An Autumn Yoga Retreat Day on Sunday 27th September, at  Burnham Overy Staithe village hall. 

 Subtle and nourishing yoga, with awareness of our breath, our body, physical sensation and inner feelings. People love the balance of the retreat days. Plenty of quiet and time to enjoy walking together to the beach afterwards.

Starting at 10am and finishing around 4pm. Cost is £60  Please bring your own mat and blanket,and your own lunch. Tea and coffee will be provided.

SATURDAYS 19TH SEPTEMBER & 10TH OCTOBER 2026 2026 10-1PM

Combining Yoga and Authentic Movement into one field of exploration.

We’ll begin with an hour of experiential Yoga, then open into Authentic Movement practice.

Cost £40 per session.

Open to all levels of experience.

Training morning

Wisdom in Motion: 230-Hour Yoga Teacher Training for Life Transitions

“Navigating the in-between spaces where endings and beginnings overlap.”

Is it time to share your love of yoga in a new way?
Are you ready for a new chapter—one rooted in purpose, wellbeing and community?

Offered by: Whole Health Pathways | Lead Teacher: Michelle Cheesbrough & Guest Teachers.

Start Date 21st March 2026- End date – 10th Jan 2027

YOGA

SATURDAY 25TH JULY 2026

COST £55

A day of exploration of the yoga postures. . Experience the subtle quality of movement, breath and attention, which allows for new sensation, and a different approach . The body learning to undo and let go, through alert watchfulness. Through playfulness, the beginners mind may be uncovered. We will explore yoga shapes, to discover pathways and connections throughout the whole body. Students of all levels are welcome. Walk together to the Cley beach afterwards.

AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT with MELANIE WILLSHER

SATURDAYS 10-1PM 30TH MAY, 27TH JUNE 2026

These workshops offer an introduction to the mover-witness framework, often known as Authentic Movement. Everyone is welcome. For those new to the practice, each person will be given a basic understanding of the particular way we practice, and of how we speak.

This is a practice of moving with eyes closed, while another person witnesses, without judgement or interpretation. From this simple structure, a rich field of experience can emerge. The work invites an inner listening to sensation, feeling and imagery. Often the experience is of "being moved" rather than choosing or directing movement. Noticing what is present, and allowing experience to unfold in its own time.

There is space to reflect through drawing, writing , and speaking together. Describing experience in a way that stays close to what is seen and felt.

The  approach is shaped by the teachings of Linda Hartley.

Self-care: Participants are asked to take responsibility for their own well-being, and to consider their capacity to engage with this depth of process. The workshops create space for personal exploration and embodied enquiry. 

COST £35 each

Winter Yoga  SATURDAY MORNING Workshops

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14TH 2026

10:00am – 13:00 

Cost £35 each

A day of yoga, inspired by Vanda Scaravelli. We will focus on the natural undulation of breath, and feel how the spine stays in constant motion, in response to the breath. Exploring through the dance and poetry of the yoga poses.

Katsura Isobe and Melanie together welcome you to the rich, transformative practice of Authentic Movement.

In these afternoon workshops through mindfulness in movement, you will learn how to track your movement, inner sensations and feelings, while moving in the presence of two witnesses.

During movement sessions, there will be time for you to reflect, draw or write in your journal.

Cost £40

Qigong Workshops      

With Cathy Talboys

Qigong simply means to cultivate and work our Qi,

that is, our Vital Energy.

Through some simple Qigong exercises,

I will introduce to you, the Principles of Qigong,

showing you how to promote the flow of Qi from nature to within and throughout your body, improving co-ordination, flexibility and circulation. Qigong is a restorative Practice that benefits all our bodily systems and organs

as well as helping with our Wellbeing, providing us with the Strength and Vitality, we all need.

I have learnt and practiced Qigong Forms, passed on by Qigong Masters, for the past 27 years, encompassing Dayan Qigong, Shibashi 18 Form Tai Chi Qigong, and recently Zhineng Qigong. Together with my accumulative Qigong knowledge and my passion for the Practice I would like to continue my informal introduction to the values and health benefits of Qigong to you all.

