A Winter Chill
November 16 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Winter can feel bleak sometimes. This session offers an opportunity to cozy up and embrace the darkness.
The yoga practice will reflect the rhythms of nature.
Having spent sunny days this summer practicing sun salutations at the beach and mediating down by the river, now the dark night are drawing in, and all around us in nature things are turning inward, taking time to rest and replenish.
We too can take the opportunity to draw our awareness inward, to honour the stillness, take stock and draw strength from our inner light.
Winter is the most yin time of year. In traditional Chinese medicine, winter is governed by the kidneys, where vital energy or Qi is stored and directed to places in the body that are running low.
Yin yoga consists of floor based postures that are held in stillness, usually for 3 minuets or more. The practice is deep and meditative.
The Vinyasa practice flows with the breath through a fluid sequence of postures.
In the pranayama session we will look at how we can control the breath, let go of tension and move towards a place of relaxation.
Yoga nidra or yogic sleep is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping.
It is a state in which the body is completely relaxed, and we become systematically and increasingly aware of our inner world.
Warming soup, winter teas and nibbles included.