A SUMMER YIN JOURNEY
Three monthly workshops to support you through the most yang time of the year
Thursdays 19:00-20:30 pm CEST (1-2:30 pm EST)
90 minutes each
May — COURAGE
Thursday 21st, 19:00–20:30 CEST
The Wood-Fire Bridge, where vision and heart meet.
Devotion, confidence and trusting your own path.
The wood element is connected to the organ system liver and gallbladder. Courage is an expression of wood that becomes bravery when moved with authenticity - which is a quality of the heart. This workshop is an inner exploration of the fearless act of being exactly who you are and connecting to deep inner trust.
June — SPACE & BOUNDARIES
Thursday 18th, 19:00–20:30 CEST
The Fire Element and connecting to the Heart's truth.
Finding the balance between connection, space and boundaries.
We'll explore the paradoxes of the heart, the art of staying open and keeping healthy boundaries. You'll learn about the energetic qualities of the organs that are connected to the fire element: the heart, the small intestine as well as the pericardium and the triple heater.
July — FINDING STILLNESS
Thursday 16th, 19:00–20:30 CEST
Finding Stillness: Shen (the spirit of the heart).
The art of returning to yourself.
In the most yang time of the year, we rest into the medicine of yin.
This workshop is a homecoming for your spirit. We'll melt into deep self nourishment through energetic clearing, downregulation and being with what's present. This practice of allowing stillness invites you to sense the subtleties of your own being, and remember that there is a place within you that is connected to the whole, always present.
Together these three workshops follow a natural arc through late spring and summer. From the courage to step forward, through leaning into connection, into the gathering of your own center in the midst of the summer yang energy.
Weaving acupressure, somatic practices for nervous system support and guided meditation into a Yin journey to hold you through the fire season without burning out.
Each workshop will give you:
Three acu-points to work with on your own.
A complete yin sequence that you can return to again and again.
Journaling prompts to carry the practice forward.
Access to the recording until the end of the year.
Don’t worry - if you can’t make it to the live session, the recording will be sent to you.
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May workshop: Courage
The wood-fire bridge
Wood energy is direction, growth and emotional movement. Fire energy is connection, feeling our soul and an exploration of the energetics that occur in nature as the season shifts from Spring to Summer (in Traditional Chinese medicine: from the wood element to the fire element) and this also represents the energetic shift within us that happens every time we make a courageous act. Every time we respond to the heart’s calling and step into our lives.
Courage is being vulnerable, showing up even when we can’t control what’s happening next. Do you remember a time in your life when the actual act of courage was more important to you than the outcome? When that whisper in your heart that went louder and sparked into a clear “do it”.
So you did.
Do you remember the feeling after being courageous?
Sweet completion, a purr of satisfaction by the spirit of your heart.
And then, feeling that spark inside that's always there to lead you back home to yourself.
The wood-fire bridge asks:
What would it be like to trust your own path?
Get the recording below
We are in the season of moving from Wood to Fire...
into the most Yang time of the year
The season of Spring is connected to the element of Wood, what wants to grow and expand. It's the energy that tickles our inner curiosity and moves us forward in life.
Wood energy is rebirth, new beginnings and becoming.
The wood element is connected to the yin-yang organ pair the liver and the gallbladder. If your wood is deficient you might have difficulty making decisions and seeing your path ahead. You might feel powerless, helpless, depleted or frozen. If it is excess you may experience anger, frustration and irritation. You might feel like there is something wrong with the world.
When the season shifts from Spring to Summer, we move from Wood into fire. Fire is connected to the organ system heart and small intestine (as well as the pericardium and the triple heater.) According to Traditional Chinese medicine, the heart is considered the governor of the body and rules all other functions. It's connected to the capacity to connect with your truth, as well as to be in relationship with others. If t The small intestine discerns what's yours and whats mine. And the medicine here is to come back to ourselves. That is a process of slowing down and turning the awareness towards the inside.
" The One Who Is at Play Everywhere says,
There is a space in the heart where everything meets.
Come here if you want to find me.
Mind, senses, soul, eternity – all are here.
Are you here?"
-Lorin Roche, The Radiance Sutras
In the airy space of the heart there is room to breathe, room for the self and the reflection of another.
