Workshops

View our sublime and sensational workshop offerings at 2024’s festival…

Padma Devi

Yoga, Meditation & Ceremonies

  • Founder & President of Heart Of Living Yoga Foundation

    “I give, You give, We all receive.”

    Padma has been the inspiration of Heart Of Living Yoga and will be leading us all into heart space with a beautiful festival opening ceremony, as well as a special Puja celebration of Anandamayi Ma, sharing Satsangs, meditations, yoga classes and even some laughter yoga!

    If you don’t yet know her, she has been practising and living yoga for over 50 years. She is an international yoga teacher who has trained many teachers and ministers and set up several yoga centres, sharing retreats, Satsangs, ceremonies, leading courses and workshops around the world. She is also a mother and grandmother, a professional kinesiologist and a healer who was also in the business world for many years. Living yoga in the heart, her service continues to blossom through the sharing of the Heart Practice, a direct path of meditation which brings us into communion with the Beloved.

    In 2006 Rev. Padma went to Sri Lanka to visit an orphanage and ashram where her guru had lived for many years. It was during that visit to Sri Lanka, soon after the tsunami, that she discovered there were children who were worse off outside the orphanage. She asked 2 questions –how can we find them and how can we help? The answer to those questions, began the work of the charity “Heart Of Living Yoga Foundation”, whose projects now spread across 5 countries. You can find out more details and how to help HERE

    Padma lives and breathes yoga and service to all, while sharing her joyful heart with everyone. She aims to live as an authentic human being, loving, serving and having fun. Her favourite saying is “Just Love” – she says it is the perfect description of Reality and the only instruction we ever need, all rolled into just two words.

  • Padma will lead the opening and closing ceremonies at Heart Festival, and the Saturday night Anandamayi Ma Puja. She will also lead our late evening Heart Meditation to close each day, and share a yoga practice on Thursday that follows the opening ceremony.

    There will be the possibility to receive Sacred Mantra Initiation at a private ceremony at the Heart Festival. If your heart is calling you to this, or you wish to find out more, please email revpadma@gmail.com

Anne Malone

The Art of Sacred Sound

  • Oasis of Sound - A Journey into the Heart of Sound

    As a musician and a student of yoga, Anne has a deep understanding of how music and movement flow and unfold with ease and grace, creating a wonderful world of Sacred Sound.

    Anne’s love of yoga and meditation has added depth of devotion and physical awareness throughout her journey, and by combining her training in Sacred Sound: (Chris James/ SoundsWonderful), The Journey (Brandon Bays) and Shamanic Ceremony (Annie Spencer/Hart Lodge) with her Prana Flow training with Shiva Rea, she offers a unique yogic musical exploration ... and has been privileged to share musical journeys with Shiva Rea over many joyful years. Her passion for music has taken her on a journey of sound from the vibrant music of Dublin in Ireland to the exotic rhythms of Latin America, the eclectic sounds of USA and the rich folk traditions of Europe.

    With a wealth of recorded music, a nomination for an NME Award and iTunes top 10 chart, Anne!s love of SoundScapes allows her to share her internal sound world, and is especially honoured to be a featured artist with YogiTunes.

    Anne’s pioneering Sacred Sound Trainings have grown over past 10 years, and now partners with Yogacampus, The Life Centre, Shiva Rea PranaFlow, Mind Body Spirit, Ministry of Sound and numerous Retreat Centres and Corporate Companies sharing the magic of Sound Healing and Mantra.

    www.oasisofsound.com

  • Oasis of Sound - Sound Bath & Mantra Magic

    Join Anne for a deeply relaxing Sound Bath.

    Sound Bathing is a simple yet profound way to connect with the core of our being and tune our body at a cellular level through the gentleness of its resonance. Bathing in healing sounds of Goddess Singing Bowls, Gong, Hang, Vocal Toning, Celtic Drum, Sansula, Koshi Bells, Rainstick as you relax and bathe in the exquisite healing sounds of these instruments and vocal tones, releasing stress and blockages, gently ‘retuning’ and balancing you back into harmony. Drift into the magical world of nature as you are showered with the sounds of the Rainstick, Shamanic drum and bells. The only side effect is happiness and harmony!

