Workshops

Christopher and Friends teach workshops in Ashtanga Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Tantra Yoga, Hatha Yoga and the Meditation.

Christopher also leads Developmental Weekends, Firewalks, Yogic Massage Trainings and other Events that will help you touch deeper into your potent inner reality and shine throughout your life.

See the Events Diary for dates, times, prices and other details.

Mastery in Adjustment Level 1

Learn to Adjust your students in the best possible way.

Learn from a teacher of 20 years standing.

Human Beings learn Yoga practice through creating internal sensory maps and then recreating that experience. Internal sensory maps are difficult to make from verbal instruction alone. Internal sensory maps are hard to make from visual demonstrations. One of the most important teaching tools as a Yoga teacher you have is your hands!

Kind, sensitive, intelligent adjustment that respects physical differences, is understanding of individual development and the steps of development, secures safe and strong practice.

The teacher who uss their hands with intelligence heals students. All teaching is an engagement in the cultivation of compassion and wisdom.

You will learn;

To use your hands in the best possible way, with maximum intelligence and awareness, to guide your students into a deeper yet safer and more satisfying practice.

Learn to use your hands in ways that guarantee your students understand what they need to experience.

Learn to use your hands to help students understand their own bodies and their practice.

Learn the language of touch and how to use your verbal language to support your ‘hands on’ teaching.

You will also learn the kinesiology of asana, how bodies move and work in practice. This teaching is rooted in western anatomy and physiotherapy whilst also utilising and honouring eastern Yogic models of body-mind function.

You will also learn the meridians of flow through the body and how to use these in your teaching.

You will learn about different body types, how to read different anatomies, what they need and what is possible for them.

Much of the adjustment style that arises from India and is translated into the western world is inappropriate. Bodies get hurt as students are pushed or push into practices that with intelligent guidance they would safely open into. Students also get hurt as they seek to practice asana that they have not done the correct preparation for. The foundation for an Indian style asana practice is having been squatting and sitting on the earth for at least twelve years. Broken hurting bodies are too common in western Yoga practice as students avoid this necesary preparation.

As the Dalai Lama said,

“all systems and methods exist to promote human happiness, if the systems and methods hurt people they need to evolve and fit people, not people be broken to suit the system or method”

 

Chakras

Open to all Yoga practitioners and friends.
Explore the meaning and purpose of Chakras in practice.
The Chakras are an ancient and profound develomental map. Tantirc Yoga uses Yoga physical practices of asana, breath,chanting and cleansing as well as mental intention, emotional intelligence and meditational awareness practices to cultivate the experience of the deep inner mind of the body. Chakra meditation practices called Kriya Yoga are a profound method of finding new levels of inner and outer freedom.

This initial weekend and subsequent levles will lead you through an understanding of chakras as a developmental map of psychological and emotional freedom.

Power and Flow in Practice

Explore your Vinyasa Yoga practice to profound new depths.
Christopher teaches deep insights into the psycho-emotional functions of the core aspects of practice, the breath, bandhas, drishti and foundation. To utilise the practice as a means of ego resolution and of unfolding into more expansive awareness; to experience the practice as a spiritual practice come and study the power and flow in practice with Christopher Gladwell.

Yoga Fun Day

Open to all Yoga practitioners and friends.
Children welcome with parents.
Come and explore Yoga practice in a joyful way that allows you to see what is possible and what you need. Thios day is focused on playful energy in practice, a Yoga practice without fun is meaningless. Life is serious enough and as the great Tibetan Yogi Chogyam Trungpa said "A Yogi really is known by their laugh". Allow yourself this freedom, come and have a Fun Day.

Opening into Love, Wisdom and Power through Yoga Practice

Christopher teaches deep insights into the psycho-emotional functions of the core aspects of Yoga practice. Yoga is ultimately about the lived experience of non-duality. From this spacious perspective Love and Wisdom are the reality. The tools of an aware physical practice, breath based practice, emotional awareness, intention and atention allow this expansion into Love Wisdom and Power. For you to take your Yoga experience to these profoundly deeper levels come and open into love wisdom and power with Christopher Gladwell.

Yoga Massage Training
with Christopher Gladwell.

Yoga massage has been used as a complement to Yoga Asana and Spontaneous Yoga Dance throughout time.

Yoga Massage can be used as a way to develop deeper loving relationship.

Yoga massage is also used as a way to feel amazing and to find deep relaxation.

