From pleasure to joy

November 27th -March 5th
Over this 12 week course, you'll be invited to awaken, experience, and uncover how to live from your deepest essence.
When flowing freely, your essence can spark ripples of internal joy for no obvious reason, and invite fortuitous situations to effortlessly fall into place.  It can allow you to feel whole-not just internally, but in connection with everything around you, and with the unfolding of your life. 
Through movement, breath work, meditation and deep listening, you'll be guided into your essence by cultivating an intimacy with subtle pleasure. This pleasure arises from deep within, independent of external influences. While it doesn't deny the joy that can come from the pleasures of food, shopping, touch, or thrilling activities, this deeper pleasure is longer-lasting, more satisfying, and filled with the effervescent essence of you.

What the course involves:

Times & Classes:
The first 4 weeks, just before the winter festivities, will guide you into the subtle energies within, awakening your senses so you can experience and live more richly from your pleasure within. 

Then we'll break between 18th Dec - Jan 15th. Where you can enjoy and be nourished by all you've learnt. 

In mid-January, we'll reconnect, and deepen into your experience of subtle pleasure by uncovering its connection to your intuition.

Finally, in the last 4 weeks, you'll integrate everything you've cultivated into experiencing and expressing your creativity.
- Meeting Wednesday's 10.15 - 11.30 GMT, for a movement, breathwork and meditation class (1hr 15)
You can attend this live or by recording in your own time.
- Optional extra: is to join once a month for a women's circle (for women) and a men's circle (for men).
This is to give an intimate space to share more deeply about the different aspects of pleasure.
​Specific dates/times given below for each month (more of these sessions might be added, if other time options are needed).
- A pleasure class just for men led by Godfrey and a pleasure class just for women led by Olivia.
These will be held late January/early February time. You can attend these live or by recording in your own time.

Dates & booking:

 You can book for the whole three courses (12 weeks)  or one course (4 weeks)  at a time
From pleasure to joy
Softness:
the gateway to pleasure
including a
​women's circle & men's circle
Thursday December 12th
6.30 - 7.30 GMT
Subtlety:
the portal to intuition​
including a
​women's circle & men's circle
Thursday January 30th
6.30 - 7.30 GMT
Creativity:
taking your place in the world
including a
​women's circle & men's circle
Thursday February 27th
6.30 - 7.30 GMT

What you will get from this course:

Who is this course for:
- You will learn a range of movement and stillness practices to access your subtle pleasure.
- You will learn how to navigate and integrate discomfort in your body and challenging emotions (such as anxiety, fear, grief, anger, and loneliness) through your connection with subtle pleasure.
- You will gain the tools to access more readily your intuitive and creative skills. 
- You will learn breathing practices to release stresses and tensions whilst developing deep core strength. 
- You may also experience many other personal discoveries along your journey into your subtle pleasure.
Anyone who is inspired by the thought of deepening into their own pleasure and curios to what that might bring.
And has enough mobility to walk upstairs and sit on the floor unaided (so you'll be able to do the movement practice offered).

Have a look here for answers to any more questions you might have:

Further details...

Taught by Olivia Crooks

Olivia began training in teaching yoga in 2001, in Sydney Australia. After that in 2003 she began a 10 year apprenticeship with Godfrey Devereux. This eventually led to her assisting and co-teaching his teacher trainings. 
For the last 14 years she has been running workshops, courses, intensives and retreats (specifically for women). Teaching somatic movement, meditation and pranayama. 
She continues to teach with Godfrey each year on their annual winter Somatic Meditation Retreat and summer Radical Ecology Retreat.
​Olivia is striking in her inability to be inauthentic, or lean on any external authority. From her deep trust in life she extends, in her presence, words, actions and teaching, an almost irresistible invitation to say 'yes' more deeply to life just as it is.

Assisted by Daniel Scoble, who will host men's circle's for men

Daniel is a therapist, personal trainer and nutritionist. He has been working with groups these past 4 years, in compassionate enquiry and somatic therapy.
He has a broad and deep capacity to hear and meet other's in spaces of sharing, listening and healing.

With guest teacher Godfrey Devereux, who will teach a class on pleasure for men

Godfrey is one of initiators of the Yoga Renaissance that began in the 1990s. The yoga program he created  at the Life Centre in London, and his ground breaking book ‘Dynamic Yoga’ steered yoga from the cultural margins towards the irresistible phenomenon it is today. Author of many more books, not only on yoga, his influence within and beyond the world of yoga is incalculable. ​
His potent and accessible methodologies of somatic transformation, including 'The Dynamic Yoga Training Method', ’Slow Tantra’, ’Somatic Meditation’, and 'Somatic Resilience Training', have enriched the lives of thousands of practitioners and hundreds of teachers. As a master teacher his effectiveness depends directly on his ability to share his embodied experience of body, mind and Consciousness. ​