Tuesday 14th Feb, 2022 7-9pm
£35pp
Join Lisa and Jenny on their bi-monthly yin & gong sessions with a yin yoga workshop focused primarily on the heart chakra and meridians. We will explore the joy and healing powers of mantra and voice, a guided meditation throughout class will focus on self-love.
There’s a reason why yoga teachers love sequencing heart-opening classes — in fact, there are plenty. To start, us modern-day Westerners spend an awful lot of time contracting the front of our bodies (think of our posture as we sit in front of a computer or in a car), and it’s rare that we balance this behaviour with opening the eastern face of the body. The result? Short and constricted front bodies, less effective breathing patterns and a temperament that is closed rather than open and receptive to the world. Yin yoga can make a huge difference.
(TCM) and bodywork therapies all agree that the importance of the heart reaches far beyond its physical functions and plays a profound role in our energetic, emotional and spiritual lives. Yin yoga with its gentle, passive poses, is the perfect practice to encourage the liberating experience of opening the heart while also providing grounding and support.
Yin is a style of yoga where poses are held for several minutes in order to bring controlled stress within your connective tissue, which allows for deep release. No prior yoga experience is necessary! Each pose will allow you to relieve tension within your body along with a guided meditation to promote calm peacefulness within your mind.
The yin/restore yoga section with Lisa accompanied by a healing Gong Bath with Jenny-Ann, an immersion in sacred sound that can transport you to a deeply meditative state.
This date is also known as World Sound Healing Day. On this day, many thousands of people through our planet will be creating Healing Sounds encoded with the intention of Love & Compassion to send a sonic valentine to the Gaia Matrix, our beloved Mother Earth, with the intention of raising the consciousness of all sentient beings.
Gongs promote a deep sense of well being and inner peace, with participants bathed in the sounds of the gongs often experiencing feelings of timelessness, visions or colours.The deep resonance of the gongs affects the body on a cellular level, releasing tension and stress by sonic massage.
This workshop is not suitable for the following health conditions due to the powerful vibrations from the gongs: pregnancy, severe osteoporosis, epilepsy, sound sensitive conditions (tinnitus/ menieres/some migraine), recent surgery with plates/pins, pacemakers, unstable mental health conditions (schizophrenia/bipolar).
ABOUT CEREMONIAL CACAO
Cacao was used in Ritual and Ceremony by our Mesoamerican ancestors and was considered sacred. It is interesting that the ritual and ceremonial use had been lost.
Cacao had been practically diluted beyond recognition into Chocolate confections with added fats and sugars which can detract from the magic.
There is a difference in vibration when you eat a dairy filled Chocolate bar compared to a minimally processed dark Chocolate.
Drinking Cacao in it's purest form allows a deeper connection to ourselves, our own intuition, knowing and inner guidance.
The joy of Cacao has recently been rediscovered in the western World, with people consuming it in a pure form and receiving support and messages from the Cacao spirit. Cacao is regaining its reputation as a powerful yet gentle earth medicine.
Benefits:
Gentle but powerful
Won’t push you through a door rather gently leads you there if you are willing
Can sit with her and feel the support even when not drinking her
Helps you understand yourself
Can aid clearing emotional blocks
Enables the letting go of past relationships
Connects you with your creativity
Enhances focus and mental agility
May find you no longer crave crappy chocolate
Cacao can be enjoyed as an alternative to coffee or tea
Sanitised props will be provided for this workshop but please bring a pillow case to cover my bolsters, an extra blanket for comfort, and your own mat if you prefer.
Aromatherapy, salt lamps, eye pillows, bolsters and lots of blankets set the scene for the extra long savasana at the end of the class!