AYP Retreats and Teacher Training - Worldwide

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Summary of AYP Real World and Online Programs (with video)

“AYP retreats are recommended, because they work – providing a large boost in individual and global evolution. It doesn’t matter how small a retreat is when starting out. We all have to start somewhere, and it can evolve naturally from there. Stillness in action has its own way of organizing things. So we do whatever we can, and let it grow naturally in stillness.” ~Yogani

The following list provides information for upcoming AYP Retreats, Online Events, and Teacher Training Courses. For detailed information on AYP Teacher Training Courses (TTCs), see here. TTCs are highlighted with three asterisks (******* ) in the list below.

See feedback on past retreats and teacher training courses at the bottom of this page.

2025

• 22nd and 23rd March 2025 - Online retreat using Zoom
  Status: Scheduled - Open for bookings
  Retreat Leader: Tristan Dorling
  Language: English
  Topic: Exploring The Yogic Teachings on Emptiness
  Level: Suitable for all levels of experience
  Details: Here

• 6th to 11th May 2025 - Residential retreat, Dartmoor, Devon, England
  Status: Fully Booked - waiting list only
  Retreat Leader: Tristan Dorling
  Language: English
  Topic: Kundalini Awakening - Working with Pranayama and the Energetic Aspect of the Spiritual Path
  Level: Suitable for all levels of experience
  Details: here

• 24th to 30th June 2025 - Residential retreat, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
  7-day (6-night) AYP Retreat
  Status: Scheduled: Open for Bookings
  Retreat Leader: Tristan Dorling
  Language: English
  Topic: Beyond The Mind - The Art of Meditation and Samadhi
  Level: Suitable for all levels of experience
  Details: Here

• 1st to 6th July 2025 - Residential retreat, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom
  Status: Scheduled - Open for Bookings
  Retreat Leader: Tristan Dorling
  Language: English
  Topic: Kundalini Awakening - Working with Pranayama and the Energetic Aspect of the Spiritual Path
  Level: Suitable for all levels of experience
  Details: here

• 9th to 14th December 2025 - Residential retreat, Dartmoor, Devon, England
  6-day AYP Retreat at the Bala Brook Retreat Centre, Dartmoor, Devon, U.K.
  Status: Scheduled: Open for Bookings
  Retreat Leader: Tristan Dorling
  Language: English
  Topic: Samyama and Samadhi
  Level: Suitable for all levels of experience
  Full details: here

*** In the above list indicates an AYP Teacher Training Course

Retreat Feedback and record of past retreats and TTCs:

• Online AYP Retreat: 18th September 2022 - Self-Inquiry through journaling

• Online AYP Retreat: 19th to 22nd May 2022 - Bhakti and Karma Yoga

• Online AYP Retreat: May 14 2022 - Goddesses of Yoga: Durga

• Online AYP Retreat: February 5th 2022 - Fundamentals of Pranayama

• Online AYP Retreat: January 23rd 2022 - Goddesses of Yoga: Kali

• Online AYP Retreat: 13 November 2021 - Stages of Meditation

• Online AYP Retreat: November 4th to 7th - Opening the Heart Centre

• Online AYP Retreat: September 25th - A Thousand Reasons to Meditate

• Online AYP Retreat: September 19th - Yoga and Relationships

• Online AYP Retreat: September 9th to 12th - Samyama practice and self inquiry

• Online AYP Retreat: June 13th 2021: Stages of Enlightenment, Shadow work, Self Realization & Embodiment.

• Online AYP Retreat: Saturday, May 29th 2021 - Moving Beyond the Witness: Self-Inquiry

• Online AYP Retreat: Sunday, April 25th 2021 - Exploring subtle body: Pranayama, Nectar Cycle, Amrita(Nectar of The Divine)

• Online AYP Retreat: Saturday, April 3rd 2021 - Enlivening Ecstatic Conductivity: Mulabandha and Sambhavi Mudra

• Online AYP Retreat: Sunday, March 28th 2021 - Exploring subtle body: Mudras and Bandhas

• Online AYP Retreat: Saturday, March 6th 2021 - Spinal Breathing Pranayama: Tips, Effects, and Enhancements

• Online AYP Retreat: Sunday, February 28th 2021 - Samyama & Siddhis (supernormal powers)

