Fall Inwards: 3 Week Yin + Yoga Nidra Series SERIES OF CLASSES
December 6, 2021 December 20, 2021

When: Monday December 6, 13, & 20, 7:00-7:50 pm

Where: online via zoom

Price: $35 for 3 class series- memberships and class passes apply. Buy your pass, then register here. Drop ins welcome with the event drop in rate, but email [email protected] with the date you want to reserve. You can also register after the series begins as you’ll be given access to all the class recordings until the end of February (members have access as long as they're members).

 

Ruby will build off of her Fall Into Intention: 5 Week Yin Series from November with this lovely 3 week series that combines Yin Yoga with Yoga Nidra. The holiday season has a tendency to pull many of us into a busy, outward focus. But in this transition into winter, it's so important to continue to slow down and make time to regularly focus inwards. These two practices are like a pair made in heaven to allow you to do just that! Both practices help you to really get present in your body, contribute to a healthy bedtime routine, circadian rhythm, and healthy immune system. Give yourself some extra tools to get through this dark season and an excuse to look forward to Mondays! These classes will be just 50 minutes long, so easier to commit to than a longer class, but still very effective. 

 

We’ll mainly practice the Yin style of yoga and hold most postures at least 2 minutes, but there may be some gentle and restorative yoga, breath work, and guided meditation/relaxation included as well. Because each class will be designed to calm your nervous system and take you into a deep state of relaxation, most classes will end with you in shavasana so you can get up at your own timing. You could even come in your pajamas or practice in bed! For this reason, if you are joining live, please come to class 5-10 min. early so we can connect and share about the previous class then.

Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation also known as “yogic sleep” or “effortless relaxation”. It’s usually practiced lying down with a teacher guiding the session. The practice draws our attention inwards, and we learn to surf between the states of wakefulness and sleep, where our body finds its natural state of equilibrium (homeostasis) – the breath balances and becomes quiet, unconscious and conscious aspects of the mind reveal themselves, and we fall into an innate state of deep, blissful awareness.

As we rest here, we can turn our attention easily and effortlessly to the very nature of awareness and consciousness. We start to experience the ‘deeper’ features of yogic teachings that previously we perhaps considered intangible, such as feeling our interconnected wholeness and becoming aware of our true, unified nature – expansive, inclusive, and deeply restful. If you have distractions at home, you might enjoy listening through headphones. Props like a scarf or strap, eye pillow, blankets, pillows, a cushion or bolster will deeply contribute to your relaxation!