Living Yoga - Blackrock Parish Hall

We are made to move. It is the first language we develop, in the fluid darkness of the womb. This Living Yoga practice invites you home to the profound joy of a breathing, moving body. It celebrates poise, ease, grace, efficiency, integration and power. It explores how movement literally shapes us. It offers an ever-practical and accessible tool-kit. Along the way it unpacks how embodied knowledge leads to bodyful wisdom and personal agency.

Embodiment is an inside job that involves having a conscious experience of the body. Bodyfulness teaches us understand and speak the language of the body intimately.

Like gentle rain, kindness falls on everything and everyone. Heartfulness trains our capacity to be kind, courageous, authentic and full of integrity. It cultivates compassion, joy, empathy, and generosity.

Mindfulness offers us a bird’s eye view of ourselves. It teaches us that our thoughts are like clouds blowing across the sky. Even when the weather changes, the spacious sky is always there.

We can use the body as a doorway to embodied presence. Our bodyful, breathful, heartful and mindful selves are the repositories and agents of our direct, lived experience. Where else can we realise the truth if not here and now in this body and this breath? What I love about going in through the door of the body is how practical, tangible, accessible and direct it can be. Let’s make the world a more embodied place together.

When I leave my mat I feel expansive and gracious, connected to myself and to others. I feel joy and gratitude for my physical self: my moving, breathing soma. I feel alive, in so many ways. I would like to share this – and more – with you.