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Meditation in the Park Activities

Many things to do from 12pm on. Start planning your day...

New this Year...

Yoga for Cyclists

Learn techniques to stretch and strengthen the muscles, nerves and joints that are often missed in cycling. Learn how to create a balance that will help you go that extra mile.

Silver Age Yoga

Learn easy and effective techniques suited especially to those wishing to live and move with ease so they may share their wisdom through the second half of life.

Men & Women's Masterclasses with Guru Kaur

What makes a real man and a real woman? What are the most important secrets for caring for your health and wellbeing as a man or a woman? Come discover what school never taught you about the nuances of life as a man or woman. Learn the yoga and meditation techniques to best care for the particulars of your anatomy.

Cheese Making Demonstration

What exactly is that mysterious milky substance that so many of us enjoy on a daily basis? How can you make your own cheese with just milk and a lemon? It's simple, quick and delicious. Come learn all about cheese from local cheese producer Dominic Coyte of Borough Cheese Company.

Muesli Tasting

Taste and learn about different grains and ingredients that go into muesli and come up with a combination that is healthy AND delicious.

More Fruit Meditations

By popular demand! The quality of the food we eat is only half the equation. Our state of mind when we eat and our attitude to what we are eating are also major contributors to our health. Come join this challenging and incredibly enjoyable 11 minute meditation after which you'll experience a peach, orange or banana like you never have before. Nice ripe fruit provided but feel free to bring your own too...

More Poi

By popular demand! Poi is a performance art in which balls, suspended from a length of flexible fabric, are swung in circular patterns. Come have a blast, with John Woodhouse, learning the techniques to put the body in rhythm and dazzle the crowd.

Power and Poise - Quick and Potent Yoga for Everyday

Learn two simple and incredibly effective yoga postures to build strength, cleanse the body and create clarity in the mind. Do them for a couple minutes first thing in the morning to be ready to take on any challenge of the day.

 

Favourites from Last Year...

Back for Meditation in the Park 2011....

Continuous Drop-in Meditation

A sublime meditation that begins at 12:30pm and runs continuously until the Group Meditation finale. Drop-in anytime during the day, read the posted instructions and try it for however long you wish. Stay for 3 minutes to get a taste or 31 minutes to have a powerful experience. Experienced meditators can challenge themselves to 2.5 hours to witness what incredible potential which lie dormant in the mind, body and spirit.

Children's Yoga

A favourite from last year - Children (and parents too) buzz like bees and grow like trees, imitating the wildlife that surrounds them in the park to stimulate, stretch and relax young bodies and minds.

Sun Salutations / EZ Sun Salutations

Sun Salutations are a series of postures that flow into each other and serve to wake up, stretch, and circulate fresh oxygen throughout the body, especially first thing in the morning. Join this workshop to learn two versions of Sun Salutations - one regular version and an easier alternative.

Yoga for Sleep

Discover the key factors that prevent you from getting a consistent good night's sleep and learn basic yoga postures and meditative techniques to sleep more soundly and wake more refreshed.

Breathe & De-stress

As long as you breathe, you live. When you stop, well, that's it! Your breath is closely connected with your life and you can dramatically improve your quality of living by improving your breathing. Through this workshop you'll gain a tool chest of easy-to-apply techniques which you can use to gain clarity in many of life's challenging situations.

Walking Meditation

Transform your routine perambulations into a soothing meditative practice. Learn this special technique to harness the rhythm of your mind and breath to experience more physical fitness and mental clarity.

Ecology Park Nature Tours

The space surrounding Meditation in the Park is an exquisite ecological sanctuary featuring rare wildlife that normally never ventures this close to Central London. Come along with Ben, for a leisurely 45 minute tour, to learn what makes this area so special.

Guided Relaxation

Let the tension melt from your body as you are guided through a deep relaxation aided by the sound of our resident birdsong chorus. Instructors guide you to become aware of the tension in your body and how to release it. Afterwards you'll be surprised at how much more alive and beautiful everything has become...

Smoothies Making

Discover and explore the vast collection of sweet fruit tastes including the apple, orange, and banana basics but also delving into more tropical delights, like mangos.

Flower Garland Making

Add some festivity and colour to your day by making your own Flower Garland with Debbie.

Children's Movement Games

Adults and children alike are welcome to enjoy this unique experience. In this workshop, Mariana guides you to create a simple movement and sound which you repeat and connect with the next person in the group and so on. By the end you experience the fascination of being part of an intricate meditative dance which is greater than any of the individual pieces.

Sat Kriya Meditation

This is a simple exercise, with little to no movement but which has enough positive effects to fill pages. Kneeling or sitting with the hands together above your head, you use the navel to powerful yell out 2 basic sounds. Come learn the nuances of this technique which wards off illness, eliminates fatigue, remedies sexual frustration, sharpens the mind and gives your eyes that brilliant, healthy shine.

Children's Craft Activity Table

Children (of all ages) create and decorate cut-out models of animals and other nature related delights.