Reiki Level 1 in Bairnsdale Sunday Nov 29th 2015

Reiki Level 1

With Andrea Tyrell

Sunday Nov 29th 

10 - 6pm

Yoga East 206 a Main Street, Bairnsdale 

Investment: $250  

Booked out! 

To go on a wait list for the next level 1 Reiki in 2016 contact Margot Porter.

Reiki reduces stress and promotes relaxation and healing. Reiki is a 'hands on healing' technique based on channeling the 'unseen life force energy' that flows through us and causes us to be alive. If our 'life force energy' is low we are more likely to get sick or feel stressed, but when high we are more capable of being happy and healthly.

Learning Reiki with Andrea Tyrrell, a Reiki Master Teacher and Practitioner, is a rewarding experience and by the end of the day you will feel comfortable and confident practising Reiki on yourself and others. Whether you are interested in lerning Reiki for your own healing energy, or to heal others the time is NOW. 

What to expect?

Andrea Tyrrell is a knowledgeable, professional and caring Reiki Master who will guide you through the Reiki course. Andrea works with small groups as this enables individual attention and time to integrate learning. The course is held at Yoga East a friendly and safe space in which to learn and practise Reiki. As part of the course, you will learn about the hsistory and theory of Reiki and have time to practise Reiki both on yourself as well as others. You will receive a comprehensive manual to take home and a certificate of completion.

 The course includes:

• Meditation
• The history and theory of Reiki
• Learning how to draw the Reiki Power symbol
• Attunement
• Self-Reiki exercises
• Practice time - practice Reiki on others
• Question time (throughout the day)
• A comprehensive Reiki manual
• A certificate of completion
• Morning tea provided

About Andrea Tyrrell

Andrea Tyrrell is a Homeopath, a Reiki Master and a Bach Foundation Registered Practitioner based in Melbourne, Australia. After personally experiencing Reiki's powerful healing effects, Andrea was curious to learn more. Once she was attuned to Reiki Master Level, Andrea began offering Reiki to her patients during consultations. She also shares her love of Reiki by teaching.

 

Details:

Yoga East, 206 a Main Street, Bairnsdale 

Sunday Nov 29th

10 - 6pm

$250

Morning tea provided. BYO lunch.

receive a comprehensive Reiki manual.

Receive a certificate of completion.

Post course support provided by Andrea Tyrrell

$50 deposit required upon registration.

Full payment to be made by Friday Nov 27th

To book and receive your registration form contact Margot Porter

margotporteryoga@hotmail.com

Spring Yn & Yang

SPRING

 YIN & YANG 

Oct 11th 

Sunday morning 9 - 11.30am

Can you believe it Spring has finally unfurled :)

So let's leap into action and work some yoga magic on mind, body and spirit.

I am truly ready to hop, skip and jump into spring and shake off winter with this Spring Yin & Yang Workshop. 

We will be working firstly with 'Yang' yoga - a dynamic, active and heating practice. 'Yang' yoga works the muscles and circulates blood around the body. The sequence is designed to open up the whole body: sides, front and back. There will be lashings of twists to aid digestion, detox and generally release stiffness throughout the body.

We then move into 'Yin' yoga which is quiet, meditative and  cooling practice. A yin practice works with the connective tissue rather than muscles and provides deep release around the joints and creates space in the body for healing energy and fluids to flow. In this section, we move slowly into some juicy yin poses and begin to work more deeply with releasing deep tissue around our joints restoring our natural range of movement. We will also be focusing on massaging and nourishing the spring meridian pathways - liver/gallbladder.  To finish we will explore pranayama to balance mind and body before sitting quietly in meditation and then relaxing down into savasana.

Date: Sunday Oct 11th
Time: 9 until 11.30am
Venue: Yoga East 206 a Main Street, Bairnsdale
Cost $40 or $35 concession (HCC or full time student)
Prepay by Wed oct 7th and save $5
Cancellation: Full refund if cancellation is made by Wed Oct 7th. After Oct 7th no refund.

Bookings required:

To book email Margot at margotporteryoga@hotmail.com
or call 5157 5589
or message me on FB

Please note due to limited space bookings are required so get in touch :) A 'going' on Facebook is not a booking. Thanks for your understanding.

Yin Yoga Intensive

 HIP HIP HOORAY

August 22nd

Saturday 2.30 - 4.30pm

 Hip openers!

Love or hate...which one are you?

There is that moment in yoga class usually towards the end when the teacher begins to ease us into hip openers - pigeon or frog - and it is at this point that many of us want to pack up our mat and leave. The teacher will reassuringly ask us to be still and breathe into tightness as if this will make it magically disappear. Yet the after effects of these poses keep us coming back for more. Hip openers are poses to be treasured as they counteract the stress of modern living with its sedentary lifestyle and lack of movement. Another huge bonus and benefit we can release stuck emotions that become lodged in our tissues making us lighter in mind, body and spirit.

Enjoy the release!

