Health & Wellbeing Courses in London and Online

Whether you experience long term physical or acute pain, unpleasant body symptoms or simply want to understand the pain better or improve your health and wellbeing, this course offers the possibilities available to you. It will also guide you to the direct experience of peace, a relaxed body and improved functioning as well as providing you with the know how to make the choice.

The people of Japan believe that everyone has an Ikigai or a reason for being. Finding it can lead to a happier, more fulfilled life. Learn how to live in the moment and pursue your purpose and passion.

Learn how to reduce tension in your neck, upper back and chest. Re-educate the nervous system through gentle movement sequences, and improve your comfort, breathing, flexibility and posture in work, performance or everyday life.

Celebrate International Yoga Day with the experience of Yoga Nidra (deep yogic relaxation). This practice is deeply restful and will leave you feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. It can also provide support and guidance at times of change or uncertainty. Expect some simple gentle movement before lying down and easing into stillness. Everyone is welcome.

Explore the importance of aligning the body for safe yoga practice. Alignment helps us understand the shape of asanas (yoga poses) and keeps our mind focused, centred, and eventually aligned as well. This class is suitable for beginners as well as general yoga practitioners.

Start your day off with guided meditation and learning a mantra meditation technique. Meditation is simple, but the mind complicates it, and we’ve learnt to listen to the mind. Find out how to make meditation easy! Suitable for everyone.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Do you want to slow down aging? Do you want to be fit and healthy into your later years? This is the course for you! Learn which foods and drinks slow down ageing and protect your body from the diseases of older age, and which foods you should be avoiding. Gain a proper understanding of why some foods are so good for us, and why some are so damaging to our bodies. This is a relaxed and friendly class where questions are welcomed. It is packed with information and you should leave it feeling inspired to make healthier decisions about what you do and don’t eat and drink.







‘Nutrition to slow down aging part one’ and ‘Nutrition to slow down aging part two’ are two stand-alone three hour courses. You can take both courses, or just one, ideally take part one first, but it doesn’t matter if you do them the other way around. The courses complement each other.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Thinking of becoming a counsellor? Wondering about gaining a counselling qualification? In this short workshop, you will find out more about the career paths and whether counselling training is for you.

If you are not sure how to find your ideal volunteering role, but want to pass on some of your hard-won skills, experience and knowledge, this course will give you some ideas and contacts for further exploration.

This course is for you if you worry a lot and want to calm down all that inner noise! We will focus on recognising three of the ten most common thinking traps that cause us to be anxious. The day will be interactive in nature, and introduce you to skills from REBT (an action-oriented Psychotherapy) that you can take away and use immediately. There will be an exercise to illustrate a means of dealing with anxious arousal and anxious apprehension, using the ABC of problem thinking for managing anxiety.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Discover how to return your body to its natural state of balance and poise in this beginner's guide to the Alexander Technique. Learn to become mindful of muscular and mental tension in our Monday workshop.

Find out for yourself the difference that mindfulness can make to your sense of wellbeing. Learn exercises to help develop your awareness, including walking and sitting meditation, and practise direct applications in daily life.

This Pilates Beginners Workshop is designed to introduce you to the basics of the Pilates method and to give you the confidence to join a beginners Pilates course.

Learn how to integrate the function of your feet more effectively into daily activities, performance or work. Find more support, strength, and springiness in your feet, and notice improvements in your posture, breathing and balance.



This course is delivered in-person at City Lit.



Please ensure you have read the Health Declaration below and email the department on Health@citylit.ac.uk if you have any questions or concerns.

This Improvers Pilates Workshop aims to develop your confidence at practicing Pilates and to make your technique more fluid and accurate.