Deepen Your Practice – Explore Upcoming and Past Yoga Workshops

Join us for immersive workshops designed to expand your awareness, enhance your practice, and connect with community.

Upcoming Workshops
10th of May 2025 Ashtanga Yoga Workshop with Jo Betts

ASHTANGA YOGA Curiosity & Play
For anyone who's curious, all levels are welcomed.
This workshop is designed to bring light to those who are less familiar with an Ashtanga Yoga, approach to practice.

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7th & 18th June 2025 Hypopressives Workshop

A Hypopressive workshop focuses on breathing and postural techniques to strengthen the core and pelvic floor, improve posture, and reduce abdominal pressure. It’s ideal for those seeking to improve core health, enhance breathing, and support recovery with low-impact exercises.

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Feldenkrais Method Workshop

Taught by Emma Walter, this workshop focused on freeing the ribs to help participants reconnect with their bodies and move through everyday life with greater ease and awareness.

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Shaili's Workshop

Led by Iyengar teacher Shaili, this workshop explored the back body as a foundation for strength and support in yoga practice. Through precise alignment and thoughtful use of props, participants deepened their awareness of the spine, shoulders, and legs—unlocking greater stability and openness in asanas.

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Gipe Hand Stand Workshop

In this dynamic and playful workshop, Gipe guided students through the foundations of handstands—focusing on strength, alignment, and overcoming the fear of going upside down. With supportive drills, partner work, and plenty of encouragement, participants explored balance, body awareness, and confidence in their inversion journey.

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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Workshop: ASHTANGA YOGA Curiosity & Play
When: 10th May 2025
Where: Yoga By Gipe Studios, Lawford, uk
Teacher: Jo Betts

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Guest teacher

Jo Betts

Jo has been practicing Yoga for over 25 years,
and teaching for 15 years. Training extensively in India with her teacher Rolf Naujokat since 2012. She has taught yoga with students from all over the world. During lock down 2020 in a burst of inspiration Jo opened up Onespace Yoga Studio which was another mile stone in her career and a personal dream come true.

" Yoga is a gift I am eternally grateful to have in my life."

What can you expect from this Ashtanga workshop?

ASHTANGA YOGA Curiosity & Play

For anyone who's curious, all levels are welcomed.

This workshop is designed to bring light to those who are less familiar with an Ashtanga Yoga, approach to practice.

We will explore the Primary series as a led taught class that is made accessible to all levels of ability and experience, with options to modify throughout the entire series.

I will be offering tips and techniques on how to navigate challenges as they arise on the mat and how to recognise your options with clarity and safety.

The class will include a short pranayama, meditation and deep relaxation.

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Workshop: Hypopressives Workshop
When: 7th June & 18th June 2025
Where: Yoga By Gipe Studios, Lawford, uk
Teacher: Emma Broome

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Guest teacher

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Emma Broome

What is Hypopressives?

A Hypopressives workshop introduces a series of breathing and postural techniques designed to reduce pressure in the abdomen and strengthen the deep core and pelvic floor muscles. Often used to support posture, recovery, and overall core health, this method is especially beneficial for those dealing with pelvic floor issues, postpartum recovery, or seeking a low-impact way to build internal strength and stability. The workshop offers practical tools you can integrate into daily life or complement your existing movement practice.

Who is it for?

Postpartum women seeking to restore core strength and pelvic floor health

Individuals with pelvic floor issues such as incontinence or prolapse
Those recovering from abdominal surgery or injury
Yoga and Pilates practitioners wanting to deepen core engagement
People with poor posture or spinal alignment concerns
Anyone looking for a low-impact way to strengthen the core
Those who want to improve breathing patterns and overall body awareness

It's suitable for people of all fitness levels, from beginners to experienced movers.

What are the core bennefits?

