kripalu Yoga Blog

After much positive feedback following her Yoga Nidra workshop earlier this month, and motivated by a deep desire to help other business people reduce stresses in this season, the Director of Kripalu UK, Suzie Jennings, will be offering two free lunchtime Yoga Nidra classes to those who work in offices near The Kripalu Centre.

Here is how Suzie describes Yoga Nidra:

Yoga Nidra is an enjoyable and easy practise. It is more accessible than most forms of yoga since all it requires is laying down and listening. You cannot do it incorrectly. The instructions are simple. Lay down, eyes closed and listen to the voice guiding you into a deep relaxation. Yoga Nidra, by inducing the relaxation response, offers a swift entry into all layers of being where healing and regeneration occur. 

Our bodies know exactly what to do to attain and maintain perfect health and equilibrium, but we need the necessary conditions for that to happen, and Yoga Nidra creates these very conditions. The complete occupation of the mind during Yoga Nidra reduces or eliminates our habitual thought patterns. This is the key for both relaxation and healing processes as these habitual thought patterns are often unconscious.

Please join us on Tuesday  27^th January at 12:15pm or Wednesday  28^th January at 1:00pm. Each class will last for 45 minutes. 

There is no charge, no marketing, no pressure! 

Just enjoy!!

We are incredibly honoured to have Dana Moore, Kripalu teacher from the United States, and Heather Mason, a yoga therapist and Buddhist scholar, joining us for a weekend workshop. The workshop, entitled Pathways of Healing Through Yoga, will be held on March 21st and March 22nd and the fee is £100. 

Heather and Dana will offer both practical steps towards healing and insights into groundbreaking theory around yoga and trauma. The Boston Trauma Center is the first place in the world to conduct comprehensive research on the neurobiology of trauma and profound impact of yoga in the lives of those who have suffered traumatic events, as adults or children. Dana is a staff member at the Boston Trauma Center and Heather is the only person in the UK to have trained with them.

If you have been hurt or wounded and can no longer, “Just get on with it” think about joining us, think about taking time to truly care for yourself and begin the much-needed and longed for process of healing. Or, if you are someone who works caring for those who have been harmed emotional, mentally or physically, come learn new tools to help free them from the bondage of the pain and intense suffering they are locked in. 

Namaste