October 2025
Textile Crafts Weekend
- Date:
- Fri 3 – Sun 5 October
(begins 12 noon on the Friday, with lunch) - Price:
- £219 (Veranda room)
£237 (House Room or Garden Cabin)
Non-resident price: £168 (includes meals and tuition) - with…
- Mary Maguire
Immerse yourself in a tactile world of textile crafts.
Learn the art of needle-felting to make soft toys, pincushions, or small sculptures. Also create 2D pictures, embellish clothes or a hat, or make decorative repairs to holes in jumpers. You will learn embroidery stitches to make a work of art, or up-cycle a garment.
Book Textile Crafts Short BreakOctober Working Weekend
- Date:
- Fri 3 – Sun 5 October
- Price:
- No charge
This is a chance to get to know the farm, turn your hand to old jobs and new, enjoy good company and good food too!
An opportunity to have bright ideas by the compost heap, happy talk in the hen house, and cool chat in the kitchen. Join us to prove that many hands make light work and that today’s stranger is tomorrow’s friend.
Our Working Weekends are run in the beautiful spirit of the WWOOF organisation: we feed and accommodate you, you work, with us.
For more information on WWOOF, see www.wwoof.org.uk.
To request a place on this Working Weekend, please email enquiries@lowershawfarm.co.uk
Yoga and Massage Weekend
- Date:
- Fri 10 – Sun 12 October
- Price:
- £219 (Veranda Room)
£237 (House Room or Garden Cabin) - with…
- Mary Mcinerney and Mary Maguire
Suitable for beginners and more experienced practitioners of yoga, classes will focus on postures to improve flexibility, strength, and balance taught in the Iyengar style.
There will also be sessions on giving and receiving a relaxing and toning massage.
On Saturday there will be an early morning Pranayama (breath control) class, then following breakfast, a one-and-a-half-hour asana (postures) class, and a massage class. After lunch the options are to relax at the farm, use the super rustic sauna, or go on a led walk in the local area. In the late afternoon there is a restorative asana session, and a massage class.
In the evening there will be either a guided meditation, or foot baths, or time for a sauna, or to relax around the wood burning stove, or campfire.
On Sunday morning, the programme will be the same as Saturday’s, with a late lunch. Departures during the afternoon, from about 2.30pm.
Group size: up to about 12.
Book October Yoga and Massage Weekend