LIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP
Date: Sunday 9th June 2024
Time: 3.30pm – 6pm
Cost: £25.00
This afternoon is an opportunity to slow down, take care of yourself and explore practices that really soothe the mind, body and whole nervous system.
We are living in stressful, challenging and very busy times, and in order to stay calm and balanced we need to regularly carve out time to slow down, take care of ourselves and move away from all of the stimulation of the outside world.
This workshop will allow us to turn inwards, to rest and connect deeply to our body, breath, and present moment sensations.
In doing so, our mind can begin to quieten, our body can release deeply held tension and tightness and find more ease and our nervous system can begin to calm down and help us to feel safe, soothed and relaxed again.
We’ll begin the afternoon with a series of gentle, grounding, mindful and somatic movements to release stress and tension, allowing energy to flow freely but calmly through the body again.
We will also explore a number of soothing and calming practices, including breath work, mudras and mantra, before eventually settling into some longer-held restorative poses to soak up some deep rest, and connect to a place of inner calm and stillness.
The afternoon will finish with a grounding and calming yoga nidra (deep yoga sleep) practice. Yoga nidra has been described as “an effortless state of restfulness in the form on a horizontal meditation that takes place just on the threshold of sleep.” (Uma Dinsmore Tuli)
By the end you will feel deeply rested, refreshed and recharged – ready to move forwards from a place of inner calm to navigate these ever busy and changing times.
“If we look at our lives, we will see clearly how many unimportant tasks, so called ‘responsibilities’ accumulate to fill them up. We tell ourselves we want to spend more time on the important things in life but there never seems to be enough time. There are things which have to be done and we feel we have no choice about. By the time we are finished doing everything that has to be done, we’re too tired to do anything else”.
Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Lama
Please contact me if you have any questions or would like to book a place.