Saturday July 5th - Calming the Mind

10-3pm or 10-12.30pm. All are welcomed for a shared vegetarian lunch £40

Saturday September 6th - Healing and Rejuvenating 10-12:30pm £25

Saturday November 1st - Keeping our Vital Energy Flowing 10-12:30pm £25

To book a place; melaniewillsheryoga@ gmail.com

Venue: Aylsham Business Estate, Shepheards Close, Studio 20, NR116SZ.

Any queries;cathy.talboys@btinternet.com 

Yoga and Breathing with awareness. These explorative sessions  are about losing tension, and moving with more ease. Slow attentive practice, with a lot of curiosity. Building confidence in  our unique way of moving, listening to our feelings as they arise.

12TH JULY

COST £30

Aylsham QIGONG with CATHY TALBOYS

24TH MAY 10-12pm Cost £20

Cathy Talboys Having practiced Taoist Qigong for 25 years, I would like to continue my informal introduction to the principles and health benefits of Qigong, through a set of simple Qigong exercises. By practicing these gentle stretching movements, engaging our whole body, we shall promote slow, deep breathing while focusing on physical sensations, to Calm the Mind.

This will promote the flow of Qi from nature to within and throughout our body , improving co-ordination, flexibility and circulation, benefitting all our bodily systems and organs.

Where the Mind goes Qi follows. 

Where Attention goes, Energy flows.

SATURDAYS 10-1PM COST £30 each

22ND MARCH, 19TH APRIL

Inspired by the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli, we explore our relationship to gravity , moving with lightness, fluidity and grace. Freeing the spine and the breath , we will explore different ways to maintain, or restore, normal human movement. This means asking the spine to turn, flex, extend and side bend. Sometimes in flow, noticing how we’re feeling and moving, or simply still and resting to find support through our bones and the floor.

8TH MARCH 2025             10 to 4pm

Cost £55 

Tea and coffee provided, but please bring your own lunch .

 To book  melaniewillsheryoga@gmail.com 

Phone 07931144014

Practice, explore and discover different ways to move in relationship to your own breathing body..

Bring a yoga mat and blanket.

I hold a warm and enquiring teaching environment,  open to all levels of experience. 

My approach is influenced by the work of Vanda Scaravelli. Finding support from the earth, to undo tension, to become more stable, steady and secure in our body and being. Our breathing  may settle, and the mind becomes less busy, as we feel and sense our way through the yoga positions.   Yoga  can lead us to a calmer, quieter place in our lives, reducing suffering. Teaching  since 2000, while completing the BWY training, and studying with Vanda’s students, I continue to explore a more natural and easeful way of freeing up our postural habits, and breathing patterns, as we pay attention to ourselves in the moment. 

A one year training in Yoga and Mindfulness with Melanie Willsher and Dr Pema Clark

This experiential yoga and mindfulness training, will explore how a deeper sensory understanding of yoga, can help us develop our ability to pay attention to ourselves in the moment. The course will be spent in guided yoga practice with Melanie, interwoven with Buddhist meditation and yoga with Pema.

TIME Saturday 10:00-4pm (with a shared vegetarian/vegan lunch)

DECEMBER 14TH

COST £50

Qigong Workshops with Cathy Talboys  

                     Saturday August 31st 2024

Healing our Inner Self

Qigong simply means to cultivate and work our Qi,

that is, our Vital Energy.

Through some simple Qigong exercises,

I will introduce to you, the Principles of Qigong.

I will show you how to release your stale Qi, and gather fresh Qi,

allowing it to become unified within and throughout your body, helping

with your Wellbeing, providing you with the Strength and Vitality, we all need.

By becoming Mindful of practicing gentle Qigong stretching movements that engage our whole body, we shall promote deep slow breathing, creating a Meditation in Motion.

This will promote the flow of Qi from nature to within and throughout our body, improving co-ordination, flexibility and circulation, benefitting all our bodily systems and organs.

