SCHEDULE

SUNDAY 16 JULY

What’s On

  • Book Stall
  • Children's Area
  • Craft Workshops
  • Creative Arts
  • Energy Studio
  • Meditation & Mindfulness
  • Slow Down & Relax
  • Talk Stage
  • Uplift Stage
  • Yoga & Stretch

Sun 16 Jul

Bedtime Breathwork with Silentnight

Meditation & MindfulnessChiswick House

Bedtime Breathwork with Silentnight

Bedtime breathwork with Silentnight - an immersive experience of breathwork and sound to help you sleep well and wake up refreshed. Sleep is essential to every process in the body, affecting our physical and mental functioning, our ability to fight disease and develop immunity, our metabolism and chronic disease risk.

Our breath is the key bridge to linking mind and body, scientifically proven to be the most important neuro-hacking tool to radically improve our physical health, emotional and mental state of being.

In this session, you will learn and experience key breathwork techniques that are known as an effective sleep-aid.

- Learn the science of sleep: discover what can make you sleep well or disturb your sleep?
- Understand what is breathwork? How breathwork techniques can help you sleep better?
- Experience a guided practice of selected breathwork techniques, with their proven abilities to induce and sustain deep relaxation and sleep.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Cultivating Self-love and Positivity with Chloe Bridges

Yoga & StretchChiswick House

Cultivating Self-love and Positivity with Chloe Bridges

A rich and meaningful practice to restore harmony to every layer of the self; Physical; Mental; Emotional; Energetic; Spiritual. With a focus on cultivating self-love and mental wellbeing, this workshop aims to bring you back to your true nature; Joyful, playful and free! As we move through the 5 elements of yoga, we begin to create a deeper wellbeing…

- Asana: dynamic movement to burn away anything stuck or stagnant, anything that were holding onto… followed by restorative poses to
soothe the nervous system
- Pranayama: To uplift and energise
- Meditation: Creating space and stillness
- Mantra: To focus the mind and root in the present
- Yogic Philosophy: Elevating thoughts and ideas to transcend limitations

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Pilates Sculpt with Kokua Fit by Nathalie Hayward

Energy StudioChiswick House

Pilates Sculpt with Kokua Fit by Nathalie Hayward

A 30-minute dynamic flow combining all of the most feel-good classical Pilates moves fused with body weight strength exercises, low impact cardio and flexibility training. Appropriate for all bodies, all ages, all abilities. The perfect workout to stoke your metabolic fire as well as leave you feeling zen and ready to take on the world! Finished with a boogie to help you stride into the rest of your day with a little more buzz.

Duration: 30 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Let it Go Flow with Rosie Underwood

Uplift StageChiswick House

Let it Go Flow with Rosie Underwood

Designed to help the body and mind work in unison to down regulate the stress response, this short and sweet practice is both energising and calming, working through poses that boost happy hormones as well as improving concentration and memory.

Pattern Making Workshop with Collage Club LDN

Craft Workshops

Pattern Making Workshop with Collage Club LDN

Join Steph Hartman, founder of Collage Club LDN and author of You Will Be Able to Collage by the End of This Book for a morning of collaging to kick start your day. Using a colourful array of painted papers, guests will be guided through a fun step-by-step session, and shown how to snip and stick bold, floral patterns using simple tools and techniques.

Leave with a beautiful collage composition and the skills to develop your own cut and paste artworks at home.

All abilities welcome, and no prior experience needed.

Age Restriction: 16+
Duration: 45 minutes

Claire Daverley – Happy Place Book Club!

Talk StageChiswick House

Claire Daverley – Happy Place Book Club!

IO Project Sound Meditation

Slow Down & RelaxChiswick House

IO Project Sound Meditation

IO Project presents a cathartic sound meditation session, so you start your festival feeling relaxed, centered, heart chakra open; ready for all the sparkly shenanigans ahead. You could call it the antidote to apathy… for adults who’ve forgotten how to play.

Using Paiste gongs, Tibetan singing bowls as well as mantra, visualisation, breathwork techniques & healing crystals. Get ready to let go of what you don’t want to carry with you into the week ahead, stress melted away, in order to focus on what is more significant to us: connection, expansion, playfulness.

