Amrita is an offshoot of the Yoga festival that took place in Whitstable in 2017 and 2018. Our plans for a third festival were stopped short by the pandemic.  

But the pandemic bought a more conscious interest in what health truly represents and how to sustain it. 

We believe that health is not only a physical expression of wellbeing, but the overall state of harmonious and expansive balance that exists within each one of us, and that is reflected in the world around us. There cannot be health without peace; no health without purity, or without cooperation.

Health simply means life.  

And this is how the Amrita festival came into being.  Among the many translations, the Sanskrit term of Amrita refers also to the nectar of immortality and the ability of transmuting ‘poisons’ into nectar.  The moment to moment experience of our existence can be either.  Every choice we make determines the quality of our health. 

The wide diversity of classes and practices you will be able to explore during the festival are tools that can help discern what supports life and its continuation, or what instead ‘poisons’ the body, the mind and the heart.  Be it through the joyful motions of a Bollywood dance, or the healing resonance of Gong baths; the physical practices of Yoga, Feldenkrais and Pilates, or the subtle applications of Pranayama and meditation, you will have opportunities to feel, to experience and participate in the making of you own and the collective wellbeing.