Yin & Gong Bath with Charlie Merton - Samhain Celebration
Sunday 1st November 2026
7.30 - 9.00pm - 90 minutes
£35*
Join Charlie for an evening of immersive embodied ritual to honour the time of shedding. At this time when leaf prints stain the pavement, plants send energy to their roots, to the safe dark place to store nourishment until the season of growth arrives, so must we, and thats what this workshop will explore through 90 minutes of nourishing & restorative yin yoga weaving in natures wisdom and the wheel of the year which will then settle into a soothing sonic tonic to support the release.
Honouring the change of seasons as the sun moves through the wheel of the year can be experienced within our bodies: if you’re feeling disconnected, establishing a practice based in the external cycles of nature (without) can help us to look at our own cycles (within), deepening our relationship with ourselves.
In the wheel of the year, Samhain/Hallowe’en comes after the balance point of autumn equinox, and the sun is in its pathway of descent through the dark half of the year. This is a time of release and shedding: just as leaves fall from the trees and the land fallows, pauses and regenerates, beginning a new cycle, in Chinese medicine this time of year relates to the lungs and the large intestine, and is a time to process the grief we hold in our bodies. This 90 minute experience will use yin yoga to explore the chi of these areas, followed by a soothing and transformative gong sound bath to create a ritual of release and shedding.
Samhain marks the mid point between autumn equinox & winter solstice. At Samhain, the boundary between the physical and spiritual worlds blurs, allowing us to easily tap into ancestral wisdom and genetic memory. By renewing our cells and releasing trapped emotions, we liberate both ourselves and our ancestral lineages. At this time we take the opportunity to surrender to the natural cycle of life, death, and rebirth—while embracing the darkness— all things grow in the dark.
Weaving in the wheel of the year, Chinese five element medicine with yin yoga and sound therapy - sound moves matter! – this is an alchemical experience that will give you an embodied experience of the cycle of the year, and how you can use its wisdom to support and enhance your practice and your life.
Charlie uses several planetary gongs alongside a special gongland gong and other instruments with voice to create a sonic field that can help bring about deep states of meditation and help you to enter a place beyond time and space which can tap into deep and healing vibrations. The sounds and vibrations can bring to the surface a range of feelings and sensations, when this happens, you are invited to observe, accept and let go. Sound is vibration and vibration is energy, sound moves matter.
*Full Madara Members receive 10% discount