Created by DJ Goldierocks, having spent the last decade travelling the world touring as a DJ & broadcaster she was very familiar with the need to seek balance. IO Project experiences are full of love, ritual and hippie good vibes but with a bit more contemporary attitude & delivery so they’re accessible & meaningful to a sophisticated, urban clientele.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Barre Energise & Release with Barre Set

Energy StudioChiswick House

Barre Energise & Release with Barre Set

A playful blend of Pilates and strength training moves designed for your mind and body. Expect a banging playlist aiming to leave you feeling empowered and full of endorphins to soak up the 'Happy Place weekend! The Barre class experience is a guided low impact, high repetition flow to fire up every muscle, with a focus on balance, alignment and stretching throughout the session to connect with your body. Barre Set focuses on the power of working out in beautiful, inspiring spaces with a kind and inclusive community.

Duration: 30 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Poetry Reading with Charly Cox

Creative ArtsChiswick House

Poetry Reading with Charly Cox

Waggle Dance with Jessica Royle

Children's AreaChiswick House

Waggle Dance with Jessica Royle

From warm up games & making moves to the beat of the music, we’re helping to develop kids' imaginations by exploring movement through self-expression. A nature inspired class will get you ready to P-A-R-T-Y. Add your own dance moves as we shake, make & create a fun dance routine. This creative dance workshop will empower young people, teach them new skills and bring out their own unique style. It will be full of fun & highly energetic.

Every session starts with us learning The Waggle Dance, which is about the importance of Bees.

No previous dance experience necessary!

Suitable 5+

Songs for the Spirit with Jambo Dragon

Meditation & MindfulnessChiswick House

Songs for the Spirit with Jambo Dragon

Uplifting medicine songs that awaken and nurture the spirit.

The base of the brain is where the reptilian brain resides. This part of our brain anchors the memories of pain, fear & trauma. Fortunately, the brain is malleable and can change with our will. This class teaches us a range of techniques that we can use for self-massage to down regulate our nervous system. These techniques can be done anywhere and at any time.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Dharma Yoga Flow with Marcia Sharp

Yoga & StretchChiswick House

Dharma Yoga Flow with Marcia Sharp

Dharma Yoga combines graceful sequencing and flowing movements. It is a grounding and challenging class that incorporates inversions, backbends and arm balancing postures. Focusing on detailed alignment with synchronized breathing to bring an experience of harmony, strength and freedom - aiding meditation through movement.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Fawe Movement

Uplift StageChiswick House

Fawe Movement

A transformational workout experience themed around the four elements Fire, Air, Water, Earth. It is designed 'Fawe You' to power your body, mind, energy and restore balance. The workshop integrates challenging and playful movements with sound and breath work. Discovering power and expression through moving our bodies. In this class we, Exhale Worrier and Inhale Warrior.

Social Sketch Up with Dulcie Ball

Craft WorkshopsChiswick House

Social Sketch Up with Dulcie Ball

Come draw and be drawn at this playful and interactive portrait session hosted by the Founder of Sketch Appeal!

Expect to experiment with a series of fun and easy ways to draw portraits - from using your non-dominant hand to using only dots (pointillist style). You'll get chance to pose for the group and - as a bonus - take home the portraits people draw of you at the end!

NO SKILLS OR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED - this is about making fun art not fine art!

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Movement is Medicine

Energy StudioChiswick House

Movement is Medicine

Movement is Medicine is a neuroscience backed method created by Emma Marshall that uses somatic meditation, dance and music to get people out of the mind and into the body to release tension, stress and emotion.

Duration: 30 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Shadow Alchemy

Slow Down & Relax

Shadow Alchemy

Embark on a captivating journey of self-transformation with 'Shadow Alchemy', presented by The Intuitive Psychology Association. Guided by Jill Ritchie and Sarah Gregg, renowned experts in intuitive healing and psychology, this transformative technique combines meditation and breathwork to facilitate deep integration and wholeness.
Connect with your shadow and unlock untapped potential as you discover the power of your innate wisdom and intuition.

In this workshop, you can expect to:

• Cut cords and release attachments holding you back, liberating yourself from past influences.
• Experience radical self-acceptance, embracing all aspects of your being with love and compassion.
• Accelerate self-awareness and personal growth, gaining profound insights into your patterns and motivations.
• Integrate your shadow, accessing hidden potential and unleashing authenticity and harmony in your life.

Start the Happy Place Festival with an incredible transformational experience, open up your intuitive portal and clear old energy. Because when the past makes sense, the future becomes compelling, allowing you to fully live and engage in the present.

Duration: 45 Minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Music, Poetry & Self-Reflection with Aayushi

Creative ArtsChiswick House

Music, Poetry & Self-Reflection with Aayushi

This intimate acoustic performance blends folk music, poetry and meditation to offer a safe, quiet space for self-reflection. Aayushi will reflect on themes of healing, empowerment, gratitude and self-belief as she guides you on a journey through your own emotional landscape. You are encouraged to close your eyes, meditate, lie down, journal, doodle, or do any silent activity during the session that might aid your own personal process of reflection.

