Devotion to Nature, with Monica Voss
Many of us have been searching for meaning during this difficult time for the whole world. Devotion to – or even momentary awareness of – Nature will provide succour for our discouraged minds, physical support for our tired bodies, rich sensory experience, and will foster hope in our hearts. We can trust in the benefits that studying our environment provides.
Whether you are moving, stretching, creating yoga postures or being still, take time during your practice to appreciate what’s outside your body, outside your home. As a focus for meditation, the natural world holds infinite space, variety, depth, and promise.
Monday, May 11, The Meditatio Centre, St Mark’s Myddelton Square, London, EC1R 1XX, 6:30-9:00pm, £25, contact Lucy Barnes, lucybarnesyoga@icloud.com
Friday, May 29, Unit 4, Brighton, Pete Blackaby, 4-6pm, £30, peteblackaby@icloud.com, 07505557721, https://www.peterblackaby.co.uk/yoga/classes/
Saturday, May 30, Jasmine Trust, Retford, Notts, Carolyn Clarke, 10am-4pm, £60, info.jasminetrust@gmail.com, 01777 711770, https://jasminetrust.co.uk/events
Monica Voss has been a student and practitioner of yoga for over 45 years. She studied with Esther Myers, Vanda Scaravelli and Mary Stewart. In addition to co-owning and directing Esther Myers Yoga Studio in Toronto, Canada, Monica conducts workshops, retreats and teacher training internationally. She has been offering annual sessions in the UK since 1989.
Image: Detail from Ram and Lakshman wait out the monsoon, Tulsidas Ramayana, c. 1775
Exploring the Wave, with Monica Voss
We embody a variety of internal rhythms – the heart beat, digestion, lymphatic flow, etc – and dropping our focus inside will help us locate, understand and enhance wave-like spinal pulsation, one of the body’s most elusive rhythms, and one of the three foundational concepts in Vanda Scaravelli’s approach to Hatha yoga.
In this workshop, we’ll ground and rest, breathe, roll about, bounce and shake, circle and wiggle, all in serious fun, all as means of experiencing the rhythmic elongation of the spine. Everyone is welcome!
Saturday, May 16, Morganstown Village Hall, Cardiff, CF15 8LG, 10:00am-4:00pm, £65, Diana O’Reilly, d-or@hotmail.co.uk, 07772 593 246, www.dianaoreillyyoga.co.uk
Thursday, May 28, Wimborne Methodist Church, 4a King St., Wimborne, Dorset, BH211DY, 2:00-4:00pm, £25, Prim Young, 07436 148 480, primyoung1@gmail.com
Monica Voss has been a student and practitioner of yoga for over 45 years. She studied with Esther Myers, Vanda Scaravelli and Mary Stewart. In addition to co-owning and directing Esther Myers Yoga Studio in Toronto, Canada, Monica conducts workshops, retreats and teacher training internationally. She has been offering sessions in the UK since 1989.
Image: Breaking Wave, Lyme Regis, Fred Cuming
Yoga and Meditation coastal retreat: St Davids, West Wales
Monday, May 18 – Saturday, May 23, 2026, with Monica Voss
This retreat will offer yoga practice, relaxation, meditation and pranayama in a beautiful purpose-built roundhouse with underfloor heating. As well as the yoga, there will be plenty of space and time for personal reflection, writing, walking, socializing, resting and enjoying the peace and tranquility of both the estate and local area. You may participate in every session or take time out to relax or explore the beautiful countryside. Everyone, at any level of yoga, is welcome.
http://www.trefacwn.co.uk
‘The soul of the retreat was provided by the masterful teacher, Monica Voss. Her rich life’s experience comes through in her classes with generosity and kindness, and her wisdom transmits straight into the heart of it. As a mature yoga teacher, dancer and master somatic therapist myself, it is rare that I have encountered a teacher of this stature with such grace and humility.
I had wanted to return to Wales since my first visit there at the tender age of nineteen when I was captivated by the spirit of the land and am so glad I got to return to experience it through this retreat.
Much gratitude to the organizers Jo and Di, to Monica’s teachings, to the venue Trefacwn and to everyone who contributed to this wonderful retreat.’ -Mariko Tanabe, from A Yoga Adventure in Wales.
For more information and to register, contact Di O’Reilly, d-or@hotmail.co.uk or Jo Bogacz, jo_bogacz@hotmail.com. Alternatively, feel free to call Di at 07772593256, or Jo at 07966050826.
MONICA VOSS has been a student and practitioner of yoga for over 45 years. She learned from Esther Myers, Vanda Scaravelli and Mary Stewart. In addition to co-owning and directing at Esther Myers Yoga Studio in Toronto, Canada, Monica conducts workshops, retreats and teacher training internationally.