Sound Healing and Kundalini Yoga Sadhana near Wells, Somerset
Aquarian Sadhana, most Sundays, 5 – 7.30 am
Preet Kaur holds a weekly Aquarian Sadhana – in the Kundalini Yoga tradition – on Sunday mornings at 5am.
What better way tot start the day than to clear the altar of our consciousness from any patterns that are keeping us from shining the truth of who we are. It is a time to share in sangat and develop a link from individual consciousness to group consciousness and ultimately to universeal infinite consciousness.
Bring a yoga mat/sheepskin, food to share for breakfast and £5 for the space.
If you’d like to come please contact Preet on 07704 636647 or preetkaur108@yahoo.co.uk to check the date and to get directions.
Gong Bath, most Sundays, 7pm
Also on sunday night at 7pm, there is a gong bath. The gong most powerfully affects the mana maya kosa, which clears out the closets of the mind so that the mind starts to link with our soul and our infinite nature, instead of swimmining in the realm of maya. Let’s make our habits more refined and tuned into Ong, universal consciousness.
Bring something to lie on, a blanket, cushion and £8 for the session.
If you’d like to come please contact Preet on 07704 636647 or preetkaur108@yahoo.co.uk to check the date and to get directions.
Preet Kaur
Kundalini Yoga & Sound Healing
www.kundaliniyogasoundhealing.com
Santosa camp is back!
Sunday 3 – Sunday 10 June 2012
nr Shepton Mallet, Somerset
early bird price for the first 75 tickets!
Santosa (pronounced Santosha) means the happy acceptance of what is, as it is.
The experience of Santosa is at the heart of a living practice of yoga. It’s the bottom line for bringing yoga to life. With Santosa, everything in life is yoga. Without Santosa, even yoga practice isn’t really yoga! When we experience Santosa we are living yoga (read all abut it in the Yoga Sutras!).
This is a gathering for everyone who loves yoga and/or bhakti, and wants to camp and practice in a beautiful meadow overlooking Glastonbury Tor.
If your heart sings at the thought of spending a week in the beauty of nature, with the company of pure hearted loving souls who enjoy to practice yoga, chanting, meditation and bhakti yoga, then you are most welcome to join us.
We shall be working co-operatively to create an ashram experience that holds and nurtures everyone with the living spirit of karma yoga (the yoga of self-less service) and nourishes everyone by all eating delicious meals together. We have a gorgeous ashram kitchen and a super-comfy covered seating area. Our site is the beautiful healing field up high overlooking Glastonbury Tor, a couple of miles from Shepton Mallet.
Santosa is a clear pure space, alcohol and drug-free, a family-friendly home for yogis of all ages.
This is for you if you like the sound of :
- a week camping in nature with view of Glastonbury Tor
- yoga classes all day
- bhakti and kirtan at all hours
- no need to cook, just pack your plate and cutlery and we’ll eat together ashram style
- children’s workshops in arts, crafts and yoga
- hot showers under the trees
- sauna with starlit showers
- Santosa bazaar – bring your items to sell
- Habiba and her fabulous drop-in knitting classes and wool stall
All ticket prices include all food, yoga, bhakti yoga and children’s activities
FULL WEEK
Early bird for the first 75 tickets ~ £195
Full price ~ £215
Children under 3 ~ free
Children aged 4 – 10 ~ £35
Children aged 10 – 16 ~ £50
Over 16 ~ adult price
PART WEEK TICKETS
If you can’t come for the whole week, you come for half a week instead:
choose between Sunday 3rd to Wednesday 6th June, or
Thursday 7th to Sunday 10th June
£130 adults, £25 children free / £17.50 / £25 depending on age (as above)
N.B Advance booking only with payment by BACS (or Paypal at a supplement). There will be no tickets available on the gate. Pure Santosa Yoga and Bhakti Camp is a pre-booked event.
More info & booking for SANTOSA on the Yoga Seva website here >>
Soul Seeking Ecstasy yoga workshop with Nicole Aarons
* change of dates *
Friday 30 March 2012, 6.30pm
Friday 6 April 2012, 6.30pm
Yogasara, Picton Street, Montpelier, Bristol
The human need to experience ecstasy, to be free of the limitations of our existence, is as vital to us as breath, water and food. Practice universal postures that detox and nourish our subtle bodies and experience the bliss that gives life to matter. Practice the universal postures and journeys that take you there.