Happy Place Book Club Author: Claire Daverley

Book StallChiswick House

Happy Place Book Club Author: Claire Daverley

The Smiling Starfish Workshop with Little Tweaks

Children's AreaChiswick House

The Smiling Starfish Workshop with Little Tweaks

This workshop will provide children with the ability to practise simple breathing routines when they are in a calm state, so they are there for them when feeling heightened. A gentle introduction to an inclusive breath work practise, the Smiling Starfish, that will see children using their bodies to guide their deep inhale through their nose and long and slow exhale through their mouth. The practice is an introduction to mindfulness, where children and their parents are guided to focus on their breathing and the benefits of this explored together.

The children and their parents should be able to takeaway an easily accessible wellbeing tool that can be used anytime and anywhere to help re-focus the mind and close off the often-overwhelming feeling of a busy one.

Suitable for age 6+

Breathe Love, Energy and Sound Meditation with Emerald and Tiger

Meditation & MindfulnessChiswick House

Breathe Love, Energy and Sound Meditation with Emerald and Tiger

This event offers a transformative journey of guided reiki meditation, affirmation practice, and live sounds from gongs, crystal bowls, and intuitive voice. It's an opportunity to cultivate inner peace and connect with yourself and others in a powerful and uplifting way. After the session, you'll leave feeling renewed and rejuvenated. Join Jasmin Harsono this summer and breathe love into your body, heart, and spirit.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Laughter Yoga with Cat Googe

Yoga & StretchChiswick House

Laughter Yoga with Cat Googe

Laughter yoga is a wonderful tool for shifting stuck energy and elevating emotional wellbeing. The endorphin release and the lowering of cortisol totally lift your mood and leave you feeling energised, high vibe and utterly fabulous!

Laughter yoga is a series of laughter exercises that involve engaging your diaphragm to produce deep, hearty and loud belly laughter combined with deep belly breathing which brings more oxygen to your brain and body. The extended laughter releases endorphins and lowers the stress hormone cortisol bringing you to a place of pure JOY, the breath work brings you back into balance and ease.

The session finishes with laughter meditation where you have the opportunity to really let your laughter flow; this is followed by a guided meditation to bring your body and mind back to a relaxed and grounded state.

Disclaimer:

Consult a doctor before taking part if any of the following apply: major surgery within the last 3 months, heart disease, uncontrolled high blood pressure, epilepsy, hernia or pregnancy.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Dharma Yoga Flow with Marcia Sharp

Uplift StageChiswick House

Dharma Yoga Flow with Marcia Sharp

Dharma Yoga combines graceful sequencing and flowing movements. It is a grounding and challenging class that incorporates inversions, backbends and arm balancing postures. Focusing on detailed alignment with synchronized breathing to bring an experience of harmony, strength and freedom - aiding meditation through movement.

Pilates Sculpt with Kokua Fit by Nathalie Hayward

Energy StudioChiswick House

Pilates Sculpt with Kokua Fit by Nathalie Hayward

A 30-minute dynamic flow combining all of the most feel-good classical Pilates moves fused with body weight strength exercises, low impact cardio and flexibility training. Appropriate for all bodies, all ages, all abilities. The perfect workout to stoke your metabolic fire as well as leave you feeling zen and ready to take on the world! Finished with a boogie to help you stride into the rest of your day with a little more buzz.

Duration: 30 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Richie Norton

Book StallChiswick House

Richie Norton

Gay Times’ Lewis Corner

Talk StageChiswick House

Gay Times’ Lewis Corner

Tapping Session: Using Tapping to Manifest your Dream Life with Poppy Delbridge

Slow Down & RelaxChiswick House

Tapping Session: Using Tapping to Manifest your Dream Life with Poppy Delbridge

Manifestation expert and Rapid Tapping pioneer, Poppy Delbridge leads you through a complete mood-lifting tapping routine to help you manifest the life you want. Expect to discover and experience a unique, A-list favourite method to take your life to the next level as you effectively clear away limiting beliefs and connect to new possibilities.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Learn Pottery with Sculpd

Craft WorkshopsChiswick House

Learn Pottery with Sculpd

In this class, we’ll show you how to make a beautiful pinch pot vase in under 45 minutes. No prior experience or skill is required! Feel the relaxing and therapeutic benefits of working with clay and take home something you'll love!

