7pm - 8.30pm

This Monday evening Yin Yoga practise will be a guided Meditation alongside a Yogi Choice practice. I will guide the Meditation and mind the time. All Asana will be held for the same length of time but, you will be choosing which posture to be held by. There may be holds where you simply sit and others where you explore a movement in your body. The way you practice in this last Monday class of 2021 will be your place to explore freely.

Meditation can be practised in two main ways: either by stopping and cultivating concentration and enquiry in a systematic way using the tools of awareness: breath, sensations, sounds, thoughts and meditative questioning; or by paying attention to life moment to moment without grasping as we go about our days. Bothmethodsareneededforthecultivationofmeditationtobecomeanart. The first method helps us to become peaceful, still and bright. The second method anchors our awareness and makes the meditation permeate the whole fabric of our life.

When we can loosen our grip and allow the play of the energy to carry us, posture brings us face to face with the moment of choice. We are learning to exercise true freewheel and choose wisdom and knowledge of the self over any positions or gain. As we live the questions, we realise that there are no right answers, only choices. Will we relegate ourselves or will we connect to source?

be there to follow but you may indeed wish to follow your own spontaneous movements through and into your body, mind and hearts. All postures will be held for the same amount of time and I will sound the bowl to indicate the timer has begun or that we are to release the hold. The session will end with a longer than normal silent relaxation. 

The mind-body-heart can find stability when it understands the nature of its own movement. Each time we bring ourselves back to the field of the body, to the flow of breath, we untangle ourselves and return with a greater capacity for caring and understanding.

This is not a practise in which to come and evaluate yourself. This is a practise in which to build trust in yourself and we begin with the receptive body in stillness and in silence.

It will be useful for everyone attending to have practised Yin Yoga with me in the past. Please note that I will not be suggesting postures. This will be your time to follow a feeling inside of yourself.

Yin Yoga is a journey that asks us to feel the way our individual bodies move rather than think our way into Asana. With long holds and deep stretches, the practise allows us to stretch beyond muscle and reach the very depth of our individual bodies where we have the potential to uncover and recover the body’s natural range of movement.

When we let go of the need to be a shape or to confirm to other people’s ideas of what we should look like, how things should be moving, we are free to respond authentically where we can be completely ourselves which is the very definition of freedom that is the practise of Yoga.