The Art Of Expanding
Summer: Yin Yoga & Embodiment of the Fire Element
with Miz Deshanon
This gathering is an interlude – to pause from busy-ness, our embodied universes of thought and feeling huddled together in a finite space.
Indulge yourself in a softening, embodied three-hour practice filled with felt experiences, through gentle Qigong-inspired movement, yin yoga, and long steady restful poses to rebalance.
Summer & the fire element
After the Spring sending forth blossoms, the summer's fire matures the growth. Summer relates to ripening, fulfilment, maximum Yang energy! We love the light days, the warmth of the sun, and we feel creative, expansive, full and joyous in all ways – something difficult to maintain, and easily depleted.
When we're in balance our primary fire organ - the heart - is open and we can be full of joy, when we're out of balance we can become restless or withdrawn, feeling all of that irritable and easily ignited fire!
Our fire element practices bring us towards deep listening, to our own bodies and their secrets, enriching love and warmth, the beauty of friendships and the divine spirit (shen) which animates our life. We can awaken our fire, understand its boundaries, nourish our heart and find what we love the most, openly and skilfully.
Breathe, rest when needed – pause, and get ready to begin again.
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 energise the human body like rivers nourish the Earth. 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.
Taoism believes that each of the five elements has the ability to draw us towards stronger emotions, behaviours (reaction / action – situation-led), tendencies (frequency of behaviour), attitudes (thoughts / feelings - experience-led), activities, moods, energies and overall health.
Embodiment practices
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, increase positivity, remove 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: 400,-
About Miz
Miz’s classes are about connection, within and from the practitioner, embracing flow and the natural world through steady vibrational energy, finding a way to listen and notice and solely be there for guidance - “learning comes from inside each of us”. She has practiced and studied yoga for almost 20 years, qualifying in various aspects of the practice; Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Sequencing, Embodied Yin & Functional Yin, as well as Tantric Philosophy, Qigong, and Somatics & Rest