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Halloween, Costumes, Bonfire Night, the time of year is awash with lights and fire and spooky excitement. As our  skies darken and our clocks change I will be celebrating the older festival of Samhain. The 31st October is the night when the worlds of the living and the dead were deemed closest and the souls Read More

We have just celebrated the Autumn equinox. The autumnal equinox as defined by astronomers usually occurs between September 22nd and 24th, the time when the sun is directly over Earth’s equator. This means everyone across the globe gets a day and night lasting approximately 12 hours each. For the Northern Hemisphere, the September equinox marks Read More

We hope you have had a wonderful Summer and maybe like us, enjoyed yoga, tai chi or pilates in some different or unusual locations. We would like to share some of our photos with you: Phew! Yoga never stops! As we settle down to our Autumn routines, and come back to our weekly classes we Read More

June has been a busy month at the yoga centre! We had an amazing three day seminar with Dr Kausthub Desikachar on cakras.   It was very powerful and a deeply insightful way of looking at health from a non Western medical point of view. Those of us who took part were powerfully and deeply Read More

Happy June We have a busy June at The Dorchester Yoga and Therapy centre, but then it is a busy time of year as we fill all these long light days with activity! Make sure you get the right balance of yin and yang. Chrissie Haskett’s Yin workshop will do just that – “nurture the Read More

Welcome to our May newsletter. To lighter days, more sunshine, blooming gardens,  and bank holidays! Our horse chestnut tree outside the window is at its most glorious! As ever, the details are below and in the calendar – please check it! With best wishes from Sharon and all the teachers and therapists at Dorchester Yoga and Therapy Read More

Despite unknown origins, Yoga was documented for the first time in the form of the Yogasutra, authored by the great Yogi Patanjali (we study this text once a month with Sarah Ryan). This text documents the entire philosophical system of yoga, exploring our deep psyche, and helps to facilitate personal and spiritual transformation. Yoga is Read More

Happy March. We have a wonderful Yoga Sangha at the yoga centre. Sangha is a Sanskrit  word that means company, or community or association. The shared sense of community amongst yoga practitioners has grown worldwide in recent years. This has helped novice yoga practitioners to assimilate more easily into the yoga culture, whilst seasoned yogis Read More

Happy February to you all. Although we are all waiting for the first signs of Spring, I thought I would share my lovely Amaryllis that I had for Xmas. The yoga centre and therapy rooms are busy and there is an air of optimism for more normal times. It feels like we may be heading Read More

Welcome to January 2022! We started the New Year with a wonderful Om Shanti Concert with Magdalena, chanting and drumming, shaking our shakers and relaxing to Magdalena’s beautiful voice; a very special and soulful way to begin the new year in the centre. Read more about the monthly Om Shanti Concert here We have a Read More