Workshops

Next Spring, we're delighted to welcome back the wonderful Norman Blair for an extended afternoon Yin Yoga Workshop - his third workshop with us here in Hastings. This will be an opportunity to explore a deeply restorative practice under expert guidance (expect a good sense of humour, too!)

Friday 6th March 2026 | 1:30–4:30pm
Wellington Health and Wellbeing Centre, Hastings
£40

Yin yoga is a meditative practice. The emphasis is on staying in 'shapes' for significant periods of time. Stillness and attention are prioritised above ‘achieving’ a pose. This three-hour Yin yoga workshop is a precious chance to slow down and to soften. Norman Blair is one of the most experienced Yin teachers in UK and he has been teaching these workshops since 2003. This practice of mindfully bending and gently moving can be remarkably rejuvenating for our body-mind-heart. Yin yoga gives us the space to slow down and stay with our experiences rather than always rushing and striving to achieve. The floor-based postures are held for several minutes, with plenty of props to make this practice as accessible as possible.

About Norman

Norman began regularly practising yoga in 1993 and his first meditation retreat was December 2000. In October 2001, he started teaching yoga. His first book – Brightening Our Inner Skies: yin and yoga – was published in 2016. In July 2025 he published a book of yin wisdom; his next book will be published in early 2026 – Everything We Do Matters: poems and prose about yoga and life.

He teaches classes, retreats and workshops and has been running Yin yoga trainings since 2013. Particularly inspirational teachers include Judith Hanson Lasater, Paul Grilley, Richard Freeman and Sarah Powers. He believes that through regular yoga and meditation practices we can experience profound changes in our mind and body.

Norman has been actively involved in social justice campaigns since the early 1980s. He believes that it is crucial that we connect inward work with outward work – personal transformation in the service of societal transformation. As practitioners, we know that we have the capacity for positive change. We can be catalysts for change: we can look up, raise our aspirations, be less reactive and more creative.

He also writes a brilliant newsletter - you can sign up via his website.

Fully booked - contact us to be added to the waitlist.

Booking T&Cs - refunds available for cancellations made one month in advance before the event, less £5 admin fee. Cancellations within one month of the event date will not be refunded.