Yoga massage is used to facilitate the healing process.

Engaged relationship is a key practice to balance ones growth and awareness of reality.

Yogic massage keeps us grounded in compassionate physical listening and awareness and consistently reminds us that we are never separate, never, not in relationship.

Yogic massage makes the world a better, kinder, more loving and fun world to live in for us all.

The training runs over three weekends.

Please complete the contact form to apply for this exclusive and wonderful training.

See the Events Diary for dates, times, prices and other details.

Tantra Yoga

Open to all Yoga practitioners. Explore Tantra Yoga with Christopher Gladwell. The essential practices of Tantra Yoga involve the use of body awareness, breath, vibrational practices of chanting, visualisation, deep meditational awareness, relaxation practices, shared bodywork and more. Radikal Freedom involves moving beyond the limitations of the experience of separateness, this is Yoga. Real yoga is love, joy and intelligence in action. Find this with Christopher Gladwell.

 

Metamorphosis

Juan, Sarah and Christopher offer a synergy that is 'Metamorphosis'.

Metamorphosis offers a complete turn around in the seat of consciousness. The view moves from limited self and its neurotic dance of separation towards the vastness of truth.

The practices support this insight and the sublime presence of essence is the result.

There are three stages to Metamorphosis.

The Outer Mandala.

Date Nov 28 and 29

The use of the circle of elements and senses leads to understanding the nature of ones experience of separation and relationship with the world as ‘other’.

This weekend retreat offers you the realisation of the interdependence of all phenomena and prepares you for the deepening of the next stages… moving into the unknown of the inner worlds.

Time 9am to 5pm each day.

The Inner Mandala.

Date Jan 30th and 31st.

What in us this known and what is unknown or unconscious?

We will explore the contents and context of mind and feeling. Our relationship with these intimate and important aspects of our experience, then become available for transformation.

As we engage with this mandala we begin to liberate our deeper nature of identity from fixation.

Find the relationship between attachment, thinking, feeling and our core life energy.

Time 9am to 5pm each day.

 

The Secret Mandala.

Date Mar 2010 dates tbc

The finger points to the moon.

"Art thou, or art thou not?

Hast thou or hast thou not the consciousness of existence?

Art thou in the midst, or art thou not?

Art thou on the border?

Art thou visible or invisible, perishable or immortal?

Art thou the one or the other, or neither the one nor the other?

Lastly, art thou thou or art thou not thou?"

Taken from Farid Ud-Din Attar's "The Conference of the Birds"

 

Time 9am to 5pm each day.

Juan Gabriel Gutierrez brings sound, chant and music. His unique utilisation of a range of acoustic indigenous instruments in conjunction with his powerful chant and toning opens the gateway for a profound liminal transformation.

Sarah Harlow weaves her passion of dance and yoga to offer an opportunity to open to deeper freedom and creativity.

Discover mind, prana and the body as one juicy flow, the gateways to the liberating truth of joy, love and consciousness.

Christopher Gladwell is a contemporary yogi, author of the Yoga of Wealth. He unites western science and psychology with the essence of yogic philosophy.

His potent use of asana, breath, mantra, and his profound presence guides practitioners into the experience of the non-dual, the nature of truth, the beginning-less marriage of blissful form and sparkling emptiness, which is the reality of meditation

Yogasara Studio, 12 Picton St, Bristol.

www.yogasara.co.uk

Cost for the first weekend £98

Cost for the three weekend course, prebooked. £270

Christopher 07786928458

Christopher@radikalfreedom.com

Love Beyond Belief

Is an invitation to thoroughly appreciate your life through this Radikal approach to Yoga. From affirmation of your life as it is now, open into richer awareness & allow the flow of natural transformation.

Find your path to awakening through being more & more present in your life.

Presence as awareness is the subtle gateway to the wisdom of Radikal Freedom.. Discover ways to open into & celebrate this moment as deep natural perfection & learn to play with this remembrance.

Christopher draws freely from the deep wells of the traditions of Yoga to facilitate your expansion into presence. He offers an inspirational weaving of movement practices with cutting edge consciousness, breath & awareness techniques as tools of freedom.

Beyond Belief invites you to root deep in this earth of tradition & welcomes your flight into the celestial spaciousness of evolutionary possibility.

Please bring with you an object that holds special or sacred meaning for you.

Free your body, free your mind, free your spirit. Experience expertise, excellence and equisite release as freedom.