I have learnt and practiced Qigong Forms, passed on by Qigong Masters, for the past 25 years, encompassing Dayan Qigong, Shibashi 18 Form Tai Chi Qigong, and recently Zhineng Qigong. Together with my accumulative Qigong knowledge and my passion for the Practice I would like to continue my informal introduction to the values and health benefits of Qigong to you all.

Where Mind goes Qi follows

Where Attention goes, Energy flows

Aylsham Business Estate, Shepheards Close, Studio 20, NR116SZ.

To book; melaniewillsheryoga@ gmail.com

TAI-CHI & Ch’i-Kung Workshop

SATURDAY 7TH OCTOBER with Jonathan Drake

at the Skylight Studio 20, Shepheards Close, Aylsham Business Estate, NR116SZ

TIME 10:00 to 12:00 COST £20

Tai-chi is well-known for improving balance and coordination, but it does so much more…

If there was one way to tick (almost) all of the fitness boxes - including boosting your immune system, energy levels and sense of well-being – it would be TAI-CHI.

Do you want an authentic approach, directly connected to the Yang (the most popular style of Tai-chi world-wide) family in Hong Kong? I am studying with their main student, Jim Uglow, based in London.

Learn a series of softening exercises, devised by Mary Yang, which are fundamental to acquiring the skills needed in practising the Tai-chi form. These target every part of the body, starting from the top down. 

The form consists of movements which have martial applications but we’ll focus mainly on all the health benefits. “Ch’i-Kung”, which means “cultivating energy”, has its own programme in the Yang family’s teaching, but is also an intrinsic part of the Tai-chi.

Never get bored with Tai-chi! Its depth and range of understanding of the human condition, mind, body and spirit, can sustain you for the rest of your life.

Jonathan Drake has been studying this method of Tai-chi for over 20 years. He also teaches the Alexander Technique, the Art of Swimming and Indoor Rowing.

For more information, contact Jonathan on 07746 085212

or email: jossdrake@gmail.com

TO BOOK email: melaniewillsheryoga@gmail.com

www.everydayfitness.co.uk

AYLSHAM MORNING WORKSHOP 

SUNDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER 2023 

10:00 to 13:00 COST £30 

ROSEN METHOD BODYWORK AND YOGA 

Louisa Turner is a Rosen Method Bodywork Teacher, Practitioner and Physiotherapist. Drawing on over 30 years experience of bodywork, she will be facilitating paired touch exercises, to help deepen our self understanding of how we are holding our bodies, and responding to one another. Awareness of our physical and emotional self helps us gain a deeper experience of the postures and attitudes we habitually bring to our daily interactions.  Louisa brings her 25 years experience of meditating and her practice as an ordained Buddhist. 

Melanie Willsher teaches an approach to Yoga inspired by Vanda Scaravelli. This Yoga is subtle and sensitive, supported and guided by the breath, the earth and the awakening of the spine. Rosen Method bodywork complements and nourishes the Yoga. Both approaches invite us to discover for ourselves, a more natural and easeful way of working with our body.

Skylight Studio 20, Shepheards Close, Aylsham Business Estate, NR116SZ, Norfolk melaniewillsheryoga.com and touch-matters.co.uk 

To book melaniewillsheryoga@gmail.com

Morning yoga workshop with Melanie

FREEING THE SPINE We will explore different ways to maintain, or restore, normal human movement. This means asking the spine to turn, flex, extend and side bend. Sometimes in flow, noticing how we're feeling and moving, or simply still and resting to find support through our bones and the floor.

Melanie runs weekly classes in her studio in Aylsham , and weekend workshops and retreats in Norfolk. Melanie has been studying the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli for over 20 years. She also teaches Authentic Movement.

SATURDAY AUGUST 19TH 10-12:30PM, COST £25

Mats and blankets will be provided.

