Workshops & Events 2025
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THE SATURDAY SESSIONS
3hr Saturday Sessions offering longer time to cultivate a deeper exploration of Somatic Yoga, Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra. Focusing on body resource and tapping into a felt sense of aliveness and inspiration through both movement, rest and community practice. Shared pot luck lunch afterwards with tea and cake.
Next session: Sat 19th April. 10:00-14:00.
Cost (sliding scale): £35/£45/£55
Bryony Perkins Live & Workshop
It's a joy to be welcoming the multi talented Bryony Perkins to The Soma Shala. We trained at London Contemporary Dance School together and I can't wait to host her beautiful sounds and performance art here.
We are fundraising for the Gaza Circus School so proceeds from the concert will go directly to this cause.
"The Gaza Circus School provides a safe and creative space for children and young people in Gaza. Through circus arts, the school helps children develop their physical and mental well-being, build self-confidence, and express themselves freely."
Link to thier Instagram here.
Discover your unique expressive universe! Designed to bring you into deeper discovery of your own innate genius and expressive potential, Bryony will hold a space for participants to feel safe to explore the realms of their inner creative dream world. Through vocal exercises and fun games, structured songs, improvisation, and a guided movement practice you will be invited to discover your comfort edges and leap beyond them! With no previous performance experience required, you will be given opportunities to share your creative expression with the rest of the group. No matter what your area of creative interest, performance techniques and play can be a really good way of getting your voice heard and flexing your risk taking muscles to go beyond your current limits of visibility and feel the joy of being a wildly powerful and expressive human alive in this moment.
The workshop will culminate with an embodied sharing circle called Amplify the Core. Amplify The Core is a space where we can rest in the simplicity of the core of our being, in the company of others who wish to do the same; in silence or in conversation and sharing. Allowing the complex and fascinating layers of “process” to dissolve into stillness as we hold space for each other to rest in this simplicity and amplify this deepest part of ourselves in the presence of others, bringing the dream of who we are forward into the physical realm; through our words and our silence. We will use this model of sharing circle to reflect on the physical experience we have had without needing to over-analyse, and instead allowing it to consolidate the experience in the body before we go our separate ways.
Please note:
For those who love to perform there will be ample opportunity to shine and enjoy being witnessed. For those who feel shy but curious in the area of performing you will be invited but never forced. Together we will cultivate a non-judgemental atmosphere rather than a fiercely competitive one. Within the powerful togetherness of the group we will inspire and lift each other higher. And…you might just surprise yourself with what you are able to do when immersed in this caring vibration of mutual support!
About Bryony
Biography
Bryony began performing at an early age as a singer, dancer and musician, and went on to train professionally at the London Contemporary Dance School and the Ecole Phillippe Gaulier for Acting in Paris. She has toured Europe in dance companies, folk bands and gospel choirs, performed at top London theatre venues such as The Barbican and the Royal Albert Hall and most recently spent significant time in the United States where she started playing live music sets for ecstatic dance waves. She is currently touring a one woman electro-pop show and coaching performers and vocalists at her home in West Wales.
Her experience in somatic movement practices such as Feldenkrais and the Russian martial Art of Systema permeate her approach to facilitation. Bryony sees the body as a malleable sensory universe with which we can play and shape our own reality, from a basis of relaxation and yielding to the earth. She feels passionate about assisting people to bring forward the depth of creativity and joy every human has access to, should they decide to tap into it, building deeper community connections in the process and amplifying the embodied vibration of love in this world.