Time to rest: Rest into the medicine of stillness as we move through postures that support relaxation into quiet, and gently revitalise from the inside out. We will work with awareness cultivation as a way to navigate the sometimes challenging mental aspect of stillness practices. We will use two blankets, a bolster (or a couple of pillows) and a chair.
The 5 Divine Acts - Micro: A continuation from The 5 Divine Acts: Macro, this talk looks at the idea that the same five Acts are being performed through each one of us, and waking up to this reality, from the perspective of The Recognition Sutras, is the process of self realisation.
The 5 Divine Acts - Macro: One perspective of the interplay between consciousness and manifest reality, and the capacity of the One to be concealed within the Many, and the Many to be a doorway back into the One.
The 5 Divine Acts - Macro: One perspective of the interplay between consciousness and manifest reality, and the capacity of the One to be concealed within the Many, and the Many to be a doorway back into the One.
Innate Wisdom: Inquiring into our innate wisdom drives, intuitive and creative recovery, our relationship to the whole and how over valuing our ‘head intelligence’ can override the intelligence of our bodies. The wonderful podcast I mention is Pain Removed, Performance Improved by Joanne Avison. The book I recommend is Radical Wholeness by Philip Shepherd.
Innate Wisdom: Inquiring into our innate wisdom drives, intuitive and creative recovery, our relationship to the whole and how over valuing our ‘head intelligence’ can override the intelligence of our bodies. The wonderful podcast I mention is Pain Removed, Performance Improved by Joanne Avison. The book I recommend is Radical Wholeness by Philip Shepherd.
Innate Creativity: Move through a creative practice that plays with tree pose, balance, and opportunities to explore twisting arm balances. As you explore movement and stillness, open your awareness to the felt sense of potentiality and source; the ground of being that holds every possibility, and allow your innate movement wisdom and creativity the space to emerge.
Guru Mantra: This mantra calls us into recognition of the teacher in every circumstance, within all and within ourselves. I learnt this beautiful melody from Stephanie Snyder.
Innate Creativity: Move through a creative practice that plays with tree pose, balance, and opportunities to explore twisting arm balances. As you explore movement and stillness, open your awareness to the felt sense of potentiality and source; the ground of being that holds every possibility, and allow your innate movement wisdom and creativity the space to emerge.
Pure Potential: Refresh yourself with a practice that invites us to tap into the pure potential from which all arises. Explore accessing your own innate creativity in movement and slowly unfold from the ground into a nurturing flow practice that builds towards some standing balances and closes with supported backbend variations and a delicious rest.
Replenish: A restorative practice to replenish your energies fill your cup, and to settle agitation or soothe fatigue. Use a bolster or a couple of pillows to gently compress & support the front body to offer your system utter nurturance.
Replenish: A restorative practice to replenish your energies fill your cup, and to settle agitation or soothe fatigue. Use a bolster or a couple of pillows to gently compress & support the front body to offer your system utter nurturance.
Get started with your harmonium: You just got your harmonium and you are not sure where to start? Here is a basic introduction to some of the functionality of your harmonium and how to create a basic drone so you can start chanting straight away :)
Strong legs, free spine: A strong and steady practice exploring how our feet speak to our spine via the pelvis! Begin with a juicy hip warm up and find your flow exploring clarity of spacial intent through the legs and feet. Builds towards opportunities to play with half moon balance, forward folds and inversions and an arm balance to finish. Finish with a yummy relaxation and some chanting.
Easy Harmonium Jai Ma Mantra: A good one to start your harmonium journey with! An absolutely beautiful mantra with very simple harmonium. Calling to Ma, the Devine mother, the goddess that is awareness itself, and the ground of being in which every possibility exists. This is an adaptation of Nicky Slade’s beautiful Jai Ma mantra.
Find your Feet: A foot focused flow to explore how awakening our feet helps us to move our whole body with more clarity and ease. Start slowly and move into a circular sequence of balances, twists and a yummy rest at the end.
Tiny & Vast 2: A follow on from Tiny & Vast, sharing a short and sweet poem that speaks to the relationship between the individual and the universal.
Twist & Balance: A simple and strong vinyasa practice moving into twisted balances and side plank variations as well as opportunities for a little handstand play.
Coming Home: A meditation to welcome every aspect of ourselves, hold and honour our current experience and to sit quietly with ourselves, our breath, listening with our whole body.
Inherent Significance: The idea that our significance is inherent to our existence, and that when we look for our signifance from outside of ourselves, jobs, validation, roles, etc we are looking in the wrong place. We have some sense that we are significant and we ARE but not becasue of all the things we do...