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Spoken Word with Melodi Marsh

Creative ArtsChiswick House

Spoken Word with Melodi Marsh

Jasmin Harsono

Book StallChiswick House

Jasmin Harsono

Join Children’s Author Kerry McIntosh for a chapter reading from her new release ‘Rory Green, Secret Agent to the Queen’

Children's AreaChiswick House

Join Children’s Author Kerry McIntosh for a chapter reading from her new release ‘Rory Green, Secret Agent to the Queen’

Rory Green is a socially awkward 9 year old, who cares about the planet, but from the comfort of his own bedroom. He gets anxious around bugs, and genuinely fears getting his hands dirty in nature, but mostly he worries about making new friends. His best friend was his grandad who sadly passed away BUT he returns to his life by order of her Majesty Queen Bee, who selects him out of millions of children to be her special human secret agent to help nature and the planet! ‘Rory Green, Secret Agent to the Queen’, written in a Dyslexia friendly font, is a fast-paced adventure about how children’s innovation and kindness can help save the future of our planet.

Suitable for age 6+

Lunar Living: Astrology for your Soul with Kirsty Gallagher

Meditation & MindfulnessChiswick House

Lunar Living: Astrology for your Soul with Kirsty Gallagher

Join Kirsty Gallagher to learn how to weave the secret and ancient wisdom of the moon into modern, everyday life. Kirsty will share with you all you need to know about the magic of the moon, how to work with the current astrology we are in and what to look for in your birth chart to know yourself better.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Root Down to Rise Up with Rosie Underwood

Yoga & StretchChiswick House

Root Down to Rise Up with Rosie Underwood

An energising and uplifting flow designed to elevate your mood, working through lots of poses that expand the body, setting you up on an incline as you begin your day at Happy Place! As an Integrative health coach, Rosie will weave her work around positive psychology into the practice, helping you train your mind to respond to situations with a more positive outlook.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Bodyism Sculpt

Energy StudioChiswick House

Bodyism Sculpt

Fuses dance fitness, dance-inspired conditioning, contemporary pilates and mobility practices to target smaller muscle groups and leaves you with a smile on your face.

Duration: 30 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Breathe and Flow with Richie Norton

Uplift StageChiswick House

Breathe and Flow with Richie Norton

Your introduction to the magical powers of breathwork; how it helps your mood, energy, sleep and recovery. Combining this with a short mindful movement flow to stretch, release and relax a busy mind.

Fearne Cotton

Book StallChiswick House

Fearne Cotton

Adele Roberts & Kate Holderness

Talk StageChiswick House

Adele Roberts & Kate Holderness

The Art (and the guilt) of Doing Nothing with Giselle La Pompe-Moore

Slow Down & RelaxChiswick House

The Art (and the guilt) of Doing Nothing with Giselle La Pompe-Moore

We all want more time to rest, but why do we feel guilty or uncomfortable when we get the chance to? Join Giselle La Pompe-Moore to explore why we often find ourselves resisting the very thing that we claim to want... which is, doing less. Stillness and reflection are often the balms we need, in a society that prizes chasing productivity, so why does it feel so hard? In this workshop, we'll find ways to rest down the resistance we have to slowing down. We'll explore how we can prioritise joy, presence and just being with ourselves, minus the guilt. Bring a journal and pen, as we move through writing prompts, a chat and a guided meditation (aka doing nothing).

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Fawe Movement

Energy StudioChiswick House

Fawe Movement

A transformational workout experience themed around the four elements; Fire, Air, Water, Earth. It is designed 'Fawe You' to power your body, mind, energy and restore balance. The workshop integrates challenging and playful movements with sound and breath work. Discovering power and expression through moving our bodies. In this class we, Exhale Worrier and Inhale Warrior.

Duration: 30 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Motionhouse Presents: LOST

Creative ArtsChiswick House

Motionhouse Presents: LOST

Exploring the limits of being physically and emotionally lost.

Lost explores the limits of what is it to be both physically and emotionally lost. The visceral and thought-provoking choreography of this male-female duet combines Motionhouse’s characteristic contact work, complex lifts, and athletic precision with emotionally charged fluidity. Sensual connection between the two dancers is fused with raw emotion as they desperately fight to pull each other back from the precipice, just catching each other before they fall. The breath-taking lifts and instinctive quality of the dance makes Lost an intimate, dramatic and passionate work.

