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FLOWING YOGA DANCE AND CREATIVITY with Marie Angeline Lascaux
Dates
Friday 14th to Sunday 16th November
Description
This workshop will include gentle yet deep yoga streches, free flowing movement to music, dance, breathing, deep relaxation, visualization and healing meditation.
Beginners welcome.
Free the body through movement. Connecting body and soul to the music. Finding your rhythm. Gathering your energy back into your power center. Unlocking your creativity.
The best way to still your mind is to move your body. As your body becomesmore fluid and moves more freely, your awareness expands as you follow the map from inertia to inner freedom.
Move through blockages into your own sacredness.
WHAT IS FLOWING YOGA DANCE? by Marie Angeline
YOGA is becoming increasingly more popular and there is a wide range of styles available, from very physical to meditative. A good yoga class will leave your body energized and your mind calmer. Yoga is not necessarily about shedding weight or being able to achieve absolute perfection in posture. I have been privileged to teach yoga to children in wheelchairs who could barely move. Yet they were 100% present in what they were doing and there was definite union of body, mind and spirit.
I am not an expert in yoga. Though I have been practicing yoga for fourteen years, I feel very much like a beginner still. Each time I practice, I discover something new. Each time I teach, I learn from my students.To me, yoga is a very effective way of practicing soul retrieval, slowly becoming more and more whole, more and more connected internally and externally.
Through movement, I gradually shed more and more of what's preventing me to feel completely whole, completely at one with myself and the universe around me. It's a long journey filled with joy and adventure, as I playfully discover new facets every day. So yoga can also be a celebration. Celebrating the sacred temple of our body and learning to take precious care of it, oiling it through movement, to keep it fluid and youthful, and experiencing the depths of our soul through various meditative practices.
Most of my classes include free flowing movement to music because it is the best way to completely let go of the restrictions of the mind and to connect with the wisdom of our instinctive nature. This is perhaps not traditional yoga but it is a sure way to find complete unity between body, mind and spirit.
And it reminds me of this beautiful poem by Mary Oliver called Wild Geese
"You do not have to be good
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
Love what it loves"
And in my case, what my body loves is music. Because the rhythm of the music feels like a heartbeat echoing through my bones, my flesh, with the rhythm of my own heart.
Whatever style of yoga you practice, it is always a homecoming. Returning home by way of movement, breath and silence, returning to the flow of life, the prana and the light. Returning to welcome the hero and heal ourselves towards freedom. The freedom of being who we really are, not who we thought or were told we were. Yoga brings us together as a family of beings who can meet at soul level, shedding their baggage, their loneliness, their tears, and stepping wildly onto the soft green grass of their hearts. A family of beings who know the meaning of silence and can move towards freedom together, allowing their whole being to follow their heartbeat and stepping deeper and deeper into this magical world so often overlooked, yet so wonderful when we take the time to pay attention, to witness the breath, the heartbeat, the softness right inside our chest. The softness that we protected for so long, because of its sacredness, because it wasn't the right time or the right place, because of the hurts, the fear, the inexperience. Now we know there are times and places when we can gently open the valves of our heart and listen to the birdsong within us. Sometimes it is loud and powerful, like a wake-up call, a call to wake up to the powerful nature of our being. Sometimes it is gentle, more mellow, melancholic, yet still beautiful, still sacred.
This workshop will combine gentle yet deep yoga stretches with free flowing movement to music, dance, breathing and relaxation techniques and healing meditation. Absolute beginners welcome. Concessions available.
Cost and Booking
Cost €230 - SPECIAL OFFER: 10% discount if booked before October 1st.
Information and bookings: 086-8242033Website: www.yoga-healing.com
What to bring with you
Bring loose, comfortable clothes, good rain gear, walking shoes, pen and writing pad, your own bath towel.
Friday 14th November
- 6:00 – 6:30 PM Arrive and settle in
- 6:30 PM Light supper. This will be available until 7:30 PM
- 8:00 – 10:00 PM Opening session
Saturday
- 8:00 AM Meditation (Optional)
- 9:00 AM Light breakfast
- 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Morning session
- 1:00 PM Lunch (main meal)
- 3:00 – 6:00 PM Time in Nature.
- 6:30 PM light supper
- 8:00 – 10:00 PM Evening session
Sunday
- 8:00 AM Meditation (Optional)
- 9:00 Light breakfast
- 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Closing session
- 13:00 Lunch
- 13:30 Departure
Instructor
Marie Angeline Lascaux has been practicing yoga since 1989 and qualified as a yoga teacher in 1997.
She has studied various forms of healing including chelation and shamanism as well as
Reiki since 1996. She is a Reiki Master and Teacher and trained in Amherst, Massachussets as a
creative writing workshop leader.
She has a healing centre in Sandyford, south county
Dublin where she teaches healing yoga, Reiki and creative writing as well as preparing expecting
mothers for labour and birth.
Her work has featured on RTE Open House and
TV3 Ireland am as well as on various radio stations
in and around Dublin and Wicklow.
Music and dance form an important part of her work
and she encourages participants to tune into the music and to allow the body to find its own movements, gradually freeing itself from tension and releasing blockages in
a gentle, non-intrusive manner.
Her soothing voice is very conducive to healing
meditation and participants will also learn simple breathing and relaxation techniques.
There will be time spent in nature to connect with
the energy of the Burren and quite times to meditate or simply rest.
For more information, you can visit Marie Angleine's
website www.yoga-healing.com or contact her at 086-8242033.
