FROM THE GROUND UP
Perhaps it is important to say that we are already embodied. However, the degree to which our embodiment functions well or not is what embodiment practices are targeted to explore. Embodiment is the ongoing process of our being as it resides in and manifests from our biology, psychology, and culture not as observed from the outside, but as experienced from within. Yoga practices can be embodiment practices through the techniques you learn, how you apply them, and the ritual of your practice. These workshops are designed to help you develop those techniques so you can apply them to anything you do.
3-Part Workshop Series on the Mechanics of Embodiment at Shala Living Yoga
412 W. Boone Ave.
March 31, April 28, May 26 2:30-4:30p
Single Session:$45 for non-Shala members, $35 for members.
All 3 $120 for non-members, $90 for members.
OUR WORLDVIEW IN OUR BODY (Sunday, March 31)
We will explore ideas about our sedimented choreography and how over time every cell in our body contracts, collapses, and compensates… and can also be reconnected, recreated, and re-sourced. Philosophers and somatic educators have called for ways to reactivate the sediment otherwise it will play itself out unconsciously throughout our lives. We will start with two somatic metaphors in this class: the mind-body budget and the body as a house— and we’ll experience those in the body through right angles and the beauty and wonder of forward folds.
ARCHTYPES & MEASURE (Sunday, April 28)
Continuing where we left off… archetypes provide context, metaphor, and symbol— all of which can change the way we move with exactitude and ease and sometimes with more efficiency than effort. Developing an understanding of this can make your practice become a portal into new lands within. This workshop will go over concepts about archetypes, symbols, and metaphors as they relate to yoga practices. We will focus on the ground of being practices of deep hip openers.
THE NARRATIVE THREAD (Sunday, May 26)
The body will always tell the story of our lives, our week, our day, this minute… in a language so direct and simple that if it were heeded would contradict most of the ways we have learned we have to be to live. But the body can feel ambiguous to us. This is the ambiguity of human embodiment. For protection during events and circumstances that we don’t have the resources to understand, the mind pulls away and isolates from the body. Working with the ways and hows that the body moves and experiencing the subtleties and complexities inherent in that, is a way to shift perspective and build our tolerance to the ambiguous nature of being. The postural focus will be on backbending.
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Please book confidently, no refunds granted.