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Qigong/Tai Chi
Every 2nd Monday (5:30pm - 6:30pm)
and Every 2nd Friday (6pm - 7pm)
£5 per class
This Qigong/Tai Chi class will cover Qigong warm up and loosening exercises and Ba Duan Jin Qigong, a Qigong exercise practice for building and restoring health.
Please wear loose clothing and flat shoes.
There will be the opportunity for tea/coffee after the class.
Due to the space available, class numbers are limited to 10.
To book in advance and for more information please email:
alistairtaichi@gmail.com
Narture Studios, 34 Newmarket St, Ayr
Saturday Satsang with Irfan
Weekly on Saturdays (with occasional exceptions) 2pm - 3pm
Satsang (meeting in truth) is the place to discover what you have been searching for your whole life - consciously or unconsciously - which is simply your real self. The self is not the body or the mind, but is Consciousness, and Consciousness is all there is.
Unfolding as a spontaneous conversation, Satsang with Irfan is a blend of silence, contemplation and dialogue in a welcoming and friendly space lovingly held by Dr. Irfan Merchant, a spiritual teacher in the Advaita tradition of non-duality and devotee of Sri Ramana Maharshi.
As all the sages of all times and all places have all said: You are already that which you are searching for. Welcome to Satsang, the discovery of your true home, the discovery of who you truly are.
For any questions please email: irfan@merchantayurveda.co.uk
Narture Studios, 34 Newmarket St, Ayr
Triratna Buddhist Group
Weekly on Tuesdays 6.30pm - 8.30pm
The aim of the group is to help it's members explore the Buddha's teachings and meditate together in a relaxed, friendly space. The first part of our meetings will be to learn and practice our two core meditation practices, the Mindfulness of Breathing and the Metta Bhavana, followed by an exploration of the foundational teachings of the Buddha.
Free/ Donations welcome - Book in by emailing to RSVP: dh.karunaradha@gmail.com
Narture Studios, 34 Newmarket St, Ayr
Eckhart Tolle Meditation Group
First Sunday of every month 2 - 4pm
Embark on a journey of enlightenment with our esteemed collective, dedicated to the profound wisdom of Eckhart Tolle. Join us as we immerse ourselves in the transformative teachings, coming together to engage in shared meditation and communal reflection.
Free/ Donations welcome - Book in by emailing to RSVP: aurorearnould92@gmail.com
Narture Studios, 34 Newmarket St, Ayr
Sacred Sound Bath:
Healing and Meditation
On every 2 weeks
Friday's at 7pm - 8:30pm
In the frequencies of the session, the body remembers that beneath the noise of life lies peace, an invitation to return to stillness.
As you comfortably lay on a yoga mat with cushions and blankets, you start to gently ground through a guided meditation. The atmosphere is intentially peaceful and sacred to warmly hold you as you are. Every session is different as every moment in life is simultaneously a birth and a death, an inhale and an exhale, a fullness and an emptiness.
Narture Studios, 34 Newmarket St, Ayr
Sketchbook Club
Next Session: Tues 20th October, 6pm - 8pm
Narture Sketchbook Club is a friendly monthly gathering for anyone who enjoys drawing, making, experimenting, or simply setting aside time to be creative. Whether you're an experienced artist or just filling the first pages of a new sketchbook, you'll find a welcoming space to create alongside others.
CREATE by Narture Studios 22 Sandgate, Ayr
Life Drawing
Last Wednesday of the month from 6pm - 8pm
Next session: 30th September
Whether you're completely new to life drawing or looking to develop your observational skills, our monthly Life Drawing sessions offer a welcoming, relaxed environment to learn, experiment, and create.
Led by artist Rebecca Scott, who has over ten years' experience teaching art, each session is designed to help you build confidence while enjoying the challenge of drawing from a professional life model. Class sizes are intentionally kept small to ensure everyone has space to work comfortably and receive individual guidance when needed.
Held at Narture Studios, 34 Newmarket Street, Ayr KA7 1LP, our studio provides a calm, friendly setting where you can focus on your creative practice alongside others. We will meet on the last Wednesday of the month from 6 - 8 pm.
Narture Studios, 34 Newmarket St, Ayr
DJ Workshop Morning Series
DJ Workshop Programme - Please note participants must be able to attend all sessions!
Session 1. How to Play Your Tunes & Own It! – Beginners
Wed 30 Sept, 10–11:30am
A fun, welcoming introduction to DJing for all genres and experience levels. Learn the basics of loading music onto USBs, using CDJs/turntables and the mixer, with a focus on confidence, creativity and community.
Session 2. How to Beatmatch
Wed 7 Oct, 10–11:30am
Learn the fundamentals of beatmatching, including cueing tracks, identifying the beat and keeping two songs in time. Using house/techno as a starting point, participants will build the skills and confidence to blend tracks across genres.
