Yin & Nidra - Deep Exploration of Body & Mind - Lammas

Sunday 28th July 5.30-7.00pm

A Summer Wellness Workshop, this session will take participants on a blissful journey through some deeply releasing Yin yoga poses and on to a relaxing and rejuvenating Yoga Nidra ("sleep of the yogis").

Drawing on the seasonal energies of Lammas or Lughnasadh - the first harvest - we will celebrate abundance, inspired by the ripening grain.

The yin part of the session involves longer held physical poses with plenty of use of props and personally tailored options, with restorative poses and gentle movement between the longer held poses. This provides an overall experience of calm, cool yin energy (rather than heat-generating, faster moving yang energy), allowing the fascia (connective tissues wrapping our organs and muscles) to release.

The nidra part of the session is not a physical practice; participants will find a comfortable place to rest - again props are always encouraged to help you find stillness - then we allow the body to completely rest while the mind follows the nidra technique into an effortless state of complete "non-doing".

The two practices together encourage a deep exploration of not only the body, with deep release found in the stretches, but also a deep exploration of where the mind goes, when left to its own devices or when led through the layers of consciousness to a state of bliss...... No previous yoga or yoga nidra experience needed. All are welcome.