Reclaiming Calm

Sunday October 11th 7:30-8:30

@ Mountain View Studio

These monthly slow yoga workshops are designed to explore and relieve tension in the body through simple somatic movements that can help return the body to a state of calm, particularly before sleep. This sequence will be oriented toward transitioning between day and night, doing and non-doing, stimulus and silence.

As the average rate of screen time goes up, our brains are becoming more vulnerable to the noise of the world. When the nervous system becomes overactive or overstimulated, the neurons of the brain become distressed and struggle to create strong, clear signals of communication which disorients our senses, creates rigidity in our movement and overwhelms the mind.

If we don’t take time to decelerate, pause, and release the energies and emotions we have accumulated throughout our day we become more susceptible to the world's chaos, time moves faster around and inside of us, and we become jaded to the magic of our human experience. We risk losing touch with our true nature

If days, weeks, or months go by, these experiences can create tensions that materialize in our minds and bodies as pace, hurry, anxiousness, restlessness, or fatigue.

This workshop will explore a number of sensory awareness and synchronization techniques to help close the gap between mind and body,

The still point cannot be contrived, forced, or manipulated. 

It is the wordless place where mind is body, and body is mind.