08/06/2026
our classes, workshops, events & hikes 8-15.6.5.26
Classes: Please check in with us before turning up for the classes and sessions below as we may move them according to what works best for the people who wish to come. We mostly work with small groups and try to give classes that work for all levels (feel free to say if you prefer a beginner’s class or a more advanced one or you’d like us to focus on a certain group of poses). Please let us know what works best for you; we'll try to accommodate. If you’re away from Istanbul, Tasha gives online classes by arrangement. All our yoga classes include movements and poses which may not be in the classical yoga canon yet which we feel are appropriate to making for a varied and healthy practice. If you pay for 5 classes in advance, the sixth one is free.
Workshops: Tasha’s visual art workshops and Nick's workshops and voice, and performative dance and theatre classes are mostly by request, please ask if interested.
Performers (Nick): I'm open to working (as director, writer or performer) with performers (dancers, actors, singers, performance artists, musicians, poets…) on dance-theatre, music and voice projects. Depending on the project, I'm happy to work without finance but commitment is essential. If interested, please get in touch. I’m happy to work in Turkish or English as well as other languages. Performance projects can be for solo performers or for performances involving more than one performer. My work aspires to be challenging and radical for both the performers and audiences.
yours
Tasha & Nick
our classes, workshops, events & hikes 8-15.6.5.26
please ask us if you would prefer a class at a different time (or even a different class)
Monday 8.6 (evening yoga)
slow yoga
with Nick
a gentler open yoga class where we take our time to go into deeper postures, breath work and meditation
please register in advance
7-8:30pm
500 lira
Tuesday 9.6 (evening yoga)
asanas and breath
with Tasha
an open yoga class focused on the connection between asanas and breath
please register in advance
7-8:30pm
500 lira
Wednesday 10.6 (evening yoga)
vinyasa flow
with Nick
an open yoga class focused on asana flow
please register in advance
7-8:30pm
500 lira
Thursday 11.6 (evening open dance session)
dancing at dusk
with Nick
a dance session open to all who wish to open into dance; we dance freely, usually with not much verbal guidance, the musical and personal journey being the main guide, with music that changes each time, with genres and rhythms from all over the world; the sessions draw on ideas of notions of conscious and ecstatic movement, and moving meditation, and explore some of the many ways of dancing both alone and with each other, where formal technique is irrelevant, where spirit is primary, where unfamiliar rhythms and musical styles are embraced, and where confident dancers and the shyest of movers are equally welcome
please register in advance
8-10pm
700 lira
Friday 12.6 (evening yoga)
hatha yoga
with Tasha
an open yoga class including balancing asanas, breath and meditation and including some advanced postures
please register in advance
7-8:30pm
500 lira
Saturday 13.6 (all-day hike in Istanbul’s countryside)
Hiking Istanbul hike
guided by Nick
in Istanbul’s countryside; Thracian side
info: https://www.facebook.com/hikingistanbul or ask to be on Hiking Istanbul's active hikers’ mailing list
registration not required but it’s helpful if we know that you’re coming
all day (subject to weather forecast nearer the time)
400 lira
Sunday 14.6 (longer morning yoga and evening performance)
yin yoga with a touch of yang
with Tasha & Nick
an all levels yin-yoga based class drawing on various movement practices, including deep stretching, breathwork and meditation
please register in advance
11am-1pm
700 lira
and
Summons by Nikolai Galen
a neo-shamanic solo performance
8-9pm
300 Lira
Through voice and dance, we can explore our deepest selves; the selves we reveal when we peel away our more civilised layers; where voice and movement connect with our ancestral and mythological spirits and, what might be called in all its contradictoriness, ‘human nature’. And human nature makes for dark times - the devastation of our planet, wars and bigotry - so dark that perhaps we feel unable to adequately respond even if we feel summoned to. And, as we feel summoned to do something, to change something, we summon in our turn. This performance is an exploration of the confusion we feel when we call for the spirits - an imaginary call - to guide us; though, if they answer at all, their answers may be either unintelligible or misleading.
The performance is in no known language. It draws on sound-art, desperation, dark humour and things primordial. It is neither music nor dance. The costume is the performer’s skin. Some inspirations: Enrique Pardo’s Calling For Pan, a pantheist and mythological notion of shamanism, Jerzy Grotowski’s Poor Theatre, and Butoh dance.
Each performance is improvised except for the choice of instruments and objects it engages with. Each performance, to some extent, draws on its predecessors; meaning that, over time, new elements appear while previous elements may be discarded or forgotten, perhaps to re-emerge at some future time like the elements of dreams.
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Monday 15.6 (evening yoga)
asanas and breath
with Nick
an open yoga class focused on the connection between asanas and breath
please register in advance
7-8:30pm
500 lira
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looking ahead
June-July 2026 hikes (subject to weather)
Saturday, June 13th
Saturday, June 20th
Saturday, June 27th
Saturday, July 4th
Saturday, July 11th
Sunday, July 26th
Andrew Axenov
Friday, June 19th
8pm
Instrumental guitar music concert with guitar virtuoso Andrew Axenov
Women’s song circle on the Summer Solstice
Sunday, June 21st
with a picnic on the terrace
with Kasia Aynur Kugay
4-8pm
generally
we’re flexible about times and themes, and we may add other classes as we go along; feel free to ask if we can do a class at a time that works best for you
please let us know in advance if you’d like to come to any of our sessions
our classes are generally in English though we can teach in Russian, French or Italian if requested
a note about prices and payments: our regular classes and hikes are half-price for full-time students; generally, please pay by cash when you arrive; we don’t accept credit or debit cards; payment in advance via iban is also fine; please ask for details
Tasha and Nick give other yoga, voice and dance theatre classes by arrangement. Tasha gives on-line yoga classes; please let her know at if you’d like information on those. She’s also a gifted visual artist and happy to sell her paintings.
The Attic: we wish for the space to be non-commercial and alternative suitable for deep work and smaller groups; the income we make helps maintain the space; we’re open to outside teachers, lecturers, artists and performers using the space; please get in touch with us if interested
The Attic, Cihangir
instagram: The Attic, Cihangir
telegram: t.me/theatticstudio
Nick: movement, voice, music & theatre
move.voice facebook: move.voice
voice of shade facebook: voiceofshade
voice of shade archive: voice of shade
Tasha: body & art work
yoga instagram: yogabirch
dance instagram: danceandspace
artwork::tashabirch