YOGA AND QIGONG

SATURDAY 22ND  JULY  2023

10:00 to 13:00 Cost £30

BREATHING THROUGH THE WHOLE BODY

FLEXIBILITY AND SUPPLENESS (ABILITY TO YIELD) THROUGH YOGA AND QIGONG

MELANIE WILLSHER  teaches the  somatic movement practices of Yoga and Authentic Movement.  The Yoga asanas are supported and guided by the release of the breath, finding the earth and freeing the body. The force of breath, can be felt to move through a deeply relaxed, loose body, like a wave moving through a body of water, so keeping the whole body in constant, subtle, amoeba-like motion, and awakening has no choice but to begin.

 CATHY TALBOYS Having practiced Taoist Qigong for 25 years, I would like to continue my informal introduction to the principles and health benefits of Qigong, through a set of simple Qigong exercises. By practicing these gentle stretching movements,  we will encourage tensions deep in the body tissues to soften and release, leaving a calming sensation of 

Breathing Through Our Whole Body. 

This will promote the flow of Qi from nature to within and throughout our body , improving co-ordination, flexibility and circulation, benefitting all our bodily systems and organs.

Where the Mind goes Qi follows. 

Where Attention goes, Energy flows.

Katsura and Melanie welcome you to the rich, transformative practice of Authentic Movement. Our exploration of mindfulness, spontaneous expression and movement will continue from the summer solstice onwards.

We will guide you into this form of moving meditation, based on the relationship between the mover and the witness. In these afternoon workshops through mindfulness in movement, you will learn how to track your inner sensations and feelings, spontaneous movement expression and moments of stillness, while moving in the presence of two witnesses.

During movement sessions, there will be time for you to reflect, draw or write in your journal.

Cost £30

An invitation to discover for ourselves, a more natural and easeful way of working with our body.

A journey that frees up our postural habits and breathing patterns, and helps us to nurture more of a balance inside ourselves.

We will explore how a sense of, and focus on, the felt sense of yoga , can help us develop our ability to pay attention to ourselves in the moment.

Cost £30

An invitation to discover for ourselves, a more natural and easeful way of working with our body.

A journey that frees up our postural habits and breathing patterns, and helps us to nurture more of a balance inside ourselves.

We will explore how a sense of, and focus on, the felt sense of yoga , can help us develop our ability to pay attention to ourselves in the moment.

Cost £30

An invitation to discover for ourselves, a more natural and easeful way of working with our body.

We will explore how a sense of, and focus on, the felt sense of yoga , can help us develop our ability to pay attention to ourselves in the moment.

A journey that frees up our postural habits and breathing patterns, and helps us to nurture more of a balance inside ourselves.

Cost £30

AYLSHAM MORNING WORKSHOP 

SATURDAY 20TH MAY 2023 

10:00 to 13:00 COST £30 

ROSEN METHOD BODYWORK AND YOGA 

FINDING OUR GROUND

Louisa Turner is a Rosen Method Bodywork Teacher, Practitioner and Physiotherapist. Drawing on over 30 years experience of bodywork, she will be facilitating paired touch exercises, to help deepen our self understanding of how we are holding our bodies, and responding to one another. Awareness of our physical and emotional self helps us gain a deeper experience of the postures and attitudes we habitually bring to our daily interactions.  Louisa brings her 25 years experience of meditating and her practice as an ordained Buddhist. 

Melanie Willsher teaches an approach to Yoga inspired by Vanda Scaravelli. This Yoga is subtle and sensitive, supported and guided by the breath, the earth and the awakening of the spine. Rosen Method bodywork complements and nourishes the Yoga. Both approaches invite us to discover for ourselves, a more natural and easeful way of working with our body.

Skylight Studio 20, Shepheards Close, Aylsham Business Estate, NR116SZ, Norfolk melaniewillsheryoga.com and touch-matters.co.uk 

To book melaniewillsheryoga@gmail.com

MELANIE WILLSHER AND KATSURA ISOBE

Co teaching AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT APRIL 13TH , 2-5PM , COST £30

‘OPEN THE HEART INTO THE BODY….AND OPEN THE BODY INTO THE HEART ‘ Miranda Tufnell

OPENING THE HEART AND MIND INTO THE GROUNDED BODY.

