EMBODYING GRACE
Saturday 29th February: 11am - 5pm
This workshop will be an intimate inquiry into integrating three essential elements in practice…form, feeling and freedom. Each day we explore more ways to unravel, to unwind and gradually let go of the habitual confines of our coping strategies. Each day we will cultivate space in us to trust life more and allow the natural dynamics of life to move freely through the body, heart and mind.
Opening and integrating the rich terrain of experience available in our body, heart and mind is the aim of yoga. If we want to change in our lives, we need to encourage openness, sensitivity and malleability in the areas of our lives we habitually fixate.
This is especially important in yoga practice because if we are practising well, we are constantly taking ourselves to the edges of what we know of ourselves.
We are learning to live at the frontier of our lives and be wholeheartedly available for the astonishing beauty and grace of life.
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RADICAL WISDOM, COMPASSION & ACTION
Sunday 1st March: 9.30am-4pm
Maintaining allegiance to life in difficult times Compassion is a sign of your connection. The last afternoon of my time with you will be focussed on understanding our place in a rapidly changing world. How do we maintain a deeply human and effective response to the suffering of the world without being overwhelmed? It requires action there is no doubt, but skilful action. It requires a mature human response. In the wise words of Joanna Macy:
Compassion is an expression of your larger being and can be understood as integral to your belonging in the sacred living body of Earth. Compassion boils down to not being afraid of the suffering of your world or of your self. It involves being open to what you're feeling about that suffering (grief, fear, rage, overwhelm) and brave enough to experience it. You have this precious moment to get close to the suffering and see what it has to tell you. You can't heal something you're afraid to get near. Compassion is what impels you to act for the sake of the larger whole—or put more accurately, it is the whole acting through you.
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