Date: Saturday 11th May 2024

Time: 6pm-8:30pm

Location: BYC hot yoga

ABOUT: The Art of Surrendering

Join Iren and Kat for their next step towards manifesting your desires. Whether you took part in their Sankalpa workshop or not, this next one will be equally beneficial to anyone wanting to create a calm space in their lives. It will be an opportunity to deeply relax and focus your attention on what really matters to you.

The practices will be gentle and invigorating with an emphasis on releasing tension from both body and mind. From the heart-opening, warming and softening properties of Ceremonial Grade Cacao, to Yin Yoga postures to invigorate and move energy deep inside the body to the transcendent qualities of basking in a Yoga Nidra meditation. There will be an opportunity to do some easy, guided writing to uncover and support your wellbeing and growth. These tools can soothe your soul and nurture your creativity. Everyone is welcome. As always a proportion of the ticket price will be donated to ‘DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS‘.

CACAO 
The Cacao Spirit creates a ceremonial centre, a sacred circle in and around which energy harmonises and flows.

In its natural form, Cacao is an amazingly powerful Plant Medicine that helps us to release emotional blockages, and find forgiveness for ourselves and others. Cacao is a medicine for the heart, but its physiological benefits are for the whole body and mind. Cacao is the number one natural mood enhancer due to the abundance of uplifting phytonutrients it contains.

YOGA NIDRA 
Yoga Nidra is a sacred yogic process of deep relaxation mixed with contemporary, evidence-based mind-body techniques from the fields of neuroscience; it is an awakened sleep state of consciousness. It is a technique that is scientifically proven to recharge your brain. When quieting the mind and withdrawing from sensory sensations, a blissful experience of timeless spaciousness occurs. This state of restful awareness accelerates healing and improves energy levels and vitality.

Yoga Nidra is a highly therapeutic and very transformational practice, inherently adapting itself to the needs of the individual.

YIN YOGA 
Yin Yoga is a style of yoga that incorporates the Traditional Chinese Medicine philosophy of working with the chi (energy) flow in the body along the meridians (paths through which the energy flows). Yin Yoga is a practice of finding stillness; it also invites you to gently explore the edges of your resistance in each of the poses. The Yin Yogic edge is the limit of your conscious tolerance, discomfort and pain are to be avoided as they block energy flow. However, reaching and nudging the edges with sufficient tension will stimulate the meridians and the energy flows. Once you find your edges you become still and muscularly soft, and in this stillness you allow the energy to flow deeper into the connective tissues.

TIBETAN SINGING BOWL
Tibetan singing bowls are used for deep relaxation, harmonising both sides of the brain.; they also may help with muscle regeneration, releasing tensions or blockages, opening the energy flow, and eliminating toxins from the body.

IREN 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: 
Everyone.

Please advise if you are pregnant or if you are allergic to Cacao. 

What you will need: 

• a mat
• 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.