Questions
What is embodiment?
When I use the word embodiment I am speaking about the felt sense of being in your body. We may consciously attune to this felt sense through practices that invoke deep presence such as asana (yoga postures), pranayama (breath work) and mindful meditation.
How can yoga help address trauma?
Yoga, through the practices with breath, posture, and moment-to-moment awareness, impacts the state of our nervous system and offers us tools for self-regulation when faced with a trauma response. With continued practice we lay down new neural pathways, creating for ourselves the opportunity to re-pattern responses that no longer serve us.
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Massage, through various styles of safe touch and depth of pressure, helps us to restore balance in our nervous system. A bodywork session is a safe space in which to reclaim your voice and express your needs. You are the authority of your body and your experience.
What is Tantra?
Commonly, Tantra is translated as something along the lines of a technology for weaving together the tapestry of our innate wholeness, as if weaving threads of embodied wisdom upon a loom.
Tantra is rather difficult to define. Scholars continue to examine the practices and ideas of the many schools of Tantra and there is still a lot we don't know.
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In contrast to the lens of classical yoga, which holds the perspective of duality - the separation of spirit (Purusha) and manifest nature (Prakriti) - where the intention for a spiritual practice is to unravel ones ties to Prakriti, Tantra views reality as non-dual.
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Divinity, through the Tantrik lens, is fundamentally woven through both this world and that which transcends it.
Do you hold regular yoga classes?
Yes! I currently have a few classes taking place each week which you can view and register for here.
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