Session 3. How to Use the Mixer to Your Advantage
Wed 14 Oct, 10–11:30am
Explore creative mixing techniques and learn how to use EQ, crossfader, gain, filters and effects such as reverb and delay to shape your sound and create exciting transitions.
Session 4. Piecing Together a Radio Show
Wed 21 Oct, 10am–12pm
Working in teams, participants will create a 2–3 song mix to contribute to a collaborative radio show. Tom will help shape and record the final show, ready for submission to a local radio station.
Joint Event – Participants, Friends & Families
Soundclash & Evening of Turntablism
Fri 30 Oct, 4–7pm
A celebratory evening bringing participants, friends and family together for a soundclash and showcase of turntablism.
The Auld Toy Shop, 25 Newmarket St, Ayr
DJ Workshop Afternoon Series
DJ Workshop Programme - Please note participants must be able to attend all sessions!
Session 1. How to Play Your Tunes & Own It! – Beginners
Thu 1 Oct, 6–7:30pm
A fun, welcoming introduction to DJing for all genres and experience levels. Learn the basics of loading music onto USBs, using CDJs/turntables and the mixer, with a focus on confidence, creativity and community.
Session 2. How to Beatmatch
Thu 8 Oct, 6–7:30pm
Learn the fundamentals of beatmatching, including cueing tracks, identifying the beat and keeping two songs in time. Using house/techno as a starting point, participants will build the skills and confidence to blend tracks across genres.
Session 3. How to Use the Mixer to Your Advantage
Thu 15 Oct, 6–7:30pm
Explore creative mixing techniques and learn how to use EQ, crossfader, gain, filters and effects such as reverb and delay to shape your sound and create exciting transitions.
Session 4. Piecing Together a Radio Show
Thu 22 Oct, 6–8pm
Working in teams, participants will create a 2–3 song mix to contribute to a collaborative radio show. Tom will help shape and record the final show, ready for submission to a local radio station.
Joint Event – Participants, Friends & Families
Soundclash & Evening of Turntablism
Fri 30 Oct, 4–7pm
A celebratory evening bringing participants, friends and family together for a soundclash and showcase of turntablism.
The Auld Toy Shop, 25 Newmarket St, Ayr
Climate Week 2026 - Organic Inks Workshop with Ruth Gibson
Sat 3rd October, 10am - 12pm
In this workshop you will learn to identify plants, seeds, fruits, and flowers which grow in our local woodlands and hedgerows and how we can use them to make natural inks.
You will have the opportunity to paint and play with pre-made organic inks provided by Ruth, as well as make your own to take home with you. The plants we will focus on will be brambles, gorse flowers, and nettle leaf.
The Auld Toy Shop, 25 Newmarket St, Ayr
Climate Week 2026 - Make Relief Portraits with Yonah Mudibo
Sat 3rd October, 1pm - 3pm
In the workshop, we will be making masks by manipulating everyday plastic 'waste' into vibrant and creative works of art.
Yona Mudibo has over 10 years experience in visual art as both an artist and an art teacher: teaching in workshops, art schools and secondary schools. He has done a number of recycle workshops in festivals such as the Mombasa Ocean Festival(around 10 schools), and TPAAE (in both Kenya and Poland)
The Auld Toy Shop, 25 Newmarket St, Ayr
Climate Week 2026 - Recycled Picture Frame Craft Workshop
Sat 3rd October, 3pm - 5pm
oin artist Rebecca Scott for a fun Climate Week 2026 workshop using recycled magazines and cardboard to create a unique picture frame in your choice of patterns and colours.
Using paper folding techniques similar to quilling, we will work together to craft our frames. Rebecca is passionate about making creativity accessible and affordable and this workshop is a great example of what you can make from recycled items.
The Auld Toy Shop, 25 Newmarket St, Ayr
Blank Canvas Workshop Series with Velvet Ramos: Chew for them they forget to swallow
Wed 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th October, 5:30pm - 9pm
Please Note: This is a 4-part weekly series taking place every Wednesday evening in October (7th, 14th, 21st, & 28th) from 5.30 to 9pm. You must be able to attend all workshops
What happens when a meal becomes a script, a space becomes something we wear, and an encounter becomes an act?
During her Blank Canvas residency, interdisciplinary artist Velvet Zoé Ramos brings together The Feast: Stoba, Interlasado, and Chew for they forget to swallow in an evolving project shaped by food, memory, mark-making and performance.
You are invited to become part of the process. Cook and develop recipes through taste and shared memories; gather words and stories for a collective script; make marks, prints and wearable pieces; help dress and transform the space; or experiment with these elements through performance.
