Booked out!
Inhale Exhale
Inhale Exhale
Restorative Yoga Intensive
Saturday April 30th
2.30 - 5pm
Yoga East
206 a Main Street, Bairnsdale
$40
Payment secures your place.
Limited places.
Bookings required.
Shine your light with yoga. Join Margot Porter at YOGA EAST in East Gippsland to transform the way you see life with a supple body and a strong mind. Be inspired classes, regular workshops and retreats.
Tuesday, 5 April 2016
Sunday, 28 February 2016
Yoga: being in the body with grace.
YOGA
Being in the body with grace
or
letting go of an ego based practice.
Most of us grow wiser as we age and there comes a time in our practice when our hearts and our bodies tell us it is time to change our practice to suit our needs. Recently I decided that I no longer wanted to do a strong vinyasa practice. A flow practice yes but not one that made me not want to get up and go to my mat. Strong vinyasa everyday was just making me tired. It no longer energised and nurtured me the way it had. I don't have any injuries - it just didn't feel good anymore. I then thought about other poses that I no longer needed in my tool kit and felt a freedom in doing so for now I was practising the yama ahimsa - being gentle and loving kindness.
Make your body happy and let your ego take a back seat.
Do any poses or practices you do make you feel tense, tired or just uninspired?
Is it time to unclutter your yoga suitcase?
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Going with the flow
I like handstands and keep trying to do them. The question is should I?
I am beginning to question why I like to do these harder poses and if I am hanging onto to some idea about still being 25 rather than almost 50. Am I being honest and truthful with myself about what would help me or am I being stubborn and hanging onto practices that are inappropriate and are hurting me.
When I stop trying so hard poses I find difficult pop up and are often much easier to do as if they know organically that now is a good time. I just need to get my head or ego out of the action.
Open up to the moment and let what arises arise and let what dissolves dissolve.
Relax in your practice and see what happens instead of being focused on the physical and external outcomes for yoga is a work in, an energetic practice for quieting the mind and serving others.
Om shanti,
Margot XX
Make your body happy and let your ego take a back seat.
Do any poses or practices you do make you feel tense, tired or just uninspired?
Is it time to unclutter your yoga suitcase?
Image source https://yogue.wordpress.com/
Going with the flow
I like handstands and keep trying to do them. The question is should I?
I am beginning to question why I like to do these harder poses and if I am hanging onto to some idea about still being 25 rather than almost 50. Am I being honest and truthful with myself about what would help me or am I being stubborn and hanging onto practices that are inappropriate and are hurting me.
When I stop trying so hard poses I find difficult pop up and are often much easier to do as if they know organically that now is a good time. I just need to get my head or ego out of the action.
Open up to the moment and let what arises arise and let what dissolves dissolve.
Relax in your practice and see what happens instead of being focused on the physical and external outcomes for yoga is a work in, an energetic practice for quieting the mind and serving others.
Om shanti,
Margot XX
Sunday, 24 January 2016
Yoga Therapeutics Workshops
Yoga Therapeutics with Lisa Baker
LOVE your back
Saturday Feb 20th 2.30 - 5pm
at Yoga East
LOVE your belly
Sunday Feb 21st 10.30 -1pm
at Yoga East
Yoga Therapeutics
LOVE your Back
Learn tools to deal with a busy mind, troubled sleep, sore back,
nervousness, anxiety, fibromyalgia and hormonal irregularities.
Based on the 5 elements and the
meridians of Chinese medicine, Lisa will guide you through yoga poses to move
energy into the lower back, kidneys, bladder, reproductive organs, adrenals and
into your lower limbs. Learn ways to reduce
tiredness, stiffness and manage ailments
on a daily basis. Suits all levels.
Yoga Therapeutics
LOVE your Belly
Explore yoga sequences to move your bowels, get regular, detox,
control sugar cravings and improve digestive health.
Discover how chakras support your digestive system and enhance
your overall sense of vitality and wellness. In this workshop, Lisa, a
qualified herbalist and naturopath, will blend Yoga with Western Naturopathy
and the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, to show you how to put
together your personalised sequence. Suits all levels.
About Lisa Baker
"Lisa started her yoga journey in 1992 with Elleke van Kralingen in the Netherlands while she was studying Naturopathy.
Lisa graduates in 1997 as a herbalist and naturopath.She moved to
Australia in 1999where she settled down in the beautiful Dandenongs near
Melbourne. In 2009 she finished her yoga teacher training and has been teaching yoga since. She
has studies children's yoga with Loraine Rushton and finished another
teacher training with Donna Farhi in 2015. Lisa has a down to earth
approach to teaching yoga ans is interested in tis therapeutic effects.
For Lisa yoga is a life style. Her goal is to empower people to use the
principles of yoga beyond the mat into each day and each moment as a guidance on how to reduce stress and live a fulfilled life."
To book
Details: LOVE your Back
Saturday Feb 20th
2.30 - 5pm
Yoga East
206 a Main Street, Bairnsdale
$40
Payment secures your place.
Limited places.
Bookings required:
Book by credit card.