A Journey to The Magical Crystal Cave with Stella Chenery

Children's AreaChiswick House

A Journey to The Magical Crystal Cave with Stella Chenery

• Breathing techniques for soothing the body & regulating the emotions
• Choosing a crystal and a short activity to connect to it.
• Journey to the Magical Crystal Cave guided meditation with crystal bowls and healing sounds
• Ending on the opportunity to draw your crystal cave/express the visualization you just experienced.

This is a pre-bookable workshop, please head to the Children's Area on the day to book your place.

Suitable for age 5+

Still I Rise – Soundscape Meditation with Adam Martin

Meditation & MindfulnessChiswick House

Still I Rise – Soundscape Meditation with Adam Martin

A soundscape meditation inspired by the work of Maya Angelou.
Created by writer and artist Adam Martin, GABA is storytelling meditation that unfolds like a symphony of birdsong, beats and kooky kimchi rhyme.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Yoga Happy Flow with Hannah Barrett

Yoga & StretchChiswick House

Yoga Happy Flow with Hannah Barrett

This all-level fluid flow plays with stacking movements to create a strong, sweaty and fun practice. Expect to leave the mat feeling connected, energised and full of joy.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Make and Manifest a Vision Board with Poppy Delbridge

Craft WorkshopsChiswick House

Make and Manifest a Vision Board with Poppy Delbridge

Poppy Delbridge has created rapid vision boards with everyone from Fortune 100 companies to A-list celebrities and now she will run you through how to craft the most effective board that you can take home and use to manifest what you want in your life - her unique blueprint will structure your dreams and fast track them into becoming a reality!

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Movement is Medicine with Emma Marshall

Uplift StageChiswick House

Movement is Medicine with Emma Marshall

Movement is Medicine is a neuroscience backed method created by Emma Marshall that uses somatic meditation, dance and music to get people out of the mind and into the body to release tension, stress and emotion.

Kirsty Gallagher

Book StallChiswick House

Kirsty Gallagher

Alice Liveing

Talk StageChiswick House

Alice Liveing

Live recording of the 'Give Me Strength' Podcast with Alice Liveing and guest, Oenone.

Shuffle with Gymbox

Energy StudioChiswick House

Shuffle with Gymbox

Go from training to trending in a few quick steps. Bringing the high-energy choreo from viral dances to the hyper-social vibe of our studio. Shuffle is the class to fine-tune footwork and challenge co-ordination with supreme TikTok-ready routines.

Duration: 30 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Gong Bath Meditation with Monica Bazzani

Slow Down & RelaxChiswick House

Gong Bath Meditation with Monica Bazzani

Immerse yourself in the healing and soothing sounds of the gongs, crystal singing bowls, drum and other instruments. Starting with a short guided meditation, you will be taken on a journey with the sounds to help you rest, relax and to allow you to connect more deeply to yourself.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Claire Daverley

Creative ArtsChiswick House

Claire Daverley

Book reading by Author, Claire Daverley, from her new release, 'Talking At Night'.

All in a Spin…Let’s Get Hula Hooping!

Children's AreaChiswick House

All in a Spin…Let’s Get Hula Hooping!

Join Clara from Planet Hoop for a fun filled hula hooping class, fun for all the family.

Suitable for all ages

Bedtime Breathwork with Silentnight

Meditation & MindfulnessChiswick House

Bedtime Breathwork with Silentnight

Bedtime breathwork with Silentnight - an immersive experience of breathwork and sound to help you sleep well and wake up refreshed. Sleep is essential to every process in the body, affecting our physical and mental functioning, our ability to fight disease and develop immunity, our metabolism and chronic disease risk.

Our breath is the key bridge to linking mind and body, scientifically proven to be the most important neuro-hacking tool to radically improve our physical health, emotional and mental state of being.

In this session, you will learn and experience key breathwork techniques that are known as an effective sleep-aid.
- Learn the science of sleep: discover what can make you sleep well or disturb your sleep?
- Understand what is breathwork? How breathwork techniques can help you sleep better?
- Experience a guided practice of selected breathwork techniques, with their proven abilities to induce and sustain deep relaxation and sleep.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Breath Exploration and Body Reset with Richie Norton

Yoga & StretchChiswick House

Breath Exploration and Body Reset with Richie Norton

Expect a combination of breathwork to take you on an experiential journey, then move through a mixture of flows that will work your full body. A mindful movement practice that ends in a deep state of relaxation. Bring an open mind and playful energy.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Quick Yoga Fix with Hannah Barrett

Uplift StageChiswick House

Quick Yoga Fix with Hannah Barrett

This short and nourishing flow focuses on freeing the body, connecting to the breath and calming the mind. All-levels welcome, expect to leave feeling grounded and free.

