with Gwyn Williams and Bess Prescott
Explore the power of presence within movement with Bess Prescot and Gwyn Williams.
Zen and Yoga is an invitation to move, feel, and connect with awareness. Together we will deep dive into the meeting point of bodywork, asana, and embodied philosophy, where movement becomes meditation and touch becomes communication.
Where does Zen meet yoga? Dropping out of your head into your body, forgetting the past, not inviting the future and living supremely in the moment!
Held over 5 immersive days, this training is an invitation to move, feel, and connect with awareness. Removing the illusion of division and living from an unified awareness.
What you can expect each day:
• Cleverly Sequenced, Elementally Aligned Yoga Classes with Bess Prescott - Grounding and enlivening practices carefully designed to bring you into your centre.
• Drop into philosophy - where we are invited to bravely participate inwardly and share.
• Embracing the Daily Zen theme - A contemplative thread that weaves presence through the entire day. Guiding your awareness and deepening your connection to the present moment.
• Afternoon Zenthai Shiatsu Bodywork with Gwyn Williams - Learn to both give and receive under the guidance of its founder. Grounded in decades of embodied experience Gwyn offers the potent opportunity to explore touch, energy, and awareness.
Key Concepts
Explore therapy of joint mobilisation and mindful movement in areas of common dysfunction
Zenthai Shiatsu bodywork, blending sensitivity, intuition, and structure
Asana practice that refines alignment through intelligence
Philosophy and reflection that guide us toward discernment without judgment
Explore the power of presence - learning to communicate without words, connect without pressure, and move with compassion and curiosity.
Dates
Wednesday 18th - Sunday 22nd of February 2026
Times: 8am - 4pm week days, 11am - 6pm Saturday & Sunday
Location: Folde Yoga School — 4/65 Murray St, Nipaluna, Hobart 7000
Investment
$895 Early-Bird
(enrol before December 31st 2025 - Use code: ZEN)
$995 Full Price
A non-refundable $300 deposit secures your place with the remaining amount due four weeks before the training start date. Payment plans available upon request.
Meet your Teachers
Bess Prescot
I am a yoga practitioner and teacher interested in the intersection of yoga, human rights, history, ethics, politics and environmentalism.
I studied and practiced law for a few years before turning to teaching yoga full time in 2011, having practiced regularly since 2001.
I co-founded Creature Yoga in Byron Bay in 2015 and grew it to worldwide recognition over nearly 10 years. I am interested in the critical study of yoga history and original texts, and I completed first year Sanskrit Studies at ANU in 2021. I teach yoga āsana as well as lecturing yoga history and philosophy for teacher trainings around the world. I am deeply curious about yoga: how it has done and can do good in the world, and how it has contributed to harm. As teachers and practitioners, how to be aware of tradition while refusing to uphold dogma, hierarchy, patriarchy and caste apartheid. The impacts of colonisation and capitalism. The dangers and superficiality of modern wellness culture. The intersection of yoga and politics; debrahminisation and desanskritisation; and the question of cultural appropriation. The teachings of yoga are many, some of them are transcendent, others are abhorrent. Which texts and teachings align with my ethics? Which do not? The principles I am interested in steadying myself in include non-harming, truth telling and discernment. For me, the only yoga worth practicing is a yoga that is deeply engaged with the world. Looking inwards is only half of the practice: become strong and steady so you can offer a hand to others. For me, yoga teaching is a two-way street, co-created with my students. I’m looking forward to continuing this journey with you.
Gwyn Williams
Gwyn began his first steps into the foundation of the Zenthai artform in his teenage years with a fascination and complete absorption with life force energy (Ki). A self confessed life force fanatic, his earlier years involved in using the life force to fight and compete. As a serious martial artist and later a competitive mountain runner, the focus was on expending Ki, however when he later moved into alternative therapies and yoga in 1997, he realised that the real focus needed to be on sustaining and containing life force to utilise its full power. This has carried through to the present day sharing the importance of embracing a Yin and Yang aspect in daily life.
Gwyn has been teaching his entire adult life. Earlier as a physical education teacher, martial arts instructor and later as a yoga teacher and Zenthai facilitator. His passion for alternative therapies and connecting his heart with his hands led to him teaching Zen Shiatsu at his created Mt. Ninderry Healing Centre in 1999. Since this initial class he has become a national and international teacher of his own form of bodywork/movement and awareness.