Vishwam Gurudas

Wild Heart Yoga

  • Vishwam is one of the Heart Ministers, Trainers & Teachers at Heart Of Living Yoga, helping the wisdom of the heart to share itself around the world. Vishwam began formally teaching yoga in 2011 and has completed well over 500 hours of teacher training. He’s led classes across the UK, from Bournemouth to Shetland, as well as different areas in the USA — his country of birth.

    Whether he’s offering an extra gentle class or a challenging asana practice, Vishwam’s approach is playful, poetic and deeply grounded in an awareness of yogic science.

    Vishwam is also the founder of Flowing with Life, an ecological social enterprise dedicated to nourishing community, where he hosts groups bringing together heart meditation with creative writing as well as yoga classes, retreats and more.

    https://www.flowingwithlife.org/

  • Wild Heart Yoga

    Connecting with the magical, wild nature of the heart, we can welcome the flow of heart energy to carry us through our yoga practice in a vibrant and loving way. The practice can be as strong or soft as you need, guided in each moment by the inner knowing of the heart. The class is held by Vishwam, an experienced Heart Of Living Yoga Teacher & Trainer who offers a range of options for each pose. His voice is deeply soothing and his presence warm, loving and fun!

    Heart Meditation

    This is the simple way to meditate! Instead of trying to quiet the mind, we direct it to the place within us - the spiritual heart - which is always peaceful and loving, joyful and light. Learning to allow awareness to rest here, to stay focused in the heart, is a wonderful blessing for ourselves and for the whole of creation. We look forward to sharing this special experience with you at Heart Festival!

Diana Sampson

Revealing The Soul Through Yoga

  • Luna Rhythms Yoga was birthed in 2006. It combines the classical and tantric traditions of yoga, with an understanding and celebration of the seasons. Through ceremony, ritual and a weaving together of the different themes of the year, the yoga experience is enhanced with a beautiful naturalness and ease.

    Living in harmony, connection and reverence to Mother Earth, the Moon and all of the Natural World , is now vital. Now is the time to rise up, and step lightly and reverently, so that our actions make little effect, seven generations into the future.

    www.luna-rhythms-yoga.com

  • Mantra, Movement, Mudra & Meditation (Saturday)

    Join Ulric (Govinda) & Diana (Bhuvaneswari) for a beautiful dive into practices to help you find joy and ease within your body, breath and mind.

    Govinda will lead you into some Feldenkrais based practices to develop a sense of ease and comfort in the body.

    Bhuvaneswari will help develop subtle awareness & concentration with sacred mantras, breathwork and mudras; creating a blissful Sadhana to take with you into the coming days.

    Ulric and Diana have over 36 years of combined teaching in movement and yoga in the UK and Europe, and they are forever grateful to their own teachers and mentors who have shown them the way in a greater understanding of our bodies, minds and spirits.

    Revealing The Soul Through Yoga: Unleashing Your Goodness, Creativity & Love (Sunday)

    Luna Rhythms Yoga was birthed in 2006. It combines the classical and tantric traditions of yoga, with an understanding and celebration of the seasons. Through ceremony, ritual and a weaving together of the different themes of the year, the yoga experience is enhanced with a beautiful naturalness and ease.

    Living in harmony, connection and reverence to Mother Earth, the Moon and all of the Natural World , is now vital. Now is the time to rise up, and step lightly and reverently, so that our actions make little effect, seven generations into the future.

Hanuman Sumananda

Healing Circle

  • Hanuman is an Intuitive Healer, a Heart Minister, a Heart of Healing Tutor and Heart Meditation Facilitator and trustee for the Heart Of Living Yoga Foundation. He loves to teach and serve with humour, integrity and love for the benefit of all.

    Hanuman is part of the Heart Of Healing training team, guiding others in the gentle art of self-healing and in supporting the healing of others. He is also one of the Heart Festival organisers and enjoys creative engineering as well as being a non-conformist. Hanuman is a dedicated practitioner of the path of Jnana and Karma yoga.

