Hello Darkness, My old Friend – Fall 2021

A 7-Class Series for living with long nights, low energy or just a desire to life up.

Recorded Nov. 10 – Dec. 22, 2021

Recordings available for Anytime use.

Live classes 9:00 PST, 10:00 Mountain, 12:00 EST, 18:00 – 19:00 CET(integrated practice), Recordings available
Recommended Price (including access to recordings):
15€ ($18) per class or 100€ (108$) for the series

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. 

For over a year, we have been living with a greater awareness of profound uncertainty, which leaves a deep impression on our nervous system.  Though each of us is experiencing the pandemic in different ways, none of us can avoid its challenges completely.  The additional  impact of the changing seasons and resetting clocks to make our evening time long can create have a significant impact on our systems.

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.

Recommended Price (including access to recordings):

$18/15€ per class or
$108/100€ for the series

(Pricing is flexible to support anyone in need of financial support – No one will be excluded due to financial limitations)

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.

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