Entering the New Year Restored | Breathwork, Yin Yoga and Blue Lotus

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Entering the New Year Restored | An offering of Breathwork and Yin Yoga, infused by Blue Lotus.

We would love to welcome you to a beautiful afternoon of nourishment, gentle movement, and breathwork. Coming back home to your sweet body and being, after the hustle and bustle of the holidays.

A space to gift yourself with time to PAUSE and REST.

To fully exhale and embrace the internal pull of the deep winter months as we soften into this precious liminal space between worlds, shedding the past year and creating space to enter the New Year rested; a clear container ready to welcome life.

This afternoon “work” shop, provides you with an opportunity to slow down, become still and listen to your inner world. To learn to attune to yourself first and foremost, so that you can plant seeds for the coming year from a space of a little (or perhaps, a lot) more ease and space within yourself.

This is a space for you to come as you are, with all that you are.
A space to learn to listen to the gentle whispers of your body and Inner Being. A space to come home to yourself.

We’ll start with a Blue Lotus Tea ceremony to drop in together and bring our bodies into a softer state. In low doses - as in this ceremony - this mystical flower calms the nervous system and contributes to deep relaxation in the form of a pleasant, dreamy and slightly euphoric feeling. She increases your awareness, giving you a deeper understanding and insight into yourself and is very effective for relieving anxiety, stress and tension.

Through Nicky’s guidance we harness the power of the breath to play with different states of the nervous system which can allow for stress-reduction, emotional release, discharge of congested and stagnant energies, and returning to a more coherent state within ourselves. This gentle, yet powerful, breath work session serves to create space to feel where our yeses and no’s inhabit our being and how they want to be expressed and experienced.

Joy will then support integration of the breathwork session through a restorative Yin Yoga practice, coupled with gentle intuitive movements to allow for a deepening into restfulness through the exploration of our sensory body. Yin yoga is a subtle yet profound practice of being with what is, holding different poses for longer periods of time than traditional yoga.
Joy weaves her knowledge of the fascial body and nervous system into the session allowing for the possibility of dissolving areas of tension in the body and entering a deeply restorative state.

We’ll finish the day together with a closing circle with space to share for those that feel a desire to do so.

The location is the beautiful “Het Maanhuis” in Koedijk, North Holland.
The space is inherently grounding and intimate in feeling, suitable for a maximum of 12 participants, keeping things cosy and small.

If you find yourself longing for some inner quietening, for rest and restoration, for the emptying of an over-flowing container, so that you might breathe a little more ease-fully and feel yourself again, then come and be welcome here.

About us:

Joy is an experienced yoga and movement teacher, having specialized in Yin Yoga with Marije Paternotte (Sarah Powers lineage) and Jo Phee. She shares a passion for fascia, un-shaming through understanding, learning the language of the nervous system, and the re-animation of our instinctual, sensory, animal body. Aside from yogic studies her background includes psycho-somatics, myofascial release, and ongoing studies related to trauma, the nervous system, and the female body. Years of work as an adventure travel guide cultivated a deep love of nature and the desire to bring the essence of wildness and playful exploration into all she does.

Nicky has a background in neuropsychology and is trained as a yoga teacher, breathwork coach and bodyworker (Breathwork Masterclass). She is also a dedicated space holder during ceremony and loves to facilitate rituals with all that nature has to offer. With her wealth of experience in the self-development world, she brings her attuned sensitivity and care into the space, and she’s honoured to serve from her heart to yours.