  • We will be creating a sacred healing circle to bring healing for ourselves and all others coming together in the Heart through a guided visualisation and meditation with the possibility to be at the centre of this circle for personal healing.

Ulric Whyte & Diana Sampson

Mantra, Movement, Mudra & Meditation

  • Ulric came to Yoga in 1991, began sharing the teachings in 2000, and taught trainee yoga teachers as a faculty member and mentor for 13 years at Yogacampus. In 2020 after many years of class attendance, he graduated from a 4 year professional training in The Feldenkrais Method and offers both group classes and one on one Functional Integration lessons.

    Ulric has a deep love for the Brazilian Amazon and has lived among the Huni Kuin (Kaxinawa) tribe deep in their jungle. He brings some of the healing practices from his time & ongoing study there to his clients in the UK and Europe. When not rolling around on the floor exploring and observing movement potential, Ulric will likely be found training with Russian Kettlebells and Indian Clubbells.

    His teaching style is light-hearted, approachable no matter one’s abilities or limitations, and is richly rooted in sound biomechanical principles, ensuring both functional and structural integrity.

    https://www.facebook.com/ulricwhytemovement

  • Mantra, Movement, Mudra & Meditation (Saturday)

    Join Ulric (Govinda) & Diana (Bhuvaneswari) for a beautiful dive into practices to help you find joy and ease within your body, breath and mind.

    Govinda will lead you into some Feldenkrais based practices to develop a sense of ease and comfort in the body.

    Bhuvaneswari will help develop subtle awareness & concentration with sacred mantras, breathwork and mudras; creating a blissful Sadhana to take with you into the coming days.

    Ulric and Diana have over 36 years of combined teaching in movement and yoga in the UK and Europe, and they are forever grateful to their own teachers and mentors who have shown them the way in a greater understanding of our bodies, minds and spirits.

Harshani & Vichari

Sound Healing & Yoga

  • Harshani & Vichari are a husband and wife heart-centred team ~ bringing a divine feminine and masculine balance and harmony into all of their Sacred Sound work they share together.

    Harshani has been teaching and sharing the joys of Yoga for over 20 years. Based in Northamptonshire, she is a Heart of Living Yoga teacher, Teacher Trainer, Heart of Healing Teacher, Reiki Master Teacher & Cognitive Hypnotherapist ~ bringing a beautiful blend of Sacred Sound, Healing and Heart practice as a magical sprinkle of stardust to shower over you.

    Vichari is a Voice & Sound Therapy Healer, Heart Meditation Facilitator, Reiki Drum Practitioner, with a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Consciousness Studies. He brings his own unique vibration and sense of beingness which he expresses through the gong, drumming and Sacred Sound.

    Together they weave magic through their journeys and workshops.

    You are invited to simply land and be open to the flow.

  • Join Harshani and Vichari for a special gong bathing Heart of Living Yoga class ~ leave everything you no longer need behind & simply let the sound vibrations of the Earth Gong play through you carrying the Asana energy with it.

    This session will have little instruction ~ so more suitable for those comfortable with their personal Yoga practice (rather than absolute beginners) ~ so when you step on your Yoga Mat you can feel where the gong is leading you & inviting you to move with the sound as it expresses itself through your Yoga practice. A magical way to awaken every cell in your being ~ letting the sound & body flow in whatever way it feels to call you. Finishing with a gentle gong nidra to set you up for a beautiful day at Heart Festival ahead.

Narayani

The Voice of The Heart

  • Narayani (Frances Narayani Baker) is a singer, facilitator, teacher and mother of two small children. She is known for her powerful devotional singing and for facilitating voicework that encourages our highest expression. Her work focuses on supporting people to bring freedom to their singing voices, irrespective of talent or skill, allowing it to become a tool of authentic expression.