30 March, Session 1 – HEALING - the journey towards wholeness, the elusive state that reunites us with the loving intelligence from which we are born.
6 April, Session 2 – TRUTH - practice to align more closely with truth.
You can bring your own yoga mat – there are some mats, cushions and blankets at Yogasara.
Investment £ by donation
Places are limited please email Nicole satsoma@gmail.com to book your place.
The 4 Levels of Insight
Soma Yoga with Nicole Aarons
Mondays 13 & 20 Feb 2012
Mondays 2 & 9 April 2012 *change of time & venue 9 April *
Monday 4 June 2012
@ Malcolm X Centre, St Paul’s, Bristol
A Soma practice that asks you to trust your own experience and gain direct knowledge regarding your existence.
Learn to live, heal, and age differently.
Change the essential make up of your luminous energy field.
Become the storyteller of your own life; defy the beliefs around cause and effect and the limits of time and space.
Monday 13th February, 6.30pm at Malcolm X Community Centre, St Pauls, Bristol
The Way of the Hero, the serpent energy, shedding our skins, practising non-judgement, non-suffering, non-attachment, walking in Beauty. Become more effective.
Monday 20th February, 6.30pm at Malcolm X Community Centre, St Pauls, Bristol
The Way of the Luminous Warrior, the jaguar energy, practising fearlessness, non doing, non engagement, being certain. Our experience is influenced by our mind, so if you want a different experience, change your mind.
Monday 2nd April, 6.30pm at Malcolm X Community Centre, St Pauls, Bristol
The Way of the Seer, the energy of hummingbird, practising the beginner’s mind, integrity, clarity, responsibility. We are on a sacred journey, so drink from the nectar of life. Go the distance.
Monday 9th April, 6.30pm at Malcolm X Community Centre, St Pauls, Bristol now 10.30 -12.30 at Yogasara, 12 Picton St, Montpelier
The Way of Wisdom, energy of Eagle, practising mastering time, mindfulness of your projections, no-mind, becoming the alchemist of your existence. Use the language of energy and work from spirit.
Monday 4th June, 6.30pm at Malcolm X Community Centre, St Pauls, Bristol
Living from your centre, mastering your circumference.
Nicole’s website www.somalotus.com
Unicorn Camps for August 2012
& the Midwinter Gathering 4 Feb 2012
Natural Voice, Healing, and
Peace through the Arts
www.unicorncamps.com
The 2012 Unicorn Natural Voice Camp
4th-12th August 2012
We have a spectacular line-up of headliners this year leading the ongoing sessions: We have been asking the fabulous Una May Olomalaye to fit us into her busy schedule for the last three years and at last she is coming!
We are also very happy to announce the long awaited return of probably Natural Voice’s most popular songwriter Ali Burns all the way from darkest Edinburgh! Talking of long awaited returns, Raaja Fischer wowed us last year after a decade away, and returns again this year!
It’s true that Dee Jarlett & Ali Orbaum haven’t missed a Natural Voice Camp this century, but they haven’t hosted an ongoing session for the last three years, so this too counts as a welcome return! Also on the welcome return list is Rowena Whitehead – the People’s Revolution starts here!
The B Naturals have become a familiar constellation in the Unicorn firmament, this year for the first time they are hosting an ongoing session of workshops together, and for those weary of learning songs, Chrys Blanchard will be running a full course of Vocal Sound Healing, and Kate O’Connell and Annabelle Macfadyen will be facilitating improvisational voyages of discovery.
If your favourite voice teacher wasn’t on that list, the chances are that they will be there offering a Drop-in session!
The 2012 Unicorn Healing Camp
13th-17th August 2012
This season sees the birth of a new camp initiative with the first Unicorn Healing Camp. Our intention is to keep it small to start with, although as the rumour of its inception spreads, we are finding a lot of interest is being generated. Many thanks for the offers from would-be teachers, and perhaps next year we will be able to expand our programme; for now however we have the team we need.
