Meditation for Stress Management: Cultivating Presence
With Gillian @drgillianevans
The next of Gillian’s six-week meditation courses for 2026 explores a beautiful, calming, spirit-lifting practice called Cultivating Presence.
This course is designed for anyone seeking to ease stress, calm a busy mind, and sleep more peacefully—whether you're completely new to meditation or looking to deepen an existing practice.
Gillian is a patient and caring yoga teacher who understands that arriving at a seated meditation practice can be both challenging and deeply rewarding. Over six weeks, she will gently guide you towards a sustainable and enjoyable practice that can become a lifelong resource for balance, resilience, and self-understanding.
The invitation is simple: to be still for a while, to listen inwardly, and to explore what it means to sit well with yourself. Supported by cushions, blankets, or even lying down if needed, you'll be guided to rest, aware of the natural rhythm of your breath—how it moves through the body and soothes the nervous system.
Through this practice of Cultivating Presence, we'll explore the subtle flow of energy and emotion in the body—how feelings arise and shape our physical and mental patterns, and how awareness can bring release, spaciousness, and peace. Drawing on the ancient chakra system (an Eastern wellness practice dating back thousands of years), you'll learn to tune into the energy centres where the body naturally holds tension and emotion. As you develop awareness of these energy meridians, you'll discover how to realign and activate them, bringing your whole system back into balance.
When your energy centres are aligned and activated, they vibrate at a higher frequency—giving you vitality, grounded ease, and a deepening sense of wellbeing and connection within yourself and with life as it is. You'll learn to settle the mind, reduce stress, and find steadiness amidst the demands of daily life—equipped with a tool you can carry with you always.
Day: Tuesdays ongoing
Time: 19.00–20:00
NB. Please check Bookwhen for dates as there may be some weeks when the course isn’t running.
Book a 6 week course or drop-in session.
Book your place here!
Or book directly using our widget below — look for Apr-May-June | Meditation for Stress Management: Cultivating Presence
Hear from a student…
“Gillian’s meditation classes are the perfect way to unwind after a busy day. I learnt so many helpful techniques during class and was able to apply them to great effect in everyday scenarios. Gillian’s support also helped me with some travel-related anxiety that I’ve been experiencing for many years.
Class sizes are small, and Gillian is brilliant at tailoring the classes to each individual’s specific needs. I would highly recommend Gillian’s meditation classes for some rest and relaxation in a warm and friendly environment. I’ve also benefited from the best night’s sleep I’ve had in ages after some of our sessions!” - Meditation student, Louisa
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Gillian has been practising yoga for over thirty years. She is passionate about the transformational potential of yoga and leads yoga classes and workshops in London and Manchester.
Inspired and trained at Triyoga by Anna Ashby and Joey Miles in the alignment-based method of hatha yoga, Gillian guides students through 90-minute classes that conquer fatigue, cultivate strength, vitality, and good posture, improve mood and increase body and mind awareness.
Gillian is also a social anthropologist and psychotherapist. She is preoccupied with the question of what it means to be human and lends this question to her enquiry into the yoga tradition, and brings a unique anthropological perspective to her teaching practice, summer and winter yoga retreats and to workshops for fellow yoga teachers. She is a member of the teaching faculty of the Advanced Teacher Training programme led by Anna Ashby at Triyoga.
Gillian would love to show you how yoga can transform your life.
Pricing
These sessions are each 60mins in length and the course is priced at £96 for 6 weeks.
Please bring your mat if you have one and a journal and pen.
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We have a strict latecomers policy. Latecomers will not be admitted any later than 5 minutes after the commencement of the session. Past this point, it will be disruptive for you to enter the room, and since you will not have warmed up properly, heading into class this late may also be damaging for your body. We recommend you arrive 5-10 minutes early so the class and your day can run on time.
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Cancellations within 72 hours of the course starting will not be refunded.
Cancellations outside of 72 hours of the course start will be refunded upon request, otherwise, the passes can be transferred to another course (or a later cohort of the cancelled course).
There is no refund offered for missed sessions within the course.
If we are required to cancel a class due to teacher illness, we will offer a make-up session the week following the last session of the course.
The teacher may choose to cancel a course if a low number of people sign up. Please book in as early as you can to stop this from happening! Your pass will automatically be returned to your Mindbody account in this incidence. You can request a refund if you want one, otherwise, the passes can be transferred to another course (or a later cohort of the cancelled course).