WITH DONNA FARHI
With increasing demands on our time and energy, how can we make our Yoga practice a time that brings us into a state of physical ease, mental calm and emotional stability? Donna will be offering simple, effective and inventive approaches to well-being, whether giving your feet some tender loving care or learning how to guide yourself into deep relaxation. Each intensive is inclusive, but they are also designed to build cumulatively should you wish to come to all five days.
PRACTICAL YOGA, POWERFUL RESULTS: ALL 5 DAYS
FRIDAY 15TH – TUESDAY 19TH MAY
10.00AM – 12.30PM & 2.00PM – 4.00PM EACH DAY
£585*
Join Donna Farhi for all 5 One-Day Intensives. See the following for descriptions of each day.
Yoga practitioners of all levels of experience are welcome to attend.
*Early bird discount until 31st Dec 2025. £625 thereafter.
FROM THE GROUND UP: FINDING YOUR FEET
FRIDAY 15TH MAY
10.00AM – 12.30PM & 2.00PM – 4.00PM
£135
We do not usually think about our feet until they give us trouble. Yet, a strong, balanced and flexible foot is the foundation for the kinetic chain into our legs, pelvis and spine. In this one-day clinic we’ll explore inventive ways to improve foot function, balance and our capacity to walk with ease. Did you know that a shortened stride is a strong predictor of a clinical event such as falling? In the afternoon, we’ll use our yoga practice to mobilise our hips, increase torso rotation for the swing of our arms, and get the groove back into our gait.
Yoga practitioners of all levels of experience are welcome to attend.
THE STRENGTH OF YIELDING
SATURDAY 16TH MAY
10.00AM – 12.30PM & 2.00PM – 4.00PM
£135
We usually think of the nervous system as having two sides: the parasympathetic supporting relaxation and regeneration and the sympathetic supporting our fight, flight or freeze reaction. How would it feel to live in a more balanced expression in the middle ground of the nervous system in a state of alertness, attentiveness and readiness for action? In this one-day clinic, we’ll explore the dynamics of yielding; a relationship to the ground, gravity and space that is self-renewing, efficient and easeful. The morning class will be active, and the afternoon class will be devoted to Restorative Yoga practice followed by Yoga Nidra.
Yoga practitioners of all levels of experience are welcome to attend.
BUILDING RESILIENCE: THE TAP ROOT THAT IS PRACTICE
SUNDAY 17TH MAY
10.00AM – 12.30PM & 2.00PM – 4.00PM
£135
Yoga practice can be an inner oasis that quenches our need for self-nourishment and in doing so lays a groundwork for regeneration. The world as we know it has changed irrevocably in ways that none of us could have imagined and few of us could have prepared for. Yet, with these changes also lay opportunities to imagine for ourselves a different way of being in the world that helps us to adapt and respond intelligently to these new demands. Our ability to be truly resilient relies not only on fitness but also requires that we be deeply rested and in a state of relaxed attentiveness. This day will offer opportunities for revitalisation, deep rest, and replenishment using both ancient and contemporary yoga practices.
Yoga practitioners of all levels of experience are welcome to attend.
YOGA FOR LOWER BACK PAIN: KEYS TO SACROILIAC STABILITY AND EASE OF MOVEMENT
MONDAY 18TH MAY
10.00AM – 12.30PM & 2.00PM – 4.00PM
£135
Are you a member of the rapidly growing SIJ club (or do many of your students present with tender, niggling sacroiliac discomfort?). Through understanding the structure of your sacroiliac joints and their relationship to your hips and spine, you can begin to practice more intelligently, both ameliorating existing issues and reestablishing pelvic integrity. Our day will include two in-depth anatomical PowerPoint discussions and both somatic and therapeutic yoga practice that are gentle, effective and accessible for people of all ages.
Yoga practitioners of all levels of experience are welcome to attend.
UPRIGHT & TENSION FREE
TUESDAY 19TH MAY
10.00AM – 12.30PM & 2.00PM – 4.00PM
£135
Establishing and maintaining lifelong erect posture requires us to engage and strengthen the muscles of the back body, while opening and releasing the front body. A strong emphasis of these two classes will be balancing passive back bending and twisting with active, strengthening extension. We’ll explore creative and fun ways to build up spinal strength which can integrated into everyday practice leading to long-term resolution of upper back, neck and shoulder tension. As we become stronger and longer, this erect posture becomes self-renewing and less effortful.
Yoga practitioners of all levels of experience are welcome to attend.
ABOUT DONNA FARHI
DONNA FARHI & MIKO
Leading yoga teacher Donna Farhi has been practising for almost 50 years and teaching since 1982. As a post-lineage pioneer, Donna has been at the forefront of generating a new model for teaching that fosters self-inquiry through the cultivation of a deepening trust in one’s own perceptions.
Through creating a warm atmosphere free of judgment and competition she invites her students to investigate their experience and to adapt and evolve their practice according to their individual needs. Incorporating the rigorous backing of anatomical principles for safe and sustainable practice, Donna offers progressive levels of engagement that allow people of all levels of experience and from all traditions to build their own authentic yoga practice.
Considered the “teacher of teachers”, people return to Donna’s intensives year after year to be a part of the inspiring evolution of her own practice and teaching.
Donna’s livestream and online courses make her expertise accessible to teachers and students worldwide and, in 2021, Donna became the first yoga teacher to present the practice of yoga to a global audience through MasterClass USA. This e-learning platform provides classes taught by some of the world’s foremost minds and experts in their fields.
Donna is the author of four contemporary classics: The Breathing Book, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness, Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living, and Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship which is a curricular text for teacher training worldwide. Her fifth and most recent book, co-authored with Leila Stuart, Pathways to a Centered Body: Gentle Yoga Therapy for Core Stability, Healing Back Pain and Moving with Ease is becoming the go-to text for Yoga teachers, therapists and somatic practitioners.
TESTIMONIALS FROM DONNA’S STUDENTS
“There aren’t many teachers I trust in guiding me, but Donna always makes me feel safe enough to explore her gentle and intelligent offerings… and I always enjoy them!”
– Astelle Dennis, Oslo 2025
“With the work Donna is generously offering I’m learning more and more how to establish the conditions for my body, soul and spirit to be nourished from within.”
– Julia Molk
“What a treat it was to spend time studying in person with Donna. It’s such a privilege to learn these practices from someone who lives them and is clearly refining them all the time. I’m leaving with a wealth of material to nourish my personal practice and which, in time, I look forward to sharing with others.”
– Maria Dineen
“Donna’s work is singular, masterful, and reflective of decades of study and self-exploration. It is this that impacts my body so immediately and so deeply. After more than 50 years of working with my own challenges and others’, this is uniquely the teacher I return to at a time in my life when I no longer take classes. It is here that I feel trust. It is here that I feel license.”
– Diana Tokaji, C-IAYT, MSC
“After this workshop I feel nourished and well equipped. Donna created a safe space for us all. Her guidance was an invitation to explore and to experiment. She made it clear that there is no one algorithm for yoga practice. I love this!”
– Gosia, Poland
“For these two days I have been in the presence of one of the most knowledgable teachers today – Donna teaches to the modern human by weaving in the ancient teachings of Yoga, body work acquired through experience and her own rehabilitation, and the deep understanding of what every human faces in today’s world. . . Donna is so likeable, so real, and offers content in a way that is relevant. You know that you will be receiving current knowledge steeped in her own curiosity and appetite for what works. I am very grateful to have come.”
– Juliet Deaait, Cambridge 2025
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