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Come and deepen your learnings in the art of energy healing for the land at Asthall Manor with expert guidance from Lara Cowan. Increase your intuition and healing skills through guided land energy healing sessions. Learn about Earth Acupuncture, when

Are you due between September and December? Run by the Odyssey of Motherhood and Fern and Feathers Photography, and with guest speakers, this day is crafted entirely for you. A dedicated pause before your baby arrives to map your postpartum,

Join Helio Coaching in our Ballroom and autumn gardens here at Asthall Manor for an immersive one-day retreat dedicated to your physical vitality, health, and everyday energy. Positive Psychology Practitioners Emma Saxby and Jennifer Souter invite you to step out

In connection with the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, which features an installation of sixteen new paintings by Barbara Rae. Acrylic paint and watercolour can look very different according to the surface it is being painted onto. In this

Join The Arborealists for an inspiring one-day drawing workshop led by two experienced artists, featuring a special guest art history talk, lunch and refreshments, all set in our beautiful ballroom and garden.   10.00 Welcome and introductions with tea/coffee 10.30

Cézanne used colour in place of tonal gradations to model three-dimensional space, with brush work that created a mosaic-like effect. Learn how to develop an oil painting from direct observation by using this rhythmic, diagonal brush approach to build up

Claire is a Wellbeing and Nature Connection Coach with an International Forest Therapy Diploma from Nature & Therapy UK, where she is also a senior mentor for upcoming practitioners. She facilitates Forest Bathing walks, retreats and courses across the Cotswolds, creating space

Friday 28 August Metamorphosis 12pm, 3pm, 7pm An experience of potentiality and transformation. Sounds: Tibetan Bowls + Phillip Glass Harp Music + time for dwelling and gentle reflection Saturday 29 August  Illumination 12pm, 3pm, 7pm Welcoming in the lightness, joy and mystery

The summer solstice has been honoured for thousands of years as a powerful turning point in the natural world – the longest day and shortest night of the year, symbolising light, vitality, and abundance Join YogaVenue, Oxford, for The Solstice Gathering

Come join Burford Environmental Action Group and CAG Oxfordshire for a fun, family friendly event Garden Animal Safari at beautiful Asthall Manor, spotting and learning about the animals that make Asthall Manor garden their home. We start with a short talk

A mixed media painting workshop in connection to a retrospective exhibition of work by John Piper at The Portland Gallery, St James’s, London. (portlandgallery.com) Explore how the naturally flowing forms of the gardens at Asthall break-up the hard edges of the architectural

Join Helio Coaching & Training for a transformative one-day retreat designed to shift you from “constant doing” to purposeful being. Co-founders Emma Saxby and Jennifer Souter (who leads our on-site yoga sessions) invite you to join them in our historic Ballroom and

Join Kieran for another of his popular painting workshops here in the beautiful ballroom and grounds of Asthall Manor. Atmospheric perspective is the term given to describe the bluing effects of air on the landscape, when viewed over distance. Explore

Claire is a Wellbeing and Nature Connection Coach with an International Forest Therapy Diploma from Nature & Therapy UK, where she is also a senior mentor for upcoming practitioners. She facilitates Forest Bathing walks, retreats and courses across the Cotswolds, creating space

Claire is a Wellbeing and Nature Connection Coach with an International Forest Therapy Diploma from Nature & Therapy UK, where she is also a senior mentor for upcoming practitioners. She facilitates Forest Bathing walks, retreats and courses across the Cotswolds, creating space

Charlotte from Medicine of the Sisterhood has created a gathering woven softly into the weekend before the turning of Summer’s peak, held in our quietly magical grounds, a quintessential English country manor. You will be joined throughout the day by

Learn how to experiment with layering fluid washes of acrylic describing the subtle shifts in light and reflections on the lake here at Asthall Manor. All materials provided apart from a sketchbook or A4 cartridge paper for notes and sketches.

Hatha is generally slow, holding poses for several breaths, allowing for detailed instruction and grounding. Starting from Thursday 9th April we welcome a new Yoga teacher to our ballroom, Jenny Souter for a new course of 4 Hatha Yoga sessions

Learn the art of energy healing for the land with expert guidance from garden designer, plantswoman and geomancer Lara Cowan.  Increase your intuition and healing skills through guided land energy healing sessions. Learn about Earth Acupuncture, when and how to

Due to popular demand, we have added another date for Kieran’s workshop! Acrylic Woodlands – The polymer resin binder in acrylic paint is very fast drying. If this drying process is slowed down by adding layers of watercolour washes, it

We welcome back Kieran Stiles for another of his popular painting workshops in the ballroom. Acrylic Woodlands – The polymer resin binder in acrylic paint is very fast drying. If this drying process is slowed down by adding layers of

Join us for a workshop on low intervention beekeeping here at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden. Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome.In this all-day workshop you will learn the basics of keeping healthy bees in a low intervention, chemical

Handlebards return to Asthall Manor for a hilariously high-octane production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ like you’ve never seen before. Forget the tears and tragedy, our Macbeth is chock full of mishaps, mayhem and mirth. We all know the story. Three Witches

Pedalling from venue to venue with all of their set, props and costumes on the back of their bikes, the HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors who are spending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues across the