This team features Barbara Morgan and Family Constellations, James Burgess with a distinctly Sufi spin on his 7 Words System, John Bowker leading sacred chants and more, Nesta offering Tea Cermony and Yoga, Richard with 7 Words Theatre, something wonderful yet as yet unspecified from Jo Hanstead, Martin‘s harp healing, and Jo Pitcairn‘s Movement workshops.
All comers will have the possibility of one to one counselling of some kind, and we hope that we can build a very intimate, safe atmosphere through which to generate the power to transform and heal, as well as pass some techniques to those who want to learn method.
Please book early for this one.
The 2012 Unicorn Peace Through the Arts Camp
18th-26th August 2012
It is part of Unicorn Camps practice to find something new each year so that the whole process has a chance to evolve naturally in response to feedback and opportunity. So over the last few years we have introduced Open Space, at first experimentally and then later adjusting and refining until we can feel confident that we have it just right. Also the Development Groups have gone through a similar process – and this year a noticeable difference will be to do with Family Constellations, whose popularity has grown to the point where we have set up the new Healing Camp around them – and reduced their time on PTA.
Muiz, ever popular, has agreed to return to continue to deepen his study of Sufism with us… and James will lead the Thursday night Zikr this year. Ruth scored another major hit with the Café and will be hosting Nickomo’s Beatlemania follow-up with a tribute to Simon & Garfunkel. Even more good news is that Rasullah’s back – we missed her! She’ll help out with Harmonic Temple and Dance of Life. All the rest is as you would hope for – Circle Dance, Yoga, Jilani’s focus on teens leading dances, and of course, an absolute superabundance of wonderful Dances of Universal Peace!
Unicorn Mid-Winter Gathering
Saturday February 4th 2012
10.00am till late, overnight if you wish
Cleeve House, Seend, Wiltshire, SN12 6PG
- Morning Harmonic Temple
- Afternoon Dances of Universal Peace
- Evening Kirtan
- Late evening Taizé
- Also 7 Words, Yoga, Circle Dance
- Your hosts include Nickomo James Nesta Richard Jo & live band
After a resoundingly successful event last year, we present another wonderful day of music, dance and much more! Unicorn icons and others will be there to lead events from morning till night. This year’s programme is designed so that anyone needing to leave early can still enjoy the core Unicorn staples of DUP and HT. For those staying overnight there will be an opportunity of a shared walk on Sunday morning. All events are optional. Cleeve house is a lovely old mansion with a nice warm fire in the main hall to relax by.
Dances of Universal Peace (DUP) and Harmonic Temple include simple chants from many spiritual paths. Kirtan is Indian devotional singing, Taizé is Christian in origin. All reflect the nature of Unicorn events, honouring the unity of all traditions and creating a beautiful and powerful experience by joining our hearts and voices.
New to Unicorn camps? Please come along!
Visit www.unicorncamps.com for Unicorn camps and news.
Bring vegetarian food to share for two meals
Whole day: Pay in full by 1st February £30
At the door: £35 Evening only: £10
Overnight spaces are limited and can be secured with full pre-payment. Prices from £15. Please ask for details, and even if you aren’t staying over, advanced day rate bookings help us with the organization.
Contact: Jo Hanstead on 07773 906273 info@johanstead.co.uk
We are blessed with many wonderful Kundalini Yoga teachers in our area
Weekly Classes
Preet Kaur is starting classes in Frome again on Monday 9 January, 8 – 9.30pm
See Preet’s website for details of her other classes.
Anjali Kaur is teaching Kundalini Yoga in Bristol at Yogasara on Tuesday mornings, 10 – 11.30am (or more usually 12 after we have all had yogi tea together!).
Anjali continues her weekly Shakti Dance class (the yoga of dance, derived from Kundalini Yoga) at Shekinashram, Glastonbury, on Thursdays, 7 – 8.45pm.
Rajdev Singh is statring classes in his new venue in Bath – Arcania, Orange Grove, Bath – on Thursday 12 January, 6.30 – 8pm. The class is held on the 1st floor and numbers are limited to 8 due to room size. Please call Rajdev to book your place 07721 670325.
