Hatha Yoga Workshops
Saturday Workshops with Hazel
Hazel teaches a monthly workshop with a different theme as the focus of the day in venues which offer a peaceful and surrounded by green space to enhance the days escape. Venue directions are lower on this page. Details for holiday in France and Cotswolds weekend are on the Yoga Holidays page.
A workshop is a great way to deepen your enjoyment of yoga. The day offers the time to experiment and hone techniques that a weekly class just does not allow for. Many students describe the workshops as a rare treat, giving themselves some 'me - time'. The groups are small and held in quiet locations with green space around. Directions are given further down page.
Wear usual comfortable stretch friendly clothing but maybe easy layers to allow for the changing tempo of the class. Please bring your mat, blanket/towel and cushion and an open mind! Likewise any yoga equipment you have, though I have some to lend. Some equipment available for purchase if would like your own blocks, belts etc. You are advised to eat (ideally two hours before class) a small breakfast and bring a light lunch to share.
Spring Celebration Saturday 6 March *NB: Cancelled too low attendance
Opening the heart centre, Anahata chakra, can lift your spirits and move our energies from the winter into Spring. We encourage the breath in deeper and give ourselves an energy boost with energetic, flowing poses. The day will balance yoga postures and sequences, include still time for breath work with relaxation and meditation.
To actively expand the front body counterbalances the hunched posture we so often adopt in our working time at desk, computer &/or driving. The heart is at the center of our energetic system, focus on Anahata develops our feelings of empathy and compassion. A days’ heart yoga allows us to reconnect with ourselves, giving our heart, body and mind a chance to relax and renew. £35.00
Yoga and Chakras II Saturday 24 April 2010
St. Ethelwold’s House, Abingdon. This day will concentrate on the energy centers or chakras as key to your yoga practise. We will begin to discover the unseen energetic system, bringing together our physical and ethereal selves; working mindfully to enhance and deepen our yoga and understanding. The tempo of the day undulates combining asana with pranayama (breath) and times of stillness and relaxation. We close with lead meditation using colour & chakra imagery. Lunch included £45.00. NB a few places still available.
Kids Yoga with Parent or Grandparent - An opportunity to share your yoga with your child - Date tbc in Easter Vacation.
My students are welcome to invite their children to bring their Mum, Dad, Guardian or Grandparent along to a one off yoga session. Dependant on bookings I split the Children into different age groups with session suitable for their attention span and abilities. The youngest from 4 years old have story telling and make believe. Older kids have a session similar to adult classes but much more fun with sticking tongues out in Simhasana or trying to balance as a tree together.
Please email Hazel if you are interested with age of child/children. The date and venue to be confirmed once numbers are secure.
Photo shows a Trio of Pear Trees: Bryn and Joe Johnson with Hazel.
Challenge Yourself Saturday 8 May 2010
Old Headington. Today will give the time to fully explore poses you know already, and work with some of the more challenging ones. There will be some pair-work. The day combines movement with breath, using relaxation & meditation to balance asana work. Some experience of Yoga is required.
Yoga and Chakras Saturday 3 June 2010
St Ethelwold’s House, Abingdon. This day will concentrate on the energy centers or chakras as key to your yoga practise. We will begin to discover the unseen energetic system, bringing together our physical and ethereal selves; working mindfully to enhance and deepen our yoga and understanding. The tempo of the day undulates combining asana with pranayama (breath) and times of stillness and relaxation. We close with lead meditation using colour & chakra imagery.
Yoga Inside Out Saturday 17 July 2010
Explore your yoga from the inside out, rather than the final shape, we will build the poses on the breath and feel how the muscles work and thus asana unravels. This deeper yoga is supported with using the bandhas or muscles locks.
Yoga as Meditation Saturday 7 August 2010
St Ethelwold’s House, Abingdon. Mindfulness while moving and in stillness. We will be learning flowing breath led sequences and how to approach asana with mindfulness. We will begin the hardest lesson in yoga: how to find ways of sitting in stillness. Introduction to demystify the various techniques and styles, a chance to try to find what suits you be it watching breath, using sight or sound. Beginning the process to sit with ease does eventually lead us into meditation. Lunch included.
Other Workshop Dates for 2010:
9 October Marsh Baldon Village Hall
A 50% non-refundable deposit is required to secure your place. Workshops held in Old Headington and Marsh Baldon are £35 and please bring a lunch to share. Workshops held in St Ethelwold’s House are more expensive as the meditation Sanctuary room restricts numbers and we include lunch for convenience, hence £45. Please phone 07931 743785 or email from Contacts page. Saturday Workshops run 10am to 3pm.
Pear Trees at Marsh Baldon 2004 Student shows great quad stretch of pigeon pose
Saturday Venues and Directions
Marsh Baldon Village, OX44
Reputably the largest village green in South England but smallest photo...
Marsh Baldon is a quiet village hall outside Oxford, OX44. Directions from Oxford on A4074 at Nuneham Courtne: Take left turn sign posted to Marsh Baldon, a winding leafy road into village, drive past the pub & large village green, almost leaving the village the hall is on your left, just before the vegetable allotments. There is ample parking.
Old Headington, Oxford
A local landmark building!
Old Headington Village Hall is on Dunstan Rd, OX3 9BY, where the road changes name from St Andrew's Rd. It is across from Stoke Place. There is ample parking as it is unusual for the Girl guide hall to have weekend events but please take care of parents and girls walking to the hunt behind if so.
St. Ethelwold’s House, East St. Helen’s Street, OX14 5EB.
St Ethelwolds is an open spiritual retreat centre and so offers a haven of peace and tranquility in a beautiful building in the centre of Abingdon dating back to the 14th century. East St Helen’s Street is one-way leading into West St Helen’s Street. No parking is available but there are on street meters, a council car-park on West St. Helen’s Street, and free parking by river beyond house.
Would you like to make a weekend and stay in the city of Oxford or discover the lovely countryside around Marsh Baldon? Please email and I can suggest some B&Bs or hotels.
If you would like to attend one of these or have a suggestion for a future workshop please get in touch.
Meditation and Yoga
This introduction will offer gentle movement to warm up and exercises to enhance different postures for meditation. Breath is the basis for meditation & we will look at different themes to develop your meditation upon: concentration, working with chakras, mantras and/or simply silence.
If you would like to create your own simple weekend around Yoga there are local bed&breakfasts and hotels local to the venues or further into the city centre if you would like to make a weekend of it. Please get in touch if you would like recommendations.