A slow, spiritual, but strong Vinyasa practice for the whole body for all levels. Expect longer held pauses for mind-body connection and guided breath cues to help guide you through this deep and sometimes challenging practice.
The beginning of the class will allow you to create a space for reconnection with your inner Self through opening meditation and pranayama(breath extension), which should remain as a part of your practice for the rest of the session.
Towards the end you can expect
grounding sequence in order to slow down the breath and reflect on your experience on the mat.

This session is truly for everyone, regardless the genders, ages and abilities.
Slow and graceful pace of the class will help you to learn how to listen to your body and gain the strength, not just physically, but mentally at the first place.

Often using of the yoga props along with many adjustments tor
the poses are welcoming everyone to explore the silence inside, even if it seems to be very challenging sometimes. Same like a life itself.

This Yoga practice is about quieting of the fluctuations of the mind and creating a relationship with our mind, rather than being constantly in a separation and uncontrollable fight inside. Through the conscious and mindful movements along with a breath, you will be guided to stay present and take most of the experience off the mat into your daily life.

Join Emily of Fat Cat Yoga for Foundations of Yoga as part of our series to give you the foundations you need to develop your practice.

Charting asana, breath, vinyasa flow, alignments, meditation and philosophy. We spend time reping out asana and talking through the postural shapes, to build foundations for strength, flexibility, mobility and agility. This session is for everyone, whether complete beginner or revisiting aspects of your practice. It's also an open environment for questions, exploration and trying new things on the mat.

A slow, spiritual, but strong Vinyasa practice for the whole body for all levels. Expect longer held pauses for mind-body connection and guided breath cues to help guide you through this deep and sometimes challenging practice.
The beginning of the class will allow you to create a space for reconnection with your inner Self through opening meditation and pranayama (breath extension), which should remain as a part of your practice for the rest of the session. Towards the end, you can expect a grounding sequence in order to slow down the breath and reflect on your experience on the mat.

This session is truly for everyone, all genders, ages and abilities.
The slow and graceful pace of the class will help you to learn how to listen to your body and gain the strength, not just physically, but mentally in the first place.
Everyone in this class is usually encouraged to use the yoga props along with trying many adjustments which are always offered to take in order to explore our boundaries and find the edges.

This Yoga practice is about quieting the fluctuations of the mind and creating a relationship with our mind, rather than being constantly in a separation and uncontrollable fight inside. Through the conscious and mindful movements along with a breath, you will be guided to stay present and take most of the experience off the mat into your daily life.

Every session is a different experience.

Some traditional gentle vinyasa flow, with added Feldenkrais-inspired floor work and deep body resetting to get you into your body for the day ahead, set to music. Expect free-flowing movements and easy transitions, as well as an intention setting for your day.

Join Kim as part of our series to give you the foundations you need to develop your practice. Charting asana, breath, vinyasa flow, alignments, meditation and philosophy. This session is for everyone, whether complete beginner or revisiting aspects of your practice.

A tranquil evening of gently and slowly arriving into stillness to be immersed into a liminal space journey through guided Nidra and sound.

Collaborating on this series with Basia is musician, Dave Franklyn on synths,, and Sound Healer, Alex Stevens on crystal bowls and gongs.

Dave and Alex brings their collection of instruments along with singing bowls, crystal bowls and gong to perform a traditional sound bath over a bed of sine wave frequencies designed to directly correlate with the meditative guidance from the voice of Basia and the sounds of the synth.

Yin yoga is a floor-based yoga practice in which poses are held passively for a length of time, often a few minutes. Holding poses for a longer period of time works into the connective tissues (ligaments, joints, bones and fascia) rather than the muscles, it can also help prepare the body to sit for periods of time in meditation. Energetically, it taps into our ‘chi’ and helps improve the flow of energy round the body. The practice of yin yoga gives you space to turn inwards and tune the mind and body to physical sensations, often playing with your ‘edge’ and dropping deeper into your practice.

Yoga Nidra is also known as yogic sleep but is in fact a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping in which the body and mind are fully relaxed and which is conducive to emotional and physical healing. It works by following a guided relaxation and is an effective tool for deep rest and connection. Yoga Nidra can help to improve sleep, reduce stress and anxiety, help us to centre ourselves and find the truths hidden within our hearts.

This session is an explorative collaboration and will evolve over time. Consider booking a series of Tuesdays as we explore the space of sound within yoga.

Alternating Tuesdays with Sabina Bhandari, Classical Tantra with Gong Bath.

The session includes the practices of asana (yoga postures), pranayama (breathing exercises), and meditation to develop physical and mental stillness. The goal of Integral yoga is to become aware of the (non-dogmatic) Divine, to integrate the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of ourselves, and to manifest the Divine on earth.

