Retreats & Workshops
This is a space that brings me a lot of joy! Here, we join together for yoga in Bristol and nearby, creating safe containers for sharing wisdom and clearing our path. Have a scroll, there are three things coming up...
Restore and nurture for late autumn
INTO THE QUIET
Sunday 17 November 2024 | 1 - 5pm | Beechwood Club, Beechwood Road, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3TP
Sliding scale £30-40
Book your place: https://dandelion.events/e/autumnherbsyoga
The final workshop in our seasonal cycle, come and connect with late autumn by learning about the elements, herbalism skills, yoga and deeply restful yoga nidra (meaning “sleep” 😌).
Late autumn is the air element, the shifting winds as the energies change; the drawing in, rooting down, the coming of the quiet time 🌬️
Deeply experienced medical herbalist Helen White will guide us through the winds of autumn, with the different ways the air element is understood in the body from traditional Chinese and Greco-Roman medicine. In this season, we look mainly to berries and roots for their medicinal benefits. Helen will teach us ways to harvest, prepare and use some of these herbal treasures, discussing the reasons we may choose to use them, and Helen will demonstrate a nourishing, delicious autumn cordial with recipes for you to take home.
Putting your learning into practice, we'll enjoy herbal tasters and make our own incense using autumn plants, for you to enjoy at home or gift to a loved one.
We continue to recognise the environment within the body with a yoga practice for all levels, facilitated by 550+ hour trained teacher Hannah Embleton-Smith. In movement, we begin to explore harnessing the winds (vayus in Sanskrit) of the body, empowering us to come into relationship with the movement of our vital energy. We'll play with elemental mantra and balance steady and restorative asana to experience the vayus, before calming the winds and softening into the stillness of yoga nidra. A chance to restore deeply and go nourished into the dark evening.
Join us on Sunday 17 November to:
💫 Learn tangible autumn herbalism skills, working with roots and berries
💫 Connect with the air element and understand its movement in the body
💫 Make your own incense to take home
💫 Enjoy herbal treats and tasters
💫 Nourish with steady, restorative asana
💫 Rest deeply with autumnal yoga nidra
We hope to celebrate the turn of the wheel into winter with you!
Learn more and book your place:
Open for bookings! - Summer 2025 retreat 🧡
RIPPLES | 10 - 13 July 2025 | Eden Rise Retreat Centre, Sandwell Barns, Totnes TQ9 7LJ
Book with a deposit via Dandelion: https://dandelion.events/e/ripples
From £395 for 3 nights (with 2 concession places @ £350 available for those on low income)
Super slow payment plans available.
Recognise the impact of your yoga practice at RIPPLES, July 2025!
The wonderful Izzy Simpson and I are delighted to be returning with another retreat, this time at Eden Rise retreat centre! We have both assisted on and attended retreats at this beautiful site in Devon, and are excited to hold space where we've gone through personal processes ourselves.
Our intention is to offer spacious support that empowers you to engage with your practice on a deeper level. We will help you develop a steady practice that fits with your lifestyle, and there will be opportunities to challenge and nurture yourself in your asana (with plenty of options). We'll also dive more deeply into aspects of practice including the non-dual view, mantra, meditation, and more.
Share the link with friends and loved ones, and book now via Dandelion! 🧡 https://dandelion.events/e/ripples
Gather in supportive presence
Gather in circle with those born in female bodies and the stories they carry.
Contribution: herbal teas, food offerings or a monetary donation
Next circle:
Sunday 3 November | 4.30-7pm | Near Eastville Park (full address given on booking):
Spreading mostly by word of mouth, we get together roughly monthly, with the next date agreed together so that as many people as possible can make it.
Each circle has a discussion theme to get us going, and we start by landing together with teas and food contributed by everyone, as well as a check-in and short meditation. Next, we connect by sharing in pairs before welcoming any offerings (details below). We then move into time for each person to share in full circle.
We aim to welcome diverse identities within those who were born in female bodies. We check pronouns at the beginning of each circle, and welcome feedback for continuing a sensitively held space.
You are welcome to come as you are, and are encouraged (with no pressure here) to bring your gifts – be they song, movement, pair or group work.
As we open the circle more widely, monetary donations are welcome to sustain the energy needed to organise gatherings.
Reach out to me to learn more or be added to the WhatsApp group. Hope to see you at the next one!
Book online for the circle on 3 November: https://hdfst.uk/e117044