Lifting the Calm, Focused Energy of the Body to support the changing seasons
This nourishing series of group classes is intended to support us with weekly integrated practices for the body, emotions and thoughts – with particular focus on the fact that we are moving in to a time of greater darkness through our daily schedule. Let’s manage our nervous systems together.
Suggested price for the series is 70€ or 18€ for a single class
Topics for this series
- nourishing our energy
- Slowing down to respect the changes
- Build strength without depleting reserves
- Joy, Joy, Joy! turn towards the light
We will gather each week for nourishment, support, and most importantly, to remind our BodyMind of hope, energy, and joy. And for the times when we need to stay in the quiet darkness, we can reside there with gentleness until we are ready to move out. We will utilize Ritual, Simple conscious movement, Conscious breathing, resting, and sitting in silence.
Are we are willing to be with the silence of this moment, with the light deep within the light of the heart? Turning to the peace that already is, let’s call that awareness. If I call that awareness, then if I make the right effort to turn towards that via intimacy of my breath. This stillness is a mirror. Through this mirror, we come to a place of clarity that is compassionate and aware that is connects with this moment. We see ourselves tied to the highest quality, nourishing quality as compassion, spaciousness, and joy. As we make the right effort to connect with that, it will inspire and continue to inspire us in any and every situation that presents itself – in our inner life, relationships, community, and with our dear and complex world. We are in training, and our goal is wholeness.
The goal is not to be controlled, but to be aware. Sometimes we take awareness as an extension of controlling our lives, our thoughts, feelings, children, diets, etc. We can watch this. This control can sometimes be a way of being unkind to ourselves if it arises out of judgment. The ultimate goal in Yoga is grace/freedom – it cannot be achieved; it is something that reveals itself. The sutras do talk about control and changing things, the methodology. How do we practice? the sutras say (Sutra I-12) – Abyasa (persevering practice) and Vairagya (with non-attachement) – observing ourselves in this kind of practice makes us more aware of the fact that we are not necessarily in control of our own transformation.