Details:

Day: Saturday August 22nd

Time: 2.30 - 4.30pm
Venue: St Mary's Parish Centre, 23 Pyke Street, Bairnsdale
Investment: $40, $35 concession

 Prepay by August 4th and save $5 - $35 or $30.
Email me to book your place and get payment details.
margotporteryoga@hotmail.com

How to book?
Let me know you would like to book by email

Your booking is made when your payment has been received. An email will confirm your booking. Payment can be made either in cash/cheque at my classes or by Direct Bank Transfer (email Margot for bank details)

Restorative Yoga: 3 reasons to do more relaxing and unwinding.

Restorative Yoga...why do it?

Relax all the way down to your cells.

Looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend :)

Notice and feel more of the world through your yoga experience.

1. Slow Down the Pace of Life
Restorative yoga is an excellent opportunity to slow down from the frenetic activity of daily life by offering a welcome respite among all the business of 21st century life. Restorative yoga helps to prepare the mind and body for meditation and deepened awareness. 

2. Soothe Your Nervous System
Ahhh the slower pace and deep breathing practiced in a restorative yoga class triggers our parasympathetic nervous system and helps to reduce the effects of the regular fight-or-flight stress response that can damage your sense of well-being. The deeply relaxing experience of a restorative practice comforts and calms your mind, nervous system and body all the way down to the cellular level.

3.Encourages Mindfulness
Another name for restorative yoga could be “mindful yoga” because slower movements combined with relaxed and deep breathing encourage an expanded embodied awareness. Moving slowly cultivates space for a deeper experience of the poses, the breath and a heightened awareness of physical sensations, thoughts or emotions that arise, or sounds in the environment. These can all take on a richer and more profound significance in the depth of the restorative practice. 

See you on the bolster!

Love & Peace, Margot xx

Emotions and yoga

Emotions and Yoga????

A comment from a student got me thinking, they said "I come to yoga to shut down from my life so much is happening I just need to close off." I started to wonder how many other people came to yoga to "switch off" rather than "switch on" or open up to living from the heart. And then thought was I  judging? I know I am very lucky to be in a position to have the luxury of thinking about these ideas so with gratitude I offer an unraveling of my thoughts... 

I have been thinking about this student's comment as I have just returned from the most marvelous Yin Yoga Teacher Training for 15 days with the amazingly knowledgeable teacher Mysan Sidbo - such an inspiring and very cool teacher's teacher - and was blessed with the company of beautiful, strong, and courageous women. If you practice yoga, you probably have already discovered that dealing with emotions arising in our yoga practice can help us process them in daily life and then we can see this reflected in the way others manage their emotional expression and how best to respond (or not). The guidance of a good teacher can help us through the initial surprise or awareness of just how many thoughts, feeling and emotions are arising.

 Admittedly, on our training we had the luxury of spending time gazing at our navels and sorting through and releasing with LOVE our emotions, long held memories and pain. Everyday our teacher guided us in meditation with a theme that we could apply to or practice on ourselves, and for me more importantly our teacher encouraged us to to think about applying it to others, to our actions in the day, the way we walked, talked, thought, and breathed!

Themes we explored love, kindness, gratitude, humility, compassion, tolerance...

Yoga practice is a great place to open up and be with what is happening in your inner world.  I believe that we all benefit from taking time out to process our “stuff."  It is important.

Words often really do not suffice to express our true feelings either towards ourselves or others. though I do truly believe that meeting a cutting experience with a neutral or positive mind state can support us as we accept rather than push away what is happening no matter how raw and gut wrenching it may be for whatever arises will also pass. I had the blessing of witnessing this letting go, this accepting not resisting, this allowing emotion to wash through over and over again in our yin yoga practices throughout training and afterwards. Really looking forward to teaching this practice!

 Let it go!

Kite shop in Ubud Bali. Photo by Margot Porter.

So it may be it is okay to "to shut off" as my student put it in yoga class and give us space to allow emotions/feelings to surface and be witnessed, be accepted and make it easier to look outside ourselves and to see others as ourselves. After all haven't we all been to that dark place where staying in bed and pulling the covers over your head seem like a good idea. Of course, we all have experienced times in our lives when turning inwards (not off) is the most healing option to take. And when all is going well in our world it is easy to tell someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer to think "positive thoughts" but really it is pretty lame, and to take it one step further imagine saying the same thing to someone who had just lost all their family in a earthquake - well it would be heartless. 

My question in my meditation practice this morning was in today's me orientated world are we dwelling too much on our individual needs?  I can't help but ask: Are we choosing to become less aware and more closed off from others around us?

There comes a time when we must wake up and become aware that putting others before ourselves  brings happiness.

So I ask myself is there something I can do? 

Actions speak louder than words.

 It doesn't have to be big - the intention is to share love, kindness, understanding - to let another  know there are not alone. Instead of stuffing emotions away or expressing them in ways that hurt others or ourselves take some time to understand, reflect and digest your emotions. Own your emotions. See others emotions as a reflection of your own. This is a magnificent practice as it helps us see others as ourselves, to see their suffering as our own, and to wish them happiness and peace in their lives. 

We are all light. 

We are all love. 

We are all energy swirling as one.

Love an happiness to you, Margot XXX

 to put this in to play, because as the good old saying goes, if not now, when?