VY Workshops

Our individual Workshops are each 3 hours in length and often conducted as 4 sessions over a weekend. The topics cover the most daunting and challenging aspects of human existence and spiritual practice. The Workshops format has been designed to give an understanding and experience of what the Retreats and the individual lessons can provide. They are experiential in nature and designed to cause significant shifts in perspective and well being.

Vishaad Yoga Workshops Series:-

Seeing the Higher Self

 "Until the Self is seen, all practices risk strengthening the lower self, once the Self is seen, all practices take on a different dimension". Explore the difference between Seeing and Thinking and learn where and how to See like the Seers.

The Truth of Free Will

Destiny, Fate, Karma, Conditioning..  with so much supposedly affecting every choice a person makes, is it possible to have "Free Will? Learn how to recover real control over our daily choices.

The Spiritual Role of Vishaad (Despair)

Suffering (mental anguish) has a very important role to play in the emergence of Spirit and we explore practices and teachings designed to gently disentangle our mind from the clutchs of Sadness, Fear and Anger permanently.  

The Processes of Dying and Living (2 workshops)

The greatest challenge a person can face might be confronting death. The Yogi's claim that immortality is the reality and death an illusion and yet this is difficult to grasp. We delve deeper into the Yogic practices of preparing and understanding the experiences called Life and Death. 

Pranayama Masterclass

Only once prana has been controlled, can the mind be stilled and deeper progress in Yoga be safely made. Prana is NOT breath, join the workshop to learn what it is and how to balance it.

 The Great Illusion

What if you are nothing like what you think you are? We take a few moments to explore the world of illusions, how we form them and then become ensnared in them ourselves. This workshop helps to approach our illusions and attempt to see through the veils.

The Yoga "Scripture Secrets" Workshops Series:-
The Yoga Secrets of the Bhagavad Gita
The Yoga Secrets of the Ramayana
The Yoga Secrets of the Hanuman Chalisa

VY Retreats

If deepening introspection and the cultivation of stillness, sensory relaxation and the most challenging tasks of mental purification resonate with you, this is the retreat for you! On a Vishaad Yoga retreat you can be certain of delving deeply into your subconscious and discovering many of the blocks preventing your mind from becoming tranquil. 

A common feature of our retreats is ENERGY; out of stillness flows energy and this has to be experienced to be understood. In the safe tranquil environment of a retreat, we help you to learn the processes which will open the doorways to stillness. As you acquire inner harmony, energy levels rise automatically and great changes and genuine happiness result.

There are many retreats where a Yogin can go to enjoy physicality, to reconnect with one's body and to savour and delight in increased sensual experience. We have a slightly different approach. Whilst you are with us you will be helped to connect with stillness inside so that when you do re-connect outside, everything is more enjoyable!

Our retreats are usually for small groups (12 preferred), fully residential and are held at venues such as Braziers Park, Oxfordshire. For next year we are planning retreats in Oxford, Zurich, Dorset and a Masterclass Retreat in India.

If you would like to join a retreat, click below and register your details - we will get in touch.

VY Personal

There are some introductory parts of Yoga practices which can be taught in groups or classes, but the real work requires individual attention, it always has. Every person is on a journey of mental mastery and what each person needs at any time can be totally different and thats when the 1-2-1 sessions become most valuable.

Or perhaps you are here because you are interested in Yoga, either as a student or as a teacher, but are ready to explore the subtler depths of parts of our practises.  Most of our students come to a workshop, start 1-2-1 sessions and then occasionally attend retreats to strengthen and stabilise their understanding and experiences. 

If you, or someone close to you is under mental duress, or depressed and you are unhappy or dissatisfied with the "conventional wisdom" of a drugs based programme or traditional therapies; if you are looking for gentler more holistic and side-effect free alternatives, you are also most welcome! If you would like to know more please do get in touch..

VY Corporate

Business leaders and Politicians alike acknowledge that Europe is approaching a crisis as the region’s debt crisis and austerity measures increase the rates of depression, suicide and psychological problems – just as governments cut healthcare spending by up to 50 percent, according to campaigners,

policy makers and health organizations. Against this backdrop, Government departments are also recognising that on a purely financial basis if nothing else, Yoga is the cheapest and most effective way to to improve mental well being and physical health.

National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU) estimated that the financial cost of mental illness to the wider economy amounted to 77 billion pounds a year in lost productivity and increased need for social security benefits.

For employers we have found that the most obvious benefits are:

Reduced illness-related absences - Govt estimates that 28 million work days are lost per year.

Increased productivity, due to reduced levels of stress and an improved ability to stay calm and cool.

Teamwork impro

vements, composure, equipoise,

Improved mental attitude resulting in better and raised motivation

Improved problem-solving skills as well as many other related health benefits.