I'm a yoga teacher and trainer sharing somatic & reflective practices that cultivate right relationship between body, mind and heart to live in felt wholeness.
What's waiting for you on Sunday the 12th?
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Hello Reader, You might know me mostly as a yoga teacher (or maybe you are getting to know me now). I love that practice deeply, 23 years in and it still teaches me something everyday. My love for yoga was always multi-faceted, but part of it was the exploration of self-mastery through discipline and focus of the mind cultivated from the body up. Raja yoga suited that. But then after my daughter was born, I needed something more primal. A container that could hold both my sacred expression and my darkest, most unconscious self. Something that didn't ask me to master it to some degree first before I could feel truly free. Something that was embodied wholeness from the start. I needed a practice that embraced me exactly as I arrived. Conscious dance is that for me. Yoga, traditionally, asks us to meet a pre-envisioned shape or expression with presence. There's profound wisdom and value in that. Dance though, asks something different. It asks you to completely release discipline and control of the mind. It asks you to give form to what is inside. To hear and respond to the music, second by second, without knowing what comes next puts you in a state of deep flow. It reaches past words into something older. Your body becomes the expression of what language can't quite hold or reveal. It's creative, freeing, and lights up parts of yourself that you have forgotten or that are still to be discovered. Patterns loosen and expand. Things that have been pressed down, are felt and sensed in embodied movement and tended to until they find completion and release. And then when we bring it into Yoga Nidra at the end, something remarkable happens. The nervous system is already spacious. What usually takes a long time to access is already at the surface, expressed, completed. The rest that follows is a different kind of rest. Together they are profound wholeness. That's what we're doing on Sunday 12 April. You can still sign up if you would like to join live or get the recording
I can't wait to share it with you. Much love, Liezl |
Liezl Hoving
I'm a yoga teacher and trainer sharing somatic & reflective practices that cultivate right relationship between body, mind and heart to live in felt wholeness.
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