Yin Yoga & Yoga Nidra - Deep Exploration

Service Description

Ostara (Spring Equinox) Yin & Nidra - Deep Exploration of Body & Mind Sunday 23rd March 4:00-6:00pm At the Spring Equinox we celebrate Ostara; a time of balance, of new life and the joys of Spring. To observe this tipping point into days that are longer than the nights, we have another exploration of body and mind, with a physical yin class followed by a yogic sleep, which can be taken individually or as a combined long session. The combination of the two sessions 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 current seasonal energies, Ostara or Eostre, is the perfect time to invite blessings for renewal and growth into your life. We will explore both physical and mental expansion and release, using the joy of exploration and enquiry to engender balance and harmony, growth and regeneration. The yin session (4.00-5.00pm) 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 session (5.00-6.00pm) 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.