An Education in Natural Beauty and Self-care with Liha Beauty

Craft WorkshopsChiswick House

An Education in Natural Beauty and Self-care with Liha Beauty

Fusing British ingredients with traditional Yoruba natural bases and traditional methods. Join us for a delightful interactive workshop where you will focus on skin-food recipes.

Participants will learn how to make their own 100% natural organic multipurpose moisturising butter which can feature as a body lotion, massage oil, hair mask and intensive moisture balm for hands. You will learn about the healing powers of Shea butter and how to use it as a base along with simple kitchen ingredients everyone has to hand. There will also be a crash course on the basic principles of aromatherapy and natural perfumery using botanical essential oils.

This workshop includes a Q and A with Liha on any skincare questions or concerns, or how to scale your business idea from Kitchen to Commerce.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Movement is Medicine

Energy StudioChiswick House

Movement is Medicine

Movement is Medicine is a neuroscience backed method created by Emma Marshall that uses somatic meditation, dance and music to get people out of the mind and into the body to release tension, stress and emotion.

Duration: 30 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Dr Olivia Remes

Book StallChiswick House

Dr Olivia Remes

Vicky Pattison

Talk StageChiswick House

Vicky Pattison

Find Your Voice with Bhuti’s Sama Trinder

Slow Down & Relax

Find Your Voice with Bhuti’s Sama Trinder

Using our voice is our own sound healing. Breath-work, mantra (numinous sounds) and collective sounding and singing is ‘medicine’; releasing stress, tension, anxiety.
Voice activation helps us connect with our heart, clear communication blocks and discover our truth. Breath-work and movement practices will calm the body and mind, including an introduction to sounding and using the voice with movement for different effects.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Motionhouse Presents: LOST

Creative ArtsChiswick House

Motionhouse Presents: LOST

Exploring the limits of being physically and emotionally lost.

Lost explores the limits of what is it to be both physically and emotionally lost. The visceral and thought-provoking choreography of this male-female duet combines Motionhouse’s characteristic contact work, complex lifts, and athletic precision with emotionally charged fluidity. Sensual connection between the two dancers is fused with raw emotion as they desperately fight to pull each other back from the precipice, just catching each other before they fall. The breath-taking lifts and instinctive quality of the dance makes Lost an intimate, dramatic and passionate work.

Poppy Delbridge

Book StallChiswick House

Poppy Delbridge

Smile Workshop with Little Tweaks

Children's AreaChiswick House

Smile Workshop with Little Tweaks

This workshop will invite children and their parents to explore the power of their smile! Starting with a relaxing therapeutic smile massage,

Founder and CEO of the wellbeing children's company Little Tweaks, Laura Reilly, will journey the children through a magical meditation, helping them to activate their smile muscles and release those happy hormones. Once relaxed, the children and their parents will be invited to hold a resting position, while we go on a visualisation journey to explore their strengths and the associated feelings attached to that strength.

Suitable for age 8+

Better Boundaries – How to Become a Boundary Ninja with Donna Lancaster

Meditation & MindfulnessChiswick House

Better Boundaries – How to Become a Boundary Ninja with Donna Lancaster

Donna Lancaster is a therapist, group facilitator, writer and author of two books, The Bridge - A 9 step crossing into authentic and wholehearted living (Penguin Life), and Wise Words for Women, published by Happy Place books.

In this workshop Donna will playfully and joyfully teach you about the art of creating and holding healthy personal boundaries for enhanced connection, self-worth and well-being. You will leave Donna’s workshop feeling inspired, empowered, and ready to start practicing, in order to become a ‘boundary ninja!’

Here’s what’s included in the workshop:
- Understanding personal boundaries, including what they are and are not.
- Why most of us struggle with setting and holding clear boundaries.
- Recognising our needs and values and how these link to boundaries.
- Learning the art of clear communication including how your body speaks.
- How to move from feeling terrified to empowered when flexing your NO muscle.
- Understanding that personal boundaries are the ultimate form of self-love.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Beats, Breath & Flow with Jenny Haynes

Yoga & StretchChiswick House

Beats, Breath & Flow with Jenny Haynes

45 minutes of feel-good Breathwork and Vinyasa Yoga to music. A chance to really connect with your body, delve into your breath and have tons of fun flowing to the beat. Jenny uses a fully curated mix for the sessions from beginning to end, using style, BPM and tone to guide you through a Breath & Vinyasa masterclass. You'll leave this session energised and with a juicy endorphins boost!

