Slow things down just before the Autumn Equinox, and step back from the pressure to “do” with this relaxing rest-shop. Like a workshop, but with zero "work", this extended session is designed to revive your nervous system and ready you for the season ahead after a proper rest. This is the third round of Sophia's seasonal rest-shops in 2025, taking place in line with the Autumn Equinox, which welcomes a more yin energy as the nights start to get longer than the days once again. It’s at this time of year when A quarterly opportunity to rest and recharge, these sessions create space for you to feel renewed and ready for the coming season.

We'll check in to settle into the space and connect with your body. This arrival will be followed by a discussion about our resistance to rest, optional breathwork, intention-setting and nervous system regulation techniques to find calm embodiment. Next, drop into longer-held, static yin poses to open up joints and prepare your body for total stillness. The 2nd hour is pure comfort, with restorative yoga postures and yoga nidra to rest your body and reset inside and out.

Thai Yoga Massage Workshop

Slow down and reconnect through conscious movement, breath, and touch. In this workshop, you’ll explore partner yoga, assisted stretching, and Thai massage techniques inspired by the principle of Metta Bhavana loving-kindness in action.

Often called “the lazy person’s yoga,” Thai massage uses gentle pressure and passive stretching to release tension and restore balance in the body.

No experience or partner needed, just come with curiosity and a willingness to learn.

Jaqui has a yoga practice spanning 28 years and 18 years of teaching experience.  She is both an AcroYoga teacher and Thai massage practitioner.

This immersive retreat at PAUS invites you to awaken your body with energising yoga and breath-work, reconnect with nature on barefoot trails to bring your senses to life, clear the mind in a nature based meditation, and indulge in a nutritious yet delicious vegetarian lunch. 

After lunch comes three hours of bliss… soaking in hot tubs, soothing yourself in the sauna, plunge pool, and just chilling. Spot wildlife, play in a maze, laze in deck chairs or hammocks, read, journal, nap or just enjoy the views across the 13 acres of Cambridgeshire meadowland! 

 There's another more calming yoga, breath work and meditation session late afternoon, so you end the day with a stretch, restore, and recharge for the journey home and the approaching autumn!

 It's £130 for a gorgeous full day of indulging the senses. 

Learning to fly requires you to trust and let go.  This practice is both unique and stimulating; one is suspended in the air, allowing the practitioner to work with the weight-bearing gravity of the flyer. 

Flying therapeutics is: –

• being suspended in the air on the base’s hands and feet;

• being flown, often in an inverted position, where gravity aids length and space to the torso, shoulders and spine; and

• through a sequence of assisted stretches, encourages the feeling of flight and lightness.   

We would recommend attending the Partner Yoga & Thai Massage workshop to attain the most out of our Flying Therapeutics workshop.  Open to all with an interest in massage techniques.  No partner is necessary. You will be working in pairs or in groups of three.  Come with a willingness to learn something new.  

Jaqui has a yoga practice spanning 28 years and 18 years of teaching experience.  She is both an AcroYoga teacher and Thai massage practitioner.