The body holds the mind, just as the mind contains the body.
In a deep quietude, the mind can free the body of its holding,
just as deep grounding and surrender the body
can unlock the deepest secrets of the mind
Stephe Levine
In the rush of daily life, it’s easy to narrow our existence to the next task, the next word, the next reaction.
Life becomes a chain of doing, and in that pace, our sense of simply being slips away.
This workshop offers a gentle invitation to slow down. To retreat into stillness. To soften and release into the body, allowing breath and awareness to unwind the knots of busyness. Here, the practice is not about effort, but about surrender—giving space for unravelling, for letting go, for simply letting be.
As we settle into the present moment—just as we are, without needing to change anything—something shifts.
Rest arises. Clarity returns. A deeper connection with life emerges.
Unwinding and resting is both an art and a practice: lingering, dwelling, abiding in the richness of the moment, and exploring what unfolds within it. Through this workshop, you’ll be guided with supportive sequences and suggestions drawn from yoga and somatic practices, creating space for ease, renewal, and presence. This workshop is here to assist that with suggestions and sequences weaved from various yoga and somatic practices like:
Micro-movements - to ease the body into stillness & increase body awareness
Massage (self-massage/trigger point work/Thai Yoga Massage)
Restorative Yoga - to expand the sense of ease
Where:
Loudwater Farm, Loudwater Lane, Rickmansworth WD3 4HG (Chess Hall).
Parking right next the the venue
When:
Friday (monthly) 7:15pm - 9:30pm
Friday 28th November 2025, 23rd January, 27th February 2026
(please arrive 5 -10 minues before the session begins)
The workshop is preceded by Neurogenic Yoga - Tension Release Exercise class (6pm - 7pm) which you might want combine with the Restorative workshop and gift yourself a longer and deeper practice that evening.
Cost:
£32 per workshop (or £90 for 3)
One of the meanings of ‘meditation’
is giving ourselves time to be aware,
which means also giving ourselves ‘space’.
Giving ourselves this ‘time’ and ‘space’
means inwardly expanding the time-space
within the moment.
This is a time-space that is infinitely expandable
- but only inwardly, from within.
We cannot meditatively expand our awareness
if we do not first of all take time
to linger, dwell and abide within the moment,
exploring all there is to be aware of within it -
Peter Wilberg