No refunds.
Details: LOVE your Belly
Saturday Feb 21st
10.30 - 1pm
Yoga East
206 a Main Street, Bairnsdale
$40
Payment secures your place.
Limited places.
Bookings required:
Or pay by credit card.
No refunds.
See you on the mat.
Om shanti, Margot XX
margotporteryoga@hotmail.com
margotporteryoga@hotmail.com
Yoga Intensive Dragon Dance Feb 14th
Dragon Dance Yoga Intensive
Play! Move! Groove!
Saturday Feb 13th
2.30 - 5pm
Yoga East
Dragon Dance
Feel the heat of summer with this vigorous and fluid dance.
The Dragon Dance is a wonderful blend of Daoist and Classical Indian Yoga. Move through a whole body work out, work up a sweat and challenge your mind, ego and body. In this workshop, we build up into a flow of poses in stages with each stage adding to the dynamism and spirit of a yoga dance. Work to improve your flexibility and increase your concentration and focus.
Experience the flow of energy and feel the magic of 'prana' as it moves through the body.
Once the stage is set and we are familiar with the dance, let's slow it right down and work with holding poses or variations of poses to build strength and stamina. Then wind down into a selection of yin poses echoing the dance. Finish with pranayama and savasana.
Details:
Saturday Feb 13th
2.30 - 5pm
Yoga East
206 a Main Street, Bairnsdale
$40
Payment secures your place.
Limited places.
Bookings required:
For Direct Bank Transfer payment details email Margot Porter
or message me on Facebook
Or book and pay with a credit card
No refunds.
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
A Yin Approach to New Year
A Yin Approach to New Year
“We judge ourselves by our intentions but others by their actions.”
Image source http://www.livescience.com/32675-how-do-fireworks-get-their-colors.html
So the saying goes and yet each year we have the luxury of thinking about what we would like to improve about ourselves and then off we go and make our New Year resolutions/intentions.
This post is a reflection on resolutions and why I no longer make them.
This post is a reflection on resolutions and why I no longer make them.
What are New Year resolutions really all about?
In the past, like most people my resolutions have been about changing
myself in some way or another.
They generally fell into two main
categories:
1) Something I wanted to stop doing
2) Something that I wanted to do but wasn't doing.
Example: get fitter, eat less (I love eating), spend more time with Marc, read more, be creative, garden more, start that book and so on.
This year I had the pleasure of completing Yin Yoga Teacher Training and this involved spending time learning and practising the art of yin - just being - and witnessing and reflecting on the way my thought habits supported (or not) my happiness and inner peace.
How to reconfigure resolutions in a new light?
Making changes to become more balanced and at ease in life is important. In all honesty, in the past I have stuck to some of the changes I have promised myself - shifting long held habits, moving into new uncomfortable places to grow and instigating new routines to support myself. In essence, a yang style approach tapping into my active, dynamic yang energies to make healthy shifts.
But what about the resolutions I haven't stuck to?
I do struggle with New Year's resolutions and have stopped making them.
I do struggle with New Year's resolutions and have stopped making them.
Summer is here, the days are long and I am on a break from work - everything seems possible and so the New Year Resolutions are cast into the swirl of the universe. Once back working, well, I think we all know what happens - yes we stick at activities for a while and then they drop away providing that little voice in the head an opportunity to come out to play and make comments about a lack of discipline and self love. Not helpful and certainly not nourishing to wonderful you.
Let's unpack!
When you have a good hard look at resolutions they are based on an assumption that in some way or another you are not good enough the way you are and that you should change.
Where is this idea/assumption coming from?
Us, our family, partner, friends, social media or marketing.
Whose voice is whispering in your ear?
An Alternative
An Alternative
My friend and I now use a guiding word or phrase to suggest a direction for our interactions with ourselves and the universe. This can be made anytime and can be adjusted to suit circumstances. The word or phrase is more about a vibration, feeling, or mood to live with.
I am love.
I am light.
Relax.
Slow down.
Chill.
Mine for this year is balance.
balance balance balance balance
balance balance balance balance
balance balance balance balance
balance
Me out in the Australain bush
Yang is about being active, dynamic, moving, passionate and accomplishing big ideas and projects. Yin is about being still, quiet, allowing, relaxing into the present moment, accepting and experiencing the small acts of daily life with care and attention.
Balance connects with and acknowledges both the yin and yang aspects of life. Perfect!
Balance is an art in itself for as we know from our yoga practice a balance requires constant tweaking, adjusting and modifying. It is not as if we get into a balance and then hey presto we are there static and still. There is the more gross movement in the body as muscles switch on and other lengthen and relax, but also that beautiful, subtle oscillation of the breath moving from our centre out to the edges and back in again.
How to work with your guiding word or phrase?
Once you have your theme or feel then it is more about honesty asking yourself how to live with your chosen vibration.
What can you accept, allow or just let it be about yourself?
(Yes I know it is counterintutive and goes against all that that society/media tells us to do).
What is your vibration or feeling for 2016?
love love love
peace peace peace
Margot XXX
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