Dates:
Please know you do not need to attend all Chakra Workshops to participate, you can come to as many or as few as you would like.
Links to book bellow:
Saturday 22nd March – 3rd Chakra Solar Plexus 
Saturday 24th May –  4th Chakra Heart Centre
Saturday 28th June – 5th Chakra Throat Centre 
Saturday 25th October – 6th Chakra Third Eye Centre 
Saturday 22nd November – 7th Chakra Crown Centre

Time: 6pm-8:30pm

Location: BYC hot yoga

ABOUT: Everyone is welcome. As always a proportion of the ticket price will be donated to ‘DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS‘.

Sacral Chakra Workshop: Cacao & Yoga (Yin, Vinyasa, Kriya & Yoga Nidra)

Within our inner body lies a universe of energy—our life force—known as the chakras.

The word “chakra” means “spinning wheels.” These invisible energy centres are thought to affect our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Chakras are like energy transformers, shifting energy from low to high vibrations. Keeping them balanced is thought to be essential for health, happiness, and vitality.

The chakras work together as a system. If you work on one, it affects all the others. They influence our behaviours and emotions, acting as a map of our inner energy, and are closely linked to the glands and hormones that help regulate our lives. Chakras help us understand our energy about our inner self and the world, shaped by our life experiences and family background.

Join Us for the Sacral Chakra Workshop and explore areas like creativity, joy, relationships and fear of loosing control.

Svadhisthana – Sweetness
The Sacral Chakra is where life’s sweetness resides. It channels energy for pleasure, sensuality, and creativity. Like the water element it governs, it urges us to flow gracefully through life, staying attuned to our emotions.

This chakra reflects our need for relationships and some control over our physical environment. It cultivates a sense of personal identity. Attachments like authority, relationships, and money connect to our energy field and physical body through this chakra.

This chakra is often shrouded in taboo and may evoke feelings of shame. Balancing it allows us to unlock deeper joy, emotional harmony, fostering balanced conscious relationships.

IREN MERDINYAN

Iren, the founder and guardian of Cacao Connexion and Raw Bonbon, is a Cacao Medicine Woman and Yoga teacher, deeply committed to the art of working with Ceremonial Cacao, sharing the healing benefits of Yoga and relaxation and crafting raw chocolate.  Iren teaches various types of yoga (Yin yoga, Yoga Nidra, Vinyasa and Kriya Yoga), and each of these styles brings its own unique way of relaxing the body and sinking the mind into the heart.

“I work with the Cacao Plant Medicine with love, respect and integrity and in harmony with Mother Earth’s rhythm. I deeply appreciate and honour the wisdom of the Toltecs and the European medicine wheel ancestry and the embodied Yoga movement while uniting traditions and spaces to incorporate this wisdom into our daily lives.” ~ Iren A Merdinyan

KATRINA COOKE

Katrina discovered yoga at BYC, so it has always been her yoga home.

In Kat’s own words: “BYC with Helen at the helm, was and continues to be a place of wellbeing, friendship and discovery.” and as most of you already know Kat is an integral part of this. She is part of the live-blood of what makes BYC BYC!

After working the desk at BYC for a few years she started her teaching journey with Bikram training in 2011, since then she has gone on to add Yin and Yoga Nidra to her repertoire.

For more about Kat, her trainings etc check out her BYC bio.

Who can attend this workshop:
All. Please advise if you are pregnant or if you are allergic to Cacao.

What you will need:

• we provide mats & blocks but feel free to bring bolsters etc. if you would like extra support
• a towel to put on the mat
• water
• a journal and a pen

Disclaimer:

Sometimes, yoga can trigger strong emotions and reactions. If this happens and you feel you need additional support, please seek advice from your counsellor, therapist or medical professional. Nothing offered is a replacement for medical care.

Yoga Nidra is not suitable for people with schizophrenia or other mental health conditions where there may be disassociation.

Please get in touch if you have any existing health conditions, are sensitive to imagery suggestions or are not sure if Yoga Nidra is suitable for you.

Please avoid consuming Cacao if:

• you are taking anti-depressants (as the natural chemicals interact with the active component in anti-depressants)
• you have a heart condition or are on high blood pressure medications
• you are pregnant
• you are caffeine sensitive (if you are well drinking coffee, you should feel well drinking Cacao)
• you are allergic to Cacao.