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
Photogram Printmaking Workshop
Fri 9th October, 9:30am - 12:30pm
A fun and experimental session introducing you to the creation of Photograms and darkroom practice
Photograms are a cameraless darkroom process where objects placed on photographic paper allowing you to create abstract photographic compositions through light and shadow.
Popularised in the 1920’s by Dada artist photographer Man Ray and the Constructivist El Lissitzky as a challenge to traditional photography this graphic process brings chance and mystery into printmaking.
Led by photographer and educator Mike Stone @_rodinal on Instagram
A great introduction to darkroom working, we’ll familiarise you with the darkroom, safe lighting & processing equipment. You’ll be instructed in chemical preparation and taken step by step through the photogram process.
All materials included. We have a range of objects to use but please bring your own favourite objects, something simple or symbolic. Leaves, feathers and glass objects work well. The printing paper is 10 x 8 inches so bear this in mind when sizing your objects.
CREATE by Narture Studios 22 Sandgate, Ayr
Intro to Stained Glass
Halloween Workshop
Sat 24th October, 10am - 4pm
Learn the art of stain glass and make your own Halloween suncatcher!
Come join us for a spooky fun-filled day of creativity and relaxation. Let your artistic side shine as you design your own beautiful Halloween suncatchers to brighten up any room.
In this workshop you will learn the art of stained glass using the copper foil technique with artist Molly.
Choose your glass colours and create your own Halloween suncatcher and enjoy a lunch from award winning Narture bakery.
No experience is necessary and all materials will be provided, just bring your enthusiasm and imagination!
Narture Studios, 34 Newmarket St, Ayr
Blank Canvas Opening Exhibiton Velvet Ramos: Chew for them they forget to swallow
Fri 30th October, 4pm - 8pm
Join us to celebrate the opening exhibtion of Velvet Ramos coming all the way from Aruba, who has spent a month working with performance, food and installation in MAKE!
During her Blank Canvas residency, interdisciplinary artist Velvet Zoé Ramos brings together The Feast: Stoba, Interlasado, and Chew for they forget to swallow in an evolving project shaped by food, memory, mark-making and performance.
Across the residency, ingredients, stories, objects and marks will accumulate and transform the studio into a living installation. The process will eventually come together through food, wearables, performance and a shared final act.
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
Blank Canvas Artist Talk: Dirt under fingernails that use keyboards & screens by Andrew Gryf Paterson
Wed 4th November, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
What are the routes into a hands-on practice with dirt, soil, compost, gardens, when your hands are more often on device interfaces and not garden tools? Or: how do you encourage others to get involved? This presentation tells a story starting in 2002 and ends at the current moment in 2026. It focuses on 2 projects that on either end of this timeline, a virtual environment design project involving a garden with teenagers in 2002, and a VeeJaying (VJ) project with a 3D scanner and composting worms, designed to attract teenagers to get involved somehow, which started in 2025, ongoing. There's been much dirt under the fingernails inbetween all those years, including suburban allotment gardening, sharing Eisenia fetida and anti-instagram aesthetics.
The Auld Toy Shop, 25 Newmarket St, Ayr
VJ Clew
Thurs 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th November, 5pm - 7pm
Please Note: This is a 4-part weekly series taking place every Thursday evening in November (5th, 12th, 19th, & 26th November) from 5-7pm. You must be able to attend all workshops.
VJ Clew is a workshop for teenagers and adults over 4 sessions to learn:
- How to visualize the composting materials for a live event
- Learning about VJ-culture
- Learning together about open and free VJ-ing software
Our activity:
- Make video loops from the composting materials & other related materials
- Using different cameras and making 3d scans from composting materials
- Practice mixing live videos using open and free VJ-ing software
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
Wormy Disco
Sat 7th November, 10am - 12pn
Wormy Disco' introduces composting to children and young teens (6-14 years old) together with guardians, using basic cut-up/tear & mixing of composting materials, drawing, and coloured lighting, worm sensory systems; and observing what is in a compost bin.
- How do compost worms do good things for us?
- How can compost worms help your plants grow?
- How do you keep happy compost worms?
- How do you make your own health soil with the help of compost worms?
- How to use different light frequencies to see and learn different things
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
CompostRave
Fri 27th November, 6pm - 8pm
Join us for the grand celebration of The Making of CompostRave! This event shares the work made in the VJ Clew workshops and the journey into soil, sound, and sensory discovery, bringing the project to life in an evening of music and light.
Experience live visual art from VJ Clew, who will translate the organic rhythms and light frequency experiments of the process into dynamic, real-time projections. Along with sets from local DJs, the evening merges science, art, and dancefloor energy to celebrate everything built throughout the series.
MAKE by Narture Studios 30 Newmarket St, Ayr
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