    Narayani’s journey began as a yoga teacher, teaching in London for many years. During this same time she discovered the practice of Kirtan and subsequently her voice. Until then she had always believed she could not sing. This discovery had such a profound and transformative effect on her that she began to lead Kirtan and voice workshops which took her to many countries around the world. After the birth of her first child 2018, Narayani’s focus turned more towards home. She currently leads Kirtan locally, offers one to one sessions online and in person in Alfriston, East Sussex.

    www.francesnarayanibaker.com

  • Join Narayani for a journey into the Voice of the Heart. Weaving mantra, sound, meditation and movement, we will explore our authentic voice, our hearts expression. Our singing voices are the most direct connection we have to the deep resonance that is the voice of our heart. The resonance that is our deep inner voice, our wisdom and our true expression.

Mat Baker

Rhythm Into Stillness

  • Mat is a guitarist, composer, singer / songwriter, percussionist and workshop facilitator. His primary instruments are flamenco guitar, bouzouki and percussion. He plays a unique and soulful blend of folk, flamenco, jazz and devotional music.

    Mat’s workshops, ‘Rhythm into Stillness’, were born from his experience both as a musician and from his keen interest in natural health and meditation.

    His musical journey has led him to work, perform and study with many diverse musicians and styles (sufi band, Bakk Lamp Fall - kora player, Jali Burama Mbye - kirtan, Bhavana - Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Glen Velez - and teachers of The Naked Voice and TaKeTiNa. His travels in Southern Africa, India, Morocco and Spain have also influenced his work and deepened his passion for rhythm.

    Mat has been practicing meditation and healing arts for over 30 years. This has been a major inspiration for his workshops, which he hopes will help participants to become more embodied, spacious and present.

    www.matbakermusic.com

  • Rhythm into Stillness

    Join Mat for a rhythmical, meditative journey. A playful and challenging exploration into body, mind and soul using steps and claps, shakers and voice.

    Using different rhythmical patterns you will be supported to grow more body awareness, allowing you to open up to a sense of freedom whatever your experience or ability. Starting energetically we will move towards a place of inner stillness.

    No musical skill is necessary just an openness to explore.

Bhanu

Sound Healing & Qi Gong

  • Bhanu is an experienced sound healer helping many people find a deeper quality of life over the past 12 years. His presence is warm, joyful and gentle and his sound baths are magical beyond words. Bhanu has shared the sacred healing vibrations at festivals like Colourfest and Sundara as well at many retreats and other events. He has studied with both the British Academy of Sound Therapists (BAST) the Tama Do Academy. Bhanu has also been teaching Integral Yoga for 12 years and Qi Gong for 8. He offers regular classes and special events around the UK.

  • Soundbath

    You are invited to lie down on a mat or blanket, or, if preferred, remain seated, keeping warm with blankets, warm clothing and cushions for comfort whilst receiving a wash of sound vibrations.

    Typical instruments played may include Himalayan singing bowls, various gongs, crystal singing bowls and percussive instruments. The aim of the session is for deep relaxation whilst the sound vibrations wash through the auric field and subtle energy system, cleansing the auric field and subtle energy channels. Typical experiences previously fed back from attendees vary, and include: a feeling of being hot or cold in certain parts of the body or whole body, tingling sensations, visualising colours and geometric shapes, being transported to different dimensions and twitching as energy shifts. In some cases, there have been emotional releases as the sound vibrations trigger mental or emotional attachments or memories. These are all perfectly normal experiences and individuals may encounter various sensations dependent on the frequencies, harmonics, intervals and overtones received. There is an opportunity after the soundbath for sharing, feedback, questions or just remaining relaxed in the energy created during the session. For more personal questions, please feel free to ask me after closing the session.

    Qi Gong

    After an initial warm up session, various body movements and mudras will stretch the meridians of the body, inviting Qi to flow freely for health and vitality. Soft shoes can be worn.

Shakti Prem

Joyful Heart Yoga

  • Shakti prem is a Heart of Yoga Teacher and Heart Meditation facilitator sharing yoga for the last 6 years since her training in Rishikesh, India.

    Shakti has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and now is an avid heart ambassador travelling around the world sharing heart yoga and meditation.

