We each flow to a unique and individual shape and the contours of this unique shape is permeated by the details of our own lives. Your body is a dynamic shape, moulding itself around the pressures which life puts upon it. The tensions of trying to shape our lives according to others demands rather than our own needs, will reveal themselves within us in time. Yet, when the life within us has the conditions to flow at peace, it flows smoothly around and past all we meet, un-distorting and un-distortable. 

In this Shala Sanctuary afternoon, we will navigate the bridge between the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system, expand our own experience of ourselves and connect to our most natural state of brilliance. By combing through the layers of the body, the layers of breathing and layers of mind, we are able to discover the natural state of ease and peace that is always in the background.

Through a simple Asana practice which will move the spine in the six directions it is meant to move in, we will stretch not only the tissues of the body and the ligaments of the spine, but also our nerves and our own capacity to pay attention. As the body begins to relax in time and space, the breath is revealed  and we are invited to explore and work with it by circulating, stretching and spreading the breath throughout the whole body. 

The movements of the breath reveal the movements of mind and as the breath rises and falls, so too can the mind, as we come to feel the natural state of peace when the mind, breath, and body are moving together at an even pace. 

We begin in the body as this is where we feel our practice, only to delve deeper through Pranayama and Meditation practice, finally able to rest in the very core of the body and the place where we can feel and be with everything whilst bathed by the healing sounds with Anne Malone.  

Tickets for this event will be on sale through The Shala after Easter.