Yogasara Workshop
Fierce Compassion - A Valentine’s weekend retreat
An invitation to dive deep into the potential of the human heart and the power of love This weekend is an exploration of fierce compassion as a lived experience. A compassion that is strong enough to meet whatever life brings
Why this weekend?
Valentine's teaching was about love... this weekend we will go beyond romantic ideas about love and open to love as an opportunity for deeper intimacy with ourselves, each other and all life.
Global wisdom traditions through millennia speak of methods to directly apprehend the nature of what it is to be human, intimately connected to and as the cosmos (and beyond!).
The vision for this weekend is to facilitate a deeper understanding of our human potential, and the fierce compassion we can embody through the dance of emptiness, energy and form- body, heart and mind.
Emptiness, energy, and form can be understood as the raw creative ground of life itself, the living source from which everything arises. Through the conditions of everyday life, we gradually build a sense of identity and separation, along with many of the struggles, conflicts, and stories that come with it.
How to free ourselves from conditioning?
Through methods or meta-skills- which include practices for the body, the breath, the emotions, the mind, vibration, and practices of community, creativity, and ecology.
As these practices begin to support one another, they can create a more balanced inner and outer life. They make it easier to step out of 'self-improvement' mode and experience ourselves more directly, Many yogic texts, Shaivist, Shakta, and Buddhist, as well as some Shamanic teachings point towards this possibility - that through practice, we really can access true knowledge, and embody compassion and wisdom, bliss and stillness and weave it into everyday life- where it's needed most!
Freedom begins when we stop holding so tightly to a limited identity or reality and allow life to be experienced more directly.
The practices I will share with you this weekend will open doors to your body, heart, mind and inner world and facilitate healing and insight to arise and more love to flow through you.
Simply sign up and turn up…Simply sign up and turn up…
How much will it cost you for the weekend?
£180 (£108 concession)
What if you cannot afford this and are desperately seeking freedom?
What if you have further enquiry you need to engage in before booking?
You can communicate here [email protected]
Event Program
SATURDAY - 09:30 to 19:30
Meta-skills (yoga) of the Body - we will engage with some depth somatic practices that make sense of somatic awareness and open the lines of flow for ultimate wellbeing.
Meta-skills (yoga) of the Heart - we will explore emotional meta-skills, and why compassion and devotion matter.
Meta-skills (yoga) of the Mind - understanding what mind really is and how to engage effectively in profound but simple meditative practices from the traditions of depth.
Meta-skills (yoga) of Vibration - we will begin the profound practice of Triloka Nyasa
Satsang, breathwork and mantra practice.
SUNDAY - 10:00 to 17:00
Meta-skills (yoga) of Community - we will engage in practices of breathwork and presence to find the immediacy and power of community.
Meta-skills (yoga) of the Breath - a deep dive into the yoga of breath with specific teaching for male and female bodies as required. Given the cultural milieu we currently inhabit, male and female here relates to the presence (or absence) of ovaries, wombs, testicles, and various hormonal flows etc… not perceived identity. All humans of all identifications are welcome.
Meta-skills (yoga) of Integration - how to take the practices home and weave them into your life so as to live a life of non-contextual power, compassion, wellbeing and beauty.
What You’ll Gain
Greater clarity and connection with your breath
Rest and renewal for body and mind
A deeper understanding of self and life
Practices to carry into daily life
Connection with a like-minded community
Insight into compassion, wisdom, and presence
Who Is Christopher And Why Work With Him?
Christopher Gladwell is a seasoned breathwork, yoga and meditation practitioner with over 50 years of wisdom and direct personal experience. He combines breathwork, yoga, meditation, embodied movement, mind mastery, and neuro and evolutionary biology to help you achieve optimal well-being.
With a background in biology, martial arts and athletics, as well as a passion for breath techniques, and cellular level rejuvenation, Christopher’s journey into breath training began as a teenager in the military. His interests expanded to martial arts, deep yoga, meditation, and indigenous traditions. He has studied at depth in all the above practices as well as Vedic pranayama and Conscious Connected breathing. Having been initiated into Vedic, Tibetan and Shamanic traditions and given authority to teach, you can also let go of the righteous modern concerns of expropriation.
Christopher's expertise also extends to psychotherapeutic modalities, body-based therapies, and a deep understanding of different meditative practices from Vedic to Taoist and Tibetan traditions. His teachings are also rooted in scientific knowledge, and he emphasizes the importance of the scientific method. Throughout his career, Christopher has worked with diverse groups, including athletes and people with disabilities; those struggling with mental health, and those seeking to optimize their well-being; single mothers and young people; trauma survivors; educational settings; and corporate teams. Christopher has authored numerous books on contemporary yogic psychology, mind skills, and breathwork, sharing his insights on achieving resilience, joy, inner peace, personal empowerment and realisation. His latest volumes on the science of breathwork are now released and available worldwide.
Passionate about creating a world of kind, aware, empowered, and fiercely compassionate individuals, who resonate with discipline, transparency, and ecological wisdom, Christopher believes that breath is the penultimate teacher, connecting us all.
Christopher elucidates the necessity of deep daily discipline as the fount of sustainable freedom, without which there is no lasting freedom.
Christopher's teaching has been said to be like marmite, if you like marmite you will love his wild, fiercely compassionate, ceremonially rich, and challenging teaching that has been described by many as powerfully transformative, liberating, enjoyable, and necessary, critical for our times.
Join us for this weekend of fierce compassion, deep practice and sacred inquiry into the very heart of existence, the human experience and how to live with creativity, power and veracity.
“Awaken the meta-skills to live deeply, love fiercely, and meet life as it is, no one else teaches like Chris”
— Charlotte
“Beyond identity, beyond striving, you can also discover the freedom of being, the truth that suffering is optional”
— Alexis
“Emptiness, energy, and form: learn the living practice of wholeness from an authentic modern day Yogi”
— Eleanor
“When you land in the realisation that it is your mind creating hell out of life, or not - there is no looking back”
— Stephanie
“A retreat that is no retreat, advance into fierce compassion, authentic presence and freedom and find the path of the wild Yogi, institutionally free but lineage rich”
— Jeremy
“These ancient skills for a modern age, taught through the lens of evolutionary science and neurobiology allow you to reclaim your true depth. If you don’t feel challenged to some degree with these essential teachings for our times - you’re probably not paying sufficient attention.”
— Samuel
