This workshop series will be an intimate and soul nourishing exploration of the inner dimensions of yoga practice. While we will explore all aspects of yoga practice, we will be leaning more into the subtle terrain of pranayama and the embodied breath.
Pranayama is often describes as breathing techniques but it is far more than this. It is an intimate exploration of the subtle energetic dynamics of the body and mind. We are not simply breathing with Pranayama practice, we are cultivating an exquisite sensitivity to the responsive intelligence of life. Cultivating a relationship with pranayama is cultivating a relationship with the living current of life itself.
The Embodied Breath workshop is as much about a deepening intimacy with energy and feeling as it is about the breath. Pranayama expands and refines our capacity for feeling.
It is a profoundly intimate affair and the deeper we go the more we learn to trust the instinctive intelligence of our own embodied lives.
Some of the themes we will cover:
The 5 pillars of grounding
Prana as nourishment
Safety and belonging
The role of gravity in breathing
Trauma and the breath
Befriending and refining feeling
Containment and openness
Understanding energy and mind
PAUL WOODEN
Paul Wooden has been practicing and studying yoga and meditation for 40 years and teaching for 35 years. He draws from his experience in many different styles and traditions and, through a practical understanding of their underlying unifying principles, weaves together a cohesive and integrated approach to yoga.
Working with Paul is an invitation to the deeper dimensions of practice. His particular way of working opens us to the sensitivity and receptivity necessary for the subtler inner practices.
Paul’s approach offers rich learning possibilities, whether students are beginners or highly experienced practitioners. He complements studies of the wisdom traditions with a more contemporary understanding of the human condition including developmental psychology and integral theory and trauma work (somatic experiencing) which seeks to help uncover and release the binding patterns of trauma in the body.
It is recommended to attend all parts of this workshop series to gain the most benefit, but if this is not possible you can join one to two parts.
Part One: Opening the subtle fields - Gravity, Ground and Space
Date: 16.-18. September
Friday: 6pm-8pm
Saturday and Sunday: 9am-4pm
We begin by opening ourselves to the natural self organising dynamics of energy in the body.
Finding ground as foundation for releasing the spine and breath from habitual self contraction
Part Two: Entering the fields - Refining the Flow
Date: 19. -23. September (Monday to Friday): 6.30-8.30, Daily yoga practice.
These morning sessions are focused on practicing what we opened in the first workshop, including a daily inquiry into the 5 foundations of embodiment.
Part Three: Integration - the intimate road home
Date: 24.-25. September
Saturday: 9am-4pm, Sunday 9am-3pm
This workshop integrates all we have opened so far and enters the rich and subtle terrain of energy and mind from Pranayama to Samadhi.
PRICING
Price: 2500 kroner per weekend (Part One and Three)
2000 kroner for all week classes (Part Two)
Early Bird: 20% discount if sign up before 1. august.
6400 kroner for whole series - or special price of 4900 kroner if sign up before 1. august 2022
Betal depositum på 700 kroner ved å melde deg på via linken. Du vil motta faktura på det resterende beløpet, som betales før workshop.
Bestilling/avbestilling:
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