"The brain might be a generator and condenser of consciousness, fed by the environment. For the mind to exist it may depend upon a broader field of consciousness with the brain as the organizer, as it tunes into the wavelength of a primal field. We might leach consciousness from all around us."

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"We consist of a myriad of interconnecting cores energetically resonant with one another and with the bigger picture. Personal consciousness is a radiant core connecting to a wider field."

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John Stirk has been teaching yoga
and body-mind movement for 40 years

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Weekly classes and workshops
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John Stirk Yoga

Yoga practitioner John Stirk has been teaching Yoga and body-mind movement for over 40 years. His work aims to deepen, open and broaden the Yoga experience by inviting students to sink beneath existing knowledge and practical application and draw out for themselves their deeper practitioner.

John’s interest in the impediments to understanding, compassion and freedom from the self, informs his posture based work which attends to the physical while simultaneously questioning the nature of conditioning, habit and fear in their various guises.

Participants are invited to open up ways of being that include clarity, relaxed sensitivity, and a deep, flowing awareness of how they are on all levels.

He runs classes, workshops and residentials for yoga students and teachers throughout the UK and internationally. For a ‘one-to-one’ session with John it’s best to contact him via email.

John Stirk - Yoga teacher and author 2025

Book Releases

John has written a two yoga books – The Orignal Body and Deeper Still.

click here for a kindle edition of Deeper Still.

Coming up 2026

Enquiries regarding all sessions to johnlstirk@gmail.com

Online

Ongoing Weekly classes: Tuesdays 10am – 11.30am

Monthly workshops

Tuesdays  7.00 – 9.00pm

January 20th  February 17th   March 17th  April 14th  May 12th June 16th  July 14th  August 18th September 15th October 13th November 10th December 8th

Double session Intensives

Fridays 6-9pm and Saturdays 10am-1pm

February 13/14th April 10/11th May 22/23rd   June 26/27th July 17/18th September 18/19th October 23/24th  November 20/21stth  December 11/12th

John also gives one to one sessions on request.

In Person – London Events

At Home-Wellness, Primrose Hill, London – www.homewellness.uk

EXPLORATION INTO FREEDOM

– a series of 3 workshops – Friday evenings: 7.30pm – 9.30pm

  • January 30th  REFINING SENSATION – DOORWAY TO FREEDOM
  • March 20th  LOOSENING THE TIES – GIVING OURSELVES AWAY
  • APRIL 24th  SHEDDING EXPERIENCE – TAKING THE LEAP

At Mission-e1, Shoreditch, London – www.mission-e1.com

THE CORE SELF

  • Sunday March 1st (12.30 – 5.30pm)
  • Sunday November 1st (12.30 – 5.30pm)

Three Mid-week Intensives

  1. Wednesday April 1st  (9.30am – 5.00pm)
  2. Wednesday June 3rd   (9.30am – 5.00pm)
  3. Wednesday October 7th  (9.30am – 5.00pm)

East Dean East Sussex BN20 ODR

TAKING THE LEAP

– 2 x 1 day workshops

  1. Saturday 18th  April  (10am-4pm)
  2. Saturday 17th October (10am – 4pm)

Lunch included – contact John –  johnlstirk@gmail.com

John is a truly gifted guide. He carefully balances; challenging with enormous and genuine encouragement; seriousness and utter commitment with humour; humility with visionary leadership. He shares his expansive and ever increasing knowledge and lives the transformation he speaks – showing us how we can transform ourselves through working deeply and holistically with our minds and bodies in positive and lasting ways. At the core of his work is love and generosity. I can’t recommend working with John highly enough and feel privileged to have attended his course (and days and retreats).

In “What lies beneath” course John guided us with extraordinary knowledge, remarkable sensitivity and care to (self) discover where movement comes from and where it leads to, and to experience the incredible possibilities this discovery can bring to our body, emotions and spirit.  This is yoga at its very fundamental basis.

As a yoga teacher, tutor and student with a growing interest and curiosity in what is within us, through the lens of yoga and spiritual practices, this book has given me plenty to take on board and continue to ponder long after turning the pages. Through the book I had some strong pause and wow moments, such as the conscious realisation reading the section on ‘Minds’ that we can’t physically feel inside our brain or the thoughts in the same way we can typically feel and sense other parts of our bodies. It includes interesting explanations for words we frequently use like ‘understanding’.

(re: Deeper Still 2021)

An epic body of work, written by an expert teacher/practitioner, who articulates so eloquently and joyfully his depth and breadth of knowledge of the body/mind/consciousness relationship. John Stirk writes with lifetimes of insight and flare and his own illustrations and photographs, taken by his talented daughter Sarah Stirk, make this book an absolute must-have for anyone who works in transformation and the body. It seemlessly combines practical insight with current academic thinking within the fields of neuroscience, psychology, philosophy (both East and West) making this book a timeless classic.

(Deeper Still 2021)

The book is well presented and with suggested activities in different shaded boxes, throughout the chapters encouraging useful practices between teachers and their students. One of my favourite golden nuggets of wise words from this book is, ‘We may cultivate a calm atmosphere but calmness can only be found by each person.’

Overall, there’s a depth to the offerings in this book that may need revisiting or to be absorbed bit by bit.

(Deeper Still 2021)

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