According to Sri Aurobindo, all life is Yoga, while Yoga as a sadhana (disciplined and dedicated practice or learning) is a methodised effort towards self-perfection, which brings to expression the latent, hidden potentialities of being. Success in this effort unifies the human individual with the universal and transcendental Existence. Integral yoga reunites "the infinite in the finite, the timeless in the temporal and the transcendent with the immanent.

A combination of East meets West. Shaped by teachings drawn from Integral, Traditional Vedic, and modern lineages. The mystical, philosophical, and the science-based. Expect mindful movement, an enquiry into organic, natural movement; moving inwards through focused awareness to then open outwards into a spectrum of authentic yogic postures with sensitivity and strength. The heart of this practice is about ‘being with oneself’, letting go and enjoying the process of unfolding rather than judging or forcing. Each class will be shaped by a different theme in response to either the time of day, element, season, lunar cycle, or energy, and your guide's curiosity.

Discovery Session

This is a FREE SPACE to practice yoga. This session is an open invitation to come and enjoy a yoga reset! Yoga is for everyone and this is an open session for all levels. There will be time after the session for chai and chats and space to explore any aspects of your practice that you wish!...

___

The Yoga-Social is a FREE weekly meet-up exploring all kinds of different yoga, and non-yoga for expanding our ideas around health and wellbeing, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.

The Yoga-Social sessions will be different every week and are always free for everyone!

________________________________________________

YOGA / COMMUNITY / MOVEMENT / DISCOVERY

Yoga in the Stars is a project by The Metahealth Movement, a not-for-profit working towards elevated health.

We are thrilled to announce that £9,943 has been donated to Yoga in the Stars by The National Lottery Community Fund for a special new project The Yoga-Social!

The project is to create a space for people to come together around health and well-being. A free space to practice yoga, breathwork, movement, dance, tai chi and talk about health, food and lifestyle. Use the studio equipment and space in an open, inclusive and fun way. Expect spontaneous workshops and sessions, as well as a dedicated self-practice space, and we hope to invite other local yoga teachers to host sessions and workshops throughout the year to help grow and enrich the community.

Reach out to us with ideas.

Yoga really is for everyone, it’s a personal thing, and is a lifestyle choice that goes way beyond the mat and into every aspect of life, and we hope that this grant helps you to explore what this can mean for you as we discover together.

#NationalLottery and the National Lottery players, thank you!

The session includes the practices of asana (yoga postures), pranayama (breathing exercises), and meditation to develop physical and mental stillness. The goal of Integral yoga is to become aware of the (non-dogmatic) Divine, to integrate the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of ourselves, and to manifest the Divine on earth.

According to Sri Aurobindo, all life is Yoga, while Yoga as a sadhana (disciplined and dedicated practice or learning) is a methodised effort towards self-perfection, which brings to expression the latent, hidden potentialities of being. Success in this effort unifies the human individual with the universal and transcendental Existence. Integral yoga reunites "the infinite in the finite, the timeless in the temporal and the transcendent with the immanent.

By appointment only

Hatha Flow with Ebba

This session is a complete nourishment for body, mind & spirit. Hatha yoga is slightly slower paced, staying in positions longer which make us have time to feel the different dynamics in the posture, find good alignment & tune into the breath. Hatha Yoga is a Grounding practice and is proven to reduce stress & anxiety.

Ebba studied classical Hatha Kriya Yoga in India, close to the Himalaya mountains 🏔️ 2012. Since then she explored many different modalities of yoga & healing.

We keeping the backbone of this class traditional Hatha yoga, simple but powerful but with some extra room for divine expression.


- PRANAYAMA (breathing) Learn different breathing techniques to balance nervous system & enhance your vital life force energy (prana)
- SUN-SALUTATIONS increase circulation of Prana & warm Up Your body.
- DEEP SLOW HATHA FLOW Often we weave in a philosophy and have time to go deeper into the poses.
- GROUNDING STRETCH Unwind & stretch out.
- RELAXING CRYSTAL SOUNDBATH Complete Restoration & Integration
- MANTRA 🕉️ Vibrate into a higher state of consciousness.

In this session you will experience your spine be realigned, spirit lifted & energy levels restored.

BREATH WORK - Energising breath-work to bring you into the present moment.

PILATES FLOW- Starting with slow & precise movement originated from the core. Building up to a sweaty flow to good VIBES tunes!

SOUND HEALING - Closing with total relaxation to Devine sounds of crystal sound bowls.

