can also create a smooth flow of Qi throughout the body that has the potential to be beneficial both physically and emotionally. The Yin practice will focus on opening the heart and upper body Meridian pathways. Sasha will also share acupressure points for balancing the emotions.
Re Emerge Cacao + Sound with Junior & Kasia
Saturday 5 June | 6-7.30pm | £30 | Catford Studio
Join us for this special event run in collaboration by Junior Valentine and Kasia Blackwell.
They will take you on a magical heart opening and sound journey.
Setting intentions, connecting to the universal energy and inviting you to deeply relax and unwind. Under the powerful effects of raw ceremonial grade cacao, transformed into a liquid elixir we come together drink with love, honour the shared space and energy in ceremony. Guided by Alchemy Singing Bowls and Gongs.
Cacao
Raw Cacao is the Earth’s natural medicine that allows us to connect to something personally within ourselves, it allow us to transform in numerous ways with our self discovery. It’s a powerful and potent medicine that can assist the ‘inner work’ and creative guidance we all need to stay balanced. It literally opens the blood vessels in the body allowing more blood flow through the heart, it is known to trigger bliss hormones, feelings of love, and a heightened awareness that can be a powerful support to sound baths and healing. This anicient & powerful plant helps us to navigate our path back to our true essence.
The Gong is a sacred and ancient instrument of healing, rejuvenation and transformation.
The Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls are made from 99.992% pure crushed quartz. They are infused with gemstones and precious metals, creating the ‘alchemy’. Each bowl has a variety of effects; clearing, activating, restructuring, rebalancing and healing.
Alchemy bowls emit a pure, cosmic sound that expands into a multitude of vibrant overtones.
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Sound Baths and guided meditations are normally safe for all. However not advised for those who are in the first or third trimester of pregnancy, have a pacemaker, or who suffer from Menieres syndrome, have a history of psychotic episodes, or who experience epileptic seizures in the state between sleeping and waking. This is because the effect of the sound vibrations and the guided meditation can act as a trigger. You are responsible for consulting your medical practitioner before attending if you have any concerns regarding your mental or physical health, and for disclosing any such conditions before the event begins.
