The Yin Meridian Restorative Yoga Evening is now fully booked.
OUR NEXT RESTORATIVE YOGA SEASON:
Follow our seasonal solar journey in to restorative yoga as we enter the first of the 24 solar terms, Spring.
立夏 Li Xia Summer Begins
The seventh Solar Term Restorative Yoga Evening
Date: Thursday 11th May 2017 at 7:45pm – 9:45pm
夏至 Xia Zhi Summer Solstice
The tenth Solar Term Restorative Yoga Evening
Date: Thursday 22nd June 2017 at 7:45pm – 9:45pm
Contact us for bookings of the next restorative yoga seasons and more information.
Yin Meridian Restorative Yoga Evening for Vernal Equinox and the Clear & Bright Festival (春分 Chun Fen)
We warmly invite you to join us and take time to de-stress and unwind with a wonderfully relaxing and blissful, 2 hour Yin Meridian Restorative Yoga evening to celebrate the mid-point of Spring (Vernal Equinox), influenced by the Chinese Solar Calendar. As nature blooms and new life comes, we clear away the remnants of the past, give thanks to our ancestors and invite in the new year fully.
In China, as the Vernal Equinox (chun fen 春分) equally divides day and night, Chinese medicine believes that as the bodies Yin energy and Yang energy (Qi or prana) must be brought back in to balance through healthy living. Detoxing the liver supplies and releases the Qi energy and brings the body back in to balance.
For 90 minutes Lily will take you slowly through a relaxing Yin Meridian Restorative Yoga practice which unwinds deep tensions helping you slowly let go of stress; Then David will guide you through a 30 minute Yoga Nidra—known as yogic sleep—a meditation and conscious relaxation practice that induces total physical, mental, and emotional relaxation.
Who is it for?
Restorative yoga is suitable for ‘every body,’ whether you are new to yoga or a regular yoga practitioner. Just bring yourself, warm stretching clothes and socks, and if preferred your favourite warm blanket (blankets not required as we supply, but if it feels more cosy with your own, your welcome to bring one).
Cost: £22
Places are limited so book your space today for this special event.
Note: You don’t need a PayPal account to book
Date & Time:
Thursday 30th March at 7:45PM – 9:45PM
Venue: St John Ambulance HQ. 21 Blackmoor Gate, Furzton, Milton Keynes MK4 1DA
OUR NEXT RESTORATIVE YOGA SEASON:
Follow our seasonal solar journey in to restorative yoga as we enter the first of the 24 solar terms, Spring.
立夏 Li Xia Summer Begins
The seventh Solar Term Restorative Yoga Evening
Date: Thursday 11th May 2017 at 7:45pm – 9:45pm
夏至 Xia Zhi Summer Solstice
The tenth Solar Term Restorative Yoga Evening
Date: Thursday 22nd June 2017 at 7:45pm – 9:45pm
Contact us for bookings of the next restorative yoga seasons and more information.
What is Restorative Yoga?
Sometimes you’ve just got to slow everything right down.
When your life is racing full-speed ahead, so is your mind. Restorative yoga helps provide that physical and mental balance to prevent stress and anxiety, through the use of props that allow you to hold poses longer, giving you all the benefits of deep, passive stretching.
Poses like Child’s Pose, Legs-Up-the-Wall, and Savasana are held for up to 15 minutes using bolsters, blankets, pillows, straps, blocks, sandbags, walls, chairs and eye pillows, to support your body in a full, long, and comfortable, relaxing stretch so that tension can slowly be released. The more fully your body is supported, the deeper your sense of relaxation and surrender will be.
Because the body and mind relax, literally becoming softer, we also create space to get in touch again with our natural qualities of compassion and understanding of others and self.
Benefits of Restorative Yoga
Here are the top reasons to spend a little extra time opening up and breathing in the benefits of this nourishing yoga practice.
- Benefit from full and deep stretches
- Enhances flexibility
- Deeply relaxes the body
- Quiets the mind
- Improves capacity for healing and balancing
- Balances your nervous system
- Boosts your immune system to help recover from illness
- Develops qualities of compassion and understanding toward others and self
- Enhances mood states
- Heal emotional pain
Benefits of Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) brings an incredible calmness, quietness, clarity an deep relaxation. Creating a state called samadhi, it is among the deepest possible states of relaxation while still maintaining full consciousness.
- Yoga nidra counteracts stress and prescribed by GPs in many countries
- Provides effective relief for depression and long standing anxiety.
- It is an efficient way to obtain sleep.
- Clears the mind for learning and absorbing new material
- Releases tension for body and mind
- Relaxes the mind
- Helps with creativity
“When we take the time to create ease in our lives, we not only affect ourselves and our own bodies, we also affect the quality of our actions…and the choices we make…and then we begin to affect the world. When we act from deep ease, we will affect people we haven’t even met!”
春分 Chun Fen
春分 Chun Fen is the 4th Solar Term in the Lunisolar Calendar and can be traced to the Chinese belief in Yin and Yang, which represent balance and harmony in life. It is believed that at the mid point of spring when day and night are equal we should find balance in the mind and body, keeping calm of mind and renewing our bodies harmonious Qi (energy levels).
Book your space
Cost :£22
Note: You don’t need a PayPal account to book
Venue:
St John Ambulance
21 Blackmoor Gate, Furzton, Milton Keynes MK4 1DA