Strengthens the deep core and pelvic floor muscles
Improves posture and spinal alignment
Reduces intra-abdominal pressure
Supports postpartum recovery
Helps manage or prevent pelvic floor dysfunction (e.g. prolapse, incontinence)
Enhances breathing patterns and lung capacity
Improves overall body awareness and control
Supports a flatter, more toned-looking abdomen (without crunches or strain)
Low-impact and joint-friendly – suitable for most fitness levels
Complements yoga, Pilates, and other movement practices

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PAST WORKSHOPS

FELDENKRAIS METHOD WORKSHOP

Workshop: Feldenkrais Method Workshop: Freeing the ribs
When: 16th March 2025
Where: Yoga By Gipe Studios, Lawford, uk
Teacher: Emma Alter
Learn more about Emma Alter on her website

The Feldenkrais Method is a unique approach to movement that helped participants reconnect with their bodies and move with more ease, comfort, and efficiency. By focusing on body awareness and gentle, mindful movements, it tapped into the brain’s ability to rewire itself (neuroplasticity), leading to long-term benefits like improved posture, strength, and flexibility.

This workshop specifically focused on freeing the ribs to improve both everyday movement and yoga practice. The ribs, which play a crucial role in breathing and movement, are often overlooked, leading to strain in other areas of the body. By learning to move with greater awareness, participants were able to reduce strain, improve their transitions between poses, and enhance overall body awareness.

In this workshop, participants explored how to use their bodies more efficiently, reduce unnecessary tension, and move with more fluidity and ease. It was designed to help individuals feel more present and in control, whether they were beginners or experienced practitioners.

What is the Feldenkrais Method?

What the students thought:

I thoroughly enjoyed the Feldenkrais workshop with Emma

Thank you for arranging it. There is nothing I can suggest would need to be improved.
The teaching, facilities, food was all wonderful.
You have an amazing studio and I would love to visit again. Please let me know if you have any further workshops.
See you soon
- Stephannie
I have regularly used the exercises Emma taught us at the Feldenkrais workshop, they have really helped me release my neck and shoulders as well as allowing my back and hips to relax,

Which has been a real boon to everyday activities and also in my yoga practice. I would love to have another workshop with Emma, she is inspirational, fun, approachable, knowledgeable and ensures everyone gets the most out of her class.
I can now see why Feldenkrais is so important, who would have thought that small, gentle movements could have such a profound impact on 69 year old joints!
As always, the studio is outstanding, lunch was yummy and we had time to chat in a very friendly group.
Thanks Gipe for arranging this workshop.
Thank you for inviting Emma to your studio. Overall I gained insight and knowledge which is always a good thing ! The next couple of days I could tell my body had been reached but in a more passive, gentle way. Sometimes I was unsure of what was asked of me, or how do a particular movement, but I felt comfortable to ask and she explained again.

Anna was unable to fully experience
elements of the class due to her dizziness and fatigue but was glad to have joined and interact with all the lovely people there, and of course, to enjoy the lovely food on offer !

Much gratitude

- Sarah Brown
Emma's workshop was wonderful - I came out feeling taller and with improved circulation.

Emma is a warm, inclusive and supportive teacher, creating a relaxed and friendly environment. Her explanations of Feldenkrais made it all very accessible and her use of beautiful and expressive language made following her instructions not only easy but enjoyable. I would definitely recommend and sign up for another!
Gipe's studio is beautiful - totally conducive to focusing, relaxing and letting go of the outside world. Gipe is a fabulous host, making everyone feel at home with her friendly welcome and delicious nutritious snacks and drinks.
Thankyou!
- Joy
I loved the workshop. I didn't know what to expect but am always interested in somatic practice.