All levels are very welcome.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Creative Dance Fitness with KIP Fits

Energy StudioChiswick House

Creative Dance Fitness with KIP Fits

A unique blend of freestyle dance, interactive physical games and a low impact bodyweight workout. All set to an eclectic playlist, taking you on a journey from Caribbean rare groove to electronic, classical and back. A space to play, dance, raise the spirits and build sustainable physical strength and mental creativity.

Duration: 30 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Laughter Yoga with Cat Googe

Uplift StageChiswick House

Laughter Yoga with Cat Googe

Join Cat for a delicious dive into the delights of Laughter Yoga! The positive effects of deep belly laughing on your physical, emotional and mental health are numerous; it is about so much more than laughter. Laughter Yoga is a super powerful wellness tool; following a session you can expect to feel energised and high vibe with a deeper connection to JOY. This taster session is suitable for all levels; all you need is a willingness to laugh.

Vicky Pattison

Book StallChiswick House

Vicky Pattison

An Introduction to Modern Calligraphy with Heather Syrett

Craft WorkshopsChiswick House

An Introduction to Modern Calligraphy with Heather Syrett

Learn the art of Modern Calligraphy in this fun and relaxing workshop, hosted by Heather from Leigh Calligraphy.
Learn to create basic strokes and form the beautiful letters of the Modern Calligraphy alphabet using a nib and ink and leave the workshop with your very own 'My Happy Place' print ready to display at home.

Calligraphy is a deeply meditative and relaxing practice which forces us to slow down, focus and breathe. It doesn't matter if you are left or right-handed, or if you have particularly neat handwriting! This taster workshop is suitable for total beginners and for anyone looking for a creative and therapeutic activity.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Live Podcast with Fearne Cotton and Giovanna & Tom Fletcher

Talk StageChiswick House

Live Podcast with Fearne Cotton and Giovanna & Tom Fletcher

Mantra Meditation for Self-Expansion with Katie George

Slow Down & RelaxChiswick House

Mantra Meditation for Self-Expansion with Katie George

Understand and practice the wonderfully transformative practice of mantra meditation and how it can be used to expand your sense of pure and true potential and possibility. Feel your mind and heart open as we journey through this silent mantra practice. Join us for an immediate uplift in restful awareness and feel the power of mantra based transcendental silence to positively impact your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Bodycon with Gymbox

Energy StudioChiswick House

Bodycon with Gymbox

Whether you’re a slave to the rhythm or addicted to bass, this catchy little body conditioning class is guaranteed to get peak fitness pouring from every pore. This is bodyweight endurance to a beat, challenging your strength, sculpting your figure and making music pulse through every muscle. The floor is yours.

Duration: 30 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Connecting To Nature Through Music with Aayushi

Creative ArtsChiswick House

Connecting To Nature Through Music with Aayushi

Join folk singer-songwriter Aayushi for an intimate, acoustic performance exploring the joys of nature through music. Aayushi will be offering songs about flowers, oceans, and forests to create a shared sense of joy and gratitude for our planet. You are encouraged to meditate, lie down, journal, doodle, or do any silent activity during the session that might aid your own personal process of reflection.

Creating Kinder Kids with Kingdom of Kindness

Children's AreaChiswick House

Creating Kinder Kids with Kingdom of Kindness

Using a mixture of yoga, drama games, gratitude practices and calming breath work, we will work together to complete kindness challenges.

Through role play we will practice empathy and compassion and your children will become aware of how they think, speak and behave in different situations. Ultimately your kids will learn skills and create habits that will benefit themselves, others and the world around them.

How to Beat Procrastination and Get Motivated with Dr. Olivia Remes

Meditation & MindfulnessChiswick House

How to Beat Procrastination and Get Motivated with Dr. Olivia Remes

University of Cambridge mental health researcher, Dr. Olivia Remes will show you new ways to take back control of your life based on science, and conquer procrastination. In this talk, she will show you how you can turn your life around by adopting simple strategies to help you overcome inertia and bounce back. And let go of self-limiting beliefs that hold you back from taking action.

Dr. Olivia Remes' work has been featured by the BBC, Forbes magazine and USA Today. She is also a life coach helping people overcome anxiety, fears and self-doubt and get closer to the life they want.

Her website is https://www.droliviaremes.com/

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Heading for Great Things with Jade Coles

Yoga & StretchChiswick House

Heading for Great Things with Jade Coles

Building strong foundations for a head stand and cool arm balances! A fun flow which is for all abilities to show the power of the female body!

