Yoga Stories

Early Bird price until 30 April: £45 instead of £55 (use code: EARLYBIRD)

Practices that connect our mind and bodies, like yoga and yoga nidra (a type of relaxing meditation) can help to support our wellbeing – but could they also help us tune into our sense of play and creativity?

Join us for an intimate (10 participants max) playful workshop, designed to connect body, mind and creativity. We’ll use a mixture of yoga practices and fully guided writing exercises to open up to new possibilities. Our ambition is for you to leave with a renewed sense of freedom and confidence to keep exploring your creative life. 

Come as you are, whether that’s writer or non-writer, beginner or experienced yogi.

What the workshop includes

• A chance to practise three kinds of yoga (physical practice, guided meditation designed to boost creativity, and restorative relaxation)

• Practices designed to open up your body and get ‘unstuck’

• Simple, playful writing exercises to reconnect with your own creativity (e.g. writing in response to image prompts)

• A chance to connect with likeminded others

• Tea and nibbles, including specially selected writing enhancement snacks

• A goodie bag, with a book, a notebook, a pen, a room spray to support relaxation

Who is it for? 

Anyone who wants to reconnect with and develop their playfulness and creativity in a safe and collaborative space.

Good to know

• You’ll receive a pre-workshop questionnaire to help us better tailor the workshop to your needs

• Wear loose and comfortable clothing 

• The workshop takes place in a fully equipped yoga studio, so no need to bring anything

• Your writing is for you – you won’t have to share

Your teachers

Ingrid Wassenaar

Ingrid is a writer and yoga teacher, who loves to integrate writing into her practice and teaching for its creative and cathartic effects. 

She has always been fascinated by motivation and self-justification, especially in first-person writing. Her doctorate on Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time was published as Proustian Passions. She went on to teach French at Cambridge, but was forced to leave academic life after having a baby, an experience captured in her memoir on modern motherhood, Motherload. 

She trained to teach yoga with Anna Ashby, during the pandemic lockdowns, and has been teaching in person and online for the last four years. 

She is currently completing a children’s book, and embarking on a novel set in the Netherlands during the last, bitterly cold, winter of the Second World War. 

Rachel David

A scientist (immunologist) by training and a forever writer, Rachel is frequently found writing about health and wellbeing, including on the science of mind–body practices like yoga (geeky.yoga). 

In parallel, she writes poetry and prose that are unrelated to science (although she is a volunteer editor for the science poetry journal ‘Consilience’), mostly inspired by her pets and philosophy. Her work has been published in Dear Damsels, N2 poetry and Dark Poets club. Her first novel (set in a wellness cult) would love a publisher. 

She teaches vinyasa flow, somatics-inspired flow, yin yoga and yoga nidra, often weaving poetry into her classes. She is currently completing an Msc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, and is excited about the potential of embodied practices as catalysts for writing for wellbeing.