Monthly Seasonal Sangha
Saturdays 9.30am – 12 noon
Charlecote Village Hall CV35 9EW
Coming together in practice, reflection and community
Our Seasonal Sangha gatherings offer a space to pause, reconnect and come home to ourselves as we move through the turning of the year.
Sangha is a coming together of people who share a wish to practice, enquire and live with greater awareness. These gatherings are an opportunity to step away from the busyness of everyday life and spend time in good company, exploring what the season might be inviting us to notice — both in the natural world around us and within ourselves.
Through inner enquiry, yoga postures, breath, relaxation and meditation, we let the spirit of season guide us in an exploration of how we might carry what we discover about ourselves on the mat into the challenges of everyday life, meeting them with greater awareness and reducing the inner discord they can create.
A seasonal soothing Ayurveda tea and chat in the lovely garden at Charlcote village hall, overlooking the fields, brings a lovely close to the morning. Sangha members report returning home feeling nourished and happy.
Each gathering is shaped by the qualities of the season and the combination of traditional Hatha yoga, breathwork, relaxation, meditation and inner enquiry are given seasonal themes, inspired Ayurvedic and Yogic wisdom.
Rather than simply learning something and leaving it on the mat, we explore how our practice can become a way of meeting life itself — noticing our habitual responses, listening more deeply to the body and mind, and discovering how the awareness we cultivate through practice can support us in the challenges and richness of everyday life.
There is also time to simply be together: to share, listen, reflect and enjoy the sense of community that comes from practicing alongside others.
The seasons give us a beautiful framework for this enquiry. Each one carries different qualities and invitations — to awaken and renew, to expand and enjoy, to gather and reflect, or to slow down and turn inward. As we learn to notice these rhythms in nature, we can become more attuned to them within ourselves.
These are not classes where you need to achieve anything or arrive with a particular level of experience. They are spaces to pause, practice, enquire, receive and nourish.
A chance to meet yourself where you are, to be nourished by practice and community, and to carry something of that awareness back into your everyday life.
Come for the practice.
Expand through the enquiry.
Find belonging in a loving Sangha.
DATES 2026:
Sept 19th, Oct 24, Nov 21, Dec13.
“A beautiful chance to focus on reconnecting and grounding ourselves, with a lovely welcoming group. The morning wakrshp was both challenging and gentle – all in the right ways. I would love to come to the next one…”.
Rosie Field, past participant
” The quality and range of your teaching is amazing…I can’ thank you enough.”
D. Owen, Stratford Upon Avon
Seasonal Sangha Itinerary
A gentle nurturing rhythm
9:30am – Welcome & Arriving
Begin the day with a moment’s stillness and sacred chant, to invoke blessings for our immersion into practice.
9.40am – Tantra- Hatha Yoga Class
Posture, Pranayama, Guided Relaxation and Meditation, bring balance to the body, calm to the mind, and space in the heart to allow the spirit of the season to penetrate and bring new insights and perspectives,
11.00am – Seasonal Self Enquiry Building on our practice on the mat, we turn our attention towards the theme of the session and the insights it has awakened within us. From this open and receptive state, we enquire into how what we have experienced — through the practices, our bodies, breath and minds — might be carried into everyday life, bringing greater awareness, understanding and the possibility for growth in the weeks ahead.
11:30am – Ayurveda Seasonal Herb Tea, Treat & Chat with Sangha Friends – old and new.
Time to nurture heart and mind with good, inspring company.
12 noon – Clearing Up and Saying Farewell – until the next time!
What’s Included:
- Initial Guided Relaxation: A gentle opportunity to arrive, settle and leave the busyness of everyday life behind.
- Tantra Hatha Yoga Class: Transforming body and mind through awareness, breath and embodied practice, and coming to rest in the heart. A complete and intentional practice for shifting our inner state.
- Guided Inner Enquiry: A gentle, personal enquiry with notebook and pen, exploring patterns, situations and experiences that may bring discord to heart and mind. Through carefully chosen questions, we open ourselves to a deeper listening to our own inner wisdom and guidance.
- Sharing: Time to come together in small groups to share where the practices have resonated, any insights that have arisen, and any intentions or resolutions we may wish to carry forward from them.
- Tea & Connection: Time to relax, talk and enjoy positive social connection with others who share an interest in personal growth, awareness and living with greater presence.
Who are the Sangha sessions for?
The Sangha sessions are for anyone who feels drawn to explore yoga as a path of deeper self-awareness and inner growth, rather than simply as physical exercise. They are for those who want to pause, listen more deeply and discover how the awareness cultivated through practice can begin to transform the way we meet ourselves and everyday life. You do not need to be experienced in meditation or inner enquiry, but you will need a willingness to explore, reflect and meet yourself with openness and curiosity. Above all, these gatherings are for people who value authentic connection, personal growth and the possibility of finding belonging within a warm and supportive community.
Your Retreat Host:
I’m Sara Palmer, also known as Shama, and I am the founder of Heart of Ayurveda. I am passionate about giving you the opportunity to experience the full reach of Yoga and meditation, and the life-transforming glimpse of your innermost being that these wonderful paths can bring to you.
I have always put time aside for regular intentional home practice, guided by the seasons more recently, always guided by whatever is taking place within my own heart and mind. These mornings are an invitaton to you to step into the same.
They are offered as a safe space within which to come back to the heart and soul of you we are.
There is nothing like the support of community and group energy to help us move even deeper into practice, and so to reap greater rewards from our practice.
I am a Senior Yoga Teacher, and my approach to yoga is one that recognises that Yoga can build within us a gentle strength – not only the physical kind, but also mental-emotional and spiritual. In this way, it can effect a profound healing.
EVENT INVESTMENT
£25.00 per person. Please click the button below to reserve your place. OR contact me by replying to this email.
THE VENUE
Our venue is Charlecote Village Hall, a sweet and cosy village hall with a lovely garden with views across the countryside for warmer times of year.
What Sangha Members Are Saying:
“The Seasonal Sangha is a beautiful chance to focus on reconnecting and grounding ourselves, within a lovely welcoming group. The Late Summer morning practices were both challenging and gentle in all the right ways.” Rosie Field, Shipston
“I so enjoyed the Saturday Sangha session. Having two and half hours of practice, meditation and relaxation was so nourishing and healing. It was good “me” time, a good escape from the hurly burly of life and it was so lovely to meet new people too. Everyone was very friendly and welcoming. Sara is so inpsring and informative, creating a gentle and peaceful atmosphere.” Sunny Ormonde, Stratford Upon Avon
“I really enjoyed reconnecting to my personal peace and space on the mat this morning. It came at a pertinent moment and these times with Sara are always guaranteed to be meaningful. As well as working through Vata dosha with some subtley challenging asanas, we als had a chance to reconnect with our yoga buddies and to meet new ones. Always a joy on every level.” Mandy McLeod, Ashow
“We had a lovely morning of Yoga, followed by thought prpovoking group discussions. Plenty of takers filled the hall, creating a good atmosphere. I had an enjoyable morning”. Les Anscombe, Stratford Upon Avon