• Online AYP Retreat: Saturday, February 6th 2021 - Shatkarmas

• Online AYP Retreat: Sunday, January 10th 2021: Kundalini & Subtle Body

• Online AYP Retreat: Saturday, January 2nd 2021 - Deep Meditation

• Online AYP Retreat: December 18th to 20th 2020

• Devon, U.K. 5-day retreat, December 2020

• Online AYP Retreat: Sunday, December 6th 2020 Bhakti & Self-Pacing

• Online AYP Retreat: Sunday, November 15th 2020

• Online AYP Retreat: Sunday, October 18th 2020

• Online AYP Retreat (America) September 2020

• Online AYP Retreat (Europe/ Africa), September 2020

• Bad Meinberg, Germany. 8-day retreat, June/July 2020

• La Drome, France. 5-day retreat, June 2020

• Orlando, Florida, USA. Three day retreat, Feb 2020

• Buckinghamshire, U.K. One-day workshop, Jan 2020

• Koh Phangan, Thailand, One-week retreat, December 2019

• Geneva, Switzerland, one-day workshop, December 2019

• Orvelte, Netherlands, Three day retreat, December 2019

• Orvelte, Netherlands, One-week retreat, November 2019

• Wales, UK, Four day retreat, October 2019

• La Drome, France, September 2019

• AYP retreat, Sampford Manor, Dartmoor, England, September 2019

• Holland House, Cotswolds, England, August 2018 5-day retreat

• Het Land Van Nu, Netherlands, July 2018, 5-day retreat

• Seminarhaus Shanti, Bad Meinburg, Hanover, Germany, July 2018, 5-day retreat

• AYP Retreat Experience, Menla, New York State, USA June 2018, 7-day retreat

• AYP Retreat Experience, Devon, United Kingdom, May 2018, 5-day retreat.

• AYP Retreat Experience, Galicia, Spain May 2018, 8-day retreat.

• AYP Retreat Experience, Devon, United Kingdom, March 2018, 5-day retreat.

• AYP Retreat Experience, Devon, United Kingdom, November 2017.

• AYP Retreat experience, Bala Brook, Devon, United Kingdom, September 2017

• AYP Retreat Experience, High Heathercombe, Devon, U.K. June 2017

• First International AYP Yoga Teacher Training Course (TTC), Dordogne, Central France, April-May 2017 - Feedback on the Yoga Alliance website. Feedback on the public forum here.

• AYP Retreat Experience, Clarkston, Michigan, USA, May 2017

• AYP Retreat Experience, Eden Rise, Devon, U.K. March 2017

• AYP Retreat Experience, Bala Brook, Devon, England, May 2016

• AYP Retreat Experience, Koh Tao, Thailand, Jan 2016

• AYP Retreat Experience, Sawmill Creek Resort And Spa, Camlachie, Ontario, CANADA, October 2015

• AYP Retreat Experience, Shambala, Skinnskatteberg, Sweden, September 2015

• AYP Retreat Experience, Bala Brook, Devon, United Kingdom, June 2015

• AYP Retreat Experience, Loch Erne, Ireland, at the Lake Isle Retreat Centre, June 2015

• AYP Retreat Experience, Clarkston, Michigan, at the Colombiere Retreat Center, May 2015

• AYP Retreat Experience, Song of the Morning Retreat of Excellence Facility, Vanderbilt, Michigan, USA, February 2015

• AYP Retreat Experience, Baan Talay, Koh Tao, Thailand, January 2015

• AYP Retreat Experience, Holycombe, Cotswolds, Warickshire, UK, December 2014

• AYP Retreat Experience, Holycombe, Cotswolds, Warickshire, UK, September 2014

• AYP Retreat Experience, Loch Erne, Ireland, at the Lake Isle Retreat Centre, June 2014

• AYP Retreat Experience, Clarkston, Michigan, at the Colombiere Retreat Center, May 2014

• AYP Retreat Experience, Dartmoor, Devon, UK, May 2014

• AYP Retreat Experience, LaGrange Park (Chicago area), IL - March 2014

• AYP Retreat Experience, Warwickshire, England, UK - December 2013

• AYP Retreat Experience, Shanghai, China - Oct-Nov 2013

• AYP Retreat Experience, Warwickshire, England, UK - August 2013

• AYP Retreat Experience, Clarkston, Michigan, at the Colombiere Retreat Center, May 2013

• AYP Retreat Experience, China - Shanghai area, May 2013

• AYP Retreat Experience, Five Day “R&R Retreat” at Kripalu, Massachusetts, USA - March 2013

• AYP Retreat Experience, Brown County State Park, Indiana, USA - March 2013

• AYP Retreat Experience, Warwickshire, England, UK - December 2012

• AYP Retreat Experience, China - Shanghai area, November 2012

• AYP Retreat Experience, China - Shanghai area, August 2012

• AYP Retreat Experience, Czech Republic, July 2012

• AYP Retreat Experience, Clarkston, Michigan, at the Colombiere Retreat Center, May 2012

• AYP Retreat Experience, Kripalu, Massachusetts, USA, March 2012

• AYP Retreat experience, Los Angeles (Malibu), California - November 2011

• AYP Retreat Experience, Warwickshire, England, UK - October 2011

• AYP Retreat Experience, Mensch Mill, PA - September 2011

• Toronto, Canada - AYP Retreat, August 2011

• Czech AYP retreat July 2011 - a short report

• Montreal, Canada - AYP Retreat, June 2011 (French Language)

• Toronto, Canada - AYP Retreat, May 2011

• AYP Retreat Experience, Kripalu, Massachusetts, USA, March 2011

• AYP Retreat Experience, Mensch Mill, PA - Oct 2010

• AYP Retreat Experience, Murray Hill, NJ - Dec 2010

• Czech AYP retreat 2010 - a short report

• AYP Retreat in Ireland, July 2009

• AYP Retreat in Ireland, July 2008