7pm - 8.30pm

The author George Prochnik says in his book In Pursuit of Silence, “The loudest argument for quiet may be a reflection on what otherwise remains in danger of going unheard.” 

This Yin Yoga practise will be guided in silence. I will 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. 

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.