The Art Of Rejuvenating

Winter: Yin Yoga & Embodiment of the Water Element

This gathering is an interlude – to pause from busyness, our embodied universes of thought and feeling huddled together in a finite space...

Our deepest wisdom, when energy is conserved and Mother Nature sleeps – winter time. Rarely do we slow down and do less during the winter though, yet if we look at cycles of nature busyness often follows cycles of rest. Rest nourishes our capacity to listen, to rebalance heightened energy with stillness, our yin and yang, our Warrior and Monk.

Winter is a time of maximum yin, every part of our body – through our organs and our cells – needs time to rejuvenate. The Water element creates inwards focus and attention, effortless strength, potent powers. Out of balance we stagnate, so we need to feel our flow, our Wuwei, our soft strength.

Indulge yourself in a grounding, softening three-hour practice filled with gentle movement, deep breathing, and long steady restful poses to rebalance.

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Yin Yoga & The Five Elements:

Like a network of rivers nourishing a landscape, the meridians are the channels through which qi (chi) flows, to nourish and energize the human body. Collectively, the meridians form the matrix within which the physical body functions and communicates with the energetic body. The positions of Yin Yoga affect our meridian orbits in a positive direction, and gives us a deeper understanding of our inner workings, so we learn to self-regulate more efficiently. We can embody the qualities and feelings that we find, using mindful movement to embrace what we encounter in these elemental practices, creating a more intimate relationship with ourselves and whats around us, moving through emotions and regenerating as needed. 

Through Yin and the cycle of the Five Element Cycle (Wuxing), and the Taoist acknowledgement that all elements are subject to the same theories and laws, these practices become tools to improve the intensity of our presence in the world, to move and transform in harmonious balance as the elements do.

Each element and season has the ability to draw us towards stronger emotions, behaviours (reaction / action – situation-led), tendencies (frequency of behaviour), attitudes (thoughts / feelings - experience-led), activities, mooods, energies and overall health.

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Embodiment practices:

Awareness and empowerment are at the heart of embodiment, and these are not neutral forces that support the status quo. They’re transformative and therefore disruptive.

Life is an ocean of transitions, a series of movements through sensations, emotions, actions. Nothing stays the same, every experience is different - maybe similar, but always different - in sensation, emotion, action, on a tiny personal level, and on a larger level through the waves of impact our actions have in the world. 

How do we learn to be fully aware of ourselves, to listen intently to the deep functionings and responses in our mind, the constant play between our mind and our body? How do we find balance and control, or reparation and tenderness....?

Simple rituals lead to sacred experiences, nurturing a peaceful and understanding relationship with our bodies, and our bodies speak through sensations and movements, not words. Curiously notice what’s present, don’t explain it in language, hesitate to make meaning of what you hear, and rest into the sensuality of yourself. The coming back to one’s deeper natural self as an orienting principle, is always revolutionary.

I can not give emotional goals...

This is about noticing.

Harmonise; fight off negativity, nurture positivity, prune what is of no use, nurture what is.

The process is more than poetic.

**We are all growing, moving, developing organisms, interconnected with the microcosm and macrocosm of nature and the Universe**

Price: 400kr

About Miz:

Miz has practiced and studied yoga for 18 years, qualifying in various aspects of the practice; Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Sequencing, Embodied Yin & Functional Yin, as well as Tantric Philosophy, Qigong, and Somatics & Restorative Practices. Her classes are about connection, within and from the practitioner, embracing flow and the natural world.