‘Mourning morning’ yoga and Satsang
This workshop will honour transitions and threshold times we cross as messy divine humans.
What do you associate with the word mourning?
The most traditional meaning is that someone has died and you are suffering the loss of this loved one. Mourning their departure allows you to drop into a state of reflection – one that both values the presence of their life as known to you as you remember experiences you shared. You mourn that everything has changed, there can be no more.
Mourning is also a ritual. Again, traditionally, one wore black as respect for the light of a soul that has left its earth times. One went to a burial ceremony in whatever tradtition your loved one belonged.
Well, we can gain value and wisdom insights for our own lives if we use brief mourning rituals and reflections – in a beautiful rather than a sombre sad way.
You might want to mark something you know has passed away in your own life.
Something, someone, some place, some experience that is dead to you but lingers like an entity or shadow over your energetic being.
A mourning morning will work with rituals and practices to nudge us gently into the embodiment our body screams for – that we are truly beyond that phase.
That that the time is now, to start a new phase honouring a freer lighter sense is self.
I’ll be exploring transitions – and how self-reflexive mourning whilst in community practice allows you to be fine the new change you want to be.
I see transitions as periods of change. We may be honouring a departure from – either complete or imminent – of a loved one – an animal – a physical place – a work period, emotional years of change in our lives ( eg maiden to mother – mother to crone) – the separation from a kong-term relationship- our children growing up and moving on or out. Even, the loss of the sense of your ‘self.’ (Longer read below)
The ‘mourning’ morning yoga and Satsang workshop will focus on release. Releasing the issues from our tissues.
We might use this workshop time to process an experience in our lives touching our core so deeply that we must mark it with ritual practice. Rituals are how humans have managed the sacredness of our Earth experience. Rituals allow us to make meaning of the complexity of life. We will use ritual combined with embodiment work. The body must not be allowed to be second to the mind. The body is also the mind.
The session will include yoga and special meditative practice and chant that works with transitions.
There will be a Satsang appropriate to this theme.
Whatever you feel the need to honour with me in ritual practice – bring this intention to the yoga mat altar. You may keep it private – you may wish to be supported by the collective humanity gathered in the room and share it. The choice is yours.
The Satsang gathering will follow the yoga experience. Satsangs are sacred and healing.
This morning is for you if you wish to be nourished cherished and nurtured.
Perhaps we might reflect on the following.
It’s not always the survival of the fittest. It’s also the survival of the nourished.
9.30 gather for refreshments.
10 am start.
Ends at 1.pm
Please email me if you are new to YSY and me and my classes. Share with me who you are and any yogic experience. None is also fine
emma@yogaspaceyorkshire.com
Book online via the website timetable link which leads you to the Gymcatch calendar. Choose 8th March and book.
Please only book for yourself. Each person must read and sign the booking T&C for attendance at any YSY workshop event or class.