    Shakti is also a psychotherapist who helps many people in her practice including yoga and meditation in the therapy room. Her teaching focuses on fun, laughter and practising  mindful self compassion.

    What Shakti loves about heart yoga is the way it brings us all to a place of calm, joyful serenity which is always in our hearts.

  • Join the delightful Shakti Prem for early morning sunshine yoga. The class is a Heart Of Living Yoga hatha flow where you are warmly invited to show up on your mat and connect deeply with body, breath and heart. Yoga with Shakti comes with the loving invitation to give ourselves over to radiant joy and fun in our morning practice.


    All children are warmly invited to join Shakti Prem for a playful, fun and secretly educational yoga class. Yoga is a wonderful way to support children to develop physical strength, flexibility and mindfulness – and to have fun while doing it!

Sudha & Sunniva

Vocal Release & Chakra Chanting Meditation

  • SEE Line up for Sudha & Sunniva’s bios

  • Coming soon....

Juliette Bryant

Connecting to the wisdom of plants and mushrooms

  • Juliette Bryant is a leading figure in the field of health transformation. She has travelled the world seeking out and studying the most effective tools for achieving good health and healing. Juliette has spent years running womens circles and supporting women through all stages of their lives with nutrition, meditation, breathwork and awakening work. Juliette has three published books and written countless articles for magazines, newspapers and journals, all arising from her extensive research into healthy living, wellbeing and nutrition.

    She offers her professional services as a Nutritional Health Consultant to individuals and groups within both public and business sectors. Her dynamic, intuitive and evidenced presentations are well received, enjoyable and noted for the simplicity and accessibility.

    Her website www.juliettebryant.com features a wealth of original, free content as well as details of her online courses, mentorship work and an extensive range of superfood blends, tonics and supplements – organically produced using plant-based ingredients and sought by customers the world over.

    In this enlightening talk, Juliette Bryant explores the profound benefits of connecting with the wisdom of plants and mushrooms. Juliette will delve into how these natural allies can enhance our health and wellbeing, offering support for our physical and emotional needs. Through this connection, she will guide us to a deeper understanding of our relationship with the Earth, emphasizing the mutual support between us and the environment we inhabit. Join Juliette on this journey to discover the transformative power of nature’s gifts and how they can enrich our lives.

    In this enlightening talk, Juliette Bryant explores the profound benefits of connecting with the wisdom of plants and mushrooms. Juliette will delve into how these natural allies can enhance our health and wellbeing, offering support for our physical and emotional needs. Through this connection, she will guide us to a deeper understanding of our relationship with the Earth, emphasizing the mutual support between us and the environment we inhabit. Join Juliette on this journey to discover the transformative power of nature’s gifts and how they can enrich our lives.

    In this enlightening talk, Juliette Bryant explores the profound benefits of connecting with the wisdom of plants and mushrooms. Juliette will delve into how these natural allies can enhance our health and wellbeing, offering support for our physical and emotional needs. Through this connection, she will guide us to a deeper understanding of our relationship with the Earth, emphasizing the mutual support between us and the environment we inhabit. Join Juliette on this journey to discover the transformative power of nature’s gifts and how they can enrich our lives.

    In this enlightening talk, Juliette Bryant explores the profound benefits of connecting with the wisdom of plants and mushrooms. Juliette will delve into how these natural allies can enhance our health and wellbeing, offering support for our physical and emotional needs. Through this connection, she will guide us to a deeper understanding of our relationship with the Earth, emphasizing the mutual support between us and the environment we inhabit. Join Juliette on this journey to discover the transformative power of nature’s gifts and how they can enrich our lives.

Prem Devi

Yoga

  • Prem Devi is currently the only director and founder at Doors to the Feminine!

    In her academic studies she has a degree in Tourism from PUC-Campinas SP in 1998 and a postgraduate degree in Specialisation in Entrepreneurship from UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina in 2001.

    She was pioneer in the translation and implementation of Distance E-learning in Brazil in the area of Tourism for Technical Capacitation, Specialisation and Masters by FUNIBER - Ibero-American University Foundation.

