UK, SHROPSHIRE - Exploring the limbs of yoga, Trixi Field & Bhanu, Rainbow Centre, Penley, Wrexham, LL13 0GB, 08 Apr 2018
Bhanu and Trixi warmly welcome you to join us on this one-day Yoga retreat: “Exploring the Limbs of Yoga”!
For many people “yoga” means a regular weekly class of asanas (postures), some breathing and possibly a few minutes’ meditation if there’s time. We cram it into our schedules in order to help us navigate our busy lives with greater ease, or to help us move with more freedom and learn to relax. And we know from experience that yoga does help in all those things. Yet, there’s so much more to yoga than that!
There are 8 “limbs” to yoga that are there to help us create a meaningful, healthy, loving and contented life. Yoga means “union” or “connection”. It’s both a state of connection but also a comprehensive set of techniques & philosophy, allowing us to create connections to the world around, but also to discover and connect with our own inner world, to pull the disparate parts of life – physical, mental, spiritual - into a healthy, flowing whole.
The day will start with a 2-hour limbering, strengthening and de-stressing asana yoga session- (asana - the third limb). Following this, we’ll explore the usefulness and relevance of a selection of the recommended restraints/disciplines (known as yamas, the first limb) and positive observances (niyamas, the second limb) and examine how we can use these guidelines to enhance our own experience of this life.
Following a lovingly home-cooked and delicious lunch, there will be a short yoga nidra (relaxation) session to help us digest the food. Then, we’ll take one of the postures from the morning’s session and “deconstruct” it, looking at alignment details, adjusting our posture little by little, until we can connect it all back up into the whole posture again. Understandably, it’s not unusual to want to go deeply into an asana, but if we do this when we are out of alignment, we’re not deriving the greatest benefit from that posture – in fact, we may even be harming ourselves. Asanas serve us best when we choose good alignment over the desire to rapidly attain depth.
We can live without food for somewhere between 21-40 days. We can live without water for 3-5 days. Without air, we can only live for 5 minutes tops, and then our cells die. And yet, shallow breathing is the norm in our culture, and breathing practice is sometimes sidelined in home yoga sessions because of time constraints and perhaps also even a misunderstanding of the importance of including it. Good, full-lung respiration, developed through regular, focused breathing practice (pranayama – the fourth limb) is paramount for developing and maintaining excellent health, energy and vitality, lowering stress and increasing peace and calm.
The day will end with a gentle chanting session leading to a short silent meditation (dhyana, the seventh limb). The aim is to let you experience the effects of not just time spent bending, stretching and moving on the mat, but of some of the other, more subtle and sometimes rather sidelined aspects of yoga that, when gently introduced into daily life and yoga practice, can have a profoundly positive effect not just on our own lives, but a knock-on favourable effect on the people around us, our communities and the environment.
- Category :
Voice
- Start Date :
08-04-2018
- End Date :
15-03-2018
- Facilitator :
Trixi Field & Bhanu
- Time :
9.30 start, 4.30pm end
- Address :
Rainbow Centre, Penley, Wrexham, LL13 0GB
- Contact Name :
Trixi Field
- Contact Email :
EllesmereDru@gmail.com
- Contact Phone :
01691 623829
- Pricing Details :
£40.00 (10%concessions)
- Website :
www.ellesmeredru.webstarts.com
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