Afternoon Spring Yoga Retreat
Flow into Spring
Sold Out!
October 2nd, 2016
Sunday 12.30pm - 5pm
$80
Suits all levels
Limited places
Light afternoon tea provided
Yoga East
Upstairs 206 a Main street, Bairnsdale
Payment secures your spot on the mat
Direct Bank Transfer details contact Margot
With absolute joy, I welcome my beloved friend and fellow pranic traveller Embodied Flow™ teacher Katy Carter (RYT500) from New Zealand to Yoga East.
Katy has studied and practised yoga in London, India, Bali, Australia and New Zealand. A senior qualified yoga teacher in the School of Embodied Flow™, Katy has practiced yoga in various styles for over 19 years. Katy continues to creatively develop her teaching in line with her own evolving life skills, awakening consciousness and curiosities. A natural communicator and connector, Katy takes you on a journey beyond the everyday ordinariness of being human, into the extraordinary qualities of being. Katy is a freelance yoga teacher in Auckland NZ, and creates and holds popular retreats in New Zealand.
Together we are whipping up a yoga celebration of spring for you to immerse yourself in as we open up to the possibilities of a new season, a new moment, a new you. Come along shed your winter skin and explore your deep connection to the world around us.
Embodied Flow with Katy
12.30 - 2.30pm
Expansion and Contraction: Sukha and Dukkha
The circadian rhythms of the universe are forever in motion. These are intimately reflected within the nature of our bodies. We are Nature. As we emerge from winter and step into spring, how do we shed the contracted state of the body-mind, and find our flow again? Exploring kinespheres of our body-mind in space, we will tap into awareness of the energies inside us, and the macrocosm of energies surrounding us to bring ourselves into a greater state of harmony with nature and initiate a deep appreciation of joy. We will breathe, stretch, dance, play and rest in stillness.
This Embodied Flow Yoga workshop will take you on an investigatory voyage through inner and outer space, journeying in and into the incredible vessel of your body. As captains of our own ships, we will skilfully and playfully navigate our selves into unchartered territory, prepared with a spirit of adventurous enquiry and equipped with a toolbox of Hatha Yoga, Somatic Movement, Meditation, Breath - in a nutshell: Embodied Flow TM.
Come with curiosity!
A little indulgence - a light yet slightly naughty afternoon tea. The goodies will be dairy/gluten/sugar free suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
Spring Yin with Margot
3 - 5pm
Surrender and devotion - Ishvara Prandihana
Yin Yoga is a wonderful way to truly ground and surrender our bodies to stillness, to meditation, to the earth. When we allow ourselves to soften and be held by the earth we recognise or (re)member our interconnectedness to this infinite timeline and amazingly complex ecosystem. Deepen your connection with yourself, with others, with the universe as you release into yoga shapes feeling the rebound from the earth and embracing the moment as an awakening tool to remember your interconnectedness to everything.
Margot will guide you through a series of poses primarily targeting legs and pelvis to lengthen and soften deep tissue layers, to create space in the joints, and to open up the fascia matrix allowing chi and fluids to flow just like a river flows to the sea. While there is an emphasis on massaging and stimulating spring meridians (liver and gall bladder) a sprinkling of poses for the spine will melt away winter contraction by hydrating the body garden as we give space to let the seeds of intention flourish. Hydrate the whole body matrix through stillness and mindfulness. Surrender to the earth that holds and supports us, to the earth that is us. Surrender. Let go and let life unfold. Trust.
“What would happen if you let everything to be exactly as it is.” Adyashanti