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced yogi in search of something a bit different, this class is for you! Each season adapts to the seasons and are never the same each week.

As well as yoga postures (asana), these classes are supported by various breath-control techniques (pranayama) as the grounding-point for achieving a state of stress-free harmony and calming the nerves. Breath is highly important to yoga practices as it is believed to be the source of prana (vital energy) for the body and can be harnessed as the bridge to connect the mind and the body together.

Sound yoga comes from the concept of the primordial vibration/sound AUM - that resonance which exists in all. These sessions with Kiran help you to connect with this omnipresence through mantra chanting, bansuri flute and evocative background music.

Kiran’s holistic practices are beginner friendly, suit all types of people, and are sensitive to the needs of all participants (variations are given to suit all abilities and you are in control of whatever you would like to try!).

Release the stresses you didn't even know you've been holding onto with these calming and spiritually uplifting sessions. This is nothing like you have experienced before.

Yoga in the Stars presents this special experience as a way to deepen the journey of self-study through a different sort of practice.

Energy Sensitivity Training, Connecting with Angels + Blessing Mother Earth Meditation + Receive Pranic Energy Healing
With Gish Singh-Kular, Founder of Academy of Temple Arts

ENERGY SENSITIVITY TRAINING
Discover how to feel your aura. I have been exploring these methods for decades. I love seeing students faces light up the first time they experience this.

Following on from the Energy Sensitivity Training:

CONNECTING WITH ANGELS
We will be connecting with the Angelic Hierarchies to assist us in our spiritual development. This is very uplifting and highly recommended. Release stresses, removes emotional baggage. The POWERFUL RADIANT ANGELIC ENERGIES are a joy to behold. A life changing session.

BLESSING MOTHER EARTH GROUP MEDITATION
Dual Hearts Meditation (DHM) is a very powerful ancient technique revived by Master Choa Kok Sui as part of modern Pranic Healing. DHM clears and highly activates your Crown and Heart chakras. By blessing the Earth you also benefit from the good karma you create with this service.

By joining us in this special meditation you benefit in many ways including:
* Energising and highly activating two powerful energy centres - your Heart and Crown
* Helping raise the energies of the world and assisting in our collective upliftment and evolution
* Gaining more good karma
* Clearing blocks in your energy systems for greater ease and flow.

This meditation is delightful to experience and raises your vibration to a very high level. You will likely find yourself nicely energised from this meditation.

Finishing with:
DEEP SAVASANA RELAXATION WITH A PRANIC ENERGY HEALING SESSION

Pranic Healing
Pranic Healing (PH) is a non-touch energy healing modality. PH works on the aura and chakras (energy centres) of your subtle bodies - on the mental, emotional & spiritual levels, which in turn benefits your physical body. You may experience feeling lighter and cleaner/fresher after receiving a PH treatment session.

Relax deeply as your energy body is cleansed and refreshed with Pranic Healing.

These sessions are free, although we welcome donations according to your means. 100% of donations go to a local good cause.
By making a donation you’ll be gaining more good karma and helping a local good cause (The Hornbeam Cafe - local food bank).

Feedback from these sessions
"Feeling joyful' LD
"Peaceful" A
"I can see the orbs" M


About Gish Singh-Kular

Gish is an Angelic Connector, Pranic Healer and Meditation Lead. Gish has been doing energy sensitivity work for over 3 1/2 decades and is a spiritual seeker, empath & intuitive sensitive. Along the way he has also trained in Tai Chi Chuan and many types of yoga, most recently Kundalini Yoga and is the developer of The Tree Gong Challenge and Founder of Academy of Temple Arts.

Some traditional gentle vinyasa flow, with added Feldenkrais-inspired floor work and deep body resetting to get you into your body for the day ahead, set to music. Expect free-flowing movements and easy transitions, as well as an intention setting for your day.

by appointment only

A combination of East meets West. Shaped by teachings drawn from Integral, Traditional Vedic, and modern lineages. The mystical, philosophical, and the science-based. Expect mindful movement, an enquiry into organic, natural movement; moving inwards through focused awareness to then open outwards into a spectrum of authentic yogic postures with sensitivity and strength. The heart of this practice is about ‘being with oneself’, letting go and enjoying the process of unfolding rather than judging or forcing. Each class will be shaped by a different theme in response to either the time of day, element, season, lunar cycle, or energy, and your guide's curiosity.

By appointment only

A slow, spiritual, but strong Vinyasa practice for the whole body for all levels. Expect longer held pauses for mind-body connection and guided breath cues to help guide you through this deep and sometimes challenging practice.
The beginning of the class will allow you to create a space for reconnection with your inner Self through opening meditation and pranayama(breath extension), which should remain as a part of your practice for the rest of the session.
Towards the end you can expect
grounding sequence in order to slow down the breath and reflect on your experience on the mat.