It also, in that weird way that life sometimes provides coincidences, tied in with a book I begun to read last week called tiny changes remarkable results. It too spoke about the British cycling team and the 1% improvement.
I found Emma to be clear, receptive and held us all with care and competency.
I appreciated you sharing your own observations when practicing the method and recognised how your own study has influenced and enhanced the Iyengar you bring to us. It was so interesting to learn how much of our bodies we are not quite in touch with.
I know you do a lot for us, and have recently taken on family yoga, but I do hope you will consider a Feldenkrais class for us in the future.
As for your studio space it is always a pleasure to be there. It's a beautiful environment that you and Roger have created and I very much your warmth and humour. The food was gorgeous and it was nice to spend a little social time with you and the familiar and new faces.
You have pretty much thought of everything in terms of equipment and everything needed for promoting self-care.
Thank you Gipe and Emma

SHAILI'S WORKSHOP

Workshop: Shaili’s Intensive Iyengar Yoga Workshop
When: 20th October 2024
Where: Yoga By Gipe Studios, Lawford, uk
Teacher: Shaili

Shaili is a Level 3 Iyengar Yoga teacher and mentor. She came to teach a full day workshop to help us discover the power of collective practice. Through props, and partner work, we explored alignment, balance, and flexibility, unlocking new potential together and deepening our connection to body and mind.

Thank you very much Shaili.

Gipe

A retrospective
of the workshop

Shaili’s 5 a day

Here are five poses we learned during the workshop. Shaili recommends practicing theses asanas daily to help improve range of movements in the joints. Doing these five a day asanas strengthen posture and agility in walking and everyday movement. Not to forget they will help advance your yoga poses :

1

Vajrasana a & b

Healthy and flexible feet are important for our wellbeing, stability and our posture. Vajrasana and virasana variations are excellent for this.

2

Parsva hastasana

Parsva hastasana variations are an important group to strengthen rotator cuff muscles and reeducate the shoulders. For more details please see the neck and shoulder book by Lois Steinberg.

3

a & b Showing Chest opening and shoulder mobility on the chair

A form of chest opening should be on our daily list to improve our posture. A bad posture can be the root cause of so many ailments and all our activities bring our head and arms forwards. So we need to counter that every day upper back slump.

This wonderful usage of the belt is how Shalii was able to correct her shoulder girdle to open and lift her chest. The trapezium is pulled back to its correct position, the neck lifts and the chest gets a chance to coil upwards.

4

Shoulder jacket (the harness version)

Ekapada malasana on the chair

5

We did this variant as an effective way to extend the lumbar arch. Working on the opening of the chest for those who are not accustomed to it can be a challenge and cause their lumbar to compensate. Rather than going for a forward bend and undoing the lift of the chest, we can choose this asana to relieve the lower back.

Once again, bad posture can contribute to neck problems and headaches, shoulder pain, weakness in the arms, back pain and even low mood or depression, stomach and acid reflux problems, breathlessness and more...

It is important to note that option 3 & 4 are passive ways to adjust the posture and their effects will not last without engaging and strengthening the muscles.

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What the students thought:

"I really enjoyed the workshop at the weekend and feel a lot of what Shaili said has made sense, is definitely relevant to me and my physical life choices and if I can put her “five” a day into practice then I will feel better mentally and hopefully it will show physically too."

- Katie
"Firstly I loved it all! It is great to have another brilliant practitioner, to bring a different perspective and approach, which is very enriching. I especially liked some of the techniques she showed us to practice, such as the shoulder jacket and other things with the belt that are useful for self practice. I really liked the idea of those essential things, 5 a day."

- Kitty
"The day as a whole was really great and left me feeling very calm, relaxed and positive. Shali had a wonderful soft, calm and quiet way about her which permeated the whole class. Her instructions were very clear and concise and her experience was evident in everything she did. I particularly enjoyed the partner work and the 5 a day exercises (although I think there were more than 5, but I understood the idea of trying to include them in our daily lives). Some of the poses were familiar but others were new or a variation of what we had already done with Gipe. Overall the experience was very enjoyable and I would definitely attend another workshop with her. Clare"

- Clare
"Shaili is very knowledgeable and explained clearly each part of a pose, showing us what to do and feel so that we built up to the final pose in clear stages. She adapted the poses and props for individuals so that everyone made progress. She is a kind, engaging and lovely teacher and I would love to work with her again."

- Mary
"I learnt a huge amount at the workshop with Shaili and have been putting into practice the daily exercises she recommended. I would thoroughly recommend her classes and hope she returns to run more workshops with Gipe."

- Sarah