New Year, New Hope: Heart Yoga, Sacred Sound & Meditative Writing

Schedule

Sun Jan 04 2026 at 10:00 am to 01:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Santosa Café + Wellness Centre | Edinburgh, SC

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Start your New Year with a beautiful morning retreat with heart centred yoga, sacred sound journey and meditative writing. All welcome!
About this Event
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This is your invitation to a special heartwarming gathering in celebration of Life. With heart-centred practises of yoga, sacred sound and meditative writing, we will be learning to allow each moment to be a fresh new beginning. These simple yet powerful techniques make space for insight, awareness and hope. In other words, we will be practicing feeling good!

Sound good? Spaces are very limited for this cosy, midwinter workshop so book soon to avoid disappointment. Please bring a yoga mat, blanket and cushion if you would like to use your own. There are also plenty at the centre. You’ll also want a notebook and pen, and maybe a water bottle.

When you bring a friend, buy two tickets with the discount code BringAFriendDiscount and each get 10% off!


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Hearts are lighting up around the world, filled with Hope.

Outline Programme


9:45 Arrive and settle with a nice cuppa

10:00 Welcoming Circle

10:15 Heart Of Living Yoga class with Vishwam

11:00 Sacred Sound Journey with David playing native flutes and other beautiful instruments

11:45 Comfort break

12:00 Heart Of Writing - heart meditation flowing into time for free writing with Vishwam

12:45 Closing Circle

13:00 Floating home with happy hearts or staying for a delicious lunch at the Mountain Momo Cafe at Santosa (lunch cost is separate to event)



Meet your hosts
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Vishwam Heckert is a Heart Of Living Yoga Teacher & Trainer based in the Shetland Islands. He has been sharing yoga for 15 years and facilitating writing workshops for the past five years and offers regular events online as well as special workshops and retreats across Scotland and beyond. Vishwam is the founder of Flowing with Life, an organisation sharing ancient wisdom for modern times. A former resident of Edinburgh, he is known for his humour, kindness and way with words.


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David Finlayson is a sound healer, craniosacral therapist and a Qi Gong and Tai Qi practitioner & teacher. Living in West Lothian, he offers classes and treatments in Linlithgow and Edinburgh and is a hosted therapist at Santosa, well loved for his transformative sound journeys and flowing Embodied Movement and Meditation classes. David is known for his warm smile, welcoming presence and dedication to healing.

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Where is it happening?

Santosa Café + Wellness Centre, 21 Albert Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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GBP 22.38 to GBP 54.88

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