Return of the Lost Self: a weekend workshop | 12-13 September 2026 (London)

Some parts of us go into hiding, waiting to be reclaimed.
To reach them, we must travel through the Underworld…

Too often in life, our voices, intuition, sense of self, power and inner sovereignty are overridden, silenced, distorted and denied. This happens in countless ways, subtle and overt – in the family, relationship, culture, heritage, education, business and spiritual communities.

The weekend offers a supportive space to turn towards what has been hidden, blending creative imagination, individual and group experiential exercises with specialised yoga sequences designed to illuminate, loosen and reconnect you to yourself.

For anyone with a commitment to their inner work whether through therapy, a spiritual path or personal study. Yoga suitable for all levels.

Facilitated by:

Natasha Nandini brings 30 years of experience in classical yoga, Marma therapy, sound work and Indian classical music as pathways to liberation. A devoted practitioner as much as a teacher, her book Behind the Cosmic Dancer is both a map and invitation into the deeper principles of yoga. www.inner-practice-yoga.com

Helen Thomas is a transpersonal psychotherapist (UKCP), experienced group facilitator and CCPE staff member, with a background in literary editing. Her work is dedicated to deep psychospiritual transformation, grounded in long-standing spiritual and contemplative practice.

Their facilitation is rooted in their continued participation in the processes they invite others into.

12–13 September 2026 at CCPE, 2 Warwick Crescent, London W2 6NE

Sat & Sun | 10am–5pm 

£345 (or £300 early bird if booked and paid for before 1 July 2026)

Booking and enquiries to: returnoflostself@gmail.com

CPD certificate available (12h)

We will be offering more dates soon. If you can’t make this particular weekend, please register your interest.

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RETURN OF THE LOST SELF – a note from Helen and Natasha

Background

Yoga and transpersonal psychotherapy may not seem an unusual collaboration. But Return of the Lost Self was not conceived as a basic mashup. It emerged from recognising something deeper that’s shared at the heart of different traditions.

Our traditions differ in language, symbol and practice, yet they point in the same direction.

When our paths crossed and we began talking, we discovered we were describing the same landscape: one of descent, surrender, discovery and return.

Natasha through classical yoga, Indian philosophy, language and art, and Tantra – paths of liberation – alongside influences from esotericism, mythology, and the mind-body-spirit traditions.

Helen through transpersonal and integrative psychotherapy, with a focus on creativity, creative imagination and alchemy – alongside influences from Western psychology, mindfulness, and Sufi philosophy.

An understanding of healing

There are many routes to healing, and the destination has many names. This workshop is built on a few shared understandings:

- Healing is cyclical and returns us to ourselves. It is never complete.

- Transformation asks something of us: to enter the metaphorical Underworld, not as punishment, but as a process. That means a willingness to descend into forgotten, unconscious, shadowy places within us in order to face what has been hidden, split off, disowned or lost. Meaningful change is usually challenging and requires courage, honesty and stepping beyond our comfort zones.

- The purpose of descent is to return with increased awareness, wholeness, wisdom and resources. If we’re willing to undertake the journey, we may discover the gold within us. We do not journey into the Underworld because we are broken – we journey because something essential waits to be found and reclaimed.

- In reclaiming what has been lost or split off, we move towards living with greater wholeness, intuition and freedom – less driven by old conditioning and more connected to what feels deeply true.

Why do this workshop?

It’s inevitable in life that we lose connection with some parts of ourselves: no one is immune from the human condition. All too often, however, this happens in situations that erode our sense of connection to our intuition, inner guidance and even sense of self. This happens in countless ways, subtle and overt, from childhood through to corrosive situations and relationships in adulthood.

We are both passionate about helping people who wish to reclaim connection to their own inner guidance and more complete sense of self.

This work is a return. Not to perfection or an ideal self, but to what has always been waiting beneath conditioning, fear and old patterns. If you have felt silenced, shut down, disconnected from yourself, or that you have parts of yourself you can’t access, this workshop might be for you. You may also just be curious.

Why bring yoga and transpersonal psychotherapy together?

Although we’re bringing individual skill sets and expertise, we’re not simply combining tools. It’s not a case of one lacking what the other provides: yoga with a little psychology added, or therapy with movement added. However, both of those things will, of course, be part of the experience.

We believe that bringing yoga and transpersonal psychotherapy together creates something powerful. The heart of both is the same – that is the ethos underpinning this workshop – while allowing us to draw on what we believe are some of the most impactful and transformative elements of our own traditions.

This collaboration is not theoretical. We have each experienced how the other’s tradition illuminates and can be integrated into our own: how yoga can deepen our relationship with embodiment, reveal blocks, support processes of purification that increase our access to the creative imagination, and strengthen our capacity to hold and integrate inner work; and how creative imagination and therapeutic process can bring image, meaning and relationship to what emerges through practice, helping us to understand what is asking to be witnessed, integrated and returned.

Ultimately, this is the union:

The body is the doorway, vessel and destination in life: it carries us into the inner world and becomes the place to which the integrated Self returns. In alchemical language, this return marks the stage of Rubedo: the integration of what has been discovered, the materialisation of spirit in life. In yoga, this is understood as the realisation of the Self, sat-chit-ananda – being, consciousness, and bliss.

How we facilitate and more about the weekend

We are not experts standing above. We are fellow travellers, each taking many trips to the Underworld and many small steps toward the light on our own paths, with different yet complementary styles.

Natasha will guide specialised movement and breath to draw attention inward – opening access to the body’s inner landscape, cultivating a peaceful internal field in which you can see more of what is already there. Through grounding techniques, she will help you sit with whatever arises, creating space for freedom in both body and mind.

Helen will guide visualisations into the realms of the creative imagination to access the inner world, and will facilitate individual and group experiential exercises designed to help you witness, understand, heal and integrate the lost parts in your life and psyche.

These practices will unfold in a deliberate sequence, at times interweaving, guiding you deeper into yourself and supporting the integration of a more whole self.

You will also take home:

- A personalised asana to practice, designed to help release the specific mental and physical tensions that present through the body. This will extend and support the work done over the weekend.

- Individual suggestions of how to work creatively to help you continue to deepen the relationship with your returned Self, and to support integration back in daily life.

This is depth work*. We believe meaningful transformation requires responsibility, courage, honesty, and patience. No one can do the work for us. And yet we do not need to do it alone; being witnessed and supported is an important part of the process. The space will be warm and compassionate, with clear attention to safety and containment, allowing what arises to be met with care.

We look forward to sharing this time with you, as a meaningful step in your own process.

Helen Thomas and Natasha Nandini, June 2026

*Please note: this workshop is not suitable for those completely new to inner work and it is not designed to help with an acute mental health crisis.