COST £30

DIGESTION AND DIET - THE BASIS OF HEALTH. (FULLY BOOKED)

CHRISTINE HERBERT (FAMH) NATUROPATHIC HERBALIST

COST £55 including vegetarian lunch

To book email melaniewillsheryoga@gmail.com

All the ancient philosophies of healing – traditional Chinese medicine, ancient Greek, Ayurveda and many more – all agreed on one thing, that what we ate, the way we ate, and the ability to digest what we ate, was the vital underlying principle in our health. Chronic ill health begins in the gut.

We are presenting a day workshop looking at how digestion works, what we can do to improve digestion, and how we can work out what best to eat as individuals. We will  also look at the amazing gut microbiome so we can understand just how important it is for our health, and look at ways we can help that too.

There is no one “right” diet for everyone, but it can be difficult to find the best diet for yourself. We will teach some simple ways to determine which foods we should and shouldn’t eat, and look at some of the diets available such as the ketogenic, palaeo and FODMAPs diets.

 Christine will focus on the most common digestive disorders, in particular leaky gut, IBS and SIBO, as well as liver problems that can contribute to poor digestion, and suggest practical and straightforward solutions that can be achieved by yourself to help friends and family.

Christine Herbert has been working as a herbalist and allergy therapist for 26 years, and she has found that dietary and digestive solutions are the key to resolving most peoples chronic health problems. 

She retired from practise in August 2019 in order to be able to write and teach. She has written two books, “Sleep, the elixir of life: how to restore sleep with herbs and natural healing” 2021, and “Inflammation – the source of chronic disease: how to treat it with herbs and natural healing” 2022, both published by Aeon, and is currently writing a third book on digestion, which should be published in 2024.

During the years of her practise she added iridology, flower essence therapy, kinesiology and allergy therapy and used all those elements in her practice alongside a large proportion of nutritional advice. She specialised in digestive disorders and allergy/intolerance health issues, but all health issues were addressed in her practise. She served on the council of the Association of Master Herbalists for several years and is now an honorary fellow of that professional association. Previous to this she was a senior biomedical scientist for 20 years working for the NHS in haematology and blood transfusion. With her partner, Mark, she runs a self sufficient small holding in Norfolk UK, growing many of the herbs she used in her practise, and describes herself as being in love with all plants, whether they are for medicine, eating or simply enjoying.

YOGA AND QIGONG

ROOTING INTO EARTH AND EXPANDING INTO SKY

COST £27

MELANIE WILLSHER  teaches an approach to Yoga inspired by Vanda Scaravelli.

The active, powerful, healing ground, draws us down towards itself , while the sky encourages expansion and lightness. We play between earth and sky.

 CATHY TALBOYS Having practiced Taoist Qigong for 25 years I would like to offer an informal introduction to the principles and health benefits of Qigong. We shall be exploring the basic Principles and Benefits of Qigong, through simple Qigong exercises. With these gentle stretching movements, combined with deep relaxed breathing, we shall encourage tensions deep in the body tissues to soften and release, allowing the body to accord with Nature, and allow a Rooting into Earth and Expanding into Sky.

RELEASING, GATHERING AND UNIFYING OUR QI.

Skylight studio 20, Shepheards Close, Aylsham Business Estate, NR116SZ, Norfolk

To book:email melaniewillsheryoga@gmail.com

www.melaniewillsheryoga.com

SCARAVELLI INSPIRED YOGA 

with Melanie Willsher and Dr Pema Clark  

EXPLORING YOGA POSITIONS, DISCOVERING PATHWAYS AND CONNECTIONS.

3 Saturday workshops 2023

7TH JANUARY    Befriending the wisdom of the body, as we connect to the earth below, the space above, and the aliveness of the breathing spine.

4TH FEBRUARY  Mindfulness of Body: Moving and feeling through the sensory body, to awaken the mind.

4TH MARCH       Experiential Anatomy: Exploring anatomical structures, through heightening awareness of how forces move through the body, in gravity, to stabilize and find ease in movement.

10am-4:00pm (10-12:30, lunch, 1:30-4:00)

COST £55 per workshop

Includes Vegetarian lunch

Bring your mat and journal