This session is truly for everyone, regardless the genders, ages and abilities.
Slow and graceful pace of the class will help you to learn how to listen to your body and gain the strength, not just physically, but mentally at the first place.

Often using of the yoga props along with many adjustments tor
the poses are welcoming everyone to explore the silence inside, even if it seems to be very challenging sometimes. Same like a life itself.

This Yoga practice is about quieting of the fluctuations of the mind and creating a relationship with our mind, rather than being constantly in a separation and uncontrollable fight inside. Through the conscious and mindful movements along with a breath, you will be guided to stay present and take most of the experience off the mat into your daily life.

A warming practice with a long slow build up into more powerful postures, to bring confidence into the body and mindset. You can expect rhythmic and expressive movements for opening the body and playful ways through your vinyasa to get you feeling good, and just enough heat to give you a little afterglow as you start your weekend.

Join us for a Primal Movement Exploration Session

The session will start on the floor and explore fluid floor work, rolling, and creative patterns, using the floor to ground us. The session may emerge into vinyasa moments or linger in complex movement patterns until we find fluidity and creative connection with our bodies in authentic expression.

The session will be inspired by Feldenkris, Yoga, Primal Flow, Animal Locomotion and the wild things of the forest.

There won't be much upwards facing dog... And will be less physically demanding than Wednesday's Primal Flow.

An evening of yogic philosophy with Stephen Silver (Principal for The School of Philosophy and Economic Science - London)

With Yoga Nidra with Basia Zieniewicz and sound bath with the Cummings Twins (Mystery School of Sound)


Bhagavad Gita - A Yogic Philosophy


We are thrilled to announce that Stephen Silver, Principal of The School of Philosophy and Economic Science will be joining us here at Yoga in the Stars for a special evening of yogic philosophy, in a practical exploration of The Bhagavad Gita and how we take these ideas and philosophies into our lives.

The session will bookend with a Yoga Nidra to open the mind towards new and expansive ideas, and close with a sound bath with gongs and other instruments to allow you to let ideas settle in their own way. We will dive into the exploration of the Gita itself and how ideas held within may show up in our lives.

The focus will be Chapter 2.

In chapter 2 of the Bhagavad Gītā, Arjuna asks what are the qualities of a wise person, a person of steady knowledge. Krishna answers through the rest of the chapter. The description is interesting and, in parts challenging. More importantly, the description tells us what we have to practise to grow in wisdom, in steady knowledge. We all have the capacity to be wiser than we are already; we all have the capacity to be wise. Krishna’s answer shows us how.

There will be chai and chats afterwards!

This is a Yoga-Social / £0 / Pay As You Wish / Everyone welcome

Starts 630pm

_

A bit about the The School of Philosophy and Economic Science and a message from Stephen Silver.

A bit about the The School of Philosophy and Economic Science and message from Stephen Silver.

One of the basic premises in the School of Philosophy is that what we are looking for is already within us. What we are seeking may be expressed in many ways, but ultimately the journey is inwards.

In the School we draw heavily of the ancient teachings from the West and from the East, in particular the teaching of Advaita, non-duality or unity. The Sanskrit word yoga can be translated as union or path. It is a path leading to union with the goal – or more accurately the source.

The School is not religious but it is spiritual. One of the scriptures that we refer to a lot is the Bhagavad Gītā, where the prince Arjuna is led by the teaching of the Lord Krishna from despair to calm resolution.

It will be illuminating, fun and, possibly, challenging.
__

For the Waterperry Retreat Programme

The School of Philosophy is running a series of short residentials at its retreat centre at Waterperry, near Oxford. In March, the focus will be on the Bhagavad Gītā and Yoga. The word Yoga is used variously throughout the Gītā. We will study and practise together to gain some understanding of the different ways the word is being used. And I’m delighted that Tarin will be coming to lead some sessions of simple yet effective yoga as a way to help deepen our experience.

The retreat will run from the evening of Monday March 11th to mid-morning on Thursday 14th. The cost is £190.

Link for more information about the Waterperry retreat programme and how to register.

https://schoolofphilosophy.org/products/wrp2023

Waterperry House is a Georgian building in the middle of Waterperry Gardens, one of the top 25 gardens to visit in the country. The gardens were used as the setting for the BBC TV programme Make it at Market, where there are great arial shots of the gardens. Or watch this YouTube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHFw9k0VPrA . A description of the house, including the Waterperry Frescoes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtmTdn72ZnU

Stephen Silver
_