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+ (must be accompanied by an adult)

Donna Lancaster

Book StallChiswick House

Donna Lancaster

Bodyism Signature

Energy StudioChiswick House

Bodyism Signature

This is a bodyweight interval training class, which also blends in a fusion of pilates and yoga, meditation and stretching. It is carefully designed to help people walk taller and stronger!

Duration: 30 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Live DJ Set with Denise Van Outen

Uplift StageChiswick House

Live DJ Set with Denise Van Outen

Ancestral Healing with Alex Bedoya

Slow Down & RelaxChiswick House

Ancestral Healing with Alex Bedoya

Integrating ancestral healing, bioenergetic therapy and shamanism, Alex helps individuals uncover and release those parts of their physical, emotional and spiritual bodies which have become stuck either through past trauma or other unresolved issues. Alex offers potent cleansing rituals that will help clear this energy stagnation so you can come home safely to the comfort of your body and to a loving, more fulfilled life.

The workshop involves:
- Untangling family dynamics
- Release mental, emotional and physical distress
- Healing the relationship with your parents by transforming the beliefs that prevent you from opening up to your life force
- Find your rightful place in life and thus free yourself from limiting beliefs

You will leave the workshop feeling a weight has been lifted and with a sense of serenity.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 18+

Make a Wellness Pack with The Papercraft Movement

Craft WorkshopsChiswick House

Make a Wellness Pack with The Papercraft Movement

This make-and-take class is a fabulously easy introduction to papercrafts and wellness journal packs. Suitable for beginners or anyone looking to gain insight into a mindful pastime, this friendly papercraft class will show you how to create your wellness journal pack from start to finish.

During the workshop, you will learn how to mat, layer, and create the base for the cover, pockets, embellishments, pages, and spine. We will also share tips to recreate designs without expensive tools or equipment.

By the end of the workshop, you will leave with the confidence to continue creating at home and be inspired to start mindful journaling.

All materials will be provided.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Giovanna & Tom Fletcher

Book StallChiswick House

Giovanna & Tom Fletcher

Introduction to Reiki for Children and Families with Bhumi Yoga

Children's AreaChiswick House

Introduction to Reiki for Children and Families with Bhumi Yoga

You are invited to come along with your child to learn about how reiki works to support your child when they face physical, mental and emotional challenges and discover the potential of the healing energy in all of our hands.

Learning to practice reiki can support your child in developing emotional resilience, increasing self awareness and self esteem and enhancing the quality of sleep and relaxation. In this session we learn what reiki is, introduce the idea of the energy body and the reiki principles and we explore some healing practices that we can all use in our daily lives.

Suitable for age 10+

Mind & Body Relaxation for Better Sleep with Natasha Taylor

Meditation & MindfulnessChiswick House

Mind & Body Relaxation for Better Sleep with Natasha Taylor

Learn how to use the power of hypnotherapy to reprogramme your mind to help you reach your ultimate sleep goals.

In our meditation & hypnotherapy workshop, we will guide you into a deep, safe and natural state of relaxation where we talk directly to your subconscious mind, the place where all your beliefs, behaviours, habits and negative thinking patterns live, in order to reroute your thinking patterns.

Here we will train you to let go of any worries and anxieties before bed, release stress and tension from your body, introduce healthy bedtime habits as well as create the optimum sleep environment and as a result, you will find yourself falling asleep much more easily and effortlessly as well as enjoying longer, better quality sleep.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Somatic Movement Workshop with Karen Statner

Yoga & StretchChiswick House

Somatic Movement Workshop with Karen Statner

Join me to learn and explore some basic Essential Somatic movements. You will learn how to pandiculate, which is a gentle but direct way of relaxing tight and stressed muscles. Chronic muscle tension can cause discomfort, limited range of movement and fatigue. It can also cause many kinds of symptoms including back pain, shoulder pain, feeling anxious and feeling disconnected to name just a few. In this workshop I will guide you to move gently, within your range of comfort and with a focus upon awareness, helping you to feel less stressed, more comfortable and to move more freely.

Exploring Somatic movement is like restoring you back to your factory settings, before tension and stress accumulated and injuries occurred.

Duration: 45 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

Creative Dance Fitness with KIP Fits

Energy StudioChiswick House

Creative Dance Fitness with KIP Fits

A unique blend of freestyle dance, interactive physical games and a low impact bodyweight workout. All set to an eclectic playlist, taking you on a journey from Caribbean rare groove to electronic, classical and back. A space to play, dance, raise the spirits and build sustainable physical strength and mental creativity.

Duration: 30 minutes
Age Restriction: 16+

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