Date: Sunday 23rd February 2025
Time: 3.00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: The Canvas, 27 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9PJ
Cost: £30.00
Pre-booking required – please contact me to book
The month of February can be a tough one. As we move – hopefully – towards the end of winter, we can be feeling pretty tired both physically and mentally from the cold and dark days, and in need of a deep energy reset. This afternoon of gentle yoga and deep rest is an opportunity to really slow down, take care of yourself and explore practices that soothe and rejuvenate the mind, body and whole nervous system. All blended together to allow all the systems of the body to replenish and our state of mind to quieten.
This workshop will allow us to turn inwards, to rest and connect deeply to our body, breath, and present moment sensations. Dedicating some extra time away from the ‘things’, phones and life callings can really help heal and allow a feeling of a deep reset that is often needed as winter drains our resources.
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 soothed, rested and relaxed.
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 self-massage, 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)
Thirty minutes of yoga nidra is said to be the equivalent of three hours sleep and this practice is deeply nourishing and restorative.
By the end you will feel deeply rested, refreshed and recharged – ready to move forwards towards the longer and brighter days of spring.
“Stillness is like water
moving deep inside the earth
seeping slowly between rocks
trickling down
in the dark
a tide moving inwards.
Stillness is the space
between breaths
inside heartbeats
the silence of the gathering wave
that never breaks.”Judith Prest
Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Lama
Please contact me if you have any questions or would like to book a place.