    The Multicultural experience of working at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London gave her direct experience of the concept of Global Unity for harmony and integration of differences.

    She has several Therapeutic Training Courses in the areas of Meditation and Yoga.

    An Ambassador in Brazil for the International English Foundation: Heart Of Living Yoga, constantly working to identify needs, evaluate possibilities, support and implement children's social projects in the Amazon, Chapada dos Veadeiros and Rio de Janeiro.

    Always ready to embrace and discover the natural path of Life in a free and playful way experiencing all senses of being alive, imagining and dreaming new possibilities, she is open and welcoming in supporting whoever is interested in self-discovery, self-knowledge and self-healing for the freedom of being who we really are!

Nimue Brown

Poet

  • Nimue Brown will be poet in residence at this year’s Heart Festival.
    She’ll be on site with notebook and pens, gathering fragments of
    inspiration as the festival unfolds. If you want to share heart
    stories, you are welcome to seek her out. She aims to create something
    that can later be shared with everyone who attended. Nimue is an
    animist, on the Druid path and has written a great deal of fiction,
    non-fiction and poetry, published and self-published.

Coral Hawkins

Yoga

  • Coral Hawkins, from Woolacombe North Devon coming to Heart Festival to share her heart centred offerings.

    Coral’s space holdings have a strong sense of community, embodiment and love.

    She first completed her yoga teacher training in Auckland, New Zealand and has been teaching since 2017.

    She fell in love with yoga from the first time, and believes she’ll forever be a student, constantly learning.

    Coral’s joyful smile, light energy and playful energy is not to be missed!

  • You’ll be warmly welcomed by your and invited to flow with your breath, this gives our movement a meditative quality and you’ll experience the mind, body and breath moving as one.

    Expect to feel harmony within your body, mind and spirit with a deep sense of self care as you nourish yourself with this practice of flowing mindfully with intention to the rhythm of our breath.

    Each practice is intentional and taught in a sacred space which we co-create together with our energies, you will feel the shift as we raise our vibration as a collective, there is a real strong feeling of community spirit as we move and breathe as one.

Haridas

Sound Healing

  • Sound creations by Haridas uplift and transcend, soothing and deeply healing the listener on every level. His music can act to transport the listener into the silence between the breathing out and the breathing in, and as a vehicle to the Heart.

    Following decades of experience in the music industry as a performer, producer and teacher, Haridas has a long and beautiful relationship with Heart Of Living Yoga and the lineage from which it flows. He played at Gaunts House for the Integral Yoga European Reunion that was held there, which was where he first met Padma.

    Haridas has generously donated his six instrumental albums of healing music, used internationally by therapists and yoga teachers, to the Heart Of Living Yoga Foundation to raise funds for our charity. He also channeled the beautiful musical accompaniment for Padma’s meditation and relaxation albums. You can find these and more for download from the Heart Shop, along with his latest albums for healing and meditation which he continues to create for our charity.

  • Deep Heart Rest - a deep relaxation into the heart with Padma Devi, supported by beautiful, gentle live music channelled in the moment by Haridas, who has so generously provided all the music you will have heard on Padma's meditation and relaxation albums. In this Deep Heart Rest, Padma’s voice will guide you gently towards your own inner peace, while the music gently flows in each moment to support you with beautiful healing harmonics. This is a divine opportunity to be held in spaciousness and love as you rest in your own heart.

Hamid van Koten

5 Rhythms Dance

  • Early in his life Hamid became aware of the liberation that dance and movement can offer. In his early twenties he embraced Sufi devotional practices and for 10 years studied with a Sufi master from Turkey so deepending his spiritual understanding of life. He started dancing 5 Rhythms® more than 25 years ago and inspired by the accessibility of this practice he did the training with Gabrielle Roth to become a 5Rhythms® facilitator.Hamid  weaves together the stillness of meditation with the ecstatic possibilities of lyrical trance and tribal connections.