Rajdev also teaches at Equilibrium at Pewsham, near Chippenham on Mondays from 6.30 – 8pm.
Sadhana
Preet will also be holding weekly sadhana near Wells every Sunday from 15 January. Following dates are 22 January, 29 January, 5 February, 12 February, 19 February, 26 February, 4 March, 11 March.
Sadhana starts at 5am. Preet offers porridge for breakfast after the practice and you are invited to bring other breakfast food to share. A donation of £5 is welcomed. Please do ring on 07704 636647 to let Preet know of you intend to come to sadhana.
Shakti Dance & Kundalini Yoga retreat
Anjali will once again be holding a Shakti Dance & Kundalini Yoga retreat in Turkey from 15 – 22 May 2012. The theme this year will be “The Essence of Yoga…finding the stillness within”. We will use Shakti Dance and Kundalini yoga to connect with our hearts and find the union of mind body and spirit that is yoga. It’s also a really beautiful time of year to visit this part of Turkey – chamomille flowers, poppies and lavender in abundance!
There is a slightly discounted price for those booking before the 31st January and concessions are possible. Please get in touch if you would like further information. Call Anjali on 07961 105 780.
Please see The Essence of Yoga for a more information.
The Avatar Practice with Vinnett
Winter Solstice class Wednesday 21 December 2011, 6.30pm
Malcolm X Centre, St Pauls, Bristol
Come and experience Vinnett’s powerful ashtange yoga at this special Winter Solstice class.
FFI call Vinnett 07811 453 725
Are you looking for a conscious way to spend New Year’s Eve?
Join us at the New Year 2012 Aquarian Gathering yoga & shakti dance retreat.
Friday 30 December
- Sunday 1 January 2012
Gaunt’s House, Dorset
Come and return to the peace and stillness of your heart after the business of Christmas.
Join us to celebrate the dawn of 2012 as we let go of the past and welcome in a new vibration of Truth and Love!
2012 will bring new energies and new opportunites on every level. The retreat will be about returning to the truth within ourselves so that we can live from that space.
Calling in propserity and abundance.
Immerse yourself in
- Kundalini Yoga
- Shakti Dance
- Devotional singing
as we release the old to clear the way for a bright and beautiful start to 2012!
This retreat is brought to you by Anjali Kaur, Nimrita Kaur, Ian Wood & Aradhana Kaur.
Investment: £230 / £200 concessions or low waged
Includes 2 nights full board accommodation in shared rooms with shared bathrooms, vegetarian meals, all workshops
To book please visit the Aquarian Gathering website or call Anjali on 07961 105780
Ian Wood’s Naam Yoga class in Bath is on pause for now while Ian looks for a new venue.
We’ll post news of the re-launch here.
To contact Ian for an update in the meatime please call 07721 398 344.
Equinox & New Moon Yoga celebration with Nicole Aarons
Tuesday 27 September 2011
6.15 – 8pm
Positive Living Bath @ Cycles Maximus, rear of 6 – 10 Kensington Place, Bath BA1 6AW
We are very honoured to welcome the wonderful Nicole Aarons who brings her powerful blend of yoga to Bath on Tuesday 27 September to mark the Equinox and New Moon.
Nicole calls her unique style of yoga ‘Soma Yoga’ and she combines Vinyasa flow sequences with Kundalini kriyas and meditation, interwoven with beautiful music and her own poetry. You cannot help but be moved by the experience.
She will be teaching in Ian’s spot at Positive Living Bath @ Cycles Maxiums at 6.15 on Tuesday. The class will be £12.
11-11-11 RETREAT
Nicole will be one of the teachers at our Aquarian Gathering 11-11-11 at Gaunt’s House, Dorset, from 10 – 13 November 2011. This promises to be an illuminating and powerful retreat, starting off with a Full Moon Gong Bath on the first evening. We bring you Kundalini Yoga, Naam Yoga, Nicole’s Soma Yoga, Shakti Dance, kirtan with Bharati & Dinesh, Aquarian Sadhana each morning, Raw Chocolate workshop, and more!
The price of £325 per person includes accommodation, meals and all workshops, and some concession places are available at £295.
Please visit the website for more details and to book your place www.AquarianGathering.co.uk