Make time for balance before December
Balance and integrate: time for yourself
How often do you reach the end of a day and realise you haven’t had a moment to yourself? As December approaches, it’s easy to fill the diary with arrangements for everyone else and leave your own needs until later.
Our final Yoga Lab of the year, on Saturday 28 November, is an opportunity to give yourself two hours of attention. The theme is Balance and integrate, bringing together movement, breathwork, restorative yoga and meditation, with a cacao ceremony to mark the close of our Yoga Lab year.
What helps you find balance?
When we practise balancing poses, we quickly discover that standing still involves plenty of small adjustments. Our feet, muscles, breath and attention are all involved. And if we start thinking about the shopping list, we soon know about it!
There is something useful to learn here. Finding balance takes awareness and a willingness to adjust to how we feel today. Sometimes a little support makes all the difference.
We’ll explore this through our practice, taking time to notice what helps us feel steady and where we might be working harder than necessary. As always in a Yoga Lab, there will be room to ask questions, try different approaches and understand your body a little better.
Bringing it all together
Throughout the year, the Yoga Labs have given us opportunities to explore different aspects of practice. This final session is a chance to bring some of that learning together and consider how we use it beyond the mat.
Perhaps you’ve become more aware of your breathing, found an adjustment that makes a pose more comfortable or learnt to recognise when you need to rest. Integration means giving those discoveries a place in your everyday life.
You don’t need to have attended the previous workshops to join us. Come with whatever experience you have, even if it has been a while since you last practised.
We’ll make time for restorative yoga and meditation too. After moving and exploring, we’ll allow ourselves to settle and enjoy a proper rest.
A cacao ceremony to close the year
We’ll also share a cacao ceremony, taking time over a warm cup of cacao to reflect and enjoy being together. I’ll guide the experience, so you don’t need to know anything about it beforehand.
It feels like a lovely way to finish our year of learning and practising together, before we head into the activity of December.
Join the final Yoga Lab
If your practice has slipped down the list recently, you are welcome back. If you’ve been coming regularly, this is a chance to explore further and give yourself a little more time than a weekly class allows.
Yoga Lab: Balance and integrate
Saturday 28 November 2026, 10:00–12:00
W G Grace Community Centre, 1 Lion’s Close, London SE9 4HG
£35, including the cacao ceremony
Give yourself a morning to move, learn and rest before December begins.
