Join us for 90 minutes of pure relaxation with this unique combination of yoga followed by a sound bath, all alongside live music and gongs from Simone Salvatici.

Benita is a senior yoga teacher and sound practitioner, exploring in the last 15 years how the embodied movement, conscious breath and deep listening, feeling the sounds can help us feel more balanced, grounded and open. In this yoga class you are invited to slow down, turn your gaze inwards and tune into the somatic experiences of your body when you gently move through space and breathe. Calming your mind, awakening your awareness and your senses during this session will help you sink deeper into the ocean of the relaxing sounds of the gongs. This session is suitable for beginners.

Simone Salvatici is an Italian, London-based, multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound therapist, influential within drone and ambient music. For over a decade, Simone has been exploring the resonance and interaction between holistic, intuitive, and sacred instruments such as gongs, in combination with synthesizers, processed sound, and controlled feedback. In his immersive sound journey experience, the gongs are driven by synthesizer drones to take the listener on a journey in and out of deeper layers of consciousness with a gentle ebb and flow, rise and fall, and crescendo and plateau that melt away into a mind state where neither time, space, nor self are of concern—a mental, physical, and spiritual refuge in which we are gifted the experience of peace and contemplation.

Participants are asked to bring their own mats, and we would advise bringing your own cushion and blanket for the second half of the session. The session will be split into 45 minutes of yoga alongside live gongs, before participants are invited to get comfortable and enjoy 45 minutes of a sound bath, with elevated sounds of gongs and drones from Simone.

This event is part of a partnership between the EFG London Jazz Festival and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, celebrating the cultural heritage of the borough through gigs in local community venues, workshops for people to get involved in music-making and pop-up performances happening across the borough.