  • The 5Rhythms are Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness. They are universal patterns which we explore in our dance. Each Rhythm invites us to embody our dance in a different way and together the Rhythms offer endless movement possibilities.

    The sequence of the 5Rhythms, known as a ‘Wave’, is a mirror of how energy moves, and it takes us on a dance journey.

    The first 20 mins of a 5Rhythms session is spent warming up to music. This is a time for each of us to do what we need to do to arrive and begin to connect with our dance. 

    Some time is then spent moving our attention through our different body parts. 

    For the main part of the class we move through the map of the 5Rhythms following guidance from the facilitator and supported by music. 

    We dance alone and we are also invited at times to dance with another or in a group if we want to. 

    The set will contain a wide variety of musical genres and moods selected to support our dance, from wild and funky to gentle and slow and I will include some devotional music.

    No previous experience is necessary.

Bella Franks

Love Colour Mural

  • Bella Franks is an artist based in Brighton, working as an art tutor, yoga teacher and primary school practitioner.  Bella runs workshops and retreats for both adults and children, with a focus on mindfulness and creative flow. She makes learning to draw fun, accessible and open to all. Bella's holistic approach promotes self-awareness and self-confidence through art and yoga. Bella is known for bringing a positive and supportive energy to her workshops, believing that everyone has the power to enjoy the creative process and discover their own expression, without self-criticism or inhibition.

  • Join Bella and Stuart to create a beautiful homage to what makes your heart sing. Play with colours and paint a canvas which will contribute to our big heart mural. A collaborative piece bringing together joy, colour and love.

Eugene Vegan Butcher

Acroyoga & Developing Poetry in Motion (with a partner)

  • Eugene is the founder of Partner Yoga Art, Heart Dance Meditation and several related arts. He's a movement artist and senior yoga teacher who began his journey in martial arts. 

    In 2015 DoYouYoga shared his video writing: ".. a means of creativity, of self-expression, and an art form itself a celebration of what a union of two human bodies, minds, and spirits in moving meditation can achieve."

    In 2021 Eugene performed a choreography on Sky Arts Channel, the presenters described it as "The epitome of artistic beauty"

  • Heart Dance Meditation is a beautiful expression from the soul, art from the heart.  It is a partner practice that develops presence, harmony and union. Yoga typically explores union of our mind, body and spirit. Heart Dance Meditation explores the potential union between two minds, bodies and spirits. 

    It develops our ability to physically listen and be present with each other. To notice, trust and tap into combined intuition and impulse. Where movement is instinctive, natural and effortless. A partner moving meditation, that is understood and led from the heart. You do not need any experience to participate, just an open mind and heart.

Rowan Cobelli

Meditation in Motion

  • Rowan Cobelli has been studying yoga for 25 years. His learning has taken him into many aspects of yoga, mostly self-study through various eastern and western approaches to health, integration and exploration of the wisdom teachings. He’s particularly interested in the non-effort approach to meditation, Identity, Jnana Yoga, Raja Yoga from the perspective of Self enquiry.

  • During this morning class at Heart Festival we will be exploring ’true nature, protection systems and the integration of the hidden. The class will have a short talk, longer meditations and some movement.

Stuart Semple

Love Colour Mural

  • Stuart Semple is a multidisciplinary British artist whose practice spans painting, performance, internet art, and installation. His works adopt a sociological lens to explore themes of youth politics, mass culture, image, technology, and anxiety. Often activist in nature, his broader projects frequently strive for fairness, equality, and access, particularly within the arts.

    Semple has enjoyed numerous solo exhibitions worldwide and has presented projects at international institutions, including the Denver Art Museum, The Whitworth, Barbican, Hong Kong Arts Center, and Dulwich Picture Gallery. He is the author of "Make Art or Die Trying," published by Quarto. Semple regularly speaks on art and mental health, with appearances at Oxford University, The Southbank Centre, Frieze, RCA, and the ICA

  • Join Bella and Stuart to create a beautiful homage to what makes your heart sing. Play with colours and paint a canvas which will contribute to our big heart mural. A collaborative piece bringing together joy, colour and love.